Half-elf Ranger

Ding!

You have practiced through unremitting efforts:

Gain experience points: 300 points!

Get practice points: 50 points!

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When Thorne's "Qi Refining Technique" was all running, he immediately felt a heat flow spreading throughout his body, instantly dispelling all the cold energy accumulated in his body overnight.

The frost on his hair and brows quickly melted into water droplets that slid down his delicate cheeks.

This is the benefit of Qi Refinement. After you have practiced all its operating methods, the unknown elements absorbed from the surrounding air will be converted into Qi energy, strengthening your own constitution.

Although the effect of this strengthening was so low that Thorne himself could not notice any changes, 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 training.

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

This kind of "Qi Refining Technique", which was passed down from the mainland of Karatu, is divided into five realms, namely: the first glimpse of the door, the integration, the perfection, the peak, and the master!

According to the mysterious old man, every time he reaches a realm, his physical quality will be improved in an all-round way.

And today's Thorne 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, and without hundreds of years of unremitting cultivation, it is simply impossible to reach the highest level of the realm.

Based on the nearly 200-year lifespan of Thorne's half-elf race, even if he practiced unremittingly every day, he could only cultivate to the second realm in his life at most: integration!

Therefore, the cultivation of this kind of qi-refining technique can only be done gradually and gradually, and it cannot be done too hastily.

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

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

In a life like his who licks blood almost every day, he never dared to hope for anything.

Because you can't predict which one will come first, tomorrow or the accident?

And what he needs to do is to live every day as fully as possible.

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

The time at this time is about 8:00 in the morning. Although the sky is bright, the hazy fog has not completely dissipated.

The thin mist drifted in the rolling hills, like a flowing cloud of smoke.

After thinking for a while, Thorne took out an egg-sized stone from the dimension bag.

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

This is a hedron from the plane of shadow, a stone condensed from pure shadow energy.

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

Shadow Hand is a swordsmanship mastering sneak attack, trickery and ambush.

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

Like Desert Wind, most of the moves are supernatural abilities.

A supernatural ability is an ability that will not be disturbed by anything except the anti-magic field (prohibition of magic), and can also be cast instantaneously.

Even spell resistance, counterspell, or dispel magic are useless to it.

For example, the priest's dispelling undead, the paladin's slaying evil, and the petrified lizard's petrifying gaze are all supernatural abilities.

Therefore, in order to convert the Qi in the body into shadow energy at any time, it is necessary to absorb a special item with abundant shadow energy.

Thorne clenched the shadow spar in his right hand, and immediately began to operate the method of channeling shadow energy in "Shadow Hand Pie".

With the icy shadow aura constantly pouring into Thorne's body, the shadow spar in his hand quickly melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a while...

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

At the same time, a string of light blue data information appeared on his retina:

The shadow energy has been absorbed!

Get supernatural abilities: Shadow Darling!

Shadow Beloved (Stance): As a beginner in Shadowcraft, you have learned to channel and control the energies of darkness and shadows.

Effect: Shadows surround you as you move, and as long as you're still active, you're barely noticeable even in broad daylight.

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

Then Thorne looked at the remaining more than 5,000 cultivation points, and after thinking about it, he finally moved his attention to the skill list of the Steel Soul faction.

Whether to consume 5000 practice points to learn the perfect spirit immediately!

Yes!

Thorne confirmed immediately.

Obtain Steel Souls (Countering Skill): Perfect Spirit!

Spirit of Perfection: Utilizing a steely will and a high degree of concentration, you can resist the forces that erode your will, and when you feel that this force is trying to blind you, you can use the energy within yourself to resist.

Effect: Your mental concentration and martial arts practice make your spirit as strong as an iron wall, and you can become extremely firm when opponents use spells to erode your spirit.

Perfect Spirit is a defensive control skill.

When Thorne encounters control spells like Charm Human, Hold Human, Fright, etc. used by enemies on him.

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

After mastering the perfect spirit, at this time he has mastered six types of Nine Swords moves, which means that he can already part-time the basic occupation of Nine Swords: Kendo (Sword of the Sage)!

[Desert Style] lv1 (12420000)

Red Lotus Sword (enhancement technique), Flame Star (strike technique), Fire Avoidance Technique (stance technique)

[Soul of Steel] lv1 (3620000)

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

[Shadow Hand School] lv1 (020000)

Shadow Darling (Stance)

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

Because in addition to consuming a lot of experience points, you also need 5,000 training points to work a part-time job.

Cultivation points, like experience points, are very important, and experience points are used to improve one's own professional level.

Most of the practice points are used to improve the specialties and various powerful professional skills that need to be trained.

For example, Thorne's [Desert Wind Sect] lv1 (12420000) wants to raise it to level 2.

In addition to relying on his own accumulated training, the fastest way is to use 20,000 points of cultivation experience to instantly upgrade to level 2.

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

Thorne's 10,000 points of practice experience took him half a year, and when this practice point is used to kill monsters in the wild, when the level difference between the two sides is too large, the acquisition speed will be greatly reduced.

As for the knowledge and training methods in the training ground or watching some martial arts schools, 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 lead the way to the peak, both experience points and practice points are indispensable.

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

Therefore, for the little ranger who is only level 5 in Thorne, the road ahead is still a long way to go!

Thorne clenched his fists, and his gaze towards the sky became firm again!

Then he lifted the long sword stuck to the ground, and took out a delicate wooden whistle from his pocket.

Woo!

A shrill and dull sound spread into the distant sky, causing everyone in the valley to look sideways.

"Let's pack up and get ready to go." Thorne said lightly, feeling the suspicious eyes of everyone.

Tweet!

Not long after Thorne finished speaking, a loud eagle roar suddenly came from the sky.

Then the shadow flew over Thorne's head and swirled a few times before diving down immediately.

Thorne immediately stretched out his arm, and the shadow of the sky fell on Thorne's left arm obediently.

Thorne smiled and stroked the eagle's head, and the Dire Eagle let out a long, happy cry, took off again, and hovered over Thorne again.

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

Thorne, as a ranger, naturally will not lack an animal companion.

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