"Hmm, this should be alright," Lu Zhen thought as he took the paste.

The moment he ingested the paste, it almost instantly dissolved. Lu Zhen felt a huge amount of strange energy permeate his body, yet this energy remained stationary, not moving a single bit as if lost, and he could feel that the energy was being wasted as time passed.

"Let's start," Lu Zhen thought as he sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Slowly, he began to visualize a tree in his mind, but the tree in his visualization was emitting a green light.

And Lu Zhen, instead of typically absorbing attributeless qi from the air, instead emitted cracking sounds.

Crack!

The wood qi within his body suddenly became violent, attempting to escape. However, with no way out, it could only be contained within him. Lu Zhen's body shook violently, but this was no challenge for him; he stood firm like a rock.

Gradually, the qi began to merge and refine itself. Suddenly, the mysterious energy moved toward the merging qi, directly assisting Lu Zhen in condensing his qi and making it purer.

Like a hammer ironing out impurities from iron, making it purer and denser, Lu Zhen's wood qi was being refined. In the visualization of the tree that Lu Zhen had in his mind, green light flashed past, covering him completely.

The process accelerated like a rocket as the strands of his wood qi became purer and purer while his qi storage decreased.

Time passed like a flowing river.

Lu Zhen slowly opened his eyes, a frown appearing on his face.

"Sigh," Lu Zhen muttered as he looked at his stats, summoning his system with a thought.

[LEVEL UP]

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[Name: Lu Zhen]

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[Race: Human]

[Bloodline: Human/Volgrith]

[Lifespan left: 145 years]

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[Attributes]

[Constitution: Divine physique (level 3)]

[Charm: Mortal (Level 4)]

[Wood Qi: (level 2)]

[Demonic Qi: Uninitiated (Level 0)]

???

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[Cultivation manuals]

[Cultivation technique: verdant art (stage 2)]

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[Skills]

[Gluttony: level 8]

[Appraisal eye: level 4]

[Saber mastery: level 6]

[Adaptability: level 4]

[Aura control: level 5]

[Meditation: level 2]

[Dual cultivation: level 2]

[Alchemy: level 2]

[Sword mastery: level 2]

[Qian mastery: level 1]

[Staff master: level 1]

[Chain mastery: level 1]

Lu Zhen sighed, looked up at the broken window, and could see that it was already nighttime.

"My strengthening process only increased by 1% even after cultivating for the entire day, even with the help of the paste, which accelerated my speed by at least ten times." He could only feel bitterness for this.

If you look at his cultivation skill, it was definitely worthless for him to use the dual cultivation skill, as it took him three days to strengthen his qi by 2%, whereas cultivating for just a day yielded him 1%.

However, Lu Zhen had the paste as a supplement, and the dual cultivation skill could still be leveled up to produce more results, so it was definitely better to use this skill ever so often rather than sitting tieredly in the room.

If he calculated it with time, if Lu Zhen could cultivate it for about a hundred days, he could become a second-stage martial artist. However, it wasn't so simple, as the more one progressed, the slower speed was.

He checked his body, and sure enough, he had lost about 16% of his qi.

"Sigh, it will be harder and harder in the future," Lu Zhen thought to himself as he shook his head.

However, Lu Zhen's attention was drawn to the skill section, which caused him to frown when he saw the cluttered-up chunks of skill.

"Will the screen ever reach the limit? How can I focus on one thing when I see my status is so cluttered up?" He sighed to himself helplessly. Although he was happy to have gotten all the skills, it was a little overwhelming, and he was quite confident in himself that he would get many new skills in the future, which he didn't know where he could see in the future.

Lu Zhen suddenly thought of something as he tried to contact the cold and emotionless voice that he had previously heard when he tried to evolve the cooking skill.

"Are you there, system?" Lu Zhen thought to himself in his head doubtfully, but to his surprise, he saw a system prompt.

[Host wants to talk to the system]

[Permission=Error….. Granted]

When Lu Zhen saw this, his eyes widened with astonishment.

<Yes, what may you inquire?

Lu Zhen suddenly heard the voice he had previously heard, which was still cold and emotionless; however, it was a little similar to Lu Zhen's previous life voice.

"Eh, you could communicate with me?"

The system replied without a hint of emotion.

"Then why didn't you tell me before?"

<You never asked the host.

"Wait, didn't I ask you to talk when I first transmigrated to this world?"

<That time I didn't have energy to talk.

"Now you have it?"

<Yes, since you have reached a bio-level human, or in this world, a third-stage martial artist, I have gained enough power to communicate with you.

"Cough," Lu Zhen coughed a little when hearing this. It was true that Lu Zhen had pretty much never tried to communicate with his system after he became a third-stage martial artist.

He wasn't at fault for asking the same thing again and again just to hear no response.

Suddenly, he thought of something.

"Can you answer my question that I would like to ask?" Lu Zhen said uncertainly as he expected the system to reject those crappy things almost all the novel had in his previous world, "permission denied" or other similar things, which Fei stated to him countless times as a novel reader.

As long as the answers are in my database, I can answer whatever.

However, to his surprise, he got a positive answer, which made him quite happy.

"System, my first question is, What are you?" Lu Zhen hurriedly asked, afraid that the system would take back its words.