Infinite Professions-Chapter 159 - 74: Immortality

Zhong Chuan (Shen Hex)

Profession: Immortal Hermit.

Professional Rank: Tier Two Level Ten.

Professional Talent: Fate Fisher, Cultivation Land.

Professional Skills: Xingyi Fist, Five Elements Technique, Spirit Control Scripture, Shennong’s Herbal Scripture, Xingyi Divine Martial Scripture, Pill Formation Introduction, Talismanic Magic Introduction, Artifact Technique Introduction, Array Formation Introduction...

Professional Items: None.

General Skills: Omitted.

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"Retain Professional Talent!"

"Retain Professional Skills!"

"Begin Professional Advancement!"

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"Based on your experiences and actions, you can choose one of the following professions to replace the original Immortal Hermit profession!"

"Profession One: Dongting Dragon Monarch (By chance, you obtained an imperial seal, seemingly belonging to an Upper Realm Dragon Monarch, capable of transforming fish into dragons, shedding mortality to become immortal. With this authority, you can become the Dongting Dragon Monarch.

You can manage Dongting Lake, cultivate the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations, and enlighten the Water Race, nurturing fish and dragons to gain substantial professional experience, greatly increasing the efficiency of cultivating the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations, and the growth efficiency of the Dongting Water Race, with a chance of evolving into True Blood Dragon Species.

Professional experience carries the nature of Dragon Qi, significantly enhancing your True Dragon Bloodline with each Professional Level increase. You can consume professional experience to ritually refine the exclusive professional item Fish Dragon Seal)"

"Professional Talent: Fish Dragon Nine Transformations (Any fish can transform into a dragon through nine transformations. Any mortal can become immortal through nine transformations. By consuming a massive amount of professional experience, you can perform the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations, temporarily enhancing realm cultivation, divine techniques, and magical power. Each use boosts Dragon Race True Blood and Immortal Dao Spiritual Root)"

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"Profession Two: Hundred Arts True Cultivator (Born as a fisherman-farmer, you discovered that cultivation is not necessarily about fighting and killing. Farming, raising fish, alchemy, artifact refining, talisman crafting, and array formation can also lead to an immortal path.

Through techniques like Spirit Plant Spirit Control, Pill, Talisman, Array, and Artifact from the Hundred Skills of Cultivation, you gain substantial professional experience, significantly boosting the efficiency of cultivating in the Hundred Skills of Cultivation, and greatly enhancing the effectiveness of using hundred arts products like spirit plants/spirit beasts/spirit pills/spirit talismans/spiritual artifacts/spirit arrays.

Every Professional Level increase greatly improves cultivation aptitude. You can consume professional experience to ritually refine the exclusive professional item Hundred Treasures Pouch)"

"Professional Talent: Hundred Arts Convergence (The great Dao holds three thousand paths, converging from different origins, so is the way of the hundred arts. Each art has commonalities, complementarity. When one art enhances, all arts enhance, when all arts enhance, one art enhances. You can consume professional experience to convert the rank of the Hundred Skills of Cultivation, or use the power of a hundred arts to enhance one art level)"

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"Profession Three: Immortal (Who in this world is not subject to death? No matter your elegance, charm, or unrivaled talent, eventually, you become a beautiful skeleton. Even the most outstanding genius will be buried in dirt. As an elderly cultivator, you understand that the most important thing in cultivating immortality is longevity and continuous observation. Only by not dying can there be a future.

Through methods like cultivating life, you can gain a fixed amount of professional experience. The professional panel adds cultivation and lifespan sections; the older the age, the more lifespan, the more experience gained, and the stronger the cultivation effect. Each Professional Level increase significantly enhances lifespan.

Cultivating life extension techniques, taking longevity pills, the efficiency of any longevity methods is significantly improved. You can consume professional experience to increase lifespan)"

"Professional Talent: Longevity Life Nourishing Method (Longevity and immortality, nourishing life has its method. All lifespan consumption not caused by the passage of time and age can be recovered through rest)"

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Here comes the classic three-choice moment again.

Dongting Dragon Monarch, Hundred Arts True Cultivator, and Immortal.

Which of the three professions is the best?

In terms of combat power, it is definitely the Dongting Dragon Monarch. Its talent Fish Dragon Nine Transformations can turn fish into dragons and mortals into immortals, greatly boosting combat strength in the short term and permanently enhancing dragon blood and spiritual roots, offering great advantages in both fighting and cultivation.

In terms of development, it is definitely the Hundred Arts True Cultivator. Although on the surface, there’s no combat power increase or much help in cultivation, that’s just the surface.

Is there a fear of lacking combat power with spirit stones?

Is there a fear of difficult cultivation with pills?

Not to mention the existence of arrays.

The path of cultivating through the hundred arts to immortal ascension is not just a dream.

Yet, after much thought, Shen Hex decided to choose the third option—Immortal!

Though Dongting Dragon Monarch is appealing and Fish Dragon Nine Transformations powerful, he is not very impressed.

Because with the Human Empire backing him, he has access to better cultivation techniques, making it unreasonable to cultivate this unknown Fish Dragon Nine Transformations.

As for the Hundred Arts True Cultivator, although it has significant value, it isn’t irreplaceable. Shen Hex has many methods to compensate for this aspect of development, without relying on the power of a profession to break through.

Only the Immortal profession is an exception. Although longevity can be achieved in the late stages of various systems, it requires reaching those late stages. Immortal Buddhas and Divine Saints are Tier Twelve beings.

Without becoming an Immortal Buddha or Divine Saint, one cannot speak of longevity.

Though Shen Hex has many "cheats," he cannot guarantee becoming a Tier Twelve Professional, ascending to immortality, or becoming a Buddha before his life ends.

The Immortal profession provides a layer of assurance.

Moreover, this Immortal profession has another great weapon—it allows "Krypton Life" cultivation.

With its nourishing life law talent, it can recover all lifespan consumed not by time and age through rest.

What does this mean?

It means Shen Hex can extravagantly consume lifespan to cultivate life-draining martial arts or spells.

Many people avoid these methods due to their short-term gains at the expense of the future, not lasting long and not the righteous path.

But what if the future can be infinitely overdrawn?

With Zhong Zhou’s Dream Butterfly of the transmigrator, he can amplify lifespan using the differing time flows between worlds. With the power of an Immortal, utilizing life-consuming cultivation or life-consuming combat, constantly elevating realm cultivation, and gaining feedback in strength to the body, his development speed would be astounding.

It holds great potential!

Krypton Life cultivation, loan-based cultivation!

Just this point alone can offset many advantages of Dongting Dragon Monarch and Hundred Arts True Cultivator.

So, why not choose it?

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"Advancement successful!"

"Professional Talent [Fate Fisher] advanced to [Longevity Fisherman]"

"Professional Talent [Cultivation Land] advanced to [Longevity Immortal Blessed Land]"

"Professional Skill ’Xingyi Fist’ acquired advancement trait — Martial Arts Health Care!"

"Professional Skill ’Five Elements Technique’ acquired advancement trait — Five Elements Mutual Generation!"

"Professional Skill ’Spirit Control Scripture’ acquired advancement trait — Life and Death Together!"

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A series of prompts sounded, signaling the completion of the advancement.

Shen Hex’s gaze returned, once more checking the professional panel.

Zhong Chuan (Shen Hex)

Profession: Immortal.

Cultivation: Martial Arts Fourth Rank, Tier Four Spirit Control, Tier Three of the Immortal Dao.

Lifespan: 99/500.

Professional Rank: Tier Three Level One.

Professional Talents: Longevity Fisherman, Longevity Immortal Blessed Land, Longevity Life Nourishing Method.

Professional Skills: Xingyi Fist, Five Elements Technique, Spirit Control Scripture, Shennong’s Herbal Scripture, Xingyi Divine Martial Scripture, Pill Formation Introduction, Talismanic Magic Introduction, Artifact Technique Introduction, Array Formation Introduction...

Professional Items: None.

General Skills: Omitted.

Longevity Fisherman: You are an immortal fate fisherman. Your fishing skills improve with age and lifespan; the older you are and the more lifespan you have, the higher the probability of catching high-grade fish, rare fish, and various immortal fates.

Longevity Immortal Blessed Land: You are an immortal hermit. Your cultivation land is seen as an immortal family’s blessed land, sought by countless people, but inaccessible to them. The effect of hidden cultivation and gathering spirit is greatly enhanced, and the effectiveness of longevity life nourishing methods within the blessed land is substantially improved. There is also a certain chance of attracting various opportunities to flow into the blessed land.

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The professional panel underwent another transformation.

Two new columns, "Cultivation" and "Lifespan," were added.

Cultivation needs no further elaboration; Shen Hex now practices three major systems: Martial Dao, Spirit Control, and Immortal Dao techniques. The different names for each realm are somewhat complex, but they can be intuitively displayed on the panel.

Lifespan is also clear. Shen Hex’s current cultivation in Martial Dao True Essence and Immortal Dao Refining Qi is conventionally only four hundred lifepan.

However, he has also cultivated the Spirit Control Technique, gaining a hundred lifespan from contracted spirit beasts like Long Yu, so his lifespan is five hundred.

With five hundred, subtracting one hundred, he has four hundred lifespan left, which can be used in Krypton Life cultivation, practicing various Forbidden Techniques.

Once his cultivation reaches the realm of Golden Core or even Heavenly Gang Sha Infant, he will have thousands of lifespan to expend, not only for magic but also for sacrificial practices of some "evil dao" magical treasures.

A bright future beckons him!

Finally, there are the two strengthened professional talents obtained through advancement.

Longevity Fisherman needs no further explanation; it directly ties the probability of fishing spirit fish and immortal fates to age and lifespan. The older and more lifespan, the better the spirit fish and immortal fates caught, in tandem with Krypton Life methods, fishing and treasure hunting seem to be divinely assisted.

Though not similarly tied, Longevity Immortal Blessed Land also enhances the effects of hidden cultivation and spirit gathering, and the longevity life nourishing methods, enabling him to hide better and enhance his Krypton Life.

This kind of development means he might not even need to leave Dongting Lake; he can cultivate and become a giant in the cultivation realm just by staying home.

This aligns perfectly with his development plan.

Currently, in the inland cultivation realm, the Four Righteous and Demonic Sects are engaging in a battle around Wanshou Mountain, and it’s uncertain when peace will return. Traveling outside truly isn’t safe.

Although with his current strength, once he completes Core Formation, few can rival him, in a world brimming with immortal fates, who knows what unexpected events or "cheaters" may arise.

Therefore, Shen Hex decides to stay home for the upcoming period, farming and raising fish, practicing martial arts and cultivation, and waiting for either peace or his divine skill to reach great success before venturing out.

As for causing trouble, let’s hold off for now. This world’s waters run deep, and it’s said that overseas, Nascent Soul Old Monsters and even Venerables of Divinity Transformation exist, whom he can’t confront head-on yet.

In this manner...

"Hiss!!!"

Reality, staff dormitory, a hissing sound of air escaping, the life support pod door opened.

Shen Hex rose from it, opening his personal terminal, and entered the Special Bureau’s internal network.

He needs to purchase some Krypton Life methods.

These Krypton Life methods are not publicly sold by the Human Empire, so they can’t be acquired through conventional channels, only through Special Bureau internal purchases.

The logic is simple enough to grasp; these Krypton Life methods deplete future potential. A public release or promotion would diminish the populace’s potential, causing some "geniuses" to fall midway, which is clearly not what the Empire’s leadership wants to see.

Yet, these prohibitive methods have a certain worth, at least for the professionals on the frontlines battling Evil God minions, who need them badly, so the Human Empire hasn’t entirely banned them but has kept them in internal networks.

The Special Bureau, specifically tasked with clearing Evil God sects and combatting various anomalies, naturally possesses such martial arts and magic, and their tiers are quite advanced.

"Divine Martial Dissolution Technique"

"Dragon Elephant Extreme Secret Vehicle"

"Wisdom Scripture of All Methods"

"Blood Coagulation Bursting Extreme Divine Gang"

"Celestial Extreme Earth Limit Gang Sha Pill Method"

"Primordial Spirit Sacrificial Dao Demon-slaying Sword"

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