This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 60 - s: "Water Cloud Sky" and "Slanting Sun with a New Moon

Chapter 60: 60 Chapters: "Water Cloud Sky" and "Slanting Sun with a New Moon

Although Liang Yi very much wanted to lift up his tiger paw and shout: "Only kids make choices, I want them all!"

Unfortunately, the Experience Bar on the panel wasn’t going to pamper him, plunging him into the blissful troubles of choice.

In his past life, Liang Yi only dreamed of freely choosing golden skills and soft girls, but he was always told by his friends, "That’s impossible in this lifetime, maybe in the next one!"

He hadn’t expected that day to come so swiftly!

It wasn’t that he could choose any Cultivation Technique he wanted; they meant in the next life.

Liang Yi scratched his head, selecting all three was impossible; the Experience Bar simply couldn’t handle the load. It was like being able to buy a luxury car but not being able to afford the fuel.

"At most two, no more!"

Liang Yi thought viciously.

Looking at the three glittering golden skills in front of him, he felt ambivalent.

After much thought, Liang Yi finally chose "Water Cloud Sky As One" and "Slanted Sunlight with a Crescent Moon."

One would allow him to escape high in the sky later on, and the other was almost universally applicable outdoors.

"I’m so poor!"

Liang Yi looked at the two new, hungry skills in his Skill Bar with a mournful expression.

Happiness always comes with troubles.

Although it’s satisfying to learn skills, starting with at least orange level skills and a heap of golden ones, only Liang Yi himself knew the effort it took to maintain them.

After learning the Escape Skill, Liang Yi fiddled with some talismans for a while.

He discovered that it was truly an encyclopedia of Daoist Skills, with every type imaginable. What puzzled him was that there were no Sword techniques.

Not a single one!

"What happened to the Taoist Sect back then? Were the Sword techniques deleted, or were they never recorded at all?" Liang Yi speculated quietly.

Among the various Daoist Skills, Liang Yi learned an orange level "Xiaoxiang Evening Rain," which could temporarily alter the natural environment to make it rain. As the Caster, he could control the rainwater to attack the enemy or enhance the lethality by attaching the Sword Qi to the rain.

The power of the rain depended on the individual’s control ability, Mana, Realm, and other factors. From the perspective of a high-level player like Liang Yi, this skill was incredibly useful in group fights.

For single-target skills, he had Sword techniques on hand, plus ten points of Swordsmanship Talent as a foundation; he had no fear in one-on-one fights, so he needed a group Daoist Skill to hold the fort and which could also be used in conjunction with his own Escape Skill.

It’s just that the skill had a somewhat lengthy startup time.

After learning a mix of basic Daoist Skills, Liang Yi planned to spend his last bit of Experience before officially beginning seclusion.

After mastering all the new skills, he had about 160,000 left.

"So, my Qinglian Creation requires ten strands of Qinglian essence for each of the first three layers to reach Great Perfection, that is, each layer would need an extra 100,000 Experience, right?"

Liang Yi marveled quietly; for early-game players, this was no small sum.

However, due to his compulsiveness and the mentality that if he was going to train, it had to be perfect, Liang Yi still forked out 100,000 Experience to first bring the first layer to Perfection.

As the Experience disappeared, Liang Yi circulated his Qinglian Creation, wanting to see any specific changes.

With his Divine Sense probing, he saw ten strands of light cyan essence slowly emerging within his body, hovering over ten acupoints all over his body.

Liang Yi’s eyes glinted with enlightenment. As long as he refined these ten strands of Qi, his Qinglian Creation at Level 1 would have achieved Great Perfection.

But this system is really a cunning merchant! If a player accidentally clicked to upgrade, they would only manage to cultivate what was originally a top-tier golden Daoist Skill to, at most, an orange level.

"It doesn’t seem to be a full-service operation." Liang Yi carefully felt the Qinglian Qi inside his body.

He had thought that once he paid the money, the delivery and refinement process would all be taken care of. He didn’t expect to have to do the refinement himself in the end.

Always first place at being lazy.

The method to refine Qinglian Qi was simple, imprint it with your own mark and then integrate it into your body. Liang Yi circulated his Cultivation Technique and gently wrapped his Mana around one strand of Qinglian Qi, trying to make it take on his own form.

"Wow, it’s pretty tough!" Liang Yi opened his eyelids, his eyes filled with surprise.

Although it was just one strand from the Qinglian, its level was evident. Liang Yi hadn’t heard of the Creation Green Lotus in his previous life, but from his perspective, it was at least a golden treasure.

If the Creation Green Lotus had consciousness, judging by its own properties, its level would be at least the pinnacle of the Seventh Realm.

After his attempts proved fruitless, Liang Yi knew that refining Qi was a grind and couldn’t be rushed.

Putting that aside for now, he turned to study the Escape Skill he had just learned.

Liang Yi wanted to try out "Slanting Sun with New Moon," but realized he didn’t have access to sunlight or moonlight in his cave mansion. "Water Cloud Sky" could be practiced using a water source, but there was no need. After going out, wouldn’t he have to come back anyway? What if he bumped into his master or junior sister? Wouldn’t that be awkward?

The wish to soar through the skies was also temporarily unattainable. When using the Escape Skill in the sky, just the air resistance from the speed alone would be enough to severely injure him.

To truly be able to come and go as one pleases, at least until the Third Realm, he would need to use Mana to resist the air pressure.

In his previous life, players could only use Flying Magical Treasures to fly after the update to the Third Realm version. However, top-quality Flying Magical Treasures were even rarer than Escape Skills, only real tycoons could get their hands on them.

Basic Flying Magical Treasures could simply carry one person. They had no means of attack or defense, and their speed and flying altitude were just mediocre! Basically, they were just a sitting duck in the skies.

Slightly better ones could carry two people, the type exclusively for couples!

The truly top-tier treasures, like the Floating Cloud Ship held by his junior sister and the Wanhua Ark of the Complete Heaven Sect, were large in size, fully functional, fast, and even stylish!

They were like the luxury supercars of Flying Magical Treasures!

In his past life, if Liang Yi had a Floating Cloud Ship, just standing at the city gates with the ship displayed would make him the talk of the forums, the most dazzling guy in the game, and he could gold-dig to the point of cheek cramps.

Just thinking about it made him happy!

Besides Flying Magical Treasures, some flying mystical beasts were also very popular.

The Heavenly Flower Divine Deer from Ten Thousand Miles Mountain, the Red Flame Dragon from the depths of the Linyuan Sea, were all extremely flashy! However, these two were considered Divine Beasts, belonging to the Seventh Realm.

Players could only drool at their magnificent presence. To actually catch one as a mount... that’s about as likely as surviving being hunted by the Red Jade Demon Pupils after entering Youdao Mountain’s territory.

Players must be out of combat and in a safe zone when logging off, because the body is actually still present in the same spot for a short time after logging off. One could force a log-off, but they would have to bear the consequences once they logged back in.

When being chased by the Red Jade Demon Su Youyi, a sliver of Divine Sense attached to the player, keeping them in a constant state of combat. And for the demoness, there truly wasn’t any place on the continent she wouldn’t dare to go.

Even if a player ran to a small Secret Realm and sealed themselves off, the demoness could blast open the Secret Realm with force, drag them out, and kill them!

A certain player, who experienced this personally, described their death-wishing ordeal to Liang Yi, and the expression on their face stayed vivid in his memory.

It probably looked something like this:

"o(ﾟДﾟ)っ"

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