"My experience points have exceeded 10,000, so I should be able to level up now, right?"
With a heart full of excitement and trembling hands, Ling Yi clicked the "Click to Upgrade" button on the system.
"Ding! Insufficient experience points to level up!"
"Holy crap, 10,000 experience points isn't enough to level up? Do I need 100,000 experience points to level up?"
"Or is this garbage system broken and simply cannot be upgraded?"
"It's supposed to be a system, but you've made upgrading it so difficult. How can anyone play it?"
Ling Yi's initially good mood instantly soured.
He only has one passive skill right now, and we don't know what its effect is yet.
In this dangerous world, can a level zero newbie with only a passive skill survive?
What if a black hole suddenly appeared in Red City one day? Would we even survive?
However, can a single type of Demonic Beast only drop one type of skill book?
Or is it that only the passive dodge skill has the highest drop rate, while the drop rate of other skill books or items is too low?
Ling Yi carefully examined the system interface; it was black with gold accents and extremely simple.
Just as Ling Yi was about to shut down the system, he suddenly noticed something amiss in the lower right corner of the system interface.
There is a slanted triangular area here, which looks like a small corner of a rolled-up sheet of paper.
Because the system interface is black, this curled-up little corner looks extremely inconspicuous.
Ling Yi instinctively poked it.
The next moment, the system interface flipped to a new page, just like turning the pages of a book.
"Holy crap, the system can even turn pages?"
[Task Interface]
[Main Quest Part 1: Take the college entrance examination and be admitted to Yue City Taibian University. Reward: 100,000 experience points, 1 Bronze treasure chest.]
[Side Quest: Successfully level up to level 2, reward: 1 chance to draw a random skill.]
Holy crap, there are even missions? This system actually has missions?!
Ling Yi tapped the bottom right corner again, and the system flipped back to the first page. He tapped it again, and it flipped to the second page.
Okay, it's only two pages in total.
I don't know if the system only has two pages, or if more pages can be added in the future.
"The National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao)?"
Ling Yi scratched his head. Why is the main quest the college entrance exam? It's clearly a Monster-Slaying Level-Up System, but now there's an extra quest interface. Suddenly, it feels a bit frivolous.
Besides, Ling Yi never even thought about the college entrance exam.
He already has a system, what's the point of the college entrance exam? Wouldn't it be better to just run out of the city and become a free Hunting once he's powerful enough?
You can earn money, gain experience to level up, and even defeat monsters to obtain skills.
What's the point of taking the college entrance exam?
If it's only the first stage of the main quest, then that means there's a second stage, a third stage, and so on...?
Yue City Taibian University? I don't think I've ever heard of it!
However, 100,000 experience points and a Bronze treasure chest seem pretty appealing.
As for the side quests, these seem pretty good too.
This is a skill, and skills are a rare commodity.
There's a saying among all cultivators on Blue Star: cultivation techniques are easy to obtain, but skills are hard to come by.
Whether it's cultivating immortality, demonic cultivation, Battle Qi qi, or Soul Ring... cultivation methods are everywhere, but skills are extremely rare.
What is a skill? A skill is the way energy is circulated within the body. It is a means of utilizing one's own power, resulting in various effects and states.
Is this thing difficult to study?
It's not a question of whether it's difficult or not, but rather that it's impossible to study.
It's like, well, how should I put it, rules? But it doesn't seem entirely right.
In short, there's no way you can create your own skills.
Therefore, the way cultivators Combat is basically a clash of energy and strength, a contest of speed and reaction.
How do you acquire those skills?
A very small number of monsters that escape from black holes disappear as streams of light after death; these monsters are called "Void Monster."
When this monster dies, it drops something called Inheritance Stone.
Some Inheritance Stone come with skills, and you can acquire those skills by using them, while other Inheritance Stone Inheritance Stone are blank.
Blank Inheritance Stone can extract skills from dying monsters.
However, the success rate of this extraction is said to be very low.
Black holes that produce Void Monster are rare to begin with, and even when they do appear, it's unknown where they'll emerge, so they're often missed.
Moreover, black holes with Void Monster generally exist for a very short time.
In addition, Inheritance Stone can only be used once and will disappear completely afterward.
A combination of factors has made skills extremely valuable in this world.
Just like Magic Mage practice magic, most Magic Mage can basically only throw a Magic Bullet. The more skilled ones can use their Divine Power to change the speed, trajectory, shape, and so on of the Magic Bullet.
Are these skills? You could say yes, but not entirely.
The Magic Mage doesn't even know a Dharma Curse, can't even cast a Fireball, let alone Forbidden Spell.
Other practitioners are basically the same.
Ling Yi saw all of these in the library, but Ling Yi always felt that these so-called Void Monster were somewhat like monsters from a game.
The book describes the Void Monster as follows: The Void Monster vary in Li Qiang and appearance, but most are ugly, with floating horizontal stripes on their heads that are either red or a mixture of red and blue.
What else could this be but a monster from a game? But for some reason, Ling Yi hadn't seen any pictures of these Void Monster in any related books, not a single one.
Ling Yi didn't believe that people couldn't leave behind images of the Void Monster. Even if they couldn't leave images, surely they could at least draw a rough sketch? But even hand-drawn pictures were impossible.
Therefore, it must be very strange that someone deliberately concealed the image of the Void Monster.
"The college entrance exam... there are ten days left until the exam, no, after today there are only nine days left!"
Ling Yi mechanically slaughtered the mutated chickens while thinking to himself.
This was Ling Yi's eighth day working at the slaughterhouse.
With over 50,000 experience points accumulated, Little Qian successfully surpassed one million.
I have over 50,000 experience points, but I still can't level up, which is really frustrating.
The passive dodge skill level has reached 15, with a dodge chance of 99%.
Ling Yi didn't know how effective the 99% dodge rate actually was, and hadn't had a chance to try it out yet.
But one thing is certain: this mutated chicken really only has this one skill.
Ling Yi was wondering whether he should switch to a different type of monster to grind.
Perfect timing, this slaughterhouse has almost run out of mutant chickens.
After grinding for another day, Ling Yi decided to switch monsters.
There are also three slaughterhouses in this area, each raising different mutated monsters.
Fengbie breeds mutant rabbits, mutant pigs, and mutant sheep.
The specific procedure is no different from killing mutant chickens.
During this time, Ling Yi also gained some fame in this area.
After all, there are very few people who are unafraid of Pseudo Soul Energy and willing to do this kind of work.
Those who can be fearless against Pseudo Soul Energy are all quite powerful; how could such people possibly work in a slaughterhouse?
On the contrary, newcomers like Ling Yi, who possess special physiques or talents, are extremely rare.
These days, that fat guy is making a killing, earning ten times more every day than before. Who wouldn't be envious?
Therefore, the new boss was incredibly affectionate towards Ling Yi upon seeing him.
So, the next week...
Ling Yi farmed mutated rabbits for two days, mutated pigs for two days, and mutated sheep for three days.
These monsters still cost 1 experience point each. Obviously, the size of the monster has nothing to do with the amount of experience points, since these mutated monsters are technically all beginner-level monsters.
However, Ling Yi gained three brand-new skills.
[ Monster-Slaying Level-Up System ]
[Host: Ling Yi ]
[Level: 0 (Click to upgrade)]
[Experience Points: 121271]
[Constitution: 2 (Note: Constitution includes all parameters such as health, lifespan, strength, spirit, agility, and stamina!)]
[Skill 1: Infinite Dodge lv15 (Passive skill, 99% chance to evade all attacks)]
[Skill 2: Infinite Prediction Lv9 (Passive Skill, 30% chance to predict the trajectory of the enemy's next attack when the enemy attacks)]
[Skill 3: Infinite Weakness Lv9 (Passive Skill, 65% chance to discover enemy attack weaknesses and defensive vulnerabilities when the enemy attacks)]
[Skill 4: Infinite Heavy Fist Lv10 (Passive skill. When attacked or attacked, there is a 10% chance to trigger a combo effect, resulting in Infinite Combo that continues until the opponent dies. The combo can be manually canceled.)]
[Talent Skill: Appraisal (Note: Can Appraisal the target's basic parameters!)]
[Backpack: None (Note: The backpack has unlimited capacity and can only store system items!)]
[Ancient Coin: 2193731]
Lying in bed, Ling Yi stared at his system panel, lost in thought.
Why are they all passive skills?
Does this mean that the skills that are revealed can only be passive skills?
Of course, it's not that these passive skills aren't good; they're just incredibly good. Tell me, which of these four skills isn't overpowered?
Although I haven't actually tested it yet and don't know the specific effects, I imagine it won't be bad.
But, as I said before, why are they all passive skills?
With over 120,000 experience points already accumulated, Ling Yi looked at the "Click to Upgrade" button on the system panel, feeling somewhat uneasy.
If this system still can't be upgraded, then it's a total rip-off.
"I fucking poke it!"
Anxiety was useless, hesitation was a defeat, so Ling Yi just went straight for it.
"Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully leveled up to Level 1."
"Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the side quest and gaining one chance to draw a random skill. Would you like to draw it?"
Then what are we waiting for? Of course, we'll choose yes!
"Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired the skill ' Qi Healing Technique '!"
Ling Yi's eyes lit up. Qi Healing Technique —just from the name, you could tell it was a skill used for healing.
Compared to offensive and defensive skills, this special type of skill is more valuable.
However, before Ling Yi could even enjoy his happiness for three seconds, the system dinged again.
"Ding! ' Qi Healing Technique ' is undergoing a mutation. Congratulations, host! ' Qi Healing Technique ' has been converted into the passive skill ' Infinite Health Recovery '!"
Ling Yi was exasperated. How did things go from being proactive to being reactive? I don't want to be reactive; I want to be proactive.
After opening the system interface and reading the skill descriptions, Ling Yi grinned and thought, "Well, it smells pretty good."
Infinite Health Recovery Lv1 (Passive skill, triggered by severe injury, restores 10% of the host's health per second to the host and their locked teammates for 15 seconds, can be triggered once per day!)
This skill is truly divine; it can be a lifesaver in crucial moments.
There's one question: how do you upgrade this skill? Or rather, what monsters drop the skill book for this skill?