Cataclysm Hunter: I Have an Experience Points System

Tonight, the moon was exceptionally bright.

With his roommate Luo Tao back home, Lin Xiao had the dorm to himself.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Lin Xiao hummed a cheerful tune, swaying from side to side as he joyfully took stock of tonight’s gains.

Spears, giant axes, great hammers, Beast Hunting Saw Knives, long-handled broadswords, Daggers, long whips, Giant Scythes, wide-bladed war knives, single-handed shields.

And adding to that, the “Shooting” and “Throwing” skills honed at the shooting range…

A total of 12 potential points gained today!

Lin Xiao had never fought such a prosperous battle before!

He was so thrilled, he felt like his tail was about to wag!

In reality, not all weapons were this easy to level up.

For instance, spears and long bayonets had similar attack and usage styles.

After leveling up Spear to Lv1, when Lin Xiao tried the bayonet, it immediately triggered an experience penalty, similar to the chess games, making experience points much harder to acquire!

The same went for great hammers and spiked hammers, giant axes and double-edged axes, Daggers and small knives or darts, long-handled broadswords and many other long-handled weapons.

So he constantly filtered out overly similar weapons in his mind, aiming to level up as quickly as possible.

Later, Lin Xiao summarized his experience: the more unusual and bizarre the weapon, the easier it was to gain experience points, like long whips and Giant Scythes.

There were also pleasant surprises, such as a popular elective course at school-wide-bladed war knife combined with single-handed shield.

This combination directly earned him two potential points, and Lin Xiao couldn’t help but grin from ear to ear when he saw it.

A bountiful harvest! A great harvest!

Tomorrow, he planned to pick up more, hoping to earn another batch!

But for now, it was time to cultivate; he had been so engrossed in leveling up that he hadn’t even done any vitalis refinement.

Without hesitation, Lin Xiao started allocating points.

Six points each to constitution and spirit!

Crack-!

As the attribute panel updated, Lin Xiao experienced a light, floating sensation.

Time seemed to slow down, his thoughts elevated, becoming somewhat ethereal.

He felt as if he was in the dark clouds, gazing at the colorful, boundless starry sky, the bright crescent moon casting a gentle glow, and the grain-like shimmering dots of light danced like free-spirited fairies, appearing and disappearing…

Just as Lin Xiao reached out to touch these “fairies,” the world shattered like a fragile bubble, and everything vanished.

He fell from the cloud.

Back to the familiar dormitory, everything was as it was, unchanged.

“What was that…?”

Holding his head, Lin Xiao’s eyes widened.

He was certain it wasn’t an illusion; through the window, he could vaguely see the high-hanging crescent moon and the starry sky like a sand table.

And those shimmering dots…

Lin Xiao’s pupils were veiled in a deep, dark film, and everything around him seemed different.

Red was redder, blue was bluer, and the air was filled with tiny shimmering dots, varied in color, drifting unpredictably.

These were the vitalis.

But compared to the cloud above, the density of vitalis was thousands of times higher, omnipresent, seemingly inexhaustible…

‘Did my consciousness ascend to the heavens just now?’

Why did this happen? Was it because his spiritual power had increased?

Lin Xiao closed his eyes, attempting to experience that sensation again, but…

He failed.

The events that transpired felt like a fleeting dream, a mirage of the mind. Despite Lin Xiao’s spirit having grown several times stronger, he still couldn’t glimpse the Cloud.

With a sigh, Lin Xiao decided to temporarily abandon the attempt. There was no need to force it; as long as he continued to grow stronger, this sensation would surely return.

Gathering his thoughts, Lin Xiao began to employ the vitalis refinement method.

A distant rumble seemed to echo from the heavens.

High above, in the boundless sky, the drifting luminescent particles appeared to be imbued with gravity, freezing for a moment before surging downward.

A mighty stream of vitalis formed a pillar of light, piercing through all barriers, pouring directly into Lin Xiao’s body.

Compared to before, was the increase of 21 points in constitution and 20 points in spirit significant? Lin Xiao could only describe it as the difference between heaven and earth.

Both the intensity of his spirit and the speed at which he absorbed vitalis were incomparable to before.

His cells seemed to disdain his current body’s weakness, voraciously devouring energy, growing, dividing, replacing, determined to upgrade his hardware.

[Vitalis Refinement Method (Incomplete) – Lv2: Experience Points +11]

[Vitalis Refinement Method (Incomplete) – Lv2: Experience Points +15]

[Vitalis Refinement Method (Incomplete) – Lv2: Experience Points +14]

…

Due to the exponential growth in spiritual power, even the experience points for the vitalis refinement method began to increase significantly, a stark contrast to the meager +2, +3 gains of the past.

[Vitalis Refinement Method (Incomplete) – Lv2: Experience Points +12]

[Strength: 11 >>> 12!]

In less than ten minutes, Lin Xiao’s strength had increased by one point.

This was no surprise to him; after all, he had been stuck at strength 11 for two days. In this torrent of vitalis, not improving would be the real anomaly!

Yet his body was far from satisfied; his cells continued to absorb energy relentlessly, as if starved for three days and nights, with no end in sight.

…

As the morning sun pierced through the night, birds outside began to chirp.

Lin Xiao climbed out of bed, trudging step by step towards the bathroom.

Though he hadn’t sweated, his skin felt sticky, as if he hadn’t bathed in days.

The shower sprayed hot water over him, and as Lin Xiao gently rubbed his chest, a layer of gray-white grime peeled away, revealing the fair and tender skin beneath.

This grime was all dead skin.

Lin Xiao had scrubbed himself clean during yesterday’s shower, yet overnight, enough dead skin had accumulated to form a substantial layer.

Clenching his fist, feeling the surging power within his flesh, Lin Xiao took a deep breath.

Strength 13.

This astonishing metabolism had resulted in 13 points of strength.

Last night, Lin Xiao’s vitalis refinement lasted for a full three hours before concluding.

It wasn’t due to inefficiency in refinement, but rather his cells behaving like madmen, instantly updating and replacing energy as soon as it was filled, as if they wouldn’t rest until his body’s strength was elevated.

Perhaps the vast disparity between constitution and strength had triggered this phenomenon.

With 21 points in constitution, 11 points in strength seemed disgraceful…

Indeed, last night, with both constitution and spirit exceeding 20 points, Lin Xiao clearly perceived the monumental change.

It was a leap, a breakthrough.

Who knows what terrifying growth his strength would achieve upon reaching 20 points.

Moreover…

The vitalis, now dense and liquid-like, instantly filled his body.

A deep gray veil emerged, enveloping him like a battle robe, swaying gently, shimmering with flame-like ripples.

Lin Xiao raised his right hand, casually throwing a punch.

Boom-!

The air cried out in agony, as if struck by a cannonball, turbulent currents lifting the curtain of hot water, scattering it in all directions.

With vitalis filling his entire body and vitalis entwining him, this was undoubtedly Lin Xiao’s most formidable combat form.