Infinite Awakening: My Exp Doubles Everyday novel Chapter 77

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Chapter 77: Secondary Professions

Xiang Yu sat in a meditative posture, his expression troubled as he struggled to circulate the violent energy flowing through his meridians. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead. Though clearly encountering difficulty, he still persisted with determination, refusing to give up despite the obvious strain.

The minutes stretched into hours as he maintained his focus, guiding the rebellious energy through his qi pathways.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity of internal struggle, Xiang Yu’s tense muscles began to relax. His furrowed brow smoothed gradually, and his clenched jaw loosened. With a deep exhale, he released a significant amount of remnant qi that spread throughout the room in a colorful mist that dissipated shortly after.

As he opened his eyes, their usual sharpness dulled by fatigue, Xiang Yu frowned slightly. This wasn’t working as he had hoped. Although he could accelerate his cultivation with the help of spirit food, he felt certain there must be a more efficient approach. Just now, he had prepared a fourth-grade spirit meal with meticulous care, yet after consuming it, he had only managed to absorb a mere ten percent of its total medicinal properties.

It was the same frustrating pattern as before—when he had eaten fifth-grade food, he had only absorbed twenty percent of the benefits. Most of the precious energy was simply going to waste. The fundamental problem was clear: his medium-grade spiritual root simply couldn’t handle such concentrated power.

"If this continues," he thought, "if I ever manage to create first-grade spirit food, wouldn’t I be completely incapable of absorbing its benefits?" The thought was quite disheartening.

He had to find a way to overcome this limitation. The most obvious solution would be to upgrade his spiritual root, but Xiang Yu didn’t know of any reliable method to accomplish such a feat. Previously, he had theorized that consistently consuming high-level food might stimulate his spiritual root enough to trigger a slight advancement. Once even the smallest advancement occurred, his system could handle the rest and help him improve exponentially.

But now it seemed that not only was this approach failing to trigger any advancement, but he also suspected that his spiritual root might actually suffer damage if repeatedly overwhelmed by energy it couldn’t properly process. The delicate channels might become permanently blocked or distorted, setting back his cultivation permanently.

Xiang Yu stared at the floor, deep in contemplation. After several minutes of intense thought, his eyes suddenly brightened with inspiration. With swift movements, he reached toward his spatial ring.

From the spatial storage, he retrieved three items: a round pill that emitted a faint golden glow, and two paper talismans covered in intricate calligraphy.

"The path forward might lie in secondary professions," he mused, studying the pill carefully. "Mostly pill refining." He had kept the foundation-building pill because he had no use for it, at least not at the moment. But now, he saw a different purpose for the item.

He recalled how he had acquired the cooking profession. After cooking for a few days, the profession had suddenly appeared in his system, complete with levels and capabilities. Could the same principle apply to other professions? The possibility was tantalizing.

Xiang Yu decided to test his theory. He would study the pill’s composition carefully and attempt to replicate it, learning the fundamentals of pill refining in the process. Additionally, he found some blank papers and carefully cut them to match the shape of the talismans he possessed. He wouldn’t limit himself to pill refining alone—talisman drawing might prove equally valuable. _{free\we\bnov(e)(l).com}

Before embarking on this new path, however, Xiang Yu remembered another pressing matter. His Fire Palm technique had just broken through to the minor success realm the day before and still had zero experience points available to double. In order not to waste his system’s function, he realized he needed to advance this technique first.

He began practicing the palm technique. This time, he practiced just the fire palm technique, deliberately ignoring his other techniques, not wishing to waste precious time on skills that already had experience points to double.

He decided that from then on, he would only practice techniques when they had no experience points, otherwise, he’d just leave it to the system unless he really wanted a technique to reach mastery quickly. That approach would save time for learning professions and other valuable skills. With his current strength, techniques and scriptures might not increase his strength by much, he could only rely on secondary professions to boost his cultivation speed.

After just a few minutes of focused practice, Xiang Yu managed to gain two points of experience for his Fire Palm technique. The soft red glow on his palms dimmed slightly until it went off completely.