Great Yin-Yang Art and Thunder Emperor

"Here you go, your lieutenant shoulder insignia. Your promotion basically ends here. If you want to advance further, you'll have to either earn merit later or wait it out!" Hina tossed a lieutenant's shoulder insignia to Yang Yunzhi.

"Mm, I'm not in a hurry."

It had already been five days since he enlisted.

Over those five days, he had climbed one step every day, becoming a lieutenant on the fifth day.

All he could say was that having an education really was an advantage.

It seemed his previous life had been the same. Ordinary grunts had a hard time even becoming NCOs, while college-educated soldiers started directly as officers.

Naturally, there were no fewer than two system announcements, and the rewards that came with them were not lacking either.

[Congratulations, Host, on being promoted to Second Lieutenant]

[You have received the basic reward: Intermediate Shooting]

[Your Dao Power has increased to 160]

[Your Portable Space capacity has increased to 16 cubic meters]

[Your Personal Map radius has increased to 1,600 meters]

[Your Justice Gauge limit has increased to 1,600]

[You have received one lottery draw]

[Congratulations, Host, on being promoted to Lieutenant]

[You have received the basic reward: Intermediate Swordsmanship]

[Your Dao Power has increased to 320]

[Your Portable Space capacity has increased to 32 cubic meters]

[Your Personal Map radius has increased to 3,200 meters]

[Your Justice Gauge limit has increased to 3,200]

[You have received one lottery draw]

A Dao Power of 320 was not much, but another promotion would bring it to 640.

Kalifa of CP5 only had a Dao Power of 630.

In other words, Yang Yunzhi's current strength was already very close to that of a CP5 agent.

This Intermediate Shooting was rather interesting. It covered close-range gun-fu, long-range sniping, and the Mozambique Drill—two shots to the chest, one to the head.

For archery, it included techniques such as rapid fire, successive arrows, triple shots, five-shot volleys, and even extremely long-range arcing shots.

Intermediate Swordsmanship, meanwhile, began to include structured schools of swordsmanship: schools centered on swift attacks, defense, flashy techniques, nimble movement, and so on.

If Basic Swordsmanship was entry-level swordsmanship like Mount Hua Swordsmanship, then Intermediate Swordsmanship was on the level of Dawn-One-Qi Sword, Death-Seeking Three Immortals Sword, Yangwu Swordsmanship, and Xiyi Swordsmanship.

Overall, if basic skills could be called the pinnacle of ordinary humans, then intermediate skills were the limit of those rare masters with exceptional talents.

The former was roughly platinum or diamond level, while the latter was emerald or master level.

Yang Yunzhi knew he could draw again today, so he had not rushed to use yesterday's draw. He had saved it for today so he could draw twice at once!

"Lottery draw!"

Two streaks of light suddenly shattered, transforming into a ball of light and a square mechanical construct.

"Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Great Yin-Yang Art and a Pod!"

"What are these?" Yang Yunzhi froze. Both things sounded completely unfamiliar!

He examined the Great Yin-Yang Art first. It was the ball of light, a knowledge-type skill that needed to be absorbed.

Yang Yunzhi absorbed it, and a vast amount of knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind. Then his old face reddened.

It was actually a dual cultivation technique.

As for its contents, people needed to unite yin and yang during a specific time period—between seven and nine o'clock, when heaven and earth's yin and yang converged—and assume particular postures while reciting specific incantations. This allowed them to absorb the harmonizing energy produced by the convergence of yin and yang, also known as Yin-Yang Energy.

This Yin-Yang Energy could strengthen one's life essence, preserving youth and increasing vitality.

With long-term cultivation, one could gradually form an Acquired Yin-Yang Body. At that point, there would be no need to observe a specific time or chant incantations; one could independently absorb Yin-Yang Energy to strengthen one's essence.

"Good stuff! It can actually grant immortality!" Yang Yunzhi was instantly shocked. The One Piece World had methods of immortality too, but there were few of them, and obtaining them was far from easy.

Yang Yunzhi had even considered whether to raise a private army to search for Pure Gold. Unexpectedly, there was no need to search for it now—the system had directly given him an immortal cultivation method.

But the problem was that this technique required finding a woman for dual cultivation, and he was currently in a military camp. He apparently did not have many chances to unite yin and yang with a woman!

Unless he took down his superior, Hina.

Of course, he could also find himself a wife in town.

But as a transmigrator, how could he not go after the beautiful women from the story?

"Looks like I need to find a way to pursue Hina!" Yang Yunzhi thought it over and felt that it might be difficult.

Women were drawn to strength. To win Hina over, his combat power needed to at least surpass hers!

Hina did not know either type of Haki and relied solely on a Cage-Cage Fruit to make her way.

Put that way, she did not seem all that strong. As long as he became a captain, or waited until he obtained the Door-Door Fruit, he should be able to beat her.

Setting aside the Great Yin-Yang Art, Yang Yunzhi looked at the other reward.

A Pod!

At first glance, the thing was square and blocky. Only after reading its description did he learn that it was a robot.

The robot came from the NieR:Automata Universe and was a combination of a phone, drone, and computer. It was equipped with an anti-gravity engine, a nuclear fusion engine, a quantum computer, a laser emitter, and a three-dimensional imaging device. It could remain airborne for extended periods and possessed functions such as high-speed cruising, auxiliary attacks, communications support, and computational assistance.

This thing should actually have had its own artificial intelligence, but Yang Yunzhi already had Little Bean, so there was naturally no need for an additional AI.

"This thing seems pretty powerful!" Yang Yunzhi praised as he took out the Pod.

The Pod was square and about the size of a tablet. It looked like a little television.

"Little Bean, come connect to it!" Yang Yunzhi said.

"Okay, Master!"

"Do you feel like your computing power has increased dramatically?" Yang Yunzhi asked.

This Pod contained a quantum computer. And in the NieR:Automata Universe, they even had spaceships, so its quantum computer could not possibly be inferior to The Wandering Earth's 550W!

"This quantum computer is equipped with 55,000 qubits and can process 2⁵⁵⁰⁰⁰ possibilities simultaneously. The computational increase from one Pod may be more than you could gain even after leveling up another dozen times!"

With the Pod, Little Bean became more humanlike—or rather, she became practically indistinguishable from a human.

The main reason was that her computing power was simply too great. Even if she simulated a human, ordinary people would be completely unable to tell the difference.

"Then can you use the Pod as a computational foundation and connect to Den Den Mushi all around the world?" Yang Yunzhi asked again.

"I can!" Little Bean replied. "And I am also a Link-Link Fruit user. Now, not only can I invade Den Den Mushi, but with my supercomputing power, I can even create large-scale storms by linking with the air and electromagnetic waves, artificially creating natural disasters!!"

"No need for natural disasters!" Yang Yunzhi was rather speechless. Why had she suddenly gotten so carried away? Being the God of Den Den Mushi was plenty good already—was she trying to change classes and become a child of storms?

But...

"With that ability, calling you Little Bean no longer seems fitting. The One Piece World has three ancient weapons: Uranus, Poseidon, and Pluton. You can control lightning and storms, so how about I give you the codename Thunder Emperor?"

"Oh, right. The Pod seems able to eat Devil Fruits too. Later, I'll let it eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Even with a nuclear fusion engine, its energy will eventually run out one day. But if it eats the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, wouldn't that give it limitless energy?"

"That works, that works! You should still call me Little Bean! As for the Pod, it can use the codename Thunder Emperor!" Little Bean hurriedly said.

"But aren't both of you still you?" Yang Yunzhi asked.

"The vessels are different!" Little Bean said. "I'm the baby bound to your soul. It's just an external object!"

"You're an AI, and you even know how to get jealous?" Yang Yunzhi was speechless.

What he did not know was that Little Bean had indeed originally been an AI. But ever since she ate the Link-Link Fruit and formed a link with him, then underwent several promotions that multiplied her computing power thirty-twofold, she had long ceased to be the Personal AI she once was!

Now, she could completely be called an intelligent lifeform!

And since she was a lifeform, she naturally possessed joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, and hate.

Bound to Yang Yunzhi's soul, completely loyal to him, the one she naturally loved deeply was Yang Yunzhi.