Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 37

Ding!
You have cultivated through unremitting efforts:

Gain experience points: 300 points!
Obtain practice points: 50 points!
……

When Thorne's "Qi Refining Technique" was fully activated, he immediately felt a wave of heat spread to his whole body, instantly dispelling all the cold air accumulated in his body overnight.

The condensed frost on his hair and eyebrows also quickly melted into water droplets, sliding down his delicate cheeks.

This is the benefit of qi refining technique. After you have completed all its operation methods, the unknown elements absorbed from the surrounding air will be transformed into qi energy, strengthening your own physique.

Although the effect of this enhancement was so low that Thorne himself could not notice any changes, but Thorne could clearly feel that his tired body became full of vitality.

The only pity is that at Thorne's current speed, it takes at least six hours to complete a complete practice.

Even if he practiced continuously in a day, he could only complete four times at most.

This "Qi Refining Technique" passed down from the Karatu Continent is divided into five realms, which are: first glance at the door, comprehensive mastery, proficiency, reaching the pinnacle, and a generation of masters!
According to the mysterious old man, every time he reaches a level, his physical fitness will be improved in an all-round way.

But today's Thorne's evidence is still far away from the first glimpse...

Because qi refining is a kind of skill that needs to be accumulated over time, without any shortcuts, without hundreds of years of unremitting practice, it is simply impossible to reach the highest level of realm.

Based on the nearly 200-year lifespan of Thorn's half-elf race, even if he practiced unremittingly every day, he could only cultivate to the second level at most in his life: mastery!
Therefore, the cultivation of this kind of qi refining technique can only be done gradually, and cannot be rushed.

In Toril's world, there are many ways to increase lifespan, and Thorne has no worries about his own lifespan.

200 years is such a long time, whether it can be completed is still unknown.

In his life of licking blood almost every day, he has never dared to expect anything extravagantly.

Because you simply can't predict which one will come first, tomorrow or the accident?
What he needs to do is to live each day to the fullest.

Thorne gently wiped off the water stains on his face with his sleeve, and looked towards the small valley.

The time at this time is about 8 o'clock in the morning. Although the sky is bright, the hazy fog has not completely dissipated.

The thin mist floats in the undulating mountains, like flowing clouds and smoke.

After thinking about it for a while, Thorne took out a stone the size of an egg from the dimensional bag.

The color of this stone is pure black, and if you look closely, you can also find the shadow energy aura circulating around it.

This is a spar from the shadow plane, a stone made of pure shadow energy.

It is also the medium for Thorne to practice the swordsmanship of "Shadow Hand School".

Shadow Hand Pie is a sword art mastered in sneak attacks, tricks and ambushes.

Its martial arts allow the user to cast shadow power or channel shadow energy to weaken the opponent.

Like Desert Wind, most moves are supernatural abilities.

A supernatural ability is an ability that will not be disturbed except for the anti-magic field (forbidden magic), and can also be cast instantly.

Even spell resistance, counterspell, or dispel magic have no effect on it.

For example, the priest's ability to dispel undead creatures, the paladin's smite evil, the petrified lizard's petrified gaze, etc. are all supernatural abilities.

Therefore, in order to convert the qi in the body into shadow energy at any time, one must absorb a special item with abundant shadow energy.

Thorne clenched the shadow spar with his right hand, and immediately began to use the method of guiding shadow energy in "Shadow Hand School".

As the icy shadow breath continuously injected into Thorne's body, the shadow spar in his hand melted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a while...

Just when Thorne was about to be unable to bear the pain of the cold breath entering his body, the spar in his hand finally disappeared completely.

At the same time, a series of light blue data information appeared on his retina:
The shadow energy has been absorbed!

Gain a supernatural ability: Shadow Beloved!

Shadow Beloved (Stance): As a beginner to the Shadow Hand style, you learn to channel and control the energies of darkness and shadow.

Effect: As you move, shadows surround you, making you imperceptible even in broad daylight as long as you are moving.

This ability is the most basic ability of the Shadow Hand School. Only by mastering Shadow Beloved can you gradually master other powerful skills.

Then Thorn looked at the remaining 5000 or so practice points. After thinking for a while, he finally turned his attention to the skill list of the Steel Soul faction.

Whether to consume 5000 practice points to immediately learn the perfect spirit!
Yes!
Thorne immediately confirmed.

Get Steel Soul Pie (Coping Skill): Perfect Spirit!

Perfect Spirit: Using steely will and high concentration, you can resist the power that erodes your will. When you feel that this force is trying to blind your sanity, you can use the energy in your body to resist.

Effect: Your mental concentration and martial arts practice make your spirit as strong as an iron wall. When the opponent uses magic to corrode your spirit, you can become extremely firm.

Perfect Spirit is a defensive control skill.

When Thorne encountered the control spells such as Charm Human, Human Immobilization, Fright, etc. that the enemy used on him.

Thorne can immediately activate the perfect spirit to resist. The higher the level of concentration skills, the higher the success rate of his resistance will be.

After perfect spiritual mastery, at this time he has mastered six kinds of Nine Swords moves, which means that he can already work part-time as the basic occupation of Nine Swords: Sword Daoist (Sword of the Sage)!

[Desert Wind School] lv1 (124/10000)

Red Lotus Sword (enhanced skill), Flame Star (strike skill), Fire Avoidance Art (stance skill)

[Steel Soul Pie] lv1 (36/10000)

Clear Body (Stance Skill), Perfect Spirit (Countering Skill)

[Shadow Hand School] lv1 (0/10000)

Shadow Beloved (Stance Skill)

However, when Thorn saw that there were only more than 400 points of practice experience left, he shook his head with a wry smile. It seemed that it would take some time.

Because wanting to work part-time not only consumes a lot of experience points, but also needs 5000 practice points.

Practice points are as important as experience points, and experience points are used to improve one's professional level.

Practice points are mostly used to improve the specialties that need to be trained and various powerful professional skills.

For example, Thorne's [Desert Wind Faction] lv1 (124/10000) wants to raise it to level 2.

In addition to relying on your own accumulated training, the fastest way is to use 20000 points of practice experience to upgrade to level 2 in an instant.

But the difficulty of obtaining practice points is more difficult than experience points.

It took Thorne half a year to cultivate 10000 points of practice experience, and when killing monsters in the wild, the speed of obtaining such practice points will be greatly reduced when the level difference between the two parties is too large.

As for the knowledge and training methods in the training ground or watching some martial arts genres, you will also get practice points.

However, compared to killing monsters and leveling, Thorne prefers to choose the latter. The only disadvantage is that the method of killing monsters and leveling is relatively dangerous.

If you want to get to the top, you need both experience points and practice points.

Experience points can quickly improve your level, and practice points can enable you to learn more skills and specialties.

So for Thorne, a little ranger who is only level 5, the road ahead has a long way to go!
Thorne clenched his fists tightly, and his gaze towards the sky became firm again!
Then he raised the long sword stuck in the ground, and took out a delicate wooden whistle from his pocket.

Woo!
A shrill and dull sound spread into the distant sky, attracting the attention of everyone in the valley.

"Let's pack up and get ready to go." Thorn said lightly, feeling the doubts in everyone's eyes.

Tweet!
Not long after Thorn finished speaking, there was a loud eagle howl from the sky.

Then the black shadow flew over Thorn's head and circled a few times before swooping down immediately.

Thorne immediately stretched out his arm, and the black shadow in the sky obediently landed on Thorne's left arm.

Thorne smiled and stroked the eagle's head. The dire eagle let out a joyous long cry, took off again, and hovered over Thorne again.

This is a cub of a dire eagle, less than one year old, hatched from a dire eagle egg he accidentally obtained when he was in Fallstown.

As a ranger, Thorne naturally would not lack an animal companion.

However, in Winter City, it was inconvenient for Thorn to bring his animal companions, so he kept them in the wilderness outside the city.

(End of this chapter)