Upon hearing the sound, Ning Xunqiu snapped back to reality and glanced at the newly appeared achievements in the panel.
This booklet has again churned out a Blue Life Achievement.
"It really has churned out a special achievement again..."
Ning Xunqiu squinted his eyes.
The Life Achievement rewards are calculated based on their "rarity". The rarer the Life Achievement that appears, the higher the reward obtained.
Over the years, during his leisure after practicing martial arts, he has been farming Life Achievements.
Chess, brewing tea, carpentry, cooking, fishing, farming, medical skills... He understands a bit of everything.
For basically anything novel, he would spend three or four days trying it out, ensuring he farms a White Achievement as a minimum.
He summarized it.
White Achievements trigger achievement rewards the first time, but most of them are mundane items like potatoes, chili peppers, silver, wood, spices, etc., not even yielding Centennial Ginseng.
Though they satisfied his appetite.
Slightly rare White Achievements would yield a bit of strength, truly just a bit, roughly improving a pound of strength during his childhood, which was quite substantial.
But to him now, they are better than nothing.
Blue Achievements have vast reward spans, the best being comprehension, followed by root bone, and then some aged medicinal herbs or martial arts secret manuals. Occasionally, there's a pleasant surprise, like a Treasure Medicine or Treasure Fish comparable to a Great Pill.
However, the completion difficulty for Blue Achievements can be daunting.
Looking at his first life, the Blue Achievement "Slay All Directions" required slaughtering over a thousand people. In reality, he might not be able to personally kill such a number in his lifetime.
Following this calculation,
how many would be required for a Purple Achievement? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand?
It's simply unimaginable.
Even if there were a hundred thousand pigs sticking their necks out for him to chop, the likelihood of dying from exhaustion might be greater.
True to its name, Life Achievements really mean achievements completed over a lifetime.
It seems perfectly logical.
Before Ning Xunqiu acquired the booklet, completing a Purple Achievement could be considered a fool's dream.
The two Life Achievements churned out by the booklet, "Sword Demon" and "Martial Arts Pioneer," are clearly not achievements that could be achieved through normal means.
Rather, they are summaries of Ning Xunqiu's life.
"Sword Demon" is a Life Achievement exclusive to Ning Xunqiu.
Ning Xunqiu first collected all the white and blue rewards and then commenced drawing the special achievement rewards.
[Drawing special reward...]
In Ning Xunqiu's view, the grey panel radiated colorful beams, transforming into a small golden figure that began to dance slowly, containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth. The figure's movements grew faster and faster.
Boom!!
A deafening roar as if splitting heaven and earth occurred, and everything in the mind became incredibly clear.
Soon, the golden figure in Ning Xunqiu's sea of consciousness transformed into the words "Martial Saint."
[Congratulations, you have received a special Life Achievement reward—"Lifebound Character: Martial Saint."]
Immediately, information transmitted from the words "Martial Saint" in Ning Xunqiu's mind.
[Lifebound Character: Martial Saint]
One, All Weapons Return to the Root.
You are the Martial Saint of this world, capable of learning any martial arts in an instant; mastery follows action, and success is guaranteed with practice.
Two, Innovate the Old to Create the New.
With the true intent of martial arts comprehended, you can innovate the old to create the new, opening pathways in martial arts.
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"Oh no, oh no, how can I not recognize the words Martial Saint?"
Upon receiving the information transmitted by the "Lifebound Character: Martial Saint," Ning Xunqiu, in a daze, confused Martial Saint with Invincible. He quickly rubbed his eyes, indeed seeing Invincible.
Squeak!
Following his instincts, Ning Xunqiu began practicing the martial arts "Flying Swallow Hand," countless ideas surged like a torrent, heavy afterimages formed in his hands, changing unpredictably, the next moment, a subtle echo resonated in the air.
This indicated the signs of Great Success for "Flying Swallow Hand."
[Flying Swallow Hand (Great Success): 1/100, true intent at extreme speed.]
"This must be the so-called Fate Grid? It's truly formidable."
With a glance at his increasingly nimble hands, Ning Xunqiu was inwardly shocked.
Although "Flying Swallow Hand" is only lower grade boxing and kicking, it remains a martial art recognized in Jianghu, typically reaching minor success for ordinary people within their lifetime.
Achieving minor success in lower martial arts ensures fluent application, allowing one to excel in a county.
Comprehending the true intent to reach "Great Achievement Realm" is even more remarkable, enabling one to build a substantial reputation in Jianghu.
Martial arts consist of three realms: entry, minor success, and great success.
While above them lies the Perfect Realm.
But the Perfect Realm is achievable only by the creator of the martial art. Alternatively, one can innovate entirely turning it into one's own, whereby it's no longer called "Flying Swallow Hand" but is named as a new martial art.
Under the blessing of [Lifebound Character: Martial Saint], Ning Xunqiu frightfully broke through from minor success to great success simply from one practice session.
Invincible!
Feeling ecstatic, Ning Xunqiu suddenly remembered something and reached for the booklet.
"At the end of the book, as Wei Xin re-entered the sect, an enormous golden light cleaved towards him, rendering him instantly dustless? Such power… you surely cheated, right?"
Though a potential 'ambush' existed,
during the book he was a Grandmaster above innate; not to mention his current "Sword Demon Heart Eye," closing his eyes allows him to feel every detail within three zhang, and detect subtle movements within a hundred zhang.
This—you can kill me in an instant?
"Isn't this some Immortal Technique?! It must be! I am a Transmigrator and possess this evolutionary booklet for the future, even a Golden Finger exists."
"If that's the case, what's so peculiar about having multiple cultivators in this world?"
Glancing at the Blue Life Achievement "Martial Arts Pioneer," Ning Xunqiu realized he is the world's first Fourth Realm Martial Artist.
Thus, Ning Xunqiu confirmed outright that the "golden light" was not a martial arts method.
Ning Xunqiu carefully recalled the first mention in the booklet.
Driven to madness, he comprehended the "Sword Demon Heart Eye" to assassinate Emperor Jin, Jiang Hong, certainly intending no restraint.
Yet, Jiang Hong suddenly manifested a golden light that thwarted him.
"There were no golden lights when I killed King Yu in the book, only Jiang Hong had them? Can it be that Jiang Hong, who unified the world, is the Celestial Mandate of this world?"
"Twice in the book, I died at thirty?"
Ning Xunqiu contemplated a possibility, swallowing hard.
In the book, his prowess surfaced while a twenty-year-old Grandmaster, becoming Ning Wushuang, shortly fallen prey to Yu Country's court intrigues.
Another time he broke through to innate thinking himself safeguarded, only to be sneak attacked and killed instantly.
An invisible malice seemed to be targeting him.
Deeply terrifying.
Clenching the booklet tightly, Ning Xunqiu secretly resolved within.
"The reality is too enigmatic, I'm too youthful to grasp it... it's better to wait until I have successfully cultivated, no, become immortal as depicted in the book."
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