Unlimited priesthood

Chapter 6: Poor picture
One year later, Hejian Prefecture.

The weather was good. Although it was winter, it was not as cold as in previous years. The sun was shining brightly today, bringing a lot of warmth. The streets were also opened, bringing back a lot of vitality to the city.

"Selling candied haws, selling candied haws!"

"Steamed buns, freshly baked buns!"

"Chuanbing, chuanbing with thin skin and big filling!"

"Plaster, good plaster..."

In the street market, the cries of hawkers are heard one after another, and the pedestrians and cars are busy, making it extremely lively.

"Gentlemen, please be kind!"

“Have pity!”

In such a busy city, there is no shortage of beggars, who roam the streets and alleys, begging for mercy with pitiful cries. Some talented people even sing lotus opera to beg for some food and small change.

After all, it was not a year of great disaster, and the people living in the capital were relatively wealthy. As long as they were lucky, beggars could have food and clothing. If they were lucky enough to meet some kind-hearted dignitaries, merchants and gentry, they could even make a fortune.

In this way, in front of an alley facing the street, Shen He, with disheveled hair and a hunched body, was holding a broken bowl and leaning on a bamboo stick, begging from passers-by.

A year passed, and winter came again. He put on the linen clothes that were mixed with mud again. He was unkempt and looked dirty, even among beggars he looked a little sloppy.

Dressed like this, people passing by who offered alms did not show much disdain. In just half a day, he had collected a hundred copper coins and two pieces of loose silver, which made the two beggars who were watching him on the left and right have red eyes.

Shen He ignored him and opened his career panel while formally soliciting business.

Dog Baby (Shenhe)
Occupation: Beggar.

Occupational level: Level 1, Level 7.

Professional talent: begging for mercy.

Professional skills: stone throwing, flying sand.

Professional items: throwing stones, flying sand.

General skills: Swallowing Yuan Gong, Xingyiquan.

……

It has been a year since he traveled to this world, but he still couldn't get rid of his identity as a beggar. He is still controlled and oppressed by Zhou San's gang of beggars.

But it won’t be long!
In one year, in addition to his job of begging, he also did many other things.

The first thing was the change in his body. Beneath the dirty linen clothes, his body had become fuller. He was no longer skinny and frail. He had also grown a bit taller. Even though he pretended to be hunched over, he was still much stronger than an ordinary beggar.

All this is thanks to his professional ability and the dietary enhancement of Swallowing Yuan Gong.

In the real world, the profession of beggar is undoubtedly a rubbish job that no one would even look at, but in this world, it provides important help to Shen He in his starting stage.

Over the course of a year, thanks to his professional skills, his begging ability became stronger and stronger, and sometimes he could even get some small change.

This allowed him to continuously improve his status among the beggars, and he was even able to get enough food and clothing from Wednesday.

This group of beggars had already treated him as a cash cow and did not want to see him get into trouble, so they no longer treated him so harshly in terms of food and drink. They even set him up as a role model for other beggars and gave him rewards from time to time.

This barely allowed him to have a full meal, and coupled with the strengthening effect of the Swallowing Yuan Gong on diet, as well as the physical enhancement gained from the career upgrade, he restored his body in a year and was no longer the skinny little beggar who would fall down with the wind.

This is the body, in addition to which he has also developed some professional abilities.

Through the panel, we can see that in addition to professional talents, professionals also have two columns: professional skills and professional items.

As the name suggests, professional skills are skills that match the profession. Professionals can consume experience to convert general skills that meet the conditions into professional skills, so that they can acquire professional characteristics.

A profession only enhances your ability in a certain field and does not impose any restrictions on you, so professionals can learn all skills and enter them into the panel.

Taking martial arts as an example, martial artists certainly have great advantages in practicing martial arts, but that does not mean that non-martial artists cannot practice martial arts. It’s just that their practice will not have the various enhancements of martial arts professions.

Theoretically, as long as you can learn it, no matter what your profession is, you can practice martial arts and generate various general skills.

This is where universal skills come in!

Professional skills, on the other hand, are skills that transform general skills and give them professional effects.

Take Shen He as an example. He now has two professional skills, namely stone throwing and flying sand.

The generation of these two professional skills is very simple, just like practicing martial arts. When you practice the techniques of throwing stones and flying sand to a certain level, they will be generated as general skills, and then transformed with professional experience to become professional skills.

Throwing stones (general)

Skill level: Level 1.

Skill introduction: Throw pebbles or stones to hit the target with a unique technique.

Stone Throwing (Profession)
Skilled occupation: Beggar.

Skill level: Level 1.

Skill Effect: Skilled Throwing (Stone throwing is an important combat skill for beggars. Beggars have become proficient in it. The speed, accuracy, strength, and range of stone throwing have been improved. They can also find suitable stones and consume professional experience to convert them into professional item stone throwing)

Skill introduction: Throwing stones is also a science!
...This is the difference between general skills and professional skills.

A general skill, a blank one. Although it is generated on the profession panel, it has no amplification effect.

Professional skills are different. They can enhance professional strength. Depending on the profession, the enhancement effect is also different. For example, Shen He’s beggar profession can enhance the various effects of throwing stones, and can also consume professional experience to create professional items such as "throwing stones".

投石
Item Occupation: Beggar.

Item level: Level 1.

Item Effect: Suitable for Throwing (Reduces the difficulty of throwing, improves the accuracy, speed, and range of throwing)
Item Description: This is a carefully selected stone, suitable for hitting people or shooting birds.

……

In addition to throwing stones, Shen He also mastered the professional skill of "flying sand" and created related professional items.

So, even though he is a beggar, he is now fully armed. The bamboo stick in his hand and the sand and stones in his pocket are all weapons.

Originally, he wanted to transform "Swallowing Yuan Gong" and "Xingyiquan" into professional skills, but he found that these two skills were not compatible with the beggar profession. Although they could be forcibly transformed, it would consume a huge amount of professional experience, which he could not afford at all.

Even though it only took him one year to upgrade the beggar profession to level seven, which seems very easy, that is a characteristic of "junk professions". The lower the strength of the profession, the easier it is to gain experience.

There is no need to say much about the strength of the beggar profession. If the profession level was not starting from the first level, it would definitely be relegated to the ranks of "zero-level professions".

Therefore, it is extremely easy to gain experience and it is relatively simple to level up.

Even so, Shen He put in a lot of effort and even took some risks to reach level seven in one year.

In addition to begging, beggars can also gain experience by bullying good people, fighting, and even competing with other beggars for territory.

That’s right, beggars also want to fight for territory!

Although there is the Beggars' Gang leading the way, even a dynasty cannot achieve unity, let alone a small gang. Therefore, even with the Beggars' Gang, the order among the beggars at the bottom is still very chaotic, and fights for territory often occur.

Shen He had experienced this several times this year. On Wednesday, a group of beggar bullies dragged them into fighting with other beggars for territory, and once someone even died.

Shen He didn't work very hard, but he also put in a lot of effort. Only in this way could he raise the beggar's professional level to the first level seven in just one year. As long as he raised three more levels, he could try to advance to the next level.

pity……

"time is limited!"

Shen He's eyes narrowed, and he finally made up his mind. He turned and walked into the alley behind.

In a year, although he gained a certain amount of favor from beggars like Zhou San by "begging for mercy" and his constantly improving business ability, this did not change his situation. He was still a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others.

This kind of life of fear and uncertainty is very difficult to endure.

Although Shen He, who has lived two lives and suffered from the harshness of society, can endure, as time goes by, the changes in his body have become difficult to conceal, and Zhou San and others will sooner or later discover the abnormality.

A little beggar who has been hungry and malnourished for a long time has only eaten full meals for a few months, just to fill his stomach without the nutrition of meat. This can make up for the deficit and even strengthen his body. If there is no trick in this, no one will believe it.

Once Zhou San and others realize this, what awaits Shen He will be the shock of death.

So, he has to strike first!
Although he could continue to hide and develop for a while, max out his professional level or even break through to the next level, breaking the situation with an overwhelming force, the risk is too great and it is really unstable.

It’s a risk anyway, so why not take the initiative and take the initiative into your own hands!

This is one reason. In addition, as his begging ability grows and Zhou San and others become more "favorable" towards him, some things have touched his bottom line.

For example - the pledge of allegiance!

Zhou San had intended to recruit him and make him a member of the Beggars' Gang, but the prerequisite was that he had to pledge his allegiance.

What is the token of allegiance?

The three major irons of men are nothing more than those.

Shen He doesn't dare to say that he is a moral gentleman, but he has his own bottom line and persistence. There are some things he will not do.

In addition, his profession has reached level seven, only three levels away from the maximum level, so he must make plans for future advancement.

After so many years of development and research, the Empire has already developed a mature theory on the generation and advancement of professions.

At a superficial level, the way careers are generated is very simple. As long as you persist in doing something, there is a probability that a related career will be generated.

But that's just the surface. Many scholars in the empire believe that the core principle of career generation is actually the impact of an individual on the world, so it is closely related to what the professional does.

If you want to get a job, advance, or make a breakthrough, you must not only accumulate quantity, but also improve quality.

In other words, it is not enough to just do things, you also have to do them well and do them on a big scale. The bigger the better, the better and the bigger. Only in this way can you increase the success rate of advancement and generate high-quality careers. On the contrary, the probability of advancement and the quality of the career will be lower.

If Shen He endures this and continues begging until he reaches the maximum level, then his success rate of advancement will be extremely low based on his actions during this period.

Even if you succeed by chance in the end, you probably won't be able to advance to any powerful profession. At most, you can become a Beggar Bully or a Beggar Gang Disciple.

That was not what he wanted. Although the profession of beggar helped him get through the difficult situation in the early stage, he did not want to be a beggar forever and become the overlord among beggars.

He wants to seek change!

So, some people must die!
(End of this chapter)