[Immortal Cultivation System Beginner Gift Pack] issued: One Dragon-Tiger Pill: consuming it will cleanse your sinews and marrow and reshape your physique. After consumption: more handsome than Kaká, with all stats adjusted to: Height 185 cm, physical stamina 150 (ordinary person 100, elite athlete 150-300), endurance 40 (long-distance runner 60), strength 500 kg (ordinary person 100 kg), 100-meter sprint 7 seconds, reaction time 0.15 seconds, bone density T3 (ordinary person T0), bone strength T4 (ordinary person T1). Pill: one Qi Gathering Pill. Consuming it will immediately open your dantian and bring you to the Qi Refining First Layer Initial Stage. Cultivation art: "Heaven and Earth Creation Art" (beginner). Hey, this is a good art, a truly good cultivation art. Martial skills: basic fist techniques (proficient), basic saber techniques (proficient), basic sword techniques (proficient), basic staff techniques (proficient), basic footwork (proficient). Spells: 1. Cleaning Technique: immortal cultivators place the utmost importance on hygiene. With this, you can not only keep yourself clean, but also remove dust and odors from others. 2. Soundproofing Technique: cultivate with peace of mind, shutting out outside interference! During early Qi Refining, this spell can form a soundproof space measuring anywhere from 1 meter to 30 meters in length, width, and height. With this spell, cultivate to your heart's content, young man! 3. Immunity to All Poisons constitution bonus: you won't be easily poisoned or infected by other viruses! Instructions: take the Dragon-Tiger Pill first to cleanse your sinews and marrow, then take the Qi Gathering Pill to open your dantian. Insights into the cultivation art, techniques, and spells will then be gently instilled into the host over the following ten breaths!
"Whoa, this is good, this is good, this is fantastic! I want this! The things that make men happiest: gaming gives you one times the pleasure, gambling twice, sex three times, making money five times, and gaining power ten times! I want ten times the pleasure right now! Quick, give it to me, I want it!"
Zhang Kuang was beyond excited. It would change his constitution and make him taller and longer, and, especially, solve tricky issues like hygiene, poisoning, and soundproofing.
That [Immunity to All Poisons] constitution in particular was fantastic.
Maybe those Indian guys had this constitution, which was why they dared to go after species like lizards, cows, and sheep? Even car exhaust pipes were fair game, and they still wouldn't get poisoned.
Just thinking about it was exciting. No, that wouldn't do. He was an immortal cultivator. How could he have such filthy, chaotic thoughts? Immortal cultivation placed the greatest emphasis on a clear mind and few desires.
Now this was a real beginner gift pack. This was what immortal cultivation should be.
The excited Zhang Kuang had long since tossed aside his earlier indignation. He hurriedly summoned the Dragon-Tiger Pill and ate it. Hmm, a little astringent, a little sweet, and a little fishy? Why was it fishy?
Whatever. Swallow it.
"Aah!"
Zhang Kuang let out a bloodcurdling scream. It hurt so much! It felt as though his entire body was being stretched, his bones being stretched, his fascia being stretched, and his muscles being stretched too.
It hurt too much!
This pain pierced his marrow, a pain that came from deep within his nerves.
After all, this was a cleansing of his sinews and marrow, a complete transformation of his constitution, physique, and appearance, so it had to be thorough, from the inside out. That was perfectly normal.
Zhang Kuang screamed miserably in the alley, frightening the nearby gang members into giving him a wide berth. Those screams were terrifying, making it seem even crueler than the torture they had witnessed.
Zhang Kuang screamed for a full ten minutes. For some reason, it simply wouldn't let him pass out from the pain, instead making him experience it while fully conscious.
When the pain finally faded, Zhang Kuang couldn't help unleashing a torrent of curses.
"Fuck your ancestors! You couldn't even warn me it would hurt this much? At least I could've gotten some anesthetic beforehand!"
Panting heavily, eyes red and tears streaming, Zhang Kuang looked at the Qi Gathering Pill in the system and hesitated. Should he take it? It wouldn't hurt like that again, would it?
Whatever. For women... no, for becoming an immortal, what did this little bit of suffering count for?
With that thought, Zhang Kuang took out the Qi Gathering Pill and swallowed it in one gulp. Then he squeezed his eyes shut and waited for the pain to arrive, and then...
"Ah, ah, that feels good, good, good, so good... ah, amazing, so amazing! Is this immortal cultivation? Ah, yes..."
Never could Zhang Kuang have imagined that, between the Dragon-Tiger Pill and the Qi Gathering Pill, one would hurt so badly he wished he were dead, while the other would send him soaring with pleasure.
This was so fucking...
"Cultivators really know how to have fun. This double heaven of ice and fire, needing no outside force, just pills, has you dying and coming back to life one moment and floating on clouds the next. Who on Earth could pull this off?
"It's just... why does the pain last so long, but the pleasure only lasts this tiny little while? The pleasure's a bit too brief. It's not satisfying enough!"
Very quickly, in only about thirty seconds, Zhang Kuang had digested the Qi Gathering Pill, opened his dantian, and reached the Qi Refining First Layer Initial Stage.
He was now a Qi Refining cultivator too, having truly set foot on the path of immortal cultivation. For a moment, he could hardly believe it. This was so obviously fake.
This cheat was a little too overpowered. Too much, too much.
Keep a low profile. A low profile. We've got to keep a low profile...
Hmm... let's get a feel for it. Proficiency in basic fist, saber, sword, and staff techniques, and footwork. Now let's feel out... the spells.
Hmm, first, a Cleaning Technique on himself to get rid of all the sticky stuff covering him.
Whoa, cleaner and fresher than getting scrubbed down at a bathhouse. Huh, there was even a fragrance?
Not bad, not bad.
Right, now try the Soundproofing Technique. Couldn't see anything.
Why was he randomly testing things? Hurry up and comprehend the cultivation art. Huh, what kind of cultivation art was this? Why were there bedroom arts too? Holy shit, he hadn't looked closely during the body transformation. There was even the perk of getting bigger and longer.
Whoa, this was good, this was good.
No, he had to hurry and find someone to try this skill on. He couldn't wait anymore. Get moving.
Where could he find someone to try it with? Pay for someone? Maybe right now he could only...
Huh, wasn't that the gang that had robbed him earlier? They were the ones who had struck the back of his head, which was how he'd transmigrated here.
No, he had to get them back.
Before, he couldn't cultivate, so he couldn't do anything to him. Now that he could cultivate, why wouldn't he kill him?
"Stop!"
Zhang Kuang shouted, and the three young black thugs ahead immediately froze, then turned to look his way.
"Yo, isn't this the yellow-skinned monkey we just taught a lesson? What, you wanna get revenge on your granddaddy..."
Smack, thump, crack, aah...
This felt amazing. Zhang Kuang realized he had barely done anything, just casually poked a few times as if prodding ants, and these bad guys were already all down.
"Hahaha, good, good, good! From now on, I'm someone who commands force too. If anyone dares disobey, I'll beat the bastard up."
After laughing wildly, Zhang Kuang searched the thugs and found some money and valuables, including his wallet. The thousand-plus euros inside hadn't been touched.
There were also more than two thousand euros, several daggers and switchblades, a packet of powder, and...
Forget it. None of that interested him. Pocketing the money and valuables, he gave each thug another kick, then left.
Next, he had to find a cultivation furnace. Heh heh, his newly formed eighteen-centimeter spear could no longer hold back.
-The following introduces related reference information; skip it if you aren't interested-
Ordinary person (full-force straight punch): 100-150 kg, used as the 1× baseline.
Excellent professional boxer (heavyweight): 400-500 kg, approximately 3-4×.
Silverback gorilla (slap): 450-600 kg? Approximately 3.5-5×.
Adult male African lion (swipe): 400-500 kg? Approximately 3-4×.
Adult Siberian tiger (paw strike): approximately 1,000 kg, approximately 8×.
Adult grizzly bear (paw strike): 1,000-1,500 kg, approximately 8-12×.
(Some readers are confused by the two systems and don't understand certain parts. In the simplest terms, the [Heaven Rewards Diligence Football King System] originally allowed experience to be accumulated through training, but that module for gaining experience through training was replaced by the Qi and Blood Points produced through daily cultivation with the [Heaven and Earth Creation Immortal Cultivation System]. This means that experience and Qi and Blood Points can only be obtained through cultivation, not through diligent training!
As for allocating points and all that, don't think it's complicated. It's very simple: it's just more detailed than other people's point-allocation systems. You don't simply add points to [Shooting] and call it a day. Instead, [Shooting] contains numerous subcategories that need points, and only their overall rating after allocation is the true [Shooting] rating. By the same logic, a center forward doesn't just need a high score in [Shooting]. There are other things too, so only the combined overall rating of several categories is the center forward's overall rating!)
(Note: this book updates daily at noon, with two chapters posted back-to-back. During the recommendation period before paid release, Tuesday's update will be at 00:01.)