【Qigong (Excellence 1-Star): A foundational cultivation technique featuring characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It regulates the mind and body to dispel illness and prolong life, enhances life potential, and upon activation generates Qigong Points: (4 Constitution + 7 Spirit) / 2 × 10 = 55 points. Qigong Points can buff all Traditional Chinese Medicine skills, increasing skill effectiveness by 10%. Primary Qigong additionally grants the user: 20% increase to Vitality and Blood, 20% increase to Mana.】
【Healing Spell (Common 3-Star): Primary level. Consumes 5 Mana to treat the target's injuries, reducing their internal injury value by (10 + 7 Spirit) points and helping the target recover their attribute value upper limits. Cooldown: 60 seconds.】
Normally after sustaining an injury, the attribute panel displays an internal injury value, while the caps for Vitality and Blood, Mana, and the four main attributes are forcibly reduced. The higher the internal injury value, the more severely the attributes are weakened, which is why one must promptly seek treatment after getting injured.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, injuries cause blood stasis and blocked circulation, leading to a decline in physical functions. Through proper regulation, the body can recover.
Mufeng stared at the word "Life" described within the Qigong skill, activated his golden cheat, and added the Life trait to the Healing Spell.
Use successful.
【Healing Spell (Life) (Legendary 2-Star): Primary level. Consumes 5 Mana to treat the target's injuries, reducing their internal injury value by (10 + 7 Spirit) points and helping the target recover their attribute value upper limits. Additionally applies the primary Life Rule to the target, replenishing their abundant vitality. Cooldown: 60 seconds. (When using the skill, you can independently choose whether to additionally apply the Life Rule.)】
【This addition of the "Life" attribute to the "Healing Spell" skill has a compatibility rating of: Excellent. Triggered additional skill effect: Regeneration of Severed Limbs.】
It really worked! This was the correct way to unlock the golden cheat, and there was even an unexpected bonus. It directly upgraded from Common quality to Legendary quality.
So adding attributes to skills had a compatibility rating factor. Previously, when adding metal to the Healing Spell, there was no compatibility prompt at all—presumably because there was zero compatibility.
But there was no help for that; he hadn't had a choice back then.
Thinking about it, he didn't actually have many choices now either. He still needed to add traits to two more skills, and currently had an urgent need for the "Cultivation" and "Attribute Points" traits. He could only try his best to find compatibility.
The Qigong skill already provided an extra boost to Vitality, Blood, and Mana, so adding attribute points on top of that was completely logical, right?
The Sword Heart skill included increased sword technique comprehension speed, so adding the "Cultivation" attribute should have a correlation as well, right?
【Qigong (Attribute Points) (Legendary 1-Star): A foundational cultivation technique featuring characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It regulates the mind and body to dispel illness and prolong life, enhances life potential, and increases the acquisition of attribute points. Upon activation, it generates Qigong Points: (4 Constitution + 7 Spirit) / 2 × 10 = 55 points. Qigong Points can buff all Traditional Chinese Medicine skills, increasing skill effectiveness by 10%. Primary Qigong additionally grants the user: 20% increase to Vitality and Blood, 20% increase to Mana. Each acquisition of attribute points is additionally increased by 30%.】
【This addition of the "Attribute Points" attribute to the "Qigong" skill has a compatibility rating of: Good. Additionally increases attribute point gains by 20%, Vitality and Blood buff by 10%, and Mana buff by 10%.】
Now the effects of the Qigong skill were: Vitality and Blood increased by 30%, Mana increased by 30%, and attribute points gained each time increased by an extra 50%.
【Sword Heart (Cultivation) (Legendary 5-Star): Primary level. Sword technique comprehension ability increased by 100%, sword technique cultivation speed increased by 100%, sword speed increased by 50%, sword technique power increased by 50%. All cultivation speeds are additionally increased by 300%.】
【This addition of the "Cultivation" attribute to the "Sword Heart" skill has a compatibility rating of: Good. Additionally increases all cultivation speeds by 100%, and sword technique cultivation speed by 50%.】
Now the sword technique cultivation speed provided by the Sword Heart skill was increased by 550%. Aside from sword techniques, all other cultivation speeds were increased by 400%.
Both compatibility ratings were Good. Well, he had done his best, and overall the results were pretty good.
Now that the skill enhancements were complete, it was time to start cultivating this foundational technique.
Opening the cultivation manual, Mufeng, bolstered by the 400% increase to cultivation speed, quickly entered the meditative state.
……
"Mufeng, dinner is ready."
Mother was in a great mood today and, in a rare display of generosity, had prepared a table full of dishes.
She and Muxue bustled about setting out bowls and chopsticks. They were long used to Mufeng hiding in his room and only coming out to eat when dinner was served.
The original Mufeng's personality was largely the result of being spoiled by Mother and Muxue.
Meanwhile, little chubby Muyun was already guarding the table, staring eagerly at the feast while swallowing hard. Taking advantage of the moment Mother stepped into the kitchen, she quickly grabbed a slice of pork belly and popped it into her mouth, chewing furiously with her back turned toward the kitchen!
Soon, the food, bowls, and chopsticks were all ready, and the three of them sat down.
"How come Mufeng still isn't out? Muyun, go call him," Mother instructed.
"Not eager for meals, flawed in ideals," Muyun muttered reluctantly as she stood up, her mouth full of food.
"I'm here." Mufeng pushed open his door and walked out, pulling out a chair at the dining table and sitting down. He said to Mother:
"Sorry, sorry. I got too absorbed in cultivating my technique and accidentally lost track of time."
This remark was primarily meant for Muxue. Only Muxue in this family had experience with cultivating techniques; the others wouldn't understand what getting too absorbed in cultivation actually meant.
Yet Mufeng only looked at Mother, desperately forcing himself not to look at Muxue sitting nearby.
"Diligent cultivation is a good thing, but you still need to balance work and rest. Let's eat." Mother didn't think much of it and busied herself serving food to them.
"You just got your cultivation technique, and you could already get that absorbed in it?" Muxue clearly looked skeptical of Mufeng's claim.
"I practiced for a little while just now, and I've already reached Tier 1 Early Stage." Mufeng spoke casually, but the unconcealable pride in his eyes betrayed him.
"What? You cultivated to Tier 1 Early Stage in just this little bit of time?"
Muxue was shocked. Today, Mufeng kept shattering her impressions of him over and over again.
She had taken time off to travel all the way back from Imperial Capital University specifically to deliver an Awakening Potion to Mufeng; otherwise, relying solely on Mufeng's dismal aptitude, it would have been impossible for him to awaken a skill in his entire lifetime.
Skills awakened through an Awakening Potion were generally quite ordinary, as the potion was meant for people with low aptitudes. Although the effects weren't fantastic, it was extremely precious, and Muxue had paid a heavy price to acquire it.
Ever since they met today, Mufeng had first matured and then surprised her by clearing a Nightmare-difficulty dungeon. Now, he was displaying exceptional cultivation aptitude that left her astonished.
He had reached the early stage in just this short time—even faster than the time it had taken her back then.
One had to know that among the top students at Imperial Capital University, her cultivation aptitude was praised by the seniors as a genius the likes of which they had never seen before.
So what on earth was Mufeng's cultivation speed supposed to be?
Actually, none of that was the real issue. What troubled her the most was the system notification she had just received.
【The male before you has surpassed your cultivation aptitude, triggering the Heavenly Pride Peerless System penalty. Your intimacy with him is forcibly increased by 5 points.】
That's right, Muxue possessed the Heavenly Pride Peerless System. It was precisely because of this system that she had been able to rise rapidly, transforming from a child of an ordinary family into a nationally renowned favored daughter of heaven.
The system's functions were powerful, granting her double comprehension, double cultivation speed, and a whole bunch of other covetable features. There was just one penalty: she could not be surpassed by others.
If anyone she knew surpassed her in any aspect, her intimacy with that person would passively increase.
【Host: Muxue】
【The Heavenly Pride Peerless System has been bound. This system is dedicated to helping the Host reach the peak of the Ruins Realm.】
【Current active system functions: Double cultivation speed, double comprehension, double pill absorption rate, double attribute point gains, double skill power……】
【Profession: Spacetime Mage (Heroic Grade)】
【Tier: Tier 7】
【Talent: Innate ability to sense spacetime attributes.】
【Attributes: ……】
【Skills: ……】
【Cultivation Technique: Spacetime Canon (Legendary Grandmaster Tier) Tier 7 Early Stage】
【Ruins Realm Myriad Races Rankings: Hidden Dragon Rankings 187, Human Rankings 952, Hundred Flowers Rankings 23.】
Muxue looked back at the intimacy page on her attribute panel. Right at the top of the list was Mufeng, with an intimacy of 15 points.
Intimacy was unlocked with anyone she knew. The default initial intimacy was 0, but Mufeng, being her younger brother, naturally started with 10 points more than others, giving him an initial intimacy of 10. Now, with a forced addition of 5 points, it had become 15.
The only way to increase intimacy with her was to surpass her.
Yet how could someone possessing a system easily be surpassed by others?
Take cultivation speed for instance: her own aptitude was already heaven-defying, and the system further granted her double cultivation speed.
Unfortunately, she had run into Mufeng, whose cultivation speed was 5 times greater, and he had taught her a harsh lesson.
This was the first time she had been surpassed by someone she knew, and also the first time she was forced to gain intimacy.
The sensation was so bizarre; it seemed as though at that very instant, her heart had fluttered for no reason. Moreover, the target was her younger brother Mufeng, which made it even more unthinkable.
As for what would happen if her intimacy reached 100, she didn't even dare to imagine.
She even suspected that once her intimacy broke through thresholds like 50 or 80, she might involuntarily commit certain abnormal behaviors.
"Sigh～" Muxue looked at Mufeng with a complex gaze and let out a helpless sigh.
In the short span of today, Mufeng had redefined her image of him again and again.
It seemed that Mufeng managing to clear a Nightmare-difficulty dungeon wasn't as simple as it looked on the surface.