The City of Terror

 This was the difference between the advanced level and the intermediate level. After all, the internal organs could not endure the complete impact of the aura before the advanced level. It was only after the advanced level that the conditions were looser.

Xiao Bei didn’t know how long, but when the red sun finally rose from the horizon and spread its warm light across the land, he felt the aura throughout his entire body tremor. A short moment later, the aura rushed into his lungs. He could no longer suppress the feeling in his body and a resounding roar came out of his mouth. The shout rumbled across the place like thunder.

This Roaring Tiger Booming Thunder Stance was fairly literal. First came the Roaring Tiger- the sounds of roaring tigers and leopards could be heard even when punching and training. However, the key was the Booming Thunder.

It was only when you naturally let out a voice of thunder when in the Stance that you could be considered to have reached the advanced level.

Wei Xiao Bei felt his organs tremble during this thunderous shout. There were none of the painful feelings from before. His organs felt very comfortable and thus, the thunderous shout only got louder and louder.

A few old men and ladies who were slowly climbing up the mountain along the road suddenly heard this thunderous sound. They couldn’t help but be shocked as worry took over their hearts. Wasn’t this weather report a little too inaccurate?

 Why was it raining so early in the morning?

Before the old men and ladies could decide whether to continue climbing or to turn to avoid being drenched, the thunder faded. The sky was as clear as ever. This caused the old folks to be troubled for a moment. Was the thunder from earlier just for show?

On top of the mountain, Xiao Bei had no idea that the booming voice he let out had almost caused the old people to give up on their morning exercise.

His mood was extremely pleasant right now. Though his organs weren’t exactly trained to their limits after his stance had reached the advanced level, they were undoubtedly very tough now. At the very least, he no longer needed to worry about hurting his lungs when firing out qi swords from his mouth.

The aura in his veins moved and started surging when they reached his lungs. Wei Xiao Bei opened his mouth and a faint red qi sword fired outward and hit a ginko tree across him.

He heard a piercing sound and the qi sword dispersed.

He hurried forward to take a look and saw a scorched pierce mark on the thick and large tree.

He probed with a blade of grass and found the mark was nearly twenty centimeters deep into the trunk. The surroundings of the mark were also scorched and let off a faint smell similar to burnt wood.

This result satisfied Wei Xiao Bei immensely.

After all, during all this time, Xiao Bei had tested the might of his qi sword multiple times.

Initially, the qi sword could only leave a three to four-centimeter mark in the tree trunk. Though it felt powerful on the first impression and could probably pierce the frail human body, he was not satisfied.

However, as he continued practicing the Roaring Tiger Booming Thunder Stance and his mastery of it increased, the might of his qi sword also continued to increase.

At this point, it could pierce twenty meters into the tree trunk. This was already fairly powerful. If used on steel, he could probably run through something that was only two to three centimeters thick.

Apart from this, the aura change caused by consuming the Scarlet Pheasant’s blood also brought Xiao Bei a surprise.

The trace of fire in the aura had also been assimilated with the qi sword, providing it with an extra bit of lethality. Of course, it wasn’t that much more. It was only one-hundredths of an increase. However, Xiao Bei wasn’t worried about the lethality being insufficient. This ability could probably be improved by consuming more Scarlet Pheasant blood.

The only more disappointing factor was the fact that all these moves of his were not displayed in his status panel.

However, Xiao Bei could still console himself by treating this move as a hidden trump card.

Meanwhile, he had not found a way to form a more solid layer of protective qi around himself. He could only rely on his master Cheng Bi Wu to think of a way and find the related martial tomes. However, most of the work still relied on Xiao Bei himself constantly trying and exploring.

Something like a secret martial tome would be kept under wraps by every clan and martial family in the world. They wouldn’t even let their daughters or daughters-in-law look at such a thing, let alone an outsider like himself.

Xiao Bei felt a lot more relaxed upon returning to the dojo. He put his attention back to the status panel.

He now had 1788 evolution points. It was still far from enough to increase his endurance attribute to sixty points.

After some thought, Wei Xiao Bei also suppressed the thought of enhancing his skills instead.

There were quite a few skills that he should be improving right now.

He could disregard shooting. Before he created a bow for himself, he could ignore this skill.

Though firearms were equally as powerful in Wei Xiao Bei’s hands, and still possessed some degree of lethality in the Dust World, using such weapons would reduce his evolution points yield. Consequently, he gave up on using firearms.

It’s fine if he played with these toys occasionally, but he shouldn’t treat them as main weapons. He didn’t have enough evolution points to afford not thinking about getting more.

 Military boxing? Hurhur .

However, it was time to improve the three skills of Electrical Engineering, Fake Concealed Weapon, and Medical Skill. They all had very practical uses.

Other than that, he didn’t need to rush with Bajiquan, Cooking, and Language. Bajiquan required more accumulation and Xiao Bei wasn’t willing to improve it now. Meanwhile, Cooking required him to first finish the corresponding cooking tasks.

Language was enough for the moment. Proficiency in English, French, and Spanish already made him an excellent linguist even in the world of translators.

During this time, Wei Xiao Bei continued his practice of training his stance at Pheonixhead Mountain in the morning. He then spent the rest of his time polishing and sharpening the stegosaurus plates and the remaining T-rex teeth.

The stegosaurus was a Two-Star Terror Creature. Its power wasn’t amazing, but its plates were very powerful though. It was a troublesome matter sharpening these plates even with the use of specialized machines.

He had to press it firmly against a polisher for two hours to finish a side of a single plate.

The length of each plate was over one and a half meters. Wei Xiao Bei spent a lot of time to polish every one of them into sharp bone swords.

The seven bone swords were the weapons he prepared for Stephen and the others.

Meanwhile, he polished the T-rex teeth into foot-long blades that resembled daggers. They could be affixed to the top of poles to be used as spears.

Of course, most of the time Wei Xiao Bei was using his aura to temper his body and reading materials on his phone to cram more knowledge into his mind.

He now believed that all knowledge had a use. He just needed to learn more and he would be able to use the required knowledge when the situation presented itself.

One could say that after such a long time of studying, his mind was a bit like a library now.

The knowledge he had learned was of a very wide and extensive nature. There was horticulture, biology, metallurgy and all sorts of other crafts.

However, what disappointed him was the fact that he had not gained a new ability despite cramming knowledge of over thirty subjects into his mind.

Subjects like biology and herbology not providing him with any skills made sense. After all, knowledge of these subjects could somewhat be considered under the field of Medical Skill.

Brewing could also be considered under Cooking. Though the wine he made tasted very good, it did not display any quality before [Status Appraisal].

Still, the fact that subjects like metallurgy and welding did not create skills was fairly weird.

Wei Xiao had his suspicions that this was likely due to his Skill Panel being full now.

Such a guess wasn’t without logic.

After all, this status panel was far too much like something from a game. A skill panel limit was something that also existed in games.

For example, if the limit of the skill panel was ten skills, then any additional skills could no longer be learned. He would have to forget another skill and create space for new skills to be learned. Yup, many games had a setting like that.

Wei Xiao Bei counted his skills. He had a total of eleven of them. The language proficiency of Chinese, English, French, and Spanish was considered under a single one- that of Language.

 The limit was eleven?

Xiao Bei shook his head. He was more willing to believe the second possibility, that was the difficulty of forming new skills scaled with the increase of his learned skills.

Wei Xiao Bei had experienced this one before. Back when he learned the Cooking skill, he had spent quite some time doing. However, he also had a contradictory experience in learning Language, as the formation of the skill had been very easy, though the languages themselves took some time.

Apart from these, there was also a third possibility. It might be that his Intelligence was insufficient and had now limited the formation of new skills.

Xiao Bei believed that these ‘skills’ were just an extreme utilization of knowledge and experience done with the help of the status panel.

Undoubtedly, Intelligence would have a very direct impact on such utilization.

If his Intelligence was low, it would be difficult to form new skills. This was just like the CPU of a computer. It could only process so many things. Once it reached its limits, it would be impossible to even open up a document with zero content.

Fortunately, his brain didn’t become slow when it ran at its limits as if it was a CPU.

Still, Wei Xiao Bei wasn’t willing to invest in his intelligence right now.

All the evolution points right now were prepared for his endurance.

Wei Xiao Bei was trying to increase his main Physique attribute to sixty points by increasing his endurance attribute. This would increase his creature rank and allow him to rise to Four-Star.

Just think about the Citizen of Long Bo from back then and you would understand how powerful a Four-Star Creature was.

It was important to note that though the Divine White Mist Great Spear he was using was a treasure that could continue improving by absorbing the powers of monsters, its foundation was the leg hair of the Citizen of Long Bo!

If it wasn’t because the quality of the hair was so excellent, it would not have assimilated with the original dagger and created this spear.

At any rate, even if the plan to increase his creature rank were to fail, Wei Xiao Bei would only invest his evolution points in other things after he had failed.