11 Chapter 11 Critical Strike Reward!
Rayne soon reached the academy library and entered it.
The library room itself wasn't particularly large in space, and could even be called somewhat small for a library. Even, there were only two shelves worth of books in this library room.
For a library of a spirit master academy, the number of books didn't look very impressive.
Rayne walked towards the shelves and started to pick up the books.
After looking through some of the books, he found that most of them were almost color books meant for little children, and even the most basic books like a complete encyclopedia of soul beasts weren't present in this library. There were some books that recorded most of the soul beasts in the soul hunting forests owned by Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou Empire.
Even some of the books were about some famous spirit masters of the big forces, simply showing their so-called achievements in a way that can induce a young child's admiration.
After thinking about it for a second, Rayne even felt like laughing at himself.
"This is a beginners academy for novice spirit masters equivalent to nursery schools in my past life. What was I even expecting from the library of a junior spirit master academy. If more comprehensive knowledge of spirit masters were publically available, the likes of Yu Xiaogang wouldn't get the opportunity to claim himself to be the Grandmaster of spirit master theory." Rayne muttered to himself and walked out of the library, preparing to return to his dormitory.
Anyway he only came to check out the library out of curiosity. He himself is not lacking in knowledge materials thanks to Ye Liangchen's collection of books he got just a few hours ago.
The reason for his curiosity is Yu Xiaogang's method of choosing soul rings Tang San in the original work.
Even now Rayne can't understand why Yu Xiaogang had Tang San absorb highly poisonous beast-type soul rings for his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
It's a well-known fact even among commoner spirit masters that, a good and suitable soul ring will bring a lot of improvement to one's martial soul, especially if the martial soul is of lower or intermediate grade.
If Yu Xiaogang had chosen a top or high-level plant type soul beast with matching attributes for Tang San, then his Blue Silver Grass would have even increased it's own grade. This method is even more effective for Tang San who has Blue Silver Empress bloodline within him.
Rayne came to library to check on the level of information available here to confirm some of his thoughts. If Tang San had ever gotten into contact with some of the basic spirit master knowledge from the library, then normally he would definitely be doubtful of Yu Xiaogang's soul ring selection.
But now it seems it can't be blamed on Tang San. Even most of the basic spirit master information isn't publically available.
Yu Xiaogang's collection of books and information comes from the top forces in the continent such as Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and the strongest force, Spirit Hall.
If Tang San compares the knowledge gained from Yu Xiaogang to the measly library of Nouding junior Academy, then his teacher's superior information reserves are quite evident. It even firmly establishes Yu Xiaogang's claim as the Grandmaster in Tang San's mind, thus further increasing his trust in Yu Xiaogang.
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While Rayne was walking back to his assigned dormitory, suddenly the system notification resounded in his mind.
[Ding! The Quest has been completed.]
"Hm? So Xiao Wu has already bought herself a quilt?"
[Distributing the rewards…]
[Ding! Congratulations on getting three 'Superior Grade Mystic Water Pills'.]
[Ding! Congratulations on triggering Reward Critical Strike!]
"What?!"
The Reward multiplying function has a chance to multiplying the rewards to up to 10,000 times. It is completely random about what aspect of the reward will be multiplied, be it quality or quantity.
[Ding! Congratulations on triggering 5,000 times reward critical strike.]
[Congratulations on getting 15,000 Superior Grade Mystic Water Pills.]
"F*ck!"
He couldn't believe that he was seeing things right. He couldn't believe that the first time he triggered this reward multiplying function, it would be so exaggerated.
A superior grade Mystic Water Pill is a very valuable priceless treasure in this era, that can completely change one's life.
And such a priceless treasure, now he suddenly has an exaggerated number of 15,000 of such pills in his possession.
Saying he was just shocked is an understatement. But as soon as he came to his senses…
"While it's great that the reward has multiplied, the hell am I supposed to do with so many Mystic Water pills?! If I'm not wrong, isn't this thing quite harmful if taken more than a certain number? I can't go around blindly selling it to others as well. This pill is a fate changer. No matter what forces gets to know that I possess such a life changing medicinal pill, me and my family will definitely be targeted." Rayne thought.
"Ugh.."
But suddenly Rayne felt a splitting headache, causing him rub his forehead to somewhat relieve his pain.
"While I don't feel any strain in my eyes, the large amount of information I'm constantly receiving from my Six Eyes is somewhat overwhelming my brain. While I don't need something like a blindfold, a pitch black glasses would be nice."
As Rayne was rubbing his forehead lightly, he suddenly noticed his Kāma seal on the center of his palm.
Thinking of Kāma martial soul's energy absorption ability and the absurd number of superior grade Mystic Water pills in his possession, some thoughts arose in his mind.
"Let's try it out. Anyway I have thousands of this pill. It doesn't matter if I waste a few."
Rayne picked up his pace and quickly reached his dormitory room.
After entering his room, Rayne quickly setup a simple yet reliable 'presence concealing barrier' with a radius of two meters around him. This is one of the many barrier/curtain techniques he inherited from Gojo Satoru's skill inheritance.
With his current soul power rank of 3, even this is quite exhausting. Thankfully, his Six Eyes is quite helpful in efficiently casting techniques.
The reason for casting this barrier is to prevent Tang Hao from feeling the aura of superior grade Mystic Water Pill.
This barrier technique is kind of useless if used for secretly cultivating soul power due to the aggressive nature of his cultivation technique, which absorbs the energy of heaven and earth in the surrounding at unbelievable rate, even to the point of creating an energy storm around him.
But if it's to prevent the aura of special items like medicinal pills, soul bones, immortal herbs, etc from being sensed outside… then this presence concealment barrier is very useful.
Rayne retrieved a superior grade Mystic Water Pill from Gate of Ashburn's treasury space. The system rewards are automatically placed in the Gate of Ashburn.
Even Rayne placed all his most valuable items like all the wealth he got from Ye Liangchen including the soul bones, in the Gate of Ashburn. Only a few dozen gold soul coins and some basic necessities are placed in his storage soul guidance device.
Mystic Water pill had a bright blue round exterior. The blue pill emitted a special aura, but the energy itself felt very pure and gentle in nature. If anyone feels the aura of this superior grade Mystic Water Pill, they would most likely regard it as a high-level priceless treasure.
Feeling the special aura of Mystic Water pill, Rayne is glad that he had set up a barrier before retrieving this pill from his treasury space.
The appearance of this pill would have caused a little commotion, and would have most likely attracted Tang Hao's attention.
After taking out the pill, he firmly held it in his palm with the Kāma seal.
Rayne sat cross legged on the floor and activated the energy absorption ability of Kāma martial soul.
Unlike other innate abilities of Kāma martial soul which he has yet to grasp…
The energy absorption ability is almost like an instinct to him when using Kāma, similar to how breathing is to most lifeforms.
As Rayne activated the energy absorption ability, an incredible suction force erupted from the palm holding Mystic Water Pill.
The pill turned into pure Water attribute energy and was absorbed into Kāma seal in a matter of a couple seconds. What was left behind was a tiny bit of gray ashes.
Rayne felt a large amount of unrefined soul power within him. Rayne quickly used his 'Records of Primordial Evil' technique to refine all this energy into his own soul power.
Rayne felt a stream of energy running through the meridians in his body, making his whole body feel elevated and feel a sense of ascension.
The Records of Primordial Evil is a cultivation technique that focuses on the three aspects of body, energy and spirit. With each breakthrough in this technique, it increases the level of physical strength, spiritual strength and soul power rank equally. All three aspects transcend at the same time, resonating with each other.
While this technique is a truly negative attribute cultivation technique, it has the miraculous ability to reverse the extreme negative to extreme positive, and even a perfect coexistence of extreme negative (Yin) and extreme positive (Yang). This cultivation technique grants affinity to all elements and concepts originating from Yin and Yang. This affinity will continue to increase as he breaks through each stages of this technique.
The Records of Primordial Evil' cultivation technique also comes with the exclusive method of forming soul cores. A total of three unique soul cores are formed before the technique is cultivated to the tenth stage.
The Nine-turn Creation Core (Yin) corresponding to his own soul power. The Nine-turn Destruction Core (Yang) which is a combination of his life force, blood and qi, and extreme positive soul power, corresponding to his physical body. And finally, the Nine-turn Spiritual Core. This is a combination of his own spiritual energy and his Nine-turn soul power, corresponding to his spirit.
Soon…
His soul power rank broke through to the next level, now reaching rank 4, before all the unrefined energy from the pill was used up.
A one rank increase in soul power. But the increase brought to Rayne by the pill was barely half a rank worth of soul power.
When he had received 'Primordial Human Constitution' from the Harem God's random gift, his soul power rank had been upgraded to rank 3 and half. Now with the superior grade Mystic Water pill, he broke through to rank 4.
In the process of practicing, he found that the further he went, the harder it became to break through the critical points. Obviously, the amount of energy needed for each breakthrough is increasing exponentially.
And Rayne understood, a superior grade Mystic Water pill has more than five times the efficiency of a normal Mystic Water pill. One of this pill is enough to grant a level up of five ranks in soul power, when a spirit master below rank 30 take the superior grade Mystic Water pill for the first time.
But for Rayne, it barely gave him half a rank worth of soul power. Because of his nine-turn energy, which is unprecedented throughout the Douluo universe, the energy he needs for each level up is exponentially greater than even spirit masters at the same level with God rank martial souls.
Even the fusion of 'Primordial Human Constitution' would have granted anyone else at least more than 10 to 15 ranks of soul power. However, because of his impossibly high-quality soul power, he just got an upgrade of 3 ranks of soul power in addition to his original half-rank soul power.
"If I had taken this pill orally, I would've developed complete resistance to it by the time I've eaten three of them. By thanks to Kāma, I can absorption at least a few dozen before these pills are no longer of any use to me."
"At this rate, I can upgrade to at least level 10 relying on these Mystic Water pills. Sigh… I can't believe I need so many high-level miracle pills to achieve rank up at just the early stages. I don't know if this cultivation technique is a blessing or a curse. With two God-rank martial souls and Primordial Human Constitution, my natural talent is the absolute highest. Yet, it can barely make up for the requirements for cultivating this insane technique. It even reduced my cultivation speed to be equivalent to that of an innate soul power rank 7."
While he was somewhat troubled by the excessive requirements and resources needed to cultivate the Nine-turn energy, he wasn't too depressed.
One of the functions of his system is 'Self-improvement sign-in', which gives him half-rank soul power every two months, along with some increase in physical strength and mental power.
That's three ranks of soul power a year. A not-so-bad kind of cultivation speed at the early stages, and a super cultivation speed at the later stages. If he reaches Titled Douluo at rank 90, Rayne only needs three years to get to rank 99.
While his Nine-turn soul power isn't too exaggerated in the early stages, once it is cultivated to sixth stage, Rayne is invincible below God-level. And once he completes the ninth stage and starts cultivating the tenth stage, which is the level of divine,.. He surpasses even the strongest of God-kings by an unsurmountable level.
The divine power or immortal qi is a 3-turn level energy in normal occasions. Normally, 1-turn level soul power at rank 100 turns into 3-turn level after being transformed into divine energy or immortal qi. A true transcendence in life level.
But in Rayne's case, he already possess the highest level 9-turn soul power. When transformed into divine energy or immortal qi if he become a God, his level of energy would transcend anything the gods have ever seen. To put it simply, Rayne and other spirit masters or gods are not on the same dimension of strength at all. There is no comparing at the same level.
Shaking his head to get rid of unnecessary thoughts, Rayne took out two more superior grade Mystic Water Pills from his treasury space.
"Now then, let's continue to upgrade! I have plenty of Mystic Water Pills, no need to worry about expenditure!"
