This time, Su Zhan was a little dumbfounded.
Cultivating and growing stronger every moment of every day?
Su Zhan hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
Basic Qi and Blood Technique: "Ever since the moment we gained intelligence, we've been continuously cultivating automatically twenty-four hours a day."
Nine Fire Saber: "Yeah, Boss! I thought this was a perk you gave us!"
Jade Body: "Thank you, Boss. At this cultivation speed, I feel that I'll only need around ninety-three days to successfully break through to Intermediate Grade!"
Nine Fire Saber: "Then this third brother will advance faster than you. I'll only need eighty-five days!"
Jade Body: "Wait, how did I become the third brother?"
Nine Fire Saber: "Big Brother Basic Qi and Blood Technique was the first to follow Boss, so naturally he's the eldest brother. You started following Boss after me, so naturally you're the third brother!"
Jade Body: "No! I refuse to accept this!"
The techniques were already chirping away in the group chat, ranking themselves by seniority.
A delighted look appeared on Su Zhan's face.
The techniques were actually cultivating automatically every moment without pause!
Didn't that mean he could grow stronger just by lying down now?
Not only that, through their conversation, he could even find out exactly how long they needed to break through...
"Fatty, let me ask you something. Do you know the fastest record for raising a Beginner Grade Technique from Primary Grade to Intermediate Grade?" Su Zhan asked as if possessed.
"If you mean the world record, I really don't know." Fatty took a sip of his sugary soda. "But I did hear that Yu Yanbin, the record-holder and supposedly the number one genius in our school, only spent thirteen days raising a Beginner Grade Technique from Primary Grade to Intermediate Grade. It shocked quite a few people!"
"He really is worthy of being called a genius!"
Su Zhan could not help sighing.
Thirteen days—less than half a month—to cultivate a Beginner Grade Technique from Primary Grade to Intermediate Grade!
And then there was him.
He needed ninety-three days, and that was with round-the-clock, uninterrupted, frenzied cultivation just to break through.
If it were only eight hours of cultivation per day, the time would have to be multiplied threefold, making it a full two hundred and seventy-nine days!
He was more than twenty times slower than others.
His Lowest Grade cultivation talent truly lived up to its name.
Yet Su Zhan was not discouraged in the slightest. Instead, he was excited.
The required time might have been a little longer.
But the advantage was that he did not need to cultivate, research, or rack his brains and pour out his heart's blood to figure things out. He could grow stronger just by lying down!
And besides, don't forget.
A genius could only focus on improving one technique, while he could improve two, or even three, at the same time!
When compared like that, his advancement speed was not slow at all!
"Oh, right. There's also Basic Qi and Blood Method."
Su Zhan decisively asked in the group chat, "Basic Qi and Blood Method, what about you? How much longer until you can level up?"
Basic Qi and Blood Method: "Boss, I need one hundred and one days to advance to Intermediate Grade."
One hundred and one days.
Ninety-three days.
Eighty-five days.
They were all roughly around three months.
"Reaching Beginner Quasi-Martial Artist Intermediate Grade in three months isn't actually slow. There's still a year and a half until the college entrance exams. I should have enough time to reach the Martial Artist realm, and then I'll be qualified to apply to Martial Sciences University!"
Su Zhan's heart surged with excitement.
Suddenly.
An attribute panel unfolded before him:
Host: Su Zhan Realm: Beginner Quasi-Martial Artist Beginner Grade Technique, Basic Qi and Blood Method (Primary Grade): 1x Beginner Grade Technique, Nine Fire Saber (Primary Grade): 1x Beginner Grade Technique, Jade Body (Primary Grade): 1x ...
"I understand everything else, but this 1x... there's something fishy about it."
"Wait!"
Su Zhan quickly realized something, an astonished expression appearing on his face. "Could it be... that the techniques' automatic cultivation speed can be multiplied?!"
If it really could be multiplied, that would be outrageous!
One or two times would not be a big deal.
But once it rose to ten times or a hundred times—good heavens, wouldn't that cultivation speed blast through the heavens?!
"System, say something already!"
Su Zhan was desperate to confirm it. This was crucial to his very livelihood and life.
However, ever since it had activated, the system had not given the slightest response.
Since he could not ask the system.
Su Zhan could only ask the techniques.
Su Zhan: "Everyone, do you know anything about cultivation acceleration?"
Basic Qi and Blood Method: "Cultivation acceleration?"
Nine Fire Saber: "Boss, are you serious?! We can accelerate our cultivation too?"
Jade Body: "Ooh, ooh, ooh! If we really can accelerate, wouldn't we overtake all those surrounding techniques in minutes?"
Clearly, they knew nothing about it.
Su Zhan: "I can help you accelerate your cultivation, but I need to know each of your traits before I can accelerate you accordingly."
Su Zhan refused to give up and tried to find a breakthrough through the techniques.
Nine Fire Saber: "Traits? What traits?"
Su Zhan: "To put it simply, what do you want? What do you especially crave?"
Jade Body: "I have one! I especially want to eat things!"
Su Zhan: "Eat things? You can eat too?!"
Now it was Su Zhan's turn to find it strange.
Techniques eating things? That was quite the wild idea.
Jade Body: "Boss, I want to eat pills!"
Basic Qi and Blood Technique: "Me too!"
Su Zhan's mouth twitched.
You really knew how to pick them!
Pills.
In this world, they were special supplements for Martial Artists.
Ordinary Grade pills had many effects, such as rapidly restoring qi and blood, healing wounds, aiding cultivation, cleansing the tendons and bones, and more.
Slightly higher-grade pills even possessed miraculous effects like restoring flesh to living bones and breaking through realms!
It was precisely because of this.
That pills were outrageously expensive!
A single first-grade pill would cost at least several Gold Coins.
As for second-grade, third-grade, fourth-grade, and even higher-grade pills, hundreds or tens of thousands of Gold Coins were nothing unusual... they were things only aristocratic families and nobles were qualified to enjoy.
Su Zhan only had a few Silver Coins on him in total.
At the exchange rate of one hundred Copper Coins to one Silver Coin, and one hundred Silver Coins to one Gold Coin.
His father's annual salary was only a hundred Gold Coins.
You wanted to eat pills?
You might as well eat him directly!
Nine Fire Saber: "I'm not very interested in pills, but I want to eat the Spirit Weapon in that person's hand over there!"
Hm?!
Su Zhan's gaze flashed.
Basic Qi and Blood Method and Jade Body were Body Tempering Techniques that strengthened the body and qi and blood.
They craved pills.
Meanwhile, Nine Fire Saber was a weapon technique that strengthened weapon usage skills, and it craved Spirit Weapons.
Su Zhan caught the key point: what the techniques craved was related to their own categories and characteristics!
Su Zhan: "There are no pills for now, but I do have a bottle of Qi and Blood Enhancer."
As a Beginner Quasi-Martial Artist.
Every month, the school distributed a bottle of Qi and Blood Enhancer for free to help invigorate qi and blood and benefit cultivation.
Su Zhan had originally planned to use it himself, but once his Lowest Grade talent had appeared, using it would have been a waste.
Now, it could finally be put to use.
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