I add points to Indian martial arts.

After Suleisa left, Levi sat cross-legged in a meditative posture, then took out the two Stones of Faith from his pocket. The Stones of Faith were pure white, regular-shaped stones.

Look closely, and you'll see white specks of light flowing within the stone—that's the power of faith.

Li Wei gripped the Stone of Faith tightly, then silently chanted "Naga" in his heart.

Slowly, the stone began to heat up. Li Wei knew that the sacrificial ceremony had officially begun.

He took a deep breath and began to follow the ritual he remembered.

Step 1: Purification.

Livi untied the sacred thread from his chest, wrapped it three times around his left wrist, and then took a small copper pot from beside his bed. Wealthy Vaishya families would keep a copper pot for water in their houses. Livi poured clean water into his right palm, gently rubbed his forehead three times, and then poured the remaining water from his fingertips, running it over his forehead, eyes, and chest. This was a simple Achaman ritual to purify himself.

As he performed the ritual, Li Wei felt the Stone of Faith in his hand growing hotter and hotter. In the darkness, he even heard the hissing of thousands of giant snakes and vaguely saw a pair of emerald green snake eyes staring at him majestically.

The next step is the most important one.

They used the bloodline of the ancient Ta family to summon the Naga gods in the darkness.

This is why Ragu wanted to marry his daughter to Li Wei. Without the bloodline of the Naguta family, even if you perform all the rituals correctly, you will not receive a response from the Naga gods.

Li Wei bit his tongue, drawing blood, and smeared it onto the Faith Stone. He held the stone in both hands, placed it on his forehead, closed his eyes, and began to chant in a low, intermittent voice—not standard Sanskrit, but an older, more difficult dialect incantation from a fragment of the Nagachara, a secret text passed down through his original family:

"Om... Naga... Raja... Sapati..."

(Homage to...the Serpent King...the Ruler...)

You dwell underground, you communicate with the netherworld, you wield treasures and the power of transformation…

This stone embodies the thoughts of believers and is imbued with the power of their vows… Now, with its pure form, I offer it to your mouth…

Grant me your gaze, that my eyes may dispel illusion; grant me your shed skin, that my skin may ward off evil; grant me your entanglement, that my strength may bind my enemies…

By the bloodline of the descendants of that ancient takula… Om… Naga… Hi… Hi… Svaha!

The instant the incantation ended, Li Wei felt everything go dark, the room seemed even quieter, and even the chirping of insects outside disappeared.

The faith stones in his hand began to emit a faint light, and the white light spot on one of the faith stones disappeared instantly.

"laugh--!"

Suddenly, a sharp hiss of a snake exploded in Li Wei's mind, and a strange power, both icy cold and scorching hot, surged into his body through his fingertips and arms! It was not warm light, but a writhing energy like a living thing, like countless tiny snakes burrowing into his blood vessels, muscles, and bone marrow.

This immense power is strengthening his body.

"Ugh—!" Li Wei groaned, his whole body trembling violently, almost curling up.

In his excruciating pain, he "saw" a hallucination:

A bottomless underground river, where countless enormous snake shadows slithered in the darkness… Cold, vertical snake eyes opened in the shadows, staring at him… The rustling sound of snake scales scraping against the rocks seemed to be right beside his ears…

The pain lasted for about ten heartbeats.

His skin was visibly reddening repeatedly, as if it were being pounded by some force.

Three seconds later, Li Wei, panting, slowly opened his eyes.

"Is this the Great Power Cultivation? Why does it feel like I'm training my skin?" Li Wei touched his skin and felt it hardening a bit. He looked at his chest and saw that the single-headed Naga's body had grown a little longer.

Strangely enough, he felt that the process of Weili strengthening himself was very similar to the forging of the outer skin in martial arts.

"But it's too short, only three seconds? But you know what, it feels really good to become stronger..." Li Wei stood up, and for some reason, he felt that his strength had increased a bit.

Of course, the increase was not significant, and there was no physical enlargement like in the movie "Rolling Away". After all, the faith land he collected was only one village with a pitifully small population. In addition, his sacrificial deity was a Naga, which meant that the quality and quantity of the power he obtained would not be very high.

"There's still one Faith Stone left. After I use it up, I won't be able to sacrifice myself to strengthen myself for at least a month." Li Wei frowned, looking at the remaining Faith Stone in his hand. According to the original owner's memories, collecting faith was like harvesting leeks. You harvest one crop and then have to wait for the leeks to grow back. The original owner had already collected one round of faith in Tuka Village. If he wanted to collect more faith, he would have to wait a month for the leeks to grow up.

Of course, there is another way to gain the power of faith: to wage war and seize new villages and territories.

Thinking of this, Li Wei frowned even more deeply. In his memory, several surrounding villages had been occupied by a young man from the Vaishya caste.

This young man from the Vaishya caste is named Ganka. Although he cannot communicate with the gods to gain great power, he seems to have gone further down the path of the Vampire than the original owner.

There are two methods of cultivation in this world. One is that Brahmins and some Kshatriyas communicate with the gods to obtain great power to strengthen themselves.

Another method is asceticism. Vaishyas, some Shudras, and some people of lower castes apply a special medicinal bath formula to themselves from a young age, and then hone their skin and increase their strength through a lot of arduous combat training every day.

This process of increasing power is painful and difficult, and it has an upper limit; one can't go any further once one reaches the Brahma bone.

In his memory, the original owner was very wary of the Vaishya youth named Ganka, and deliberately avoided Ganka's core territory, finding Tuka Village to build a temple.

Thinking about this, Li Wei felt a little ashamed. How exactly did the original owner of this body manage to survive?

Having such a noble bloodline as that ancient tower, yet ending up in this state, hiding from a Vaishya youth to build his territory.

Even Ganka couldn't communicate with the gods, yet he still went much further down the path of Vaticanism.

All I can say is that the original owner's talent was indeed quite poor.

"So how exactly are people with good talent categorized? Why was the original owner of this body so lacking in talent?" Li Wei rubbed his chin, suddenly thinking of this question.

In this world, is there a talent classification similar to that in the cultivation world, such as low-grade spiritual roots and mid-grade spiritual roots?

Li Wei searched his memory and found that he did indeed have it.

Brahmins obtain power by communicating with the gods, and a key element of this is the sacrifice of the power of faith.

This is the part that highlights the difference in talent between people.

In the process of conveying the power of faith to the gods, it must first pass through the human body as a vessel. For those with good talent, the faith conveyed to the gods through the body will be completely preserved. Such faith power will be very appealing and will attract powerful gods.

People with poor talent will have less or even more impure faith power passing through their body, thus attracting fewer deities.

Some Brahmin descendants were even unable to attract the gods because their physical bodies were too weak, and their faith power had become turbid and foul, so no gods came to consume them.

That is to say, the original body was of the bloodline of the ancient pagoda family, otherwise Li Wei would doubt that his own talent should belong to the kind of vessel that can make faith rot.

The Naguta family is also known as the Astan family among Brahmins. In Sanskrit, it means "the family where the sun never sets," or in layman's terms, "the family where the sun never sets." Among Brahmins, only a very few families have ever received the title of Astan.

The Brahmin families that receive the title of Ashtan are the most elite Brahmin clans, claiming that their bloodline will never be lost. This means that even if their descendants are not very talented, they can still communicate with the gods. On the other hand, some weaker Brahmin families or some kings of states, if their descendants are not very talented, will be unable to communicate with the gods.

Li Wei strongly suspected that if he were of a lower Brahmin lineage, he might be directly abandoned by the gods.

"Holy crap, could that Naga god be holding his nose and eating the faith power I offered up? No wonder his snake eyes were glaring at me with a hint of disgust." Li Wei suddenly remembered the image of those cold snake eyes he had seen when he offered up his faith power.

Perhaps that Naga god, out of respect for the ancient tower's bloodline, consumed my faith power; otherwise, it would have ignored me long ago.

Shaking his head, Li Wei turned his gaze to the last Faith Stone in his hand.

Let's not think about anything else for now. Let's sacrifice the power of faith in this stone. Every little bit helps if we can become a little stronger.

However, just as Li Wei was about to sacrifice the last stone of faith in his hand according to the ritual, he suddenly froze, because a light blue panel appeared in front of him.

The light blue panel has two energy bars at the top: a white empty energy bar and a blue empty energy bar below it.

The blue empty energy bar says "(lv1) can be upgraded".

[Name: Li Wei. Naguta]

[Bloodline: Giant Serpent]

[Sacrificial Spirit: Naga (Points can be allocated)]

[Ritual: Fragments of the Nagachara]

[Supernatural Powers: None]

[Martial Arts Skill: Naga Eight Steps (Beginner)]

[Current Faith Points: 0]

[The presence of Faith Power has been detected. Do you wish to extract and evolve it into Faith Points?]

"This is..." Li Wei's heart began to pound. His phone had been hung up!

In his past life, as a bookworm, he naturally knew about classic cheat codes like adding points.

I never thought I could add points even after traveling to ancient India, but it's okay, everything can be added points.

"You can extract faith power and evolve it into faith points." Li Wei looked at this sentence and vaguely guessed the function of this panel, but he was not sure. He had to try it.

"Extract as Faith Points." Li Wei communicated with the panel with his mind, and a moment later, something miraculous happened. The Faith Stone in his hand began to heat up, just like when he worshipped the Naga god earlier, except this time it was his panel that was collecting Faith Power.

Soon, the white light spot on the Faith Stone in Li Wei's hand disappeared, and at that very moment, Li Wei saw the white energy bar on the panel instantly fill up.

[Faith Points +1]

[Current Faith Points: 1]

Li Bai looked at the panel again, and it showed that the only line where points could be added was the line for worshipping gods.

[Sacrificial Spirit: Naga (Points can be allocated)]

"It should probably be a sacrifice of credits to the Naga?" Levi guessed, then confirmed the credit allocation.

A moment later, a white dot appeared on the panel. This dot seemed to be the power of faith from Tuka Village, only purer.

In a mysterious way, Li Wei saw the portrait he had seen when he offered sacrifices to the gods.

A giant snake was watching him from some unknown place, but its once cold snake eyes had turned into joy.

It seems that the faith points Li Wei sent this time are especially delicious.

However, just as the single-headed Naga was about to consume the white faith point...

Suddenly, a majestic roar came from afar, and a larger serpent with black and gold scales rushed over, and it had three heads.

It knocked the single-headed Naga away with its tail, then devoured a white faith point from Li Wei's sacrifice.

Three-headed Naga!

Livi's sacrifice was met with a response from the three-headed Naga!