Chapter 57

As Chu Ge came out of the Instance Dungeon door and walked up to the computer next to it, he was feeling delighted.

“System, what is this friendship level with the adventurer?”

System: After the friendship level reaches 100, the next time this adventurer is recruited again, the recruitment fee can be reduced by 50%. Of course, the requirement is that the adventurer appears near the Instance Dungeon. Also, the host can buy a Summoning Amulet from the store. In reality, an adventurer with a friendship level of 100 can be summoned to help you. One Summoning Amulet costs 50 DKP and lasts for 24 hours. The summoned adventurer will be in a spiritual form and will not die but will return to the original world after being fatally injured. You will not be able to exchange items with the adventurer either.

What? There were settings like this?

Chu Ge quickly opened the system interface to check. Why was there no System Store?

System: To unlock the System Store, you need to upgrade the system to level two. Apart from the System Store, many other items can also be opened once the system updates to level two.

“How can I upgrade the system?”

System: Complete five Instance Dungeons.

Chu Ge thought to himself that he still had a long way to go.

It seemed like he would not able to use this just yet, so he directly went to complete the Instance Dungeon calculations.

System: Calculating Instance Dungeon.

System: You have killed [Wang Xu (Sky Sword Sect’s expelled apprentice)] and received 10 DKP.

System: You have killed [Zhang Ada, Wang Baoping, Li Laoyao, Zhao Qing (Four Ghosts of Mount Tai)], and received 10 DKP.

System: You have killed the side quest Boss [Yi Ruyu (Spider of Interchangeability)] and received 10 DKP.

System: You have killed [Hu Yiba (Fierce Tiger Villa’s Lord), the tiger (Hu Yiba’s pet)], and received 10 DKP.

System: You have successfully cleared the Fierce Tiger Villa Instance Dungeon, receiving 10 DKP. In total, you have earned 50 DKP.

System: The calculation of points is complete. This Instance Dungeon will be closed in five minutes. After the Instance Dungeon closes, the system will enter into a cooling phase. The next Instance Dungeon will only begin after seven days have passed.

The Instance Dungeon door soon disappeared.

Chu Ge looked at his DKP. He now had 70 DKP.

Then the next step was to deal with that He Zhenyu.

Considering the resources he currently had, Chu Ge already knew what to do. However, to implement this plan, he needed to increase his strength even more. Of course, this had to be done tomorrow as he was exhausted.

After taking a whole day’s rest, Chu Ge got up early the next morning. He was going to start training.

Chu Ge now had three martial arts skills. They were the Floating Cloud Sword Technique, Taizu Changquan, and Hard Qigong. Each separate page of the martial arts treasure book could raise the level of a martial arts skill. After hesitating for a bit, Chu Ge decided to upgrade the Floating Cloud Sword Technique.

He had no choice. Currently, this was the only martial arts skill he possessed, which contained an advanced ability.

Chu Ge took out a separate page of the martial arts treasure book, then squeezed it hard. The page immediately turned into a stream of golden light and went into his head. Instantly, Chu Ge felt like he had comprehended something in his mind. The moves of Taizu Changquan and the Floating Cloud Sword Technique, as well as the mind mantra of Hard Qigong, continuously flashed inside Chu Ge’s mind. He directly added this information into the Floating Cloud Sword Technique with his mind.

All he saw were lines of notifications flashing quickly across the computer screen.

System: Your Floating Cloud Sword Technique has been upgraded to level three.

System: Your Floating Cloud Sword Technique has been upgraded to level four.

System: Your Floating Cloud Sword Technique has been upgraded to level five.

System: Your Floating Cloud Sword Technique has been upgraded to level six.

In one go, the Floating Cloud Sword Technique had been increased to level six, unlocking the Floating Cloud Disappearance Body Technique.

As soon as Chu Ge opened his eyes, he felt like his body was very light and almost floating. He pulled out the Cold Moon Sword and started swinging it around in the living room. The swings instantly felt different. The original Floating Cloud Sword Technique looked soft and weak, but now, when used with his body, this technique was as elusive as clouds floating in the sky. His body had never felt this light and flexible before. Chu Ge had a feeling that if he were to deal with those small monsters such as robbers and bandits right now, fighting one against three would not be a problem. He might even be able to fight one against five.

However, this feeling lasted less than a minute before it disappeared. Chu Ge had no choice. He only had 20 points of inner energy. After activating the Floating Cloud Disappearance Body Technique, he could only use it for a small period of time.

“This. This is a bit troublesome,” Chu Ge thought, but he didn’t have another choice. The next task he had to do was to train the Hard Qigong.

While he was thinking, Chu Ge sat down cross-legged.

Although this Hard Qigong had the same name as a type of Qigong, in reality, it was something completely different. The most significant difference was that inner energy could be trained from this Hard Qigong. Also, he didn’t have to cut with a sword or break things with a club. He only needed to meditate cross-legged while activating his inner energy to improve his experience.

Sitting on the floor of the living room, Chu Ge was able to feel a force flowing inside his body. Following the memory, he obtained in his mind, he constantly let this inner energy flow inside the body, as it gradually expanded into the meridians. While increasing the flow of the inner energy, he grew his meridians at the same time.

Unknowingly, Chu Ge fell into a strange state of mind.

Then, he suddenly opened his eyes fiercely and felt that his inner energy had increased.

Chu Ge looked back at the computer.

System Notice: Your Hard Qigong has been upgraded to level two.

He then looked at the time and saw that more than four hours had passed already.

Whew, time really does fly. However, Chu Ge had actually started to love this kind of feeling where the inner energy was being turned inside of him. He could feel that magical power was flowing inside of him, making him feel like he was continually getting stronger.

For the next three days, Chu Ge practiced Hard Qigong every day.

On the fourth day, his Hard Qigong was finally increased to level five.

After all, this was only an introductory level inner cultivation, which required little martial arts experience.

Despite this, Chu Ge could still feel that his practicing speed was getting slower and slower. However, he did not care too much. This Hard Qigong did not have any advanced ability or an ultimate profound skill. It was enough to practice until it reached level five with 100 points of inner energy. These points were enough for him to fight using the Floating Cloud Disappearance Body Technique for five or six minutes.

Chu Ge looked at his other attributes.

Character Name: Chu Ge.

Occupation: Trespasser.

Occupation Introduction: You are not an adventurer who belongs in any part of the Adventurer’s World. Therefore, inside all Instance Dungeons, you are considered as a trespasser. You cannot gain experience by killing monsters, but similarly, learning skills and wearing equipment will not be restricted by class or occupation. However, there will still be corresponding attribute requirements.

Character Attributes:

Strength: 13 (+1)

Endurance: 12

Agility: 11

Vitality: 12

Intelligence: 12

Charisma: 12 (+1)

Luck: 11 (+2)

HP: 120

Mana: 120

Inner Energy: 100

Battle Skills:

Flame Missile (apprenticeship level/magic). Corpse Resurrection (apprenticeship level/magic), Poised to Strike, Floating Cloud Sword Technique level six (Jianghu martial arts/sword skill), Hard Qigong level five, Taizu Changquan level one.

Skill Profession:

Cooking Skill (apprenticeship level): 78/100

Life Skills:

Disguising Technique.

Looking at the changes in his attributes, Chu Ge was stunned. He could understand the improvement in the endurance attribute because practicing Hard Qigong would gradually improve endurance. But how come his vitality attribute had also improved? Was it because of the frequent use of magic inside the Instance Dungeons?

Maybe it was similar to improving strength and endurance by exercising the muscles, or perhaps it was because by using magic often, the vitality will also be increased. Chu Ge could only think of such explanations. But if that was the case, then shouldn’t he be able to improve his vitality attribute through regularly exercising in the future? This way, he would not need to be afraid of not being able to learn high-leveled magic skills due to not having enough attribute points.

Chu Ge had these thoughts in his head, but these things weren’t urgent for the time being. He first had to take care of the matter with He Zhenyu. Chu Ge had already been delayed for several days while practicing his inner energy. As Li Tiezui said, things could change if he left it too late. It would be better for him to make a move first.