"Black Wolf, how are you planning to improve your vitality next?"
Because there were no systems, the people of this world had no concept of "levels." To them, the most direct sign of becoming stronger was an increase in vitality.
Hearing Yan Qing ask about serious matters, Yaoshi Yuan answered earnestly as well. "I plan to cultivate several spear secret techniques, push my vitality to the Third Turn limit, and see if I can comprehend master-level spear techniques while I'm at it."
After advanced techniques came master-level techniques. Aside from Foundation Establishment Heralds, only a tiny number of mortals could touch this realm. There were two ways to comprehend master-level techniques. One was to max out an advanced technique and forcefully comprehend it through insight. The other was the path Yaoshi Yuan had chosen: cultivating multiple spear secret techniques to raise her hidden spear-skill score, which might allow her to comprehend master-level spear techniques ahead of time.
For players, cultivating multiple spear secret techniques was not difficult. They could simply open the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and buy them if they had the money. But in this world, things were not necessarily so easy. Yan Qing asked, "Do you have a way to obtain spear secret techniques?"
Yaoshi Yuan smiled bitterly and shook her head. "It's a little troublesome."
"Even being the Duke of Jin isn't enough?" Shang Xin Lei asked curiously.
Yaoshi Yuan said, "Secret technique books are only produced in Third Turn Secret Realms, and not every Third Turn Secret Realm produces spear secret technique books. The only spear secret technique book that Zhou Kingdom can reliably produce is Whirling Lamp. As for Pear Blossom, Coiling Serpent, and Unmatched, their secret technique books are either found in secret realms that are difficult to develop or produced only probabilistically. If