Holy Fist
Chapter 559 - 280 Profession Enhancement

Chapter 559: 280 Profession Enhancement

Bai Xiao’s mind stirred, and he swiftly made his choice.

Suddenly, a huge change appeared before his eyes.

Black text scrolled continuously downwards.

[Below are the profession enhancements for Dark World combat contest participants]

The pervasive hazy mist gradually dispersed, revealing what lay beneath. Compared to the provincial level, the third phase in the Eastern region unexpectedly had five options.

[Enhancement 1: Elixir Saint Body (Your physique is astonishing, with an innate ability to absorb drugs robustly. Every cell in your body is like a parched sponge, devouring any external medicine or energy in the blink of an eye, wasting not even the slightest bit. The effectiveness of your secret medicine consumption will reach one and a half to two times the original strength. As such, the final effects of Secret Martial Skills that require secret medicine refinement will be enhanced.)]

[Enhancement 2: Double-headed Undead Bird (If you are currently in a critically injured state, you will immediately gain a short-term resurgence effect. During this period, you will recover to your peak strength, with all stamina replenished. Moreover, within a day, you can trigger the Undead Bird effect twice in succession. However, the side effects of the Undead Bird cannot be avoided; it stems from triggering the body’s potential and will erode the maximum limit. Frequent use of the Undead Bird will bring unknown consequences.)]

[Enhancement 3: Mind’s Eye (Significantly enhances your senses; even if your vision is obstructed under certain circumstances, you can still obtain information about your surroundings through your sense of smell, hearing, and touch. You can even discern the shape of the wind, the shape of smells, and the shape of sounds, thereby inversely sketching out a three-dimensional model of your environment, the location of enemies, and a clear specific image.)]

[Enhancement 4: Speed is King (Immediately gain twelve points of speed.)]

[Enhancement 5: Grandmaster (You are deservedly a Grandmaster of Secret Martial and Martial Arts. You can easily and keenly sense the flaws and strengths, the essence and dross of most Secret Martial and secret techniques. Furthermore, you have an extremely deep understanding of your own cultivation system, combat style, and four-dimensional condition. Thus, you can easily integrate and evolve the Secret Martial Skills you have mastered to create more astonishing Secret Martial that better fit you! Of course, even Grandmasters have limits; you are not omnipotent. Your limit is that you can only recommend similar types of cultivation techniques, only integrate up to three skills, and you can only choose Secret Martial of Second Rank and below.)]

Martial Arts Arena, Fierce Bird Sect resting area.

Bai Xiao leaned back on the plastic seat, his gaze somewhat vacant as he looked ahead. Gradually, his pupils began to concentrate with an increasingly fierce light.

"Sigh..."

Bai Xiao exhaled a long breath of warm air.

The roiling emotions in his chest gradually settled down.

Indeed, as he had anticipated earlier, the rewards for the championship tasks were upgraded as the phases progressed. The city level presented only three ordinary options, while the provincial level had four options comparable to those of elites; the Eastern region now had five elite or even beyond. The disparity in enhancements was clearly evident.

After all, the task difficulty escalated progressively; winning in the Eastern region was much harder than at the provincial level, and any one of the Eastern Seven Stars could easily sweep through the Southern Border Province championship. Bai Xiao had defeated five Seven Stars to finally claim the laurel.

As a matter of course, the championship tasks came with more substantial rewards.

His thoughts whirled, and he quickly refocused on the enhancement options.

First was Enhancement One, Elixir Saint Body, a very strong passive auxiliary ability. Its most impressive feature is that it can nearly double the efficiency of your drug consumption, thus significantly saving on resources. Of course, even without conserving, following the original regimen, you can achieve more robust refinement effects. This way, the effect of your Secret Martial Skills will also be strengthened.

According to the description of the enhancement, one could infer a bit.

The effect of the same Secret Martial cultivated to perfection with the assistance of Elixir Saint Body is significantly stronger than without it. To give a simple example, perhaps the same Martial Arts cultivated normally to perfection could only bring Bai Xiao an increase of five points in physique, but with Elixir Saint Body, it could be six or seven!

This is quite an exceptional ability.

It even has some similarities to Bai Xiao’s extraordinary passive, the Body of Martial Arts. But, the Elixir Saint Body is more limited because not all Secret Martial Skills require drug stimulation or absorption of medicinal power. If the particular Secret Martial Skill does not involve secret medicine, then this enhancement is ineffective. Moreover, even for Secret Martial that do require secret medicine, the proportion of drug assistance during cultivation varies. Some Secret Martial only need a small amount of drugs, while others require a lot. In summary, Elixir Saint Body enhancement has less effect on Secret Martial that are less reliant on drugs. Hence overall, it is definitely not as good as the Body of Martial Arts.

Bai Xiao’s gaze lingered for a moment, then continued downward.

In the past, had he come across an enhancement like Elixir Saint Body, he would have undoubtedly chosen it without hesitation. Even with its various limitations, its effects are still quite tempting. But now, in the third phase of the championship task profession enhancement, there were a total of five, all seemingly no less desirable than Elixir Saint Body.

Bai Xiao naturally wanted to take a good look and make comparisons.

His gaze shifted to Enhancement Two, the Double-headed Undead Bird. This option had appeared before, during the profession enhancement of the second phase championship task.

Back then, it was called the Undead Bird.