Level 1 Privilege

"More reservations? It has that effect too?"

Lin Qi looked at the system notification in the lower-left corner of his vision and curiously opened the Level 1 Merit-Based Admission Privilege.

The Level 1 Merit-Based Admission Privilege was a Level 1 hidden privilege. The host possessed the following privileges.

First, the host could proactively establish a standard to assess players. Players who passed the assessment would be selectively introduced into the world.

Second, the host could enable or disable the players' personal interface system. This interface allowed players to check their own basic data at any time.

Third, the host could extract an experience inheritance from players once per day, up to five times daily. Each player could only be extracted from once per day.

"Did this system take some kind of stimulant?"

After reading the newly acquired system privileges, Lin Qi felt as if he had come to know the Martial Transmission System all over again.

It had gone absolutely berserk!

It was like a dying old man suddenly turning into an energetic young fellow.

Lin Qi had originally been quite troubled over bringing in players. After all, the players' physical qualities would, to a certain extent, be restored to the physical qualities they had on Blue Star. Then there was the matter of their age.

The high-martial world was no virtual world—it was a real one. Players did not have the luxury of leveling up just by killing monsters. If they wanted to improve, they could only do as the people of the high-martial world did.

And if one wanted to become a martial artist, naturally, the younger the better. If someone in their seventies or eighties were brought into the high-martial world, one of his admission slots would be as good as wasted.

If he could establish an assessment before players entered the high-martial world, it would undoubtedly greatly reduce the waste of admission slots.

As for the players' personal interface, it was a shot in the arm for Lin Qi, who was currently racking his brains over how to motivate the players.

A game was a game. Without visible gains and progress in data, how could players be made to risk life and limb?

Moreover, with a player interface, players would also find this high-martial world more like a game. This was extremely important. Different mindsets led to different attitudes toward doing things.

"But what exactly does this experience inheritance mean? And it's limited to only five extractions a day." Looking at the third new privilege, Lin Qi casually selected Fang Zhen from the player list.

Extract!

All at once, Lin Qi's mind went blank, as though a mass of air had been pumped into the depths of his brain.

"Empty?" Lin Qi stared at Fang Zhen, who was heading down into the cave, utterly stunned. "Does he not have a brain?"

To extract an experience inheritance, taken literally, should mean extracting some sort of remembered experience from a player. Yet he had extracted nothing from Fang Zhen.

Other than Fang Zhen being dead, the only possible explanation was that he had no brain. Without a brain, there naturally could be no memories to extract.

"Fang Zhen probably just doesn't have many thoughts. He usually doesn't use his brain when doing things, so the system couldn't extract anything." After pondering for a moment, Lin Qi decided Fang Zhen's mind was simply too empty, which was why there had been nothing to extract. He then clicked on Twilight of the Gods.

Extract!

This seemingly shy college student had an extraordinarily quick mind. Before even starting to dig during the day, he had already planned out a blueprint, intending to first turn the underground area of the martial arts hall into an ecological garden.

The ecological garden was divided into three levels and twelve sections. Not only were they connected by passageways, but every section even had passages leading up and down. He was already prepared to turn the high-martial world into Minecraft.

As Lin Qi chose to extract, another mass of air shot into the depths of his mind.

"Is this one brainless too?" Lin Qi was shocked.

Fang Zhen being brainless was one thing, but he had never expected Twilight of the Gods to be brainless as well. What sort of people had he recruited into the high-martial world?

"Forget it. I'll just treat it as a system lottery for entertainment."

Lin Qi stopped overthinking it and decided to use up all of today's extraction attempts. He directly chose to extract from Wu Shang. There were only five attempts a day, and each person could only be extracted from once. It would be a waste not to use them.

Ding!

"This is..."

Before Lin Qi could react, he felt an enormous flood of memories and sensations surge into his brain. These memories and sensations quickly merged with his own, becoming completely indistinguishable. Immediately afterward, a system notification sounded by his ear.

System: Congratulations, host. The first level of the Soul Shocking Breathing Technique has reached the beginner stage.

Seeing the system notification in his vision, Lin Qi was completely dumbfounded.

Soul Shocking Breathing Technique?

System, are you serious?

He had merely taken half of an elementary school textbook that had sat in the martial arts hall for over a hundred years and changed its name. He had even divided it into upper, middle, and lower volumes for Wu Shang and the other two to study.

He did not even know whether they could learn it. After all, this kind of breathing technique required specialized instruction. If one made a mistake while practicing, they could ruin both their lungs and body.

Yet now it was telling him that he had learned the Soul Shocking Breathing Technique?

Of course, Wu Shang was the one who had truly learned it. He himself had merely gained the experience.

"Could the real name of that Fitness Breathing Technique really be the Soul Shocking Breathing Technique?" Lin Qi opened his own data panel, suddenly wondering whether he had misread the half of an elementary school textbook he had obtained.

Host: Lin Qi.

Age: 25.

Privilege Level: Level 1 Merit-Based Admission Privilege.

Martial Arts Level: Preparatory Quasi-Apprentice.

Strength: 92.2 kilograms. (Quasi-Apprentice standard: 100 kilograms)

Speed: 8.9 meters per second. (Quasi-Apprentice standard: 10 meters per second)

Training Technique: Soul Shocking Breathing Technique (First Level Beginner, 3%)

Number of Players That Can Be Introduced: 10 (The host's current online player limit is 3. Current reservations: 10,352.)

"Just 3% progress in the first level's beginner stage increased my strength by 0.2 kilograms in one go. Could I really be seeing things? Did I read it wrong?" Lin Qi could not help pulling out the Fitness Breathing Technique, of which only half remained. No matter how many times he looked at it, it was still a Fitness Breathing Technique. "Could Fitness Breathing Techniques from a hundred years ago really be this powerful?"

An increase of 0.2 kilograms of strength seemed small, far less than Fang Zhen's 1.4-kilogram increase from inhaling poisonous gas in one go. But all Lin Qi had done was alter his breathing. A single attempt had increased his strength by 0.2 kilograms—far more efficient than Fang Zhen inhaling poison for an entire day.

Furthermore, training with the Soul Shocking Breathing Technique had no side effects whatsoever. Compared with a training method that exacted death as its price, it was vastly more helpful to him personally.

With this Soul Shocking Breathing Technique, Lin Qi even felt he might have a chance to charge toward the legendary realm of martial artists.

"Wu Shang truly is a little monster. She managed to forcibly master even a breathing technique with only half of it left. If she were to learn those superior training methods, she'd soar straight into the heavens." Lin Qi looked at Wu Shang's name, which had turned gray, and sighed inwardly.

What was a genius?

This was a genius!

A person like this would never be buried by the times. Instead, such an era would only make her shine even brighter.

"It seems that later on, I'll need to carefully select a group of geniuses." Thinking of the extraction privilege he possessed, Lin Qi found it increasingly necessary to bring in talented people.

Lin Qi then activated the first and second privileges. For a time, Fang Zhen, Twilight of the Gods, and Wu Shang, who were digging and training, as well as the players on Blue Star waiting in line to connect, all received a new message at almost the same time.

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