The Programmer Cultivator

Chapter 441: Chapter 75: An Accident During the Technique Test (Part 2)

’This Elder has truly opened this disciple’s eyes!’

’The Elder is truly a master!’

As Zhang Deming deliberately let these thoughts surface and radiate outwards, the hastily departing figure stiffened slightly before vanishing from his sight.

Zhang Deming shook his head and went back to "shopping," browsing until he had finished with the Tier Three Technique area. Then, he glanced up at the fourth floor above.

After a moment of hesitation, he decided not to go up. ’I’ve already attracted one lazy old monster. I should call it a day.’

Besides, there weren’t many Techniques in the Law Level area, and not many people studied them. The "wool" to be fleeced probably wasn’t that thick anyway, so waiting wouldn’t hurt.

Zhang Deming checked his inventory. Merit: 32.8, Qi Fortune: 224.2, Karma: 1.4.

Three floors had yielded him seven points of Merit and seven points of Qi Fortune. It was a bountiful harvest.

Looking at such a rich haul, Zhang Deming really felt like touring the Scripture Pavilions of all fifteen peaks of the Inner Sect.

"No rush. There’ll be opportunities in the future!"

Zhang Deming reassured himself and returned to the second floor, to the bloodline transformation section.

In truth, most Bloodline Transformation Techniques were quite similar. The only real differences lay in the Bloodline Runes and bloodline materials used.

As for the resulting abilities, they were largely determined not by the Technique itself, but by the bloodline used when condensing the Magic Rune.

Consequently, there weren’t many developed variations of Bloodline Transformation Techniques. What was abundant were records of personal experiences. Unlike other Techniques, this section was filled with such insights.

For example, if a Technique like *Powerful Ape Transformation* were from another category, there would be all sorts of different versions with various discrepancies.

But here, there was only one copy of *Powerful Ape Transformation*, surrounded by the experiential notes of various masters.

They detailed things like which bloodlines would produce which abilities, and in what directions they could be further developed.

This was why the bloodline transformation series was considered the most flexible of all paths.

Zhang Deming didn’t bother with the notes, directly picking up *Powerful Ape Transformation* and *Dragon and Snake Transformation*.

These were two of the most common and fundamental Tier Two Foundation Establishment Techniques within the bloodline transformation series.

Holding the two Techniques, Zhang Deming didn’t linger. He went straight back to the first floor, found Yang Guangfu, and the two of them went to the counter together.

"Sixty Contribution," the Guardian Tower at the counter said concisely.

Zhang Deming now had over five thousand Contribution points, so this amount was nothing to him.

After paying by swiping his card, two new, hardcover books dropped out a moment later.

The two chatted idly on their way back to the Flying Spring Waterfall Tower. After bidding each other farewell, Zhang Deming returned to his Cultivation Room.

...

After returning to his Cultivation Room, Zhang Deming took out the two Techniques again. This was his first time cultivating a Bloodline Transformation Technique.

He had rarely paid attention to Transformation Techniques before. Well, with one exception: the quintessential Technique of the Earth Evil Seventy-Two Techniques—the Earth Evil Seventy-Two Transformation.

He had carefully looked over the information on that particular skill. Unfortunately, unlike an abolished Earth Evil Technique such as the Summoning God Skill, this one was different.

The Earth Evil Seventy-Two Transformation was one of the top-ranking Techniques among the Earth Evil Seventy-Two Techniques. It was the kind of thing anyone would hoard and keep tightly under wraps.

Even with its ridiculously demanding prerequisites for cultivation, its status as the undisputed trump card in the Bloodline Transformation Path could not be denied.

After letting his mind wander for a moment, Zhang Deming picked up the Techniques and began editing.

"Ordinary Energy: 2. Small plug-in editable.

Editing conditions met!

..."

A moment later, Zhang Deming had spent four points of Qi Fortune to finish editing both Techniques. He hesitated for a second but didn’t equip them.

He was currently saving up Merit to unlock a new function. For these two Techniques, he only needed to make Tier Two Spirit Nurturing Beads for now. Even if he wanted to make Tier Three ones, the Scripture Pavilion had the corresponding Techniques.

Therefore, there was no need to equip them just for the sake of leveling them up. As for not being able to perform No Seal Spellcasting without equipping them?

He didn’t plan on using these skills frequently anyway. Besides, with his Word Spirit Technique, he could bypass the hand seals simply by shouting the name.

Once the editing was complete, Zhang Deming went to the Magic Room. His lips parted as he uttered, "Powerful Ape Transformation."

Instantly, Zhang Deming felt a wild surge of power course through his body. A moment later, he had turned into an ape.

But this ape... why was it just an ordinary ape?

Zhang Deming’s ape face frowned. He spoke again, "Dragon and Snake Transformation."

In an instant, Zhang Deming’s body suddenly went limp and collapsed, twisting until it reformed into a ten-meter-long dragon python. Well, more like a constrictor snake.

Because, just like the ape before, both the ape and the python that Zhang Deming transformed into were ordinary animals, without the slightest aura of a Demon Beast or Spirit Beast.

’So for these Bloodline skills, if you don’t add any bloodline materials and just rely on editing to forcefully condense the Rune, you can only turn into an ordinary animal?’

Zhang Deming raised his serpentine body, his snake eyes glinting as he thought, his forked tongue flicking out.

As he observed with his Heart Spirit, Zhang Deming looked at the two Bloodline Runes and was slightly taken aback.

In his Dantian were two Bloodline Runes, one snake-shaped and one ape-shaped. What caught Zhang Deming’s attention was that these two Runes, perhaps because they had no bloodline material integrated into them, had inexplicably reached the Mastery Level, condensing into clear Runes.

This bizarre and seemingly impossible situation had given the two Runes extreme plasticity.

The Runes that were supposed to absorb and fuse with bloodline power had now reached Mastery in a pure state. Having become the purest of Runes, they seemed to be compatible with any kind of power.

As this conjecture emerged, with a thought from Zhang Deming, the snake Rune from the Dragon Python Transformation immediately entangled itself with the Rune from his Flying Technique, wrapping its serpentine form around it.