Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 633 - 616: Martial Arts Sparring

Chapter 633: Chapter 616: Martial Arts Sparring

Chen Tingquan thought for a moment and decided to start with regular Elixir Pills.

Although the Nine Dragon Elixir is known for its potency, its side effects are also strong.

He planned to make a simple comparison. If the training speed with regular Elixir Pills is acceptable and not much slower than the Nine Dragon Elixir, then he would use the Nine Dragon Elixir sparingly.

Because whether it’s the special "Viscera" page or the repeatedly mentioned side effects, they all made him instinctively feel that this Nine Dragon Elixir definitely had problems and punishments. For a broke player like him, it was better to use less.

"First, training the body, doing some woodpile training and stone lock training.

"Then practice gathering Qi and go to the Practice Room for some meditation.

"Followed by some meditation to enhance mana, and today’s training task would be almost complete.

"During this process, thorough testing should be done to see the differences between not taking pills for training, using basic Elixir Pills, and using the Nine Dragon Elixir."

Since the time ratio between the game and reality is 7:1, three hours in the game is roughly a day in reality.

Considering that players cannot be online 24 hours a day, the game thoughtfully prepared a "scheduled pill consumption" function for players.

Players only need to set their daily training plan and ensure that there are enough Elixir Pills and Spirit Stones in their inventory, allowing the character to train automatically.

Training in the game involves several different mini-games.

Woodpile training is somewhat like a tutorial for beginners in combat, with several woodpiles on the site that will automatically attack.

Players need to choose different response methods based on the woodpile’s attack, including dodging, parrying, and counterattacking.

The techniques of the woodpile will change daily, and the number of attacking woodpiles will also change and increase randomly.

Once players complete all the training, they can significantly enhance their physical attributes and better familiarize themselves with the game’s combat system.

The stone lock training is a simple strength exercise where the character will lift the stone lock in various ways on screen, stimulating all muscles throughout the body.

There is an action bar in the game that refreshes a small area randomly as the optimal strength balance range, and this balance range will constantly shift, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right.

When players press the button, the strength pointer on the far left of the action bar will move toward the right, symbolizing the character exerting strength. When they release the button, the strength pointer will quickly fall back to the left.

Players need to control the strength pointer within this optimal strength balance range; otherwise, the stone lock may fall on the ground, or the character may lose balance due to excessive force.

The difficulty of these two mini-games will gradually increase with game time and player level.

However, for levels that players have already passed, they can choose to auto-complete.

If players find it tedious, they don’t need to play every day. They can let the system handle it.

As for sitting meditation and meditation, both are similar but have different effects. Sitting meditation is for gathering Qi, which is necessary for level advancement, transitioning from Qi Cultivation to Foundation Establishment. It can be understood as pure level enhancement and value increase, which is the most vital training project; meditation, on the other hand, is to enhance spiritual power and mana value to ensure being able to release basic spells and manipulate simple magic tools.

Of course, players can also leave these two activities to the system to handle automatically.

Before taking the Elixir Pills, Chen Tingquan carefully checked the game’s training efficiency.

According to the in-game explanation, in "Reverse Heaven," even if players are offline, the character will automatically train according to a pre-set plan.

However, daily training has several different efficiency ranges.

In the game, every 24 hours (12 shichen) is a day, corresponding to a little over three hours in reality.

In the game’s one day, there are 2 hours in the optimal training range, 6 hours in the general training range, and 16 hours in the inefficient training range.

The efficiency of these three training ranges is 4:2:1.

"Optimal training range" can only be enjoyed when the player is online.

However, its time can be accumulated and postponed; 24 hours in reality equals 7 days in the game, so players can gather up to 7 optimal training periods, which is about a little over 2 hours in reality.

Although this system seems a bit complicated, practically, if you want the best training efficiency, you should log in for 2 hours daily to spend the fourfold training effect accumulated in the optimal training range.

Otherwise, there will be a slight loss in training progress.

Additionally, when players use the Nine Dragon Elixir, they can ignore the optimal training range. That is, no matter what state the player is in, as long as they consume the Nine Dragon Elixir, the calculation is based on the Nine Dragon Elixir’s effect.

Chen Tingquan followed the original plan and conducted a simple test.

Within 2 hours of game time, or about 15 minutes in reality, he could complete several basic training sessions. In these sessions, he tested the training effects without taking pills, using basic Elixir Pills, and using the Nine Dragon Elixir.

From the boosted attributes after body training, one can roughly calculate the results.

The test results were quite surprising to him.

If the training effect without taking pills is 1, then the training effect after using basic Elixir Pills is roughly double, whereas the training effect with Nine Dragon Elixir is quadruple.

Moreover, importantly, the Nine Dragon Elixir doesn’t actually rely on the optimal training range.

This means if the Nine Dragon Elixir is consumed during the inefficient training range, the training efficiency will be 16 times without pills and 8 times with basic Elixir Pills!

"That’s a bit excessive; does this mean Whales are invincible?

"If all 24 hours a day are maximized with the Nine Dragon Elixir, regular players won’t catch up even if they work hard?

"Looks like I still need to find ways to make money and get the Nine Dragon Elixir."

Chen Tingquan once again felt the golden, enticing recharge interface’s temptation.

The key is that this interface not only allows for recharging but also offers loans.

If he takes a loan, he can obtain these high-efficiency Nine Dragon Elixirs even without spending money.

But Chen Tingquan restrained himself and decided to see how daily combat sparring and large map exploration worked.

If he could earn stable income in the game and buy the Nine Dragon Elixir, he wouldn’t need to recharge or take loans.

First is the daily combat sparring.

This system is somewhat like a random battle dungeon. When players arrive at the Martial Arts Arena, several waves of monsters will refresh automatically.

The strength of these monsters will increase in turn, starting with simple beasts, followed by bandits imprisoned by sects, and then other disciples of the sect.

According to "Reverse Heaven’s" game setting, the laws of this world are still effective, and the various sects must follow them.

As a result, bandits and criminals almost disappeared because, according to the law, once these bandits and criminals are caught by sect disciples, they can be killed without question.

Great sects like the Henggang Sect often send disciples down the mountain for training. If they happen to capture bandits and criminals, they send them up the mountain and lock them up for weaker disciples to practice on, enhancing their combat experience.

Initially, Chen Tingquan enjoyed the battles quite a bit.

He had to admit, after completing the previous training tasks, his character’s attributes significantly improved.

Originally, fighting these beasts was a bit challenging, for example, the giant bear, which naturally had a strong domineering body and high attack power. Before, when he encountered them in hunting, he had to be cautious, lest he messes up.

Of course, his character’s attributes were present, so he wouldn’t die, but a hasty retreat was often inevitable.

But now, with a comprehensive enhancement of his character’s attributes, he could easily and mindlessly take out several bears.

These bandits and criminals, even though armed with sharp blades and cooperating between ranged and melee, were mowed down by Chen Tingquan like slicing vegetables.

"Reverse Heaven’s" action system was solidly designed, with every action reasonable before and after, along with beauty and a sense of force in movements.

So, even though Chen Tingquan still didn’t know spells or magic tools, fighting with the most basic sword moves still felt satisfying.

After beating down another batch of bandits, the next set of sparring targets appeared.

Named "Henggang Sect First-Year Disciple."

"Hmm? First-year disciple? Then shouldn’t they be about my level?

"Their attributes are presumably higher than mine, but with my operation skills, maybe, just maybe, I could...

"Whoa, how did I get insta-killed!"

Previously, Chen Tingquan saw on the sect’s bulletin board that the disciples here were generally divided into three levels based on their years: first-year disciples, ten-year disciples, and hundred-year disciples.

Further up, there were more capable people, but they generally weren’t called disciples anymore.

First-year disciples referred to those with a cultivation duration of less than a year, and after a year of cultivation, every disciple must take an assessment.

They must reach at least Qi Refining Third Level to stay. Otherwise, they’ll be expelled from the sect, cutting off their cultivation path, and they’ll have to work and repay loans for life in the Human World.

Similarly, ten-year disciples must achieve Foundation Establishment, and hundred-year disciples must achieve Core Formation, or they’ll meet the same fate of being expelled.

Strictly speaking, Chen Tingquan also counted as a first-year disciple now.

Among first-year disciples, there were still differences. Chen Tingquan was only at the basic Qi Cultivation First Level, while theoretically, some excellent first-year disciples might have already reached Qi Refining Third Level and passed the assessment ahead of time.

Chen Tingquan originally thought it was just a difference between Qi Cultivation First Level and Qi Refining Third Level. Two levels apart, at most, meant their attributes were higher. But since the game had plenty of action elements, with dodging, blocking, and GP methods, he figured he might win with good play.

As soon as the fight started, he was stunned when his opponent raised a hand and summoned a magic tool, seemingly a small mirror, that, once flashed, knocked him out.

Fortunately, it was only sparring; he was merely down to a sliver of health and begged for mercy, not really dying.

"Come on, man, isn’t this extortion a bit too aggressive?"

Chen Tingquan was a bit upset, feeling that the game might keep pushing him to spend money, but even that required following some basic principles!

By choosing an enemy with doubled attributes to fight, after struggling the best he could without winning and a slight spend making a difference, perhaps he’d get frustrated enough to pay.

But now, being insta-killed, what would he pay for!

How maddening!

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