Chapter 20: Innate True Qi: Ten Revolutions (1000% Combat Power Bonus!)

“All right, I’ve got everything I came for. Let’s go!”

Xiao Xuan smiled when he saw the pained look on Su Qingwu’s face.

The girl really was frugal.

After saying that, he resumed his route of picking up Traits.

Then, along the way, he ran into quite a few beast pets for sale—lizards, geckos, and the like—and only then did he realize that what he had done earlier had been absolutely right.

Because pets with the Tail Regeneration talent were almost never Ferocious Beasts.

In other words, their strength was so low that they could not even condense the Tail Regeneration Trait!

After all, to possess a Trait at all, one had to at least reach the level of a First-Tier Ferocious Beast.

Below First Tier, they were only wild beasts and insects. Creatures like those had no Traits at all.

And as for lizards capable of condensing Traits, their base price was already not low. If they also condensed the Tail Regeneration Trait, then their value would be no different from the lizard he had just burned to death!

They might even be more expensive.

So there was absolutely no reason for him to feel any regret.

Besides, once he used up all his Eco Points and raised his strength to the point where he could rival Fourth-Tier or even Fifth-Tier Ferocious Beasts, earning three or four million would not be difficult at all.

With that thought, Xiao Xuan immediately found a nearby Shared Cultivation Room and rented a Fourth-Tier Cultivation Room for one hour.

In this era, cultivation rooms could be found everywhere.

And Shared Cultivation Rooms like these were the most popular of all, because they were convenient and plentiful.

You could find a place to train anytime, anywhere.

“No wonder geniuses are always training, no matter where they are. If I worked this hard too, I’d probably have reached the Innate Realm a long time ago, wouldn’t I?”

Holding a huge cup of milk tea, Su Qingwu could not help sighing when she saw that.

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“I’ll upgrade Tail Regeneration first. I wonder if, once its rank is higher, it will work on all severed limbs.”

Now that he had plenty of Eco Points, Xiao Xuan did not waste any words. He directly upgraded the Trait all the way to Purple!

【Ding... Congratulations. You have successfully upgraded the Trait 【Tail Regeneration】 to Purple rank!

The Trait has transformed into: 【Limb Regeneration! Purple】 (After any body part is severed from the body, it can rapidly reconstruct that body part by consuming a large amount of energy! Greatly increases the user’s upper limit of survivability.)

Eco Points consumed: 10110!

Eco Points required to upgrade to Silver rank: 1,000,000】

Very soon, the notification sounded. But the moment Xiao Xuan heard it, he directly sank his awareness into his own body. In the next instant, he felt his Essence-Blood recovery speed soar by more than tenfold!

The rate at which his Vitality burned could no longer keep up with the speed at which his Essence-Blood recovered.

With that in mind, Xiao Xuan immediately raised the speed at which his Essence-Blood burned!

“BOOM!!!”

In an instant, his whole body became like a furnace as violent Vitality flames surged up from him!

“CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!!”

At the same time, tremendous power began to well up wildly throughout his entire body.

Every inch of his muscles, every single cell, began strengthening frantically!

The speed at which his Essence-Blood burned increased by a terrifying tenfold.

In other words, with his Vitality unchanged, the number of Traits Xiao Xuan obtained every hour now increased tenfold as well!

It jumped straight from roughly thirteen hundred per hour to a terrifying thirteen thousand!

The moment Xiao Xuan thought of that, he did not waste any words and directly poured all the Eco Points he had gained over the past few hours into his Vitality!

“BOOM!!!!”

In an instant, violent power exploded wildly throughout Xiao Xuan’s entire body.

Powerful Vitality coursed through every part of him.

Four hundred, five hundred, six hundred!

Very soon, Xiao Xuan’s Vitality Value soared to a terrifying 999 points!

That was the limit of the Innate Realm!

【Ding! Detected that your Vitality Value has reached the Innate limit!

You now have two cultivation paths to choose from!

Path One: Directly use First-Revolution Innate True Qi to condense a True Qi Dantian to store Vitality! Become a Grandmaster, First Layer! Combat power coefficient rises to: 1× Grandmaster level!

Path Two: Continue consuming Eco Points to strengthen your Innate True Qi! Spend 200,000 Eco Points to raise your Innate True Qi strength to Second Revolution!

Spend another 400,000 to raise it to Third Revolution!

Spend another 600,000 to raise it to Fourth Revolution!

And so on, up to a maximum of Ten Revolutions!

Each additional revolution increases the power of your True Qi by 100%.

Upon reaching Ten Revolutions, your True Qi strength will reach 10 times that of Martial Artists of the same level!

In theory, you will be able to unleash 10 times the combat power of Martial Artists of the same level!

Under normal circumstances, even reaching the minimum of Second-Revolution True Qi is extraordinarily difficult, but its long-term potential is immense!

Please choose carefully!】

Right at that moment, the notification from the Supreme Will sounded.

Xiao Xuan immediately raised a brow when he heard it.

“Innate True Qi has ranks too? How come I’ve never heard of that?”

Xiao Xuan was puzzled, but he quickly accepted it.

Judging from what the system said, condensing this kind of Innate True Qi was absurdly difficult. If he did not have the Scavenger Trait, then reaching Second Revolution would probably have been no easier than cultivating from Innate Realm, First Layer all the way to Tenth Layer.

And in Blackwater City, the strongest people were only at the Grandmaster level!

Those few Grandmaster-level experts were probably all only First-Revolution True Qi users.

So it was perfectly normal that he had never come into contact with something like this before.

“Going by that calculation, bringing my True Qi all the way to Ten Revolutions will probably take around nine million Eco Points!”

That amount is already enough to raise me all the way to Great Grandmaster, Fourth Layer!

But as long as I reach Great Grandmaster, First Layer, that would already be equivalent to having the True Qi strength of an ordinary Martial King, First Layer!

And yet the Eco Points it would cost are only one million!

That would save me nine million Eco Points right away. I’d practically earn it all back on the spot!

And if I reach Martial King, First Layer, then I’d have ten times the Vitality of an ordinary Martial King, First Layer!

The Eco Points I’d save then would be ninety million!

In other words, the higher my level rises later on, the more benefits this tenfold combat power bonus will bring me.

“If I still don’t know what to choose after seeing that, then I’d be a complete idiot!”

After only a brief moment of thought, Xiao Xuan already knew what he should choose.

In a situation like this, of course he had to maximize his combat power!

Without any hesitation, he directly chose the second cultivation path!

【Ding... Selection successful. From now on, Eco Points will no longer increase your Vitality Value, but will instead be used to strengthen your True Qi!】

Another notification sounded immediately afterward.

“BZZZ!!!”

In the next instant, Vitality poured into Xiao Xuan’s body once more.

Only this time, that Vitality rapidly transformed into Innate True Qi.

After circulating through his meridians, the Innate True Qi also began to compress gradually. Each tiny bit of compression increased the strength of that Innate True Qi by a little.

By the time the remaining tens of thousands of Eco Points had all been exhausted, Xiao Xuan’s True Qi strength had reached the equivalent of 1.3 Revolutions!

That meant his combat power had risen by another 30%.

It was not much, but it was still more than powerful enough.

Then Xiao Xuan checked the speed at which his Vitality burned and quickly discovered that it had increased again this time.

Only, because his upper limit of Vitality had also increased, the number of Traits dropped in the same amount of time had not changed.

However, the rank of the dropped Traits—and the value they yielded upon recycling—had risen from the original 35 Eco Points to 55!

In other words, after calculating everything together, his Eco Point growth speed had now risen to 25,000 per hour!

At twenty-four hours a day, that meant he could gain at least 600,000 Eco Points.

“Six hundred thousand in a day! That means that, barring any accidents, after fifteen days I’ll be able to reach Ten Revolutions of True Qi and successfully advance to the Grandmaster Realm!”

And then, with just one more day, I’ll be able to go from Grandmaster, First Layer straight to Sixth Layer!

“In other words, I’d only be wasting fifteen days to raise the strength of my True Qi?”

Even after thinking that far, Xiao Xuan still did not mind it at all.

The further one went, the harder it became to level up!

He might be wasting fifteen days now, but once his realm reached Martial King, Martial Emperor, or even the much higher Martial God realm, fifteen days would amount to nothing more than the blink of an eye!

And yet the tenfold combat power bonus bought by those fifteen days now would save him a tremendous amount of time and Eco Points later.

So Xiao Xuan felt no regret whatsoever.

On the contrary, he felt that a mere fifteen days was nothing.

And besides, did he really need fifteen days?

Of course not. Six hundred thousand a day was only the guaranteed minimum!

He could also pick up other people’s Traits!

With that thought, Xiao Xuan directly walked out of the cultivation room.

“Xiao Xuan, why does your Vitality aura feel like it’s gotten stronger again?”

The moment Xiao Xuan stepped out, he heard Su Qingwu speak uncertainly.

Xiao Xuan froze for a moment, then quickly realized what was happening. His strength had just risen explosively, so he had not completely adjusted to it yet.

His control over energy was no longer as perfect as before.

“I made a slight breakthrough. Oh, right, Classmate Su, you don’t need to wait for me. Go find somewhere to rest first. You still have the special admissions exam tomorrow, so don’t let it affect your results! I’m not leaving here for the time being.”

After explaining briefly, Xiao Xuan said this to Su Qingwu.

“That’s true. I don’t have strength as terrifying as yours. I was already exhausted after only running for a while. Then I’ll go rest first. See you tomorrow!”

Su Qingwu did not refuse. After saying goodbye to Xiao Xuan, she left.

As for Xiao Xuan, he looked ahead at the ground covered in White and Green Traits. Then, with a tap of his foot, his whole body vanished from where he stood and turned into a streak of blue lightning, weaving through the crowd.

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As his strength rose, Xiao Xuan’s speed in picking up Traits became noticeably faster than before!

In other words, at this moment, the Traits he picked up every hour could already be recycled for more than 20,000 Eco Points. Adding that to his guaranteed base of more than 20,000, he could now obtain at least 40,000 Eco Points every hour!

【Ding... Congratulations. You picked up 23,541 garbage Traits. Eco Points gained: 100,000】

Very soon, in less than three hours, Xiao Xuan had gained 100,000 Eco Points!

The first thing he did was raise his Speed Enhancement Trait to Purple rank!

Its Speed Enhancement bonus jumped straight from 250% to 500%!

As for the remaining Eco Points, he used them to strengthen his True Qi!

His speed increased again by quite a bit, and his rate of picking up Traits rose considerably as well.

【Ding... Congratulations. You picked up 25,444 garbage Traits. Eco Points gained: 100,000!】

【Ding... Congratulations. You picked up 23,894 garbage Traits. Eco Points gained: 100,000!】

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Time quickly passed, and more than ten hours slipped by!

At seven the next morning,

Xiao Xuan finally stopped picking up Traits and headed straight for Nanhai University!

Over the course of that single night, the total amount of Eco Points Xiao Xuan had gained altogether reached 620,000!

He had already raised all of his Traits to Purple rank.

Not only that, even his True Qi had reached Second Revolution.

All of his cultivation arts had also advanced by two proficiency levels, directly reaching Mastery.

Mainly because he had upgraded his Traits first, it was no longer enough to raise his True Qi strength to Third Revolution.

And upgrading a Trait to Silver required 1,000,000 again, which was still not enough, so he could only upgrade his cultivation arts and martial skills instead!

It was still absolutely worth it in terms of value.

After all, once movement arts and cultivation arts were each raised by two proficiency levels, their bonuses directly doubled.

He had even used the extra 100,000 Eco Points to raise his Soul to 999!

Because he had suddenly remembered that his Soul was currently his greatest weakness. If he ran into a powerful genius who specialized in soul attacks, would he not get killed across realms in a single strike?

Would that not be utterly humiliating?

And with a Soul value of 999, Xiao Xuan’s resistance to soul attacks also increased enormously.

At the very least, when attacked, he would now be able to put up some resistance.

And after this full round of upgrades, Xiao Xuan’s strength had risen tremendously compared to before.