Chapter 20: Basic Knowledge (2)

Lao Se then call out another student to read another page from the academy book

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"Very good, now the person beside him, please read out page 6"

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After reaching Steel rank

An expert can merge with Spiritual beast core and gain their form and their ability.

They can also merge and unmerge the spiritual beast core as they please.

An ordinary expert can merge with 3 different beast spiritual cores at most inside his body.

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Each rank of cultivation system have different 'Spiritual Space'

Spiritual Space is a space inside an expert's body that can contain the spiritual beast core.

Steel rank expert often has 1 Spiritual space.

Black-Steel rank expert often has 3 Spiritual spaces.

Bronze rank expert often has 5 Spiritual spaces.

Silver rank expert often has 7 Spiritual spaces.

Gold rank expert often has 10 Spiritual spaces.

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Each beast also has different spiritual core size when it has merged with the human body, it is called as 'Spiritual Cost'

However, unlike Spiritual Space that often has a constant rate of increase, Spiritual Cost is really random.

Although Steel-ranked beasts often only cost 1 Spiritual Space, some Steel-ranked spiritual beasts have 2 Spiritual Cost.

Surprisingly, some Bronze rank spiritual core can cost only 1 spiritual space.

It mostly depends on the species of the beast and its rarity.

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In a rare occasion, there is some human that was born with special talent/body that can have more than 3 maximum spiritual cores, their body is called 'Gigantic Soul Containment' thus making the expert is very talented on 'Spiritual Beast Transformation'.

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In addition, there is some expert that was born with the body that has 'Spiritual Cost Efficiency' that can cut down the cost of Spiritual Cost of all beast that mixed with their body. This too will make the user very talented on 'Spiritual Beast Transformation'.

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Anyone who has talent in 'Spiritual Beast Transformation' will have at least 1 Spiritual Space regardless of their cultivation rank.

So even though they were only at Basic/Iron rank, they already can merge with the Spiritual Beast "

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"Everyone hears that? Some geniuses here have talent in Spiritual Beast Transformation, I hope you guys will not waste your talent and become someone great in the future"

"Next, you over there, read out page 9" Lao Se said with finger pointed into another student.

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In this world, there are many different talents

Some are great for hunting, some are great for battling human, and many talents have their unique use other than battling/hunting

Here are the talents that often recognized in human body ever discovered:

1. Spiritual Beast Transformation -> Better limit and use of Spiritual Beast power

It is divided into:

- Containment (Very Rare)

- Efficiency (Very Rare)

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2. Magic Prowess -> Better growth and stronger/unique magic power

It is divided into:

- Summoning: Able to summon actual beast (Rare)

- Elemental: Strong boost and Faster Growth of Black Magic

- Support: Boosted effect of Green-magic

- Saint Heart: Able to learn Miraculous White Spell (Legendary)

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3. Physical Attributes-> Talent that goes well with respective attributes

It is divided into:

- Bullseye: Extraordinary Accuracy

- Batsear: Extraordinary Hearing

- Scaleskin: Extraordinary Defense

- Poweraw: Extraordinary Strength

- Quickfeet: Extraordinary Agility

- Manaboost: Extraordinary Spiritual Limit

- Nightvision: Extraordinary Vision

However, There are some unclassified talents in this world that are too rare to be researched. "

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"Now you over there, continue reading on the last page of the book"

Lao Se said with his finger pointed into another student.

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Weapons are divided into 7 tiers respectively.

Starting from Bronze rank, each weapon will have a very strong soul and can choose their own wielder.

Below that, Black-steel rank is the most complicated tier.

Black-steel rank has its sub-tiers:

- C-rank Blacksteel-weapon: The lowest rank in its tier, it is made from Blacksteel-ranked spiritual core and Blacksteel-ranked material.

- B-rank Blacksteel-weapon: Middle ranked, it is made from Blacksteel-ranked spiritual core and Bronze-ranked Beast Material.

- A-rank Blacksteel-weapon: High ranked, it is made from Blacksteel-ranked spiritual core and Silver-ranked Beast Material.

- S-rank Blacksteel-weapon: Extremely rare weapon, it is made from Blacksteel-ranked spiritual core and Gold-ranked Beast Material.

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A-ranked and S-ranked blacksteel-ranked weapon are very rare weapons, although their spiritual core is Blacksteel-ranked but their main material are from Silver/Gold ranked beast.

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When refining Bronze/Silver/Gold ranked weapon, blacksmith must use their spiritual cores as the main material, however some leftover parts of the beast might not be used when forging the weapon, thus making it accessible for experts that rejected by their Bronze/Silver/Gold weapons to get a stronger weapon by using the unused material to forge a weapon without troublesome/picky souls.

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The strength of A-ranked and S-ranked Blacksteel weapons are also very notable, they can clash head to head or sometimes even defeat Bronze ranked weapon depends on the situation.

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In addition, there are some cases that C-ranked Blacksteel weapons can be forged just by some combination of Steel-ranked material and Steel ranked Spiritual Core. These rare weapons often have elemental attributes or made from rare beast material combined with an extraordinary skill of blacksmithing. "

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"Okay that's it then for today class, if you guys have time, feel free to go to the library inside our Master Hall, you might find more information such as Bestiary, History books, or even literature books. Have a nice day everyone!"

Lao Se said while leaving class

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After separating from Zhang Sen, Yi Xiang goes directly to look his favorite book.

Bestiary Books!

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"Woahh, it's a lot more complete than what I read on Iron Fishing Village" Yi Xiang said with excitement when reading the first page of Bestiary book.

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Yi Xiang then reads the Bestiary Books page by page until evening.

When the night comes, after he got his dinner, he goes straight into his room and train.

The self-training inside his room this time is 'mediation'

He wants to expand his spiritual energy limit thus he plans to meditate for one month until the day of assignment that Kuro and Thick Chiu mentioned in the later.

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He then keeps repeating his activity from attending class, reading bestiary, meditating, and sleep for one month.

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One month later

Yi Xiang has read all bestiary books in the library.

He got a lot of information about beasts weaknesses and behavior.

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Not only that, after battling Stonejaw-saurus, Yi Xiang has already gained a lot of experience and almost making him Iron-ranked level 2, thus after combining with 1 full month of meditating.

His cultivation rank is now Iron-ranked level 3.

He gained 2 levels.

However, what important for him is that his spiritual energy limit has decently increased.

Moreover, Yi Xiang cultivation level is actually the lowest in his class, the highest level in his genius class is at Iron ranked level 9.

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"Time to go to the class, I wonder when will the assignment starts"

Yi Xiang said while leaving his room and heading to class.

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When he enters the class and go into his seat

He sees something unusual.

The empty seat in front of his seat was supposed to be empty.

But today,

There is a girl seating in front of his seat.

The girl has very white skin, she wears a white silk long dress.

Her body is slim and can drool any man seeing her.

Her black hair is really long almost to her butt and she has a side-bangs

Her face is very very pretty.

(You can imagine she is like Erza from 'Fairy Tail' but with black hair and more chinese clothing)

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When Yi Xiang is about to arrive on his seat.

His eyes are stunned and looking into this girl's eyes.

Both of their eyes are looking into each other.

In his mind, he is saying:

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"DAMN, WHO IS SHE?"