13 Bone Strengthening Art! (1/2)
While the merchant is delivering his purchase to his private courtyard, he himself went to pay a visit to the rumored protected Knowledge Pagoda belonged to the Seven Star Sect.
Separated into seven different floors, the Knowledge Pagoda was the place to keep all the heritage martial arts and numerous information related to the Ping An Continent here.
Holding the identity plate of the Ninth Direct Disciple of the Headmaster and also the Seven Star Order Plate, Zhang Wu Ji was allowed to enter the Knowledge Pagoda without any obstruction from all the elders standing on guard.
In fact, he was even allowed to take the manuals out from the pagoda for the reason of revising them directly in his place, but a limit of only two is allowed each time. This was the most the headmaster can fight for him, as the Elders guarding the Knowledge Pagoda did possess a higher status in compared to the others, standing in the same position as their headmaster.
It was said that if any of the elders guarding the pagoda requested to overtook the position of a headmaster, their request will be granted without any rejection, even from the headmaster himself. The reason for this is actually very simple.
All the elders standing guard here are the most important pillars of the Seven Star Sect, who was given the absolute right even above the headmaster himself. They are not only a guard but the most loyal and trusted elder of the sect that will never leave the sect to their demise no matter what happened.
In total, they were seven Pagoda Elders, with the seventh Floor Pagoda Elder being the oldest among them. He was also the strongest cultivator in the whole Seven Star Sect, with the cultivation of the 64th Stage of Inner Qi Lord, two-stage higher than the headmaster Liang Tian.
After paying his respect, Zhang Wu Ji was only allowed to enter the first floor of the Knowledge pagoda because of his limited amount of cultivation. In the eyes of the seven Pagoda Elders, his cultivation was something even if a pig can cry it will not help.
”32 Strands of Inner Qi? Not even an Inner Qi Fighter? Liang Tian, you were too much of a disgrace to step so low just to take in a disciple of this level.” this was the sentence came in all seven Pagoda Elder's mind.
He took two hours just to explore and read one complete shelf filled with books. Among all of them on the first shelf, he found two books that leave the best impression on him.
Bone Strengthening Art
Usage 1: Allow the user to have +2 points in defense
Usage 2: Strengthen the user with 0.4 Strands of Inner Qi for every 72 hours.
Durability: 1/1
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Lone Star Sword Art
Usage 1: allow the user to use Lone Star Sword Strike in their Beginner (3), Intermediate (13), and Advance (37)
Usage 2: allow each swing of the sword to carry an air blade.
Durability: 1/1
”I will bring this two-manual home first. For the earlier stage, I will see if the copied manual will be able to provide me with their similar abilities.” unexpectedly, he wasn't here to look for a cultivation manual that can help him in a various manner, but he was, in fact, searching for manual with lesser words written inside them!
If this kind of manner is known by the seven Pagoda Elders, he will be skinned and deboned before the elders throw him into a cage with dogs to feast on him! This was the first time they will be met with such an attitude when visiting the Knowledge Pagoda!
After an inspection, the First Floor Pagoda Elder allowed him to return with the two books, with the time limit of return not longer than a week. Happily, he left the Knowledge Pagoda while leaving the elders puzzled with his attitude.
”The brat took the Bone Strengthening Art and Lone Star Sword Art as his earlier studies,” he reported to the other six Pagoda Elders in their private hall below the Knowledge Pagoda. This was also the location the treasure of Seven Star Sect, the Art of Counting Seven Stars is kept.
”This two manual is the weakest and also most basic among all the others. Did he choose them because of their easier to understand and cultivated records?” the Second Floor Pagoda Elder asked.
”Maybe, but based on his current cultivation strength, it will be a miracle if he can understand the first part of the Lone Star Sword Art.” the First Floor Pagoda Elder replied.
”Anyhow, we will continue to monitor his progress, order the Knowledge Restriction Force to monitor his activities within the sect.” the Sixth Floor Pagoda Elder speaks, but as he finished his sentence, two silhouettes vanished from the room.
They were the rumored private forces belonged to the Knowledge Pagoda's Seven Elders forces. Each of them was only tasked with one duty, control the leakage of the Seven Star Sect martial arts to outsiders!
Before he returned to his own private courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji paid a visit to the office where they were keeping and providing all the writing materials to the disciples requiring them. Taking advantages of the position of a Master Senior, he ordered them to provide him with a stack of paper of all qualities to his courtyard, and also hand him the manual of Paper production for a read.
Although they were not a precious knowledge and can be easily obtained in any of the bookstores, Zhang Wu Ji's action still puzzles them when he insists to read the book no matter what.
When he returned to his courtyard, the first thing he saw is a half tidied plot of land handled by Tang Yuan alone. In this prospect, he wasn't a match against Tang Yuan, who have over ten times of experience in handling the soil and plantations to promote their growth.
Since the helper had gone to rest and cultivates, Zhang Wu Ji can only silently enters his reading room and starts reading the Bone Strengthening Art first. Although he understands that without reading the manual he will still obtain their effects, this manual didn't belong to him in the first place.
It will be pointless for him to upgrade this book for the possibility to obtain two strands of Inner Qi before he returned the book to the Knowledge Pagoda. Even if the profit of the upgrade is good, it was still not a viable solution for him to handle his needs.
Without further ado, he started, from writing them in a sentence first and tried all different methods to upgrade and enhance the writing capability. It took not too long for him to realize one thing. No matter how he writes the words down, each letter of them will cost him one strand of Inner Qi to write, and another one strand to upgrade the sentence.
But the differences are not too significant until he finished a total of 5 sentences with 26 words in total. After upgrading them, the sentence did not carry too many differences compared to the original version, but certain letters did change or transformed into a different meaning.
Such words like Gather, Collect, Condense, and Create, were soon differ from their original version. But because it was only 26 words in five sentences, it still cannot prove their differences compared to the original manual in his hand.
First Page of Bone Strengthening Art +5
Accuracy: 7%
Durability: 1/1
Special: This paper can only be burn through furnace flame
It was something to say about its percentage of accuracy, but the special ability the paper does have causes him to become speechless for a moment. But because the 26 letters are barely covering a single page, he decides to just copy them for now, without utilizing any Inner Qi in his writing.
Taking sleep in between of his rewriting works, it took him a night of rest to complete one and a half pages of the 32 pages thick manual. At this moment, the complete page of the Bone Strengthening Art become 9.5%, while their second page is in their 6.6% accuracy. In his estimation, if each pages accuracy can reach 10%, it should be good enough for him to present this modified version to his master to review.
”Nothing was there to be shame about!” this was what inside of his mind. So what if he's not a cultivator yet? Does it take a cultivator to rewrite and rephrase a manual to bring out their might further? The answer is a ”No” for sure. It took somebody with a hand to rewrite a manual, be it a cultivator or not, that was not important at all.
As it was already morning, he will have to show his face in the plot of empty land behind is courtyard for the sake of a proper appearance. If he was similar to the other seniors that boss the disciple around while enjoying themselves, were they even worth the title of senior at the first place? This was what motivates him to act as a proper example, even if he was just being described as despicable yesterday on the wall.
”Those who understand will not speak, but those who don't will speak too loud.” this was his quote used to describe the people that only know how to look at the shallow appearance, and speak like they understand.
When he reaches to the places that start to look like a farm now, he was greeted in person by his helper Tang Yuan the moment his silhouette appeared in the vicinity. Being the person hired on a whim, Tang Yuan cares about his attitude well, although they were just for the sake of a few Qi Sensing Pill. Such an attitude is commendable to Zhang Wu Ji's eyes, while they walked across the newly built but still dry irrigation system.
The part of the land on the bottom left was plowed and ready for the planting of Yin Ling Fruit Seeds, and inside of the Tool Room, Zhang Wu Ji already saw the little pouch with seeds inside. There were at least 200 seeds within, but none of them were upgradable at this moment because of his lack of cultivation strength.
But in return, he was able to upgrade the bag of liquid fertilizers, the watering can, and the pruning tool.
Liquid Plant Fertilizer +5
Usage: Increase the quality of fruits grown when using the fertilizer frequently
Durability: 1/1
Special: increase effectiveness by 1% when used on Plant that bore fruits
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Pig Iron Watering Can +5
Amount of Water: 5.2 liters
Durability: 27/27