Chapter 56: Lin Bai's New Achievement

By imparting the incomplete Nine Suns True Scripture to Deng Li Buduo, the Good Teacher System was officially put on the agenda.

The follow-up task was to supervise the Disciple in practicing his skills.

Lin Bai did not need to use any methods for this at all.

Having finally learned a high-level cultivation method, Deng Li Buduo worked harder than anyone else, spending nearly twelve hours a day practicing his Inner Gong.

For the remaining time, aside from logging off to recover his energy, he would cut vegetables in the back kitchen to clear his mind.

Otherwise.

If he logged on and just sat in meditation to cultivate Internal Energy, he would go crazy.

Other players, in addition to Internal Energy, would simultaneously practice staff techniques, Blade Techniques, or Sword techniques, and could even go out to fight monsters to gain experience.

But Lin Bai stubbornly refused to teach him any Skills; Deng Li Buduo had a body full of Internal Energy but no Skills to fight monsters, resulting in practically zero gaming experience.

Only when cutting vegetables, watching the flow of people at the Kitchen God Rice Divination, could the great god Deng Li Buduo, who was talked about by word of mouth on the forums, find a tiny bit of fun in playing the game.

This kind of dull gaming life meant that Deng Li Buduo had to use fantasies to comfort himself.

Only by enduring the bitterest of the bitter can one become a person above others.

Although he could not learn Skills for the time being, while others were still practicing ordinary Internal Energy, he was already able to cultivate a high-level Inner Gong.

He had checked the forums for comparisons; in the same amount of time, the cultivation speed of the Nine Suns True Scripture's Internal Energy was ten times that of ordinary Inner Gong.

Therefore.

As long as his Internal Energy reached a certain level of proficiency and he learned the flashy Dragon Subduing Palm, once he went out, he would surely stun everyone and become the true great god Deng Li Buduo.

As for cutting vegetables?

What if this was a set of Blade Techniques hidden within the culinary arts?

What if this was Lin Bai's assessment of him?

With Lin Bai's wicked sense of humor, anything was possible; even if it really was nothing, at worst he could just treat cooking as a secondary profession...

The Good Teacher System had a very high judgment of Deng Li Buduo's character.

Of course.

It could also be because he was focused on cultivation and could not spare the time to go out and do evil.

The feedback of Internal Energy that Lin Bai received from Deng Li Buduo was twenty percent.

Based on this value, Lin Bai did a calculation: the Internal Energy Deng Li Buduo gained from twelve hours of focused cultivation was equivalent to one year of Internal Energy provided by the Wanwu Youque System.

In other words.

The Internal Energy Lin Bai currently possessed could be caught up to by Deng Li Buduo in twelve days of focused cultivation.

Of course.

This was because the Nine Suns True Scripture was of a relatively high grade.

Ordinary Inner Gong certainly would not have such a fast cultivation speed.

However.

This was still a balls-aching piece of news; players could not cultivate ordinary Inner Gong forever, and they would always have the opportunity to find higher-level cultivation methods.

The Good Teacher System currently had no task for Lin Bai to take on a second Disciple, and the tiny bit of Internal Energy fed back every day made the Good Teacher System fall into the category of a "chicken rib" (something of little value but a pity to discard).

Lin Bai found an opportunity to pass the Nine Suns True Scripture to Luo Congwen.

Luo Congwen's level of seriousness was no worse than Deng Li Buduo's, but his efficiency compared to a player was far too low; not only because he was always interrupted by worldly affairs, but even when he practiced seriously, his daily progress was only one percent of Deng Li Buduo's.

Of course, it might have to do with his aptitude.

But regardless,

Compared to NPCs, the advantages players possessed were too great.

You must know, this was only the closed beta, and the number of players was small; once the open beta was released, tens of thousands of players would flood in.

Lin Bai was only one man; how many nails could he hammer? It was said that his reputation on the forums was not good.

Many systems now only served as "chicken ribs," but Lin Bai was still grateful for the systems he carried.

If he were just a simple transmigrator, then aside from living a life of hiding in this world, he might have had no other way to survive.

As a person as proud and arrogant as Lin Bai, how could he be content with such a life?

From the moment the Good Teacher System detected the players' cultivation progress, Lin Bai made up his mind then and there: he absolutely could not let the players live too comfortably.

Otherwise, once they lost control, it would be a disaster for the whole world; if the world was not stable, his quality of life could not be guaranteed...

At least in Jiamu City, he had to have absolute control and the final say over the players.

As for when the players left the newbie village?

At that time, perhaps he could only rely on his personal charisma and combat power to ensure safety.

It was impossible for all players to hate him to the bone, right?

The Good Teacher System rewarded comprehension; in short, with comprehension, learning things would be faster than usual.

This could be considered another way for Lin Bai to obtain Skills.

However, in Jiamu City, he had no use for it for the time being; there were no Martial Arts or Dao Methods here worth him learning.

Besides.

Now was the adjustment period for laying the foundation for various systems, and he could not spare extra time to learn other things.

He would build up his comprehension first; when he left the newbie village in the future and encountered higher-level sects where the cultivation methods were better than what the system provided, it would not be too late to learn then.

Two days' time.

Lin Bai organized the "Collection of Heavenly Flaws" and handed it to the Song Family for publication; the rest of the time, he performed some miscellaneous tasks.

For example, stir-frying in the Kitchen God Rice Divination, gathering medicinal herbs in the wild, and so on;

As long as it didn't waste time and was a task he could do while at it, he did them all.

And so.

The skills he mastered climbed rapidly.

The Chef God System's spoon technique, fire control, ingredient order, and thickening; the Divine Doctor System's Basic Alchemy, Wangwenqie, pharmacological knowledge, and so on;

While Lin Bai was busy grinding tasks.

The process of Jiamu City becoming flawed was also steadily advancing.

Xu Longyun led by example, changing the "City Lord's Mansion" to "Chengtufu," and the "City" character in the "Jiamu City" characters carved on the four city gates had its soil radical knocked off, becoming "Jiamu Cheng"...

Even the City Lord was acting so extreme, so even if others were unwilling, they had no choice but to follow along and make changes;

One by one, complete signs were taken down and replaced with broken, chipped, and incomplete signs;

The characters on the signs were either missing side radicals or lacking components...

Even the neat blue bricks paved on the roads were pried up, and every two or three steps, a red brick or two white stones would be added, with no pattern to speak of...

Looking out, the once-thriving Jiamu City looked as if it had suddenly aged a hundred years, mottled and dilapidated, completely devoid of its former glory...

Although all losses were subsidized by the City Lord, there were still complaints throughout Jiamu City.

In two days, the Residual Value and Negative Emotion Value that Lin Bai collected soared like a rocket, while the Positive Emotion Value was completely gone.

The Negative Emotion Tree was covered in Spirit Fruit, looking dense and gratifying.

The skyrocketing Residual Value allowed Lin Bai to grind out five Martial Arts, which were:

"Arching Body Single Shadow": A movement technique for short-distance bursts. The effect is not obvious on flat ground. But in the early morning, combined with Morning Flight, it can allow Lin Bai to streak across the sky like a meteor, leaving behind a lingering shadow; it is very suitable for escaping in the morning. Using it once consumes about as much Internal Energy as executing one move of "Seeing the Dragon in the Sun."

"June Divine Sword": The effect is similar to the Six Meridian Divine Sword, but unfortunately, it can only be used in the summer. Now it is autumn, and Lin Bai cannot even verify its effect;

"Proud Cold Six Colors": Using a blade-type weapon, one can unleash ten meters of sharp Blade Qi. Each type of Blade Qi has five colors, as beautiful as fireworks;

"Gold Middle Cover": A body-protecting divine art, but after being used, it can only protect the middle of the body; it cannot protect the head or feet;

"Wood Cloud Vertical": A light-body technique that allows for rapid movement on treetops;

Besides these five strange Martial Arts.

Lin Bai ground out 41.38 years of Internal Energy, plus the 12.69 years he originally had, as well as the 0.4 years of Internal Energy fed back by Deng Li Buduo, and after rounding, the total Internal Energy value was almost a full sixty-year cycle.

Players should be unable to catch up to him for the time being.

Well!

That bit of Internal Energy fed back by his apprentice is really not as fast as doing system tasks.

And Lin Bai also achieved the great accomplishment of "Flawing a City." Without leaving the novice village, the Residual Value should not be able to rise in the near future.

The Wanwu Youque System is temporarily stagnant.

Perhaps the general backend sensed Lin Bai's excellent potential for doing tasks; on the eve of the second round of closed beta player login, a system called 【Great Language System】 quietly went online:

Language is a tool for communication between various species, a medium for exchanging thoughts, and an important tool for humanity to preserve and pass on civilization.

Once you master the mysteries of language, you grasp the foundation of civilization.

This system will urge the host to skillfully use the techniques of various languages.

(End of this chapter)