Chapter 78: The Art of Qin in Chess, Calligraphy and Painting as a Secondary Occupation

  "Ding, system secondary occupation - Piano Art activated, would you like to open..."

  The Zhou Yi was in a state of intoxication, when the system prompt tone suddenly sounded again at this moment!

  In the system, there are four elegant professions, divided into qin (zither), qi (chess), shu (calligraphy), and hua (painting); they are essential skills for cultivating one's temperament and intimidating others. Especially if you want to be a modern-day recluse, if you don't understand these things, it would be laughable. Look at the ancients, those with the title of "scholar", whether it was Ji Kang or Zhuge Liang, weren't they all proficient in qin, qi, shu, and hua? Especially Zhuge Liang, if he couldn't play a few notes on the zither, how could he have come up with the Empty City Strategy? He would have been turned into a dead Zhuge Liang by Sima Yi...

  For these four occupations, Zhou Yi is indeed interested, although not as eager as he is for medical skills, cooking, and planting. Unfortunately, he has never been able to successfully trigger it, and he doesn't want to use the ninth-level treasure to open it up, so he can only look at it but not use it, which is frustrating.

  I didn't expect that after listening to so many song stars' songs on TV, their 'masterpieces' couldn't inspire this sideline, but today I was actually inspired by the mountain songs sung by my fellow villagers... Is it because the singing voices here are more sincere?

  Zhou Yi didn't have time to look for the reason now, and carefully looked at the description of the 'Qin Art' sub-profession.

  The so-called "qin art" is not just referring to playing the guqin, but also includes wind music, string music, percussion music, singing and composition, just like cooking and medicine, can be upgraded to the ninth level of perfection, becoming a "music god".

  I Ching took a look at the upgrade instructions. Qinyi upgraded to level 1, requiring two points of congenital bones, two points of physical comprehension, and two points of wisdom. Now that the basic skills have been upgraded to level 2, the required points are sufficient, and this regular upgrade will not consume basic attribute points, nor will it affect future upgrades of other professions.

  So Zhou Yi didn't think much and chose to upgrade, after the piano skill was upgraded to level one, the requirements for upgrading became five points of congenital bones, five points of body comprehension, and five points of wisdom, the basic attribute points were still enough, so he smoothly upgraded his piano skills to level two.

  When his piano skills reached level 2, Zhou Yi's basic attribute points were no longer enough to meet the upgrade requirements. The three types of basic attribute points required for level 3 piano skills were all eight points, and it was estimated that he would have to wait until his basic kung fu Linggen Xianti also reached level 3 before he could apply them.

  He took a look at the upgrade values of his basic skills, 226/500. It had been almost a month since the last system upgrade, and with the skill points he obtained from his part-time job, he only had 226; at this rate, it would probably take him another month to upgrade his basic skills to level three, which was too slow.

  Having gotten used to it, Zhou Yi got his profession to level 9 Great Perfection, and naturally couldn't be satisfied with this slow upgrade method. He then looked into the two secondary professions that relied on level 9 excellent items to activate - Planting and Animal Husbandry.

  These two major secondary occupations have a sign of a 9th-level wonderful object behind them, indicating that the occupation relies on props support; and compared to culinary arts, medical skills and other secondary occupations obtained through orthodox means, there is an additional data item, which is the accumulation value of basic attribute points.

  This is the biggest feature of the 9th-level mysterious object. Using it to open a sub-profession, although it consumes 10,000 points, has an additional function of accumulating basic attribute points compared to opening a sub-profession through normal means. For example, cooking and medicine can only get upgrade potential points, while planting and animal husbandry can also get basic attribute points, just like the 100 attribute points in the newbie gift box obtained by Zhou Yi, which can directly upgrade certain professions! Although it's only one-time use and cannot be compared to the basic attribute points obtained after upgrading the basic skills, it is extremely handy for upgrading sub-professions.

  I took a look at the Week易, and under the farming profession, I had accumulated 35 basic attribute points; while in the animal husbandry profession, I had accumulated 45 basic attribute points, adding up to a total of 80 basic attribute points. These two major auxiliary professions that were triggered by the ninth-level Miao Wu Er, although the speed at which they acquired upgrade potential points was far lower than cooking and medicine, but the speed at which they acquired basic attribute points was astonishing, this is probably the true purpose of the ninth-level Miao Wu Er, such a heaven-defying artifact, it's not an exaggeration to call it a cheating device.

  What made Zhou Yi feel a bit strange was that the basic attribute points obtained from the animal husbandry profession actually exceeded those obtained from the planting profession.

  This isn't scientific, is it? I've been diligently farming and harvesting crops, and in terms of animal husbandry, aside from Golden Wattle, there's really nothing to show for it. Is it really possible to get so many basic attribute points just by taming a single Golden Wattle?

  Zhou Yi didn't bother to think too much, he was now concerned about how many levels his qin skills could be upgraded with these 80 basic attribute points. In the past, upgrading his cooking skills to level 9 had only consumed 100 basic attribute points, and that was from scratch. Now that he had already upgraded his qin skills to level 2, and still had 80 basic attribute points available for "package upgrade", it should be enough to upgrade to level 9. However, the problem was that this secondary occupation of qin skills was obviously more complicated than cooking, requiring three basic attributes: roots, comprehension, and wisdom. As a result, the required basic attribute points would also increase.

  "Ding, if you choose to upgrade in packaged mode, the currently accumulated attribute points can be upgraded to level 8 qin skills. Do you want to upgrade?"

  "System prompt sounds: 'After selecting the packaging upgrade method, if it cannot be directly upgraded to full level, the basic attribute points required for future upgrades will increase exponentially. Please choose carefully...'"

  Zhou Yi hesitated for a moment before choosing to upgrade by bundling. Eighth-level piano art... If he wanted to make a name for himself in the literary circle, he might already be qualified to perform at the Vienna Golden Hall. Occasionally using it to show off a bit and maintain his mysterious aura and superior status was enough. As for ninth-level perfection... there's no rush, just wait until the basic attribute points have accumulated, and upgrading later won't be too late...

  "Ding!"

  The Book of Changes is calculating, and the system prompt tone sounds again: "Three regular sub-careers are full, task system started!"

  What, there's even a task system? Zhou Yi was taken aback for a moment. In the eyes of this former otaku player, this was just a half-baked system - it had professions and skills, but no monsters to fight or dungeons to clear; what's the point of having a task system if you're just going to end up idling in the tavern, spouting nonsense?

  "Life environment locked, on-site analysis enabled. Please select the current task mode: 1, Most reasonable way; 2, Most difficult way; 3, Most ghostly way..."

  The next system prompt, however, made Zhou Yi somewhat expectant. It turned out that this system task was not like those NC tasks in games, but rather required combining life environment and on-site analysis to come up with a solution. Moreover, he also had the right to choose, and could freely select from three modes?

  "The most reasonable way."

  With the personality of I Ching, the difficult way is not considered, what's the point? That's a child's plaything, bro, being so mature, of course, we choose a reasonable way.

  "Ding, system detection completed, task synthesis in progress...... Task synthesis complete......"

  Zhou Yi slowly opened his eyes wide, he was really looking forward to it, what would this first task be?

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  Today was supposed to be three updates, but unfortunately I'm at my mother-in-law's house, using a broken computer to type, and there are a bunch of adults and kids making noise in the room, it's driving me crazy. So today will still be two updates, and the last one will have to wait until tonight when I can quietly go back home to finish writing.

  But Monday must be overtime, otherwise it's not worth saying, and it's unfair to everyone.