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The Beilao clan head having a soul light bead was completely out of the expectations of Shirong, so much so that he had to improvise on the spot. He thought of potential solutions at a lightning speed and came up with his current excuse.
He gritted his teeth and took out the strange rock that he had obtained from the bottom of the underground lake. He realized that it could be mistaken as the Armour or shell of some kind and besides, they did not know what the beast looked like in reality anyway.
He came to this solution as he had seen an armor shearing talisman in the storage ring of the Beilao clan heir. The Armor shearing talisman's function was exactly what its name meant. It was a one time use talisman that could weaken and break the armor of a cultivator or a beast. Even if it was a mid grade talisman and it was still quite a bit valuable.
The expressions of everyone in the room fell after they saw the piece of rock in the hands of Young Master Shirong. They were also surprised upon hearing that the Beilao clan heir actually had an armor shearing talisman in addition to a soul light bead.
"This…" the Beilao clan had uttered with difficulty.
To be honest, even Beilao clan head was unsure of whether Young Master Shirong was truly lying or not. He was merely throwing plausible explanations and seeing what would stick. Even with the soul light bead, Beilao clan Head knew that a lot of things could have happened, and the explanation that Young Master Shirong was possibly correct.
But now that he had said that he saw his son use an armor shearing talisman and the piece of armor that he had in his hand, he couldn't help but get doubtful.
"Clan head Lu, please take a look and give your verdict. Anyone else that wants to test it can do it as well." Young Master Shirong said in a calm voice.
"Alright, if Young Master Shirong is fine with it then I'll do it," Clan head Lu said before taking the beast carapace fragment in his hand.
He scanned it with his spirit sense and furrowed his brows. Five minutes passed and even now he could not get to a conclusion. Finally, he opened his eyes with a frown on his face.
"I'm afraid, I cannot even get an inkling of what this thing is. But if the characteristics of the beast that Young Master Shirong told are correct, then it matches up. This fragment of shell or whatever it is definitely belongs to a beast I can tell this much. There are extremely faint traces of a beast's aura on it too." Clan head Lu stated.
~Gasp~
A collative gasp was heard in the room as the people in the hall tensed up. With clan head Lu's verdict, they were fully convinced about it now.
While Young Master Shirong had a calm look on his face, he too was freaking out internally.
'What! It truly is a beast's shell?' Shirong thought.
He thought over a bit more and then realized that he had forgotten an important factor.
~Sigh~
'My cultivation had regressed, no wonder my sensitivity has fallen. Even if it is still equivalent to that of a pseudo nascent soul realm cultivator, the injuries I have are still restricting me. Not to mention clan head Lu has the highest cultivation in this room, being at the Nascent soul realm.' Shirong realized.
Meanwhile, Lin Wu was a bit dumbfounded inside the ring.
"What? How did they come to that conclusion that fast? Is this guy's Shirong's ability less than that old clan head? But he's been appearing so submissive to him." Lin Wu said to himself as he kept on watching.
Lin Wu had only expected that they would at most be mistaken about the origin of that fragment and would just think of it as something mysterious. But things were going even better than he thought, and that too within the confines of his plan.
"No, wait… is it possible that these clans may take that beast fragment? No! That cannot happen. It may throw a wrench into my plan and I don't know if this guy Shirong will be able to take it back. Looking at his current situation, it already seems like he's freeballing it…" Lin Wu thought out loud.
But just as Lin Wu thought of this, Shirong spoke.
"Clan heads and gentlemen, if you so give me the permission, I would like to ask my clan's ancestor to analyze and appraise it himself. Of course, that is if it is fine with you all. If you have doubts about my credibility or the clan, you are free to do it yourself." Shirong declared.
~Gulp~
The people who had been in displeasure with Young Master Shirong gulped with fear. They knew that now that Young Master Shirong had involved his ancestor in it, they could not do much. While it would be fine and they would not be in any danger if they chose to take that piece of beast shell, they knew that the ancestor of Young Master Shirong's clan was no simple.
In fact, the ancestor had not even been seen out in the real world in the past five hundred years and some even wondered if he was still alive. They had heard of the rumors that surrounded the clan of Young Master Shirong and even more so of their ancestor.
In this hall, there was no one that was even close to that age and were thus in the complete in the blind about his ancestor. But for a clan as powerful as Young Master Shirong's it was evident that the cultivation of their ancestor must be at the Dao Shell realm at the very least if not the Dao treading realm.
"Young Master Shirong, what are you even saying, there's no way in a thousand years we would ever dare to dishonor your clan's ancestor. Please go ahead if the Ji clan ancestor cannot appraise it then are we even qualified to have a look?" Clan Head Lu said in a nervous tone.
"Hmm, so the clan that this Young Master Shirong belongs to is called the Ji clan, interesting…" Lin Wu muttered.
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Lin Wu had not expected that Young Master Shirong had the same thought as him and decided to take care of any further probabilities that may worsen the situation. By borrowing the name of his clan's ancestor now, there was no one that would dare to question him.
Even the king of the Ling kingdom would have to call the Ji clan's ancestor senior, not to mention the people here.
The other people in the hall hurriedly agreed with Clan head Lu's words so as to alleviate any potential dishonor. Even a careless mention by Young Master Shirong to his ancestor could spell doom to their entire clans. It would not even take a word before countless other powers would do it themselves to gain the favor of the Ji clan.
~Phew~
Seeing that the situation had stabilized Young Master Shirong took a breath of relief. Clan head Lu who was standing the nearest to him heard this and suddenly cold sweat appeared on his back.
"Forgive my insolence, Young Master Shirong! I forgot that you are injured and need to nurse your injuries. Please, take our special courtyard to rest and recover," Clan Head Lu hurriedly said. "And I don't think anyone else would disagree to this." He added while looking at the other people in the hall with a killer gaze.
'Hahaha, now these fools are in line.' Shirong inwardly laughed.
"Yes, yes. Young Master Shirong should go rest now. Also, my clan will send some healing pills and elixirs, please use them Young Master Shirong that's the least we can do." Clan Head Xiong spoke, finding another moment to boot lick.
Not wanting to miss out this chance of currying favor the other clan heads and the merchant heads did the same giving Shirong some healing pills as well. As for Young Master Shirong's two followers, they were not forgotten of course.
They were also given some pills as a friendly gesture, as the clans had to keep up a certain decorum. It would not reflect well on a clan's reputation if they were not even able to afford this much. The two men Ye Dai and Bei Wen would have even gotten more pills but their true identity of being Young Master Shirong's followers was secret.
Still, the two men did not mind this and were instead happy at even getting this much.
"Damn, this guy Shirong is a pro. A few words is all it took him to not only flip the tables in his favor, but also to get rewarded for murdering their people." Lin Wu praised, feeling amazed.
'Hehe, get more resources. Potentially they will be mine anyway…' Lin Wu thought with a creepy glint in his eyes.
"That'll be very accommodating of everyone. Thank you for your hospitality." Young Master Shirong thanked and was then personally guided by clan head Lu to the special courtyard he had spoken.
Upon stepping into the room, Shirong could immediately feel the increased concentration of spirit qi in the air. It was evident that the courtyard had some qi gathering formations carved into it. He had to say that this environment would definitely decrease the item he'll require to recover from the injuries.
'Even if this is not as good as the ones in my clan, it's pretty decent for a clan like the Lu clan.' Shirong thought to himself.
"I'll leave you to it them, Young Master Shirong. If you need anything please, don't hesitate to contact the servants they will appear at your single word." Clan head Lu said before leaving the courtyard.
Shirong waited for the clan head Lu to leave the courtyard before he started scanning the entire courtyard with his spirit sense for any spying formation.
"At least they have the wisdom to not place a spying formation here," Shirong muttered to himself.
Suddenly Lin Wu felt the connection he had with the spatial storage ring activate and he became alert.
"Is he about to summon me? No wait, this feels different…" Lin Wu said to himself as he immediately returned to his spear form.
He then felt a fluctuation in the spatial ring and saw a few things vanish from the ring.
"Huh, what did he take?" Lin Wu wondered as he then looked outside.
Shirong was currently in the process of sticking a few talismans around the room. After he was done with it, a bunch of glowing characters appeared in the air which Lin Wu had seen for the first time.
"This should be enough, now even if someone wants to spy they can't. This privacy formation should last for a few days." Shirong muttered to himself.
"Ooh! He even has something like this. But then what were those glowing characters that appeared?" Lin Wu muttered to himself.
"System, what are those characters I just saw?" Lin Mu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: Those characters are the runes that are used to make formations. They are written in a special language called as the Dao script.
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"Ah, so that's what they were. Makes sense, but what is this language Dao script?" Lin Wu spoke further.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The system does not have enough information about Dao script and only knows that it is used for various things such as setting up formations, alchemy, weapon forging, spirit tool refinement, and even the Creation of cultivation technique.
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After reading the system's answer, Lin Wu was quite interested. Seeing how many things the Dao script was used for it seemed obvious to him that he needed to learn.
"Seems like I need to find a cultivator that had more knowledge about this. No, wait… wasn't there something in that list?" Lin Wu muttered before taking another look at the list that the system made.
"There it is! Data node… and these are even in the form of books. This should be good." Lin Wu said, feeling excited.
"System, can you scan and obtain these data nodes?" Lin Wu asked.
To Lin Wu any new knowledge was useful, and he wanted to get every small bit he possibly could.
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~Ding~
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ANSWER: All data nodes can be scanned.
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Seeing the straightforward answer of the system, Lin Wu was happy.
"System, Scan all the data nodes and update the data banks." Lin Wu ordered.
~Ding~
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DATA NODES: 4 found
ANALYZING DATA NODES: Please Wait patiently
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"Now that this is also being done, I wonder if the process of deriving a method to refine spirit sense will take longer? Looks like I can just wait and see." Lin Wu muttered to himself before taking a look outside.
He saw that Shirong was muttering something and then started eating some of the pills that were given to him by the clan heads. He then sat in a meditative pose and started to heal his injuries using the medical properties of the alchemical pills.
While he was doing this, his spirit sense was reduced to a small area of one meter around his body, which also restricted Lin Wu's field of vision.
"Ah damn, now I can't see anything outside…" Lin Wu complained.
Seeing that it would most likely take Shirong a while to wake up and the same with the system, Lin Wu decided to take a closer look at all the items in the list.
He read each item one by one and also their descriptions. There were some unique items that were unknown to him, such as a few talismans. Because he could not read it, he couldn't tell what use they had, but with the system's explanation, that was solved.
Another rather strange thing Lin Wu discovered was the clothes in the ring. There were probably around a thousand pairs of clothes in the ring.
"Oh damn, why does he have so many clothes? They don't even have different designs most of them look similar." Lin Wu said upon looking through the clothes,
In the thousand clothes, there were only 10 different designs, which meant that there were a hundred copies of the same type of clothes.
"Is he obsessive about these particular designs, or does he not like fashion, perhaps?" Lin Wu wondered.
After thinking over it for a minute, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind. Or rather than an idea, it was a question that he had in his mind for quite a while ever since he started Reading all the cultivation novels.
The question was: With the number of battles that cultivators have, what do they do with their clothes when they get damaged?
This question was now answered with a first hand experience.
"So their solution to that problem is just… more clothes? Huh, that was rather… simple, I guess." Lin Wu said to himself, feeling a bit amazed.
~Ding~
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DATA NODE ANALYZED: 1/4 Completed
DATA BANKS: Updating
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Just as Lin Wu finished speaking, the notification sound of the system appeared.
"Oh, just in time, System did you obtain information about the Dao script?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: No, this data node contained information about the geography of this world and its history.
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"Well, that's not bad. At least I get to read some stuff and get to know more about this place." Lin Wu spoke.
"System, show me all that you obtained." Lin Wu ordered.
A new window appeared in front of Lin Wu and he started reading. He realized that there were a lot of pages, but to his reading speed which was honed over two decades in his past life, this was nothing. It took him about six hours before he finished reading all the things.
After reading it all thought, Lin Wu felt confused, amazed and scared at the same time.
Lin Wu leered that the world he was in was called as the Ming Dao world. It seemed like they called the planets as worlds by default, but they could be used interchangeably. This was done as most commoners didn't even know what this planet looked like and they would usually not even leave the towns they were born in, not to mention go to another kingdom. It was only the cultivators, that too high leveled ones and great powers that knew about the truth of the world.
There were about three big continents that were of nearly the same size on the Ming Dao World. They were also located rather closely and were on one side of the planet, taking up nearly 30% of its entire surface. Still, there was the ocean between the contents which was in the shape of a 'Y'.
The main ocean of the planet was simply called as the great ocean, which led Lin Wu to think that the people that named it either didn't have a naming sense or that they wanted to keep things simple. He also learned the names of the three continents.
The continent that he was currently on was the one that was in the lower right of the 'Y' formation and was called as the Eastern Long continent. The one to the left was called as the Western Hu continent and the one at the top was called as the Northern Gui Continent.
"So a dragon, a tiger, and a turtle? Let me guess these are the guardian beasts, right? Or perhaps the ruling clans have these as their surnames," Lin Wu joked.
But as he read ahead, he realized that he was spot on. The continents were named after the guardian beasts whose descendants now rule over each of the Continents, thus taking the names as surnames.
"Huh, at least that will make it easier to remember." Lin Wu muttered.
He continued reading and found out more about the kingdom that he was in right now, the Ling kingdom. It was a medium sized kingdom and was pretty much average. There were some cultivation sects in the kingdom as well, but none of them were particularly strong.
Then Lin Wu tried to find more about this 'Ji clan' that Young Master Shirong belonged to. It didn't take him long to find out about it either, as it turned out they were the big wigs of this continent.
"Hahaha! Seems like I caught the biggest whale."
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Getting over his excitement, Lin Wu kept on reading. There was still a lot he needed to learn about this Ji clan.
The thing that caught his attention first was their power. The Ji clan was the second most powerful clan in the entirety of the Eastern Long Continent, being just below the Long clan itself that was the clan of the guardian beast.
He also learned that the Ji clan had a few cultivation sects that it ruled over and its members would become those sects Supreme elders. Even if the sect had a Patriarch that was selected from their own people, having the Ji clansmen as the supreme elders meant that even if the sect wanted to do something, they had to go through the supreme elders first.
Thus in this manner, the Ji clan controlled about four of the top ten sects of the Continent. Of course, there were many smaller Sects that were subordinate to these four sects thus the overall number of cultivation sects indirectly under the Ji clan's control was quite large.
This knowledge was secret, and the only reason Lin Wu was able to learn about this was because Shirong had borrowed these books from the private records of his clan. Most of the Powers of this Continent would not even know that something like this even existed.
Lin Wu wanted to know more about the cultivators of the Ji clan, as he was likely to head there along with Shirong. He wanted to be prepared and know beforehand what he was getting into. But surprisingly, this book barely had any information about that.
There were some vague mentions in it though, which said that there were as many core condensation realm cultivators in the Ji clan as there were leaves in a forest and even the Nascent soul realm cultivators were rather common.
"This seems more like an exaggeration, there should be more proper information in something else." Lin Wu said.
Lin Wu was now curious about the cultivation realms of this world. Till now he had heard of four realms and he wanted to know more about the others that were above it. But sadly there was nothing in this book and even the system didn't know more above the nascent soul realm.
Having finished reading this book, Lin Wu took a look outside and checked Shirong's condition. The man was still sitting in the same position and would eat a few pills in time intervals of an hour. Lin Wu observed his face and its color seemed to have gotten better.
"He's not as pale as before, so I guess he's getting better. Though I don't know if it's good to let him recover yet…" Lin Wu muttered.
Suddenly an idea appeared in his mind and an evil glint shined in his eyes.
"Hehehe…"
Shirong had been able to recoverer about fifty percent of his internal injuries by now. He reckoned that he should be able to recover fully in about one more day. But his cultivation base still made him sigh with helplessness.
It had taken him the help of his clan's resources and the special cultivation rooms that they had to allow him to reach the pseudo nascent soul realm so fast. He was barely twenty seven years old and had high talent in his clan.
He knew the power struggle of his clan and had battled with the other potential heirs before reaching his current position. It had taken him over a decade to get to this point, and there was no way in hell that he would let go of this easily.
Shirong knew that if he were to return like this to his clan, there was no doubt his brothers would take over his position. There were over a hundred children that his father had from all his concubines. Shirong was lucky that his mother was rather high up in the rankings and was thus able to provide him with all the resources they had.
Another thing was that he was not the only one among his siblings that had a pseudo nascent soul realm cultivation. There were three more of his siblings that had the same cultivation base. Two of them were his elder brothers, and one of them was his eldest sister.
But thankfully he only had to contend with his two brothers as women were ineligible to become the inheritor of the clan according to the rules set by the founding ancestors of the clan. But this didn't mean that he could fully ignore this sister of his.
If she decided to support any one from the two elder brothers, there was a hundred percent chance that he would be forced to abdicate his position as the heir.
Now, this put him in a dilemma, should he go back to the clan so that he could recover quicker, or should he bide his time away from the clan and recover slower?
The first option would guarantee that he would recover in less than a month, but it also came with the risk of him losing his position.
The second option would mean that he would have to spend at least a year outside the clan. But this was also the safest option. He could ensure that no news of his regression of cultivation base reached his clan. It was simple as the clans of the Deer Wood city were already influenced by him and would listen to something like this without doubting it.
Shirong was just thinking of what to choose when he suddenly remembered about the spear.
"NO! I cannot let it be exposed. It would have been fine if it was a pseudo immortal tool, but now that I know it is a true immortal weapon, there is no way I can let the ancestor get it." Shirong uttered with bloodshot eyes.
Lin Wu who had just thought of doing something to Shirong was startled.
"What? Immortal weapon? I'm an immortal weapon now, how?" Lin Wu said, feeling shocked.
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Lin Wu was shocked hearing Shirong say that he was an immortal weapon but then he thought for a bit and understood why it was so.
'Seems like my acting was too much for him, and he thinks I'm an immortal weapon now. Still, this is good for me, now I can be even more overbearing and that guy will just think it's because I'm an immortal weapon.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
Lin Wu kept on observing as he wanted to see what other stuff Shirong would say as the more he knew the more he would learn about his limits. If he knew the maximum limit of the stuff he could do, it meant that he could leech off from Shirong that much.
'If the ancestor finds out about this spear, there is no way that I'll ever get to see it again. There is not a single immortal weapon in this world, as for the pseudo immortal weapon even the ancestor only has one that has not seen the light of the day for the past four hundred years.' Shirong thought.
He continued thinking over what to do while his eyes turned bloodshot and his fists became strained. Shirong was under great pressure right now. He had too many things to consider and even more variable to analyze. If he took even a single wrong step, all he had done till now would go to waste.
"I cannot go back to the clan… At least not until I figure out more about the spear and learn how to use it. If it is truly sealed, then I need to find out how to awaken it and unlock its true potential. If I can make the spear truly mine, then this entire empire… no this entire world will be mine!" Shirong uttered with fervor.
Lin Wu was hearing what Shirong was saying and his last sentence had surprised him a bit.
"Whoa! Straight to world domination, huh? Spoken like a true villain…" Lin Wu chuckled.
'But this opens up a lot of avenues for me. A sealed weapon, huh… And he wants to 'awaken' me?' Lin Wu thought to himself.
Seeing that Shirong had gone silent and was still thinking over his plan, Lin Wu decided to test something out.
"Since you want to awaken me, then that's what you'll get!" Lin Wu declared.
He then consulted a few things with the system and formulated a new plan, one that would match with his 'new' identity of an Immortal weapon. After asking the system a few questions, Lin Wu checked the viability of the plan and then initiated it.
Shirong was engrossed in his thoughts when he suddenly heard a voice in his mind. He missed what he said due to not focusing on it, but it did break him out of his thoughts.
"Huh, what was that?" Shirong muttered.
"Qi" The voice said faintly.
"What?" Shirong spoke, feeling confused as he could barely hear what it was saying.
"Qi…" the voice spoke again, this time a bit louder.
"Qi?" Shirong could grasp what the voice was saying but was still confused about its intent.
"Give…" The voice added.
"Give?" Shirong muttered after the voice.
"GIVE ME QI!" This time the voice thundered.
~Thud~
~Thunk~
Shirong was startled by the loud sound and fell back due to being shocked. Blood drained from his face and it became a pale white, similar to how it was before. But this time it was not due to being injured, no it was because he was simply shocked by the power contained in the voice.
The voice that he heard in his head was… inhuman. It did not seem to belong to a beast either, it was simply… unnatural. So much so that hearing it again made goosebumps appeared on his body and a chill to go down his spine.
But due to this, Shirong did realize who the voice belonged to… or rather what. He closed his eyes and focused on his spatial storage ring, only to find the green crystal spear humming and glowing inside it.
"The spear! It wants Qi!" Shirong muttered, coming to terms with the situation.
He actually hesitated for a bit before gritting his teeth and withdrawing the spear from the ring. As soon as he held it in his hand, he felt it.
"The spear… it's hungry?" he said before starting to pour his spirit qi into the spear.
Shirong felt a sucking force arising from the spear, and soon his spirit qi started to be drained at a great pace.
One minute…
Two minutes…
Five minutes…
Ten minutes…
Thirty minutes…
An entire thirty minutes passed, after which Shirong was utterly drained and was now unwilling to give the spear anymore of his spirit qi. While the speed of its absorption was not as fast as it was back when it first absorbed his, Ye Dai and Bei Wen's spirit qi, it was still quite a lot.
Finally, unable to hold on anymore, he let go of the spear and let it fall to the floor.
~Thunk~
~Crack~
Thankfully, the floor was made up of high quality wood and was able to bear the immense weight of the spear, or a crack would have not been the only thing to happen to it.
Shirong looked into his dantian and saw the condition of his core. All of the spirit qi that he had recuperated today had been sucked by the spear. His heart ached with regret, but he knew that there wasn't much he could do.
He was the one who had chosen to take the spear and now if he wanted to keep it he had to pay the price that would come with it.
"Hahaha!" Shirong suddenly started laughing.
"I knew the price for wielding an immortal weapon would not be less, but this… I'll take it!" He declared.
"You want Qi, right? Then I'll give you as much as you want. There are plenty of cultivators here, anyway." Shirong stated before looking at the spear, which glowed for a moment, as if answering him.
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In the dark of night, the faint sounds of footsteps echoed in the desolate alley.
A man dressed in a cultivator's robes was walking on the path. His face was flushed red and the stench of wine could be smelled coming from his clothes. It was evident that the man was drunk, yet his steps were firm and did not look like they belonged to a drunk person.
This showed that the man was a cultivator and had not lost all inhibitions. The drunk man suddenly stopped as he heard something from the side.
"Who's there!" The man called out but received no answer.
Thinking that it must have been some random noise or a stray animal, he forgot about it and continued on his way.
But then suddenly…
~Shing~
~Slick~
~Splatter~
The man found endless pain coursing through his body as he saw the tip of a spear coming out of his chest. He tried to speak but was unable due to a certain force preventing him. He then found all his strength draining from his body.
His spirit qi and vital energy were rapidly being sapped and in less than ten seconds only a drained husk was left behind.
~Thud~
The drained corpse of the drunk man fell on the ground, kicking up some dust. But then a second later the corpse disappeared from the ground, and so did the blood that had been splattered on the ground.
Nobody would expect that somebody had died in this alley when the morning would come, as there were no traces of something like that left.
A figure moved in the darkness and soon disappeared into the depths.
Back at the courtyard which had been given to Shirong to rest, the Young Master was sitting on a cushion cross legged. He had a green crystal spear in his lap and was looking at it intently. There were interlocking spurs on each of the sections of the spear and then the sharp spear blade at the base of which two spikes extended.
The most eye catching part of the spear was the two red dots that glowed at the beast of the spear blade, just perpendicular to the two spikes.
"So it doesn't matter if it's my qi or someone else. But you want more than that don't you?" Shirong muttered as he gazed at the spear.
~Shine~
As if to answer his question, the spear glowed for a moment.
"Ahaha! So I'm right and you can understand me too… of course, what else could be expected of an immortal weapon." Shirong said.
Shirong then remembered the moment when he had attacked that drunk man. He felt how easy it was to pierce through the drunk man's chest. It was as if a flaming hot poker was being pierced through a slab of butter. It was simply marvelous.
But that was not the only thing that caught Shirong's attention. No! Rather what he felt after the spear had started absorbing the drunk man's spirit qi and vital energy.
'It can give me spirit qi that it drains from its victims.' Shirong understood.
While the amount that it gave him was not that much, but the man that he had killed was barely at the early stage of the qi refining realm. Still, Shirong knew the implications of what the spear could do. Just by killing that man, Shirong had obtained twenty drops of liquid spirit qi.
While this amount was quite small to him, the source that it came from was but a mere early stage qi refining realm cultivator that perhaps did not even have five hundred wisps of spirit qi in his dantian. When a cultivator started to refining their spirit qi wisps into liquid drops, the process was quite difficult.
Even if a single liquid spirit qi drop was only equivalent to ten wisps, when the actual refinement was done, the ratio was much more and could even get up to 1:100. Not all cultivators could actually refine exactly ten wisps of spirit qi into one drop of liquid.
They would almost always make losses, and it was only after they reached the core condensation realm that they would actually move in that aspect. Thus in the case of an early stage there was no way that one could even refine a single drop of it, even after expending all of their spirit qi.
Shirong could only imagine how much the spear could give him if he killed stronger cultivators or beasts.
"Hmm, hunting beasts would be the better choice, killing cultivators randomly would only bring misfortune to me unless I'm able to hide it well. Still, in a small city like this perhaps killing ten cultivators may go unnoticed, but a hundred will deficiently be grounds for investigation." Shirong muttered to himself.
While Shirong was thinking this, Lin Wu was rejoicing internally. He couldn't really show anything physically as he was not in the spatial storage ring, but in his mind, he was jumping around.
"YES! The plan worked! Now I got this guy working just as I want." Lin Wu said out loud in his mind.
All the things that Shirong had done till now were directed by Lin Wu. He was the one who had been speaking in his mind and telling him what he wanted. But it was Shirong who went ahead and murdered a man without a single bit of hesitation.
Lin Wu was shocked a bit at that time but soon got to absorbing all he could from the dead man. Because Lin Wu could not eat the corpse, he had to use a different method. This was the same method the system had used back when he had newly arrived in the world and had absorbed the Rock trampler boar and the cultivator that was hunting it.
Lin Wu had inquired the system whether he could use that method and why the system had not used it again after that.
The answer he received for the question was rather simple, it was inefficient.
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The system had told Lin Wu that using that absorption method was rather inefficient as it only gave the host about thirty percent of all resources from the target it was used was. This ration was from back when Lin Wu was still a small common mud worm.
But the system told him that now that he was in the qi refining realm, the absorption ratio had increased up to fifty percent for vital energy, while the absorption for the spirit qi was a full one hundred percent. This raised Lin Wei's hopes, as he knew that he could very well use this method.
Still, there was a problem that needed to be addressed. Even if Shirong listened to what he wanted, he wouldn't be the same always. There was even a chance that if Lin Wu demanded far too much, Shirong may just get suspicious of him or may even lose all inhibitions to check him.
Lin Wu also reckoned that while he could be safe by using the system to hide his traces, he didn't want to take the rare chance of being found out by a strong cultivator that was a few realms higher than he was. Even if the system told him that it could hide him, it was not an absolute and there were always chances that it could still happen.
Thus Lin Wu had to formulate a plan that would not only give him the vital energy and spirit qi but also give the man, Shirong some too. Lin Wu asked the system if it was possible to do this and the system said that as long as it was only spirit qi, it would be possible to give some of it to the man using the connection he had with him.
Finally, the plan was made concrete and Lin Wu started. Lin Wu incited Shirong to give him qi and then showed an unstoppable hunger for it. This prompted him to go kill another cultivator to get the spirit qi. Lin Wu had originally expected that the man would try it on a beast to be safe, who in their right sense would commit murdered upon listening to the words of a weapon, right?
But then Lin Wu raised that this was a cultivation world and the common sense of his past world didn't exactly work here and the people here could even be said to be deranged on a certain level.
Having come to terms with that, Lin Wu absorbed all the vital energy and spirit qi that the drunk man which Shirong had killed had. Since the efficiency of absorption was only fifty percent for vital energy, Lin Wu kept all of it. He didn't want to give this to Shirong anyway, as he knew that most cultivators only wanted spirit qi once they reached the qi refining realm.
Lin Mu had learned from the system that vital energy was only used by a few cultivators and it was rare for them to continue cultivating it even after reaching the qi refining realm. But Lin Wu still did not know what was the use of vital every beyond the qi refining realm as there was no knowledge about it in the system's data banks and he would just have to look for it in the future.
After all, Lin Wu wanted to know all of the avenues of cultivation in this world. He realized that if he was going to stay as a worm, then he may as well be the strongest worm of them all!
Lin Wu was able to absorb four hundred wisps of spirit qi from the drunk man, which the system converted to the liquid form. This showed Lin Wu that the man was an early stage qi refining realm cultivator and thus did not have much spirit qi, though he did give Lin Wu plenty of vital energy.
While Lin Wu did not want to give Shirong too much of the spirit qi, he knew that he had to develop a thirst in him. Thus he gave him half of the spirit qi that he had obtained, which came down to twenty drops of liquid spirit qi.
The man was clearly happy because of this as could be seen how carefully he had placed the spear on his lap and was gazing at him with gentle eyes… well, not really gentle but more of a creep's eyes.
Lin Wu knew that his plan had worked, and he had hooked the man. Now all he needed to do was to wait for him to go and kill more beasts or cultivates, it didn't really matter to him. After all, the person who kills is called the murderer, not the gun that released the bullet, that is merely the tool.
In this way, Lin Wu directed all of the guilt onto Shirong's head, effortlessly.
Now Lin Wu was just waiting for Shirong to put him back into the ring as he wanted to continue looking through the information that the system had obtained from killing the drunk man. He had also obtained a small data node, which had some new information.
Shirong was looking at the spear in his lap and had been for a while. During this time he had finally come to the decision that there was no way he was going to return to his clan now. The sole biggest reason for him to want to return there was so that he could gain his cultivation back.
While he had to give a lot of spirit qi to the spear today, which had put him back to where he was at the start when he came here, it was only because he had made a mistake. Shirong now knew the right method was not to give it his own spirit qi but rather to use other beasts or cultivators.
"Now that I have you to give me spirit qi, what use I have from the clan. I can gain my cultivation base back much faster with you helping me and supplying me the spirit qi." Shirong said with a little chuckle.
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Feeling satisfied Shirong finally put the spear back into the spatial storage ring and he focused on cultivating by himself. He still needed to see if those twenty drops of spirit qi he obtained were different from the normal spirit qi or not. He had not fully assimilated them into his core and had actually let them float around in a corner of his dantian.
Shirong knew a lot of things and was certainly not as careless to directly absorb foreign spirit qi into his core. If there was anything wrong with the spirit qi, he could suffer grave damage. While his initial assessment of the qi was fine, he still wanted to be cautious.
'Hmm, there is no difference in these drops of liquid spirit qi. They have not been tampered with and are rather pure, almost no different from the spirit qi obtained from a peak grade spirit stone.' Shirong thought.
"Ahaha! The fortune is simply in my favor." Shirong laughed out loud.
He calmed down after a bit and closed his eyes, returning to his cultivation.
"Ah, finally! Some privacy," Lin Wu said as he took a breath of relief.
"System show me the Host data." Lin Wu ordered.
~Ding~
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HOST NAME: Lin Wu
AGE: 2 years, 3 months, 24 days
LIFESPAN: 150 years
HOST SPECIES: Crimson Eyed Emerald Worm
HOST CULTIVATION: Late stage of the Qi Refining Realm
-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [0000/1500] units (liquid spirit qi)
QI STORAGE: 13195 units [liquid spirit qi]
BLOODLINE: 1. Crimson Eyed Emerald Worm (System Manufactured)
2. Unknown (2)
CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES: None
QI SKILLS: 1. Qi Amplification (Minor)
INNATE SKILLS: 1. Radiation Manipulation (minor) (Proficiency: Novice)
2. Cellular Manipulation (lesser) (Proficiency: Intermediate)
3. Cellular Crystallization (great) (Proficiency: Intermediate)
INVENTORY: Broken Spear, Broken metal plate, Pink Women's underwear, Dagger
BEAST CORE: Not formed
VITAL ENERGY STORAGE: 8356 units
SYSTEM ENERGY STORAGE: 6710 units
RAW BLOODLINE DATA COLLECTED:
1. Common Grass Mouse
2. Rock Trampler Boar
3. Human
4. Unknown (2)
5. Ash Crowned Buck
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Lin Wu felt happy at the amount of spirit qi and vital energy that he had obtained. Lin Wu reckoned that he would be able to reach the core condensation realm in one jump if he wanted to do so. Though he would not do it right now, no he had a special plan for that.
Lin Wu had inquired with the system and knew that breaking through to the core condensation realm would be a rather flashy occasion and if he did it in the ring, Shirong would definitely know. Thus he knew that if he wanted to do it he would have to grasp the right opportunity.
With the influx of more spirit qi and vital energy, the consumption of system energy storage seemed almost negligible.
Lin Wu then looked over at the new information that was obtained from the data node he got from the drunk man. But after reading through it all he was disappointed as it was just some mundane information about the day to day life of that drunk man which was rather useless.
But just as he was lamenting at this, the notification sounded again.
~Ding~
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DATA NODE ANALYZED: 2/4 Completed
DATA BANKS: Updating
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"Ah, right in time! Show me the new information." Lin Wu ordered.
A new window appeared in front of Lin Wu and he started reading it. But not even after the first few lines, Lin Wu laughed out loud.
"Just what I wanted." Lin Wu muttered.
The new information that Lin Wu had obtained was none other than the information pertaining to the cultivation realms of this world.
Lin Wu learned that there were about seven widely known cultivation realms in this world and it all started from the body tempering realm.
The body tempering realm had a total of thirteen stages, all of which required vital energy to progress in. The first to fourth stage tempered the muscles, the fifth to seventh stages tempered the skin, the eighth to tenth stage tempered the blood while the final three stages tempered the bones and the marrows.
This did not matter to Lin Wu now, as he had pretty much skipped over most of the stages and had directly reached the qi refining realm by consuming the green crystal. He also learned that one needed to reach the eighth stage of the body temping realm in order to reach the qi refining realm.
It was only at the eighth stage of the body tempering realm that a cultivator was able to contain spirit qi in their bodies. If they tried to use cultivation techniques before this, they would sustain injuries and could even explode.
Then came the qi refining realm, which had four stages; the early, mid, late and peak stages. In this, a cultivator would absorb spirit qi wisps from the atmosphere and add it to their dantian. When their dantian exceeded half of its capacity, the cultivator was said to have broken through to the mid stage of the qi rending realm.
When the spirit qi wisps completely filled the dantian of a cultivator, the cultivator was said to have reached the end of the mid stage of the qi refining realm. If he or she wanted to break through to the next stage, they had to refine the spirit qi wisps into a liquid form.
As soon as even a single drop of spirit qi was refined, the cultivator would break through to the late stage of the qi refining realm. Then, similar to the mid stage of the qi refining realm, in order to reach the peak stage, a cultivator had to fill half of his dantian with liquid spirit qi.
When the entire Dantian was filled to the brim with liquid spirit qi, the cultivator was said to have reached the absolute peak of the qi refining realm.
After this came the core condensation realm, which also had four stages similar to the qi refining realm; early, mid, late and peak. In this, the cultivator would further refine the liquid spirit qi they had into a solid core.
Once this solid core was fully formed, they would have reached the core condensation realm.
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Each stage Core condensation involves doubling the size of the core. For example, if the core in the early stage was formed from a thousand drops of liquid spirit qi then the core in the mid stage would have to double its size and reach two thousand drops of liquid spirit qi.
Subsequently, in the late stage, it would double again to reach four thousand drops and then finally eight thousand in the peak stage of the core condensation realm. The amount of spirit qi drops was not the same for everyone and depended on the size of their dantian.
The cultivators that were more talented had higher capacity, while those that were less talented had lesser capacity. Any cultivator that reached the core condensation realm could live for a total of three hundred years.
The next realm after the core condensation realm was called as the nascent soul realm and was the first big demarcation between cultivators. Only after a cultivator reached the nascent soul realm, could he be called an expert.
Reaching the nascent soul realm was incredibly difficult, as a cultivator had to overcome the heavenly tribulation.
When a cultivator reached the absolute peak of the core condensation realm, they would start to get an idea of when their heavenly tribulation would be coming. During this period they were called as pseudo nascent soul realm cultivators as their understanding of the spirit qi had exceeded that of a normal cultivator and were close to that of a nascent soul realm cultivator.
A cultivator would usually suppress the heavenly tribulation until he or she found a proper opportunity. One needed a lot of preparation if they wanted to reach the nascent soul realm as the heavenly tribulation could very easily kill them if they were not careful and well prepared.
Once the cultivator became ready to undergo the heavenly tribulation, tribulation clouds would gather and heavenly lightning would strike their body. The goal of the cultivator was to endure this heavenly lightning and use it to hatch their nascent soul.
Their core would act as the egg, and from it, the nascent soul would be born. Once the nascent soul was successfully born, the cultivator was said to have successfully reached the first stage of the nascent soul realm.
The first stage was called as the infant soul stage as the nascent soul was in the form of an infant. This infant would look the same as the cultivator when they were of that age.
There were three more stages in the nascent soul realm, which were the child soul, adolescent soul, and adult soul stages, for a total of four stages.
The cultivator would be able to freely able to wield the spirit qi in the environment and would have to nourish his or her nascent soul in order to make it grow and reach the next stage. It was also this stage during which the appearance of a cultivator was fixed.
If a cultivator reached the adult stage of the nascent soul realm at the age of twenty, his appearance would be fixed at that age until he reaches the very end of his or her lifespan. At that point, they would rapidly age hundreds of years in the span of a few minutes and then die.
Reaching the nascent soul realm increased the cultivator's life span to a thousand years and made them worthy of starting their own cultivation sects.
Till this point, Lin Wu had known of the cultivation stages and had heard of them before, but the ones that came after this was rather unknown to him.
"The Dao shell realm and the Dao treading realm… interesting." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
The next stage after the nascent soul realm was the Dao shell realm, in which a cultivator needed to form a container inside their dantian. This container was called as the Dao Shell and it was within this that a Dao embryo would be nourished. Reaching this realm increased the cultivator's lifespan to two thousand years.
The sub stages in the Dao Shell realm were the Shell initiation, Shell genesis, Shell completion and Shell expansion. A cultivator could actually skip the final stage, which was the Shell expansion stage and directly proceed to the Dao treading realm if they wanted to, but there were seldom any cultivators that did it.
The main aim to form a Dao Shell was for the growth of a Dao embryo. The larger the Dao shell was, the stronger the Dao embryo that could be formed.
A Dao embryo was nothing but the initial understanding of the Dao of heaven and earth. It could be of anything that the cultivator was able to grasp, and there could even be more than one. But to reach the Dao treading realm, only one shell was required.
If the cultivator wanted to grow more Dao embryos, they had to grow more Dao shell's in their dantian. But this was an immensely difficult task, and most cultivators would only grow a single Embryo.
When the Dao Embryo finally starts to grow, a cultivator would break through to the Dao treading realm and their lifespan would further extend to three thousand years.
According to the record that Lin Wu was reading, this was the highest realm a cultivator from this world could reach.
But there was another realm above this, which was actually familiar to Lin Wu. It was the Immortal Ascension realm. The method to progress to the immortal Ascension realm was not mentioned in the records, and it was stated that each cultivator would have to devise their own method to reach it.
There was no set method, and everything depended on their own comprehension. There was also no mention of how much the life span of a cultivator was once they reached the immortal Ascension realm and none of the current Immortal Ascension realm experts mentioned this either.
'Hmm, this is as complex as I thought it would be, but there are far more uncertainties than I expected.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
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~Sigh~
Lin Wu let out a long sigh after reading the entirety of the information that was obtained from the Data Node. The details of cultivation realms in the data node were far greater than what most people in this world knew. There were certain nuances which even highly accomplished cultivators did not know and were mentioned in the Ji clan's records.
Lin Wu was impressed by this and knew how lucky he was in being able to gain this. He was also interested in the small mentions about the other cultivation paths that were present. The most researched and common path in this world was the spirit qi cultivation but in addition to this path, there was also the body refinement and soul cultivation.
The very first stage of cultivation which was the body tempering realm was actually a part of the body refinement path and it could be continued onward from that. Though the specific cultivation realms of the body refinement path were not mentioned in this record as it was specifically for spirit qi refinement.
As for the Soul path, it was considered to be long lost and there were no known practitioners of that path.
"The body refinement path must be what the vital energy is used for. Looks like I should keep on accumulating as much vital energy as I can. If I get the information on how to practice body refinement cultivation, it would be very helpful." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
About two hours had passed since the second data node had been analyzed and Shirong had been engrossed in his own cultivation, not moving a single bit from his position. He had not even used the pills that had been given to him for some reason and was doing it on his own.
"This guy is quite dedicated, isn't he?" Lin Wu stated.
~Ding~
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DATA NODE ANALYZED: 3/4 Completed
DATA BANKS: Updating
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Another Data node finished analyzing, and the information window appeared in front of Lin Wu.
"Sky Shaking Immortal Art… is this a cultivation technique?" Lin Wu wondered as he read the title.
He continued reading and confirmed that it was indeed a cultivation technique. It was one of the top three cultivation techniques of the Ji clan and was also the one that Shirong himself was practicing. Even in the entire Eastern Long Continent, it would be considered as a top quality and perhaps even in the other two continents as well.
The more Lin Wu read it, the more interested he got. The technique mentioned that its practitioner could become strong enough that each of their movements would shake the sky itself. It allowed a cultivator to gain an understanding of the Dao of the Sky and would allow them to grow the Dao Embryo of Sky in the Dao treading realm.
This meant that it was a complete cultivation technique that allowed one to cultivate all the way up to the Dao treading realm.
According to what Lin Wu had read till now, there were far too few cultivation techniques that even went beyond the nascent soul realm.
"System, is it possible to adapt this cultivation technique for my use?" Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: Including this cultivation technique, the system currently only has two additional cultivation techniques in its data banks. The system needs a lot more technique samples to be able to adapt them according to the host's physique.
Current List-
1. Mortal Qi refinement technique [Low-grade technique]
2. Tiger Vein Qi refinement Scripture [Low-grade technique]
3. Sky Shaking Immortal Art [Top-grade technique]
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"Dammit, I forgot that I barely had any of them. Even the first one was only obtained because I ate that man at the very start and the second one should be from that drunk man." Lin Wu cursed.
~Sigh~
"No use fussing over it, I just need to obtain more of them. I'll get there eventually." Lin Wu stated.
~Ding~
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DATA NODE ANALYZED: 4/4 Completed
DATA BANKS: Updating
OBTAINED: Dao script.
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As soon as Lin Wu saw that the final data node had been analyzed as well, he became Happy. The final data node also contained what he exactly needed, which was none other than the information about the Dao Script.
~Ding~
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NOTIFICATION: Should the system inject the information about the Dao script directly into the Host's brain? Y/N.
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"Perfect, go ahead system." Lin Wu accepted.
Lin Wu's vision went blank and a splitting headache assaulted him. He had expected that something like this would happen thus did not mind it and simply gritted his teeth while the process was completed. About five minutes later the process was finally completed and the headache disappeared.
~Ding~
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MEMORY INJECTION: Successful.
HOST VITALS: Stable.
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Seeing the notification confirmed it for Lin Wu. He tried to remember the characters he had seen when Shirong set up the formations and realized that he could read them now.
"Awesome, that's another thing off the list. If I keep up this pace, then I'll be a peerless expert soon, no doubt." Lin Wu praised himself.
Just as Lin Wu was about to continue, he saw that Shirong had woken up from his cultivation session.
Shirong stood up and walked to the entrance of the courtyard. A couple of servants who were standing there saw him and greeted him with a bow.
"Do you need anything, Young Master Shirong?" They questioned.
"No, I just want to go and meet my companions Ye Dai and Bei Wen. Do you know where they are?" Shirong replied.
"Please, let us guide you." The two spoke and then gestured for Shirong to follow them.
The servants took him to the courtyard that was about two hundred meters away from Shirong's and stopped at its entrance.
"Young master's companions have been resting here." They spoke and let Shirong continue from there himself.
Shirong did a quick sweep with his spirit sense and found the two of them resting in their rooms. Ye Dai and Bei Wen immediately detected Shirong's spirit sense and came out of the room.
"Get ready, we're going hunting for beasts," Shirong ordered.
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