Chapter 19：Heart Calm Like Water

Your Monk level has risen to Level 3."

"Due to your Physique, your Life Value has increased."

"You have obtained a class baptism."

"You learned Stillness of Mind."

"You learned Swift Movement."

Lv1 Stillness of Mind: Meditation allows you to calmly face all things and spells that affect your mind.

Effect: Facing control and illusionary magic and effects, character has a 10% chance (chance and skill level, spell level and effect, etc., are related) of being immune to these spells and effects.

PS: "When facing temptation, if you can't have a still mind, you will be hard like iron." - Integrated Network Newbie Manual

Lv1 Swift Movement: When one is wearing light armor or unarmored, character obtains 3m/second basic movement speed buff, the buff can be increased by magic effects as well as character's own buffs.

An endless warm current reduced Yi Qiu's soul weakness, the class baptism wouldn't increase his stats but it was more of a passive increase.

Suddenly Yi Qiu felt like the earth's gravity was lighter and he felt his body become lighter. Like he didn't need to use strength and would be able to cover a long distance.

Before Yi Qiu was able to rise up to vent out his desire to run, a calm aura overcame Yi Qiu. The sense of annoyance from the weakness of the soul was cleared out, anxiousness, anger, etc., negative emotions were swept clean. At the same time, his desire for girls was gone too...

Yi Qiu: ???

Looking at the girls who passed by, Yi Qiu noticed that he wasn't tempted at all, he even had an urge to go eat pork chops...

"Misfortune!" Yi Qiu touched his bald head and sighed. Delicious food was the only joy left in his life.

In the noon of winter, sunlight gently shone on this corner of the park, a bald-headed man seemed really depressed and sad.

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If there were no more girls in your world, then you needed to eat better to fill that void.

Yi Qiu returned home and started to dejectedly eat the juicy pork chop that had stewed for a long time. Afterward, he felt revived with full health!

Stillness of Mind was far stronger than its description. Humans were emotional characters, naturally, they would be affected by emotions that formed due to various reasons, especially modern-day people who lived in such volatile cities.

Due to his experiences, Yi Qiu was calmer than most people, but he was still a person. As long as one was human, one would have emotions and one wouldn't be able to escape the cycle of life and death, unable to avoid all demons. They will love and they will leave, they will be angry and they will hate, they will crave things.

Stillness of Mind could let him stay far away from the interruptions of these negative emotions. Like what the name describes, Stillness of Mind. It was different from the stillness that normal people could get, but a special effect that Monks obtained through meditation. Thus, it wouldn't cause Yi Qiu to be like a statue that couldn't feel joy or happiness. It just blocked those negative and depressing feelings from his mind.

After finishing the juicy pork chop, Yi Qiu once again opened the Integrated Network interface. Passing the Elite Barren Gold Mine gave him large amounts of experience. Deducting the 3,000 points from before, he was left with 6,590 Integrated Network Experience. It needed 6000 Integrated Network Experience Points to level up to Level 4. This meant that he could level up once more!

"Raising Monk level requires 6,000 Integrated Network Experience, will you level up?"

"Yes!"

"Your Monk level increased to Level 4."

"Due to your physique, your Life Value has increased."

"You have obtained a class baptism."

"You learned Douqi Strike."

"You learned Feather Falling."

"You obtained a point of free stat!"

Name: Yi Qiu

Class: Monk (lvl4) class has been locked, the lowest level cannot fall below Level 1.

Life value: 70% (Life value determines health, stamina. When it is below 10%, the person is weak and has no strength. When it is less than 5%, the person will be in shock, when it drops to 0%, the person will be dead.)

Ki: 75/75 (Ki is the source of a Monk's power, when one uses Monk skills, one has to consume Ki.)

Strength: 12 (Power determines the strength of muscles and one's physical body.)

Agility: 10 (Agility decides reaction and thinking speed, hand-eye coordination and balance.)

Physique: 13 (Physique determines Life value and resistance.)

Intelligence: 10 (Intelligence determines one's learning and inferring ability.)

Charm: 9 (Charm decides one's charisma, persuasion, personal attraction, leadership ability and external attraction.)

Senses: 12 (Senses decide one's mental strength, judgment, sensory ability and intuition.)

Luck: 10 (Luck determines everything else that doesn't have anything to do with one's power.)

Bloodline Ability: Prayer (Rare), Clarity (Rare), Strengthening (Rare)

Class skills:

Lvl4 Flurry of Blows (Common): When one is empty-handed, after launching an attack, you can consume Ki to launch an extra attack. The strength of this extra attack is in direct correlation with the consumed Ki amount, but it cannot exceed your strongest strike. 

Lv4 Unarmed Attack (Common): All your unarmed attacks will obtain 10% damage buff, including but not limited to: Fists, elbow and legs. 

Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique (Elephant): Raise Strength and Physique to 12.

Eight Gates: Gate of Opening, Gate of Healing

Lv2 Stillness of Mind: Meditation allows you to calmly face all things and spells that affect your mind.

Effect: Facing control and illusionary magic and effects, character has a 10% chance (chance and skill level, spell level and effect, etc., are related) to be immune to these spells and effects.

PS: "When facing temptation, if you can't have a still mind, you will be hard like iron." - Integrated Network Newbie Manual 

Lv2 Swift Movement: When one is wearing light armor or unarmored, character obtains 3m/second basic movement speed buff, the buff can be increased by magic effects as well as character's own buffs.

Lv1 Douqi Strike: Injection of Ki to pierce the defenses of the enemy. When facing enemies with special armor, character's unarmed strikes can be seen as a magic weapon.

Lv1 Feather Falling: Activates Ki to reduce damage human takes from falling. You can be immune from damage from heights of 6 meters. When the fall is from higher than 6 meters, you will still take damage, but when calculating damage, deduct 6 meters of height. 

Condition:

Bald Head Explosive Strike (Rare): When one is bald, it is easier for you to deal critical hits to your enemy.

Effect: Critical rate increased by 5%

Non-combat stats:

Cooking: 24

Free stat point: 1

PS: Please pay attention! Free stat points are really precious, you can use them to raise any stat. Only by raising class level to a certain level will you obtain free stat points that are really limited. In epic and legend battles there is a chance to obtain free stat points from God rewards!

Overall Evaluation: Challenge Level 4

Pure stats can accumulate to form a monster, adding stats in and one would become a legend.

Level 4 Monk allowed Yi Qiu to learn Douqi Strike and Feather Falling. Douqi Strike was a core technique of Monks which meant that Yi Qiu would be able to deal normal damage to Yin Souls and Spirits.

In truth, unless one's Strength reached 20, types of beings like Yin Souls and Spirits would not suffer any damage from an attack, even if you tired yourself to death. Before that, you would probably be sucked dry by them. 

As for Feather Falling, 6 meters didn't seem like much, but when he reached Level 20, he would be immune from all fall damage with Feather Falling.

That's right, he didn't need feathers or any pile of hay. He just needed to reach Level 20 and he would be immune... Pui, randomly jumping in maps purely on blind faith wasn't just a dream!