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After gaining the ability to manipulate spiritual energy, as a painter, you could infuse spiritual energy into your paintings. Once you cultivated it to mastery, becoming a Divine Brush Ma Liang was not impossible.

If a painter was not a sorcerer, then even with the highest-grade spiritual energy brush, they could only paint ordinary, unremarkable works. Aside from viewing, they had no other use.

Therefore, sorcerers were one of the undisputed main professions on the Godfall Continent.

Besides that, the only other profession that could be called a main profession was the warrior.

That was because warriors were not restricted by spiritual energy.

However, correspondingly, in this world where spiritual energy could measure almost everything, the late-game development of warriors as a main profession was clearly far inferior to that of sorcerers.

On the Godfall Continent, sorcerers held an extremely noble status.

The difference between sorcerers and warriors was like that between cultivators and mortal martial artists in a cultivation world.

Anyone could become a warrior, but to become a sorcerer—

The Godfall Continent was not a real game, but another genuine world. There was no way to learn sorcery by clicking on a skill as one would in an online game. One had to rely on one's own efforts.

To become a sorcerer, one first needed a way to learn sorcery—for example, being chosen by a sorcerer teacher or obtaining a scroll recording Sorcery Patterns through various means.

Next, one needed to truly learn a sorcery through one's own intelligence.

Like crossing the narrow bridge of the college entrance examination, learning sorcery required not only intelligence but also perseverance. Those who ultimately became sorcerers could be called one in a hundred.

In her previous life, Yun Xi had been lucky enough to encounter an excellent sorcerer teacher. At the time, the other party was already extremely old, with little life remaining, and urgently needed an heir.

She had been that lucky person. Her initial Spirit was as high as 9 points, so she had caught the teacher's eye and escaped her life as a refugee.

But in this life, she probably would not be able to meet that person.

Shuyu Plain was too far from the place where she had been "born" in her previous life. By the time she became strong enough to search for it, that teacher would probably have already died of old age.

Compared to sorcerers, becoming a warrior was much simpler. Sorcery-related knowledge could not be obtained out of thin air, but warrior martial techniques could be created oneself.

If Intelligence determined sorcerers, then Constitution determined warriors.

Constitution was the foundation of warriors.

Exercising one's body independently could slowly strengthen Constitution. During this process, Agility and Strength would also increase as Constitution rose.

Some strange creatures could be killed with cold weapons. After gaining experience, one could level up and obtain Freedom Attribute Points, thereby continuing to increase one's own strength.

Many warriors, even without an inherited body of knowledge, could carve out a path of blood through various life-and-death trials.

That was the advantage of warriors. Even a rootless commoner with nothing could make a comeback.

In fact, many sorcerers had been warriors in the early stages. Their initial Spirit was insufficient, so they found ways to level up and obtain Freedom Attribute Points, then added them to Spirit.

As for Yun Xi's career plan in this life, it was simple: sorcerer as her main profession, with other professions as sub-professions.

That was solely because of the existence of the Jade of Slaughter. In this life, she would never lack Freedom Skill Points or Freedom Attribute Points.

As for other people choosing sub-professions, they generally selected one or two based on their talents or interests.

Trying to bite off more than one could chew was pointless. No matter how many professions one chose, it would all be for nothing without skill points.

On the Godfall Continent, each level-up granted only one skill point and two Freedom Attribute Points.

The preciousness of skill points was self-evident.

Rather than skill points, they were more like special rewards. Just like Freedom Attribute Points, they were gifts from the system.

Each time a "player" added a point to a skill, it was as if they had been enlightened from above. Their understanding and control of the skill deepened by several degrees, naturally increasing its power as well.

In her previous life, Yun Xi had heard that skill points came with another extremely precious benefit: each time one was added, it would increase one's comprehension.

And in this life, the Jade of Slaughter... Although it was still sealed, it was enough.

As long as she killed malicious strange creatures, she would obtain random Freedom Attribute Points or Freedom Skill Points, completely eliminating her worries about lacking skill points.

She could cultivate all the professions at the same time. Chef and apothecary were the top priorities, followed by Talisman Master and painter.

Among them, chef could free her from "taste hell," while apothecary could keep her alive.

A Talisman Master could store "sorcery," while she chose painter because Yun Xi was an art student. Not practicing it would waste the foundation she had painstakingly built over ten years.

Of course, no matter how extensive Yun Xi's plans were, she still needed to practice these professions slowly. It was impossible to master them overnight.

With a plan in mind, Yun Xi officially began cultivating.

For her first sorcery, Yun Xi still chose the Basic Waterball she was most familiar with.

In her previous life, she had specialized in water-element sorcery for no other reason than that her teacher only knew water-element sorcery.

The Basic Waterball could produce a clean water source. It was also one of the most widely circulated sorceries on the Godfall Continent.

The Godfall Continent was extremely lacking in resources. Aside from villages and towns covered by special spiritual fields, every other wilderness area was polluted.

If this pollution was accidentally ingested, it would cause diarrhea and vomiting at best, along with a permanent loss of Constitution; at worst, it could endanger one's life.

Water and food could only be purchased from the shop or produced oneself. They could not be obtained from the wilderness.

Therefore, clean water was also a major problem.

Most beginner villages had basically no spiritual field covering them. To drink safe water, one could only purchase it from the system shop.

Those without money could only drink well water with less pollution. It generally had to undergo several procedures before it could be consumed.

Not only was that troublesome, but it also carried a hundred percent chance of trace pollution. After drinking it for a long time, one would likewise suffer a permanent loss of Constitution.

The Basic Waterball could perfectly solve this problem.

Of course, Yun Xi's greatest reason for choosing the Basic Waterball was that she wanted to change class to sorcerer as quickly as possible and gain the ability to manipulate spiritual energy.

The game's closed beta lasted only ten days. She had to seize every minute and second and change all her sub-professions as quickly as possible.

Especially the chef profession. Yun Xi planned to record all the recipes from Blue Star. She had truly had enough of eating Coarse Wheat Cake every day.

Only during the closed beta, before the Godfall System had completely invaded Blue Star, could she do this. Once the official server opened, if she wanted to collect recipes, she would have to obediently learn them one by one.

In just a few minutes, Yun Xi had skillfully finished learning the small waterball technique.

[ Ding! Congratulations, player, on learning Basic Waterball Lv1. You have successfully changed class to the sorcerer profession and unlocked the sorcerer-exclusive skill—Spiritual Energy Control Lv1. ]

Yun Xi opened her personal panel. Nothing else had changed; only her main profession had become sorcerer.

[ Sorcerer Profession Skills ]

[ Spiritual Energy Control Lv1: Sorcerer-exclusive skill. Freely controls spiritual energy. Control strength is determined by one's Spirit. ]

[ Basic Waterball Lv1: Consumes 10–100 points of spiritual energy to condense a small waterball. Can deal a maximum of 39–129 (Spirit × skill level + spiritual energy consumed) points of water-element sorcery damage to strange creatures. ]