He still took out his phone and recorded a video, looking seriously into the camera: "This is my thirtieth day cultivating the Great Sun Golden Body. It's really too hard. Although it's not enough to make someone collapse, this technique is truly not meant for humans. I've practiced for a whole month and only reached this level. Everyone can see the results..."

As he spoke, he pushed his qi and blood to the limit, golden light shimmering on his skin.

"Hard! Really hard! At this rate, it'll take at least several months, maybe half a year, to reach mastery!? And to reach perfection, it might take a whole year! Especially since I spent nearly three thousand on this technique—what a huge loss! A total loss!"

Finally, he had to add the list of medicines.

William Carter looked at the video. For the sake of skill points, he was really going all out.

Putting away his phone, William Carter returned home and skillfully turned on his computer.

Over the past two years, in order to make a living, he had learned quite a few things. Now, to smoothly earn another skill point and solidify his genius status...

"It's time to show some real skills."

As William Carter spoke, he opened the photo editing software!

The second level of the Great Sun Golden Body doesn't look impressive?

Then just add some special effects.

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"To avoid being called out as fake, the pictures can't be over-edited, and the effects can't be too over the top..."

William Carter carefully edited the images.

He basically edited the second level of the Great Sun Golden Body to look like the third level.

This way, even if the video goes viral soon and has a big impact, if someone jumps out to expose him, he figures he’ll have already gotten a skill point and leveled up the Great Sun Golden Body for real—a genuine third level...

By then, if that person tries to expose him and challenges him...

If things go well, he might even get another skill point.

If his guess is wrong and he doesn't get a skill point, he'll just have to find another way.

After working hard for more than twenty hours, William Carter finally finished the special effects.

Since it was just a matter of brightening the golden light he already had, it wasn't very difficult. If he hadn't been so meticulous to avoid being exposed too soon, half an hour would have been enough.

"Next is editing, subtitles, background music—especially adding some BGM when activating the Great Sun Golden Body..."

Since this was important, William Carter was naturally very careful.

Thirty days, thirty videos—he picked the most exciting parts and finally compressed several hundred minutes of footage into less than five minutes.

On and off, it took another ten hours or so.

To test whether he could activate this mysterious ability, he had already stayed up for forty hours.

"Cultivation starts with staying up late!"

William Carter checked his video, made sure there were no mistakes, and logged into his account on Sha Station.

Sha Station, also known as S Station, was originally a website for studying sand sculpture art, but somehow it developed into one of the largest video sites in Xiyu Nation.

Over the past two years, to earn money for Foundation Establishment resources, William Carter had considered uploading videos to Sha Station as a content creator. He learned a lot of skills, spent a lot of effort, and posted dozens of videos. The most popular ones had over a hundred thousand views, the least only a few thousand, and his follower count hovered around ten thousand—not hot, not cold.

"Next... the title..."

William Carter thought for a moment and typed, "Diligently practicing the Great Sun Golden Body, finally making progress today, emerging to challenge the heroes of the world!"

But after looking at the title, he felt it was a bit ordinary.

In the end, he deleted it and retyped, "It's too hard! With one-star talent, I almost broke down practicing the Great Sun Golden Body!"

After checking for typos, he decisively clicked upload to the martial arts section.

"Whether I can gain influence and thus generate skill points this way, I'll just have to wait patiently. I've done all I can..."

William Carter shut down the computer, left his room, and went to the bathroom for a shower, then flopped onto his bed.

If this method doesn't work and he can't get skill points...

He'll just have to go back to school and honestly be an ordinary genius step by step.

...

Maybe it was because he used up too much energy staying up for forty hours, but William Carter slept for ten hours before opening his eyes.

He was woken up by a series of "bang bang bang" knocks on the door.

"Bro, that's enough, you need to think about your health."

Olivia Carter's voice came from outside.

William Carter felt a bit touched.

His little sister had finally learned to care about others.

"Open the door. If you don't, I'll cut the power."

William Carter rubbed his eyes, too lazy to move in bed: "Sleeping, don't bother me."

"You're still in bed... Don't wash your blanket with mine anymore!"

"???"

William Carter was confused.

But after being disturbed by Olivia Carter, he was fully awake.

Thinking about the video he uploaded before bed, he slowly moved from the head to the foot of the bed to reach the power button, while shouting, "Stop bothering me, I'm not opening it, go away."

"If you don't open the door, I'll break it down."

William Carter looked at the humming computer, got up, and opened the door: "What is it? I'll give you three seconds."

"I'm going to take the beginner swordsmanship certificate test. Come with me."

"No time."

"One hundred bucks!"