Ultimate Scheming System - Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Every secret art from the Nine-Characters Secret were ultimate techniques originated from various territories . With these skills— which includes increasing one’s attack power, defense power, regenerative power, and agility, one’s overall combat ability will be greatly enhanced through the Nine-Characters Secret .

Xu Que looked very contented . However, it seems like the system store is behaving like a black market . It only sold leftover chapters with each skill costing a whole 200 act tough points .

Also, with every purchase, the acquired skill would be random . It would be possible that one gets the "Battle" secret character twice in a row upon purchase .

Still, since this was Xu Que’s first purchase, he wasn’t very stressed at the fact .

However, he was eyeing the "Troop" and "Battle" secret characters .

The reason was because these two secret skills were perfect tools to act tough .

The "Troop" secret character could be used to steal control over one’s magical weapons, allowing the enemies’ own weapons to attack their owner . The "Battle" secret character could be used to copy enemies’ moves and even raise one attack power . It was similar to Mu Rong Family’s ‘An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’ within the novel"Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" .

Using one’s own weapons against him and using his own moves against himself, it would be definitely embarrassing for the opponent .

Of course, the "People" and "Forward" secret characters were not too shabby .

The "People" secret character can be used anytime to regenerate injuries . Although the system has passive automatic regeneration, it was very slow . Moreover, the "People" secret character has a more frightening ability . Upon mastery, one could revive any living creatures using a drip of his blood . There was no need to be afraid to be destroyed thoroughly by opponents .

The "Forward" secret character was mainly used to cultivate one’s spirit and heightens one’s sixth sense . In other words, one will gain the ability to foresee moves . With the ability to predict, one will be able to judge and carry out the correct course of actions during combat, gaining dominance in the fight . This skill was definitely a good choice to act tough .

The ones Xu Que did not want to get were the leftover "Group", "Move" and "All" secret characters . It was not to say that these skills were not good, but to Xu Que, these two categories of secret skills were not usable at all .

The "Group" secret character was a type of troop tactic based move and Xu Que wouldn’t use it very often .

The "Move" secret character’s function is to increase speed but he already possessed the Three-Thousand Volt Thunder thus he had no use for it .

The "All" secret character was the same . Since he had the Soaring Dragon Nine Transformations, he did not need this secret skill at the moment . Choosing anyone of these skills would be an undesirable outcome .

"Eh… screw that! I shan’t think so much . I am going to get this Nine-Characters Secret!"

After a moment of hesitation, Xu Que finally made his decision,and bought the expensive and wallet-burning Nine-Characters secret .

"Ding! Congratulations to host ‘Xu Que’ on the successful exchange of (Remaining Volume) . Obtained "Troop" secret character x 1 . Do you want to learn this skill?"

"Yeah! Awesome!"

After hearing the system beep, Xu Que threw his fist in the air and let out a big laugh .

"Troop" secret character . How nice!

Xu Que’s happiness was off the charts .

"Train it, I have to train it!"

"Ding! Congratulations to host ‘Xu Que’ on successfully learning the "Troop" secret character . "

Bang!

Xu Que’s mind abruptly shook with strings of golden colored ancient characters flowing by like water waves relentlessly . Ultimately, the characters fused into a mysterious force, taking root within his body .

Xu Que raised the corner of his lip and continued, "I shall exchange for and . "

"Ding! Exchange successful . Do you want to learn the skills?"

"Yes!"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Momentarily, his body emitted two waves of heat and flowed out of his body through his veins .

In a blink of an eye, Xu Que had learnt two skills .

The "Flame-Devouring Wave" and "Six Corporeal Forms" both originated from the techniques of the novel "Fight Break Spheres" . They were moves used by the main character, Xiao Yan in the early stage of the book to dispose of strong enemies in a sweep .

Although very cheap— priced at a mere 25 act tough points, adding the cost of the greatswords needed for the two skills, it would far surpass the cost of the Soaring Dragon Nine Transformations . It would even surpass the cost of low-level Sky-ranked skill books .

During his younger days, when Xu Que was reading the novel, when Xiao Yan held the ink-coloured, dark heavy greatsword, he felt that his character was uncomparable . It seemed like he looked very tough everywhere he went . And now, here he was, learning these two immersive skills . He couldn’t wait anymore and entered the weaponry section of the system store and started to choose his greatswords .

The weapons bundle were filled with many classes and levels of magical weapons . They were split into the amount of stars they have . The higher the star level, the better the quality of the weapon .

There were not many choices for the heavy greatsword and the numbers could be counted .

The lowest class was .

The weapon was from strongest godly sword from another of a novel by Jin Yong, a novelist . It was forged using dark metal, weighing 64 pounds; wielded by the sword demon, Dugu Qiubai, he became unbeatable in the world for 40 years .

After Dugu Qiubai’s death, the Dark Iron Heavy-Sword was passed on to Yang Guo . It was later melted by Huang Rong and later reforged into the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Saber .

The greatsword did not have a pointed edge, since it was rectangular shaped . Hence it also belonged to blunt class weapons . Although it has 1 star level, it requires 50 act tough points to purchase which was pretty frightening .

However, the "Troop" secret character, along with the two Earth-rank skills, costed only a total of 225 act tough points . He still had a hundred over points, and was confident that he could buy a stronger weapon than this .

He focused his attention to 2 star level weapons .

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Originated from within novel "Fight Break Spheres"’s weapons . Used by the main character, Xiao Yan . Forged by flame-type dark metals, this weapon is very sturdy and solid . Seemingly weighing like over a thousand pounds, it has a mystical effect of crushing enemies .

Selling price: 100 act tough points

The Dark Heavy-Greatsword was very similar to the Dark Iron Longsword . However, the blade of the greatsword seemed very big and bulky . Moreover, on that dark giant greatsword, there were faint, exotic vein-like on the blade itself . The vein-like design stretched up to its handle . The carvings filled the entirety of the blade, along with its plain dark and simple colour . It looked rather mysterious indeed .

"I’m buying it!"

Xu Que moved his hand in a wide motion, immediately buying the Dark Heavy-Buster Sword, which had a price comparable to that of a mid-level Sky-rank skill book .

I will definitely look especially tough now that I am similar to Xiao Yan!

"Ding! Congratulations to host ‘Xu Que’ on obtaining Dark Heavy-Buster Sword . "

"Ding! Detected that host has learnt the ‘Flame-Devouring Wave’ and ‘Six Corporeal Forms’ skills . Completed hidden achievement . Awarded with Xiao Yan’s Black Robe x 1 . "

Wow! Damn!

What’s happening? I got a free hidden achievement prize for buying something?

But what does Xiao Yan’s Black Robe do?

Does it have any attribute effects?

Xu Que’s face was stunned . He then quickly opened his system inventory .

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Unsellable item . A robe worn by Flame Emperor Xiao Yan when he was young, making it very valuable . Able to conceal one’s appearance . Cultivation stages of Infant Transformation and below will be unable to detect concealment . While wearing the robe, it gives opponents a pressure of immense power .

"Damn . Is this the legendary automatic acting tough?"

Xu Que was very excited upon the occurrence of the event .

Being able to conceal one’s appearance is nothing but being able to give opponents a pressure of immense presence is really something big .

Thinking of it, once the robe is worn, an immense pressure will follow everywhere I go . Everyone will focus their attention on my presence and will immediately trigger the "Subtle acting tough" reward .

"Hahahaha! Wherever I walk, no one can resist my presence . "

Xu Que was overjoyed . He immediately took out the black robe and the Dark Heavy-Greatsword .

The moment the black robe was donned, his aura changed . He was exuding an icy cold and deep presence .

Xu Que then carried the Dark Heavy-Buster Sword on his back, creating a spitting image of a fake Xiao Yan .

"Wow! It feels rather good . When I have time, I shall change into this set and walk around the Sects to earn some act tough points . ?"

With a contentful nod, Xu Que kept both the items back into his system inventory .

He didn’t want to show up at Pan Shan Village looking like this . He was afraid that with the robe, the immense pressure will cause the villagers to kneel down and worship him again .

…

At the moment, the Pan Shan Villagers were stupefied .

When Xu Que was fighting a war with those cultivators on the mountains, the villagers were watching from below .

When the four legendary beasts were summoned, the villagers were badly frightened .

When they saw that the fairy-boned "Old Saints" were forced into the spell by Xu Que and killed all of a sudden, they all gained their senses immediately .

Looking up, the vermillion bird and the green dragon had already disappeared .

The skies were blue and the mountains were intact!

Xu Que changed back into the coarse hemp robes . With a mesmerizing smile, he rode on the lightning and hovered down from the mountains with his clothes fluttering with the wind .

Amongst the crowd, Xiao Rou was dazed . With the small and blushy face and beady eyes, she was so adorable, that someone would just take a bite out her .