BXBX NOVEL Chapter 46: Level Up
As soon as he picked the first herb, a notification sound rang in his head.
DING!
[You have collected a refreshing herb]
[You have gained 5 QI]
Seeing this notification, Ethan quickly scanned the small field of flowers and made a quick calculation.
"At a glance, I can already count more than twenty herbs here," he said with a pleased expression.
\'At this rate, it won\'t take long to advance to the next level of body refining.\'
With this thought, he started gathering the herbs more quickly, and with each herb, he heard the pleasant sound of system notifications.
DING!
[You have collected a refreshing herb]
[You have gained 5 QI]
[You have collected a refreshing herb]
[You have gained 5 QI]
...
And so Ethan spent the next quarter-hour collecting herbs and gaining QI. The sound of each notification was like music to his ears, filling him with enthusiasm.
\'Haha, I love having a system,\' he thought, marveling at how quickly his cultivation base was rising.
He knew that at this rate he would surely break through, and indeed he was right.
After collecting all the herbs, he felt a change happening inside him.
The sensation was the same as when he first broke through and entered the initial stage of cultivation.
Realizing what was happening, he quickly opened his status screen.
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Name: Ethan
Cultivation: Body Refining (Lvl. 1 --> Lvl. 2)
QI: 194/300
Physique: Heavenly Body of the Sacred Flames
Strength: 15 --> 25
Agility: 11 --> 21
Intelligence: 11 --> 23
Soul Strength: 114 --> 116
[Shop]
[Storage]
[System points]: 9
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Seeing that his level had gone from Lvl. 1 to Lvl. 2 confirmed that he had indeed broken through to the next level of body refining.
Ethan had already gained 50 QI from killing the mountain goat, a level one mid-grade beast, equivalent to a body refining cultivator within level 5.
That\'s why Ethan hesitated to fight the beast head-on. He knew it would be a suicidal move.
If it hadn\'t been for the system, Ethan would have probably waited for the beast to leave.
Each level of spiritual beasts corresponded to each cultivation grade of the cultivators.
For example, a body refining cultivator was the equivalent of a level 1 beast.
A QI refining cultivator was equivalent to a level 2 beast, and so on.
The only way a cultivator could determine the strength of a spiritual beast was by perceiving the spiritual energy of the beast.
Non-evolved beasts had little to no spiritual energy in them.
Unlike them, evolved ones had a lot of spiritual energy, and cultivators used this to gauge the strength of the beast.
Depending on what they perceived, they could tell if the beast was at their level or not.
If they felt that the intensity of the beast\'s energy was close to theirs, they could make an approximate estimate of the beast\'s strength.
After all, if the beast was of a higher level, and therefore a higher grade than them, they would feel a pressure from it and immediately understand that the beast was stronger than them.
Earlier, when Ethan tried to sense the beast\'s spiritual energy, he felt that its intensity was similar to his own, so he could tell it was level 1.
The only variable left was the grade of the beast, which could only be guessed based on the pressure the beast\'s spiritual energy exerted on him.
Stronger cultivators had higher levels of perception and could therefore be more precise in their estimates.
Ethan considered this method very rudimentary and low-level, but there wasn\'t much he could do about it.
In this world, there was cultivation, but it lacked technological innovation, and that was reasonable. After all, they had a different culture, different resources, and obviously different technology.
Ethan couldn\'t expect to buy a machine that would give a numerical value to the strength of creatures, although he had heard that something like that existed in this world, but it was expensive and useless for stronger cultivators.
Returning to the status screen, Ethan was pleased to see that not only had he broken through to Lvl. 2, but he had already completed more than half of the QI required for the next level.
His stats had also increased a bit.
Ethan had noticed for a while that not all his stats increased uniformly.
For example, his strength and intelligence had increased a bit more compared to his agility, and this, according to Ethan, was due to his daily exercises.
The exercises had certainly contributed to increasing his strength, while his intelligence had probably increased due to the alchemical knowledge he kept acquiring.
He also noticed that his soul strength hadn\'t increased much, which was reasonable, as most cultivators struggled to increase this aspect of their being.
Every cultivator focused on this aspect when they reached the fourth grade of cultivation, the soul cultivation grade.
Ethan was lucky that thanks to the Amphora of the Seven Sages, he could still make progress in this aspect.
Now that he had finished gathering all the refreshing herbs he found, he decided to return to the sect to continue producing pills.
The mere thought of how much he could earn with this amount of herbs excited him, especially now that he could also increase the purity of his pills.
"My days as a wealthy Tycoon are not so far off," he said, humming a song from his old world as he hurried back.
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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:
Here\'s today\'s chapter. I hope you enjoyed it.
I feel like I should create a chapter where I put the various human and beast cultivation rankings because I think it might get a little confusing in the future for some.
I don\'t know, tell me whether you want me to do it or not.
As usual, if you have any comments, suggestions, or errors to report, you know where to do it.
See you tomorrow.