121- Refinement Stage As I said, even a mortal human who has never cultivated can defeat an Awakening stage human or a Beginning stage human if he/she has practiced some fighting techniques. But the difference starts showing after stepping into the ‘Refinement stage’. The Refinement stage is divided into 5 levels. And they are: Skin Refinement Level Muscle Refinement Level Tissue Refinement Level Organs Refinement Level Bone Refinement Level And as one reaches the ‘Skin Refinement Level’, ordinary punches or kicks can hardly hurt him/her and even the weapons used, must be sharp and must be used by some cultivator. An ordinary mortal will never be able to inflict any lethal injury on a cultivator who has reached the ‘Skin Refinement Level’. In the Skin Refinement Level, there is only a little increase in power but the major increase is in defense. Now, before I proceed, I need to check for the information that has been unlocked in the ‘Brown book’ after

123- Locking Stats ‘ding’ ‘The [Locking Stats] function, is a function that restricts or locks all the stats or specific stats of the host.’ ‘For example: The host is in a fight with someone. All the stats of the host are at 100, while the stats of the opponent are all in the 50s. And the host wishes to fight with stats equal to that of the opponent. Then with the [Locking Stats] function, the host can lock any stat up to any number, such that for the fight host can lock 50 stats and the remaining stats will be 50 and the host can have a fight with equal terms. In this case, the host’s body is already adapted to 100 stats, but the host is only able to use power equal to 50 stats.’ ‘Note: The [Locking Stats] function will not affect any hidden ability.’ [Author’s note: For those who are confused or feel that my English was confusing, well sorry but English is not my first language so please understand. As for what I am trying to say in the previous paragraph: The [Locking

125- Jade Viscera plant The first organ that I chose to refine is- the liver. The reason I chose the liver as the first organ to refine is – whether it is in the past world or in this world, the liver performs many important functions like purifying, secretion of juices, detoxification, etc. So, I started injecting [Qi] into the liver and started nourishing it. Due to the quality of my [Qi] that has been built by practicing the [8 levels of Qi forging technique] which showed its magic as a few minutes later, I could see some impurities being released from the liver. And finally, it happened, the thing I was waiting for. ‘ding’ ‘+1 Resistance’ ‘ding’ ‘Stats limit has been raised and the [Resistance] stat can be increased further.’ . Just as I thought that there will be changes in the ‘Resistance’ stat after I refine my organs. And due to cultivation, the ‘Resistance’ stat is increasing (the numbers that are in brackets on the status window) and even the st

127- Arrays and Formation ‘Ding’ ‘All the stats except for [Vitality], [Charm], and [Luck] stat have been increased by 200.’ Damn... I better not be dreaming, and I also hope that I am not using up all of my measly luck. Like I had to go through many bad things and face dangers constantly. But now I am getting so many good things, how can I not be worried that my luck will be used up if this continues? I am not complaining, just worried, that’s it. Also, I can hardly hold back from disabling the ‘Locking stats’ function and start investing all the stored 9000+ ‘Free stat points’ into the stats and feel the huge power increase. But I held back because I don’t want it to interfere with my cultivation speed. Like, if I increase the stats and my body and abilities are upgraded then, what changes will happen when I cultivate further to the Evolver stage and Demi-human stage? Will there even be any change or increase in power? So, to prevent any mishaps, I decide

129- The perfect [Qi compressing formation] And after restarting cultivation, I was always trying to decide which element to choose as the 5th element and weighing each of the element's pros and cons. And with the ‘Creation space’ being able to create different elements, I can use more than 5 elements. But there was a catch, I did not own the formula to create other elements. But finally, in the brown book, I got the guides or formulas for all the secondary elements. And after creating all the elements in the Creation space, I can inject them into the ‘Vital energy’ and then wash my body. I don’t know if anyone has ever done this feat or if it is even possible, but I feel that I should give this a try. I know this could be extremely dangerous, but I want to give it a shot. The only thing that I am worried about is the issue that will occur when I reach the peak of High level Evolver stage. As I said, at the peak of High level Evolver stage, I have to wash my body wit