Chapter 216: Origin True Qi

"I wonder how much Experience Value it will take to cultivate this Qianyuan Technique." Lu Yu muttered to himself, his heart full of curiosity.

He tentatively invested one point of Experience Value into it.

In an instant, the proficiency of the Qianyuan Technique increased by one-one-hundred-sixtieth.

Lu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, secretly pondering that even with a 20% discount on experience, it required 200 points of Experience Value just for Entry; if he wanted to raise it to the Consummation Realm in one go, the required Experience Value would be no small amount.

After a moment of thought, he gritted his teeth, a flash of determination in his eyes, and decisively added all the remaining required Experience Value at once.

In an instant, a gentle, warm current flowed slowly from his dantian, rapidly surging through his entire body, as if injecting a new force into every inch of his skin and every meridian.

At the same time, a segment of memory suddenly appeared in his mind, surging like a tide, carrying with it various insights and essentials of the Qianyuan Technique's Entry level.

However, Lu Yu frowned slightly, because he keenly sensed that the True Qi within his body had not changed as he had expected.

"Isn't this an Internal Energy mental cultivation method? How can this be?" Filled with doubt, he hurriedly looked at the Skill bar.

【Qianyuan Technique: First Glimpse, Trait: Blood Nourishing Level 1】

"Blood Nourishing? What kind of trait is this?"

Lu Yu was stunned, his mind quickly recalling the warm current from just now; could its function be to strengthen his Constitution? Carrying his questions, he tapped on it to view the details.

【Blood Nourishing: For every level increased, the Constitution attribute permanently increases by 30 points】

"It can actually increase Constitution by 30 points..." Lu Yu couldn't help but gasp.

Although 30 points of Constitution seemed insignificant to his current Constitution of six or seven thousand, like a drop in the ocean.

But he knew in his heart that the Constitution of an average Pulse Refining Realm Martial Artist was perhaps only a little over 1000 points.

If he practiced this Blood Nourishing trait to Consummation, the Level 5 Blood Nourishing trait could provide a 150-point Constitution attribute bonus, which for an ordinary Pulse Refining Martial Artist, was an improvement of more than one-tenth.

"It is worthy of being a cultivation martial art exclusive to Pulse Refining Realm Martial Artists; the attribute bonus from just Entry already surpasses most Strength-Entering Martial Arts," Lu Yu couldn't help but exclaim.

Although Entry did not unlock any traits related to True Qi, he believed that by the Small Success Realm, it should be different.

With this thought in mind, he invested one more point of Experience Value.

Sure enough, this time it required 320 points of Experience Value to raise the Realm.

The moment the Experience Value was added, he clearly felt an extra strand of True Qi appear out of thin air within his body; this sudden change made him widen his eyes instantly, and a look of surprise appeared on his face involuntarily.

Previously, due to the Meridian Opening, the True Qi in his body had been exhausted, but at this moment, several strands of True Qi appeared out of thin air in his meridians, and their source was self-evident.

【Qianyuan Technique: Minor Accomplishment, Trait: Blood Nourishing Level 2, Qi Nourishing Level 1, Regulate Breath Level 1】

"It actually unlocked two traits at once?"

Lu Yu was somewhat surprised, but his gaze quickly fell on the first new trait; intuition told him that the change in the True Qi within his body must be closely related to this trait.

【Qi Nourishing: For every level the skill increases, it additionally increases a certain amount of True Qi; the increased value is one-tenth of the Origin True Qi】

Seeing this trait description, Lu Yu was initially somewhat confused; the four words "Origin True Qi" left him puzzled for a moment.

But when his gaze fell on the True Qi bar, after pondering for a moment, he suddenly realized.

He saw the True Qi bar displayed: True Qi: 15.8/158, and the +10% in the parentheses behind it was clearly the True Qi increase effect brought by the Level 1 Qi Nourishing trait.

And the 158-point True Qi value was the so-called Origin True Qi, not the total amount of True Qi.

In this way, 158 multiplied by 1.1 was the total amount of True Qi he actually possessed in his body at present.

Looking again at the 15.8 in front, it exactly matched the amount of the extra strand of True Qi that had appeared out of thin air in his body.

Lu Yu's hands trembled slightly with excitement; previously, he had guessed that the way mental cultivation methods improved True Qi was either by a fixed number of points or a fixed ratio.

If it were a fixed number of points, then it could be cultivated at any time; but if it were a fixed ratio, he would need to carefully consider the order of cultivation.

But he never expected that the actual method of improvement was neither of these two, but a ratio increase based on the Origin True Qi.

Take his current situation for example: the Origin True Qi in his body was only 158 points, so the Level 1 Qi Nourishing trait could only increase True Qi by 15.8 points.

But if he opened up a meridian, causing the Origin True Qi to rise to 300 points, then the Level 1 Qi Nourishing trait could increase True Qi by 30 points.

By the same token, if the Origin True Qi reached 1000 points, the bonus would be 100 points of True Qi; the higher the Origin True Qi value, the more True Qi the Qi Nourishing trait would increase.

Without a doubt, this was the most ideal situation; in this way, he no longer needed to worry about the cost-effectiveness of cultivation and could simply raise the Qianyuan Technique to the Consummation Realm.

"Looking at it this way, the amount of True Qi in a Martial Artist's body is mainly influenced by two factors: the first is the Origin True Qi, and the second is the True Qi bonus.

The Origin True Qi likely has an upper limit; after all, there are only eight Extraordinary Meridians, and apart from that, there seems to be no other way to increase the Origin True Qi.

As for the True Qi bonus, it is naturally about cultivating Internal Energy mental cultivation methods; the higher the cultivation realm of the mental method and the more advanced the mental method mastered, the more True Qi is added."

Lu Yu fell into deep thought, his mind constantly sorting through this information.

As for whether the True Qi bonuses could stack if he cultivated multiple mental methods, he was not yet sure and could only leave it for future observation and verification.

After pondering for a moment, he shifted his gaze to the next unlocked trait—Regulate Breath. Just from the name, one could roughly guess its effect.

【Regulate Breath: Active skill; after activation, consumes double the Mental Power; during the duration, True Qi recovery speed increases by one-fold; for every level increased, Mental Power consumption and True Qi recovery speed additionally increase by one-fold; can freely control the speed of Mental Power consumption; Note: Cannot move while in the Regulate Breath state】

"It can actually increase True Qi recovery speed by one-fold."

Lu Yu was slightly stunned; to be honest, he did not have a clear concept of the recovery speed of the True Qi in his own body.

Since that was the case, he would just have to test it himself.

Following the memory in his mind, he sat cross-legged steadily and then activated the Regulate Breath skill.

At first, apart from being able to feel his Mental Power slowly flowing away, he did not notice any other abnormalities.

Then, after only one minute, Lu Yu felt with pleasant surprise that an extra strand of True Qi had appeared in his body!