As Li Mu made up his mind, the remaining Talent Points in the lower-right corner of the parchment scroll changed from five to four.
The previously dim Critical Strike icon lit up, and the number one appeared in its lower-right corner. Without further hesitation, Li Mu invested another Talent Point into the icon.
With the system's confirmation, the text beneath the icon changed to two. Li Mu had already spent two Talent Points on this talent.
"Critical Strike, Level 1: The power of the next attack doubles. Cooldown: five days."
"Critical Strike, Level 2: The power of the next attack doubles. Cooldown: four days."
As the talent level increased, the system's description quietly changed as well, giving Li Mu an expectation for upgrading this active talent.
"Each level reduces the cooldown by one day. Following that logic, if I max out all five points, the cooldown should shrink to one day. That means I'll have one chance every day to unleash a doubled attack."
Sitting on his bed, Li Mu was somewhat stunned by this heaven-defying talent. As the only active talent on the second layer of the Talent Tree, Critical Strike's effect had already seemed inconceivable to him. One had to know that the higher one's cultivation realm, the harder it became to break through. Countless cultivators were stuck fast at every realm, unable to advance even after cultivating for a hundred years.
Then, among cultivators of the same realm, aside from the accumulation of Origin Energy, what distinguished strength from weakness was the power of their moves and martial techniques.
Just imagine: when a Tribulation Crossing Realm cultivator fought an enemy of the same realm and suddenly unleashed an attack with doubled power, how great an impact would that have on the battle?
"With this move, won't I