Cultivation Results, Great Improvement

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and Chu Danqing and Da Bao had gained a great deal.

Especially Da Bao, who had completely digested and absorbed the power gained from devouring the Cave Beast Priest.

Now, if they were to encounter the Cave Beast Priest again, killing him would be a piece of cake.

[Brutal Beast, Child of the Cave]

[Attributes]

[Health Points: 100%]

[Bloodlust Value: 90]

[Strength: 9]

[Agility: 9]

[Constitution: 9]

[Spirit: 1 (Locked)]

[Perception: 9]

[Talent]

[Bloody Frenzy]

[Skills]

[Rending Claws (Active) LV.9: When activated, attacks against enemies will deal 9 points of additional tearing damage and inflict a bleeding status. The skill consumes 9 points of Bloodlust Value per minute when active.]

[Bloodthirsty Pursuit (Passive) LV.9: When dealing damage to enemies with a bleeding status, gain a life-steal effect and inflict an additional 9 points of bleeding damage.]

[Beast Instinct (Passive) LV.MAX]

[Combat Intuition (Passive) LV.MAX: Greatly enhances combat thinking and reaction speed. Also, when health drops to 50%, enter a Fearless State.]

Aside from the increase in attributes and skills, the real gain over these ten days was the MAX skill, Combat Intuition, derived from the Beast Instinct skill.

The Fearless State wasn't like a berserk state that enhanced attributes at the cost of losing reason. Instead, it increased resistance to various negative statuses while also being able to distinguish between friend and foe and accept Chu Danqing's commands.

He wouldn't have to worry about Da Bao turning on Chu Danqing in a berserk state anymore.

As for why he couldn't raise his attributes to 10 points and his skills to LV10, that was Chu Danqing's fault.

It was because his Basic Summoning Art and Summoning Basics weren't high enough level.

In the ten days he spent learning from the Holy Child, he had only raised these two basic skills to LV5.

[Summoning Basics: LV5]

[Skill Effect: Increases all attributes of summons by 5%. Summons enjoy 10% of the apostle's average attribute bonus.]

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[Basic Summoning Art: LV5]

[Skill Effect: Increases the talent and skill effects of summons by 5%, increases summon potential and growth.]

If he wanted to raise Da Bao's five dimensions to 10 points and his skills to LV10, the Holy Child said that he would have to raise these two basic skills to max level, which was LV10 at the very least.

The upper limit for basic skills was only level 10. To improve them further, he would have to advance them into mastery skills.

"It has been a great pleasure to spend these ten days with you, friend."

"The root of the skill that enhances the bleeding status on Da Bao is still there, but there is no strength to support it."

"If you raise your basic skills to max level in the future, you can seek out some natural treasures for further cultivation, and there is a good chance it will see the light of day again."

"You already know the method of cultivation, so you can try it yourself."

"In addition, I hope you will diligently dust it off from time to time and not slack off."

"Cultivation is like sailing against the current; if you don't advance, you retreat." The Holy Child earnestly instructed Chu Danqing.

His goodwill towards Chu Danqing was still very high. Chu Danqing had maxed out his emotional value during these days.

Chu Danqing's previous job required him to run business deals, meet clients, and maintain relationships with Party A, so even if he wasn't particularly strong in observing people's expressions and handling interpersonal relationships, he was still above average.

"I should be the one thanking you for your guidance these past few days, Little Sir." Chu Danqing naturally complied. These instructions were beneficial to him.

"We will meet again if fate allows, but when we meet again, I probably won't remember you, friend, after all, I am just a projection." After saying that, the Holy Child's figure slowly disappeared.

Chu Danqing also took his camcorder and a large stack of notes and left the cultivation room with Da Bao.

"Let's go, let's add the attribute points in the attribute pod first." Chu Danqing planned to add points according to the even distribution method provided by the Holy Child.

Although the enhancement pod was named "pod," it was a giant building. With the guidance of the life apostles, Chu Danqing was quickly assigned a vacant spot.

[Available Attribute Points: 2]

[Reminder: Do not have too large of a gap between the five dimensions]

"Regardless of the system, the five dimensions are necessary and inseparable. Paradise also encourages all-round development."

"But it's not easy to gather so many attribute points. Just from the reserve to the first order, all-round development in the five dimensions requires 25 attribute points."

He added 2 attribute points to Agility and Perception respectively.

[Enable anesthesia? This is a permanent feature, enabling it costs Paradise Points x100]

"No way, I don't believe it can hurt that much?" Chu Danqing didn't believe in such nonsense, especially since anesthesia would affect the enhancement effect.

[Attribute points allocated, enhancement commencing.]

In the next moment, intense pain erupted from the inside out, contorting Chu Danqing's facial features.

But because of the enhancement pod's mechanism, he couldn't even scream, his face turning completely red.

[Attributes]

[Strength: 5]

[Agility: 6]

[Constitution: 6]

[Spirit: 5]

[Perception: 6]

Ten minutes later, Chu Danqing stumbled out of the enhancement pod, utterly drained of strength, and Da Bao caught him just in time.

Otherwise, he would have collapsed onto the ground like a noodle.

"Y-you okay?" Da Bao asked, looking at Chu Danqing with concern.

"I'm fine, just need a few minutes to recover." Chu Danqing's jaw ached; he had been clenching his teeth the whole time to endure it, but now was not the time to rest: "Let's go to the True Spirit Hall."

The True Spirit Hall was a special building within Dimension Paradise, one of the unique structures belonging exclusively to Dimension Paradise among the five major factions.

Its effect was to awaken the True Spirit power contained within equipment.

There were four known results: attribute enhancement, skill improvement, skill activation, and quality upgrade.

Moreover, it could be awakened more than once; the number of awakenings depended on the quality and properties of the equipment.

The downside was that not all equipment possessed a True Spirit; it had to be identified at the True Spirit Hall.

Among Chu Danqing's equipment, he estimated that only Regret of the Kin-Eater might contain True Spirit power.

The others were probably a long shot.

The reason for going to the True Spirit Hall first was that weapons containing a True Spirit could fetch a higher price, even if they weren't awakened.

However, the Paradise Points required to awaken the True Spirit power weren't cheap either; the specific price varied depending on the quality of the equipment and the upper limit and number of True Spirit awakenings.

Generally speaking, if you could get your hands on a piece of equipment with a high awakening limit, you wouldn't need to replace it until the first or even second tier.

But such equipment was extremely rare.

"I... don't know the way," Da Bao said.

"I'll guide you." After Chu Danqing finished speaking, he thought about buying Da Bao another Type-I Information Data Chip, spending a little money to save Da Bao from getting lost in the Apostle Square.

Then, according to his memory, he directed Da Bao toward the first default area for probationary apostles.

As for teaching him the way, Chu Danqing didn't even consider it.

The Holy Child had commented on Da Bao, saying that apart from combat, he was utterly hopeless in every other aspect.

And even his combat prowess had a bright spot only because of his Beast Instinct skill.