Chapter 129 - 92: Body Casting Furnace, Win, Winning Big Time!

Chapter 129: Chapter 92: Body Casting Furnace, Win, Winning Big Time!

Although the speed at which Lu Chen gained Experience Points from his daily Cultivation was no longer slow, it was still far from enough.

Not to mention the staggering 1,000,000 Experience Points required to elevate his Dragon Transformation Sword Intent above the Entering the Dao realm, he still needed a full 20,000 Experience Points just to raise his Cultivation to Qi Cultivation Perfection.

Furthermore, he had to accumulate even more Experience Points to learn Water Element Divine Techniques and Earth Element Divine Techniques in the future.

Thus, when it came to Experience Points, it was best to save as much as he could.

It was widely known that the initial Cultivation of most Cultivation Techniques and Divine Techniques was relatively fast. Relying on one’s own Cultivation in the early stages and piling on Experience Points in the later stages was undoubtedly the most rational way to utilize them.

After all, money was saved, not spent!

For the next period of time, Lu Chen transformed into a diligent little miner, continuously mining inside the cave. If he had chosen to use his Swordsmanship to mine, it would have taken him ten minutes at most to extract all the Black Iron Ore from the walls.

If any Black Iron Tripod People occasionally spawned during the process, he would take a moment to finish them off, harvesting a few extra Experience Points along the way.

...

Three days later in the game.

"Phew... Have I reached the limit?" Lu Chen stopped his mining movements with a hint of regret as he looked at the Body Casting into Soldiers skill, which could no longer be upgraded. He understood that if he wanted to continue increasing its Skill Level, he would have to find some special ores.

[Body Casting into Soldiers (Furnace Type): Proficient 1/2000]

[Effect: Capable of Gold-Devouring Body Tempering to form a Refined Steel Body. Great Success can mold a Soldier Body.]

[Special Effect: Furnace: Increases Elixir absorption effect by ten percent.]

...

[Mountain-Breaking Fist: Proficient 146/3000]

In three days, Lu Chen not only upgraded the Skill Level of Body Casting into Soldiers to the Proficient Level, but when the skill advanced from the Entry Level to the Proficient Level, he also selected the Furnace Type as the body he wanted to cast.

The effect of this Furnace Type did not disappoint him.

Aside from the basic physical attribute enhancements, it provided a very special effect: it increased his Elixir absorption rate.

This was undoubtedly a massive improvement for Lu Chen. For the same Elixir, others could at most achieve a 100% effect upon consumption, but he could reach 110%. This was not merely a simple boost in efficacy; it was a boost in efficiency!

Many Elixirs had cooldown periods for consumption!

For example, the Foundation Establishment Stage Nourishing Essence Pill that Lu Chen yearned for could only be taken once a day. A single Nourishing Essence Pill could provide him with a minimum of 500 Experience Points.

Before cultivating Body Casting into Soldiers, he could originally only gain a minimum of 500 Experience Points per day from the pill. But with Body Casting into Soldiers, the Experience Points he gained from taking a Nourishing Essence Pill daily increased to 550 points.

That was an extra 50 points a day, 500 in ten days, and 5,000 in a hundred days...

Rounding it up, didn’t this mean he was gaining a massive amount of Experience Points out of thin air!

Win, an absolute win!

Lu Chen felt that choosing to cultivate the Furnace Type for Body Casting into Soldiers was incredibly wise!

Judging from his previous experience with cultivating skills, a skill’s effect often improved as its Skill Level increased. Moreover, in every Realm following the Great Success Level, the original skill effect would either undergo a qualitative change, or entirely new skill effects would emerge.

Thus, once he cultivated Body Casting into Soldiers to the point of Broken Mirror, not only would the original Elixir amplification effect receive another massive boost, but it would also undoubtedly bring about other, even better skill effects.

Win, a double win!

Although he had only ever heard of people using others as Furnace Cauldrons and had never seen anyone cultivate themselves into one, he had to admit that his current Body Casting Furnace method was indeed the most suitable path for him.

After all, Experience Points were what Lu Chen lacked and needed the most. He would not pass up any skill that could improve his Experience Point acquisition efficiency!

...

Since Black Iron Ore had lost its usefulness to him, Lu Chen quickly left the mine shaft where he had spent three whole days.

As he walked out of the shaft, an even larger cave immediately appeared before his eyes. Not only was the space larger here, but the Tripod People active in the area were no longer just Black Iron Tripod People; a new type had appeared.

[Bronze Tripod People]

[Cultivation: Qi Cultivation Sixth Level]

[Features: Special creatures that have merged their bodies with Tripod Cauldrons. Physically robust, possessing certain Body Skills and simple Techniques.]

Unlike the Black Iron Tripod People who only knew Body Skills, these newly spawned Bronze Tripod People could already cast simple Techniques. With the help of the Cyan Lotus Pupil, Lu Chen quickly guessed the reason they could cast them.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the reason they could use simple Techniques was due to the complex patterns on their Bronze Tripod bodies.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly became curious about the person who forged these Bronze Tripods. According to the Dungeon’s Description, the birth of these Tripod People should be the result of the physical bodies of Gangding Peak Cultivators merging with Tripod Cauldrons after their deaths.

But here lay the problem. The practice of carrying Tripod Cauldrons to train Body Skills at Gangding Peak was something Lu Chen had known about for a long time.

What he couldn’t figure out, however, was why Gangding Peak would place so many Tripod Cauldrons in a mine cave.

It couldn’t possibly be because the Cultivators of Gangding Peak needed to carry Tripod Cauldrons on their backs while mining, could it?

This reasoning was not only far-fetched but also defied common sense. What kind of miner would carry a massive Tripod Cauldron on their back while working in a mine? That was just pure insanity!

After turning it over in his mind, Lu Chen felt that perhaps the Tripod Cauldrons within Gangding Peak had some special effect he didn’t know about. It was to the extent that even in a mine cave, Gangding Peak had to place Tripod Cauldrons here to suppress or resolve some specific issues.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly felt that his understanding of the Cyan Cloud Sect was still too shallow.

Because he had always stayed in Danyang Peak to concentrate on Alchemy in the game, despite having been an Inner Sect Disciple for some time, he had never visited the other peaks, and thus wasn’t very clear on their situations.

Danyang Peak had the special Yangming Earth Fire, using it to assist the Cultivators in the peak with Alchemy. Sword Concealment Peak’s Sword Pavilion was also considered a unique feature.

Then what about the remaining Cyan Cloud Peak, Ten Thousand Talisman Peak, and Gangding Peak?

At this moment, Lu Chen was filled with curiosity regarding the secrets of Gangding Peak. Perhaps he could glean a hint of the answer in this Dungeon.

With this thought, Lu Chen immediately walked toward the Tripod People in the distance. His appearance instantly attracted the attention of the many Tripod People in the cave, causing them to stop their mining activities and encircle him.

Watching the horde of Tripod People slowly approaching him, Lu Chen produced two rolls of white bandages from out of nowhere. As he walked toward the Tripod People, he began wrapping them around his hands.

"I’ve never tried fusing the Zhen Rune Technique of the Dragon Transformation Sword Technique into the Mountain-Breaking Fist before. Now is the perfect time to give it a shot," he muttered to himself. "I hope you guys can last a bit longer. At the very least... don’t disappoint me."

As his words fell, Lu Chen took a step forward and charged fiercely toward the dozens of Tripod People in front of him.

He looked every bit as if he was surrounding them all by himself!

...

PS: One cup of tea, one pack of cigarettes, three hours, one miracle!

Before three o’clock, Pang Hu will definitely deliver the next update!