Chapter 258: Chapter 257: Protective True Qi! (Please Subscribe)
[True Top Grade: The quality of the refined elixir has a 30% probability of being Celestial Grade, and a 70% probability of being Top Grade]"Thirty percent probability!"
Chen Fan clenched his fists in excitement.
At first glance, it seems a bit low, but it’s really not.
Compared to the True Top Grade trait of the Qi Blood Pill, the True Qi Pill’s trait increases the Celestial Grade probability by threefold!
It exceeded his expectations.
"Even the people at the Awakened Association probably can’t produce True Qi Pills of this quality, right?"
Chen Fan took out his phone, entered the association’s mall, and found the elixir section.
On the other hand, he also wanted to check the price of the Top-grade True Qi Pill.
After all, the Martial Arts Association’s sales list doesn’t even have Top-grade True Qi Pills, let alone the Top-tier ones.
Low-grade True Qi Pill, 10 points.
Middle-grade True Qi Pill, 30 points.
Top-grade True Qi Pill, 120 points.
The pricing is no different from that in the Martial Arts Association.
Chen Fan took a deep breath and continued to search further. He quickly found the Top-grade True Qi Pill.
Price: 480 points.
"480 points," Chen Fan thought to himself.
Looking at it this way, one Top-grade True Qi Pill provides at least four times, maybe even five times the Potential Points of a Top-grade pill.
Roughly calculated, one Low-grade True Qi Pill provides 100,000 points.
The price of the Middle-grade True Qi Pill is three times that of the Low-grade, so it provides at least 300,000 points.
The Top-grade True Qi Pill’s price is four times that of the Middle-grade, hence a Top-grade True Qi Pill provides at least 1.2 million points.
And the Top-grade Qi Blood Pill, based on this foundation, enhances by four times. One pill can provide nearly five million Potential Points!
So a Celestial Grade Qi Blood Pill can easily surpass ten million points?
In this way, the massive amount of Potential Points required to open the Chong Meridian is not so daunting.
Chen Fan couldn’t help but feel excited at this thought.
He looked further down, still not finding any mention of Celestial Grade True Qi Pills.
Clearly, he would only know the specific effects once he refined the elixir himself.
He put the phone aside, his gaze falling on the Skill Bar.
Even if all were Top-grade True Qi Pills, refining a batch would provide around 50 million Experience Points.
Clearing the remaining meridians could just be a matter of refining dozens or even hundreds of batches of pills.
Entering the True Essence Realm would also be a breeze.
"I heard that in the True Essence Realm, one must open up a Sea of Qi within the body, transforming True Qi into True Essence. The True Qi Pill is extremely important in this process. Maybe by then, I can find a way to increase the probability of Celestial Grade True Qi Pills by a few more percent. After that,"
Chen Fan glanced at the Experience Points,
still had 180-190 thousand points left.
"Let’s start with the Golden Bell Shield first."
Enhancing the Golden Bell Shield to the 9th Floor would unlock the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill.
Next would be the Thousand Forms Divine Skill and Ten Thousand Palm Divine Skill. Reaching Great Success in these two would unlock the Dragon Elephant Wisdom Skill.
Since the Ten Thousand Palm Divine Skill is already a Fist and Kick Martial Art, there was no need to learn other Fist and Kick Martial Arts for now.
Bring Windward Slash to perfection, and the remaining Experience Points could be spent on Inner Power Heart Method.
After all, for a Meridian Refining Martial Artist, the more True Qi within, the stronger the power.
He looked at the Skill Bar,
[Golden Bell Shield: Completely Ignorant (0%)]
According to the cultivation technique description, this martial art has twelve levels in total.
Compared to Thirteen Grand Protectors’ Cross Training, the Golden Bell Shield is internally and externally balanced, enhancing not only the physical defense but also the True Qi within, causing rebound effects from the attacks of opponents.
If the practitioner has ample True Qi, they could, in battles, rely on the rebound force to shatter the opponent’s internal organs without even striking—absolutely domineering!
It can be said that Thirteen Grand Protectors’ Cross Training is just a child in front of this martial art.
But!
The Golden Bell Shield has two significant weaknesses.
First, the Cultivation Gate.
The Cultivation Gate means no matter how one practices, there will always be a part of the body that True Qi cannot reach, making it the weak point.
Compared to other areas, this spot’s defense is very weak and generally cannot withstand a full-force strike from a master of the same realm.
Once the Cultivation Gate is discovered and struck, the practitioner could be severely injured or even killed on the spot.
Second, it is afraid of acupoint-sealing techniques, such as the Seventy-Two Acupoint Hand Techniques.
From the description earlier, it’s clear that the Golden Bell Shield heavily relies on the practitioner’s True Qi.
Once the acupoints are sealed, disrupting the flow of True Qi, the defensive effect is greatly compromised.
However, this doesn’t mean that knowing the acupoint-sealing technique would break this skill.
It just means that facing a martial artist with profound Inner Strength and acupoint-sealing skills would be disadvantageous to the one practicing the Golden Bell Shield.
The outcome of a battle is the result of many factors combined.
If the martial artist proficient in acupoint-sealing has average body techniques, the outcome is uncertain.
Despite these two flaws, it doesn’t prevent the Golden Bell Shield from being a first-class defensive martial art.
Top-level Martial Arts, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill, has no such flaws.
Once the Vajra Indestructible Body is achieved, it becomes invulnerable to weapons, impervious to water and fire, immune to poison, and requires no rest.
In front of this martial art, the Golden Bell Shield is just a child.
"Let’s begin."
Chen Fan’s eyes gleamed with anticipation.
He prioritized enhancing the Golden Bell Shield due to its ability to not only boost defense but also enhance the practitioner’s internal True Qi.
As usual, he added a little Experience Points first.
The Skill Level increased by one-eightieth.
"Eighty points, not too much."
Chen Fan muttered, adding the remaining 79 points.
A flash of insight crossed his mind, and a piece of information appeared in his brain.
He also felt an aura of True Qi circulating on the surface of his body, as if forming a protective shield.
He was a bit stunned and looked quickly.
[Golden Bell Shield: 1st Floor (0%), Trait: Protective True Qi Level 1]
"Protective True Qi?"
Chen Fan clicked on it.
[Protective True Qi: Passive Skill, each level enhances physical defense by 50%. This passive skill activates only when the practitioner’s True Qi exceeds 100 points.]
"Is that so?"
Chen Fan’s eyes widened in surprise.
He thought it would be like the Thirteen Grand Protectors’ Cross Training, with attributes similar to invulnerability. Instead, it was Protective True Qi. Although it was passive, activating it required certain conditions.
Practitioner’s True Qi must exceed 100 points.
In other words, even if the practitioner enhances the martial art to the first level, without sufficient True Qi, this trait cannot be activated.
However, 100 points of True Qi is just a matter of opening one meridian for a Meridian Refining Martial Artist.
While it is difficult to open the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, opening the first one is quite easy.
Apart from this requirement, the Protective True Qi is still very powerful.
Once activated, it directly enhances physical defense by 50%, almost twice as strong as invulnerability.
Bear in mind, this is just the first level.
The Golden Bell Shield has twelve levels in total, capable of enhancing physical defense by sixfold.
10,000 Physical Attribute points could be considered as 70,000.
This is just the first trait unlocked at the first level.
Of course, this also leads to two drawbacks.
The first is the fear of Jie Meridian blockage. Once the True Qi is blocked and unable to flow, how can the True Qi protect the body?
The second is also very evident.
Behind the left calf, there’s a palm-sized area where, although True Qi circulates, it is much weaker compared to other areas.
"This is probably the so-called Cultivation Gate."
Chen Fan’s eyes grew serious.
A bit helpless too.
Hopefully, as cultivation deepens, the Cultivation Gate will shrink.
Though the spot is hidden, a palm-sized area is still too much.
He added another point of Experience Points,
This time, the Skill Level rose by 160 points, doubling the increase.
"160 points for the second level..."
Chen Fan calculated and found that at this rate,
the third level would require 320 points, the fourth level 640 points... the eighth level would reach 10,000 points.
The ninth level, 20,000 points.
At this stage, about forty to fifty thousand points are needed, just right to fulfill the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill’s requirement.
If choosing to continue upgrading, the cost would be exponentially higher.
10,000 points for the 10th level, 40,000 points.
80,000 points for the 11th level.
The final level, the 12th, 160,000 points!
Chen Fan took a deep breath. His remaining Experience Points could only advance to around the 11th level.
And if done,
Other martial arts could not expect to be fully enhanced.
"Let’s go up to the ninth level first."
Chen Fan made up his mind and added more than a hundred remaining points.
The Protective True Qi around his body grew stronger.
Moreover, the True Qi in his body also increased.
Chen Fan’s eyes sparkled.
"Could it be that an attribute of increasing internal True Qi has appeared?"
He checked it quickly.
[Golden Bell Shield: 2nd Floor (0%), Trait: Protective True Qi Level 2, Qi Storage Level 1]
"Qi Storage? Not Qi Cultivation?"
Chen Fan’s mouth gaped slightly.
Feeling the change in his internal True Qi, he found that he had gained sixty or seventy strands of True Qi!
If it were a Qi Cultivation trait, it wouldn’t be so much.
"So."
Chen Fan swallowed.
This Qi Storage trait, as a trait that enhances True Qi, is more effective than Qi Cultivation?
He clicked to view.
[Qi Storage: Each skill level increases True Qi by 20%]
"Twenty percent!"
Chen Fan couldn’t help but exclaim.
It should be known that the Inner Power Heart Methods cultivated earlier, specifically increasing the practitioner’s True Qi, had an effect of only 10%.
As a Body Refining Martial Art, the Golden Bell Shield’s effect in increasing internal True Qi surpasses the former.