#222 - Chapter 222 Talent Improvement

"If I don't change my strategy again, it would be a waste of so much cooldown reduction!" Shen Xingyan thought to himself, and subconsciously began to plan.

For such a long time, in order to ensure the smooth progress of his '薅羊毛' (hāo yáng máo - lit. 'fleecing the sheep,' meaning to take advantage of deals or loopholes) plan, he had very decisively ignored the cooldown reduction after each upgrade, focusing wholeheartedly on using his professional skills according to the plan.

But now that his professional skills had reached a cooldown reduction of 44%, it really made him start to think about how to handle the skill usage time.

He gently stroked his chin, a thoughtful expression on his face, and whispered to himself:

"Now I should maintain the basis of the '薅羊毛' plan while making more use of the advantages of skill cooldown.

For example, I can leave all the extra skill usage time each day to the Evergreen Tree, so that the 200-day growth cycle of the Evergreen Tree can grow faster!

This will allow me to obtain massive experience to improve my professional level while ensuring that I get the record-breaking reward.

The main thing is that the Evergreen Tree gives too much; hundreds of thousands of experience points are too tempting!"

While somewhat emotional, Shen Xingyan considered this, and took out the previously recorded crop planting times. After confirming his thoughts, he began to plan.

After a short while, after organizing the skill usage schedule for the next period, Shen Xingyan nodded slightly:

"According to this time plan to use skills, it can basically maximize skill efficiency, but if I execute it according to this, I am afraid that I will come and go to the Star Origin World more and more frequently in the future, and there is no way to exercise for a long time.

But this is also something that cannot be helped. If you want to improve, you really have to put in much more effort than before. Fortunately, I only sacrifice a little skill usage time."

Shen Xingyan already had a premonition about the days to come.

After planning the farmland, Shen Xingyan moved to the pasture and bought four calves from the Star Origin Mall to add to his livestock, taking advantage of the upgrade that allowed him to raise four more.

Then, after checking the maintenance of the entire professional space and seeing that there were no omissions, he took out the intermediate talent stone, admiring it with a face full of joy, and subconsciously touched his head.

Knowing that he was about to experience being kicked again, Shen Xingyan couldn't help but sigh slightly.

This setting is something that others probably won't encounter even once in their lifetime, but he has to experience it twice in a short day. It has to be said that there are gains and losses.

Then, he called Wang Cai to his side, routinely encouraging it to work hard, and said softly:

"When we meet again next time, you will be a big skeleton with all attributes of 13. Now, when I think of the trembling appearance when you were first summoned, I really have a feeling that time has passed!

Work hard, I won't treat you badly. I'm going to improve your abilities now!"

After saying that, he unhesitatingly confirmed the use of the intermediate talent stone in his hand.

As expected, his eyes went dark and the familiar pain attacked again, and his consciousness returned to the real world.

And after he left, Wang Cai hadn't even reacted to the meaning of the master's words when it felt a strong aura begin to envelop it. At the same time, all attributes increased by five points at once. This kind of super-increase was something it had never encountered before.

The already conscious Wang Cai was slightly stunned in place.

At this time, the other small skeletons were also undergoing obvious changes.

From the outside, the size of all the small skeletons was increasing rapidly, and finally stopped when they grew to Shen Xingyan's shoulder height.

At the same time, the names above their heads were officially changed from 'Small Skeleton' to the two words 'Skeleton'. Obviously, they were now what normal skeletons should be, and they were mature skeletons!

Such a rapid improvement caused Wang Cai and the six deputy skeleton captains to continuously flicker with faint blue light in their eye sockets, and they began to twist their bodies from side to side, feeling their newly grown bones, and were enjoying it.

At this time, Shen Xingyan, who had returned to the real world, after the headache was relieved, also focused his consciousness on the attribute panel of the Star Origin Card:

Origin Energy: 38 / 38 points

Talent: Summon Skeletons --- Summon 13 skeleton monsters with all attributes of 13 to fight (Cooldown time 24 hours).

Looking at the improved Origin Energy attribute and talent skills, the corners of Shen Xingyan's mouth also curled up slightly.

"Now I have 38 points of Origin Energy. When I use the Perception skill this afternoon, I will get a 19-point increase in comprehension value. Counting my own, that is 27 points!

I don't know what kind of improvement my 'Force of Equilibrium' will have after an hour of perception time with such a high comprehension value."

Thinking this way, his gaze then turned to the improved talent skills, unwilling to leave for a long time, revealing a burst of emotion in his eyes.

After all, he had walked step by step from summoning one small skeleton every day to now being able to get 13 skeletons with all attributes of 13 every day. Whether in terms of quantity or quality, there has been a cross-dimensional improvement.

Then, when his consciousness was completely restored, Shen Xingyan instantly teleported to the underground training room and began to exercise the 'Force of Equilibrium'.

If it were someone else, after getting such a big improvement in the Star Origin World, they would definitely temporarily reward themselves with a rest and give up exercising in the real world.

But for Shen Xingyan, who has the 'Force of Equilibrium', every hour of slack is a huge loss for him. Moreover, his strength in the real world is too weak, so naturally he will not stop exercising.

He kept exercising until nearly three o'clock in the afternoon before he slowly stopped. In the middle, at 10 o'clock, he used the Clone Technique and let the Assassin No. 16 clone go to the Outworld on his own, and he continued to exercise.

Now he already has the perspective of more than a dozen clones, which makes him no longer check as carefully as before, but lets the clones send him information only when they have important discoveries.

However, after occasionally checking, he has also gone from a superficial understanding of the Outworld to a general understanding of it.

He knows that in normal circumstances in the Outworld, although there is constant fighting, as long as you figure out the rules, survival is not so difficult.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, you cannot be a human.