Chapter 190: Ranking up

Translated by: La0o9

Edited by: VindiFan#1

Proofreader: Arya & Kiwi

At this point, crying voices of children could be heard from inside Liao Xing’s room.

“Just listen, sounds like having kids is a huge pain, no wonder he had to video call his wife” Ye Fei Li continued.

“Just think of how many children he has, I heard he got even more the last few years ——–his wife has to sing and yell all the children to sleep, of course she would be breathing heavily from being tired” Gu Qing Shan agreed.

“Forget him, how have you been feeling these last two days?” He asked Ye Fei Li.

Ye Fei Li tilted his head and thought for a bit: “There’s delicious food and more than enough things to kill, I think it’s actually better than how I lived before the apocalypse?”

“Impartial Goddess is still looking for more targets for you to kill” Gu Qing Shan said, “the next Game of Eternal will have to wait until the next night, so you just take some time to rest until then”

“If that’s the case, I’m going to climb the world rankings a bit” Ye Fei Li nodded.

He stretched, then threw himself onto the sofa and muttered: “Really, I feel like I’m the real normal person here”

Not too long after, a screen was projected onto the wall across from the sofa.

His game is starting.

Gu Qing Shan just sat there, slowly drank the rest of the wine in his cup, then stood up.

Walking by himself out of the mansion, he headed for the top of the mountain.

Up there, he found a place that has little wind, tapped his Inventory Bag and took out a formation plate.

Infusing it with spirit energy, his finger darted across the formation plate.

After setting up two [Wind Spirit Formation], one covered another, the entire mountain top has entered Gu Qing Shan’s range of detection.

This was the only formation he knew how to use, but it’s exceptionally great for supervision and detection of danger.

After setting them up, Gu Qing Shan put away the formation plate and said: “Impartial Goddess”

[I’m here] his Holo-Brain lit up.

“Help me watch this area and don’t let anyone come near”

[Understood, sir]

Taking out a cushion, Gu Qing Shan sat down on it, cross-legged.

Taking the jade tag Bai Hua Fairy gave him in hand, the War God UI immediately popped up a notification.

[Detected Foundation Establishment scripture: Thousand Saints Core Formation Script]

[Your current cultivation is: Foundation Establishment late stage]

[To comprehend Thousand Saints Core Formation Script (Foundation Establishment peak), Soul Points cost: 50]

[Would you like to comprehend it now?]

“Yes”

[Comprehension complete, Current Soul Points: 220]

A large wave of warmth flowed from the jade tag into Gu Qing Shan’s hand.

The warmth flowed from his hand to and around his body, then finally reached his Thought Sea and became a series of images and understanding.

In a single moment, Gu Qing Shan now knew Foundation Establishment peak like the back of his hand.

From Foundation Establishment late stage to peak, the main issue lies in how well you understand the realm and how well you understand the Laws of heaven and earth.

Relatively speaking, what this part mainly tests is a cultivator’s natural talents and abilities.

Some cultivators are able to pass this stage without any trouble, but others can get stuck on it for months or even a couple years.

But such a stage that tests comprehension was trivial to [War God Skills].

Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag, took out an energy pill and swallowed it.

After doing so, he closed his eyes and began the real process of breaking through.

A night passed.

Dawn came, the waning moon was still visible in the sky, and the cold morning breeze was blowing.

Gu Qing Shan noticed none of that, it was only until the first rays of sunshine reflected on his face that some warmth came back to it.

He suddenly opened his eyes and looked around.

From his eyes, a seemingly solid light was emitting from his gaze.

Flowing Lightning Pupils.

This is the sign of reaching Foundation Establishment peak.

Gu Qing Shan pulled out the Earth Sword, jumped into the air proceeding to dance across the sky with the Flowing Clouds Style.

His body floated like a bird, flowing like a fish in water. He rode the wind, free and flowing. His movements were artful and animated.

[Flowing Clouds Style] was originally meant to be used while in the air. Its specialty is fighting and killing while in mid-air, as you can even ride your sword to fly for a very short period of time.

The gleam of the sword blinked from here and there, as slashes interlaced with more slashes, letting out a series of ‘wu wu’ sounds.

Standing on the side of the mountain looking up, you’d see a person holding a sword, dancing gracefully while in the air, like an immortal from heaven.

At Foundation Establishment peak, a cultivator can already fly for a short period of time; if not for that, Gu Qing Shan wouldn’t be able to use the Flowing Clouds Style so fluidly.

But to truly fly among the clouds, to go in and out of the sky, using the air as footing to walk across rivers, you have to be at Golden Core realm.

Finishing his sword dance, Gu Qing Shan slowly landed.

After using spirit energy to rank up, his entire body was filled with spirit energy and brushed all the fatigue away, Gu Qing Shan was feeling extremely good.

Looking at the War God UI, he found no notifications on [War God Skills].

That means, he is able to keep using [War God Skills] to comprehend more cultivation-type scriptures.

“The next step is to break through to Golden Core…” Gu Qing Shan muttered.

There’s a saying, “…as I swallowed the Golden Core, I knew that my fate isn’t up for god to decide”. Golden Core realm cultivators are considered the bulk of strength for the cultivation world, their fighting strength is on another level altogether compared to qi training and Foundation Establishment realm.

This was also the reason why Gu Qing Shan had insisted on inviting Leng Tian Xing to go with him to look for the truth about the spirit beasts’ betrayal.

Suddenly, on the War God UI, the [War God Thaumaturgy] icon was slowly moving.

Looking down at it, Gu Qing Shan noticed there were a few lines of text on the [War God Thaumaturgy] icon.

[Detected user to have become Foundation Establishment peak]

[Thaumaturgy breakthrough has been prepared]

[Thaumaturgy gacha has been prepared]

After Gu Qing Shan read through it, the lines of text disappeared.

On the War God UI now were two circles, one big one small. The big circle was on top, while the small circle was at the bottom, both of them were rotating.

In the middle of the smaller circle, the word “Smiting” was written in dancing characters.

Above the small circle, the large circle was greyed out, no matter how Gu Qing Shan tried tapping it, it didn’t show any response.

[Ting]!

A large line of text showed up.

[The user must complete the Thaumaturgy Rank-up Quest before he can move onto the Thaumaturgy Drawing Quest]

Seeing this notification, Gu Qing Shan suddenly understood.

Every time a cultivator breakthrough a realm, they are given a chance to closely feel the Law of heaven and earth, awakening their Thaumaturgy at that time.

But a Thaumaturgy that has been awakened can still evolve again.

No one really understood the rules for evolving a Thaumaturgy, the general consensus is that the more you use it, the deeper you understand it, the more likely it is to evolve.

After going through Foundation Establishment early, middle, late and peak stages, Gu Qing Shan’s “Smiting” Thaumaturgy is finally ready to evolve.

He can only go on to the next step after evolving “Smiting” ———–which is to draw a new Thaumaturgy after breaking through to Golden Core.

There’s also no real rules for what a new Thaumaturgy can be, since there are simply too many kinds of Thaumaturgies.

With just God’s Chosen Skills alone, humanity has gone through categorization and listed over 70,000 different types of God’s Chosen Skills, including numerous shapes and forms, usable and unusable. Not to mention the ones that aren’t willing to disclose their abilities and doesn’t get them categorized.

And then there are Martial Thaumaturgies, which includes: fist, palm, feet, and speed technique plus outer and inner power.

From just fist-types alone, you have crane, tiger, dragon, elephant, panther, snake, cloud, flower, mountain, 7 Stars, 8-Trigram, 9 Directions, 18 arms of Luo Han, 24 killing strikes, 36 sealing strikes, 72 stealing strikes… so on and so forth.

Palm, legs, speed technique, outer and inner power, for each one there’s just as many, if not even more compared to fist-type.

Compared to that, Elemental awakening is the easiest to understand, there’s only Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Light, Dark, and Sound.

Because of that, the only thing you can count on when drawing a new Thaumaturgy is your own luck.

The most that the War God UI can do is just let Gu Qing Shan have a certain few selections, which increases the chance of him getting a strong Thaumaturgy ———–but about which type and kind of Thaumaturgy to appear, he can only wish for good luck, as the System can’t do anything about it.

A bit excited, Gu Qing Shan tapped the “Smiting” circle.

Three slots appeared from the circle.

A line of text that further explains it appeared.

[Please find a 99% concentration Martial Potential Enhancing Serum, Elementalist Awakening Serum, and God’s Chosen Awakening Serum. Insert them in each of the slots to have Smiting evolve and become stronger]

Looking at this description, Gu Qing Shan frowned.