《The Great Ancestor》Buffing up!
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The Gray Courtyard was like its name all gray, spacious garden with green bamboos clustered together, some red flowers at corner, small lawn around bamboo house, which looked elegant and unique, and very weak. I don't want to be smashed with falling bamboos when sleeping. He looks quizzically at Rin,
"I think the coffin is safer than this?"
Rin hurriedly replied,
"Ancestor, this is Thousand Year Bamboo, which is tougher than any metal, strong enough to withstand full powered blow from King Rank Martial Artist, most valuable thing in the whole family. "
Lan nodded with satisfaction, 'This suits someone as me.'
He pointed at side rooms,
"You take that room, I will res….t ..Cultivate now so don't disturb me unless I asked for. Shout if you are in trouble."
Rin without hesitation accepted new place and went to move over her things in. Lan entered his main room and slowly closed the door. He saw the comfy bed at corner and dived in. Old frail man diving in bed was very weird scene, which Lan masterfully ignored.
Now that he got time, he started thinking about today,
' Everything went well, except I had to walk everywhere, don't the people with high cultivation level fly everywhere? Even that Pao Pao ran with his two legs. Shouldn't people fly? And even though I have supreme level cultivation I don't seem to have any skill? What if the Hai guys come knocking on my door for fight or something? And by looks of it people in this family seems to have many bad habits, don't know how many people are looking for chance to take them out, now I am in the way. They will try to assassinate me, don't they? I am in big danger.'
After worrying for some more time, he called out to his best ally, 'System come out!'
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He found himself in strange shop with face to face with the robot. The points on counter were now in hundreds and were increasing rapidly. He asked the robot,
"System, you have any defensive skills which can protect me from fatal strikes? As you have stopped me from killing anyone, won't everyone try to kill me? And when people can fly?"
2. Iron Skin -120 FP. Makes skin as hard as Iron but movement speed reduced.
3. Brittle Skin -130 FP. Makes skin very hard against slashing attacks, weak against blunt damage.
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1349. Turtle Skin – 923732992 FP. Body becomes invincible for amount of time use wish it to be. Restriction: Immobility when in use activates when attacked.
1350. Gray Skin – 999999999 FP. Strongest defense against any damage and will transfer half of attack back to attacker. Restrictions: Returned damage affects only when in direct contact with user's body.
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He sorted the skills in ascending order of FP required, the description of starting few skills were similar, just difference was increase in defense of the body. All skills were passive. Most awesome were last few, those skills will make user invincible for period of time he is attacked, during normal time those skills will automatically deactivate.
'Gray skin was most costly and useful if I was normal user, as the skill transfers half of the damage back to attacker. But for me that skill was useless as I will not be able to harm anyone. Now that I think about it, how will system protect someone if I harms them? Will it make shield or something or just heal them back? Won't shield make my cultivation useless then?'
"This is fine, I guess, system, please give me all the defensive skills available and usable by me."
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Lan can see his points going down, but cannot feel any changes in his body. Maybe he needs to wait before exiting system to check the skills.
"System show me some non-lethal attacking skills."
< Skill list
1. Lightening Jab – 14 FP : Quick punch lightening punch which will stun the enemy.
2. Flying Straight- 17 FP : Quick Punch which will make enemy fly.
3. Goodnight Uppercut-50 FP : Quick Uppercut which will knock out the enemy.
4. ..
2999. Angry Buddha- 1999 FP : AOE attack which will knock out all the enemies with lower cultivation than the host.
3000. Smoking Buddha- 2394 FP : Smoke created by host will target single enemy and suffocate him/her. Enemy will feel near death experience. Restrictions: Affects people up to one cultivation rank higher than host. Cool down- 2Hrs , Requirement: User must smoke before using skill.
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Lan saw skill list and briefly glanced over their description. He decided that Angry Buddha and Smoking Buddha are must have skills. As for requirement to smoke,
'Hais, I have to sacrifice something right? Mommy don't blame me, it's all system's fault.'
But he did not have enough FP for both skills so he bought basic boxing skills. After searching he also found out skill which can hide his cultivation level. But it was costly.
< Skill
Natural – 50000 FP, Makes user one with nature, nobody will be able to find out your cultivation level or presence. Passive. Requirement: Needs to spend 2 hours daily in a natural habitat.
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It was good skill. But he was too poor for that. He must do something to increase his FP.
He exited the system store after buying some movies. They were very cheap, 1-2 FP; But LCD with Batteries cost him around 100 FP. He spent some time watching movies then decided to visit this world's goddess of dreams.
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