Chapter 330: The Flaws of the Golden Bell Shield

【True Top Grade: The quality of the pills refined has a 30% probability of being Heaven Grade and a 70% probability of being Top Grade.】

"A 30% probability!" Lu Yu could not hide his excitement and clenched his fists tightly.

At first glance, this 30% probability did not seem particularly eye-catching; in the realm of probability, it was not the kind of ratio that would shock one at first sight.

However, when compared with the True Top Grade characteristic of the Blood Qi Pill, Lu Yu realized with a start that the probability of the True Qi Pill being Heaven Grade was actually three times that of the Blood Qi Pill!

This discovery far exceeded his original expectations.

"Presumably, even the people from the Awakened Association would find it difficult to refine True Qi Pills of this quality, right?"

While Lu Yu pondered this in his heart, he reached out and took out his phone.

His fingers skillfully slid across the screen, quickly opening the Association Mall interface, and then he went straight to the Pill category.

At this moment, he held two purposes in his heart: on one hand, he was eager to see exactly how the Top-grade True Qi Pill was priced in this mall.

On the other hand, he knew in his heart that the Martial Arts Association's sales list never contained traces of Top-grade True Qi Pills, and even Superior True Qi Pills were hard to find.

What came into view was that the Low-Grade True Qi Pill was priced at 10 points, the Mid-Grade True Qi Pill at 30 points, and the Superior True Qi Pill at 120 points, which was no different from the pricing of True Qi Pills in the Martial Arts Association.

Lu Yu took a deep breath and continued to search further down, soon discovering the Top-grade True Qi Pill, which was priced as high as 480 points.

"480 points." Lu Yu muttered to himself, his mind quickly beginning to calculate.

Such a high price meant that the Potential Points contained in one Top-grade True Qi Pill were at least four times, and very likely up to five times, those of one Superior True Qi Pill.

He began to estimate roughly: one Low-Grade True Qi Pill, based on past experience and general knowledge, could provide 100,000 Potential Points.

Since the price of a Mid-Grade True Qi Pill was three times that of a Low-Grade one, the Potential Points it provided should be at least 300,000.

And since the price of a Superior True Qi Pill was four times that of a Mid-Grade one, by this calculation, one Superior True Qi Pill could provide at least 1.2 million Potential Points.

If one followed this logic layer by layer, and the Top-grade Blood Qi Pill was four times higher on this basis, then the Potential Points a single Top-grade Blood Qi Pill could provide would almost approach a massive 5 million!

Calculating further, wouldn't the Potential Points provided by a Heaven Grade Qi Blood Pill easily exceed 10 million?

Thinking of this, Lu Yu could not help but feel his heart surge; the massive amount of Potential Points needed for Meridian Opening did not seem so out of reach anymore.

He browsed the page carefully once more, not missing any corner, yet he still did not see any information related to Heaven-Grade True Qi Pills.

Clearly, as to what the specific effects of this Heaven-Grade True Qi Pill were, he would only know the mysteries within once he refined the pills himself with his own ability.

Lu Yu set his phone aside and let his gaze fall back onto the skill bar.

Even assuming that all the True Qi Pills refined were Top-grade, the Experience Value obtainable from one furnace of True Qi Pills would be around 50 million.

In this way, opening the remaining meridians might only require refining dozens or a hundred furnaces of pills, and stepping into the True Essence Realm did not seem like a difficult task.

"I have heard that in the True Essence Realm, one must open a Qi Sea within the body and convert True Qi into True Essence; at that time, the role of True Qi Pills will be even more critical. Perhaps by then, I can find a way to further increase the appearance probability of Heaven-Grade True Qi Pills. But for now..."

Lu Yu frowned slightly and subconsciously checked his Experience Value, finding that there were still 180,000 to 190,000 points left.

After a moment of thought, he secretly made up his mind: "Let's start with the Golden Bell Shield first."

Cultivating the Golden Bell Shield to the ninth layer would unlock the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill.

Following that, there were the Thousand Elephant Divine Skill and the Wanzhang Shenggong; once these two Cultivation Methods reached Great Success, one could unlock the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art.

Since the Wanzhang Shenggong was itself a martial art of fists and kicks, there was no need to learn other fist and kick martial arts for the time being.

After upgrading the Wind-Facing Blade Slash to Consummation, the remaining Experience Value could be invested in the study of Internal Energy techniques.

After all, for a Pulse Refining Realm Martial Artist, the more abundant the True Qi in the body, the stronger the strength.

Lu Yu looked at the skill bar: 【Golden Bell Shield: Not Even a Clue】.

According to the Cultivation Method introduction, this martial art was divided into twelve layers in total.

Unlike the Thirteen Taibao Hard Qigong, the Golden Bell Shield cultivated both internally and externally; not only could it make the physical defense extremely formidable, but it could also increase the True Qi within the body and even produce a Counter-Shock effect on an opponent's attacks.

If the practitioner had abundant True Qi in their body, when fighting others, they might not even need to make a move; the Counter-Shock force alone could shatter the opponent's internal organs—it was truly overbearing to the extreme!

Seen in this light, the Thirteen Taibao Hard Qigong was indeed inferior to the Golden Bell Shield.

However, the Golden Bell Shield itself also had two significant flaws. First, it had a "bell gate."

The so-called bell gate meant that no matter how one cultivated, there would always be one place on the body where True Qi could not reach; the defense of this position was extremely weak compared to other parts and usually could not withstand a full-force strike from a master of the same Realm.

Once the bell gate was found and struck, the practitioner would be seriously injured at best, with their cultivation regressing, or they would lose their life on the spot at worst.

Second, it feared finger techniques for cutting off meridians, such as the Seventy-Two Acupoint Striking Hands. From the description of the Golden Bell Shield, it was known that it had a high degree of reliance on the True Qi within the practitioner's body.

Once an opponent struck the acupoints and cut off the meridians, causing the True Qi in the body to be unable to circulate, the defensive effect would be greatly reduced.

However, this did not mean that as long as an opponent knew finger techniques for cutting off meridians, they could break this skill.

It could only be said that when facing a Martial Artist who also had deep Internal Energy and knew finger techniques for cutting off meridians, the practitioner of the Golden Bell Shield would be at a slight disadvantage. After all, the outcome of a battle was determined by a variety of factors.

If one happened to encounter a Martial Artist who knew finger techniques for cutting off meridians but had poor footwork, the final result was still unknown.

Despite these two flaws, it did not affect the Golden Bell Shield becoming a first-class defensive martial art in the slightest.

And the top-tier martial art, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill, did not have these two drawbacks; once the Vajra Indestructible body was cultivated, one could be Invulnerable to Blades and Spears, immune to water and fire, fearless of Poison, and even go without sleep or rest.

By comparison, the Golden Bell Shield appeared slightly lacking in front of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill.

"Then let's begin." Lu Yu's eyes were full of anticipation.

The reason he set the priority of the Golden Bell Shield so high was precisely because he valued its characteristic of being able to both strengthen defense and increase the True Qi within a Martial Artist's body.

Just like usual, Lu Yu added one point of Experience Value to the Golden Bell Shield, and he saw the proficiency instantly increase by one-eightieth.

"Eighty points, it doesn't seem like much."

Lu Yu muttered in a low voice, then added all the remaining seventy-nine points of Experience Value at once.

In an instant, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, and a piece of information emerged automatically.

At the same time, he clearly felt that True Qi seemed to be slowly circulating on the surface of his body, as if he had draped a protective cover over his whole body. Lu Yu was both surprised and delighted, and he hurriedly checked.

【Golden Bell Shield: First Layer, Characteristic: Protective True Qi Level 1】

"Protective True Qi?" Lu Yu curiously clicked to view it.

【Protective True Qi: Passive Skill. Each level increased adds an additional 50% to physical defense. This passive only takes effect when the practitioner's internal True Qi is greater than 100 points.】