Inside the bedroom, Chu Chengzhou stared unblinkingly at the progress bar on the golden light screen.
The cheat hadn’t officially activated yet, but he had already figured out a few things about how it worked.
With just a thought, the golden light screen would appear in his field of vision; he could even see it with his eyes closed, and he could also close it completely with a single thought.
Furthermore, since his grandparents hadn’t shown any change in expression earlier, Chu Chengzhou surmised that this cheat of his was only visible to him and likely invisible to others.
Of course, this conclusion could also be drawn from the fact that no golden light screen appeared in front of him when he looked in the mirror in his bedroom.
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98% 99% 100% ]
After a long while, the percentage on the progress bar finally reached 100%.
Instantly, the progress bar on the golden light screen vanished, replaced by an attribute panel.
[Attribute Panel]
[Host: Chu Chengzhou]
[Soul Power: Rank 1 Spirit Scholar]
[Spirit: ???]
[Skills: Calisthenics (Gray), Eye Exercises (Gray), Running (Gray), Meditation (Gray)]
At the same time, Chu Chengzhou also noticed two small golden square slots below the attribute panel.
“Uh, I’m a Rank 1 Spirit Scholar?”
Chu Chengzhou was somewhat stunned.
Once the cheat opened, his trash talent had increased by half a Rank out of thin air?
Half a Rank might not seem like much, but for him, it had directly doubled!
However, after staring at the Soul Power column in shock for three seconds, Chu Chengzhou realized that this wasn’t the cheat increasing his Innate Soul Power Rank; it was just that the Soul Power Rank value didn’t display decimals and was at least 1, so he had been rounded up!
Aside from the skill column, the attribute panel was very concise.
After some exploration, Chu Chengzhou understood how to correctly use this cheat of his.
The attribute panel only displayed his various attributes; the two small golden square slots below were where the cheat’s functionality lay.
He could use his thoughts to drag his Spirit and skills into the golden square slots to hang up and Cultivate for a certain period, breaking through his current limits.
Furthermore, once he obtained spirit rings and Spirit Bones in the future, he would also be able to place them in there to hang up and upgrade.
In the classification of the attribute panel, Spirit quality was divided into Ordinary, Advanced, Top-tier, and Divine-Grade.
spirit rings and Spirit Bones were divided into white (ten-year), yellow (hundred-year), purple (thousand-year), black (ten-thousand-year), red (hundred-thousand-year), and gold (million-year).
Skill levels were similar to spirit ring colors but had some differences, divided into gray, white, yellow, purple, black, red, and gold.
Moreover, there was a skill level above gold, though Chu Chengzhou didn’t know about it yet.
Of course, these had nothing to do with Chu Chengzhou for the time being.
After all, his various skills were only at the lowest gray level, and even the Spirit that showed a question mark was only an Ordinary quality Spirit at the very bottom.
The reason it displayed a question mark was that his gray small flag Spirit belonged to a mutated Spirit that hadn’t appeared on the continent before, so naturally, it wouldn’t display a specific name.
However, Chu Chengzhou discovered another benefit of the attribute panel.
For an unknown Spirit whose appearance didn’t have a clear inclination, it was impossible to distinguish what kind of abilities it possessed without a spirit ring.
But after Chu Chengzhou stared at the Spirit column for three seconds, he knew the abilities of his awakened mutated gray small flag Spirit.
Before today, Spirits on the continent could be classified into control system, attack system, agility-attack system, defense system, support system, and healing system Spirits.
But starting from today, there could be one more: summon system.
That’s right, considering that his Spirit’s abilities weren’t suitable for classification under the six major systems, Chu Chengzhou ‘created’ a new Spirit system: summon system.
As the name implied, once his gray small flag Spirit was attached with a spirit ring in the future, he would be able to summon a spirit ring beast.
For example, if he promoted to a Rank 10 quasi-Spirit Master and attached a 400-year Datura Snake spirit ring, he would be able to summon a 400-year-old Datura Snake Spirit Beast to fight.
Theoretically, attaching a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring would allow him to summon a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
Of course, theory was just theory.
As an Ordinary quality mutated Spirit, the gray small flag was likely on par with the so-called ‘trash Spirit’ Blue Silver Grass, perhaps even inferior, so it naturally had very significant flaws.
He didn’t know if it was because his talent was too trash, but the gray small flag, being a mutated Spirit, hadn’t mutated perfectly and had a flaw similar to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit.
However, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit Masters could attach at most seven spirit rings, while his mutated gray small flag could only attach at most two spirit rings.
This meant that, barring any accidents, he would only be able to become a Rank 29 Spirit Grandmaster at most in the future.
According to the optimal spirit ring configuration for Spirit Masters, at Rank 29, he could summon two Spirit Beasts: one around 400 years old, and one around 700 years old.
Few Spirit Masters at the same Rank could defeat a Spirit Beast of the same Rank.
Coupled with the fact that most Spirit Masters’ Spirits weren’t strong and their spirit ring configurations were lackluster, a Spirit Beast around 700 years old should have no problem fighting a low-Rank three-ring Spirit Elder with a white-yellow-yellow configuration.
With a Rank limit of Rank 29 Spirit Grandmaster, should he be able to defeat the bottom-tier three-ring Spirit Elders in the future?
‘Pfft, pfft, pfft!
I am the man who is going to become a God!’
Chu Chengzhou spat secretly.
With a cheat in hand, the World was his; how could he set his sights on a mere three-ring Spirit Elder?
With a shift of his mind, the Spirit column that previously displayed a question mark changed.
[Spirit: Summoning Flag]
It was just a name and wouldn’t have any impact on the use of the Spirit.
Plus, limited by his not-so-high level of education, Chu Chengzhou came up with a slightly low-key name.
As for names like ‘Chaos True Spirit Flag’, ‘Nine Heavens Ten Earths Annihilation Flag’, ‘Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Flag’, or ‘Universe Primordial Flag’, they were too high-profile.
A mere Ordinary quality Spirit clearly wasn’t worthy of them.
Although his mutated Spirit had very serious flaws, with a cheat in hand, Chu Chengzhou didn’t mind.
The Spirit has flaws?
Just hang it up to upgrade the Spirit quality.
Even if it’s a trash Spirit, it can be upgraded to a Divine-Grade quality Spirit that comes with an Innate Domain!
The summoned beast’s age is too low in the early stages and can only be cannon fodder in the Late Stage?
Just hang it up to upgrade the spirit ring age.
Even if it’s just the lowest-level ten-year spirit ring, there will come a day when he can summon a million-year Spirit Beast!
Without much hesitation, Chu Chengzhou hung the Summoning Flag Spirit onto the hang-up slot.
As for the second hang-up slot?
After some thought, Chu Chengzhou hung ‘Meditation’ from his skill column onto it.
Apart from Tang San, who came from another World, Douluo Continent had no specialized Cultivation Technique for Soul Power.
To increase his Soul Power Rank, besides consuming Heaven And Earth Treasure and attaching spirit rings and Spirit Bones, the only way was Meditation.
And Meditation was something every Spirit Master knew after Awakening their Spirit, just like people were born knowing how to breathe—it was just a matter of proficiency.
Although he hadn’t tested it yet, barring any accidents, increasing his Meditation level should be able to increase his Soul Power Cultivation speed.
As a ‘super trash’ with Innate half-Rank Soul Power, Chu Chengzhou naturally wanted to increase his Soul Power Rank as quickly as possible.
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