I Cultivate Passively

Chapter 41: Summary

After sensing that plenty of people were staring at him, Zhou Feng chose to return to his room.

The more he knew, the more he understood how dangerous the Bitter Bamboo Peak was.

The first was the three Demon-Devouring Arts. There were definitely many Senior Brothers and Sisters on the Bitter Bamboo Peak who had successfully cultivated it.

At the same time, based on the Demon-Devouring Arts’ strange progress speed, it was very likely that most of the Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples were at the Qi Condensation realm.

The two people he had hunted before might be the weakest ones on Bitter Bamboo Peak. That was why he had been able to succeed so easily.

Under such an assumption, it might be a good choice to stay behind closed doors and wait for the martial arts competition to come.

However, his current realm was still a little low.

“Only in the Qi Induction realm?”

Zhou Feng worked hard to circulate the Demon-Devouring Technique and absorb the barren Spiritual Qi in the surroundings.

He was still not satisfied with his current cultivation level.

This was because the martial arts competition would attract all the elite inner disciples, and the ones at the top were definitely in the Qi Condensation realm.

He, who was only in the Qi Induction realm, was still far from those elite disciples.

Under such circumstances, it was too difficult for him to get a good ranking.

“Should I take this opportunity to hunt once?”

Zhou Feng considered whether he should hunt once tonight and use the Demon-Devouring Gu to make another breakthrough.

If he could devour a Qi Condensation realm Senior Brother, it would not be impossible for his cultivation to rise to the Qi Condensation realm directly.

But doing so was extremely risky, as his Qi Condensation Senior Brothers or Senior Sisters were experienced in hundreds of battles and cultivated all kinds of secret techniques simultaneously. Their battle prowess was on a completely different level from the small fries he had previously hunted.

“The key is to catch the opponent off guard!”

Of course, if there was no chance at all, it was not that there was no chance.

As long as he caught the opponent off guard, he would be able to injure the opponent first severely. Then, the chance would be great.

Thus, Zhou Feng began to summarize his advantages for the first time.

The first advantage that helped him the most was naturally the skill panel. After continuously acquiring passive skills during this period, he had quite many passive skills.

Gluttony (Level 2), Old Skin, Self-Healing Constitution, Nature Affinity, Poison Immunity, Underwater Breathing, and Longevity—they were support growth-type skills that didn’t have much of an effect on normal battles.

Then there were the passive battle-type skills, namely Battle Instinct, Bone Coating, Aura Blade, which could directly increase his battle prowess.

Zhou Feng carefully pondered and found that he lacked passive battle-type skills.

Moreover, of these three passive battle-type skills, two of them had a long cooldown.

Once Bone Coating and Aura Blade were triggered, they would take a long time to recover.

The only passive skill that could act as a buff during the whole process was Battle Instinct.

Although this passive skill was useful, its effect was too random. It could not increase his battle prowess to a high level.

It seemed like he would need to find a way to increase the rate at which he could obtain passive skills.

This was because he could obtain a passive skill every once in a while.

Moreover, this interval wasn’t too long.

Thus, Zhou Feng hadn’t paid much attention to how to increase the rate at which he could obtain passive skills.

What was known was that continuously absorbing Spiritual Qi would increase the progress bar on the skill panel.

However, this required numerous Spirit Stones, and he did not have many of them.

Earning Spirit Stones might be an important goal in the future.

The passive skill inventory was done.

Next would be the techniques he had mastered.

Zhou Feng was currently cultivating the Demon-Devouring Technique, and the Gu in his body had also transformed into a Demon-Devouring Gu.

However, his understanding of the Demon-Devouring Technique was still very shallow. As for the Demon-Devouring Technique’s mention of using the Demon-Devouring Gu to increase his battle prowess, he had not mastered it at all.

After the Demon-Devouring Technique, there were the Bitter Bamboo Peak’s three Demon-Devouring Arts. Among the three arts, he had only mastered the Demon-Devouring Armor had to the initial stage.

He had not even reached the threshold of the other two arts’ initial stage.

“It’s still because I started cultivating later than others!”

Regarding this, Zhou Feng was helpless.

After all, he had not been cultivating for a long time. One needed a lot of time in order to master martial techniques and arts.

At best, he had only started cultivating for less than half a year.

He had been a mortal just half a year ago, yet he was now a Qi Induction cultivator. He felt that his cultivation speed was already very fast.

“Finally, it’s weapons!”

He didn’t possess many weapons, and he was adept at using lime as a means of attack.

After entering the inner sect, the sand from before had also turned into lime, which was still very useful when one’s cultivation level was low.

Once one reached the Qi Gathering realm and above, however, the protective spiritual energy could directly counter such a low-level attack.

For example, if Zhou Feng used his Demon-Devouring Armor, the lime would not affect him at all.

Since the Bitter Bamboo Peak had the Demon-Devouring Armor, it was likely that the other peaks also had corresponding defensive measures.

Therefore, lime was no longer useful.

Next was a few poisons.

After becoming Qian Shang and his daughter’s backer, Zhou Feng had also obtained some ordinary poisons. After all, the shops that Qian Shang operated mainly dealt with various poisonous Gu.

It was very normal to extract poisons from poisonous Gu.

The most useful one was the poison called the Ecstasy Incense. It had a strong hallucinogenic effect and did not differentiate between friend and foe.

Even a Qi Gathering cultivator would be slightly dazed when taking a whiff of the Ecstasy Incense.

However, the disadvantage was that it was extremely easy to volatilize and had to be placed close to the face. The effect would be bad if it was placed far away.

It was precisely because of this that the Ecstasy Incense’s market price was not very high.

It had to be placed close to one’s face, and one could not differentiate between friend and foe. Wasn’t this a joke?

Directly placing the Ecstacy Incense close to one’s face and causing both parties to be in a trance was equivalent to not placing it at all.

Moreover, this Ecstacy Incense was a joke to the inner Penta-Poison disciples. The Penta-Poison Gu in one’s body could ignore most of the poison, and at the same time, they were experts at playing with poison.

However, even with all these shortcomings, it was beneficial to Zhou Feng.

The reason was that he had a passive immunity to poisons.

The Ecstacy Incense had no effect on him at all, so he could use it directly in front of his face.

Only the opponent would be affected, while Zhou Feng would be fine.

As for the lack of other effects, it was not a big problem. Causing a trace to the opponent was the only effect he needed.

Using the Ecstacy Incense in combination with Bone Coating’s defense and the full-charge attack of Aura Blade could carry out Zhou Feng’s life-changing strategy.

Imagine, once a battle broke out, he would press his face against the opponent’s and use the Ecstacy Incense, instantly causing the opponent to fall in a trance.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he would deal a heavy blow to the opponent with the fully charged Aura Blade.

In the next second, even if his opponent managed to react, Bone Coating would cancel out more than half of the damage if they wanted to counterattack.

In this way, Zhou Feng naturally had a huge advantage.

Since the opponent would not know that Zhou Feng could accomplish something like that, there would be mistakes in the intel one gathered on Zhou Feng. Thus, this would result in mistakes in the way the opponent dealt with Zou Feng.