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The people who were charmed by Ria were starting to have their freedom back.
"What's… happening?" they felt like they were a different person just before this, and the facade suddenly shattered.
Ning suddenly turned around and said, "Sorry guys, it's been fun, but it's time you left the realm,"
"What do you me—" A single slash from Ning made everyone vanish.
Ning didn't know how many points he must've gathered, but he assumed it was a lot.
SWISH
Ning tilted his head to the side and let the arrow fly past him. He then turned around to look at his attacker and said, "That's not very nice of you to attack behind my back."
"D-Divine sense. You are a Foundation Establishment realm expert," the man who just shot said..
"Bingo. Nice analysis. But I'm afraid, you must die too," Ning suddenly slashed in his direction and sent a black slash flying towards him.
However, before the slash could even reach him, it hit something mid-air and vanished. "Huh? What happened?" Ning was a little confused.
"Ha— Haha. You scared me for nothing, you idiot. You can never attack me as long as you are stuck in the formation," the man said.
"Hmm… what sort of formation is this?" Ning questioned them, but instead of answers, he got arrows. Each one of them let go of an arrow propped on their bow, sending them all flying towards him.
Ning stopped two arrows with his sword, dodged two, and caught the last one with his bare hands. "Hmm… let me test it," he said and threw the arrow back towards the attacker.
However, same as the attack last time, the arrow was stopped at the barrier.
"Haha, I told you, you idiot. You can do nothing to us as long as we are outside the formation," the man said again.
Ning walked onto the edge of the formation and felt a physical barrier on his hands. "So… this formation allows one free entry, but exit is stopped huh?" Ning asked.
"Yes. As long as you are inside the formation, you can never leave. So, big guy, no matter how strong you may be, you are stuck here with us for the rest of the night. You think you can last our barrage of arrows the entire night?" the man asked.
"Hm, I do have a rib injury, so I can't go on for the rest of the night. But you seem to be mistaken about something," Ning said.
"I'm not stuck here with you," Ning said. The 5 men felt a slight tug on their bodies. Suddenly, the tug changed into a violent pulling force that brought them right in front of Ning.
Ning squatted down in front of the man's face and said, "You are stuck here with me."
"Wh— What? H-How? The formation should stop all Qi from escaping," the men said in fear.
"Well, bad luck for you guys. I don't only have Qi." Ning sent out a black slash to one of the guys and he immediately turned to yellow light before disappearing.
Ning smiled back to the rest of the guys and asked, "Do you think I can last the entire night or not?"
Cries of fear and despair rang out for a few minutes. The 4 remaining men ran up to the barrier and started attacking it to open it up, but none of it worked.
So, they turned towards Ning to hopefully beat him. That was just wishful thinking. In less than a minute, the four of them turned to yellow lights and were sent out of the secret realm.
"Now that that is over, what do I do with the rest of the night?" Ning wondered. He walked up to the barrier once more and placed his hands on it.
"They said it lasted for just 6 hours right? I can try attacking it and see if I can break it. Or… I can just rest here. Seems like the perfect place," Ning thought.
"Aegis, come out," Ning called the Golden Shelled Beetle, Aegis once more.
"Alright, I will cultivate. You look after me, okay?" Ning said.
Aegis did nothing but just stare at him. "Are you going to talk at all this time? You talked this morning," Ning said.
Aegis cocked his head to the side and asked, "Talk?"
It was like he could hear the words but not understand them. His intelligence would still have to increase a bit before he could comprehend sentences.
"Nevermind, just protect me," Ning said and started cultivating.
He had reached a bottleneck and needed time to breakthrough. He tried the entire night, but he couldn't do it. Still, the period wasn't fruitless. He did feel that he had made massive advances and that with just a single more day of cultivation, he could break through.
He opened his eyes to the sun rays in the morning. Dawn had arrived. The final 6 hours of the competition were here.
"Come back, Aegis," Ning said and sent Aegis back to the beast space. He then stood up and went up to feel the barrier, but there was nothing there anymore.
He went to the trees and grabbed the 7 formation flags that were stuck on there. "Once I learn something more about you guys, I will use you," Ning said and put them into his interdimensional space.
He took out a bunch of ingredients and made a pain relief medicine that he drank once more. He didn't want a releat of last time.
He started walking in a random direction away from where he had come from. The first 15 minutes of walking, he thought nothing about the forest.
However, after half an hour of walking, he could feel something, a sense of Deja Vu.
"Have I come here before?" Ning thought as he walked out of the jungle into the grassland. That was when he remembered where he was.
He had been here before. He had cultivated overnight on a piece of rock not far ahead of him. Beyond that was a forest and beyond that…
"That is where the lake is, right beyond that forest. The lake with the Flood dragon… and the Angel's Touch."
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For a second, Ning stood there with slight fear boiling inside his heart.
"Damn that Flood Dragon, It's got me scared. But I need to go get my spear," Ning thought. He controlled his fear and started walking.
He took a familiar path to the lake. The grassland was wide so he called out Aegis to carry him once more. He had gathered all the ingredients along the way with Hijaka when he last walked through here, so he couldn't gather any this time around.
Ning put Aegis back into the beast space once he was in the forest and started walking forward by himself. At his speed, it would take around 2 hours for him to cross the forest and reach the water.
He slowly trekked along the way for more than an hour when suddenly he heard movements. A group of people was coming towards him..
Ning brought out his sword and got ready to fight. However, what showed up was a jumbled mess of people that just ran as fast as they could.
They all seemed to be running for their life. "Ah, they must've awakened the Flood Dragon," Ning thought. Still, Ning was quite surprised how many of them managed to survive.
He quickly ran through the forest, disregarding the status of his ribs. He had taken the medicine, so he didn't worry it suddenly flaring up for today.
Once he reached the lake, he saw the blue scaled Flood Dragon rising high above the water sending out waves of water at a man down below.
The man wore orange clothes similar to the ones from the Dazzling sect. "I killed 13 of them except for that one guy that escaped. So does that mean he is the 15th member?" Ning wondered.
The man wasn't fighting the Flood Dragon at all. From what Ning could see, he had a 3rd Foundation Establishment realm cultivation base, not even close to enough to fight the Flood Dragon who had a 5th Foundation Establishment realm cultivation base.
The man was instead running around the lake, dodging the attacks. He had a small and nimble body, so he could easily dodge the Flood Dragon.
Still, he couldn't find openings that he could use to go get the fruit.
Ning hid behind a tree about 50 meters away from the lake and kept tabs on those two's fight. He wanted to use the opportunity to sneak in there and steal the fruit if possible.
Suddenly, something weird happened. The man suddenly split in two. One ran towards the right and another towards the left. The one that ran left was a simple illusion that was there to distract the Floor Dragon.
The one on the right was the real one. When the Flood Dragon attacked the illusion, the man saw his opportunity. He immediately flew towards the fruit.
But before he could even make it a meter away from the shore, he was stuck midair.
"No you don't," Ning thought as he stopped the man from flying forward. Due to the incredible strength of the man, Ning started feeling a little lightheaded due to using too much mental energy.
However, that was all Ning really needed.
The Flood Dragon turned around, and the man couldn't escape anywhere. He was doomed.
WHOOSH
A single blast of water turned the man into yellow lights and he left the realm. Even as he left, he didn't know what had happened to him at the last moment.
'Sigh, now I have to find my own opportunity,' Ning thought.
Suddenly, the Flood Dragon turned around and looked directly towards the tree where he was hiding. Ning felt something wash over his body.
"Sh*t, it's divine sense goes so far out?" he said in surprise. The Flood Dragon had found out his position and it was time to run.
Suddenly, the Flood Dragon spewed out water that reached everywhere. Before Ning could run away, the water reached behind him and created a barrier that stopped him from escaping.
Now he was in the Flood Dragon's domain.
He turned to look at the Floor Dragon and saw a hint of surprise and happiness in its eyes as well as cruel impulses.
"You. Came. Back." The Flood Dragon spoke.
'I should have known. Of course, it has enough intelligence to speak,' Ning thought.
"You remember me?" Ning asked.
"You. Can. Understand. Me?" the Flood Dragon asked.
"Yes, I can understand beast's languages," Ning said. "Since you understand me, can we talk things out instead of fighting?"
"You. Want. To. Talk?" it asked.
"Yes. You see I only came to find my spear. It was flung around here somewhere," Ning said.
"To. Find. Weapon? To. Kill. Me?" the Flood Dragon asked.
"No no no no no no, I just want to find my weapon because it's precious," Ning said.
"You. Don't. Want. My. Fruit?" it asked.
"Uhh… No?" Ning said.
"LIES!" it suddenly shouted and prepared an attack. It sends out slashes of water all around Ning. Ning couldn't bring out Aegis as he could take a lot of damage right now.
Ning used his divine sense to the fullest and dodged every attack that came towards him without worrying about his chest for now.
He then started running around the lake, similar to what the other man was doing just before. At the same time, he used the third layer of Qi Analysis.
Flood Dragon - 5th Foundation Establishment Realm
Skills - Water Shoot, Water Scythes, Water Barrier, Water Armor, Become like water, Lesser Dragon Scales, Truth detection.
"What the F*ck? Why does a Flood Dragon have a Truth Detection skill?" Ning couldn't help but be surprised. "No wonder it knew I was lying."
Ning took out his sword and sent out a black slash towards the Flood Dragon, but it didn't do any damage. "Of course, even though it's Lesser Dragon Scales, it's still dragon scales. I can't defeat it like this."
"If this goes on for any longer, I will get sent out of the secret realm."
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The Water Scythe attacks that the Flood Dragon threw at Ning were too much for him to block. So instead, he ran as fast as he could to dodge.
He was trying to do what the other guy did, but was failing miserably at it. Thankfully, he was moving around so much that the Flood Dragon couldn't use the Water Shoot technique that broke his ribs last time.
"Stop. Running." The Flood Dragon shouted at him.
"You will kill me if I stop," Ning shouted.
"That. Is. Only.. Because. You. Wish. To. Kill. Me. Too," the Flood Dragon spoke.
"Not true. I only want that fruit there," Ning said.
"You. Speak. Truth," the Flood Dragon said. "But. Taking. My. Fruit. Is. Even. Worse."
Suddenly, the barrier around Ning started to clear up as the water fell to the ground. However, as soon as it came down, it went back up as well.
The only thing that changed was that the radius of the barrier had become smaller. Ning had less room to maneuver now. Even the top of the barrier was close now.
He was now inside a water dome, with a Flood Dragon in the 5th Foundation Establishment realm as his enemy.
'Sh*t,' he thought. 'Am I going to lose here?'
"Huh? The barrier got smaller and covered up the top, I can't see anymore," Dion complained.
"Is Doctor Ning going to be alright?" Yelca asked anxiously.
The group kept taking a quick glance at the portal from time to time to see if Ning would leave. If he was to die inside that barrier, he would come out here.
Ning jumped forward and did a barrel roll as he dodged another water scythe flying towards him. 'Sh*t, this is too much. I can't keep this up anymore,' he thought.
It was a do-or-die moment for him now, and he decided to do something.
Suddenly, he stopped moving and raised his sword high in the air with both hands. His sword slowly started turning yellow, even a little golden.
This was his strongest attack and he hadn't used it ever since he reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. He was about to see how strong it was.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The glow got even brighter as he put everything he had into this attack. Even the Flood Dragon was a little surprised at the attack.
He suddenly opened his eyes and swung down his sword as hard as he could.
Radiant Holy Slash
Massive golden energy was released from the sword in the form of a slash. It flew at incredible speed and moved towards the Flood Dragon.
The Flood Dragon tried to dodge but the attack was too fast and it landed directly on its chest.
"ARRGGHHH" the Flood Dragon shouted.
Ning gave everything he had into this attack and now he had nothing left. He dully looked up and saw that he had managed to open a massive hole on the side of the Flood Dragon's chest.
The Flood Dragon suddenly flopped onto the water causing massive waves.
"I…. Did it," Ning said as he too dropped to the ground, very tired. He felt like sleeping, but he knew he couldn't.
"How much longer… before I get to leave?" he asked as he looked towards the sun to check its location. But what he was instead was just water.
Suddenly, he got more attentive. The barrier hadn't loosened yet, which meant—
The lake's surface started moving once more as the Flood Dragon stood up from it. Ning looked at its chest and saw that what was once its chest was substituted by water, which was slowly turning into blood, muscle, bones, and skin.
"How?" Ning couldn't help but ask. Only then did he remember the skill that the Flood Dragon had, the one he didn't know what it meant.
"Become like Water. Is that what it is?" Ning asked.
"That. Hurt." The Flood Dragon said and immediately sent out many water scythes.
Urgency helped give adrenaline to Ning's body to help him move, but at the same time, his body wasn't in the best of condition. So, he was just a moment late.
SLASH
His left arm took one of the scythes directly and was thus cleanly chopped off.
"ARGHH," Ning shouted as he tumbled on the ground and hit his back on the barrier. He tried to grab it when he was cut from it. Unfortunately, he wasn't lucky enough to have the wound be fatal. Thus, he now had to suffer the pain.
"ARGHH," he shouted once more and opened his eyes only to see that the Flood Dragon was right in front of him.
"Die. You. Hateful. Human."
Suddenly, it sent out a blast of water right at Ning. It was the same one that broke his ribs. Ning brought up both his arms to block, but only then remembered that he now only had one.
Still, he used that to stop the attack. The water hit his hand and his torso. He blocked it for a few seconds, but then the Flood Dragon made the water smaller and in return, more deadly.
The water sprout was now around 10 centimeters in diameter and it was ripping away Ning's hand little by little. First the skin, then the muscle, then the bones, then the muscle on the other side, and finally the skin.
His right arm was destroyed too. Finally, the attack landed on his chest and it started ripping away his skin again. The force was starting to break his ribs too. At any moment, he would be sent out of the realm.
The pain relief medicine he had taken had already stopped working given how much pain he was in and the slightly mended ribs were back to breaking and got even worse.
'I lost,' Ning thought and gave into the pain to lose and leave. But then, he couldn't feel the water anymore. He opened his eyes to see that the Flood Dragon was still blasting away water, but he didn't feel anything.
Instead, he heard a single thing.
You Have gained 160,000,000 Energy
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The Energy System is back online
Punishment period has ended
Excess emotion amplification for Fear and Despair has been removed
Energy Absorption has been reinstated
Energy Abilities are back in use
Energy senses are back online
The system wishes a warm welcome back to the host
Suddenly, Ning felt like he was alive again. It was someone who had taken a large stone off his chest and instead put a blanket on top of him.
He had never felt this… free before.
Suddenly, he appeared on the other side of the lake. He was missing both arms and most of the skins on his chest.
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"Heal me," Ning said.
Confirmed
Ning suddenly felt relief as all of his wounds disappeared in a second.
"Ahh, that feels much better," he said as he looked at both of his arms. "Should I leave or should I fight?" he thought.
"Do I have enough energy? Status," he said to check.
[Status
Name: Ning Ruogong
Energy: 6,211,000,000
Separated Energy-
Heat Energy: 5,623,000,000
Sound Energy: 432,000,000
Qi Energy: 0
Kinetic Energy: 156,000,000
Skills: Simultaneous Thinking, Omniscient Map of Kumia, Omniscient Klavian Language, Candle Fire, Yin to Heat conversion technique, Night Vision I, Interdimensional Storage (Stopped Time; 722 KG), Air Cutter, Telekinesis, Yin to Sound conversion technique, Water Filtration, Earthly Jade Cultivation Method, Sun God's Morning Cleansing Technique, Qi Cultivation Analysis, Body Cultivation Analysis, Basic All Language, 8x Qi Acclimation rate, Radiant Holy Sword, Supreme Dominance, Beast Space, Earth-Shattering - Heaven Tempering Art, Divine Vortex Devouring]
"Hmm, I can't tell if it's enough or not," Ning thought. "I should try to find out."
The Flood Dragon was surprised to see that Ning had disappeared and immediately send out its divine sense to check. When it found Ning behind itself, it immediately turned around and went to attack him.
"Before fighting, give me information on the skill Become-Like-Water, the one that is less than 300 million energy," Ning said.
"Confirmed. You have bought Intermediate Knowledge on Become-Like-Water for 248,000,000 Energy
Ning got the familiar sense of information being sent directly to his head. "Oh how I've missed this," he thought.
He understood the information and thought, "No wonder. You are nigh-invincible as long as you are inside water huh? That's why you haven't left the lake yet. I could've killed you with my previous attack if not for you staying inside the lake. It seems water heals you easily if you have the qi for it."
"You. Will. Die. Now."
"Let's talk in the land." Suddenly, the Flood dragon started floating in midair and was dropped out onto the land. After long last, it was finally out of the lake.
The Flood Dragon struggled and sent out water scythes once more, but this time, Ning didn't care. He had enough energy to move aside the incoming attack with his telekinesis.
Seeing that the scythes weren't working, the Flood Dragon resorted to shooting out a water blast. However, Ning wasn't going to let it do that.
He used telekinesis to redirect the Flood Dragon's head sideways and it blasted water all over the side of the barrier.
"Tsk. That cost me quite a little energy," Ning thought. "Since you serpent-like monsters like water so much, I shall let you go back to the lake."
Suddenly, Ning disappeared. The flood dragon felt him appear right next to him, but then he disappeared once more.
The Flood Dragon searched for him a little longer but was unable to find any hints of him. Ning was truly gone. Seeing that he was no longer anywhere, the Flood Dragon slumped back into the water.
"Sect leader, The barrier is opening up," somebody said. Gion and Yelca barely managed to see the tail of the Flood Dragon enter the water.
"What? What happened to Doctor Ning?" they asked in confusion.
Ning was neither inside the barrier nor was he outside the secret realm. Plus, they were keeping an eye on the barrier and never saw him leave either.
"Is something wrong with the secret realm?" they asked, but could not come up with any answers.
"I hope nothing is wr— Hey, the lake is moving again," Dion said, and everyone looked back on the screen with full attention, wishing to see what was going on.
The lake was deeper than one could imagine. The Flood Dragon swam to the bottom of the lake to rest. Suddenly, its body started vibrating slightly against its control and sound started escaping from its skin.
"So this is what the inside of the lake looks like, huh?"
Ning's voice appeared from his body. The Flood Dragon jumped in fright and immediately sent its divine sense out to check but it couldn't find him anywhere.
"Don't bother, you won't find me," Ning said. "Instead, I have a proposition for you."
"Where?" the Flood Dragon started to get scared.
"Shut up and listen. I want you to be my subordinate. And in return… I won't kill you," Ning said.
"You. Can't. Kill. Me." The Flood Dragon shouted.
"Wanna bet?"
A massive amount of Yin Qi in the water gathered on the surface of the Flood Dragon and started turning to heat. Ning's cap was already full today, so he absorbed none of it.
The heat energy gathered more and more, and soon, the Flood Dragon was getting uncomfortable. It wasn't used to feeling the heat a lot at the bottom of the lake, so the slightest heat caused a lot of pain.
The Flood Dragon tried to swim around the lake to remove the heat, but nothing worked. It didn't know that the cause of the pain was the water it was swimming in so it didn't leave the lake.
Ning stopped. The heat turned back into Yin once again.
"Will you agree to be my subordinate now?" Ning asked.
"No." The Flood Dragon shouted. The heat returned once again. After a while of hurting the Flood Dragon, Ning stopped.
"Will you agree now?" he asked.
"NO."
The back and forth went on for a little longer until the Flood Dragon was hurt so much that he couldn't keep up the will anymore.
"I. Agree. Please. Stop."
'I don't need a body to do it right?' Ning thought. He was currently inhabiting the Flood Dragon's body inside the lake.
"Don't struggle or resist now," Ning said.
"I. Understand." The Flood Dragon said.
Ning prepared himself and said "Dominate."
Supreme Domination was a skill that used energy to dominate another being. It cost more energy the more mental strength or mental resistance the target had.
So, Ning had to first lower the Flood Dragon's defense before he could easily submit it to himself.. He could see the energy number dropping in his status very quickly.
Before he knew it, he lost over 600 Million energy. 'Holy sh*t that's a lot,' he thought. Fortunately, that was all he lost.
The Flood Dragon turned docile and stopped moving.
"Can you hear me?" Ning asked.
"Yes. Master."
"There he is, oh thank god he's okay. He must've jumped inside the water to escape from the monster," Yelca said.
"Yes, it's relief," Dion said and looked up at the sky. "There is only half an hour or so left now," he said.
"But… now he will have THAT. This might cause us some problem," Yelca said in a serious tone.
Ning landed at the center of the lake. He stood on the small land and looked at the fruit in front of him.
"The Angel's Touch," he said softly and slowly picked it off of the branch. He then stored it inside his Interdimensional space rather than the storage bags given by the elders.
He then flew out of the lake and walked into the forest. He sent out his spiritual sense everywhere, but couldn't find his spear anywhere.
'Sh*t, did someone else get it?' he wondered.
He really liked that spear. 'Well, whatever, I can make a better one later,' he thought. He could finally see the sun so he knew how much longer he had.
He slumped down on the ground and finally took a rest. Many thoughts started coming in and out of his mind. Some happy, some sad, some angry.
He, however, kept a reign on them all and finally asked the question he had been burning to ask all this time.
"Did I really deserve to be punished like that, System?" he asked.
While the last 16 months hadn't been particularly bad, it was still 16 months of time without the system. He had come to rely on it a lot and not having it felt like walking with a leg missing.
Killing the innocents is strictly forbidden by the system
"No, I get that. I actually think it's the proper thing to do. But, couldn't you have stopped me before I got there?" Ning asked.
"You could've teleported me somewhere, or made me unconscious, or do whatever the hell else you could to stop me from killing those people. Why didn't you? Why did you not act proactively and instead just did stuff after they were dead?" he asked.
The Energy System is not allowed to interfere with how you live your life. It is only allowed to watch over you and help you on your infinite endeavors
Thus, the system can only warn you but not stop you
"Then why the punishment? If I'm allowed to do whatever I want, then why was I punished," Ning asked.
The Punishment was added to the system to stop the Hosts from carelessly ending lives
The System was first created without any restrictions or precautions, and thus the Hosts went on a massacre that lasted multiple universes
When the Creator realized that, he added restrictions to the system so that the Hosts didn't go on a power trip.
The Creator added the Energy cap system as well as the punishment system to stop the hosts from ending lives that do not deserve to die
Ning heard all of this and curiously asked, "The Creator?"
He sat straight and asked, "Does that mean someone made the system? Who? Can I know?"
The System only had information from the Infinite Multiverse
Anything outside of that is unknown to the system
'So the creator stays outside of the Multiverse? How does that work?' Ning wondered.
"By the way, why did you disappear for 16 months?" Ning asked.
The Creator, through the many hosts, realized that the harshest punishment an immortal could suffer was boredom
So, every time a host kills an innocent person, the creator made it so that the system forcefully goes into shutdown, taking away everything related to energy, as well as transferring the emotions that their victims felt into them
The period of time for the punishment is 2 to the power of the number of innocents killed.
"So… 1 dead innocent person is 2 months. 2 is 4 months, 3 is 8 months and 4 is 16 months," Ning said.
Yes
"There should be better ways to punish the hosts. For one, you can tell them about the punishment beforehand. That should deter a lot," Ning said.
The system will gladly accept any suggestions. Please give it more suggestions if you have
"Hmm, maybe?… no. That's a little bad. How about… stopping a host's— Ah, you can't interfere right? Damn, this is hard," Ning said.
Ning thought for a minute and said, "The cause of the problem was that enhanced emotion you put in me. If I wasn't enraged and bloodthirsty, I would have probably made a more sound decision. How about… removing that?" Ning asked.
The system stayed silent for a little while and finally spoke.
They system has decided to send your suggestions to the creator. The system would like to use 800 Million energy to transfer the message
Do you accept?
"What? 800 Million just to send a little message? Urgh…. Sh*t. The creator is outside of our world right? Fine, use it. Maybe that will help the next host," Ning said.
Thank You.
Information is now being transferred out of Kumia to the Creator
Sending
Sending
Sending
Sent
The suggestions have been successfully sent to the creator
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"How much energy do I have?" Ning wondered and checked the system. After the battle, using the Supreme Dominance, and making a third beast space that was large enough for the Flood Dragon to fit, he now had about 3 billion energy.
"That's still a lot," he thought.
"Argh, it seems my spear really isn't here. I spent so many coins on it too. Sigh, whatever, I will just make a much better one."
"System, help me make a spear," Ning said..
Please explain the design of the spear
"Hmm, might as well use my last one as a design," Ning thought and told the system about the design of the blue spear.
How much energy do you wish to spend?
"Hmm, how much energy do I need for it to become a Mid-tier Spirit artifact?" Ning asked.
The lowest energy required is 1 billion 800 million energy
"Sh*t, I will have less than a billion energy left after that. Ahhh, use 2 billion. Whatever, I will go collect some more after this," Ning thought.
Confirmed
Light shined in front of him as energy escaped from his body to create a silhouette of a spear. Soon, the spear gained mass and after that, it gained color.
Finally, it fell onto the ground as a physical spear. Ning picked it up and moved it around a little. "Not bad. Although, for some reason, I feel like I can't use it properly right now. Probably because it's way too high of a spirit artifact for me," Ning thought.
He then slumped back on the ground, with his back to the tree, and waited.
There was still around 10 minutes before he would have to leave the realm. So he just stayed there and waited.
"System, what is this realm? Is it a different space or dimension or what?" Ning asked.
Would you like to learn about this space for 40 million Energy?
"40 million huh? And you could've just answered too. Well, I guess I need to go back to being used to you not answering questions. Yes, give it to me,"
Confirmed
A flood of information entered his brain. The things he was curious about, the thing everyone wanted to know, he knew it now.
"Haha, I didn't expect the answer to be so simple," Ning said.
The secret realm was actually land inside the hub island. However, due to some natural phenomenon, the space around a certain part of the land was folded in on itself.
The outer walls of that space were stable and closed off from the rest of the island, giving it an appearance that the island was all it was.
From time to time, the walls would get unstable and show up as the portal on the outside.
What others thought was making the opening stable, was simply just them making the stable walls unstable.
The unstable walls would lead to anyone who entered being thrown into different parts of the secret realm.
The tournament holders knew about all of this. From the information they had gathered, they saw that forest life flourished in this land and they wanted it.
However, there was one problem for them. First, the secret realm was too big for them to clear it all on their own. That would take days and that just wasn't worth it to them.
Secondly and most importantly, there was a natural restriction on this place. Anyone who wasn't in the 5th foundation Establishment ream or lower would automatically be rejected. If they forced entry, the laws of this place would crush them to death.
As such, these people needed workers that were high in number and strong enough to fight the beats in this land, were talented enough to recognize the different ingredients, and finally didn't get rejected by the realm.
They came up with the brilliant idea of making exactly that a competition. They would force the disciples of another sect to farm for them and make this the hub of the entire Scattered Isles.
"So that's the reason huh? Bastards. Forcing us to work for them for free. Well, I guess I can get 50% of what I earned so that is nice. But aside from the top 128 disciples, nobody else gets to choose their own items to keep," Ning said.
"Sigh, you really never know when someone is making you work for them. Poor guys," Ning said.
Suddenly, Ning felt something. He looked down and saw that his talisman was starting to glow a little.
"Oh, it's time."
"Sect leader, look." Somebody pointed at the screen.
"Huh? They're glowing? Ah, they're coming out," Dion said and started looking towards the door.
Soon, one after another, the remaining participants started pouring out of the portal and landed outside on the stage.
There were about 60 people remaining inside the secret real when the time was up.
Ning stood straight and watched in front of him to see the plethora of people in the audience.
"I will kill you soon, you bastard," a voice came from Ning's left.
He looked to the left to see that the orange-robed disciple of the Dazzling sect called Gai was looking at him with eyes that would kill if they could.
Ning did nothing but smirk at him and looked forward to seeing 5 men appearing on the stage. These were the people who opened the portal 4 days ago.
The people came and took away the formation flag. Then the host came up and started speaking to them.
"Congratulations on lasting till the final days of the competition. Everyone else who has come before you has put in their points into the ranking board. It's your turn now," The host said to the rest of them.
"Please gather in a line and hand your talisman to the staff. If you land below 128, you have a choice in giving away only that which you don't need."
Ning looked up at the ranking board and saw a lot of names there. And at the top of the list was a person called Faran.
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"Faran… I wonder who that is," Ning wondered.
Next to the name was the number 10341. This was the number of points he had gotten. "What's at 128? He wondered and checked. It was exactly 4392.
"Hmm… about a 6 thousand point difference huh. That's quite a lot he thought. Although, seeing that the 2nd and 3rd only have 8 thousand and 7 thousand respectively… I guess this Faran is just a beast," Ning thought.
He decided to get into the line after seeing everyone get into it when he heard someone calling him.
"Inikaka," Hijaka called him as he ran up to him.
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"Oh, hey Hijaka. Did you survive until the end? Nice. I hope you've got a lot of points," Ning said.
"It's all thanks to you Inikaka. If it wasn't for you, I would've lost on the second day from that enormous serpent-like beast. I saw from far away from how it killed nearly everyone. I thought you might have already left because of it, but it seems you didn't. I'm glad," Hijaka said.
"Alright, alright. Let's go back into the line," he said and brought Hijaka to the end of the line.
"3765 points" the person checking the points shouted.
"5343 points"
"2611 points"
He started checking the points and shouting it one after another.
The points in the top 128 kept on changing as more and more kept on getting added to it, and more and more kept on getting thrown out of it.
"8825 points"
Ning was a little surprised to see that number pop up. "Isn't that?" he thought and looked up. It was indeed the new second place, and the name that popped up was Gai.
"Ah, it's that bastard," Ning thought.
More and more points got added to the rankings. Finally, it was just him and Hijaka left. Hijaka went forward and handed his talisman.
The man looked and said, "7430 points."
"Oh, that's… 9th place. Not bad, Hijaka," Ning said.
"Haha, Inikaka, please don't tease me. you have much more than me," Hijaka said with an embarrassed face. Ning smiled and walked forward.
He took off his talisman and handed it to the man. The man at the register glanced at it once and announced, "2228 points."
The man who just said that made a weird face as if something didn't make sense. Ning smiled at him and said, "Read again."
The man complied checked the numbers again. "Oh, I apologize, that was my error. The real points are actually… 22228 points," he announced.
Gion, Yelca, and the rest were dumbfounded when they heard the points.
"Di— Did he just say 22 thousand?" Gion said in disbelief.
"I— I think so," Yelca said as he looked at the top of the ranking.
The first place on the ranking was still Faran, but suddenly, it changed to Ning - 22228. They were finally sure that he had in fact gotten so many points.
"Everyone in the 128 please, follow me. Everyone else, please follow him," two staff appeared out of nowhere and started speaking.
Ning followed him and went where they were taken.
The man then handed them all a talisman once again. "With this talisman, you can check how many points each of your bags have. You must return half of the points worth of items to us," they said.
Ning checked his bags and started separating items. He knew what he wanted to keep and what he didn't. In the end, he was left with 2 bags, while he returned 3 bags.
He only kept the most precious of items which were mostly just ingredients.
Ning walked out and returned to the seats where the Deepskull island folks were. As soon as they saw Ning, they all stood up and congratulated him, calling him their benefactor.
"Sect Leaders, After the competition tomorrow ends, I will be leaving. You do remember that right?" Ning asked.
"Oh, Y-Yeah we remember," they said as he got a little dejected after the reminder. He smiled and said, "Don't worry. I will win the grand prize and you can take it all back."
"For now, let's go back to the hotel."
Along the way, he saw Gai and the other 13 disciples all look at him with hateful eyes. The only one that wasn't was the man he had helped the Flood Dragon defeat.
When he realized that he was responsible for nearly all of their loss, he got a good sense of happiness inside of him.
Once he returned back to the hotel, he got on his bed and started cultivating. He was so close, that he just wanted to finish it.
However, he wasn't able to break through even after an entire day of cultivation.
"Arghh, I am so close. If only I had more time," Ning thought. However, it was time, so he stood up and left the room.
Along with the rest of the people from the Deepskull island, he walked to the center of the huh island, which he now knew wasn't really the center.
He entered the Arena and waited for the tournament to start.
More and more people came in to watch. He then saw a man in an orange robe fly down from the sky.
"Are people allowed to fly in here?" Ning asked the sect leaders.
"Oh, that's Mallus, the sect leader of the Dazzling sect, the only Golden Core cultivator of the Scattered Isles," Dion said.
"No one is going to bother stopping him," Yelca said.
Ning looked up and saw that he was looking towards him as well. 'Did his disciple tell him about me?' Ning wondered.
"Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the hopefully final but most likely the penultimate day of the tournament. Today we will start the 1 v 1 matches that you had all been waiting for. This will be between the 128 participants that got the highest points in the previous match," the host spoke.
"In front of me is a box with 128 numbers. I will now pick 2 numbers," the host spoke and picked 2 numbers from the clear box.
"The first match is going to be between… Number 45 and Number 10."
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Hijaka walked onto the stage and stood in front of his opponent who had a cultivation base of the 8th Qi Condensation realm. Hijaka would easily be his match even with just his own cultivation base, not to mention his body cultivation.
They were both made to keep talismans on their body that would teleport them out of the arena if they were mortally harmed.
The fight started, but Ning didn't bother with it, he knew who was going to win. It was obvious. The next few days started to seem very boring to him.
'What's the time again? Around 10 am? I still have an hour and a half before my cap resets,' he thought. 'What should I do? Should I buy something else, should I instead gather energy just in case, or should I think towards increasing the cap?'
'Increasing the cap seems like the best idea. Let's see, what was the next cap doubling price again? System, help me,' Ning asked.
Here are the Cap increase prices
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Double your daily cap: 10,000,000,000 Heat Energy
Double your daily cap: 10,000,000,000 Sound Energy
Double your daily cap: 10,000,000,000 Kinetic Energy
'Hmm, it's 10 billion for each, since I collect 160 million each day, which means in ten days, I get 1.6 billion energy. Then it should take me around 60 days to gather 10 billion,' Ning thought.
'What should I do?… ' Ning thought. He wanted ideas. He opened his status and check them to see if there really was something.
'Oh right, that should work,' he thought and asked the system. 'Hey, System. How much do the Yang to energy conversions cost?'
Here are the prices for Yang to energy conversion techniques
Yang to heat Conversion technique costs 66,000,000
Yang to sound conversion technique costs 60,000,000
Yang to kinetic conversion technique costs 96,000,000
"Oh, I would've probably complained a few years ago, but now these prices are very cheap to me. Buy it, system," Ning said.
Are you sure? The system suggests you don't buy these techniques
"Huh?" Ning was surprised. It wasn't every day that the system opposed his ideas. "What's wrong with these techniques?" Ning asked.
Planet Kumia is not a planet with a very high amount of Qi
Thus Yin and Yang energy here are very less
You will not be able to fill your cap with these techniques
Ning thought for a second and said, 'that's right.' He remembered back in the village when he used to suck in Yin energy. From time to time he would run out of Yin to convert just because he took everything from the surrounding. And that was back when his cap was around 5 million.
"Aish, that's a problem, isn't it?" Ning asked himself.
"Is something wrong, Doctor Ning?" one of the disciples next to him asked when he saw Ning mumble.
"Oh no, nothing's wrong," Ning said and finally paid enough attention to see that the contestants had changed. He looked up and saw that Hijaka had already won.
He watched the next competition for a while and said in his mind, 'Buy it. It might come in handy as the yin one did.'
Confirmed
You have bought Yang to Heat conversion for 62,000,000
You have bought Yang to Kinetic conversion for 96,000,000
You have bought Yang to Sound conversion for 60,000,000
'Hmm… I will try when it's time,' he thought and waited. The fight at the stage was boring to him, so he just stayed where he was and started cultivating. At least, that would help him reach a little closer to a breakthrough.
He cultivated for a bit and felt he was making some progress when suddenly he got a nudge on his shoulders. "Doctor NIng, it's your turn," a disciple said.
Ning nodded and stood up before walking down to the stage. A staff member put a talisman on him and sent him up the stage.
His opponent was barely worth mentioning. The moment the game started, Ning rushed forward and immediately kicked his opponent's head.
Had it been a real fight, his opponent's head would be crushed like a watermelon dropped from a very high height. However, here on the stage, he simply turned yellow and got out of the stage.
"Ning Ruogang, Number 1 wins," the host said.
Ning simply went back to this seating area and started cultivating. He didn't give a bother to the rest of the cultivation as it was not worth his time.
"Oh, my cap limit has reset," Ning thought and started activating the Yang to Kinetic conversion technique. It worked for a while and he got around 30 million Kinetic energy, which was the most he had gotten in a single day.
However, that was nowhere near the 160 million daily caps he had, and he wanted to increase it. Ning knew the best way to get energy, but it seemed that getting just kinetic energy was going to be cumbersome.
'Whatever,' he thought and looked at the disciple next to him. "Hey, attack me," Ning said.
"What?" the disciple asked in confusion.
"Hit me on my biceps," Ning said and got ready.
"I can't do that," the disciple said.
"Just attack," Ning started to get annoyed. The disciple nodded quickly and attacked him. He instantly got 160 million from the punch.
"Alright, that is better. Thank you," Ning said and went back to cultivating. The day was long and the people had to wait for all 64 matches to finish. Only then would the next set of matches start.
The host started the top 64 matches on the same day as well. There were around 2 hours left in the competition for today, and so the host wanted to have as many fights finish as possible.
In the end, the host was successful at ending exactly 16 matches in that 2 hours. Once that was done, everyone stood up and left the arena. They couldn't wait for tomorrow, the final day.
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Ning was in his room cultivating. Ever since returning from the arena, he had been continuously cultivating. Tomorrow was going to be a long day of fighting. Worst of all, it was probably going to be a boring one.
He kept on moving the same Qi he had in his body around to breakthrough. He cultivated for the entire night and at around 4 am in the morning, he finally managed to push through that invisible barrier and crossed it.
He finally entered the 2nd Foundation Establishment realm.
"Sigh, that's good enough," he thought and slumped onto the bed. Even if it was for only 4 hours, he decided to just sleep.
"Doctor Ning, can you… um… please rethink about leaving? Where will you even go?" Dion asked.. He really didn't want to see Ning leave the island. He was strong and could also take part in the next 3 years in the tournament once more.
"I've already thought of it for a long time. My mind is made, I am leaving today," Ning said.
"Sigh, I guess we can't change your mind then. Well, let's just go to the arena," Yelca said and the group started moving from the hotel.
Along the way, there were a few people that turned around to look at him. He had effectively gotten more than double the points of the 2nd place holder in the last competition, so everyone was expecting him to do great.
Ning didn't show any reactions to these people, however. His mind was focused on where to go next. 'That place Hijaka said, I should go there,' he thought.
It wasn't that far away for him and he could easily see himself having fun there. 'Sigh, I also need to find myself a way to leave this planet as well. I wonder what other ways there might be aside from just teleportation.'
Ning looked up to the sky and thought, 'Can't I just… fly away?' he thought.
'That's probably going to take a lot of energy as well,' he thought and stopped thinking about it any further.
"Huh? What is he doing here?" Dion's comment brought Ning out of his mind. He looked forward and saw the sect leader of the dazzling sect standing near the arena's gate, waiting for the arena to open.
'Why is someone who can simply fly inside waiting outside in a line?' Ning wondered.
Mallus was with his 15 disciples and as soon as they saw Ning, they whispered something into his ear. Mallus's face showed no emotions as he heard the things and walked up to Ning.
"Are you the junior named Ning?" Mallus asked.
Ning was a little surprised that he was here for him. "Yes, that is me. What does sect leader Mallus want with someone like me?" Ning asked.
Mallus gave a smile and said, "I heard junior was the reason my disciples did so much poorer this time around in the competition. I was just wondering what you had to say about that."
'The hell does he want? An apology?' Ning wondered.
"I guess… I am a little sad I missed one of them," Ning said as he looked at Mallus dead in the eye.
Golden Core aura flared for a split second before dying down, however that was enough to scare everyone in the vicinity.
"It seems you have a rather sharp tongue on yourself. Make sure it doesn't cut you by accident," Mallus said and left them.
"Dear God, that guy scares me," Dion said. "He could probably hurt me even though my body cultivation is so high."
"He's not the strongest for no reason," Yelca said. "I just hope Doctor Ning's words don't leave an impression on him. If he decides to target Deepskull island for some reason, we will be in trouble."
"I'm sure that won't come to be. I will make sure of that," Ning said.
Finally, they were allowed entry and the entire group went to their seating areas to view the remaining matches today.
"Welcome to the final day of the Triennial Tournament. I hope you are all having a fantastic day. Today's battle will be the continuation of yesterday's, so we will have the remaining 16 matches today."
"I shall now choose our next contestants," the host said and picked up two papers from the lot.
"Number 33, and Number 1"
"Ah, Doctor Ning is first. Please go ahead," the disciples let Ning walk down to the stage. Similar to yesterday, Ning was given the talisman to wear.
He walked onto the stage and saw that his opponent was a girl wearing violet robes. He didn't immediately finish the match like yesterday.
He let the girl attack first. He was so bored now that he would do anything to make the tournament a little more fun for himself. And that meant seeing what the others could do.
The girl suddenly summoned 3 earth golems that seemed like puppets. 'Oh,' Ning said with slight amusement. 'This looks like the ice puppets that Freya made. Only this one is made of earth,' he thought.
The puppets were very rigid with not much flexibility to their limb movements. But since Ning wanted to have some fun, he let the puppets attack.
The girl sent them to punch him down, but Ning just took it. With his body cultivation, there was no way he would ever feel this pain.
It was a little fun at first, but the constant pounding soon got boring. He lifted his arms and caught one of the falling fists. He used the arm to swing the earth puppet and slam it into the other one.
He then took the last one and threw it directly at the girl.
"Arghh!" she shouted, but there was no yellow light. 'She's not lethally damaged huh?' he thought and went to help her if she was injured but not enough to disappear.
He threw the puppet behind him on the empty stage and looked at the girl. She was unconscious.
'Well, seeing a giant earth puppet falling on top of you would be quite shocking.' He looked towards the referee for some help, and only then did the referee realize that she had fainted.
"You win," he said and asked someone to take the girl away.
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Ning didn't really watch any of the matches. He simply closed his eyes and listened to the sighs and cheers of the audience. He really wanted to see all the participant's powers for the first time with his own eyes.
The top 32 started and he only opened his eyes when his own name was called. His opponent was a man with a 9th Qi Condensation realm cultivation base. Meaning, he would have no problem winning against him.
The man tried to fight with his best of abilities, but they were of no concern to Ning. He easily destroyed each of his attacks, and in the end, defeated him as well.
The next one fighting after him turned out to be Hijaka. His opponent was someone that was in the 9th Qi Condensation realm. He decided to watch this one match that looked like it would get interesting.
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However, thanks to Hijaka's immensely strong body, the match was not even a bother for him. In less than a minute, he managed to win against his opponent with no problem.
"Sigh, it really is boring. Maybe it will get better starting the next match," Ning thought.
"Did you see that Yelca, did you see?" Gion said excitedly.
"Yes, yes, I saw," Yelca said.
"I told you. Cultivating both body and Qi at the same time as possible. You said the disciple will turn out mediocre if they did that, but I never lost hope. You said Doctor Ning was an exception, right? Then how do you explain that disciple," Gion said.
"Sigh. I guess you are right. But we need some better techniques than the one we currently have," Yelca said.
"Do… Do you think we should ask him for the technique?" Gion asked.
"Stop talking nonsense and act like an actual sect leader. You want to ask a disciple for their cultivation method?" Yelca asked.
"Oh, you're right. I was so excited that I stopped thinking straight."
Ning listened to the two's bickering and smiled. 'Hey system, prepare a cultivation method that can cultivate both body and Qi at the same time. The total price must not exceed 500 Million,' he said.
You can buy 'Body Breathing method' for 395,000,000
'Make it a physical book,' he said.
He asked the system to create the book inside his robes and there it appeared. He slowly took it out and read it for a bit to see what it was about.
'Oh, so you absorb Qi through your body, hold it in for a bit, and send it out forcefully with your body. That way it cultivates your body while cultivating your Qi as well, huh?' Ning thought as he understood the concept of the book.
It was a very good book. Given that one didn't have to learn multiple methods at once and could make do with this single one, this was a very good technique.
Of course, his Earth-Shattering, Heaven Tempering art was much better since it tempered the mind as well as the other two, and the Divine Vortex Devouring technique was one of the best Qi cultivation techniques.
But they were also very expensive, unlike this one.
"Sect leaders, since I am leaving, take this as a parting gift. It's the cultivation method I use," he lied and handed them the book.
"Your method?" Gion and Yelca both got surprised and immediately jumped on the book and started reading it together. After a while, they looked at Ning with teary eyes and asked, "Do… Do we really get to keep it?" Yelca asked.
"Of course, it's a gift," Ning said.
"Thank you. Thank you very much. With this, our fragmented sects can once again become one," Gion said as tears fell through his eyes.
"Yes, the Purple Dragon-Tiger sect will return to former glory," Yelca said.
"You mean the Purple Tiger-Dragon sect," Gion corrected.
"No, the Purple Dragon-Tiger sect," Yelca recorrected. The two sect leaders started quarreling on what to call the joint sect.
Ning once again smiled and said nothing. He looked to his left and asked the disciple, "hey, hit me," he said.
"What?" he asked in confusion.
"You know, like yesterday? Hit me," Ning repeated.
"Oh," the disciple was a little confused but complied with the request and hit Ning on his biceps. However, Ning only got 40 Million energy.
"What's wrong? Hit me harder," he said.
The guy got a little embarrassed and hit Ning twice. In the two turns, his 160 Million energy cap was reached. The man took a deep breath and leaned back on his seat.
"What's wrong?" Ning asked.
"I don't know, Doctor. Your body feels a little weird when I hit you. I felt it yesterday as well. It's like I'm hitting a cushion or something. There is never an impact. That's probably because your body is very strong," the guy said and started taking deep breaths.
"Are you okay?" Ning asked.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I… I just feel a little tired after hitting you. I wonder if I am sick or something?" he said.
Alex tried to think of some medical condition this guy might have been suffering from, but nothing came to mind. In the end, he resorted to asking the system.
'What's wrong with his body? Give me some information for 100 million energy,' he asked.
Information entered his mind and his eyes went a little wide in realization. Ning then sighed. 'I guess I will have to find a new source now,' he thought.
It turned out that Ning was basically stealing 160 Million energy the man had when he asked him to hit him. So, in turn, the man was feeling tired and lethargic due to the lack of energy in his body.
'He should be fine for now. I don't think his body had much energy without his cultivation base fully in use,' Ning thought.
Normal environmental energy was gone from his list of sources due to how much energy he required, and now another source was gone as well.
"Sh*t, I will have to find better ideas now."
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