Chapter 61: Chapter 60: Huge Improvement
However, Tang Yi was extremely disappointed.
The Skill Level for his Celestial Star Palm had been 30/100, and when he checked it now, it was still 30/100. It hadn’t changed at all.
This meant that using Celestial Star Palm once hadn’t earned him a single point of Skill Level.
He frowned, feeling conflicted. ’Was my guess wrong?’ he wondered.
’So Celestial Star Palm doesn’t gain one point of Skill Level per use?’
’Does it take two uses? Or three?’
With this in mind, and wanting to confirm how the Skill Level increased, Tang Yi didn’t get discouraged. He continued to wander the outer perimeter for a while, killing a few more Level 1 Demon Beasts.
Finally, the Skill Level of Celestial Star Palm changed.
When he opened his status panel again, the Skill Level for Celestial Star Palm had become 31/100...
It had increased by one point.
Tang Yi counted carefully. He had just used Celestial Star Palm to kill a total of five Level 1 Demon Beasts.
That meant it took five uses of Celestial Star Palm to increase the Skill Level by just one point!
This was undeniably slow.
He wasn’t sure if it was just in his head, but after gaining that one point of Skill Level, Tang Yi felt the Skill was less awkward to use. Its power seemed to have increased by a tiny fraction, though the change was so subtle he could barely feel it.
For all he knew, it might have just been his imagination.
Although the Skill Level increased quite slowly, at least it *could* be increased. Tang Yi briefly tested his other Skills as well. He found that, apart from the difficult-to-level Profound Tier Upper Grade Sword Skill, Celestial Heart Guidance—which required killing ten Demon Beasts for one point of Skill Level—his other Martial Techniques like Celestial Star Palm, Mountain Collapse, and Gale Blade all gained one point of Skill Level for every five Demon Beasts killed.
This was probably the pattern for increasing Skill Level.
Now that he understood how Skill Level increased, Tang Yi stopped wasting time and headed straight for the deeper parts of the Wind Moon Forest.
Tang Yi had just been conducting an experiment. Worried about running into danger, he had cautiously stuck to the outer regions, killing Level 1 Demon Beasts.
The correct approach was actually to venture deeper and kill High-Level Demon Beasts. That way, he could level up and increase his Skill Levels simultaneously, which would not only save time but also hone his application of the Martial Techniques.
Combining the two would allow him to achieve twice the results with half the effort.
So, Tang Yi didn’t want to waste any more time on Low-Level Demon Beasts.
He avoided the Low-Level Demon Beasts, passed through the territory of Level 3 Demon Beasts, and soon arrived in the region of Level 4 Demon Beasts.
This region was already near the center of the Wind Moon Forest. The Demon Beasts here were Level 4, with strength comparable to human Battle Spirit Powerhouses, making them incredibly formidable.
Tang Yi himself was currently a Five-star Battle Spirit. While facing Level 4 Demon Beasts wasn’t exactly a walk in the park, it wasn’t too difficult either, thanks to his High-level Martial Techniques and a body strengthened by countless Attribute Pills.
Legend had it that there were Beast Venerable Level Demon Beasts in the Wind Moon Forest, but now that Tang Yi had reached the region of Level 4 Demon Beasts, he started to think the rumor was unreliable.
The region of Level 4 Demon Beasts was already approaching the center of the Wind Moon Forest. Given how the beasts’ strength increased in tiers moving inward, he reasoned.
The center of the Wind Moon Forest should be the territory of Level 5 Demon Beasts, which would make them the strongest beasts in the entire forest.
’Even if there were stronger beasts, the absolute strongest would only reach Level 6. A Level 8 Beast Venerable is simply impossible here.’
’Besides, even if there were Level 6 Demon Beasts, there wouldn’t be many of them—one or two at most.’
’A Level 8 Demon Beast... That rumor must be completely baseless. It can’t be true.’
’Level 6 has to be the limit for the Wind Moon Forest. If a Level 8 Demon Beast exists, it couldn’t possibly be here. Perhaps a place like the Valley of Desolation, outside the West Mansion Headquarter in Jiuji City—like my father, Tang Haotian, mentioned—might have a beast of that Level.’
「Three days later...」
In the region of Level 4 Demon Beasts within the Wind Moon Forest, a quick circuit would reveal numerous Demon Beast corpses—all a testament to Tang Yi’s work.
By this point, his power had reached a new height. He had advanced a Level, becoming a Six-star Battle Spirit. His progress could be described as incredibly fast.
Over those three days, Tang Yi hadn’t just been grinding monsters to level up; he had also been honing the Skill Level of his Martial Techniques. For all three days, he used only a single Skill: Celestial Star Palm!
After three days of hard work and killing countless Demon Beasts, the Skill Level for Celestial Star Palm went from the initial 30/100 to a full 100/100, completely maxing it out.
Now, when Tang Yi used Celestial Star Palm, he wasn’t just proficient; his use of it was full of variations and exquisitely subtle. He could now strike from all sorts of tricky angles, making his attacks impossible to guard against. Unlike at the beginning when he could only attack head-on, the awkwardness was completely gone. The Skill moved like an extension of his own arm, wielded with perfect mastery.
What’s more, the power of this Martial Technique had nearly doubled!
Before, a single strike from Celestial Star Palm could only beat a Level 4 Demon Beast half to death. But now that its Skill Level was at one hundred percent, a single strike could kill a Level 4 Demon Beast instantly, with power to spare.
This just went to show how terrifying its power became once the Skill Level was maxed out.
This result made Tang Yi ecstatic. ’My guess was right after all,’ he thought. ’The low power really was because of the Skill Level. My three days of effort weren’t wasted!’
For the past three days, in order to max out Celestial Star Palm’s Skill Level, Tang Yi had to execute nearly a hundred palm strikes and kill over a hundred Demon Beasts each day. He was so sick of it he could have puked.
It was the same palm strike, over and over again, and Tang Yi was utterly sick of it. Of course, he had experimented with different variations of the strike during that time, but even after all that, he was still bored to tears.
Fortunately, Celestial Star Palm’s Skill Level had now reached one hundred percent, so he didn’t need to practice it anymore.
Besides Celestial Star Palm, another Skill also reached one hundred percent Skill Level: Phantom Step.
Tang Yi used this Body Technique every day, so its Skill Level increased very quickly.
Of course, after maxing out the Skill Level to one hundred percent, the gains were also enormous.
His Speed had increased again!
If his original Speed was on a scale of one hundred, it was now two hundred and fifty. It was two and a half times faster, thanks to the Bonus from his Divine Boots.
It was simply an earth-shattering change.
Not only was his Speed faster, but his movements became even more unpredictable, just as he’d hoped. He now produced three additional shadows, bringing the total to seven.
Once he started moving, the seven figures flickered in and out of view, making it even harder for people to distinguish the real one.
Mastering this Body Technique to one hundred percent had increased Tang Yi’s strength by more than several times!
Next, Tang Yi began to increase the Skill Level of Mountain Collapse...
「Another three days passed...」
He rested when he was tired and resumed killing monsters as soon as he recovered. After using Mountain Collapse hundreds of times, its Skill Level finally reached one hundred percent. Just as he’d anticipated, its power increased significantly, and it gained more variations, allowing Tang Yi to wield it with greater skill and subtlety.
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