OK, OK, OK.
Let's admit, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Yes, it was 500 years of silence, but that doesn't mean nothing happened. To an onlooker, of course, it looks like the stone is doing absolutely nothing but sitting quietly in a closed room, calm and peaceful.
But such an event has another title for the listening stuff. As the rock sat there, waiting patiently, doing nothing, something clicked for it.
You qualify for subcategory: Cultivator
Accept this course? Y/N
The rock was shaken awake, even though it had never really slept in the first place. It just lets time pass, like a stone. Unmoving in the long river of time. Maybe that's the key - the ingredients that make it suitable for this new option.
Rock didn't hesitate either. After all, practicing sounds like a good thing. Its main goal in the world is to cultivate the masses, so surely this new subclass will help it achieve its goals? Maybe... it'll even escape the room?
That was all, and Rock accepted the tip enthusiastically.
congratulations!
You are now a level 1 practitioner!
You are now in the [Energy Collection] realm.
Get new skills!
meditation
Slowly gather the potential energy around you and grow out of your aura.
Cultivator attributes unlocked!
Energy level (E) = 1W
Qi to Next Realm = 0/10
A new capability? What about new energy?
Strangely, the rocks harness some of the new energy from the energy conversion, converting it into kinetic energy. It jiggled in place.
Alas, a level 1 monk is not powerful enough to change the sky. However, Stone is very patient. It found that by focusing on new skills, time seemed to pass faster. So, the rock leaned back comfortably on its resting place, focused on the sounds around it, and began to [meditate].
It sensed a subtle energy field passing through the room, and the ability seemed to be drawn to it somehow, slowly absorbing a flow of energy into the rock, transforming something into a breath of air. Slowly, oh slowly, it began to expand.
200 years have passed. This time, nothing happened.
Except at the end.
You have been awarded the title: Master of Practice Behind Closed Doors!
Effect: The longer the closed-door cultivation time, the faster the cultivation speed, without giving up an inch.
Level!
10/10gas
You have reached the second level of cultivation!
You are now in the [Energy Refining] field.
Statistical data!
Energy level (E) = 10w
Move to next realm = 0/50
Progress! What a progress, the energy in the rock fingertips has increased tenfold! Really, I feel lucky to have such a convenient course. All it has to do is stay in one place for a few hundred years, and then it'll get upgrades and advance a realm!
How convenient!
The rock does not know elixirs, young masters, or even jade beauties—although it may appreciate the last.
The fate of a stonemason, is to find a jade beauty, or to become a jade beauty? Few people know the answer, but maybe this stone can find the answer.
After advancing to a higher level, it feels that the air and blood vessels in the body are expanding, thickening, and strengthening. Still a bit pathetic, so maybe it's not the greatest achievement, but...
All it has to do is sit quietly and wait. Who would say no to such a convenient gain?
Especially with new games at your fingertips…
Planting behind closed doors. Rock liked the idea. Maybe rocks and trees really are the best for farming life? We'll find out.
Because...the stone is still stuck. It didn't even dare try to move, lest it lose the benefits of its hard-earned title.
So once again the rock sat and waited, meditating.
200 years passed in the blink of an eye. Nothing happened in the cave. Every once in a while, there would be a slight shake or rumble in the mountain, and the rocks would worry if the whole place would collapse, trapping it inside, but the magically reinforced dungeon walls held up.
Sometimes, animals. Animals and people alike found their way into the cave, but finding nothing but a dark room and a stone in the middle, they soon left. Some creatures moved in and took up residence at the very entrance of the complex, but the deepest pit was left alone, too far away to bother.
Who wants to descend into several 50-meter-deep pits to find part of their base?
In this way, many years passed, and the rock was once again notified of the end of its long mission.
Level!
50 / 50 Qi
You have reached the third level of cultivation!
You are now in the [Core Form] realm.
Statistical data!
Energy level (E) = 100w
Next area = need to break through.
Get new skills!
stone skin
Use your breath to harden your skin
ERROR_INVALIDSkill
The skin is already stone
Looking for a solution, please wait...
Wait a minute? That's great for rocks. It waited patiently for a year for the problem to be resolved. If you want to play the waiting game, that's absolutely fine.
Solution found!
Create new skills....
Get new skills!
diamond skin
Use your chi to harden your skin, as hard as diamond!
It's a pretty simple solution for something that the system took a year to calculate, but it's pretty precise to balance things out. It is impossible for the system to be careless, for example, forgetting to assign appropriate STR and INT attributes to new creatures, leaving the old measurement system in place.
Luckily, no one is careless enough to do that, right?
The rocks roared innocently under the system's gaze. Then keep waiting and nurturing. But it discovered a problem.
Its new nurturing phase requires something called a "breakthrough." Simply sitting down and using [meditation] is no longer appropriate. Is that stone ready to become a great philosopher and ponder the meaning of its existence?
not yet. In order to achieve a spiritual breakthrough, a person must go out and seek new experiences. Adventure, comradery, love.
There's no way the rocks know these things, of course, so making a breakthrough could be quite difficult. The best it can do is go out and touch some grass.
But does it have the energy to escape?
It's time to test this cultivation method. The rock throws all of its power into an [Energy Transfer], directing its acceleration vector toward the stairwell leading into the room.
ERROR_PLEASE_STOP
Solve math…
simplify……
Vague……
weaken…
finished!
Energy conversion starts!
Convert [Qi Energy] into [Kinetic Energy]!
10W * 1s = 10j
Converting to velocity…Δ0.001 m/s
New velocity of [unnamed]: 0.001 m(s)
This is not enough. The rock pushed forward for a moment, then began to roll backwards, eventually returning to where it started. For a moment, Rock felt hopeless and depressed.
But it was a rock. It soon forgot about them and resumed waiting, all rocky and no more strange farming activity.
This is also good.
However, fate has not forgotten our hero. Just as the rock began to drift back to its familiar stillness, a tremor spread throughout the mountain.
Finally, after 500 years of not quite...
Something happened.
Because suddenly, a giant dragon climbed into the cave, looked at the magic-reinforced wall of the bottom cave, and gently patted the rather beautiful rock in the cave. It nodded, its huge red scales and horns approving of the area.
This is enough. A new lair.
In this way, Shi Shi got a roommate.
Pursue:
Current altitude: 5192 meters
