CHAPTER 389: CHAPTER 170: ULTIMATE SKILL RELEASED, GREAT GRANDMASTER EMERGES!_4

What use is having many skills? Jack of all trades, master of none, is just as good as having none at all. Moreover, compared to Ultimate Skills, these martial arts are no longer impressive.

With this thought, Zhang Beixing prepared to expand his Skill Bar to search for the Ultimate Skill he had just created within those numerous skills. But before Zhang Beixing could do so, it seemed as if the Skill Bar sensed his intention. Before Zhang Beixing’s finger even touched the Skill Bar page, WHIR! A dazzling white light flashed across the Skill Bar, causing him to involuntarily close his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that after the white light had passed, two characters slowly appeared in front of his Skill Bar: Transcendent!

His Skill Bar had upgraded to a Transcendent Skill Bar. At the same time, the various martial skills also disappeared and merged. In their place was a single, lonely line.

Attribute Panel:

[Master: Zhang Beixing]

[Status: Severely Fatigued, Severe Mental Fatigue, Excited, Vital Energy Unceasing, Natural Martial Arts (Pseudo), Blood Like Mercury Slurry, Marrow Like Frost]

[Power: 101]

[Constitution: 101]

[Mental Attribute: 110]

[Ability Points: 54.6]

[Transcendent Skill: Unnamed Ultimate Skill First Layer +0]

Seeing these changes that had appeared on his Personal Panel, Zhang Beixing was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting this. But he did not show any particular reluctance toward the disappearance of those martial skills. After all, he had now become a Great Grandmaster and had embarked on his own path, creating his own Ultimate Skill. There was no need to stubbornly continue practicing those past techniques. First, it wasn’t necessary, and second, they couldn’t provide him with any further improvement.

My self-created Ultimate Skill actually belongs to the category of Transcendent Skills? And according to the System display, it is currently only at the First Layer of the Ultimate Skill? However, this also makes sense. The concept of this Ultimate Skill is very profound, and at present, this skill is incapable of fully displaying its ideas, so it’s reasonable to have room for improvement.

But Tai Chi has also disappeared, which seems to indicate that Zhang Sanfeng’s Ultimate Skill is not considered a Transcendent Skill? That’s also correct! Although if his Yin-Yang Theory concept were to be deepened, it would belong to the metaphysical, Transcendent level, the Ultimate Skill he created is constrained by the Human Physical Limit and doesn’t show anything Transcendent. It’s not that his ideas were insufficient, but because he’s not a cheater.

Thinking this through, Zhang Beixing gradually clarified the context.

There’s not just one kind of Transcendent Ultimate Skill. For example, those outrageous suggestions from netizens, like the ’Thunder Technique: Thousand Birds’ or ’Qi Body: Origin Stream,’ would definitely belong to the category of Transcendent Ultimate Skills.

With this thought, Zhang Beixing didn’t dwell on it too much. He had just broken through to become a Great Grandmaster and still needed to consolidate his strength before considering Transcendent matters. After all, even as a Great Grandmaster now, he still didn’t know how to step into the threshold of the Transcendent.

Next, Zhang Beixing turned his attention to the ’Unnamed Ultimate Skill’ in the Transcendent Skill Bar. Zhang Beixing had created an Ultimate Skill of his own. He had even come up with names for each technique within this Ultimate Skill. The only thing lacking was a name for the Ultimate Skill itself. It would be embarrassing to talk about it without a name.

Hence, after pondering for a moment, Zhang Beixing spoke, "Then let’s call it the ’Heaven and Earth Natural Technique’!"

The central concept of his Martial Arts was the naturalness of heaven and earth. Naming it after this core concept was simple and easy to understand!

Zhang Beixing decided on the name. He saw on the System Panel that ’Unnamed Martial Arts’ transformed, turning into the words ’Heaven and Earth Natural Technique’ lying there quietly.

[Transcendent Skill: Heaven and Earth Natural Technique First Layer +0]

Seeing this, Zhang Beixing nodded in satisfaction, then began to examine this new Skill Bar. The ’First Layer’ in the Skill didn’t need much explanation. It corresponded to the level and grade that the Martial Arts currently represented.

The ’+’ sign afterward, though... "Huh?" Zhang Beixing let out a slight sound of surprise, his brows furrowing slightly.

He could understand when there was a ’+’ sign after learning Yue Family’s Chain Punch. After all, Yue Family’s Chain Punch had been passed down for so many years and perfected by generations of practitioners. Zhang Beixing could understand that by adding points, the System was simply imparting that perfected knowledge to him, which was logical and understandable.

But that the ’Heaven and Earth Natural Technique’ could be upgraded with points... What the hell?

He had to keep in mind, ’Heaven and Earth Natural Technique’ was something he, Zhang Beixing, had just created; even he, the creator, was still in the exploration stage. He had no idea how to perfect it. Yet the System had preemptively offered this feature.

This is like you’re trying to develop a sensational anime-style game. You haven’t even figured out the code yet, then someone not only completes the game you were planning to make and releases it, but they also put out several updates and added content you never even thought of! This is no longer about NTR. It’s like someone scooped up the goddess you’ve been pining for while you were still secretly in love, and then molded her into their own image!

I really want to see what this point addition can do for me!

Zhang Beixing was fired up. He refused to believe that the System could understand his technique better than him, its original creator. So he tapped the ’+’ sign behind the Skill Bar.

In an instant, as the Ability Points disappeared, an indescribable sensation surged through Zhang Beixing’s body, compelling him to involuntarily close his eyes. Only after the feeling had subsided did Zhang Beixing open his eyes. His expression was a mix of emotions.

He now had both good news and bad news.

The good news was that he hadn’t been outdone. The System’s addition of points did not increase his mastery of ’Heaven and Earth Natural Technique.’ The System merely improved his proficiency with ’Heaven and Earth Natural Technique,’ making his Cultivation faster. After reaching a certain number of points, it would also be simpler for him to upgrade it.

But the bad news was that after his Skill had turned into a Transcendent Skill, it had become a pure gold-devouring beast!

Earlier, when Zhang Beixing added points to Yue Family’s Chain Punch, even when he enhanced it to +30, the maximum number of points spent per addition was only three at most! Now, Zhang Beixing had only added one point, and 10 of his Ability Points were gone!

Ten points! Completing one of the System’s suggested tasks would only earn him that many points! And now, that barely equated to the expenditure for a single point addition!

It wasn’t a loss, as it increased his Cultivation speed by one-fifth. If he were to train by himself, it would take at least a month or two to achieve such results.

But this is freaking too costly, isn’t it?

In a flash, Zhang Beixing’s previously somewhat transcendent state of mind shattered! As a result, his entire expression seemed somewhat twisted.

Originally, he had planned to amass wealth after completing the System’s suggested tasks. But now, it seemed like... wealth, my foot! This damn System is playing games, messing with him as if over a few paltry taels of silver! Even now in the initial phase, the expenses are already so high. If he were to gradually increase his level later on, the expenditure would be astronomical!

GULP. Man, won’t I end up only being able to enhance once every two or three days, or even have to borrow money from this damn System to do so? Does becoming Transcendent really ’cost’ so much?

Just thinking about that future of utter destitution made Zhang Beixing swallow hard and shiver with dread.

He then quickly shook his head. "No, no, that won’t do at all. If it goes on like this, it’ll be too damn ridiculous! I need to take advantage of this quiet period to quickly accumulate Ability Points. I should at least save up about five or six hundred points so I can rest easy! Otherwise, when I take the next step to advance to the Transcendent realm, I’ll have no confidence at all!"

However, before that, the most important thing is to rest.

A whole day and night of enlightenment followed by creating moves and boxing. All these were extremely physically demanding and mentally draining. It was only because Zhang Beixing’s Mental Attribute was as high as 110, and both his Power and Constitution had reached the Human Physical Limit value of 101. Otherwise, anyone else would probably only be able to perform a few moves before draining both their physical and mental energy and fainting on the spot.

Even so, Zhang Beixing wasn’t in great shape. This could be seen from the ’Severely Fatigued’ and ’Severe Mental Fatigue’ statuses earlier in his Attribute Panel.

Forcibly dragging himself back to the cabin, Zhang Beixing didn’t bother to change clothes. He just flopped onto the bed, and in less than five breaths, his breathing became deep and even; he had evidently fallen into slumber.

Zhang Beixing slept heavily for a full twelve hours. Not until the sun was high in the sky the next day did he crawl out of bed. After washing his face, he felt refreshed.

Zhang Beixing rubbed his stomach, as not having eaten for two days and two nights left him feeling totally empty inside. Although it wasn’t as bad as a few months ago, when hunger left him depleted of Qi and Blood, it still wasn’t a pleasant feeling by any means.

"Time to eat! I’m ending my seclusion!"