Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Chapter 45: Training Skill

Zhoubi Suanjing: One of the ten computational canons. Enlightenment +1.

It was a book that would increase his Enlightenment!

Ye Weiming saved money so that he could study at the private school to get one more point of Enlightenment. This was a requirement he needed to fulfill to learn the Hunyuan Scripture.

Today was a really good day. Not only did he manage to find the target of an important mission, Ah Huang, he also managed to save 100 Gold with its help! This was a good instance of the saying: Life is like a play. Everything depends on your acting!

He did this because the Divine Constable Bureau had a strict rule that officials like them mustn’t bully the civilians using violence or authority. If that wasn’t the case, he wouldn’t need to act in front of Dog Hades who raised the price on the spot.

Ye Weiming felt excited as he opened the book instinctively.

Ding! Do you want to use ‘Zhoubi Suanjing’?

When the reminder from the system entered his ears, Ye Weiming suddenly remembered what Ah Son told him a while ago.

“Big brother, it’s a waste if you use skill books directly like that. If you’re patient enough to read through the book word by word, you will be able to get additional cooking skills proficiency as well.”

Maybe he should try the method Ah Son recommended?

He quickly selected ‘No’ and closed the book. Then he brought Ah Huang out of the abandoned house.

Because of Ah Huang’s matter, Ye Weiming’s lunch was interrupted. Now, his stomach was starting to protest again. He needed to find some food.

He couldn’t bear to eat the wolf meat, which was able to increase his arm strength, that Ah Son made for him. Fortunately, in a large city like Luoyang, there was no problem with finding food if you had money on you.

He walked for some distance and found a stall selling meat buns along the street.

Steamed meat buns: Steamed buns made using fresh pork. Decrease hunger by 20%. Physique +1 for the first hour.

This food was able to increase his attribute but it wasn’t on the same level as Ah Son’s cooking. The price of the steamed meat bun was 10 Bronze per bun. One set had ten buns and cost 1 Silver. It was very cheap.

Ye Weiming bought two sets directly. He ate one and threw a bun casually to Ah Huang. After which, he noticed the auntie selling the steamed bun staring at him with an unfriendly gaze.

Fine, he fed the lady’s bun to a dog right in front of the lady’s stall. It was a little mean of him. What would the other customers who wanted to buy the meat buns think?

Ye Weiming gave an awkward smile and immediately ran off with Ah Huang. They came to a secluded corner of the street. Ye Weiming ate the steamed buns and continued feeding Ah Huang. At the same time, he took out the Zhoubi Suanjing again and started reading it carefully word by word.

Ye Weiming was a little curious about this mathematics book that was written using literature. How would it be?

Reality proved that textbooks weren’t interesting to read. After Ye Weiming finished reading the first page and satisfied his curiosity, he lost interest in the rest of the content. But because of the hint Ah Son gave him, he maintained his patience and flipped to the second page. He wanted to give Ah Son’s method a try.

There wasn’t much content in the book but Ye Weiming’s reading speed was very slow. He took this as a way to pass time and slowly read each sentence of the entire book. By the time he finished reading, 40 minutes had passed.

Ding! After studying Zhoubi Suanjing carefully, you have gained knowledge. You have gotten a new training skill ‘calculation’. Enlightenment +1!

Following the unexpected notification from the system, the Zhoubi Suanjing in Ye Weiming’s hand turned into a flash of white light and disappeared without a trace.

Huh?

There’s an additional reward!?

Didn’t the system say that it would just increase his Enlightenment by one point?

What was this additional training skill?

After playing the game for some time, Ye Weiming already had a certain amount of understanding of this game. Thus, he had a faint idea of what a training skill was.

It was different from internal energy, kung fu moves, and sutras. These could all be considered kung fu. It was different from survival skills that could bring direct monetary benefits too. Training skills were a special presence.

These skills might seem useless during normal times but once they reached a certain level, they could help you to increase the impression certain NPCs had of you. It could also increase the attributes of certain kung fu.

For instance, the most common Buddhism, Dharmic Dao, and linguistics were all considered training skills.

But this was the first time Ye Weiming saw the calculation training skill. He wondered what its effects were.

He opened the skills tab.

Calculation

The ability of deduction and mathematical calculation.

Level: 1

Proficiency: 0/1000

All kung fu moves will have Attack +5%, Defense +5%, Accuracy +5%

There are supporting effects for special techniques

…

This skill seemed not bad. However, what were the special techniques mentioned in the introduction?

Ye Weiming guessed that these special techniques were probably skills like forming arrays or something to do with the five elements theory. However, he still kept some hope as he opened his skills column to look through all the skills he had.

The introduction of his internal energy remained the same. His two sword skills remained the same too. So was his lightness kung fu. As for his sutra… wait!

How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate)

The most powerful sutra of Mount Tai Sect. It allows you to gain exceptional mental arithmetic skill so you’re able to predict your opponent’s movement and break their stance in a single move!

Level: 2

Proficiency: 1211/2000

Attack damage +20%, Critical Hit +20%, Critical Damage +20%

During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent’s move and break their moves!

(Due to the support from ‘Calculation’, the difficulty of the activation for this sutra will decrease by 5%.)

Decrease in the difficulty level? How would it decrease?

Would they give one less digit in the problems or would the number of questions he had to solve decreased by one?

This was hard to say. Based on his past experiments, Ye Weiming realized that when he activated the active effects of Daizhong Way, there was no fixed difficulty or a fixed number of questions given. Facing Xie Xun and facing the West Lake pirates were two different concepts. This meant that even if he wanted to test what this 5% decrease was, he didn’t have any grounds for comparison.

But the additional attributes the calculation skill provided was still very good. Ye Weiming felt very satisfied.

Now, he had achieved the 30 points of Enlightenment needed, he only lacked 5 points of Intelligence and the tenth level of his expiration exercise. Everything was moving in a good direction.

As expected, the effects of reading a scripture carefully and directly using it were entirely different…

Wait!

If one Zhoubi Suanjing could give him such a useful skill, then the Eight Step Chasing Toad, Dragon-Phoenix Sword, Daizhong Way, and all the other kinds of scriptures he slapped into a flash of white light… as well as the Record Of Redressing Mishandled Cases!

Oh my god!

How many good things did I miss!

For some reason, Ye Weiming felt his heart aching. Just as he was feeling the pain in his heart, someone that made his heart ached even more walked towards his direction!

This person was wearing coarse clothes and had a square face. He gave off the aura of a country bumpkin, making him seem like a very ordinary person.

This was the NPC that Ye Weiming hated deeply once——Soymilk Little White!

At this moment, Soymilk Little White was carrying a pole with loads on it and walking towards the bustling north city. He seemed to be in a hurry so he didn’t notice Ye Weiming looking at him with an evil gaze secretly.