Text-based martial arts: A nighttime rendezvous with the gang leader's wife in a dilapidated te

[The same tingling and itching sensation, plus the scalding heat of just-boiled water!]

However, this time, the pain and numbness you experience are significantly less than before.

[You don't know if it's because you've fully adapted to the Shennong withered tree stump training, or because of the breakthrough you experienced with the Canglan Dinghai stump during the day, which had an impact on your body.]

However, you also sensed that the incredibly potent medicinal properties in the soup not only hadn't diminished or weakened in the slightest, but had even become more intense.

[Entering through every pore of your body, it reawakens your already well-tempered and powerful physique!]

[As you know, this is because the minor success of the Canglan Dinghai Stance has led to a qualitative improvement in the speed of cultivating all of your stance techniques.]

[As you also know, if you don't cultivate other stance training methods and only practice this Shennong Dry Wood Stance to reach the peak of Body Refinement, the 'rising tide lifts all boats' characteristic of the Canglan Dinghai Stance will greatly increase your speed!]

However, given this opportunity, wouldn't it be a pity not to try out the other stance training methods practiced by fellow practitioners?

After all, you have an advantage that others don't: you can accumulate potential points through numerous serendipitous encounters.

You also have disadvantages that others don't, and you need to do everything you can to bridge the gap between yourself and others!

And this time, you're ready to try out the problems you've been thinking about before.

[The Shennong withered tree stump's characteristic of forcing life from the brink of death has a chance to permanently increase attributes during cultivation. You don't know how this characteristic is activated.]

But you've also learned that when it comes to matters of probability, leave them to "fortune."

[So this time, you plan to only retain the 3 points of Root Bone needed for cultivation, and then move all the remaining attributes to Fortune.]

Suddenly, you felt the previously surging, intense heat and medicinal power within your body become extremely weak.

[Physical constitution is an important attribute for practicing stance training and speed in most martial arts.]

The loss of your inherent strength will naturally slow down your stance training, but you don't care; you are fully focused on perceiving it.

However, even as the medicinal soup cooled slightly, you still didn't feel the same improvement as before.

[It seems that perhaps it's not related to good fortune?]

You pondered this to yourself, but weren't in a hurry, because you still had your trump card to play.

【Give me some more points!】

[System Prompt: Consume Potential Points to increase the experience of "Shennong's Deadwood Stump"? At the current level, 20 Potential Points increase the learning progress by 1%.]

[System Notification: The "Rising Tide" trait of the Canglan Dinghai Stake has been activated, reducing the potential point consumption for stance training by 20%. At the current level, 16 potential points will increase the training progress by 1%.]

Please select the value to increase.

[You have consumed another 400 potential points to train the Shennong Drywood Stake to level 1, 100%.]

[Current Realm: Body Refinement Level 1, Flesh Refining Realm 100% (Pending Breakthrough)!]

[Your tonic soup has been fully absorbed...]

[Remaining potential points: 2784 points.]

[System Notification: You have entered the Perfect Realm state. You can enter the breakthrough state at any time. The breakthrough determination is based on the martial arts type and your own comprehension and innate talent. If your attributes are too low, there is a chance of failure!]

"call……"

Chen Xuan let out a breath, his eyebrows slightly raised. This improvement confirmed three things.

First, the amount of innate talent does affect the speed of martial arts training, but it does not affect the consumption of potential points.

Secondly, it seems that good fortune cannot affect the probability of increasing the "life-or-death" trait. However, this is questionable. Chen Xuan does not know if it is because he has already increased it once in the previous upgrade, so it has not been triggered.

However, this is the problem with the Shennong withered tree stump. More details cannot be obtained through the current subtitle feedback. Only by entering the dream, fully immersing oneself in the memory, and obtaining this memory can a more specific analysis be conducted.

Thirdly, he lost out. According to his calculations, if he continued to upgrade the Canglan Dinghai Stake in the future, the potential points consumed might decrease again, so using it now was a bit hasty.

However, the third point doesn't matter. Potential points are something you can earn and then spend. Unlike other players on the forum, he can't gain potential points by exploring countless adventures, and he doesn't need to travel far and wide to find and fight bandits and outlaws to gain potential points.

It can accelerate one's own strength improvement, save time costs, and the early consumption of potential points is nothing.

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan let out a breath and looked at himself in the game, mainly at the status that had appeared on his screen:

[Breakthrough needed: The bottleneck of the first level of body refinement, the "Flesh Refining Realm", which was achieved through the Earth-level stance training "Shennong Dry Wood Stance"? To break through the bottleneck, one needs to soak in the "Strengthening the Foundation and Nourishing the Origin Soup". At the same time, when one's root bone is ≥4 and comprehension is ≥4, the probability of breaking through is 100%.]

Each time your aptitude and comprehension attributes decrease by 1 point, the breakthrough probability decreases by 10%. After a failed breakthrough, you must wait 3 days before trying again.

Is this the bottleneck?

Chen Xuan had seen it on the forum before; apparently, many players were stuck on this probability issue, and after failing once, they would cry and wail on the forum.

Unfortunately, this was nothing to Chen Xuan!

Without hesitation, you decisively allocated your Fortune attribute points to Constitution and Comprehension. Comprehension: 6 points; Constitution: 5 points.

The tonic soup you had prepared long ago was reheated by you, and then, as night fell, you soaked in it once more.

You have entered a breakthrough state!

[You felt it; at this moment, your body seemed to no longer belong to you at all! The contents of the Shennong withered tree stump flowed through your heart once more!]

Seeking life amidst death, forcing life from the brink of annihilation! Like withered trees sprouting new branches, dead trees bursting forth with new life!

You felt it; an indescribable, excruciating pain shot through your pores, and drops of foul blood were squeezed out.

[Those were flesh and blood that had completely died under the stimulation of the drug; the power of this flesh and blood had reached its limit!]

An indescribable weakness replaced all your senses.

You might even think that your breakthrough has failed.

However, you did not give up. You maintained the stance of the Shennong withered tree stump, like an old tree that had truly become completely stiff and dead.

Your physical strength is being depleted, your energy and blood are decreasing, and you may even feel that your vision is becoming blurry.

You can't even tell if what's in front of you is your own Venus or a star in the sky.

Just when you felt you were about to give up, suddenly, you felt the changes within your body accelerate.

As the medicine's effects rolled in, your body, in turn, assumed a completely new posture.

At this moment, you feel an indescribable surge of strength erupt from your exhausted body.

At this moment, you blossom like a winter plum, an old tree bursting into bloom. Within that withered body, a new life force seems to burst forth.

At this moment, your entire being burst forth with an indescribable vitality and energy.

[Unbeknownst to us, the medicinal bath water in the tub had been completely consumed.]

At this moment, a series of crisp, crackling sounds erupted from your entire body.

You feel that your body has never been so strong and robust before!

[Your constitution, agility, and strength +1!]

[Shennong's withered tree stump has completed its breakthrough, current level: Level 2, 0%!]

[You have successfully broken through to the next realm. Current realm: Body Refinement Level 2, Tendon Refinement Realm 0%]