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

Upgrading and leveling up are not the same thing. Leveling up is just about increasing the quantity and value, but upgrading is about improving the quality. For example, the next wave of monsters will have monsters of a higher level.

After being ravaged by the Extreme Mode, Yang Fei did not believe he could handle the enhanced version of Extreme Mode at this stage.

Yang Fei needs to observe the changes in the upcoming 10x Extreme Mode and the second wave of monsters before deciding whether to upgrade his item.

Even after upgrading, the quality will only be gray, and at most, you'll only encounter beast-level monsters during the beginner phase. However, as you level up more, you might encounter overpowered monsters like level 10 or 11 beasts, or even boss or king-level monsters joining the fun. That would be quite a spectacle.

After completing the upgrade, Yang Fei looked at the increasingly empty sky island and pondered. Originally, the range of 50 meters and 100 meters was not a big deal. Later, after recruiting about 50 people and soldiers, the range of 200 meters was still not a big deal. But now that the sky island has expanded again, his subordinates are somewhat insufficient.

Even considering the buildings that Sky Island currently has, Yang Fei felt that Sky Island was far too empty. Although the lesser demons were cultivating Sky Island, it would still take some time to transform such a large area into even the most basic farmland.

It's been less than 24 hours since I joined the closed beta. Although I've been incredibly lucky to have these citizens, and they're all extremely loyal, far exceeding what a normal lord would have, my own sky island is developing much faster.

Normally, trainee lords wouldn't choose to upgrade their sky islands to increase the difficulty in order to better obtain the daily guaranteed reward. But what about me? I want to maximize my gains, since the daily rewards are limited. The more mouths to feed, the less I can save.

And yet, in less than a day, he had expanded his Sky Island several times, recruited dozens of citizens, and was even planning to upgrade the Sky Island. This was simply too outrageous.

"I can't keep upgrading, at least not for the next two rounds. Unless I clear the levels very easily and gain a lot more subordinates, I absolutely cannot upgrade my rank. Although doing so can snowball quickly, the snowball can't get too big. If I can't push it anymore, then I'll be in big trouble."

Leaning against the succubus's enormous chest, Yang Fei looked out at the endless void beyond the city walls, gradually closed his eyes, circulated the True Qi Technique, adjusted the true qi within his body, and attempted the realm breakthrough he had planned earlier.

It draws upon the fully absorbed Qi within the body, drawing upon the Qi in the environment to circulate within the body.

The so-called gathering of Qi refers to circulating this absorbable or guided Qi throughout the body, clearing the meridians, filling the flesh and blood, and circulating the Qi throughout the body once, which is commonly known as a small circulation.

This process usually takes a considerable amount of time. If one is not focused enough, the energy may not even complete a small cycle in a day. Lack of concentration and distraction will also cause the energy to dissipate, rendering the entire practice futile.

However, none of this mattered to Yang Fei. He had already repeated the normal microcosmic orbit countless times on Azure Star.

However, the spiritual energy in the Azure Star environment is thin. No matter how you try to draw it in, only the portion of true energy absorbed by the rice will fill your body. These scattered energies cannot be gathered into a single, manipulated true energy.

If you cannot condense this energy into manipulable true energy and store it in your body for your own use in critical moments, then you will never become a martial artist, no matter how much energy you absorb.

This time, however, Yang Fei clearly felt something was different. Through the experience gained from killing monsters over this period of time, and with the abundant Qi in the surrounding environment, the Qi in Yang Fei's body and the Qi in the surrounding environment finally merged and gradually converged into one.

His bones creaked, veins bulged, and Yang Fei seemed to burst forth from the sea, letting out a long roar towards the distant void. Countless failures and pent-up resentment were finally released in this moment.

Name: Yang Fei

Age: 18 years old

Realm: Qi Sensing Realm Martial Artist

Attack: 33

Defense: 27

Spirit: 36

Qi and blood: 30

Talents: Daily Card Draw (Lord Exclusive), Fallen Heavens

When a normal Qi Sensing Realm martial artist is quantified, all their data are generally 30. As for whether it is more or less, that depends on the individual. For example, attack power depends on strength, defense and blood and qi depend on physique, and spirit depends on the quality and quantity of true qi in the body.

Yang Fei lay sprawled in Mona's huge embrace, looking like a ripe shrimp, drenched in sweat, his stomach rumbling, completely exhausted, and not even wanting to open his eyes.

"Damn, does leveling up consume so much energy? Isn't it said that the body will be strengthened after becoming a martial artist?" Yang Fei tried to leave the huge, soft embrace behind him, but he couldn't muster any strength at all and failed several times.

"My lord, becoming a warrior is no easy feat; it's a minor evolution at the level of life. The reason you feel so weak is due to this minor evolution," the succubus's voice sounded from behind, but this time it lacked its usual allure.

"As bones and muscles regenerate, the brain's senses of itself are rapidly renewed, and the entire body undergoes a transformation in that instant. In simpler terms, you have just completed a cleansing and purification process, consuming all of your own energy."

"Huh? Oh my god! What am I going to do if I didn't prepare any food to replenish my strength?" Yang Fei thought the succubus girl's words made a lot of sense. Although he was weak and listless, his body was indeed a little different. He just couldn't pay attention to it because he was too hungry.

Yang Fei remembered that in Tower Defense World, it was said that advancing to the Qi Sensing Realm would result in being quantified and strengthened. This process would definitely consume energy, but he really didn't expect it to consume so much. He didn't have any items prepared to replenish it.

"It's alright, my lord." The succubus girl's voice rang out at the right time, and then a lesser demon carrying a small pot walked up to the city wall where the two were. After carefully placing the pot beside them, he immediately ran down.

"Before you started your cultivation, I had the lesser demons prepare some Qi-infused rice porridge for you. Now it's just what you need." The succubus girl picked up the small pot that the two of them had used and gently blew on the fragrant rice porridge inside to let it cool down.

The succubus then put a small spoonful of rice porridge into her mouth, chewed for a while, and the two began their verbal battle again, only this time the attacker and defender switched positions.

After being forced to finish a small pot of rice porridge, Yang Fei finally regained some strength. Just as he was about to get up to ease the awkwardness of being held in the succubus's arms, the succubus picked him up by the waist.