The barren plains lay shrouded in a dim gray haze.0

Yellow leaves skittered across the sky like frightened sparrows, then fluttered down among the brittle grass where a brocade-robed youth stood lost in thought.0

Li Yuan studied the new entry in his skill list hovering before his eyes—0

Incomplete Six Paths - Mortal World Transformation (1/4)0

First he tried the simplest fix. Allocate a few stat points at it. But nothing happened, not even a brief flicker.0

So the 1/4 wasn’t one out of four points; it was one quarter of a full point. Only when he collected the remaining three quarters would the skill knit itself into something whole.0

Li Yuan closed his eyes, letting his mind graze the fragment’s...4