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Chapter 006: Exclusive
Once you possessed the ability to manipulate spirit energy, as a painter, you could infuse it into your artwork. Upon mastering this, becoming a legendary “Divine Brush Ma Liang” wasn’t out of the question.
However, if you were a non-mage painter, even with the highest-grade spirit-imbued brush, all you could produce were ordinary paintings—nice to look at, but completely useless otherwise.
Therefore, mages were indisputably one of the primary professions on the Divine Fall Continent.
The only other profession recognized as a main class was the martial artist.
Why? Because martial artists weren’t limited by spirit energy.
But correspondingly, in a world where spirit energy defined everything, the long-term development of martial artists lagged far behind that of mages.
On the Divine Fall Continent, mages held a supremely noble status.
The difference between mages and martial artists was like that between cultivators and mundane fighters in a xianxia world.
Anyone could become a martial artist, but becoming a mage—
The Divine Fall Continent wasn’t a true video game; it was a real world. You couldn’t just click “learn” to master a spell. You had to rely on your own effort.
To become a mage, you first needed access to spells, such as being chosen by a mage mentor or obtaining a scroll that recorded the spell’s formation.
Next, you had to actually learn the spell through your own intellect.
Think of it like taking a grueling college entrance exam—mastering a spell required not only intelligence but also perseverance. Those who became mages were truly one in a hundred.
In her past life, Yun Xi had been lucky enough to encounter a kind old mage near the end of his life. In need of an heir, he chose her—because her starting Spirit was as high as 9. That was what lifted her out of the refugee slums.
But in this life, she probably wouldn’t be able to meet him again.
The Shuyu Plains were too far from where she had “descended” in her last life. By the time she grew strong enough to go there, her former mentor might have already passed away.
Compared to mages, becoming a martial artist was much simpler. Spell knowledge couldn’t be created from nothing—but martial techniques could be self-taught.
If mages were defined by Intelligence, then martial artists were shaped by their Constitution.
Constitution was the foundation of all martial artists.
By training the body, Constitution would slowly increase—and as it did, both Agility and Strength would rise alongside it.
Some monsters could even be defeated using cold weapons alone. Upon killing them and gaining experience, players could level up and earn free attribute points, allowing them to further enhance their power.
Many martial artists forged a bloody path to strength even without any knowledge inheritance.
That was the martial artist’s advantage: even a nobody with nothing could rise against the odds.
In fact, many early-game mages started off as martial artists. Their Spirit stat wasn’t high enough at the beginning, so they’d level up to earn free attribute points and allocate them to Spirit.
As for Yun Xi’s career plan in this life, it was very simple: mage as her main class, all others as secondaries.
Thanks to the Slaughter Jade, she would never lack free skill or attribute points in this life.
Other people usually chose one or two side professions based on talent or interest—because spreading too thin without enough skill points was pointless.
On the Divine Fall Continent, each level-up gave:
Skill points were extremely rare and precious.
They weren’t just points—they were gifts from the system, just like attribute points.
Every time you assigned a skill point, you’d feel like divine insight had descended, deepening your understanding of the skill and greatly enhancing its power.
In her past life, Yun Xi had even heard that skill points increased comprehension each time you assigned one.
In this life, the Slaughter Jade—though still sealed—was already enough.
Just by killing malicious monsters, she would randomly gain free attribute or skill points, completely eliminating her worry about scarcity.
With that advantage, she could train in all professions simultaneously.
But her top priorities were Chef and Pharmacist, followed by Talisman Maker and Painter.
Of course, no matter how many professions she planned to master, she’d still need to train gradually. It was impossible to master everything overnight.
With her plan in mind, Yun Xi formally began training.
For her first spell, she chose the one she was most familiar with: Beginner Water Orb.
In her past life, she had majored in Water-element spells, simply because her teacher only knew water spells.
The Beginner Water Orb could produce clean water. It was one of the most widely practiced spells on the Divine Fall Continent.
Resources on the continent were extremely scarce. Outside of towns and villages protected by special spirit zones, all wild areas were polluted.
Drinking contaminated water would cause anything from diarrhea and vomiting (with permanent Constitution loss) to death.
Water and food could only be purchased or self-produced. You couldn’t get them from the wild.
So, clean water was a major issue.
Most newbie villages lacked spirit zones, meaning safe drinking water could only be bought from the system store.
If you had no money, you’d have to rely on well water with low contamination—after filtering through multiple steps.
Not only was that inconvenient, it still contained trace pollutants, and drinking it long-term would still reduce your Constitution.
That’s where Beginner Water Orb came in—it solved all of that.
Of course, Yun Xi’s biggest reason for learning it was to quickly change her class to Mage, and unlock the ability to control spirit energy.
The game’s closed beta only lasted ten days. She had to make the most of every minute and second to complete all her class changes.
Especially Chef—Yun Xi planned to record every recipe from Blue Star. She was done eating coarse barley biscuits every day.
And only during beta—before the Divine Fall system fully invaded Blue Star—could she do this. Once the official release launched, she’d have to learn recipes the hard way.
…
In just a few minutes, Yun Xi had mastered the Beginner Water Orb spell.
[Ding! Congratulations, Player has learned Beginner Water Orb Lv1. You have successfully changed class to Mage and unlocked the exclusive mage skill: Spirit Energy Control Lv1.]
Yun Xi opened her character panel. Nothing else had changed—except her main class was now listed as Mage.
[Mage Class Skills]
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