#312 - Chapter 312: Difficulty Increased 10 Times

“Balance of Power (Level 19) Current Progress: 0.96%”

Shen Xingyan was stunned when he saw the current progress. After he reacted, he couldn't help but wonder, "What's going on? I've been training for an hour. Under normal circumstances, it should be nearly 10% progress. How come the current progress is less than one percent?"

Realizing that the current progress was obviously unreasonable, he was slightly puzzled, but then he thought of the time when 'Balance of Power' leveled up from level 10 to 11. It seemed that the same situation had occurred, with the difficulty increasing by a factor of 10.

"Judging from the difficulty of this increase, it should be the same as before, and it shouldn't have any impact on the improvement of my own attributes. But the strange thing is, why is the difficulty increasing now? Shouldn't it be when leveling up from level 20 to 21?"

Shen Xingyan thought so. Feeling somewhat puzzled, he carefully checked the skill's description. After reading it twice, his gaze finally fell on the passive attribute boost.

"Could it be because the skill's four fixed attributes have been raised to 100? I remember that the difficulty also started to increase when the four major attributes were raised to 10."

It seems that 'Balance of Power' is quite special. As long as the foundation is raised to a fixed value, the difficulty will automatically increase, regardless of the level."

Shen Xingyan couldn't help but guess. Since there was no better theory for the time being, he could only attribute the reason to this.

In fact, it was just as he guessed. 'Balance of Power' would increase the difficulty differently depending on the conditions possessed by different people.

For those who barely meet the cultivation standard, after their basic attributes reach 10 points, they will only get the lowest 1x difficulty increase, continuing until the basic attributes reach 100 points, before the difficulty increases again.

But Shen Xingyan had the highest 10x difficulty increase. This also led to the fact that compared to the same level of 'Balance of Power', while his attribute improvement was huge, the difficulty was also incredible.

Shen Xingyan, who accidentally thought of this, was somewhat surprised by the increase in difficulty, but he had been mentally prepared for it for a long time. He had even thought that 'Balance of Power' would stagnate after reaching a bottleneck, because the attribute improvement was somewhat unreal to him.

"The current situation is much better than I thought. Moreover, based on previous experience, I have reason to believe that when 'Balance of Power' is raised to level 20, it should give me a not small surprise."

"Maybe it will be increased according to the proportion of difficulty, giving myself +100 to all attributes for each level!"

Shen Xingyan comforted himself in his heart, while also vaguely looking forward to it. He imagined that raising the equivalent of 400 attribute points at once, how comfortable that kind of growth would be!

"It's just a little pity that after using the Insight skill tomorrow, I won't be able to increase the skill progress by 100%!"

With this somewhat Versailles-like thought, his consciousness directly connected to the Star Origin Card and entered the Star Origin World.

After standing still in the career space, he quietly checked the condition of the farmland and the sales reminders of the grocery store's agricultural products, and then lay straight down in the place where he had slept before.

Lying in the quiet and peaceful career space, his mind relaxed, and drowsiness came like a tide. Although his mental attribute had now reached more than one hundred points, more than ten times stronger than before, the high-intensity training had an invisible drain on his energy, which was huge.

In addition, the natural limitations of humans in terms of energy meant that the increase in his energy did not increase by more than ten times because of the increase in his mental attribute, but only increased by a little more than one time, barely keeping up with the consumption during training.

That is, in the state of Primal Energy cultivation, his energy can be quickly replenished. Otherwise, in the real world, six hours of rest time would not be enough to fully restore his exhausted energy.

At this time, Shen Xingyan, who was very sleepy, only glanced at the small particles that filled the entire career space while starting Primal Energy cultivation, and then fell into a deep sleep with a smile.

If you were to observe from a high-altitude perspective of the career space at this time, Shen Xingyan would be like the heart of a vortex, with countless small particles rushing towards him rapidly.

The transparent and light green small particles intertwined with each other, like rows of particles forming a beautiful painting with elegant lines.

The 'Longevity Tree' is the main force in producing two kinds of small particles. After an increase of nearly 25% in the growth progress here, the number of small particles it secretes has become more and more dense, and it is continuous, as if it will never dry up.

The transparent small particles quickly replenished Shen Xingyan's Primal Energy, and then, under the guidance of the 'Quiet Word Technique', constantly impacted his Primal Energy limit.

If you were to look at his attribute panel at this time, you would find that in the Primal Energy column, the Primal Energy factor would increase by 0.1 every five or six minutes, which was a significant increase compared to before.

The light green small particles, through consciousness connection, diligently compensated for Shen Xingyan's potential that was consumed in the real world.

However, because he had increased too many attributes today and consumed a lot of potential, the compensation time was longer than usual, taking a full two hours to complete.

For the rest of the time, the light green small particles pushed his potential limit little by little, moving towards a higher level.

In this way, six hours of cultivation time quietly passed, and the cultivation time set by Shen Xingyan also arrived.

Primal Energy cultivation automatically stopped, and all the strange phenomena in the career space also disappeared. Only a prompt sound broke the quiet space, making Shen Xingyan, who was conscious, instantly invigorated:

"Ding~ It has been detected that your Primal Energy factor has reached 7 points, and your Primal Energy limit has automatically increased by 7 points."

The prompt about the increase in the Primal Energy limit surprised Shen Xingyan, but he quickly accepted the fact. With a thought, he opened the attribute panel and focused on the Primal Energy column:

Primal Energy: 515 / 515 (Primal Energy Factor: 0.4)

"When I started Primal Energy cultivation six hours ago, the Primal Energy factor was still 0.8. Now that it has increased by 7 points of Primal Energy, there are still 0.4 Primal Energy factors, which means that the actual increase in 6 hours of cultivation is 6.6 points of Primal Energy. The increase is really not small!"

Shen Xingyan muttered to himself, his gaze falling on the 'Longevity Tree' in the distance, while sighing at his own luck.

Then he stood up, stretched comfortably, and looked at the farmland that was about to be harvested this time, he subconsciously rubbed his hands gently.