Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Scholar (学者) |
| Type | Profession |
| Occupation/Role | Learning- and comprehension-oriented profession selected by Li Wen |
| Status | Active; reached maximum level |
| First Appearance | 2 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lv1 | 2 | Li Wen selects Scholar from the profession panel, gaining Absolute Focus and Once Proven, Forever Proven. Absolute Focus immediately improves his cultivation efficiency. |
| Lv2 | 8 | Absolute Focus gains a 20% comprehension boost and improved activation concealment; outsiders cannot easily detect its use. |
| Lv3 | 11 | Reached at 200 EXP. The 30% comprehension boost enables faster analysis, memory organization, and blade-art deduction, though sustained use causes mental strain. |
| Lv5 | 37 38 | Reached after excellent examination results. Li Wen experiences a major increase in mental clarity and spirit; he can control Absolute Focus's activation and duration. |
| Lv6 | 48 | Reached through cultural-exam and Flying Star Class-selection rewards. The enhanced mental power lets Li Wen break his blade-art bottleneck and enter Major Mastery: Peak. |
| Lv7 | 67 | Strengthens Li Wen's mental power and Primordial Spirit; his physical control rises to 75%. |
| Lv8 | 86 | Provincial mock-exam results provide enough EXP for advancement. Its 80% comprehension boost exposes flaws in techniques and improves bodily control. |
| Lv9 | 114 | Advances Li Wen's Primordial Spirit to the Second Layer, improving detection range, combat power, and core-skill efficiency. |
| Lv10 | 140 | Reached through national first-place cultural results. This threshold reworks Scholar EXP gains, allowing martial-arts books to grant substantially more experience. |
| Lv11 | 140 | Reached immediately after Lv10. Grants a 110% comprehension boost and markedly expands perception; it brings the Primordial Spirit close to the Third Layer. |
| Lv12 | 154 | Reached after two months of continued study. The upgrade triggers Li Wen's Primordial Spirit Third Layer breakthrough. |
| Lv13 | 160 | Raises the comprehension boost to 130% and transforms Li Wen's Primordial Spirit into a dense purple-gold form. It helps him overcome the final barrier to the Blade Soul Realm. |
| Lv14 | 175 | Documented as active while Li Wen is in the Great Sun Realm; it provides a further 10% comprehension increase and a major rise in mental power. |
| Lv15 | 179 | Enables Li Wen's Primordial Spirit Fourth Layer, the Day Travel Realm. |
| Lv16 | 219 220 | Advances the Primordial Spirit to the fifth level, the Possession Realm, improving perception, mental control, and Universal Domain control; comprehension reaches a 160% boost. |
| Lv17 | 226 227 | A surge of Spiritual Power advances Li Wen's Primordial Spirit to the Sixth Layer. Absolute Focus's comprehension bonus reaches 170%, allowing a rapid advance in his Blade Arts realm. |
| Lv18 | 249 | Documented after Li Wen reaches the Venerable Realm. His accumulated EXP exceeds the Lv18 threshold, and he initiates the upgrade toward Lv19. |
| Lv19 | 259 | Documented at the Venerable Realm with more than 24 million accumulated EXP; Li Wen is close to the final Scholar breakthrough. |
| Lv20 (MAX) | 265 266 | Scholar reaches its maximum level, providing a 200% comprehension boost and bringing Li Wen's Primordial Spirit to the Ninth Layer. It unlocks the Second Profession permission; Li Wen immediately selects Martial Artist. |
Background
Scholar is one of the professions available through Li Wen's panel. He chooses it immediately because, from his memories of the game, he considers its late-game potential exceptional—particularly its passive skill, Once Proven, Forever Proven. 2
The profession gains experience through learning, understanding, and mastering knowledge. Early on, effective study yields one experience point per ten minutes; Absolute Focus does not accelerate this base rate, so Li Wen compensates by committing more study time. 3 8
Academic examinations provide much larger experience rewards than ordinary study. Excellent cultural-exam results propel several of Scholar's major breakthroughs, including its rise to Lv6, Lv8, and the consecutive Lv10–Lv11 advancements following Li Wen's national first-place results. 37 48 86 140
At Lv10, Scholar's experience system changes: studying martial-arts texts begins yielding ten experience points per ten minutes, ensuring that the profession remains viable after Li Wen enters Xinhuo University, where formal cultural classes are absent. 140
After reaching Lv16, Li Wen discovers that the dissemination of original knowledge can also produce Scholar EXP. A purchase and download of one of his academic papers by a system-recognized Scholar grants one point of experience, while the system appears to recognize researchers and academics with sufficient professional depth rather than ordinary readers. 222
Li Wen subsequently turns his status as the King of Changning and his academic ability into a new route for advancement. His papers on subjects including speed, willpower, energy conversion, spatial ripples, and Thunder Law spread through scholarly circles across Blue Star and the other human planets, generating millions of experience points. 223 224
Near the final level threshold, Li Wen writes a paper synthesizing his understanding of higher-dimensional energy, Space Law, and the origin of life. He publishes it on four major human academic platforms, where it draws an enthusiastic response from researchers. 261
By Lv20, Scholar has completed its initial-class path and unlocks the panel's Second Profession function. Li Wen chooses Martial Artist because it best complements Scholar's comprehension with direct combat power, bodily control, and survivability. 265
Scholar remains at its current level cap after Li Wen selects Martial Artist. When he later seeks to advance his Primordial Spirit beyond its Ninth Layer, he turns to cultivation in the Soul Origin Tower rather than another Scholar level-up. 319 321
Abilities & Skills
Absolute Focus
Scholar's active skill suppresses distractions and concentrates Li Wen's perception, thought, and bodily control on the task at hand. 2
- Improves comprehension and the analysis, deduction, and practice of martial techniques. 4 11
- Its comprehension bonus grows with Scholar level: 10% at Lv1, 20% at Lv2, 30% at Lv3, 50% at Lv5, 80% at Lv8, 110% at Lv11, 120% at Lv12, 130% at Lv13, 160% at Lv16, and 170% at Lv17. A maximum-level Scholar provides a 200% comprehension boost. 7 8 11 17 86 140 156 160 220 227 259
- Enables precise adjustment of force application, footwork, muscle control, and blade trajectories. 8 11 86 160
- Lv2 greatly improves its concealment, making activation difficult for observers to notice. 8
- By Lv5, Li Wen can regulate the skill's activation and deactivation duration. 38
- Long or extreme use can produce dizziness, headaches, and mental exhaustion. 4 11
- At Lv9, Absolute Focus can sustain peak efficiency for three hours; at Lv13, Li Wen maintains it for four and a half hours during blade training. 140 160
- At high levels, it enables Li Wen to reduce basic blade motions into minute spatial nodes and derive advanced insights from fundamental techniques. 160 274
- Li Wen continues using it after Scholar reaches Lv20, including during Time Tower training to analyze attacks and develop blade techniques incorporating the Time Law. 274 315
Once Proven, Forever Proven
Scholar's passive skill preserves knowledge once it has been understood and mastered. 2
- Allows Li Wen to retain learned information permanently, supporting both cultural studies and martial-arts comprehension. 6 140
- Stabilizes newly acquired cultivation understanding and techniques more quickly. 32 159
- Combines with Absolute Focus to reduce foundational obstacles when learning and applying complex blade arts. 32
- Becomes increasingly valuable as Li Wen studies advanced cultivation methods, secret arts, and domain theory. 140
- Allows acquired knowledge to settle into an interconnected and enduring intellectual foundation rather than remaining fragmented memories, supporting Li Wen's unusually rapid mastery of the Nine Heavens Divine Body and other advanced disciplines. 155
Knowledge Dissemination
At later levels, Scholar can gain experience from the spread and recognition of Li Wen's original knowledge.
- A purchase and download of Li Wen's published paper by a person meeting the system's Scholar criteria grants +1 Scholar EXP. 222
- The system-recognized Scholar population includes a large body of professors, researchers, and other academic professionals; Li Wen identifies approximately 602,471 such Scholars on Blue Star. 223
- High-quality papers can generate massive cumulative returns as they circulate through scholarly communities. Four papers earn Li Wen more than three million EXP through widespread academic recognition and subscription. 224
- Public lectures and forums can produce variable experience rewards when audience members attain new insights; documented individual rewards range from dozens to more than a thousand EXP. 230
Mental and Primordial Spirit Enhancement
Every Scholar advancement significantly increases Li Wen's mental power; he describes the growth as exponential. 67
- Lv7 strengthens his Primordial Spirit and improves physical control. 67
- Lv9 advances the Primordial Spirit to the Second Layer. 114
- Lv12 advances it to the Third Layer. 154
- Lv15 advances it to the Fourth Layer, the Day Travel Realm. 179
- Lv16 advances it to the Possession Realm, increasing perception, mental resilience, and control over the Universal Domain. 219
- Lv17 advances the Primordial Spirit to the Sixth Layer, dramatically increasing the power of Spirit Piercing Thorn, physical fusion, and Li Wen's perceptive range. 226
- Reaching Scholar Lv20 brings Li Wen's Primordial Spirit to the Ninth Layer. His later breakthrough into the Primordial Spirit Star Lord realm occurs through cultivation after Scholar has reached its current cap. 266 319 321
- Enhanced perception supports combat analysis, detection, technique optimization, and the use of Spirit Piercing Thorn. 60 76 219
Experience Acquisition
| Source | Documented reward / condition |
|---|---|
| Effective study | Initially +1 Scholar EXP per ten minutes; the rate cannot be increased through Absolute Focus. 3 8 |
| Ordinary extended study | Six hours of study can yield 36 EXP before the Lv10 rework. 11 53 |
| Cultural examinations | Excellent results award large amounts of EXP, including +100 for a Chinese exam and +60 for individual politics and geography exams. 37 48 |
| Rankings and selection exams | First place in the Flying Star Class selection awards +140 EXP; top-ten provincial ranking awards +4,000 EXP. 48 86 |
| National college entrance examination | First place in each of six subjects awards +5,000 EXP, while national overall first place awards +30,000 EXP. 140 |
| Martial-arts reading after Lv10 | Studying Basic Domain Appreciation grants +10 EXP per ten minutes, ten times the previous rate; six hours of study later yield +360 EXP. 140 160 |
| Qualified Scholar paper downloads | A system-recognized Scholar purchasing and downloading Li Wen's published paper grants +1 EXP. 222 223 |
| Academic-paper circulation | Scholarly recognition and subscriptions to Li Wen's high-quality papers can produce millions of cumulative EXP. 224 |
| Knowledge lectures and forums | Scholars gaining insights from Li Wen's lectures provide variable EXP, with documented rewards from dozens to +1,278 points for an individual insight. 230 |
Notable Trivia
- Scholar was considered “invincible” in the late game of the game from which Li Wen retains memories. 2
- The profession's first player to reach maximum initial-class level could unlock a second profession through the hidden “Pioneer” achievement, according to Li Wen's game knowledge. 3
- Li Wen fulfills this condition upon reaching Scholar Lv20 and immediately unlocks and selects Martial Artist as his Second Profession. 265
- Li Wen regards Scholar—not bloodline or chance—as the foundation of his rise from an ordinary student to a Domain Realm blade user. 209