Chapter 2: Hurrying Ducks onto Shelves

  Although this talent tree looks grand and complex, Ling Jing roughly scanned it and found that the talent tree was actually systematically divided.

  This innate tree is divided into four layers. The first layer is very simple, with only four gray icons: Root Bone, Body Method, Internal Force and Enlightenment, each with a "0/5" mark in the lower right corner.

  This first layer of innate talent Ling Jing can understand, in the "Martial Arts Myth" the character attributes are divided into four categories: roots, body method, internal force and wisdom, but he has not yet discovered these four attributes on himself.

  And if he didn't guess wrong, the "0/5" mark on each icon represents that five talent points are needed to fully light up this icon and get the character bonus effect on the icon.

  At this time, he focused his attention on the icon of the root bone, and sure enough, a line of small characters jumped out.

  "Bone Structure: 1 point of innate talent increases bone structure by 20 + 3% of the upper limit of bone structure"

  He was mentally prepared and continued to cast his gaze on the other three icons of the first layer of the talent tree. The results were similar, except for the "Insight" icon which read "A little bit of innate talent +5 Insight +3% upper limit of Insight". The data for internal force and body technique were roughly the same as those for root bones.

  At this time, his line of sight fell on the bottom of the innate tree again. Sure enough, as he guessed, two lines of data jumped into his eyes.

  "Current talent points used: 0"

  "Available talent points: 0"

  After seeing these two lines of familiar small characters, Ling Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Damn! It's like going back to the night before liberation, all zero, I wiped it out."

  These data are similar to the settings in "Wuxia Myth", but his previous game character was a top-notch existence in the game, not to mention his divine equipment, and he had more than 200 talent points, even if it was the last layer of the talent tree. The ultimate martial arts were all lit up with four or five, in the game that is a legendary role, otherwise he would not dare to run alone to the high-level map Shadow Valley to hang up and brush equipment.

  But looking back at the talent tree in his mind, he had a feeling of going from being a billionaire to a beggar overnight. The four layers of talent icons were all gray, not a single one was lit up, and the available talent points were still zero. This was really like going back to the liberation era overnight.

  Ling Jing had already roughly guessed the purpose of this talent tree and felt slightly relieved, then continued to look at the next layer of talents.

  The result is roughly the same as he imagined, with all the icons on the second to fourth floors being martial arts, and the division of martial arts levels is similar to "Martial Arts Myth", divided into lower-level martial arts, middle-level martial arts, upper-level martial arts, and absolute skills.

  There are hundreds of obscure icons on the second layer of the talent tree, which are mostly lower and middle-grade martial arts. Even something like "Chong Ling Sword Technique", a lower-grade martial art that is evaluated by the system as "not worth mentioning", is available, and the condition to unlock it only requires one talent point.

  But for some reason, when he saw the four words "Chong Ling Jian Fa", a sudden surge of irritability and depression rose in his chest. He felt somewhat inexplicable, shook his head to throw off this mood, and continued reading on.

  The third layer of the innate tree was not unexpectedly all top-notch martial arts, Mount Heng's "Thirty-six Routes of Returning Wind and Falling Wild Goose Style", "Fierce Flame Knife", "Infinite Void Finger", "Orthodox and Reversed Two Instruments - Sword and Saber Absolute", "Plucking Flower Finger"...... Various top-notch martial arts were categorized and exhaustive, giving Ling Jing a dizzying feeling.

  But when he saw the fourth layer of innate talent tree, his eyes emitted a wolf-like glow, "Qiankun Dano", "Beiming Shengong", "Lingbo Weibu", "Dugu Jiu Jian", "Dou Zhuan Xingyi", "Yuanyang Dao"...... Dozens of top-notch martial arts, all in sight, made him wish to light up all the icons immediately, and then he could achieve great success and roam freely.

  But when he saw the bright fourth floor icon, he suddenly went down again.

  "The fourth layer of talent point lighting conditions: More than 100 talent points have been spent in the first three layers of talent"

  After seeing this line of text, he suddenly had a feeling of punching his chest and stomping his feet: "Damn it, this is not really playing the game. In 'Wuxia Myth', I can upgrade and do tasks to get talent points, but in 'The Smiling, Proud Wanderer' how am I supposed to upgrade? How am I supposed to get talent points?"

  He couldn't help but feel depressed, in the past, in "Wuxia Myth", the talent points were still easy to come by, as long as you kept leveling up and doing odd jobs, you could always accumulate them, even if it was a top-notch martial art, as long as you had patience, equipment that was slightly worse, and a level that was slightly lower, none of this mattered, there was always hope to light it up.

  But in this world, leveling up? Are you kidding me, he's not a game character.

  Doing tasks? This damn thing is not.......

  "Hmm... doing tasks..." He suddenly paused in his mind, swallowing the scolding words, and only then remembered that the "Talent Martial Arts System" had indeed said it would give him a task.

  Ling Jing waited quietly for a moment, and with a "ding" in her mind, the system's voice finally sounded again.

  "Countdown ends, below is the first mission of host Ling Jing after arriving in the world of Laughing in the Wind and Clouds."

  "Main Quest: Rescue Yirin"

  "Mission content: Assist the eldest disciple of Mount Hua, Linghu Chong, in rescuing Yilin from the hands of Tian Boguang, the 'Lone Traveler', within 24 hours."

  "Conditions for completion: Send Yinglin of the Hengshan Sect back to Ding Yitian, and ensure that none of Linghu Chong, Tian Boguang, or Yinglin die."

  "Task Completion Reward: 2 Talent Points, Root Bone +10, Body Technique +10, Internal Energy +20"

  "Mission Failure Penalty: Eradicate Host"

  "Task published, countdown begins"

  The system's voice disappeared again, but in Ling Jing's mind, a shiny timer suddenly appeared, with the number starting from "86400" and decreasing non-stop, subtracting one every second.

  He stared at this timer, suddenly having an urge to curse loudly. He didn't even understand where the plot was going now, nor did he know what level his martial arts were at. Yet, he was being forced by this ghost system to rush forward.

  And the penalty for this task was actually a direct wipeout...... A chill ran up his spine, and Ling Jing suddenly felt that he had become a fish on the chopping board, to be slaughtered by the system at will.

  He lowered his head and forced himself to calm down. Since this system was able to cross over with him, its abilities were definitely extremely strong. Now he had no choice but to believe what the system said.

  Gritting his teeth, a glint of determination and coldness flashed in his eyes: "Damn it, I can't just admit defeat like this. This body was trained in martial arts on Mount Hua since childhood, and was personally taught by 'Junzi Sword' Yue Buqun, so its martial skills shouldn't be too bad."

  He had already thought it over in his mind, thinking: "No matter what, I'll first ask a few fellow disciples to see how the plot has developed so far, and then make plans."

  However, since the task released by the system was "Rescue Yilin", he could still guess some of the overall time of the current plot, it's just that he couldn't understand it any more specifically.

  If he didn't remember wrongly, Tian Boguang kidnapped Yilin on the way to Hengshan City for the disciples of Hengshan Sect to pay their respects. This Liu Zhengfeng's golden basin washing hands is an important main line in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, and Linghu Chong got his score from Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang at this time.

  It was also because of this score that the incident where Linghu Cong was wrongly accused by King Xie of stealing the Evil Sword Spectrum occurred, and it was then that Linghu Cong met with the Saintess of the Devil Sect, Ren Yingying.

  But at this moment, were Yilun and his party on their way to Mount Heng, or had they been hijacked by Tian Boguang, or had Lin Pingzhi already intervened and were now fighting at the Swan Goose Tower?

  Ling Jing suddenly had a headache.

  As he thought of this, Ling Jing raised his head and the four people around him appeared in his line of sight. The sturdy one was Third Brother Liang Fa, the fashionably dressed one was Fourth Brother Shi Dai Zi, the one holding an abacus was Fifth Brother Gao Gen Ming, and as for the last one with a small monkey on his shoulder, it goes without saying that it was Sixth Brother Lu Da You.

  At this time, he asked the calm Third Brother Liang Fa: "Third Brother, I was drunk yesterday and now my head is still hurting. I'm a bit unclear about the date, don't know how many days until Liu Shu's retirement ceremony?"