Breakthrough to the Third-grade Realm, Special Professions, an Invitation from the Myriad Manifestations Tower

Blood Dragon Devouring Art!

Chen Feng's mind stirred slightly, and he immediately began circulating the cultivation meridian route of the Blood Dragon Devouring Art.

Combined with his Energy Absorption talent, he continuously refined the demon essence blood.

You refined fourth-grade demon essence blood. Your Blood Dragon Devouring Art proficiency increased by 10 points.

Your Blood Dragon Devouring Art proficiency is continuously increasing.

...

As bottle after bottle of demon essence blood was refined, the second layer proficiency of Chen Feng's Blood Dragon Devouring Art steadily rose.

When he refined the fifth bottle of fourth-grade demon essence blood, new information finally refreshed on the panel.

Buzz!

In that instant, Chen Feng felt a vast surge of energy emerge.

It spread directly throughout his entire body.

Immediately afterward, his flesh and blood began another transformation.

Your second layer Blood Dragon Devouring Art cultivation has reached perfection.

Your Blood Dragon Devouring Art has broken through to the Third Layer, Beginner realm.

Cultivation: Early Third-grade realm

Cultivation Art: Blood Dragon Devouring Art (Third Layer Beginner, progress 1%)

Chen Feng's eyes lit up. "I finally broke through?"

At that moment, the qi and blood within his body circulated rapidly.

His flesh and blood were transforming, becoming even stronger.

Feeling the rise in his cultivation, delight appeared in his eyes as well.

He had finally broken through to the Third-grade realm.

Refining demon essence blood through devouring truly increased his strength at an astonishing speed.

Looking at the remaining eleven bottles of demon essence blood, a gleam flashed through Chen Feng's eyes.

"It depends on whether this demon essence blood can raise my cultivation to an even higher realm."

His cultivation had now reached the Third-grade realm.

True qi had already condensed within his body.

And the cultivation of the Blood Dragon Devouring Art was tied to the demon essence blood he devoured.

For other martial artists who cultivated this type of art, their greatest concern was the Killing Intent contained within demon essence blood.

One moment of carelessness, and the Killing Intent might assault them, injuring their souls or causing them to suffer cultivation deviation.

Or they could become lackeys of demons.

Yet Chen Feng had no such worries whatsoever.

He merely needed to continue cultivating, and the traits he had awakened would suppress all the Killing Intent within the demon essence blood.

There was no need for concern at all.

Under such circumstances, as long as he had enough demon essence blood, his cultivation could soar by leaps and bounds.

"Continue cultivating." Expectation filled Chen Feng's eyes. He wondered what talent he would awaken once he raised the Third Layer of the Blood Dragon Devouring Art to the proficient stage.

And when would he be able to fuse the various talents of the Blood Dragon Devouring Art together?

Once that happened, he would surely awaken an extraordinarily terrifying talent.

However, when he continued refining demon essence blood and the notifications refreshed—

Chen Feng's expression turned somewhat unsightly.

You refined fourth-grade demon essence blood. Your proficiency increased by 5.

You refined fourth-grade demon essence blood...

The notifications continued refreshing.

But Chen Feng's expression grew exceedingly grim. After his cultivation breakthrough, the proficiency gained from fourth-grade demon essence blood had actually been affected so drastically.

When he was in the Second-grade realm, one bottle of fourth-grade demon essence blood could provide ten points of proficiency.

After breaking through, it only provided five.

This made Chen Feng sigh inwardly.

After absorbing the remaining fourth-grade demon essence blood, the Third Layer of his Blood Dragon Devouring Art had only reached 55% Beginner progress.

There was still a huge gap before he could awaken a new talent.

"What should I do next?" Chen Feng pondered.

Since he did not have enough demon essence blood—

There were only a thousand reserve points left at the school's resource exchange.

Even if he used them all, he could only exchange them for two bottles of fourth-grade demon essence blood.

"What should I do?" Chen Feng sat cross-legged where he was, deep in thought.

Did he have to accept investment from other factions?

After hearing some information from Wan Baoyang, he had continued looking into such matters.

An investment from a faction involved high-grade demon essence blood.

A single bottle cost at least a thousand taels of silver.

For any faction, it was an immensely precious resource.

It was used in alchemy, weapon forging, cultivation, and many other areas.

And once one accepted resources from those factions, contracts would generally be signed.

Though they appeared to impose no restrictions, one would usually be given positions such as Guest Official or guard.

After a cultivation breakthrough, having strength was one thing. But without strength, he would likely have to fulfill the contract.

Under such circumstances, being forced to carry out all manner of dangerous missions according to the other party's arrangements was perfectly normal.

There had even been cases where people encountered danger or perished in the process.

After all, although first place on the Minor Storm and Cloud Ranking carried some fame, one had to remember that the Great Gan Dynasty had at least a thousand Wind and Cloud Small Towers. The position of first place in those small towers changed hands to newcomers almost every so often.

It would attract attention, but no more than that.

Only those supreme geniuses renowned across the entire Great Gan Dynasty's Human Ranking could truly draw the attention of countless factions.

"Or perhaps I should start considering how to make money," Chen Feng thought.

Since entering Black Stone City, he had been relying on the money brought from Huang Haisheng's home.

After that, he had relied on the points earned from challenging the Wind and Cloud Small Tower to cultivate.

And with his talent, if he wanted to make money—

Chen Feng pondered for only a moment before an idea arose in his heart. "Special professions."

According to the information he had learned—

Martial artists were the most common profession in the present Great Gan Dynasty.

No matter what line of work one pursued, martial artists were almost impossible to do without.

Yet aside from martial artists, there were also several highly profitable professions.

Such as alchemists, Weapon Forgers, Formation Masters, Beast Tamers, and so on.

All of them earned extremely high incomes.

Among them, alchemists' pills offered tremendous assistance to martial artists' cultivation.

Especially when facing bottlenecks. Chen Feng had the panel, so he had never felt the existence of bottlenecks.

But for countless ordinary martial artists, when they encountered a bottleneck, if pills could reduce its difficulty even somewhat, they would be willing to spend any amount of money.

Beyond that were weapons that could raise a martial artist's combat strength. A good weapon could even double a martial artist's fighting power.

Of course, that was within the same level. Among the Lower Three Ranks, the combat strength of someone wielding a weapon differed from that of someone fighting barehanded.

Among the Middle Three Ranks, a Fourth Rank Martial Artist wielding an Earth-grade weapon could even defeat a Fifth Rank Martial Artist without a weapon.

Once one reached the Sixth-grade realm, there were further changes.

But in any case, possessing a good weapon gave one a tremendous advantage among those of the same realm.

Then there were Formation Masters. Formation Masters were relatively special, using terrain, spirit stones, and other things to arrange all kinds of formations.

These formations could be used for defense, entrapment and slaughter, attack, and more.

For major factions, possessing a good defensive formation could practically determine the survival or destruction of a faction.

With a powerful sect-protecting formation in place, they could buy a certain amount of time.

That would greatly increase martial artists' chances of survival.

Formation Masters could also inscribe formations into Array Disks. Once a formation was thrown out, it was equivalent to an instant-cast attack method.

It was also immensely terrifying.

As for Beast Tamers, they primarily tamed all manner of demons.

After taming demons, they enslaved them, and those demon beasts could also be of great use to the major factions.

Such as horned horses for travel and flying cranes for aerial transport.

They were all demon beasts of immense use within beast-taming sects.

To cultivate these special professions, one had to possess sufficiently powerful spiritual strength.

And Chen Feng had a certain degree of confidence in his own spiritual strength.

It only remained to see which of these special professions he should choose.

After thinking for a short while—

Chen Feng began forming some ideas.

According to the information he had learned—

Alchemy required the most resources. One needed all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures in order to refine pills.

Although the returns were high enough, one careless mistake during alchemy could nearly ruin exceedingly precious medicinal ingredients.

Weapon Forgers were the same. One could say that the power of this profession was, most of the time, closely tied to the quality of its materials.

Some top-tier Weapon Forgers and alchemists would even remain motionless for years in lands of bitter cold, all for a single precious heavenly material or earthly treasure.

They waited only to refine it successfully and become renowned throughout the world.

Looking at this, Chen Feng could not help shaking his head. None of these were what he wanted.

Only when he saw formations did a trace of delight appear in his heart. "Formation Masters can actually possess such immense power?"

Astonishment filled his eyes.

According to the books he had brought back from the Scripture Pavilion—

There had actually been a Formation Master who, while still weak in cultivation, used an unparalleled killing formation to directly wipe out a top-tier faction.

And more importantly, a Formation Master's inscribed formations primarily depended on focus and the precision of their etched marks.

"I can find time to look for cultivation arts related to formations."

Chen Feng thought to himself.

He had already made his decision.

However, just then, Wan Baoyang returned. The moment he saw Chen Feng, he immediately smiled with delight. "Chen Feng, you've come out of seclusion?"

"My father wants to meet you."