Chapter 10: Swordplay and Palm Attack
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NAME: Li Xian
AGE: 12
REPUTATION: Just Entered Jianghu
TITLE: Wanderer of Wulin
POWER LEVEL: Weak Body in Mind (Rank 0)
PLACE OF LEARNING: Wulin
INTERNAL MARTIAL TECHNIQUE: [Realization of Path (-)]
MARTIAL SKILL POINTS: 10770
MARTIAL ARTS TECHNIQUE: [Seven Transformation Swordplay (-)] [Three Waves Palm (-)]
LIGHTNESS SKILL POINTS: 3940
LIGHTNESS TECHNIQUE: [Swift Strides (Master)]
INFAMY POINTS: 0
FAME POINTS: 0
LIFE SKILL POINTS: 270
LIFE SKILL: [Hunter Novice]
OTHER SKILL: [Sword Proficiency (Master)] [Dagger Proficiency(Master)]
Meridian in cultivation: Taiyin Lung Channel of Hand [Acupoint Opened: 2/11]
MERIDIAN OPENED: [Qi Gathering in Sea of Energy]
WEAPONS: Three daggers (Sharp) One sword (Sharp)
ARMOR: 0
ITEMS: Beginner Gift pack
MONEY: 2 Ding 336 Liang
Looking at his status window he felt there is a lot more that could be done. He still has a lot of money.
His martial skill points are still a lot and he still hasn’t used the Beginner Gift pack that he got from the quest reward.
‘I better use the martial skill points first before opening it’ he thought to himself
He did not know what to rank up first. Should he raise up his power level or should he raises up his martial technique?
Both of them are important. The Swordplay that he learns requires at least internal energy.
Power level then. He thought to himself. He immediately ranks up his power level to Expert rank using 6100 martial skill point.
Suddenly he felt like his energy is exploding and his eyes widened because of the pressure. He could feel himself getting stronger and his body felt more open.
His opened meridian felt a flush of energy coursing through it. Like a parched land that have water passing through it, the land become fertile.
It took him only a few seconds before the power rested harmoniously inside his body. When he breathes he could feel the energy of the world.
Now he had the internal energy of three years of practicing.
‘Internal energy’ he thought to himself. By practicing the internal energy and meditating on it, it would help him in adding martial skill point
He could not rank up to master rank because Master rank requires fifteen thousand points. He still 4670 martial skill points.
Now is the time for him to rank up his internal martial technique.
He looks at the Realization of Path martial technique. Even the name is not that appealing. But it is the cheapest book for internal energy technique.
He then ranks up his internal martial technique to Apprentice rank using 1100 points leaving only 3570 martial skill points for himself.
He could only use it to rank up his swordplay and palm after this.
Though that is the case, he is not worried. He bet that in the Beginner Gift pack there would be more rewards that could help him.
For now, he would sweep clean all of his skill points. He uses 1060 points to rank up his swordplay to Expert level.
Then he uses another 1060 points to rank up his palm technique to expert.
The moment he is done using his skill points, he closes his eyes.
All kinds of movement appear in his mind. He is now in a flat land.
When he thinks about a mountain, a mountain appears. He looks at his left and saw himself practicing the sword, perfuming the Seven Transformation Swordplay.
The seven moves in his mind is very exquisite, each of the moves possess powerful strength. It lacks any deceptive power.
but what it lacks in deceptive moves, it compensates in the forceful execution of the attack.
He looks at his right and saw himself practicing the Three Wave Palm.
He could see clearly when to open the Palm.
And when to close it.
There are many ways to perform the Three Wave Palm.
One of the ways did not even need for him to touch the enemy. As long as waves of energy reach the enemy, it could be counted as an attack.
Like a long range attack using internal energy, the range of the waves attack depend on one internal energy
Taking a step forward, strike the palm forward. When moving the palm, moves the feet according to the movement of the hand.
It would help in pushing the palm attack to become more powerful
When being attacked from behind dash and tackle it with the palm.
The Three Waves Palm is simple.
But simple did not mean weak. Executed in the perfect circumstances, it would be a lethal technique.
The important thing to know about the Three Waves Palm is that the three Waves of energy must not be same.
The energy come from the body, and it must have different kind of waves of power when it is being executed.
Weak, strong weak. Or strong, weak, strong. Or strong, strong, weak. Or weak, weak, strong.
The variation of the energy that need to be used is different. One that practices this technique must have good grasp of the situation in battle to use it skillfully.
This kind of training would take normal people years. But Li Xian learns all this in just a few seconds.
It is perfect to take an enemy off guard.
When a weak attack is preceded by a strong attack, it would shock certain people.
Others could block the first wave and the second wave but when the third wave hits, if the third wave is the strong one and the enemy lower their guard, their defense would crumble.
To execute strong, strong, strong, then one had to have more internal energy.
When reached to the pinnacle of strength, even if one waves of energy could destroy a person defense entirely.
At that time, the Three Waves Palm may not be needed any longer. Li Xian then decided to buy more skill.
[Palm Attack Proficiency] and [Internal Energy Proficiency]
The Palm Attack Proficiency only cost him around ten liang but the Internal Energy Proficiency cost him 1 Ding.
The reason is simple.
The Palm Attack Proficiency is something that he would understand easily if he keeps practicing.
But the Internal Energy Proficiency is like a shortcut of accumulating more martial arts skill points. It is like buying talent.
When he bought the Internal Energy Proficiency, there is another book in the system store that appears.
It is also related to the Internal Energy Proficiency. And it is even more expensive than the Internal Energy proficiency.
‘The road of martial path is long’ Li Xian thought. He still has points and he could use it to rank up these other Skill.
After all, the requirement to rank up Other Skill is cheaper. Only the grandmaster rank is pricey. He uses 1230 martial skill points to rank up both the [Palm Attack Proficiency] and [Internal Energy Proficiency] to Master rank.
Like before he could feel something changes in his body.
His hand tenses up for a moment like his muscle is being reformed to adjust according to the experience of a master in the palm attack.
He opens his eyes and exhale.
He decided to check his status window.
NAME: Li Xian
AGE: 12
REPUTATION: Just Entered Jianghu
TITLE: Wanderer of Wulin
POWER LEVEL: Weak Body in Mind Expert (Rank 3)
PLACE OF LEARNING: Wulin
INTERNAL MARTIAL TECHNIQUE: [Realization of Path Apprentice (2)]
MARTIAL SKILL POINTS: 220
MARTIAL ARTS TECHNIQUE: [Seven Transformation Swordplay (Expert)]
[Three Waves Palm (Expert)]
LIGHTNESS SKILL POINTS: 3940
LIGHTNESS TECHNIQUE: [Swift Strides (Master)]
INFAMY POINTS: 0
FAME POINTS: 0
LIFE SKILL POINTS: 270
LIFE SKILL: [Hunter Novice]
OTHER SKILL: [Sword Proficiency (Master)]
[Dagger Proficiency(Master)]
[Palm Attack Proficiency(Master)]
[Internal Energy Proficiency (Master)]
Meridian in cultivation: Taiyin Lung Channel of Hand [Acupoint Opened: 2/11]
MERIDIAN OPENED: [Qi Gathering in Sea of Energy]
WEAPONS: Three daggers (Sharp) One sword (Sharp)
ARMOR: 0
ITEMS: Beginner Gift pack
MONEY: 1 Ding 326 Liang
Looking at his status window he only has 220 martial skill points. This is the time to use his Beginner Gift pack and see what reward the system gave him.
After that he will decided whether to go to sleep or meditate until morning.
His body felt a little energized but he knows that is just temporary because of the constant ranking up.
He did not have to spend all of the skill points he got tonight.
There might not be any enemies later. And now he is sure he could protect himself even if another pack of wolves come attacking.
And if enemy does come by, his senses will sense them. He is quite confident in his sense of danger after having his acupoint opened and his power level increased.
There are still many things that need to be discovered This world is clearly not the same world he is. It is not like he travels back into the time of the Tang dynasty.
Tang dynasty did not use the term Ding, Liang and Wen for their currency instead they used Kai Yuan Tong Bao.
It is clear that if he discovers that this world use Ding, Liang and Wen, that this Tang dynasty is not the same Tang dynasty of his world.
And at which point of year is he right now? Did the Huang Chao rebellion already end? Did the Tang dynasty has been usurped by Zhu Wen?
Or did the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms already established themselves?
Is he in the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms or is he in the middle part of that history? This question is something very important.
If it’s the late part of that history, then Later Zhou is the place to go.
Li Xian knows all of this because he checks a few Wikipedia pages before playing the Martial World in his game.
It is better to play a game that is based on historical period and learn about it to raise his sense of immersion in the game. Who would have thought that his impulse of researching a bit about that era now paid off?
‘Hmm’
‘There is still many things I don’t know about this world. tomorrow, I would try to explore the area around here’ Then he looks at his status window and said
‘Open the beginner Gift pack. The sound of trumpets and horned instrument fills his ears as the list of reward appears in front of him
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Calculation
Martial skill points
10770- 6100=4670
4670-1100= 3570
3570- 1060= 2510
2510- 1060=1450
1450-1230=220
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Money
2 Ding 336 Liang – 10 liang= 2 Ding 326 Liang
2 Ding 326 Liang- 1 Ding= 1 Ding 326 Liang
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