Don't Blame Me, Stealing Your Opportunity Is Just a Necessity

Feng Wu still could not come up with twenty-five experience points, so he turned to study another function of skill upgrades: upgrading a battle skill's proficiency!

There was no need to test it. Feng Wu knew this was meant to enhance the effects of using battle skills.

For example, if Feng Wu could master this Yellow Rank High Grade battle skill to Major Completion Realm or above, its power would not be much weaker than a Mysterious Rank Low Grade battle skill that had only just been learned.

Feng Wu examined the updated Mountain Splitting Palm. After the system upgrade, the Mountain Splitting Palm, which had originally been at the Entry Realm, had not dropped to zero proficiency.

His original understanding of the Yellow Rank Mid Grade Mountain Splitting Palm had probably substituted for part of the required experience.

It was now at the beginner stage, with around fifty percent proficiency. He was still halfway from reaching the Entry Realm.

Battle skill proficiency was generally divided into four stages: beginner, Entry Realm, Minor Completion Realm, and Major Completion Realm.

As for the two realms beyond that, Entering the Hall and Returning to Simplicity, they were not something ordinary people could attain through cultivation.

One had to polish a Soul Technique day after day for decades, until it could be wielded as naturally as one's own arm.

At that point, the battle skill's power could even surpass its original rank.

Of course, there were also some special battle skills, such as Xiao Yan's Eight Extremes Collapse. That sort was ranked according to the number of hidden forces it contained, and there were many other exceptions.

Feng Wu's Mountain Splitting Palm was clearly the most ordinary kind.

Pushing Mountain Splitting Palm to Minor Completion Realm required another one and a half experience points, which was not much. Including the other half of the proficiency he already had, he needed only three experience points in total.

That was the cultivation experience gained from killing six pigs.

But if he cultivated it himself, going from beginner to Entry Realm would take at least one or two months!

And that was only if Feng Wu himself was especially compatible with this Soul Technique.

Feng Wu did not hesitate for long. He directly invested one and a half experience points, pushing the battle skill's proficiency to the Entry Realm.

As the system took effect, it was as if countless animations flashed through Feng Wu's mind, drilling the Mountain Splitting Palm hundreds and thousands of times!

At the same time, Feng Wu's body performed the foundational movements of Mountain Splitting Palm in practice.

It was very similar to when Feng Wu had upgraded Mountain Splitting Palm and received the technique in his mind.

But the difference was that when he had previously received the essential principles of Mountain Splitting Palm, he had only gained knowledge and memories.

This time, along with the "initiation" that upgraded his battle skill proficiency, Feng Wu's bodily memory also grew.

Normally, this kind of muscle memory could only be attained through tens of thousands of repetitions over a long period of time.

Moreover, every instinctive movement was practically textbook-perfect!

Feng Wu felt that the Entry Realm he had reached through training Mountain Splitting Palm before and the Entry Realm standard after the system upgrade were simply on entirely different levels!

Feng Wu walked out of the room, found a hard stone slab in the courtyard, and circulated his Dou Qi.

"Hah!" With a fierce shout, his palm struck out, and the stone slab split apart! This Mountain Splitting Palm was ten percent more powerful than when he had smashed the stool inside the room!

After thinking it over and weighing the pros and cons, Feng Wu invested another six of the eight experience points he had left after reaching Dou Qi Level Six into Mountain Splitting Palm's skill proficiency.

As the panel underwent a subtle change, Feng Wu's Mountain Splitting Palm proficiency reached Minor Completion Realm!

He picked up a handy object and tested it again. The battle skill's power increased by another twenty percent on top of Minor Completion Mountain Splitting Palm!

In other words, Feng Wu's original combat strength was one. Beginner Mountain Splitting Palm was 1.2, and Entry Realm added another ten percent, bringing it to 1.32! Minor Completion then added another twenty percent on top of that!

It reached an astonishing 1.584!

The strength of a normal Dou Qi Level Seven was only twenty percent greater than Level Six. Dou Qi Level Eight was another thirty percent stronger than Level Seven!

In other words, Feng Wu now had the basic attack damage of Dou Qi Level Eight, though his overall abilities were comparable to Dou Qi Level Seven!

If he faced that Pig King again, Feng Wu might not be able to kill it with one palm strike, but he could definitely force it to stop!

However, raising Mountain Splitting Palm's proficiency to Major Completion Realm would require twelve experience points.

Feng Wu only had two left, so he could only give up for now. Experience points were a good thing, but the more he earned, the more he spent.

Like Gold Coins, this was not something he could merely earn without spending. He needed to think of a good way to gain experience.

"If I want experience, hunting magical beasts in the wilderness is impossible right now. Without at least Dou Qi Level Eight or Nine, there's no hope at all. I might even lose my life.

Looks like I can only find work in a hotel kitchen or slaughterhouse first."

After much thought, Feng Wu came up with a good method, but he lacked enough initial capital. He first had to earn sufficient experience points at ordinary slaughterhouses.

He would use experience to upgrade items, increase their value, and sell them again!

He set his final target on the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid that Xiao Yan would auction off over a month later!

Since experience points were equivalent to the Dou Qi gained through cultivation, could pills used to increase cultivation also be upgraded?

Just a few bottles of Second Grade Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid could allow Xiao Yan to raise his Dou Qi by four levels within a year. That was at least forty additional experience points.

Before Xiao Yan's cultivation declined, he had begun cultivating at four and did not become a Dou Zhe until eleven. On average, he had only advanced a little more than one level per year.

That was more than twice as fast!

But if he used experience points to upgrade the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to Third Grade, or even Fourth Grade or Fifth Grade, what kind of effect would it have?

He could spend money to cultivate at night and slaughter livestock for experience during the day. Two harvests a day—wouldn't that be wonderful?

However, speaking of Xiao Yan, if Feng Wu remembered correctly, tomorrow should be the day Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Clan to break off the engagement, right?

"Ah, the Xiao Clan is going to lose a great deal of face this time!" Feng Wu reclined sideways in a cool chair in the courtyard, gazing at the setting sun.

Though his surname was not Xiao, Xiao Yu had taken him in many years ago, and a Xiao was carved into his very bones. If the Xiao Clan lost face, Feng Wu would have no face to show outside either.

"Nalan Yanran, twelve years old, Dou Qi Level Eight!

With the Qi Gathering Powder refined by Gu He, as well as the many heavenly treasures that could assist in raising cultivation once she became a Dou Zhe, cultivation would become relatively easier.

Nalan Yanran should have already progressed quite far in the Dou Zhe realm by now."

Feng Wu muttered the various descriptions of Nalan Yanran from the original novel and smiled helplessly. There was no way he could stand up for the Xiao Clan in this matter.

Leaving aside his unsuitable status, his strength was not presentable either.

"In the end, I'm still not strong enough!

If my golden finger had arrived earlier and I had enough strength, then even if my status were inappropriate, I could step forward and rebuke Nalan Yanran, teaching her a lesson!

If Xiao Yan had been strong enough, Nalan Yanran would never have been able to pull this engagement-breaking stunt."

On the first day Feng Wu transmigrated, his desire for strength had been awakened.

The Xiao Clan would face no shortage of hardships in the future: the struggle for Wu Tan City, the Hun Clan's attack, the clan leader's abduction. None of these could be avoided.

Feng Wu did not want to stay out of it, so he had to hurry and increase his strength.

"Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan. Don't blame me. I actually hadn't wanted to steal your opportunity.

But in order to become stronger quickly, so I can save the Xiao Clan and save your father ahead of time, this is the price you should pay."