In a hundred years, Chen Xin had already gone through ten Reincarnations, reaching his tenth life. What was most frustrating was that throughout these hundred years, Chen Xin didn't even know if this world was a cultivation or fantasy world, because Chen Xin had barely seen any supernatural or fantasy phenomena appear. He had never seen anyone use things like True Qi or battle qi, and he hadn't even seen the lower-level energy system of Internal Energy! At most, Chen Xin had seen a certain Master use fluorite for illumination, which was something he had never seen on Earth.
If it weren't for the existence of the modifier, Chen Xin would have thought he had fallen into Hell and was enduring the endless cycle of cruel suffering.
And among these, the modifier was the most unreasonable existence. It clearly had super powerful functions, but it insisted on requiring you to accumulate one hundred experience points before partially opening up its functions for use. According to what Chen Xin currently knew, the acquisition of these experience points could only be obtained through the passage of time, meaning it could only be accumulated over time, with only 1 point obtained per year.
As for special experiences, killing monsters to drop experience points, and so on, Chen Xin had experimented with all of them. Chen Xin had assassinated the highest-level person he could see (a minor noble similar to a village chief) and had also courted death by seducing the slave owner's ugly daughter. But none of these brought Chen Xin any experience points; instead, they made Chen Xin endure two more instances of brutal, life-worse-than-death torture.
After living in this world for a long time, Chen Xin finally understood that the primary consideration was not ability and talent, but rather one's background, because in this dark and sunless group, he had been reincarnated and reborn ten times, and not once had he managed to rise above. This was simply because the structure of the society he was in offered no opportunity for class transcendence.
The only thing Chen Xin had accomplished in a hundred years was stealing a Secret Manual that he didn't know if he could even Cultivate, and learning the writing of this world. Other than that, Chen Xin had achieved nothing, simply enduring suffering and abuse.
However, with the rapid passage of a hundred years, some functions of Chen Xin's modifier were finally open for use. If it weren't for this modifier, Chen Xin would probably have become numb in the cycle of Reincarnations long ago.
First, let's look at the current character panel.
Character: Chen Xin
Age: 17 (90)
Initial Background: Slave (Ant)
Spiritual Root: Mixed Spiritual Root
Aptitude: Extremely Poor (E)
Comprehension: Extremely Poor (E)
Cultivation: None
Reputation: Dust
Inventory (3/3): Po Lu Divine Skill (Mortal Grade Low-Rank Cultivation Method), a bag of millet (40kg), Copper Sword
Talent: "Reincarnation (Each time you die, you can randomly reborn on a person of the same background and age 17. Body Aptitude and cultivation are completely inherited from the previous life)"
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Chen Xin's accumulation over a hundred years was only these three things. The Copper Sword was stolen by Chen Xin during his fifth life. Putting food in the inventory was a habit he had developed as early as his third life, after all, there was always something to eat no matter what.
What was important was this Po Lu Divine Skill. It was a cultivation method that Chen Xin had painstakingly cultivated for 15 years in his previous life, waiting for an opportunity, before he had the chance to kill the young and brutal slave owner Master while he slept and steal his cultivation method.
Of course, if this bamboo slip wasn't a cultivation method, then Chen Xin would definitely have been devastated. Fortunately, after putting it in the inventory, it showed that it was a cultivation method, although it seemed to be the lowest level of cultivation method.
But the current situation for Chen Xin was that he was suffering from not having a cultivation method to Cultivate, so he didn't care about the quality of this cultivation method.
After accumulating one hundred experience points and the modifier's functions were currently open for use, Chen Xin could finally start modifying his character panel. However, this kind of panel modification still required spending experience points.
After using the 100 experience points, Chen Xin realized that it wasn't much. Chen Xin raised his Aptitude and comprehension each by one level, and this consumed Chen Xin's 100 experience points, exhausting a hundred years of accumulation in one second.
As a result, Chen Xin's panel became like this.
Character: Chen Xin
Age: 17 (90)
Initial Background: Slave (Ant)
Spiritual Root: Mixed Spiritual Root
Aptitude: Poor (D)
Comprehension: Poor (D)
Cultivation: None
Reputation: Dust
Talent...
It still didn't look very good, but poor Aptitude was always better than extremely poor, right? Although Chen Xin hadn't cultivated any cultivation methods, he could imagine how useless cultivating with extremely poor Aptitude would be.
The Aptitude problem and cultivation method problem that had troubled Chen Xin for a hundred years were all solved at once. As for the question of how to Cultivate, he could only Cultivate while working as a slave.
Looking at the surrounding environment, his five colleagues were sitting together discussing their future worries. The six of them lived in an environment like a pigsty or cattle shed.
But this obviously couldn't stop Chen Xin's determination to improve. If it weren't for the fact that modifying the initial background consumed too many experience points, with modifying one item taking a full 100 points, Chen Xin would definitely immediately find a way to court death and get a more normal starting point.
Sitting in the corner, Chen Xin had no reservations. He took out the bamboo slip with the cultivation method written on it from his inventory and brazenly looked through it in front of these people, not avoiding them at all, because these five people were basically illiterate if nothing unexpected happened. Anyway, as long as he put it in his inventory, these people couldn't steal his cultivation method, and they couldn't understand it either.
As for fantasizing about cultivating secretly without attracting attention, that was basically impossible. As a slave, there was little free time, let alone for these cannon fodder slaves who were about to be sent to the front lines of the battlefield to fill the gaps. Chen Xin had truly spent a hundred years in this world, and he was very clear about the fate that people of his status would suffer on the battlefield.
Chen Xin looked through the bamboo slip. Although this Po Lu Divine Skill was a Mortal Grade Low-Rank cultivation method, it was clearly a cultivation method that was very suitable for Chen Xin to Cultivate. Why was it suitable? Because it not only didn't require high Aptitude, but it also had a part of an enlightenment effect.
Chen Xin had spent a hundred years in this world, but due to the limitations of his social status, he had never been exposed to cultivation. However, "Po Lu Divine Skill" mentioned some of the drawbacks of cultivating this cultivation method at the very beginning.
"This cultivation method has no miraculous effects, nor does it have any techniques for summoning wind and rain, thus it is not limited by Spiritual Roots and is easy to get started.
However, a person's lifespan is limited. Even if this cultivation method is cultivated to its extreme, it does not have the effect of increasing lifespan or accumulating qi like other cultivation methods. Furthermore, once a cultivator's lifespan is more than half, they begin to enter a declining period. If they do not have means to increase lifespan, they are no different from ordinary people. Qi and strength Peak at thirty years old, and then decline each year thereafter.
Below the Golden Core Stage, the quality of a cultivation method is judged by its ability to accumulate qi, increase lifespan, etc. The increase in spells, martial arts, and divine abilities is secondary. In youth, one pursues cultivation methods; in prime, one pursues martial arts and divine abilities; in old age, one seeks the method of longevity.
Therefore, if there are other options, if there is talent, one must not delve deeply into the study and exploration of this cultivation method, wasting precious youth, leading to indignation and unwillingness in old age."