Great Yan Dynasty!
Qingyang Town! There were still more than six months until the Lin Family's clan competition.
The Lin Family was peaceful, and the figures of young men and women practicing martial arts could be seen everywhere.
The entire Lin Family seemed to have fallen into a cultivation craze. With their elders urging them on, the younger generation worked hard at cultivation to prepare for the clan competition.
They all hoped to stand out at the clan competition.
"Smack! Smack! Smack!"
Short, powerful smacking sounds rang out from a quiet, spacious courtyard. Obviously, they had been made by only one person.
Lin Yun looked at his hands, reddened from using Sticky Clothes Force, and sighed inwardly.
At this rate, I'll need at least three months to cultivate Tongbei Fist to mastery.
Lin Yun shook his head. He had been cultivating Tongbei Fist for ten days, yet he could only produce the Three Echo Force, which barely counted as having entered the beginner stage.
If he continued spending time cultivating, he could at most cultivate Tongbei Fist to mastery before the clan competition.
Lin Yun had actually already mastered a fist technique: Falling Rock Fist.
Like Tongbei Fist, Falling Rock Fist was a First Grade martial art, but Tongbei Fist had slightly stronger explosive power.
Lin Yun had thought that, with the foundation provided by Falling Rock Fist, he would cultivate Tongbei Fist faster. He had not expected Tongbei Fist to be more difficult than Falling Rock Fist.
"Ugh, cultivation is so slow. If only I had Lin Dong's cheat too."
Lin Yun sighed. He was a transmigrator who had crossed over into the body of the orphan Lin Yun a month ago, becoming Lin Dong's clan brother.
As someone familiar with the plot of Martial Universe, Lin Yun knew that he was nothing more than a minor character in the early stages.
He was unwilling to accept that.
Since he had been given a second life in the xuanhuan world he loved, how could he spend his entire life in obscurity?
At first, Lin Yun had excitedly gone to the small pool in the Lin Family's rear mountain to search for the Ancestral Stone, wanting to replace Lin Dong.
Unfortunately, he had gone too late. The Ancestral Stone had already been taken by Lin Dong.
With no other choice, Lin Yun could only rely on himself to cultivate.
Although his aptitude was pretty good, cultivation required resources, especially in the Body Tempering Realm.
In a small family like the Lin Family, and as an orphan at that, obtaining Spirit Herbs was far too difficult.
Ding, system fully charged. Binding host...
Task System successfully bound. It can now be used!
"The system... my cheat has finally arrived."
Lin Yun's face filled with delight as he immediately inspected the system.
The Task System was exactly what its name implied: complete tasks and receive rewards.
However, this Task System seemed somewhat lazy. Even issuing tasks required Lin Yun to do it himself.
He could assign tasks to himself. As long as he fulfilled the corresponding conditions, the system could successfully generate the task, determine its difficulty, and provide an appropriate reward.
Completing a task granted a reward, while failing one brought no punishment whatsoever.
"If that's the case, there's a lot I can do with it." Lin Yun immediately came up with many ideas.
He could turn everything he wanted to do into a task, such as the most boring thing of all—cultivation.
Once he had an idea, he acted on it.
"System, establish a task: cultivate Tongbei Fist once."
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist once. Reward: Tongbei Fist beginner proficiency +1.
"Oh, it's here."
Delighted, Lin Yun immediately performed Tongbei Fist once.
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist once. Reward: Tongbei Fist beginner proficiency +1. Completed. Claim reward?
That was such an easy task to complete.
"Claim it!"
Suddenly, a surge of power flowed into Lin Yun's body and mind.
Lin Yun sensed it. The strength in both his arms seemed to have increased slightly, while his understanding of Tongbei Fist's moves had grown more thorough, as if he had gained a wealth of experience cultivating Tongbei Fist.
However, Lin Yun could still only produce the Three Echo Force.
This meant that he remained at the beginner stage.
Tongbei Fist: three echoes to enter the beginner stage, six echoes for minor mastery, and nine echoes for mastery.
"System, do you have an attribute panel? I want to see it!"
The next moment, a light screen appeared in Lin Yun's mind.
"Damn system, can't you be more proactive? You had to wait for me to say it."
Lin Yun grumbled as he examined the panel.
Name: Lin Yun Physique: 7 (Unremarkable) Root Bone: 9 (Unremarkable) Spirit: 15 (Outstanding) Comprehension: 8 (Unremarkable) Cultivation Base: Body Tempering Fifth Layer Martial Arts: Falling Rock Fist (Mastery), Tongbei Fist (Beginner +1) Proficiency: Beginner, Minor Mastery, Mastery, Perfection, Superb Skill, Close to the Dao
His Spirit attribute was nearly twice as high as that of an ordinary person. It seemed this was related to the fusion of two souls within him.
Lin Yun noticed the "+1" after Tongbei Fist's beginner proficiency.
"How much does it need to increase before it reaches minor mastery?"
"Then I'll continue issuing tasks."
Lin Yun continuously issued tasks to perform Tongbei Fist once, and all the rewards were beginner proficiency +1.
After completing it ten times, he could finally produce the Six Echo Force.
He checked the panel.
Tongbei Fist (Beginner +10) → (Minor Mastery)
It had reached minor mastery after ten repetitions. Lin Yun had previously practiced it for seven days and performed it over a hundred times, yet he had only barely entered the beginner stage.
He had to admit, System Daddy was truly wonderful! He continued establishing tasks.
However, this time, when he issued a task to cultivate it once, the system did not respond.
"Could it be that after reaching minor mastery, cultivating it once no longer meets the conditions?"
Lin Yun pondered briefly before trying to increase the number of repetitions.
He increased it step by step. Only when he reached ten repetitions did he successfully establish a task.
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist ten times. Reward: Tongbei Fist minor mastery proficiency +1.
"After reaching minor mastery, it actually takes ten repetitions to increase proficiency by 1. That's ten times the beginner-stage requirement."
"Proficiency +10 is needed to advance one stage. In other words, advancing from minor mastery to mastery requires a hundred repetitions."
"One repetition takes about three minutes. A hundred repetitions take 300 minutes, which is only five hours at most."
"Following this pattern, advancing from mastery to perfection should require 1,000 repetitions."
"1,000 repetitions take 3,000 minutes, which is only 50 hours—less than three days."
"That's it?"
In his previous life, Lin Yun could sit in one place for a month without moving while grinding a single-player game. Now, grinding for three days could bring such a huge harvest. It felt incredible.
After establishing the task, Lin Yun began cultivating again. He was like someone who had been injected with stimulants, unable to feel tired in the slightest. This kind of effort, where the rewards could be seen, filled the originally dull cultivation process with motivation and anticipation.
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist ten times. Reward: Tongbei Fist minor mastery proficiency +1. Completed. Claim reward?
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist ten times. Reward: Tongbei Fist minor mastery proficiency +1. Completed. Claim reward?
Lin Yun immersed himself in cultivating Tongbei Fist. He claimed the reward every time he completed a task, and his Tongbei Fist improved rapidly.
Before long, the fist technique had formed muscle memory.
As he practiced his fists, he thought about how to use the system to increase his strength.
The key was to establish as many tasks as possible that he could complete.
Lin Yun tried every aspect of cultivation one by one, and soon managed to establish quite a few tasks.
Task: Perform Falling Rock Fist one hundred times. Reward: Proficiency +1 at the mastery stage.
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist to mastery. Reward: One bottle of First Grade Qi Blood Pill.
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist to perfection. Reward: One bottle of Second Grade Azure Blood Pill.
Task: Cultivate Tongbei Fist to Superb Skill. Reward: Fist Technique Talent (Basic).
Task: Break through to the Body Tempering Sixth Layer. Reward: Physique +1, Root Bone +1.
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