After leaving Mount Hua, Chen Jue headed west, taking the opportunity to study the Hidden Dragon Sleeping Elixir Skill he had learned the night before.
Chen Jue found that he progressed extremely quickly in this skill. He reckoned it was because of the efficiency bonus from [Lü Zu's Enlightenment], coupled with the fact that he had already attained a bodily Golden Elixir and could freely enter the state of Embryonic Breathing. Practicing this sleeping skill was thus practically twice the result for half the effort.
Aside from that, Old Man Luo's warning that Chen Jue might fall asleep and never wake up was no great concern for a Golden Elixir Adept like him.
An ordinary person who had yet to achieve Core Formation did indeed need to take care when practicing the Sleep Elixir Skill, lest they sleep themselves from the "living dead" into the actual dead. But Chen Jue had already attained his elixir and could freely control his conscious awareness, so such side effects naturally did not affect him.
However, this Sleep Elixir Skill did not improve his attributes as much as external conditioning skills such as Tiger Roar and Dragon Roar. Raising it to Level 1 had only brought a slight increase in his constitution and health index:
Name: Chen Jue Age: 27 Health index: 209% Strength: 3.51 Agility: 2.49 Constitution: 3.88 Intelligence: 1.61 (1.11) Unassigned attribute points: 0.67 Skills mastered: omitted... [Hidden Dragon Sleeping Elixir Skill Level 1 (5/200)] [Wudang Golden Toad Skill Level 0 (9/100)] Status bonuses: omitted
"This sleeping skill feels even better than the perfected Child's-Boy Skill at restoring and improving a person's energy."
"The small attribute gains don't really matter. It's a sleeping skill, after all-you can practice it while asleep. If people who love sleeping in found out about