Chapter 994

"Mm, once spiritual techniques are fully learned, you can't learn new ones. Unless you use an item to remove them, or expand your spiritual technique slots — did you know that?"

"I know."

"Improving spiritual techniques requires accumulating experience. The more you use them, and the better the results, the more experience you get."

"I know that too. For example, Zhuang Ya burned so many ogres today — she got way more experience than if she'd just been burning air."

"Right. But the more spiritual techniques you have, the smaller the experience multiplier. You didn't know this one, did you?"

There's another one?

Zhao Chi was dumbfounded.

He really didn't know this one.

As far as he recalled, the academy hadn't covered it, and Lu Yi hadn't mentioned it when giving him guidance.

When he read on his own, he hadn't seen it either.

Su Qin smiled. "Just looking at that dumb look on your face tells me you didn't know. So it's not just the spiritual technique cap — there's also the experience factor to consider. For us low-level lords, it's best to let heroes specialize in just one or two spiritual techniques."

Zhao Chi fell silent.

This one he truly didn't know.

But everyone has blind spots.

He didn't blame himself.

Things were already as they were — regret was pointless.

Even without the experience boost for spiritual technique improvement, having multiple spiritual techniques still had its benefits.

At the very least, you could pick the right spiritual technique for more different situations.

Zhao Chi nodded. "That's really important knowledge — thank you for the tip."

Su Qin pouted. "Don't be so formal with me! I'm happy I could help you even a little, honestly."

Zhao Chi smiled. "Got it. You didn't get much experience this time — did anyone level up?"

Su Qin nodded. "Mm, quite a few Tier-1 female elves leveled up. The experience wasn't huge, but no losses — that's a win."

This time Zhao Chi's experience wasn't much either.

After all, there were only 400 ogres as enemies, and his side had 658 people — on average, each person didn't even get the experience from one.

But plenty of those female militia members leveled up, so that was fine.

Next up was dividing the spoils.

The number of spoils was a little odd — it was actually 388.7 ogre corpses.

With a fraction and all.

The missing 11.3 corpses had all been burned up — charred into charcoal and oily smoke.

Su Qin said ingratiatingly, "Zhao Chi, you can have all the spoils, I don't want any. Besides, these corpses are useless to me."

Zhao Chi thought for a moment, and didn't bother to decline with her.

"Alright, I'll take all these ogre corpses. Later I'll give you some extra Bright Fire Oil."

"Okay~"

Su Qin happily agreed.

Before, Zhao Chi wouldn't have wanted the corpses either.

After all, some things were too much against human morality.

But these ogres were fine.

They counted as low-intelligence magical beasts — overall about the same as Frost Bears.

He'd transport them all back to be broken down and used.

Zhao Chi didn't linger long this time — after all, there was another battle in three days, and he couldn't afford to waste too much time now.

Su Qin didn't try to keep him either.

After all, Su Qin needed to rest her body.

She'd overdone it a bit yesterday — she was still sore now.

If she kept Zhao Chi again today, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to stop herself from pouncing on him, and he'd probably see right through her.