"By the way, is it possible to meet Dr. Kirchoff?"
Molina shook her head.
"Almost impossible for you. He rarely even meets the other high ranking members of the Federation."
Eryndor nodded, and dropped the topic.
After gazing at the rewards which had arrived, he first looked at the consumables, which he had decided on exchanging for.
First were the bottles of Qi Gathering Pills of level one. They increased Qi absorption speed while cultivating.
He didn’t know if he could withstand level two of this type of pills, but even if he could, he wouldn’t have exchanged for them at the Human Federation.
He would have opted for a more disguised, less exposed, or less lawful path to acquire those higher ranked pills. No one knew he had already reached stage six after all.
Eryndor chose them because they helped with his faster rise through the stages. No other reason.
As to why he needed to rise through the stages fast? Well, obviously, because of power.
This was a surface level desire, and a kind of disguise for others.
His deeper intention was to test his theories of a way to open the doors in his Mind Palace.
The faster he rose through the realms, the faster he could test which method it was that would open those doors.
The second reward was an expensive and rare pill.
Meridian Expansion Pill - it expanded the meridians for better Qi circulation and storage.
With more Qi to store, one would be better than their opponents in the same realm as they would be able to last longer, and also afford more Qi expenditure on cultivation arts during battles.
Of course, Eryndor didn’t pick up all the treasures on the catalogue just because he had a lot of contribution points.
There were some which were useless to him purely because of how good his control was. An example of that would be the Azure Leaf Lotus.
It enhanced concentration during cultivation, allowing one to control more Qi.
However, Eryndor knew that controlling half of the total amount of Qi was far far more than anything anyone could’ve achieved.
His limit of being able to control half, also seemed to be some kind of restriction, which he doubted this mere treasure would be able to break.
Another thing he had exchanged for was a Spirit-Refining Cauldron.
As the name suggested, it helped in concocting pills, being a basic equipment if one wanted to get started on the path of Alchemy.
Eryndor had read that the three domains of mastery - Alchemy, Smithing, and Array Formation all needed delicate control of Qi.
Well, what better to invest his time than these?
Increasing his cultivation, and eldritch abilities didn’t take up his entire day. Or rather, doing them all the time made it monotonous.
He would like to add a few more things to do so that he would be improving in all fields.
It would also serve as a source of safe income for his future resources, as the products made by these professions were far more valuable than the material or ingredients which went into making them.
The next reward he chose was the practice technique.
Yes, the one given by the Human Federation to all the people who chose cultivation was only one of the most basic ones.
The better practice techniques for cultivation allowed one to hold more amount of Qi, and also absorb the Qi faster.
There weren’t any downsides to changing cultivation practice technique after using a different one in the past. The new one would slowly modify and change the characteristics of your realm as you continued using it.
For example, let’s assume that a basic practice technique would provide ten Qi units of storage, and an absorption rate of one Qi unit per revolution.
As soon as you switched to a better practice technique, it would modify your storage to fifteen—or however much it provided—Qi units of storage, and increase the absorption rate to two Qi units per revolution.
Of course, this increase depended on the enhanced practice technique, providing variable increase across different kinds of practice techniques.
Some practice techniques also fine-tuned your Qi to a specific element, like fire, lightning, and so on, such that your Qi would display such properties.
The practice technique which Eryndor chose was called Breath of the Lightning God.
It improved Qi absorption, storage, and modified your Qi to have properties of lightning.
The final reward which he had exchanged for was an offensive cultivation art.
Yes, there was still a slot at the academy where he could exchange a skill for free, but the art he exchanged for wasn’t in the library when he browsed through it last time.
Which meant, the art he bought just now, he wouldn’t have been able to get it for free in the library since it didn’t exist there at all.
It was named Sky Piercing Palm, and had a short-to-mid range compared to his Internal Fist, which was a complete contact based melee offensive cultivation art.
Sky Piercing Palm had more than one elemental modification, including Lightning, Fire, and Air.
The Sky Piercing Palm was an offensive combat technique that allowed the user to concentrate Qi into their palm before releasing it as a forceful shockwave.
This was the only reason he had bought it. Qi couldn’t be expelled out of the body at the Qi Gathering stage, but this offensive art allowed it.
Precisely due to how difficult it was, its maximum limit was only mid range, which was already top-tier.
It may not have as much lethality as the Internal Fist, but its range allowed it to be listed among the top tier offensive techniques.
Its lightning infused version inflicted a paralysis effect.
The fire element version inflicted burns on the target upon impact.
It was deadly if not dodged in time, or one must have a suitable counter to it.
Lastly, its air element version was used to strike soundlessly.
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It was invisible, and emitted a negligible amount of sound, certainly not what was expected from a shockwave type attack which relied on displacement of air.
He heard Molina speak.
"Are you satisfied with these? The last one you requested is on the way."