Chapter 139: Life 66, Age 22, Martial Master 5
Before my fourth Trial attempt, Yan made a suggestion. Unlike Instructor Yuan, he didn’t encourage me to give up cultivating essence, but he wanted me to get a safety net so that I didn’t have to worry if I failed to raise my earth affinity to mid five-star. His solution was for me to challenge the Wood Peak Trial.
None of us knew what the Wood Peak Trial would entail, so I had to prepare carefully.
Using both my Rank 2 token and one I borrowed from JiaQi, I entered the wood libraries and grabbed all of their techniques. I also took tokens donated by LiTing and Yan to enter the metal libraries.
To round things out, YuLong gave me two tokens to use on the water libraries. I didn’t need anything from there myself, but I wanted to try to use a water-based formation to help him with the Fire Peak Trial. Because of the qi situation in the Trials, the formations would have to be charged before entering. This meant he would only be able to use them a limited number of times, but some help was better than none.
At this point, I was feeling the limits of my ability to learn and develop new formations quickly enough. Master Qin was my ‘formations teacher,’ but all he did was show up once a month, give me a few suggestions, and then leave me to figure everything out on my own. To deal with this situation, I purchased an enhancement to my formation comprehension to give me the boost I needed.
Purchase confirmed. Cost 49.5 million credits. Credits remaining 1,522,275,658.
Over the course of five months, I created everything I thought I might need in a wood-based environment.
Wood qi would be available in abundance, so I had a lot of freedom to work on any formations that used it. Since wood was weak to metal, I also wanted to use metal-based formations, but because those would have to be ones that I could precharge, my options there were a bit more limited.
Ultimately, what stopped me from preparing too many formations was their size. We couldn’t bring storage bags with us, so everything would have to be carried in a regular backpack. As a cultivator, I could haul around a heavy load, but if my backpack was too large for the Trial’s entrance, I would have to leave it behind.