I will eventually become a divine being through accumulating constantly

Miao Miao snorted lightly upon hearing that, a look of anthropomorphic disdain spreading over her face as she said,

"What a joke."

"I am of course super..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Miao Miao's keen battle instincts made her immediately realize what she was about to let slip.

She made a split-second decision and bit her tongue hard.

"Mmnn mnn mnnn..."

Pain morphed her intended words into an unintelligible mess.

Tears welled up from the pain as Miao Miao glared at Xue Jing, quickly swiping her earring off with her claw and ranting angrily,

"This shooting mother ghost communicates west!" (What the hell is this thing)

As her tongue was still very sore, her speech was a bit all over the place.

"What a pity," Xue Jing wore a look of regret.

He had thought he could tease a proud tsundere just this once, but hadn't expected Miao Miao to be so perceptive.

...

During the night, Xue Jing lay on his bed, staring at the panel with a thoughtful gaze.

[Twin Born Lv4][Shadow Flame Lv6][Plant Pact Lv6][Dragon Horn Lv5]

[Divinity Held: 5137]

"How should I use it?"

Five thousand divinity, not too little, but not too much either.

If it had been when he first received the panel, this would have been an unimaginable large sum, but now, leveling up a divine skill at level 6 would need two thousand divinity.

If nothing went wrong, leveling up to Lv7 would require three thousand divinity... In that case, five thousand divinity would only suffice to level up either Shadow Flame or Plant Pact to Lv8.

"Anyway, let's level up Shadow Flame first."

Shadow Flame remained his most useful and strongest skill to date, representing, to some extent, the 'upper limit' of his combat ability.

As long as Shadow Flame was improved, it was like raising his combat capability ceiling.

Xue Jing clicked to upgrade.

[Shadow Flame Lv7 (Divinity Required for Upgrade: 3137/3000)]

Without rushing to test the changes after the upgrade, Xue Jing continued to look at the panel.

"In three or four more days, [True Martial] should be maxed out on experience. If I wish to reserve a thousand divinity for [True Martial] to upgrade, the remaining divinity I can use would be two thousand."

"Or maybe I should level up Shadow Flame again... All the divinity I get afterwards can be used on Shadow Flame, level it up to Lv10 first, and then see about creating a 'Divine Incarnation'?"

After some thought, Xue Jing closed the panel.

"Let's put it on hold for now, I can upgrade at any time."

He snapped his fingers, and shadows in the room instantly gathered streams of dark air silently, igniting black flames everywhere.

Looking at a cluster of black flames before him, a certain feeling rose in his heart.

Subconsciously, Xue Jing turned into a black shadow with a whoosh and entered the black flame before him.

The next moment, he stepped out from another cluster of black flame within the room.

He blinked, "Is this... a spatial movement ability?"

Just now, he hadn't moved physically at all. Instead, after entering the black flame, he immediately walked out of another one without any trace of movement.

No doubt, this was a bona fide spatial movement that totally ignored obstacles.

"Damn, this ability would make delivering takeouts a breeze, no need to wait for elevators."

Xue Jing stroked his chin.

"Let's call it 'Shadow Leap'... With this, I'd not only have 'Shadow Lurk,' the ability to hide inside shadows, but also 'Shadow Leap,' the spatial teleporting ability. Could it be that [Shadow Flame] is essentially an assassin-type skill?"

"These are both abilities that an assassin could only dream of..."

Xue Jing left the room and went into the living room. He slid open the balcony glass door, stepped outside, and leaped off the balcony.

After a few maneuvers, he found himself in the garden of the residential complex, and began to eagerly test out 'Shadow Leap.'

He first conjured up two clusters of black flames, placed one beside him, and attempted to send the other one as far away as possible.

When he felt the furthest cluster was at the limit of his control, hundreds of meters away, he performed a 'Shadow Leap,' diving into the black flame beside him.

The next moment, he emerged from the distant black flame.

"Hmm...I'm not sure if there's a specific distance limit, but within a hundred meters is definitely possible."

"Next up, let's test the cooldown time and consumption..."

Xue Jing kept experimenting in the deserted garden at night and quickly came up with some concrete data.

"The current maximum teleportation distance is tentatively set at one hundred meters,"

"Both the energy consumption and cooldown time are related to the distance. For a distance of one meter, the energy consumption is negligible, and the cooldown time is around 1 second... For a distance of a hundred meters, Shadow Flame's blue bar would be depleted after roughly thirty uses, and the cooldown time would also require over 20 seconds."

Xue Jing stretched languidly and walked back to his house. In a single bound, he leaped dozens of meters high, returning to his own balcony.

He left his dirty slippers outside the balcony and barefooted, he returned to his room.

"After the warrior and the mage, I've got another assassin template,"

"All is a void; all is permitted!"

Lying in bed, Xue Jing suddenly had a whimsical thought.

"Right, speaking of which, I wonder if Ban could activate a skill similar to 'Stealth,' something essential for an assassin... I'll try to train it tomorrow,"

...

The next day.

Inside the Hidden Dragon Dojo.

"Master~"

Zong Shichan stood in the corridor, opening the doors of various training rooms while calling out.

She was dressed in a training garment, her shoulder-length black hair tied into a ponytail, her figure just over 1.4 meters tall paired with that young and pretty little face, made her look petite and adorable.

"Master~ where are you?"

While calling out, Zong Shichan scratched her head in confusion.

Her master had clearly asked her to come to the training room to learn martial arts, but now he was nowhere to be seen.

"Master~"

After she had opened the doors of all the direct disciples' training rooms, she still couldn't find Xue Jing.

"Eh?"

What the little girl didn't notice was that a figure had been following her all along from the very beginning.

When she moved, the figure moved with her, when she stopped, so did the figure, the synchronization almost 100%.

No matter the movement, turning around, moving backward, the figure always kept a moderate distance, always staying just outside her sensory blind spot.

Xue Jing stood behind his little apprentice, watching her attentively, doing his best to restrain any leakage of his own presence.

Even though he hadn't learned any related concealment techniques, and the attempt might appear somewhat comical in front of experts with keen senses, fooling a little girl was not a problem.

It just felt a bit odd internally as if he were some lolicon weirdo tailing a little girl...

The little girl continued searching for Xue Jing within the dojo, and whenever she encountered someone else, Xue Jing would immediately use 'Shadow Lurk,' hiding within the girl's shadow.

And so, as time passed, with the super talent of a True Martial Body, Xue Jing's technique for concealing his aura became increasingly adept.

Until one moment, Xue Jing had an epiphany as Power instinctively circulated within him, controlling his body, reducing the smell he emitted, the sound of his breath, the noise of the air stirred by his movements, the sound of footsteps... even the sheer 'presence,' everything dropped significantly in an instant.

[Conditions met, skill activated: Concealment]

[Concealment Lv1 (0/300)]

Xue Jing blinked.

There's actually a skill?

Now the assassin template is fully activated...

Silent and motionless, Xue Jing extended his hand and placed it on Zong Shichan's shoulder.

The girl immediately shuddered instinctively, grabbing Xue Jing's hand, ready to throw him over her shoulder.

But as soon as she grabbed his hand, he promptly flicked her on the back of her hand.

"Ah!"

Zong Shichan rubbed her hand in pain, turned her head, and upon seeing her own master standing behind her, her voice puffed up with irritation:

"Master!! Where did you go, I've been looking for you for so long!"

The little girl who did not realize she had been used as a skill-training tool spoke with a hint of a grudge:

"I was almost going to call the police!"

Xue Jing smiled at her, offhandedly saying, "I was just losing my direction on the road of life..."

Zong Shichan put her hands on her hips, dissatisfied, "You think you can fool a child?"

Xue Jing reached out and patted her head, "...Today, your master will teach you something new."

...