BOSS Template Modification in Progress

The next day, Murong Xuan packed a few things and left, traveling light.

Even a grandmaster like him was subject to the Imperial Court's deployment. Lu Xingshi guessed that the Langya Pavilion had received some support from the Imperial Court, such as resources, which was why Murong Xuan served them.

That afternoon, after Murong Xuan left, Lu Xingshi jumped straight off the cliff behind the Langya Pavilion without a moment's hesitation.

What followed was a string of cliché developments: he got caught in a tree, spotted a cave, found the "Eternal Youth Spring Scripture," and even picked up a final letter addressed to the current master of the Langya Pavilion. Since the three months were not up yet, Lu Xingshi felt too awkward to open it and brought it back with him.

Getting back was simple too. There was a pool behind the cave, and he only had to dive through it to surface above.

An ordinary person would never have been able to hold their breath that long, but Lu Xingshi kept using Gold Coins to modify the falling game villagers' Health Points, forcing his way back through sheer cheating.

After learning it, he stuffed the "Eternal Youth Spring Scripture" into a cabinet. He would give it to Murong Xuan when he returned.

As for the "Longevity Eternal Youth True Art," he needed to cultivate both the "Longevity Spring Return Art" and the "Eternal Youth Longevity Art" to perfection first.

The proficiency of those two cultivation arts was identical, meaning they were techniques of the same grade.

After that, Lu Xingshi began sweeping through the Jade Library. He activated a huge number of abilities, and with the Peerless Genius Innate Trait, he began with 100 initial ability points.

He kept grinding for a month, emptying roughly half the Jade Library before the achievement-completion notification interrupted him.

He also obtained quite a few hidden achievements during that time, but all of them only granted attribute experience. Not a single Acquired Trait appeared.

It seemed obtaining Acquired Traits truly was not easy.

The achievement he had completed was naturally Just Starting Out. He had no idea how he had even completed it.

"Could it be that Master has been telling people about me?" Lu Xingshi suddenly realized that it really was possible.

What kind of person was Murong Xuan? He had been a grandmaster thirty years ago and was still quietly active in the martial world, so plenty of people surely knew him.

This trip to Saibei definitely had not involved him alone. There must have been others there too, and it was perfectly normal for him to show off a little.

Those who could hear Murong Xuan bragging would certainly all be First-Rate Experts of the martial world. In that case, completing the Just Starting Out achievement would have been easy.

Lu Xingshi did not dwell on it for long and instead immersed himself in comparing data.

He quickly found the upper-limit data for the Innate Trait slot.

"Five million Gold Coins just to modify one..." Lu Xingshi considered whether it was worth it.

Don't ask how he knew that amount. When the reward was issued, it directly deducted five million Gold Coins from him. Even without making any modifications, the reward for Just Starting Out had to be paid for by him.

If not for the possibility of Acquired Traits appearing, he would have shut off the achievement system long ago.

"Let me see how many Innate Traits I need."

With them being this expensive, Lu Xingshi naturally could not take them all. Maximizing his Physical Constitution only required ten million Gold Coins, while just one of these cost five million.

"There are only eight that are currently useful to me. Including the one I've already paid for, I only need thirty-five million Gold Coins."

"The inflation is ridiculous. It's basically like thirty-five hundred bucks." Lu Xingshi grumbled, though altering his own underlying logic naturally had its reasons for being expensive.

"Consume them directly!"

Gold Coins were consumed, and the modification began. Of all the times Lu Xingshi had modified things, this was the most difficult one, because it involved far too much.

These eight Innate Traits were the remaining top-tier traits in the Innate Trait database. He could wait until his Gold Coins exceeded ten digits before modifying the rest; it would not matter even if he never took them.

"Fuck, pay to win, pay to win, pay to win!!!"

As soon as the eight Innate Traits loaded, Lu Xingshi modified his Health Points without hesitation. He poured in a full hundred thousand Gold Coins before stopping the game villagers' Health Points from dropping to zero.

"Money really can make ghosts turn millstones!"

Lu Xingshi checked his Health Points. Normally, they were 100%, but now they were different—6,500%.

"This health bar is practically the same as loading a BOSS Template."

One point of Physical Constitution equaled one 100% health bar. He had 65 points of Physical Constitution, so he naturally had 6,500%—sixty-five health bars.

Combined with sixty-five times the recovery effect, he was the very definition of high health and thick defenses.

"With such a huge health bar and this recovery ability, can I maximize all Three-Dimensional Attributes in one go now?"

Lu Xingshi thought of that possibility. Otherwise, at one point every two days, it would still take two months.

"If that doesn't work, could I maximize one attribute a day?"

If he maximized his Physical Constitution first, then the Self-Healing Physique and Abundant Qi and Blood would both reach a hundredfold effect. Maybe he could immediately maximize both Comprehension and Mental Fortitude as well.

"I'll try again tomorrow. I need to recover first." Lu Xingshi was not in that much of a hurry.

"Besides the Three-Dimensional Attributes, I need to maximize my ability values too..." Lu Xingshi took a look. Their growth was not actually slow, but for someone cheating like him, it was simply not good enough.

Modifying those eight Innate Traits had exhausted him terribly, leaving him feeling as though his body had been hollowed out.

The difficult ones were the Divine Martial Legend and Rare Treasures Accompany traits. They seemed to involve some deeper circumstances, making them the hardest to modify.

If he had modified them before the game villagers were created, it would not have been so difficult. That would have been akin to generating them, whereas now he was forcibly inserting them, which consumed far more energy.

"Innate Traits related to opportunities or background are no less difficult to modify after the fact than constructing an entirely new past."

Divine Martial Legend belonged to the opportunity category, while Rare Treasures Accompany was a background trait. He had not even had a childhood, much less raised anything, so Lu Xingshi suspected the system had forcibly seized someone else's opportunity and background.

"Once I finish modifying my attributes and ability values, I need to start saving money. I still want some supplementary Innate Traits."

Spending money was easy, but saving it was truly difficult.