Under his careful thinking, Leo felt the first reward was the right decision and chose it.
[The ascender chose the first reward]
[His talent [Fundamental Merge] is to have two additional uses per day]
Soon, Heaven's Voice sent the announcements and at the same time, a bright light fell on his body as changes happened in his super special talent.
'With two more additional uses, I can merge more things.'
Leo smiled as his gaze landed on the Spirit Stone in his hands.
[Quasi-Divine Knowledge]
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Item Name: Spirit Stone (Mid-level).
Effect: 1) Contains 100 times more Moon Energy compared to a low-level spirit stone.
2) A useful cultivation resource for breaking through the minor realm below the Golden Core Realm.
Note: Since this is a cultivation world that uses the moon energy for their cultivation, the spirit stones in this world contain Moon Energy.
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With a thought, the information on the mid-level spirit stone appeared in Leo's head, making him pleasantly surprised.
As far as the knowledge he gained from the memories of his predecessor, a mid-level Spirit Stone only has one effect and it has 100 times more Moon Energy compared to a low-level spirit stone.
However, there was an additional effect, making Leo pleasantly surprised and at the same, he was excited about it.
'Even though I can't use it for myself, I can give them to one of the three elders of the sect to break through in their cultivation.'
Leo didn't think it was a better idea to sell the mid-level spirit stone to the outside world yet because if the other two sects find out about it, they won't hold back anymore.
Therefore, Leo planned to use these resources to increase the strength of the existing members of the sect before selling these resources to the outside world.
'I hope the three elders can improve their strength by two or three minor levels within a month.'
According to Leo's estimation, as long as he gave these special mid-level spirit stones to them, they could easily break through two minor levels because they have all stagnated at their current states due to the lack of resources.
Of course, they could have just left the Twilight Moon Sect and joined the other sects for better treatment with their cultivation; however, they chose to stay with Leo because not only they were saved by Leo but they broke through to Foundation Establishment Realm thanks to him.
Therefore, they were working hard and accepted some dangerous missions from the city hall to earn some cultivation resources for the sect.
Without their help, the Twilight Moon Sect would have fallen at least a year ago.
Since they were putting their lives at risk and showed enough loyalty, Leo didn't mind spending some cultivation resources to strengthen them.
'If they become strong, the sect becomes stronger and I will have the chance of becoming the strongest.'
Leo quickly put away the mid-level spirit stone and next, he took out a pill bottle filled with Qi Refinement Pills.
Each pill bottle will have 10 pills in it. Hence, Leo didn't have to count and started the merging.
[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 90 percent.
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Of course, he didn't forget to use his [Quasi Divine Talent] to check the success rate.
However, instead of 100 percent, it showed 90 percent, making Leo frown.
'Why is it only 90 percent? Is it because these Qi-refinement pills are mid-level?'
That was the only reason that Leo could think of and hurriedly kept those pills back in the pill bottle and took out the next pill bottle.
Without taking the pills out of the pill bottle, Leo used his talent to check the success rate.
[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 95 percent.
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'95 percent? Should I change the places and check whether it would affect the success rate?'
This time, instead of changing the pills, Leo changed the places to see the changes in the success rate.
[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 92 percent.
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'It works.'
Even though the success rate decreased, Leo was not disappointed; instead, he became excited because he could just keep changing places until he found a place where he could have a 100 percent success rate.
[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 96 percent.
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[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 85 percent.
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[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 95 percent.
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[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 100 percent.
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Leo kept changing places as the success rate varied. The lowest he got was 85 and there was even a time when he got a 99 percent success rate.
However, Leo didn't want to risk it because he knew this world is mainly focused on failing him and it might be considered that he would have a lot of bad luck.
Moreover, he was spending almost negligible mind power on using the [Quasi Divine Knowledge] because he was a foundational establishment cultivation with a good mind power.
Finally, Leo stopped changing his place when he found a place where his merging would be 100 percent successful.
[Fundament Merge]
Without any hesitation, Leo merged 10 mid-level Qi Refinement Pills and a mysterious energy came out of his body that slowly merged those pills into a single pill inside the pill bottle.
However, unlike before, there were no announcements from [Heaven's Voice] and Leo had already expected it.
Anyway, without wasting any time, Leo checked the information on the pill he just merged.
[Quasi Divine Knowledge]
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Pill Name: Qi-refinement Pill (High-level).
Effect: 1) Increase the cultivation speed of Qi-refinement cultivators by 10 times for 10 minutes.
Special Effect: When this pill is taken for the first time, a Qi-refinement cultivator can instantly break through one level.
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'A special effect? One level breakthrough instantly?'
As far as Leo knew, there was no such special effect of the high-level Qi-refinement pills; however, it appeared in the pill he merged from the mid-level Qi-refinement pills.
Moreover, it could instantly help the Qi-refinement cultivators by one level.
If a level 8 Qi-refinement cultivator eats the pill, he could directly become a level 9 Qi-refinement cultivator saving him at least one year if he was an average cultivator.
'Also, the 10x boost in the cultivation speed is 10 minutes instead of five minutes.'
The effect of a high-level Qi-refinement Pill is a cultivation speed of 10x for 5 minutes; however, the pill he merged had a double time limit.
In short, just like the mid-level Spirit Stone, this high-level Qi-refinement Pill was also special.
'Interesting…interesting…the things in this world have started to become interesting and I am becoming more hopeful that I can complete the [Ascending Mission].'
Just after using the [Fundamental Merge] on two lowly items, Leo felt quite hopeful about completing the mission.
'I still have three more uses left. Which one should I merge now.'
Since he had already merged Spirit Stones and Qi-refinement Pills, he could not merge them and could only merge other items.
'Vitality Pills.'
Leo didn't have many options in his current state and he settled on another bunch of lowly items.
However, compared to the Qi-refinement pills, Vitality Pills are considered more valuable despite belonging to the same rank that is rank 1.
[Quasi Divine Merge]
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Success Rate: 100 percent.
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'What? 100 percent on the first try?'
Leo was pleasantly surprised to see the success rate which saved him the trouble of changing places to get the 100 percent success rate.
'I wonder what kind of special effect it will have.'
Since the two items he merged earlier were much better than the items available in this world, Leo became hopeful for the mid-level Vitality Pills.
[Fundamental Merge]
With a face full of expectations, he used his talent and soon, the process repeated and a single green-coloured pill appeared in the pill bottle.
[Quasi Divine Knowledge]
With a thought, Leo used his talent to get the information on the pill.
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Pill Name: Vitality Pill (High-level).
Effect: 1) It heals normal injuries in an instant.
2) It recovers 100 percent of energy and stamina for Qi-refinement and 25 percent for Foundation Establishment
3) It removes the rank 1 poison from the body of the consumer.
Special Effect: It can increase the lifespan of the consumer by one year.
Note: Special Effect is only useful for first-time consumption of the pill.
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'100 percent and 25 percent recovery for Qi-refinement cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators respectively?'
Normally, for a High-level Vitality Pill, it would only recover 50 percent and 10 percent of energy for Qi-refinement cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators respectively.
So, it made Leo clench his fist in excitement.
'There is even an additional effect of poison removal along with a special effect of increasing lifespan by one year…one year.'
Compared to the previous changes, the special effect made Leo excited because it could help him live for another year even if he didn't break through to the Golden Core Realm.
Since the pill came from merging, it was the first time this pill ever appeared in this world and hence, Leo knew he could use it without any problem to increase his lifespan by one year.
'Now, I have more time and at this pace, I can easily break through to the Golden Core in no time.'
The more Leo used the [Fundamental Merge], the more hopeful he was becoming towards the future.
'I have made the right choice in selecting the [Fundamental Merge] over the [Ball of the Divine Healing].'
Leo kept the pill aside and looked for the next items he needed to merge.
'Low-level talismans and low-level puppets and I can complete the daily quota for the [Fundamental Merge].'
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