Female Novel
Chapter 128
Gravis never found out that Heaven nearly got him. Ironically enough, his personal need to come clean with the Lightning Guildhad saved his life. So, Gravis simply continued his life in the Heaven Sect.
When he returned to the Heaven Sect, he immediately asked to look at the exchange list. Doing missions granted anexchangeable currency inside the Heaven Sect, the same as every other sect or guild. Did the whole south-eastern branch of theHeaven Sect only have this one saber and the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique? Of course not! They had a lot of wealthand offered a plethora of different things for exchange.
The Heaven Sect obviously didn't accept regular currency in exchange for their resources. Their storage was already full of goldand Energy Stones. Why would they need more of that? People needed to exchange Mission Points for treasures. Every singlemission granted a specific number of Mission Points, and Gravis had just finished four missions at once.
On top of that, due to the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique, Gravis' Energy had increased by a total of 30%. Two of thecriminals had been on the same level as Gravis, so they each gave Gravis a total of 10% of his currently required Energy to getto the next level. The other two only gave him 5% each. After adding those 10% to the other 20%, Gravis' Energy requirementsto get to the next level of Energy Gathering were reduced by 30%.
If Gravis only cultivated via meditation inside the Heaven Sect, he would need two months to reach the fifth level of EnergyGathering. Yet, because of the 30% of Energy and the week of "relaxation", he would only need to meditate for one month to getto the next level. Of course, he would rather not train in seclusion since that would not increase his battle experience or will.
So, Gravis looked at the exchange table. The Heaven Sect was oozing with treasure, so there had to be something interesting inthere. Gravis saw that he could exchange his mission points into Energy Stones. The reward for the execution missionsdepended on the strength of the target. Executing someone on the second level of Energy Gathering gave the executioner 100points, and they doubled with each increase in level of the target.
Gravis had a total of 1,200 points right now, and the exchange rate of Mission Points to Energy Stones was 25 to 1. If Gravisused all of his Mission Points to exchange for Energy Stones, he would get 48 Energy Stones. That would equate to 75% of therequired Energy to reach level five of Energy Gathering. With those stones, Gravis would have no issue in reaching the fifth levelof Energy Gathering in a single day.
Yet, before Gravis decided to get the stones, he looked through the other treasures. Gravis could see a lot of weapons and evenarmor sets. He had not seen good armor sets yet in this lower world, but they were bound to exist. Armor sets were a logicalcounter to weapons, after all. Of course, due to the higher requirement for materials, armor sets were more expensive thanweapons.
Gravis could only afford a single armor set from the list right now, but this single armor set was already pretty incredible. It hadthe ability to nullify any element at the fifth rank or lower. Since most people almost always concentrated on one element, theirelemental resistance for other elements was basically zero. A fire disciple at the second level could heavily injure Gravis if theyhit him with one of their fire-based attacks, even though Gravis was at the fourth level.
Gravis thought about the armor set for a while. In a one-on-one fight, this armor set would be useless because only regularopponents at the seventh level or outstanding opponents at the sixth level were his match. The armor set wouldn't help much inthat case.
Yet, it was incredibly useful for group fights. Gravis thought back to the battle on the tree. Resisting the lightning hadn't been anissue for Gravis, but he had to resort to guerilla tactics to fight the Fire Guild. If he had had that armor set in the battle, he couldsimply charge into the Fire Guild. The fireballs would've been useless on him.
Gravis preferred the armor set over the Energy Stones. In his mind, increasing one's strength was not a problem. He just had tokill more people or beasts. Yet, increasing one's defense was nearly impossible. He could always advance his Realm, but hecouldn't always increase his defense.
Gravis resisted his greed for the armor set and continued looking through the exchange list. Gravis also found multiple FormationArrays, and he also saw a familiar one. The Formation Array that had the ability to contain experts at the peak of EnergyGathering was also exchangeable. When Gravis saw the price, he inhaled deeply.
5,000 Mission Points!
That equated to killing a person at the eighth level of Energy Gathering! No wonder the Lightning Guild had only given one ofthose to their division in Earth Town. Gravis also saw other Formation Arrays. Most of them were different kinds of attacks ofvarying strength. One would only need to crush the jade token, and an attack would shoot forward.
Those Formation Arrays cost half of the reward that an execution of someone of the corresponding level would bring. Forexample: Executing someone at the eighth level of Energy Gathering would grant the executioner 6,400 Mission Points. AFormation Array with a full-power attack of someone at the eighth level would then cost 3,200 Mission Points.
Gravis guessed that he would probably need two such Formation Arrays to kill someone at the eighth level of Energy Gathering.The first attack would be to exhaust the Energy and to weaken the person, while the second attack would end the fight. Like that,the reward would be equal to the cost.
Could someone abuse this to gain Energy with the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique? Sadly not. The technique workedby disrupting the balance in the target's Energy center. The technique was infused into the user's attacks, and if someone died tosomething else, they wouldn't get marked by the technique. Thus, no Energy would be released into the surroundings.
Gravis also found some pills that increased a specific aspect of a body permanently. If Gravis took those pills, he might regainthe advantage of his body. As his Realm increased, his body would grow more useless. At the third level, his body alone allowedhim to fight someone one Realm higher. At the fourth level, his body only made him incredibly strong on the same level. At thefifth level, the power of his body would be barely noticeable.
As Gravis continued browsing through the exchange list, he saw more and more things that he wanted to buy. After severalminutes, Gravis arrived at the technique section. He saw several books describing different uses of different elements and alsosome Martial Arts created for Energy Gathering experts. Sadly, those techniques were very underdeveloped and didn't make useof the Energy very well.
Yet, when Gravis saw one of the techniques, he stopped and looked at it more closely. The technique was also inside his budget.
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Gravis read the description and understood what the technique was about and why it had this weird name. The techniqueallowed someone to push their Energy into their mind.
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This technique used the will of theperson to condense the Energy intheir mind. Sadly, the Energycondensation properties onlyvbtkedinside the raina Se the user. AS soonas the condensed Energy left theuser's mind, it would go back to itsusual density. It was impossible toexploit the technique to create anattack stronger than the Realm of theuser. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
With the ability to condense Energy, people could attack the Spirit Forming Realm earlier than usual. The prerequisite was thatthe will had to be strong enough to support such density. This was no issue for Gravis.
Why was this technique so cheap? Itwas because there was no sense inhaving this technique. If someonecondensed their Spigt theicenetgyVortex Wott grow stable, and theirEnergy wouldn't be able to furthercondense anymore. Their foundationwould become unstable, and theywould be the weakest Spirit Formingexpert that had ever existed. Whatwas the point of that? The content ison NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Yet, when Gravis had seen the technique, a reckless but brilliant plan formed in his mind.
‘This could save my life in the future,’ he thought.