All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

After becoming a non-ranked martial artist, the next step is to reach the seventh rank, which is further divided into seven smaller stages, namely the seventh rank or the seventh peak. Starting from the top of the head, it spreads to the limbs, chest, and bottom. One trains oneself to the limit, enabling each part of the body to store true qi, which is then released from within at will.

After completing the seventh stage of entry, it means that one has reached the original limit of one's own race. After undergoing multiple breakthroughs and purifications, one can live to the limit of one's own race, for example, humans can live to 150 years old. This innate 150-year lifespan is also known as the innate lifespan.

Everyone can reach this 150-year mark; there are virtually no exceptions or deficiencies. At this point, one can attempt to condense the abundant true energy within the seven peaks, and through cultivation techniques, use this true energy to capture external spiritual energy to nourish oneself, thereby gradually transforming one's true energy into the spiritual energy of a cultivator, thus becoming a formal cultivator.

However, for someone in the Qi Refining Realm to continue cultivating, it's not as simple as the Martial Seeking Realm.

To put it bluntly, you can only attempt this when you have reached the point where your true energy is overflowing, meaning you can neither advance further nor inhale further. If you are even slightly lacking, your body will not be able to withstand the spiritual energy in the environment and you will explode and die.

As mentioned earlier, even the lowest level of Qi Refining Realm cultivators and mortals are not the same kind of beings. If you don't absorb spiritual energy, it will actually benefit you. But if you overestimate your abilities and force yourself to absorb it as a mortal, it will be extremely poisonous.

Only martial artists with overflowing true qi can use their true qi to wrap a small amount of spiritual qi to nourish themselves, gradually changing their physical condition, and then transforming their true qi into spiritual qi, thus achieving the transformation from mortal to immortal and entering another level.

This process is extremely long and tedious, and it doesn't even include the possibility of failure. You can envelop spiritual energy and slowly refine it into your flesh and blood, but the spiritual energy refined into your flesh and blood does not disappear.

They don't assimilate with you, but subtly change you. This means that if those spiritual energies are affected by external forces, or if your own true energy goes out of control and you can't suppress them, they are prone to erupt, commonly known as going into a state of demonic possession, which is a ticking time bomb.

Sigh, it's all tears when I talk about it. There are two trillion people on the entire Azure Star, and after eight years of cultivation, there isn't a single true cultivator yet. The difficulty of cultivation is secondary; the more crucial issue is that the people of Azure Star can't enter this world, and Azure Star itself has no spiritual energy, which makes cultivation exceptionally difficult.

Yang Fei spent nearly eight years without achieving the first major stage, mainly due to environmental issues on Azure Star. The air lacked spiritual energy, making it impossible to generate true energy, a secondary product, and thus, he could not obtain assistance from the natural environment.

At the same time, as an ordinary family, he did not have any items containing true energy. He could only eat some true energy rice every three days for dinner to replenish the true energy he needed. It was not enough to replenish much energy, and even then, it was shared among ten people. His cultivation progress was measured in years.

However, even so, Yang Fei felt that he had reached a bottleneck. Although his family could not support him much, it was still much better than that of an ordinary family. His parents and younger siblings deliberately indulged him, so he naturally could not let them down.

The true energy refined into his flesh and blood not only subtly changed his body, but also influenced his understanding of the concept of true energy. This was a rather abstract concept, or more accurately, an unfounded feeling.

He always felt that if he gained even a little more insight, he could mobilize the true energy he had refined and become a true martial artist. However, there simply wasn't enough true energy for him to try back on Azure Star.

Now that's good, I killed more than thirty monsters in the last wave. After refining them all into my body, I might really try to break through the bottleneck when I have some free time.

Yang Fei practiced diligently for half an hour, circulating his true qi. When he opened his eyes again, he still hadn't fully refined the true qi stored in his body. Yang Fei wasn't in a hurry. Seven or eight years had passed, so he wasn't in a rush. He had to finish his daily tasks first, otherwise it would be a huge loss.

Carrying the two tentacle jellyfish that had absorbed all their true energy, Yang Fei returned to the edge of the city gate. After confirming that the two white arrow towers were fully charged, he didn't hesitate and immediately brought up the control panel: "Start Daily Challenge!"

"Understood, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1, your daily challenge will begin in ten minutes. The current progress is that you have cleared the first wave of the Novice Trial on Hard difficulty. The siege monsters are slimes. There is no doubled limit bonus. The challenge will begin in ten minutes. Please be careful to defend."

"Please note that this daily challenge is a product of the first wave of monster siege. The monster type is slime, level - beast level 0, number of monsters - 222, and the attributes are one-tenth of the normal wave."

"Please adjust the position of the War Stone and place the defensive towers you wish to use. Please note: If a defensive tower placed on a War Stone is destroyed by monsters, it can be rebuilt after the monster siege is over by spending a small amount of currency. Towers in other positions cannot be rebuilt."

"Please also note that during the monster siege, the building and tile movement functions in the core thatched hut will be temporarily disabled, and the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor will be prohibited from being moved. The movement and reconstruction functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

"Note: Regardless of the monsters that appear in the daily challenge, only resources will drop, such as food, wood, stone, and the four basic currencies. Monsters' own drops will not be dropped, and there are no basic rewards."

"Note: Daily challenges are closely related to resource acquisition and are affected by the current wave and difficulty of monsters. They can only be started once a day. Please pay attention to the challenge time."

As prompts gradually appeared in Yang Fei's mind, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the daily challenge rules were still familiar to him and hadn't changed much. The types and levels of monsters were still affected by the current wave, and they hadn't given him any trouble. Otherwise, he would have really had to take this army of slimes, which only had one-tenth the attributes of a normal wave, seriously.

The only problem is the number of monsters. If you clear the normal hard difficulty, this wave should follow the number of monsters from the first hard difficulty wave, which should be 200. It seems that the daily count is also affected by randomness. However, the number of monsters I cleared in the last wave was 236, and now it's only 222, which is a way of reducing the difficulty.

The blue gate appeared, and the war corridor and war slabs rose up. Yang Fei quickly put the three defensive towers back in place. This time, he did whatever he wanted with the two tentacle jellyfish. Normal slimes have an attack power of 4 and health of 80.

These attributes are now only one-tenth of what they used to be, while the tentacle jellyfish itself has a defense of 3. These ordinary slimes can't even break through their defenses and pose no threat to them.