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

After entering the Qi Sensing Realm and becoming a martial artist, not only did his personal strength and physical condition improve, but Yang Fei's understanding of true qi also became significantly clearer. His efficiency in absorbing true qi through basic techniques like the True Qi Technique was noticeably higher than before.

The process of breaking through realms is far from pleasant, especially during the martial arts stage. Each breakthrough is a process of "bone and marrow cleansing," not just the kind depicted in novels, but the real-world kind. Normal people might not be able to endure this level of pain.

In contrast, the state after the breakthrough is quite wonderful, which is also reflected in cultivation. Many people may think that it is so difficult for ordinary people to advance to the Martial Artist realm after passing the Qi Sensing Realm, so wouldn't it be even more troublesome to enter the non-entry-level state from the Qi Sensing Realm?

This is both true and false. In terms of cultivation time and the difficulty of breaking through realms, it is indeed true that the further one progresses, the longer the cultivation time and the more difficult the breakthrough. However, to some extent, after a breakthrough, the total amount of true qi absorbed and the efficiency of refining true qi actually become faster and faster.

The physical changes brought about by the advancement of one's realm make it easier to accept and absorb advanced energy. However, the process of accumulating energy for the next stage, or the energy required to break through to the next stage, actually increases.

This leads to a rather peculiar idea: if the energy supply is sufficient and there are no obstacles in breaking through each stage, the cultivation time for each stage is actually fixed, or rather, it doesn't vary much.

To give a simple example, no matter how big the gap is between each stage of cultivation, the cultivator's experience bar at each stage can be quantified as one hundred. And no matter how many realms are crossed, the rate of experience increase is actually the same after a realm breakthrough.

This idea is quite bizarre, isn't it? But theoretically, it is indeed achievable. However, precisely because of the differences in the acquisition of cultivation resources and the difficulty in breaking through the barriers of cultivation realms, this idea can only exist in theory and will never become a reality.

Even with sufficient resources, the concept of breaking through to a higher realm doesn't have an ever-thickening barrier, and its implementation faces various problems. For example, the change in a person's mindset after becoming powerful is also a very important factor.

For example, the rise of an ordinary person to success, the emergence of a loser, or even becoming a lucky winner overnight can all lead to a change in mindset. People become less focused on cultivation, which is a major reason why their advancement speed is getting slower and slower.

Let alone a breakthrough in a realm that is strongly related to strength, even a poor person in reality who suddenly rises to prominence will develop a nouveau riche mentality. After succeeding, their mindset will be completely different from that of someone who started from scratch and worked hard.

In that state, what mindset would you have as you move on to the next step? For most people, stopping here would probably be enough.

Yang Fei doesn't have that nouveau riche mentality, nor does he fantasize about a story of a loser rising to power.

First, he had no enemies. Second, he didn't envy anyone. Regardless of whether he had the beta test qualification or not, his goal was always clear.

He wanted to create a better living environment for his family, and incidentally, see if he could become a cultivator. If so, then he would consider immortality. That would be enough. He didn't want to get bogged down in the boring days of continuous advancement; he just wanted to live his life happily and had no other desires.

As for becoming invincible or eternal, he had no interest whatsoever. There has never been an invincible person in the world, nor has there ever been a path to eternity. No matter how long one lives or how powerful one becomes, one is ultimately just entering another, larger cage.

After an unknown amount of time, Yang Fei slowly opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and woke the two succubi beside him from their cultivation, instructing them to gather the ground troops in preparation for the next wave of monster attacks.

It's 11:20 AM now. Once this wave is over, the morning's objective will be achieved. Yang Fei will then need to lead his troops back to the central area of ​​the Sky Island for lunch, followed by a relaxing midday training session. The next wave will begin at 2 PM.

By then, there will be enough time to clear the remaining five-times and ten-times extreme modes. Perhaps today I can even challenge the first few basic difficulties of the third wave. At that time, I can also get more True Qi Rice every day, providing more cultivation resources for the people I recruited on a whim today.

"Initiate the monster siege." After confirming that everyone was ready and all the defensive towers were fully charged, Yang Fei did not hesitate and immediately initiated the second wave of the double-strength mode monster siege.

"Understood, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1, your Novice Trial Second Wave Doubled Extreme Mode (2x Extreme) Monster Siege will begin in ten minutes. Monster type: Slime, Monster level: Beast Level 0, Monster quantity: 14376."

"Please note that you have now activated the second wave of the Novice Trial in Double Limit Mode (2x Limit) monster siege. The three basic stats of the monsters have increased by 1.2 times. Please adjust your tactics accordingly."

"Please adjust the position of the War Slab... The movement and reconstruction functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

Nearly 15,000 monsters, which is a lot, but not that much. Yang Fei still did not send out ground troops during this monster siege, because the main force in this battle was entirely composed of two succubi.

Yang Fei instructed them to each use a gray arrow tower to stay on the charged stone slab and kill the Ice Slime. This time, there was no need to consider the energy situation, nor was there any need to use the chain reaction of the Ice Slime.

Because the charging stone perfectly solved the problem of his previous energy shortage, Mona's killing of the exploding slime caused a chain reaction. What seemed like a divine move was actually more of a helpless act to save energy. As long as the energy for killing the exploding slime was not lacking, one explosion or multiple explosions made no difference to Yang Fei at the moment.

With the three infinite energy arrow towers, plus the infinite energy ice arrow tower where Yang Fei is located, and given the current limit on monster spawning efficiency, the slimes are almost unable to enter the latter half of the war corridor when attacked in batches in sequence by the defensive tower array with limited energy.

"Ding~, Your Excellency Apprentice Lord, you have displayed great bravery in protecting the Sky Island and defending against the Slime Clan's attack. The Slime Clan has developed a slight animosity towards you, triggering a special event, 'The Gaze of the Slime King.'"

"The next 3666 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality corrosive slimes; 2790 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality acid slimes; and 1639 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality blasting slimes. Good luck!"