45: Chapter 45 Cultivating Skills 45: Chapter 45 Cultivating Skills Editor: Henyee Translations Zhou Bi Suan Jing: One of the Ten Computational Canons.

Intelligence +1

It was a book that could increase intelligence!

Ye Weiming was originally saving money to go to a private school to read books to make up for the one missing intelligence point he needed for cultivating the “Hunyuan Gong”.

Today was indeed a good day; not only did he find the important mission dog, Ah Huang, he even saved a whopping 100 gold with Ah Huang’s help!

It really corroborated the saying: life is like a drama, all dependent on acting skills!

Speaking of which, the God Arrest House had strict regulations, they couldn’t oppress commoners with force or official positions.

Otherwise, dealing with the “Dog Karma” who was trying to charge high prices wouldn’t require such acting.

In his excitement, Ye Weiming subconsciously flipped open the book.

Ding!

Are you sure you want to use “Zhou Bi Suan Jing”?

When the system’s prompt sounded in his ears, Ye Weiming suddenly remembered what Ah Zhong had told him before.

“Big brother, using a Skill Book directly like you do is very wasteful.

If you could be patient and read every word and sentence carefully, not only will you learn the method to cook beggar’s chicken, you could also gain some bonus cooking proficiency.”

Perhaps he should try Ah Zhong’s method?

Hastily opting for ‘no’, Ye Weiming immediately closed the book and, together with Ah Huang, left the abandoned house.

Previously, taking care of Ah Huang’s matters had disturbed his lunchtime.

Now, his stomach was protesting again, and he had to get something to eat.

He didn’t dare to eat the grilled wolf meat that Ah Zhong had made to increase arm strength before.

However, in a large city like Luoyang, as long as you had money, there would be no problem buying something to eat.

He hadn’t walked far when he found a stand selling meat buns by the roadside.

Meat Buns: Buns made with fresh pork.

Satiety +20%, Physique +1 for an hour.

Though it was also food that could increase attributes, the craftsmanship clearly wasn’t on the same level as Ah Zhong’s.

Each meat bun was sold for 10 copper.

One batch of 10 was a single silver piece, quite a bargain.

Ye Weiming immediately bought two batches, ate one himself, and casually tossed one to Ah Huang.

Suddenly, he saw the kindly aunt selling the buns looking at him unpleasantly.

Right, eating their buns while standing at their stall and feeding them to a dog was indeed quite impolite.

What would the other customers who would like to buy buns think?

With an awkward smile, Ye Weiming immediately fled the area with Ah Huang.

Only after reaching a quiet corner nearby did he begin to eat the buns, feed Ah Huang, and take out the “Zhou Bi Suan Jing” to start reading it again, word by word, sentence by sentence.

Speaking of which, Ye Weiming was somewhat curious, what would a mathematics book written in Classical Chinese look like?

However, as it turned out, such a textbook-like thing didn’t have much readability.

After Ye Weiming finished the first page, his curiosity was satisfied, and he lost interest in the following content.

Considering Ah Zhong’s previous hint, still with the mentality of giving it a try, he patiently turned to the second page….

There wasn’t much content in the book, but Ye Weiming read it very slowly.

With the attitude of killing time, he finished the entire book word by word, taking a total of more than 40 minutes.

Ding!

You gained a lot after studying ‘Zhou Bi Suan Jing’ carefully.

You understood the cultivation skill “Deductive Reasoning”.

Intelligence +1!

With a sudden system prompt, ‘Zhou Bi Suan Jing’ in Ye Weiming’s hand immediately turned into a beam of white light and disappeared.

Hmm?

Additional gains!?

Wasn’t it just supposed to increase a bit of proficiency?

What was this sudden cultivation skill?

After playing the game for so long, Ye Weiming had already gained a certain understanding of it.

He also had a vague concept of cultivation skills.

Unlike abilities within the martial arts category like Inner Strength, Moves, Mental Methods, or the economically beneficial survival skills, cultivation skills occupied a more special place.

Such skills seem useless generally, but when it reaches a certain level, it drastically increases the favorability of certain NPCs and also enhances the amplification effect on certain specific martial arts skills.

For instance, the commonly seen Buddhist Law, Taoist Law, Literary Grace, all belong to cultivation skills.

Talking about this Deductive Reasoning skill, it was Ye Weiming’s first time to see it, and he wasn’t sure about its specific effects.

Opening the skill panel.

Deductive Reasoning

(Inference and deduction ability.)

Level: 1

Proficiency: 0/1000

All martial tech skill-based Attacks + 5%, Defense +5%, Accuracy +5%

Has a supporting effect on special skills

…

This skill seemed quite good, but what were the special skills mentioned in the introduction?

Ye Weiming guessed that it most likely referred to special skills related to deductions such as traps or Five Elements Numerology.

However, he still held a glimmer of hope and began browsing through his skill list.

The introduction of his Inner Strength skill didn’t have any changes, the two Swordsmanship skills remained the same, Qinggong was also unchanged, Mental Methods…

wait!

Daizong Ruhuo (Unique Skill)

The ultimate mental method of Mount Tai Sect, relies on powerful computing skill to anticipate the enemy’s attacks and defeat them in one move!

Level: 2

Proficiency: 1211/2000

Attack Damage +20%, Accuracy +20%, Critical Damage +20%.

You can activate its active effect during battle to deduce enemy’s weaknesses and strike to defeat the enemy!

(Affected by “Deduction” skill, the difficulty of calculation when activating the mental method decreases by 5%.).

How does this decrease in calculation difficulty work?

Does it decrease the digits in the equations or does the number of mathematics problems decrease?

It seemed difficult to tell, because from his previous tests, Ye Weiming found out that when the active effect of “Daizong Ruhuo” was activated, the math problems given by the system, whether in terms of difficulty or number, were not fixed.

The situation while dealing with Xie Xun and the West Lake Water Bandits was entirely different.

Which meant that even if he wanted to test what this 5% of computation difficulty was right now, he couldn’t make a comparison.

Regardless, attribute bonuses to all martial tech skills provided by the Deductive Reasoning skill were pretty good, and Ye Weiming was pretty satisfied.

Now that he had gathered the necessary 30 Intelligence points, the gap to “Hunyuan Gong” was just 5 Aptitude points and the level of “Tuna Method”.

Everything was progressing in a positive direction.

Indeed, the effects of thoroughly studying and directly consuming the same Secret Book were entirely different….

Hold on!

If from a single “Zhou Bi Suan Jing”, he could gain a skill as practical as “Deductive Reasoning”, then what about the other Secret Books he had consumed before – Beggar’s Chicken, Dancing Dragon Leading the Phoenix, various Secret Method Books, Daizong Ruhuo, and “Xiyuan Jilu”!

Oh my god!

Just what opportunities had he missed out on!

For some reason, Ye Weiming felt an unprecedented heartache, and just as he was feeling pained, a man who brought him even more heartache appeared before him!

A man in a coarse cloth robe, square-faced, radiating an earthy aura from every part of his body, appeared before Ye Weiming.

It was none other than a once hated NPC by Ye Weiming –- Soy Milk Xiao Bai!

At the moment, Soy Milk Xiao Bai was carrying a load on a pole over his shoulders, rushing towards the south of the city through the lively crowd.

It seemed like he hadn’t noticed Ye Weiming, who was looking at him with ill intent.