Chapter 3

After checking his character status, a thought flashed through Zhao Feng's mind, and his backpack interface appeared before him. The backpack was very small, with only the original 20 slots, and only the first slot contained a long stick, which could increase 30 points of attack power. The rest were empty.

The Creation game had a human touch in that when you first entered the game, besides giving you a plain white robe to cover your body, you could also obtain any plain white weapon and its corresponding basic martial arts from the village chief in the newbie village.

Although it was called martial arts, the plain white level martial arts had very limited attack power, only 50 points, and this was only if you cultivated it to the Great Success realm!

Generally, those without patience would spend a few days cultivating it to the Enlightenment state, which could only unleash 140% of their strength, adding only 70 points of attack, which was only slightly stronger than ordinary plain white equipment.

Because the effect was so poor, many people were even too lazy to learn it, directly leveling up to level 10, leaving the newbie village to buy stronger techniques in the city!

Bronze-level techniques could increase attack power between 100 and 200 points, and it only cost a few hundred gold coins!

Gold coins were the unified currency in the Creation game, with one gold coin equivalent to about one Chinese yuan. Directly linked to bank cards, this amount of money was not much for those who could enter the game!

Another noteworthy point was that the game's items and techniques were divided from low to high into eight levels: plain white, bronze, black iron, gold, dark gold, diamond, immortal, and divine, corresponding exactly to the eight levels of techniques.

For current players, bronze-level items were already considered very high-end, and Zhao Feng had not seen anyone on the forum obtain black iron-level items.

With a thought, the two-meter-long plain white stick, which could increase 30 points of attack power, appeared in his hand.

The village chief provided 18 types of weapons, and in terms of attack power, the long stick was the weakest!

But Zhao Feng had a particular fondness for it!

Martial artists all knew that the sword was the king of all weapons, the saber was the overlord, and the spear was the ancestor! But Zhao Feng believed that the stick was the true ancestor of all weapons!

This ancestor did not mean it appeared the earliest, but because it was the most flexible! With endless variations!

Five years to master a saber, ten years to master a sword, a hundred years to master a spear, but to reach the Great Success realm with a stick, it would take a lifetime!

A spear had a spearhead at one end, which was a powerful weapon, but it also limited the user's techniques. A stick had no such restriction; both ends could be used as handles and attack points, with the complexity of its techniques not just double that of a spear, but ten times more!

Such complexity naturally made it harder to master!

Harder to master, but once mastered, the power was unimaginable, far surpassing ordinary weapons!

The long stick might not be sharp or pointed, but its incredibly complex attack patterns could easily make up for this shortcoming!

Whether it was smashing or poking, if you found the opponent's weak point and used the stick's complex attack patterns, you could easily defeat the enemy!

Not only that, but by practicing the stick, you would be familiar with all the complex attack patterns, and if you switched to a spear, saber, or sword, you could easily find their weaknesses!

Being able to find their weaknesses, if you wanted to learn them, it would be very easy! This was the strongest point of the stick as the ancestor of all weapons!

Zhao Feng was also born into a martial arts family in reality, though it had declined, its origins were not ordinary. According to what his grandfather told him when he was young, their family had been passed down from the Tang Dynasty to the present day, though he didn't know if it was true.

However, he had used a long stick to build his foundation since he was young, which was said to be a tradition in their family.

Regardless of whether this tradition was true or not, practicing the stick from a young age had indeed brought Zhao Feng countless visible benefits!

This was the fundamental reason why he chose the very niche long stick as his weapon when he entered the game!

With the long stick in hand, the lazy aura that originally surrounded Zhao Feng suddenly disappeared, replaced by a solemn one!

At that moment, Zhao Feng seemed to turn into a mountain! Heavy and immense!

If there were martial artists from reality present, they would be greatly shocked!

Because this was "momentum," which was said to be beyond the realm of a Transformation Master, only reaching the legendary innate level!

Yet, Zhao Feng had displayed it, and in a game!

His body was extremely heavy, but Zhao Feng's eyes were very calm, as if he hadn't noticed the momentum he had displayed!

The long stick suddenly stabbed out, like a bolt of lightning, arriving in an instant!

The stick extended halfway, not yet reaching the predetermined position in Zhao Feng's mind, when the tip suddenly lifted upward.

The stick's movement was too fast and fierce, as if it wasn't pressing against air but a massive rock. The stick body lifted, but the tip remained in place, the entire stick bending like a half-circle bow!

The tip lifted halfway, and the pressed tip suddenly rose, its speed even surpassing the stick body! The tip rose, and the entire stick transformed into a reverse bow!

This force, if in reality, would be at least 500 pounds!

The upward force of the long stick, combined with the overwhelming momentum, pressed down with a thunderous force, creating a sound that traveled dozens of meters!

The basic stick techniques were simple, divided into twelve actions: strike, lift, chop, cover, press, cloud, sweep, thrust, support, lift, sweep, and block.

These actions, when used by Zhao Feng, each had the momentum of an unstoppable force! Each strike seemed capable of piercing and crushing a massive rock!

This was not just the basic stick techniques at the Great Success level, but also included Zhao Feng's 20 years of real-world stick practice experience!

The real-world experience could be seamlessly integrated into the game, which was the surprise that 100% virtual reality brought to Zhao Feng!

If you thought this was all Zhao Feng understood about stick techniques, you would be greatly mistaken!

Strength was one aspect of stick techniques, but the true essence was flexibility and the incredibly complex attack patterns!

With strength infused into the long stick, each strike was fierce, but this only lasted for less than two minutes!

After completing all the basic actions three times, the warm-up was over!

Indeed, the warm-up was over!

The long stick was held horizontally in front, and Zhao Feng suddenly moved, his body slightly tilted, his left foot stepping out, his right foot following, and his body turning, forming a perfect Z-shaped step, while the long stick completed a sweeping motion in an instant!

Although it was a sweeping motion, the force was immense, creating a strong wind, and the movement was as swift as lightning!

After completing the sweeping motion, Zhao Feng's actions did not stop.

The same twelve basic stick techniques, combined with various steps, created a series of strong winds, each movement as swift as lightning, forming a series of stick shadows around Zhao Feng!

This was just the beginning!

As time passed, Zhao Feng's movements became faster, and eventually, the stick shadows were no longer visible, only the continuous sound of breaking air could be heard!

Zhao Feng's figure was as swift as a dragon, moving so fast that only afterimages could be seen!

Zhao Feng's agility value was 40, but the series of afterimages he created far exceeded this number, even doubling it!

Agility was the attribute that players found the slowest to improve.

Attributes like attack, defense, and health could be significantly increased with each level up, ranging from 20 to 100 points, meaning each level up could increase these attributes by 20 to 100 points.

But agility? Even for speed-focused classes like thieves and archers, each level up only increased agility by about 5 points! Other classes might only increase by 1 point!

Zhao Feng's initial 40 agility was already comparable to a normal level 20 character, and now, more than doubling it, it was on par with a level 30 thief!

This was another breakthrough in virtual reality!

The numerical value was just an average representation, but it didn't limit your actions! There was also burst power!

Burst power was an unpredictable value, impossible to calculate with conventional methods! Zhao Feng was currently in a burst state!

While a normal person's burst state could only last for a short time, Zhao Feng's burst state lasted much longer!

Indeed, much longer, Zhao Feng wildly wielded the long stick for a full hour!

After an hour, when Zhao Feng stopped, panting, and checked his task status again, his basic stick technique proficiency had increased by 0.5 percentage points!

He had to continue!

After resting for ten minutes, Zhao Feng again wildly wielded his long stick!

Although his movements were incredibly fast, he wasn't just moving randomly. He was constantly setting up imaginary opponents in his mind and engaging in combat with them!

During the combat, he continuously adjusted the flaws in his techniques!

The proficiency of techniques and skills in the Creation game, from initial enlightenment to enlightenment, could be achieved by using them a certain number of times. However, from enlightenment to Great Success, you needed to truly understand the meaning of the techniques and skills!

This was a process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change!

Without this understanding, even if you flawlessly repeated a technique thousands of times, you would still only reach the enlightenment level, not the Great Success level, let alone the Master level!

Zhao Feng spent over a week to figure this out!

Reaching Great Success was already difficult, but reaching the Master level required breaking free from the constraints of the original techniques! The difficulty was even more terrifying! This was why Zhao Feng had not yet reached the Master level!

Even with his real-world experience, it was this difficult. For ordinary people, reaching the Master level might take more than a month, even three months or half a year!

Zhao Feng wildly wielded the long stick, continuously adjusting the flaws in his techniques. After an unknown amount of time, a sudden, indescribable enlightenment appeared in his mind, as if the long stick in his hand had disappeared, and he was no longer wielding a stick but his own arm!

The twelve basic stick techniques instantly flooded his mind, and in the next moment, a strong wind arose as he performed all twelve basic stick techniques in one breath, in just a moment!

As he stood with the stick in hand, a familiar, pleasant electronic female voice sounded in his ears.

"System Notice: Congratulations to player Ghost Shadow Devil for successfully upgrading the basic stick technique to the Master level. As the first player to reach the Master level in a skill, you are rewarded with 1000 personal reputation and a skill-matched weapon."

"Skill upgraded to the Master level, the system will automatically generate an announcement. Do you want to issue the announcement?"

A weapon as a reward? Zhao Feng's heart leaped with joy. As for personal reputation, the official website had not introduced its specific use, but it was better than nothing.

Announcement? Of course, he would choose no!

It was just a basic stick technique, and it took him a month to reach this level. If he announced it, he would probably be called an idiot by many people!

It was better to be low-key!

After rejecting the announcement, Zhao Feng again checked his character status, specifically looking at the technique section.

Technique: Basic Stick Technique: Increases attack power by 50 (Master 1/1, 250% base damage increase)

Seeing the 250%, Zhao Feng's eyes flashed with surprise. Although the basic stick technique only increased 50 points of attack power, his base attack power was high!

According to the attack power calculation formula provided by the official website: (Player's base attack + attack power increased by the skill or technique used + attack power increased by the weapon) * the percentage corresponding to the level of the skill or technique

Using the basic stick technique, it would be 100 + 50 + 10 points of attack power increased by the plain white stick, multiplied by 250%, which would be 400! This was already very close to the attack power of a level 20 regular class!

Absolutely powerful! The Master level was indeed formidable!

Zhao Feng laughed out loud three times, the effort of this month had not been in vain! Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotia.net

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