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There is old looking two story house in the remote suburb northern side of Cirebon City.

In the room on the second floor beside nearly hundred year mango tree.

Hiss~

The world spiritual Qi from all directions getting sucked toward this room. Such spiritual phenomenon is really a rare sight even at cultivator circle. If this phenomenon could be kept for at least three days, then the land around one kilometer with this room as the center would become blessed land of cultivation.

As the center of the world spiritual Qi, Lin Hang finally achieved Basic Realm of Mastery on [Basic Spirit Refining Technique] and forming Spirit Qi gathering array in a minute after forming the Sea of Spirits five minutes ago. Then, he started to learn [Basic Qi Refining Technique].

Another energy vacuum gathering world spiritual Qi. This time it filled more with vitality as the vegetation in 100 meter rings becomes more freshly bluish green. He struck with a sudden epiphany as he progresses to Qi Gathering 1st Stage right after forming imaginary dantian as it began to store vital energy within it.

Actually, so long they could gather then store vital energy within their body, they could be said as Cultivator at the Qi Gathering 1st Stage. But, there is something different for Lin Hang.

As he struck by a sudden epiphany albeit it only a few second, he could gather vital energy at rate 4 vital energy/sec; which mean 900 times faster than a usual 4 vital energy/15min. Fortunately, his freaking luck isn't that formidable as he only last 3 seconds before a gush of vital energy breaking another stage.

Um, just like that moved from 1st stage to 2nd stage.

Lin Hang could feel his body begin to strengthening for quite a bit. His Life Essense grows one point, his power grew a quarter. As for comparison, before he cultivate he could be said only has 4 points which is equally as 4 attack power or ATK point. Then, after cultivating to the 1st stage, he has 20 attack power which is 5 times ATK point of non cultivator. The difference between them is cultivator could utilize vital Qi within their body which make their prowess multiplying by a few times.

After a round of cultivation that lasted for 15 minutes, he begins to inspecting his body. What he found out was something amazing to behold. It was Yin and Yang spherical like medium rotating in a slow manner. He traced Yin was medium filled with 5 elements of spiritual roots forming Spirit Qi gathering array inside, it seems this is the Sea of Spirits that storing Spirit Qi. While he found Yang was half-ethereal medium which formed by imaginary dantian that storing Vital energy.

Only after looking at Yin carefully, he sighs in resignation. He clearly saw 5 different spiritual roots with broken state. It should be called Broken Root.

What need I do to upgrade my spiritual roots to another rank?

His face darkens as he knew his spiritual roots was the worst cultivator would have. How did these things upgraded to another better rank? Wait, how did my cultivation realm breakthrough to 2nd stage?

When he counts Vital energy within his body, he roughly understands how he broke through to 2nd stage. When he could accumulate enough Vital Qi, no it should be another type of units... Let's call it cultivation base or CB as unit count.

So basically, when he accumulates enough CB, he could naturally break through to another stage. Then the energy converted from CB to Vital Qi and its storage. While CB could be stored unlimited at imaginary dantian, Vital Qi is still limited.

The threshold for 1st stage is around 10-11 CB for sure as he felt there is over a dozen CB before dwindle to 5 CB.

So what he need to do is, knowing the threshold of Spirit Qi required for refining spiritual roots. From what he knows after checking his Sea of Spirits, its storage was limited, only around 200 spirit Qi. He needs to upgrade the level of the spirit Qi gathering array to highest level before being able to absorb and store more Spirit Qi.

As for the threshold of spirit Qi required, it is around 60 spirit Qi for each element. Fortunately, spirit Qi only need 5 minutes to complete one round of gathering which is done automatically by the spirit Qi gathering array.

If he wanted to store more or gather Spirit Qi faster, and then, either he breakthrough Foundation Stage or upgrade the spirit Qi gathering array to a higher level.

How about I looked for another technique or skill on Book of Idle Immortal? Thought him lightly.

Lin Hang opened his stats again. It only showed primary status also attribute name like before. He thought he would need to achieve a certain ream or level to open it, or he might be needed to eat some heavenly treasure for faster result? Who knows?

He flipped another page, the 'Basic Cultivation Technique' page. Then another one, flipped like normal paper, but much lighter. Its title is...

[Merit Store]

<Skill Hall> Secret Tome (LE); Sutra (VIT); Physical Spell (STR); Shift Skill (DEX); Mantra (Absorption); Heavenly Book (Perseption); (Price: 1-1.000)

<Pill Hall> Foundation Pill; Golden Core Pill; Soul Wandering Pill; Nascent Soul Pill; Soul Formation Pill; Nihility Pill; Ascension Pill; (Price: 10-1.000 Merit)

<Weapon Hall> Weapon Lv.1 Set; Defensive Gear Lv.1 Set; Weapon Lv.2 Set; Defensive Gear Lv.2 Set; Weapon Lv.3 Set; Defensive Gear Lv.3 Set; (Price: 100-1.000)

<Alchemy and Smith Hall> Alchemy Lv.1 Formula (10 Merit); Alchemy Lv.2 Formula; Alchemy Lv.3 Formula; Alchemy Lv.4 Formula; Smith Lv.1 Plan; Smith Lv.2 Plan; Smith Lv.3 Plan; (Price: 100-1.000 Merit)

<Treasure Hall> Spiritual Ginseng (10 Merit); Void Ring (Advanced); Cauldron Lv.2; Furnance Lv.2; Golden Essense (1 Merit); Wood Essense (1 Merit); Spirit Stone (10 Merit); Spirit Jade (100 Merit)... (Earthly Treasures and Heavenly Materials); (Price: 1.000 Merit)

<Reputation Hall> ***** (Need to be Ascension Stage)

[My Merit: 123]

...

On another one is...

[Golden Trade]

<Treasure Market> Storage Ring (Small); Spiritual Ginseng (Spirit into Body); Cauldron Lv.1; Furnance Lv.1; Golden Essense (1); Wood Essense (1); Spirit Stone (10); ... (Earthly Treasures and Heavenly Materials); (Price: 1Kg Gold)

<Exchange Market> ***** (Need to be Soul Wandering Stage)

<Sect Market> Yellow Grade Sect Referral; Black Grade Sect Referral; Earth Grade Sect Referral; (Price: 10-1.000Kg Gold)

[My Gold: 0]

...

After seeing through both pages, he sighs while saying; "As I thought, I would need some treasure to open my vision within my body. Which means I could upgrade stats function or even looking at it directly inside my body?"

It needs 10 merits or 1 Kg Gold, either way, he needs to amass a fortune. Merits could be gathered through doing good deeds, like; charity and charity or charity.

Umu~ this needs a lot of wealth...

Well, it's not he never thought another way, he has always been a good guy. For example; like helping granny and grandpa in the neighborhood, playing around with little brother while their parents away in the neighborhood, or kicking a stalker of cute younger sister in the neighborhood.

So long it was near him, he would likely give a helping hand for them.

Um... All in all, he was a good boy, with just a bit lazy personality when it comes to make a contact with others himself.

Worry not, from the look of it, I could get merit quite easy. Even for someone like him who has energy saving personality could get over hundred merit. How much he could get if he proactively doing good deeds?

Only, he would know later that in fact only a few actions could be considered as gathering merit. As the requirements for it actually a bit harsh; like the deeds need to be sincere and honest. Everyone nowadays would show off their good deeds in front of the mass, they like being the center of attention or just looking for glory and immediate paper support.

"Forget it!" he murmured after thinking the way of amassing merit. "What I need to do now is..."

BUY, BUY, BUY!

"Let me try..." he looked at Sutra Hall

[Grade One] Price: 1 Merit

> Secret Tome of Five Elements Force: 5 Elements

> Enigmatic Thunder Shift Skill: 5 Elements

> Yin Vital Sutra: 5 Elements

> Matrix Physical Spell: 5 Elements

Buy one Secret Tome of Five Elements Force.

Xiii---ng!

There is a question for you! How would you feel when something installed directly inside your brain?

He would answer: The feeling is... So cool and itchy.

Lin Hang could feel thousands of ants crawling inside his head from nothing for just a few second. A string of skill formula engraved in his brain seemingly only a memory image. When he read it, a seed-like domain with skill formula etched in the center, emerge between Yin and Yang spherical medium. At that time his Life Essense instantly rose from 5 to 15 points.

This is different type from dantian, imaginary dantian, or Sea of Spirits. What makes this seed different from the Sea of Spirits of Imaginary Dantian was, even one day his dantian and sea of Spirits destroyed, his skill would remain here.

Either way, there is no available way to destroy skill, as he has back-up on his brain that couldn't be erased. This kind of feelings, really cool. Thought him smilingly.

Hmm. Would my brain able to accept all these techniques at once?

[My Merit: 122]

Buy, buy all skill! Shout him inside his mind while touching market page.

It directly deducts his merit, as his remaining merit only 79.

Eh? Why it was so much? I am just trying to buy all Secret Tome of Five Elements.

What am I doing is just "buy all skill"? Wait...

His world suddenly turned black out.

Inside his brain one by one a string of skill formula formed a permanent memory image. Seed Skill also filled with etched skill formula one by one, while his power rose up gradually.

Life Essense: 15... 25... 35... 45... 55

Strength: 3... 13... 23... 33... 43... 53

Vitality: 4... 14... 24... 34... 44... 54

Dexterity: 4... 14... 24... 34... 44... 54

Perception: 8... 18... 28... 78

Absorption: 8... 18... 28... 78

His frowned eyebrows lessen when his Absorption points up to 78. His mind got quite a blow with all that information. So he could only fall into a deep sleep.

While he is asleep on the study desk with a book in front of him, his foster parents couldn't bear to wake him up. That is why he could heal his shaken mind before lunch time come.

When he awoken, the sun already vanished from the east side while shadow formed under the hundred year mango tree.

Although his body is very healthy and refreshed, his head feels a bit dizzy. From this he need to be careful in the future, not only 'installing' skill would need merit but take a toll on his mind force.

After taking lunch with his foster parents, Lin Hang take a bath as he felt it would cooled his head.

In the living room.

"Papa, is he really alright? He just skips his school. Then, he fell asleep while studying and after he woke up, he looked like having a headache." said Lin Hang's mother with worries reflected from her eyes.

Lin Hang's Father only smiled and said, "It's okay. Even there is a problem, he could solve it himself. He is matured than you thought about him."

*****

In Lin Hang's room.

He gritted his teeth when looking at his Spirit Qi storage being overflowed.

Lin Hang directs his Spirit Qi toward broken roots to refine it. He looked at Gold element root, Wood element root, Water element root, Fire element root, Earth element root; one by one he laments at this broken state of the spiritual roots of him.

From today, my spiritual roots wouldn't called broken roots again in the future...

But before he had a time to laugh. Gold element root only reformed a bit, while it's still at broken state spiritual roots.

THE F*UCK!

How much he need to refine it?

Um... To look at it directly, I need the Spirit into Body herb.

He opened market page and turned at Treasure Hall.

Buy Spiritual Ginseng!

[My Merit: 69]

Then above Book of Idle Immortal a flash light formed and startling him as he retreat a few steps from the desk. When the light above the book dimmed down, an object similar to ginseng with its body swirl in one at a man fist size. The more you look at it, the more it looked like an exotic fruit.

He forced himself to believe this was fruit rather than ginseng. He once read a report about someone dead after consuming hundreds ginseng directly. Not to mention hundred years, this was written as Spiritual Ginseng, a real Spirit herb.

If I die, then that is how far I arrive in this life.

Crunch... Munch...

He eats it in two bites.

While at it, he also refine another two elements roots. Unknowingly, he uses multi-task skill after integrating his mind and spirit into body. Ten minutes later he refines another two elements roots, as he falls into deep cultivation state.

He continues this state for an almost 2 hours.

*****

After finishing 2 hours of deep cultivation state, he breakthrough 3 stages directly. Leaving only a dozen cultivation base while his cultivation technique still circulating even though he already stopped his cultivation session.

Now he could look at his stats directly inside his mind after unconsciously integrating his mind with the Spirits into Body.

Name: Lin Hang

Realm: Qi Gathering 5th Stage

Body: Mortal

Cultivation: 1 Day

Title: None (Idle Immortal)

Life Essense: 73; | ATK: 365

Strength: 68; | DEF: 340

Vitality: 69; | HP: 1035

Dexterity: 69; | EVA: 345

Perception: 108; | Cultivation Efficiency: +54

Absorption: 108; | Qi Absorption: +54

Fortune: 100;

DMG Enhancement: (0) DEF Enhancement: (0);

Rejuvenation: (0) Reflection: (0)

Penetration Rate: (0%)

Element DMG: Gold (0), Earth (0), Water (0), Fire (0), Wood (0);

DMG Ex: Human (0), Monster (0), Demon (0);

Spiritual Roots: Five Elements Roots

•Broken - Gold (Lv.3) •Broken - Wood (Lv.3) •Broken - Water (Lv.3) •Broken - Fire (Lv.3) •Broken - Earth (Lv.3)

Spirit Qi Gathering Array: Lv.1 (6+54)

Spirit Qi Storage: 200/200

.....

Now, Lin Hang becomes an Idle High Schooler again.

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