Martial Forest

Chapter 24: Resting

 ‘Ah, this is very refreshing’ Li Xian said to himself as he takes another bucket full of water over on top of his head and pour it down on his body.

Li Xian then lean his body on large stone in the middle of the stream.

He put his head on top of the stone and lied down like he is sleeping on top of a comfortable bed.

He has a smile on his face and water dripping from his hair.

The cold water is not as cold as Li Xian thought.

‘Ah, thank goodness this forest has this kind of stream’ he thought to himself

He is now in another part of the stream. This place has deeper water and it is larger than the one he had found yesterday

 He lied down and rest here to reduce some swelling and any soreness he felt from his body because of the activity he has been engaging in

At the same time, he could also recover his internal energy that has almost depleted after the constant using of lightness skill.

He closes his eyes and just lied there, hearing the sound of the water. He stays like that for a few minutes before he slowly opens up his yes and look at the sky

In about half an hour, the sun would come up, Li Xian thought to himself. Li Xian had been hunting and cutting trees since last night.

He had hunted a lot of vipers snakes. They hide in damp hole in the ground and sometimes hidden themselves along the branches of tall trees.

Naturally, viper snake is not the thing that he wanted to hunt. If before he got the hunter skill, he probably would not have any guts to come so near a snake.

He uses to have phobias against snakes when he was little. But like anything else, after being taught by the system, somehow that phobia is gone.

Li Xian thought that if anything could be learned in the system store, if there is anything he fear or something he could not do, he could just buy the skill and eliminate that feeling of fear.

The system is still overpowered.

But what Li Xian main complaint of the system is none other than the fact that it did not provide any guidance other than the few quest the system thrown at him

He also hunted a few of rabbits and he meet a deer that was sleeping. The deer is very peaceful sleeping like that.

So, he killed it and using the system to process the meats

He got to eat deer meats seasoned to perfection with spices that arouse one appetite.

Maybe because his internal energy had been raised or maybe because of the effect of his ranking up, he was very hungry.

Instead of feeling full eating some parts of the deer, he manages to sweep all of the deer meat and leaving only the deer bones on that place.

And only then his hunger is sated a bit.

Li Xian then went around hunting and chopping firewood. The only thing was that he did not see a lot of wolves. He wanted to fight against the wolves again. Even if they did not give any skill points, Li Xian still wanted to fight them

Because he wanted more of their fur so he could line up the floor of his hut.

After that he would uses his lightness skill to go to the hut and leave the chopped wood in front of the day before once again going to the forest and resume the same process.

For hours he keeps hunting and chopping down trees and sweat filled every part of his body.

Even he himself felt that he smells terrible. Sweat seeps into his fur clothing and he himself felt tired and exhausted.

He had depleted almost of his internal energy and his stamina is also decreasing after doing all of that

Since it would take an hour before the sun is coming up, Li Xian decided to rest and clean himself in the stream.

This time, he went further up and saw a larger stream on the upper part of the stream.

That is where he is now. The place itself look like an untouched paradise of nature. Yesterday he did not have time to explore much of the forest.

He believes there must be a waterfall on the upper part since he could hear the sound of water not far away from where he is bathing right now

he is relaxing, buck naked in the water, letting the water washes over him.

He is thirteen right now.

Thinking about it, he probably would not be able to buy the Six Meridian Sword until he reaches a certain level.

If not for the fact that there is such a lottery system when he reaches his birthday, he probably would have to wait long time before he has such a powerful martial art.

He did not intend to follow the jack of all trades route like he always did when playing games

Jack of all trades is good when you are playing a single player because you have the time to level it up and in game even if you died you just have to load the save point

Failure means nothing when you could try it again and again until you succeeded. Even the challenges would be thrilling since a game that is too easy to beat would become boring after a while.

But specialization has its pros and cons. Unless Li Xian has so many points that he could spare, he would not fall to the jack of all trades route as he would focus more on the specialization route

This is real life. If he dies in this game, he would probably really die and not revived in some revival points.

As such, the route of jack of all trades is impossible for him. He would focus on the martial arts that is more destructive and more powerful to make sure that he has the ability to safeguard his life in this unknown world

 Since he now has a powerful supreme martial art, Li Xian had decided to focus on that and opening all the six meridian that is required for him to master the Six Meridians Sword.

Around the stream, there is a fell log that is positioned like a bench. Around that log there is a small fire and a few bones of animals. Before Li Xian went into the stream he started a fire and eat a few rabbit’s meats.

Li Xian believes that because his muscle is suddenly developing he felt very hungry.

Right now he is just resting on the large boulder stone that is on the middle of the stream.

The water stream flows around his skin. The coldness did not bother him because of his internal energy that protects him from extreme cold.

He wiggles his toes and he water flows around his foot and he smiles bit. He felt all the tiredness he accumulated is washed away.

He decides to bathe himself in this stream until dawn. At the same time, he wanted to check the result of his effort for this past couple of hours.

He checks his Life Skill points first.

Before he set out from the hut area, he had already uses up all of his Life Skill points. Looking at his Life Skill points he smiles.

It had reached forty thousand points. Then he remembers something that he wanted to do before.

‘I should buy the Life Skill of a cook’

Li Xian does intend to opens up the meridians that he have but there is some life skill that he thinks he should learn if he want to make his living in the forest more bearable.

Every time he got any meat or food in the forest, he always sends it to the system to process. While the method of the system is impeccable, it also cost money.

And it is one liang and maybe more considering the type of meat or food that he sent to the system to process.

As such, he thinks he should try to learn the Cook life skill. That would complement his other two life skill. And the other Life Skill he is eyeing his eyes on is the Craftsman life skill.

Even though hunting mastery gave him the ability to set up masterful traps, he did not know how to craft things.

The bucket that he made from carving into a tree log is not as good as he thought.

But at least it was functional but Li Xian knows it could be better. He sighed and then look at his Lightness skill points. He got 25,000 points.

At least his effort of using the lightness skill points to run around the forest net him a pretty good amount of points.

But he also notices that after he got around 24,000 points, the rate of points that he got decreases slowly.

He believes that later, doing such thing would slowly get harder for him to farm more points. As for his martial skill points, only a hundred points rises up

Maybe later the rate of gained points for lightness skill points would also be hard to accumulate like how hard it is for him to accumulate points for martial skill points

He takes a dive into the deep part of the stream for a second, washing his entire body and then breathe underwater for a few minutes.

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