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The top 16 battles was now starting. Ning could see a few people he recognized make it into those rank. Hijaka was one of them. With his dual body and Qi cultivation, his fighting strength was really high.
Next was that orange robed man he hated, Gai. The next one was the orange robed man he helped the Flood Dragon kill whose cultivation base was higher than him. He had found out that this was the man named Faran, the 2nd ranking participant from the secret realm.
Another one of the people he knew was the leader of the group of 5 that tried to use the charm girl to lure people into their formation and kill them.
He had surprisingly made this far up. However, this was going to be his final match since all the remaining ones all were in the 1st Foundation Establishment realm.
The host started picking two names from the box to start the top 16 matches..
"No 10 and No 76"
Hijaka stood up and walked to the front of the stage. From the other side, Jan walked in.
'Oh, this guy was here too,' Ning thought when he saw him. He hadn't been paying attention much and had missed his fights.
'Well, I guess this is where he loses,' Ning thought and watched. The guy named Jan used his swords to fight and send out very strong attacks. With his massively strong attacks, even with his strong body, Hijaka couldn't handle it at all.
After a few minutes of struggle, Jan drove a sword right into his chest. The talisman lit up and Hijaka was brought out of the stage. He had lost.
Hijaka was sad, but he knew he was dealt a bad hand. The opponents were just too strong for him. He turned towards Ning, far in the audience seat and made a saddened face, but Ning just shook his head and gave him a smile.
Hijaka got a little less sad and smiled as well before walking towards his own seating area.
The next few fights went for a little longer than Ning expected. The fighters were almost equally strong, so in the end it came down to a battle of wits, knowledge and endurance.
After 4 different matches, he was finally called to fight a 1st Foundation Established realm cultivator. His opponent was a girl who called out 2 beasts the moment she saw him on stage. He was the one they all feared, so when she found out it was him who would be fighting, she didn't hold back.
Her two beasts were also at the same cultivation base as herself. One of the beast was a large vulture with a really long neck. The other beast was actually a large centipede that crawled along the ground.
Ning smiled when he saw this, "finally, there's something fun to do." He didn't participate in this match by himself. Instead, he called out someone else to fight for him.
"Come out, Aegis," he said and Aegis suddenly appeared in front of him. The 2 meter tall body with the additional meter trident like horn was unique to the audience.
The girl frowned a little and asked, "Why is your silver beetle golden? Did you paint it so other's wouldn't find out?"
"Haha, this is not a silver beetle, its something better. You'll see," Ning said and gave a single command to Aegis.
"Kill"
Aegis immediately flew away and went for the centipede. It was the thing protecting the girl so Aegis tried to get rid of it instead.
While it wasn't the fastest flying beast, Aegis still surprised the girl with how fast it flew. "How?" she felt a little shocked. From her knowledge, this was something impossible for the Great Shelled Silver Beetle.
Aegis swiped both of it's right arm at the centipede. The centipede also jumped to attack Aegis. Aegis got hit in the chest, while the centipede got hit in the face and neck and started bleeding.
The girl looked at her centipede, then towards Aegis. While her similarly powerful beast was bleeding, the beetle was perfectly fine.
Golden Shelled beetles could block a lot of damage from their back and only a fraction of that from the front. However, that did not mean that their front was weak. It just meant that their back was abnormally strong.
The vulture immediately flew and sent gusts of wind towards Aegis. The winds contained many small wind blades that would cut everywhere. To counter this, Aegis simply turned around.
All the wind blades landed on him, but none actually worked.
"GO!" the girl shouted.
Both the centipede and the vulture rushed towards Aegis. Both of them attacked him at once, however, all the attacks landed on his back, so he was fine despite the barrage.
Suddenly, he opened his winds and flew up. As soon as he was high enough, he did a U-turn and returned towards the vulture. His horns started to turn golden and shined.
The vulture sent out massive wind slices with its wings, but it didn't work. Aegis' horn pierced through the vulture's wings, and the vulture cried out in pain.
The girl was surprised and immediately took the vulture back. However, Aegis wasn't done yet. He flew up once again and turned around before flying down very fast. This time however, his horn didn't shine.
Instead, he slowly shifted his body such that his body was what was going to attack the centipede. He was planning on stomping it.
The girl felt horrified when she saw that. She was still worried about Ning himself moving if she took part in the battle as well.
"No!" the girl shouted and called back the centipede into her beast bag as well.
BOOM
Aegis landed on empty space. If she had been a split second late at calling her beast back, she would've probably lost it today.
The dust settled and the confused look of the beetle was what showed through it. After not finding either of the beasts, he turned towards the girl as she was his main target to begin with.
The girl didn't hesitate a single second and shouted out loud. "I give up."
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The Top 16 ended, and now it was time for the top 8.
The very first battle was between Ning and Jan. Ning wasn't the least bit surprised when he got one of the Dazzling sect disciples to fight.
There were 3 of them, so the chances of him having to fight them were nearly 50 percent. Ning walked onto the stage and saw the man and his sword ready to fight.
Ning just smiled and looked sideways to check their sect leader Mallus. He gave him a little nod before casually walking forward.
The man was ready with his sword, but he was also afraid that Ning was going to call out his bird. The bird was too strong for him and did not want to fight it again.
"W—What are you doing? Don't come closer," he shouted, worried that Ning was getting close to summon his bird at close range and attack him..
However, Ning kept on walking forward. Seeing that he was not listening to him, Jan decided to attack Ning while the bird wasn't out.
"HAH!" he shouted and swung the sword at Ning.
DING
Ning caught the sword with his bare hand. It cut a little into his palm, but that was the extent of the damage. "Not bad," Ning said. "But now it's my turn."
He swung his fist and hit the side of the sword, trying to break it in half, but the most he was able to do was bend it. That was still enough to scare the soul out of Jan's body.
The bent sword fell to the ground with a little 'ting' sound and Ning grabbed his shoulders with both hands. He forced him to sit down. He then used Telekinesis to pull out just his tongue forward so he couldn't speak.
Ning then called out Aegis. "Remember him? He was the one that attacked you so much back in the forest," Ning reminded him.
"Now, it's your time for revenge."
Aegis seemed to somewhat understand what Ning said and also remembered what happened. He remembered the barrage of attacks he had to suffer while being unable to complete his master's orders.
Aegis got angry.
SLASH
He scratched Jan's face with his sharp claw, and then scratched from the other side with the second claw, followed by the third claw and then the fourth claw. Then, he repeated by scratching with his first claw again.
SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH
Jan's face was bloody, with blood dripping all over his orange robes. In the end, Aegis used his horn to stab him through the herd. Just then, the talisman glowed and he made it out.
However, he still had a bloody face and needed quick treatment. Ning looked towards Mallus with a smile and nodded.
Ning didn't bother with the next two fights. Just from the cultivation base, he knew that the two Dazzling sect disciples would win it.
The last one was a mystery, but soon that too was cleared when one of the two fighters turned out to have an excellent armor that blocked most of the damage done to him.
Finally, the Top 4 started. The people remaining were Ning, Gai, Faran, and the guy with the armor. When the match was decided, Ning smiled.
His next opponent was Gai.
Before that, Faran and the other guy fought. Everyone expected the fight to last a while, but that was only because they didn't seem to realize how strong Faran was. He had been acting very lowkey and not using any flashy attacks to draw attention.
Nings 22 thousand points acted as the shadow that hid the impressiveness of Faran's 10 thousand points. People somehow forgot that there was a reason his points were so high.
The moment the fights started, Faran surprisingly took out a spear for the first time. Until now, he had been fighting with a sword, and while he wasn't great at it, he wasn't that bad either.
Now that he took out the spear, they finally realized why he was bad at the sword. That wasn't his weapon of choice at all.
When the spear came out, both Ning and Gai reacted with a surprised look. The shaft of the spear was ocean blue in color, while the blade was made up of a long metallic silver-colored metal.
"Why does brother Faran have that?" Gai asked in surprise.
"So, that's where it went," Ning said in understanding.
Faran's opponent got ready to fight and rushed at him. He believed that with his armor, Faran couldn't hurt him at all. Faran took a deep breath and sent a spear slash towards his opponent.
Before the opponent could even react, he turned into yellow light and disappeared. Faran kept his spear back and walked off of the stage.
Ning smirked and stood up. He then looked towards Gai who also stood up and walked towards the stage.
Gai seemed to be wary about Ning after seeing his fight with Jan. Anyone that could bend a low-grade spirit weapon in half with a single punch was definitely not normal.
Gai took out his spear and cautiously got into a stance. Ning however, didn't take out anything. He instead simply walked towards Gai at a slow pace as he did with Jan.
He had a really hard time fighting against Gai when his ribs were hurting back on the 3rd day. However, now he was perfectly fine, his system was back and he had also broken through.
He was in the best position he could be in.
His bloodlust was returning after seeing Gai, but unlike last time, he was able to keep it in check. Still, he wouldn't mind hearing little cries.
However, just as he was about to start his attack, he heard the most rage-inducing words from the man he had heard yet.
"I forfeit," Gai shouted out his surrender before the match could even properly take place. The referee accepted and the match was ended.
Ning couldn't help but get annoyed at how anti-climactic this round was.
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"F*ck, I was looking forward to fighting that guy," Ning thought. The match was over but he didn't leave the stage. It was time for the finale to start.
Faran gave a disappointed look towards Gai and shook his head.
"What?" Gai said angrily when he saw that. "If you saw what his other beast could do, you would quit too."
"Tsk. Go talk with the master, I won't say anything," Faran said and walked up the stairs onto the stage.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for. The final fight, between the Number 1 and the Number 2 winner of the last competition. This will reveal who is the best of the young generation in all of the scattered isles is.. "
"Let the battle… Begin"
Faran immediately brought out the blue spear and got ready to fight.
Ning looked at him curiously and asked, "Did you know that's my spear?"
Faran was a little surprised and asked seriously, "What do you mean?"
"I dropped it near the lake when the Flood Dragon attacked me. I came searching for it on the 4th day but couldn't find it. It seems you had found it earlier than me," Ning said.
Faran looked at the spear in his hand and said, "If you lost such a good spear, then you were never worthy of it in the first place."
"Yeah, well…" Ning smiled and said, "I've got something better."
Something blue appeared in Ning's hand all of sudden. When Faran saw the thing in Ning's hands, he couldn't understand what was happening.
"Why are there two of the same spear?" he asked. "Is this part of a pair?"
"No, the one I have was made later and is thus better," Ning said.
"I doubt it."
Faran slashed his spear in front of him sending an attack towards Ning. Ning blocked it with his spear easily. Ning didn't have spear techniques that could create such attacks, so he decided to use sword slashes instead.
He assumed the long shaft was the sword handle, and the small blade was the blade of a sword. He then slashed as well.
A not very amusing slash flew forth and was easily stopped by Faram. "Tsk. I guess close combat is all I can really do for now," Ning thought and dashed forward.
With as incredibly fast speed, he reached in front of Faran and launched the One True Spear strike. Faran barely managed to stop it and was pushed so far back that he nearly was thrown off of the stage.
Faran finally realized just how strong Ning was. His arms felt numb from the hit on the spear shaft. He knew it was time to get serious.
He took a deep breath and got into a low body stance where the end of the spear was pointing top behind him, and the tip was pointing towards the ground a little ahead of where his feet were.
Suddenly, his clothes started rippling and so did his hair. Ning could see what seemed like tiny glints of light in the aura that Faran was putting forth now.
'Is that Qi?' Ning wondered, however, he couldn't tell at all. The glints of lights occasionally turned to spear heard but reverted back to glints of light again.
Ning was genuinely surprised for the first time seeing anyone's fight today. "Spear Intent?" he said in shock. He didn't expect somebody in the Foundation Establishment realm to have learned the spear until he got Spear Intent at all.
One had to be very passionate about spears in general and must have practiced it for a very long time to even have intents appear in the first place.
Ning got into a stance as well. He wasn't scared of the Spear Intent; He was happy.
Faran made the first move. He launched forward and stabbed at Ning. The Spear Intent followed the path of the spear and moved forward as well.
Ning hit the incoming spear aside but the intent of the action was still there, so the energy behind the attack still followed through and hit Ning.
Ning didn't take any damage, but he was pushed back. Ning looked up and saw that Faran was already doing an overhead swing.
Ning quickly held the spear horizontally to block the attack. However, once again, the energy followed the intent and hit him.
"Urghh, this is annoying. How do I fight this?" he thought. He pushed Faran back and started his own attack. If Faran never got to hit, he wouldn't have to worry about Spear Intent at all.
Ning started swinging and slashing and stabbing as much as he could. This forced Faran to go into a defensive position and he could do nothing but block the attack.
BANG BANG BANG
Faran kept getting pushed back with each attack and was nearing the edge of the stage. With each attack, he was getting closer and closer to falling off of the stage.
The audience looked in awe and believed Ning was going to win now. However, such fears never appeared in Faran's face.
Suddenly, Faran's aura erupted and the glints of Spear Intent started appearing once more. They were constantly fluctuating turning to spearheads, before returning back to normal glints of light.
Ning kept on attacking, however, he couldn't push back anymore, and with each attack, the period of time the spearheads lasted started getting longer and longer.
Ning suddenly stopped and stepped backward. "F*ck, he's using me to temper himself right now," Ning said. Faran was continuously getting better with each attack he handled. His Spear Intent was slowly treading towards its higher form.
Ning tried to attack but his hits were not being blocked more efficiently. Faran was continuously getting better and better and at some point, he started counter-attacking.
Ning could have probably won already if he used his full physical strength to fight, but he wanted to have some fun before he did that.
Just then Faran spoke for the first time in a while, "You can't beat me like that. Bring out your beast that the others are scared of."
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Ning stood completely still, however, his face showed a little bit of surprise as he asked, "My beast? Did your fellow disciple tell you about him?"
Faran's chest moved up and down as he tried to catch his breath, yet his face still didn't show any emotion. "I saw how scared they were. It must be a really strong beast, other than the beetle you have," he said.
"Yes, my beast is strong, but he's not in the condition to be called out right now," Ning said. Faran's face immediately darkened. It was almost like he was disappointed a little.
"Haha! But if you really want to fight one of my beasts, I can help you with that. You see, I just recently acquired a new beast, and… well, I haven't had the opportunity to use him yet. In fact, I haven't had the time to even name him."
"Let's see… I will just call him Blue for his skin color. So, what do you say? Do you want to fight blue?" Ning asked..
Faran got back into his attacking stance as Spear Intent rose off of him. "Do not disappoint me," he said.
Ning smirked a little. "As you wish. Come out, Blue."
Blue light suddenly flashed as a large beast appeared on the stage. The blue beast looked like a snake to the people with its large body that had scales all over it.
However, when they saw the head, they showed fear. It had the head of the fabled True Dragons.
"That's… that's the monster from the lake," Faran said with a trembling voice. "Ho— How did you tame such a beast?"
Ning didn't answer the question; instead, he asked his own. "Are you disappointed yet? How about you help me test how good this beast of mine is."
"Why. Did. You. Call. Me. Master?" The Flood Dragon spoke as he looked at the different people around him. However, what should be like words to Ning, sounded like beastly screams to the rest of the people.
"He called you out," Ning said as he pointed towards Faran.
Blue slowly moved his head as he looked straight at Faran. Seeing the large lizard-like eyes blink scared him very much. The handle of the spear dropped from his right hand and hit the floor with a ting sound.
The Flood Dragon breathed warm air into his face as it said, "It. Is. You." However, to Faran, that just sounded like normal growling.
Faran was unresponsive. He had no idea what he could even say in this situation. Not only was the beast 2 realms higher than him in terms of cultivation base, but it also had a very high defense, which he knew from his fight 2 days ago.
Aside from that, just the fact that it was in some way, a Dragon that was going to fight him, scared him the most.
Ning didn't bother waiting any longer and said, "Finish him."
WHOOSH
A massive blast of water erupted from Blue's mouth and hit Faran. Before the water could even touch him, however, he disappeared and appeared elsewhere away from the stage.
The water blast however kept on flying until it reached the audience. The different sect masters of the sect seating in that general area immediately put up a barrier of their own.
Even then some of the water spilled through and hit the audience. It didn't hold the same power, however.
The sheer power of the attack left the audience in shock. Ning put his spear back into his storage space and walked up to blue. He gently caressed his scales and said "Good Job, you can go back in now."
"But. Master. He. Survived." Blue said.
"That's okay, he hasn't done anything bad yet," Ning said.
"But. He. Tried. To. Steal. My— "
"GO BACK!" Ning commanded with a stern voice. Blue immediately complied and went back into Ning's beast space. He sighed and looked at the audience who looked at him like he was a monster.
He then turned to the host who also was similarly befuddled and said, "Aren't you going to announce the result?"
"Oh Y-Yes. You Win," the host finally spoke and then addressed the audience.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, here we have the winner of the Triennial Tournament, Ning Ruogong."
The audience didn't react at all. They were still in shock. Ning looked at the whole crowd yet not a single person seemed to be themselves right now.
CLAP CLAP
A set of claps rung out amongst the audience. Ning looked towards the person who clapped and smiled. It was Kaezir who had come out of his shock and started clapping.
Mikaela who had been sitting next to him also started clapping.
Hijaka started clapping next followed by a massive clap and cheer from the people of Deepskull island. They were genuinely happy at the result. Following them, everyone except the dazzling sect clapped.
Ning ignored the claps of the others he didn't care about and walked up to the host. "I have rewards right?" he asked.
"Y-Yes, of course. We always give rewards to the winners," the host said.
"Good, give it to the people from Deepskull island," Ning said.
"That's your island right?" the host asked, and Ning nodded.
He then walked into the audience. However, he didn't go to Gion and Yelca, he instead went to Hijaka.
Hijaka walked out from his group and went to Ning. "Inikaka, is something the matter?" he asked.
"I came here to let you know that I am leaving now. I will come to visit sometime soon. If you meet Hyesi, tell him to stay alive until then," Ning said.
Hijaka nodded and thanked him.
Ning then walked up to Kaezir and Mikaela.
" Mr. Kaezir, I am leaving. Thank you for everything you did for me," Ning said with a bow.
"Umm, that's alright, but why are you leaving? Are you ill? I can help you," Kaezir said, not really understanding what was going on.
"Haha, no. I'm not just leaving the arena, I am leaving the Scattered Isles itself," Ning said.
"You might not remember it as it was a small event for you, but you once saved me in the forest back in Starsight city when I had just arrived from Klavis. I will never forget that. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you."
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Ning left Kaezir and Mikaela with their shocked faces and moved to the people from the Deepskull island.
"Doctor Ning congratulations."
"That was amazing, Doctor Ning."
"How did you tame that monster?"
Multiple congratulations and questions appeared one after another, which Ning just smiled throughout and reached Gion and Yelca.
"There you are Doctor Ning, you did amazing back there. You won us the tournament," Gion said.
"Haha, we can go back with a proud smile now," Yelca said.
Ning smiled and then dropped the bomb.. "Sect leaders, I am leaving now," he said.
"Huh? What do you mean? Why are you leaving now?" Gion asked.
"You still haven't taken your rewards, doctor Ning," Yelca reminded.
"I don't need those. I asked the host to pass everything along to you guys. As for why I'm leaving, the answer is simple, I got bored," Ning said.
"Well, not exactly bored, I guess. You see, I didn't expect to spend so much time in the Scattered Isles as I did. I was interested in a few different things at first and joined various sects, but after I got the experience, I needed to leave but I couldn't for some reason."
"Finally, I can, so I decided to waste no time and leave," Ning said.
"Sect leader Gion, please take care of Anya for me. She is a fantastic little girl and will be of great asset to you. Who knows, she might be the one to win this whole thing for you in the next three years," Ning said.
"She is the same as me, capable in both body and Qi. I'm sure that once your two sects join, she will be the most important person there," Ning said.
"Also, I have left my entire medical knowledge with her, so let her go out and treat people from time to time."
Gion smiled and asked, "You seem quite worried about the little girl. Why didn't you take her with you?"
"I'm a rogue cultivator who can survive anywhere. But she is a young girl who is barely starting her journey in cultivation. I don't want her life to be as harsh as mine could be sometimes," Ning said.
"Don't worry, Doctor Ning. We will treat her like we treat you," Yelca said.
Ning needed nothing more than that. "Very well then, I shall leave now. Goodbye everyone, if fate wills it, we will meet again."
Ning bowed towards them once and started walking away. He didn't look back once and directly went out of the gates of the arena.
The hotel he stayed at was towards the south, the ship he came in also was towards the south. However, Ning wasn't going there, he was going north. He was now going to go to the northern continent.
Ning stopped for a moment and looked at the various people that we're still focusing on the massive screen from outside. Even though the tournament had ended, they were waiting for the reward ceremony.
Ning saw Yelca and Gion hurriedly walk upstairs to accept the reward. Ning felt a little melancholic seeing this, but he immediately let go of such emotions and turned around.
He was determined now and wasn't going to turn around anymore.
He made his way to the northern gates and booked a ticket for a ship that was going to go to an island up north. Ning was going to take the scenic path up north.
The cold breeze of the sea moved his long hair as he stayed on the deck and looked at everything. Everything in front of him was nothing but ocean, but Ning knew that around 250 kilometers up north, there was a major city in one of the islands.
Ning would drop there and then take another ship from there to another island where he would —
AHEM
Someone coughed from behind him. Ning suddenly sent out his divine sense and was surprised when he saw who it was.
"Oh, might I ask what you are doing here, Sect Leader Mallus?" he asked as he turned around. Behind him was Mallus and the rest of the disciples of the Dazzling sect.
"Oh, what a coincidence, junior Ning. You see, we were returning back to our sect. We have spent a bit too long here," Mallus said with a fake smile.
"I see. Then you must be tired from your journey. I am too. How about we both go to our rooms and take our deserved rest," Ning said.
"Haha, we both know what's happening here junior. You have something I want, and I am going to get it," Mallus said.
"Oh, what might it be?" Ning asked. He had a general idea, but he still wanted Mallus to say it himself.
"The Angel's Touch. That is something I need to reach the Nascent Cultivation realm. After that, I will be the strongest person in the entire lower half of the northern continent," he said.
Ning smirked a little and asked, "Oh, you weren't here for the mid-grade Spirit Artifact I showed on the stage today or any of my beasts?"
That caught Mallus's attention a bit. Gai came up to him and whispered something in his ear. He looked towards Jan and asked, "Is it true that his bird killed you before you could see it?"
"Yes, sect leader," Jan replied.
"I see, it seems junior Ning has a surprisingly high number of exotic stuff that we have never seen before. Can you tell us where you got them?" Mallus asked.
"Oh, you know, here and there. I find stuff lying around and it turns out to be gold," Ning started talking big.
"Sigh, I guess junior Ning doesn't want to speak so easily. Then I must insist you come with us so we can persuade you a little," Mallus said.
"I'm afraid I can't do that," Ning said. "Instead, how about you come with me?"
Suddenly, Ning disappeared. Mallus was surprised for a second, but on the next second, he felt a hand lay on his shoulder. Same thing for Gai as well; he too felt a hand on his shoulder.
After that, they all disappeared.
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A minute earlier.
When Ning saw Mallus appear behind him, his heart skipped a beat. Not only was Mallus there, but even his disciples were also there as well.
'This is troublesome,' he thought.
As they talked, Ning realized why they were here. He first wanted to immediately teleport to a faraway location so he didn't have to worry about him.
But then he remembered that if he left after antagonizing the strongest cultivator in the scattered isles, he would certainly show retaliation towards the Deepskull island folks.
While he cared about Gion, Yelca, and the other folks, he was especially worried about Anya getting mixed in all of this. So, he asked the system a question.
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'Hey, System. How do you determine innocents from the guilty ones? How do I know if I can kill someone or not,' he asked.
Anyone who hasn't had a conflict with the host, or has no malicious intent towards the host is considered innocent
System will warn you if your intention ever settles on killing innocent people
'I see… so I can consider everyone here not innocent, right?' he asked.
No. There is someone innocent that holds no malicious intentions towards you amongst them. Others hold to a very low degree. Only 3 people amongst the group have a very high malicious intent
Ning looked at the group and thought, 'I can tell which 3. But who is the one that doesn't hold a malicious intent towards me?' he asked.
The system showed a disciple from the group that surprised Ning. 'That Faran guy actually doesn't hate me enough to want to hurt me?' Ning said curiously.
Now that that was resolved, he needed to find a way to escape this predicament. 'It's really just Mallus that I have to worry about. I need to take care of him.'
'I need to think of a way to kill him without dying myself.' Ning looked into the map and looked for places that looked dangerous. One place, in particular, stood out to him as… weird.
'System, can my body survive here while a Golden Core cultivator dies?' he asked.
Would you like to buy that information f—
'Just give me a damn yes or no answer. Take as much every as required,' he said.
Yes
That was all Ning needed.
"Sigh, I guess junior Ning doesn't want to speak so easily. Then I must insist you come with us so we can persuade you a little," Mallus said.
"I'm afraid I can't do that," Ning said. "Instead, how about you come with me?"
He teleported to Mallus and Gai, grabbed them, and teleported again.
It didn't even feel like they were teleported. In fact, all that changed for them was the location.
Suddenly, a large vortex of colorful lights engulfed them 3 and started to pull them on a downward spiral. The multitudes of lights in the vortex started making minor cuts on their body as well.
Ning and the others immediately put up a barrier of their own Qi to stop the outer Qi from attacking. Mallus's barrier was strong enough to block those attacks, but Ning's wasn't. While he stopped some, some still managed to enter.
Not only that, Ning immediately felt very cold, far beyond what could bother a cultivator.
He tried to move his arms, but the cold was making it hard to do. The large vortex was not only a vortex of Qi but a vortex of snow as well.
'So, this is what the northern pole of the planet looks like,' Ning thought.
Mallus and Gai were both beyond shocked. They tried to fly away, but the vortex kept on sucking them into the maelstrom below.
"Where are we? Where have we brought us?" Mallus shouted with a bloody face. In the fraction of a second when he didn't have the barrier up, the Qi around him had ripped away a lot of the outer skin. The same was the case for Gai who needed his protection.
"Haha, to your death," Ning shouted. The Qi was still cutting into his skin
Mallus immediately attacked Ning. He did not bother wasting any time dealing with him right now. A large yellow ball of energy left from his hands and escaped his barrier. However, the moment it left the barrier, it was completely destroyed by the ever-moving specs of Qi.
"What?" Mallus shouted in fear. He had never witnessed anything like that.
'Holy,' Ning thought. Even he was amazed at how terrifyingly strong the outer Qi was. And given the fact that his own Qi was continuously draining due to the barrier and he too was falling onto the maelstrom, he would no doubt have his body destroyed.
'Was the system wrong?' he wondered. That should have been impossible yet somehow he was the one taking damage, while the person he wanted hurt didn't take any.
'Something is wrong,' Ning thought. Mallus tried attacking a few more times but none of his attacks survived the bombardment of the Qi.
Suddenly, Ning felt himself falling faster. Not only was the vortex pulling them, but for some reason, gravity also increased all of a sudden.
It took them nearly 5 minutes of falling to reach the maelstrom deep in the planet, and there they disappeared.
Ning felt nauseous all of a sudden he felt gravity shift. He hadn't changed the direction at which he had moved and yet the gravity was on the opposite side of where he was going towards. Ning could feel himself slowing down a bit.
Then, the intense gravity disappeared. A burst of force pushed him up as he was send high in the sky and then, out of the colorful vortex of light.
Suddenly, his barrier disappeared. He fell from a massive height and landed into fluffy snow that killed his momentum.
THUD THUD
Two more sounds came not far from him as well. The snow wasn't as cold as before and Ning could finally move. He stood up and looked at Mallus and Gai who were standing up as well.
Mallus gritted his teeth knowing that Ning was the cause of what was happening to him right now. He immediately put his palms in front of him and shouted as he sent forth an attack, "Die."
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"Die," Mallus sent out an attack through his arms.
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"DIE," he tried once more.
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"What is happening?" he said in shock as he looked at his own hands. No matter how much he tried, His attacks weren't launching.
Ning was surprised and tried to feel his Qi as well. However, there was nothing. The feeling he got was the same as when he was just a normal person back on earth.
"What's…what's going on?" he couldn't understand either.
"What did you do you bastard?" Mallus tried to bring out a sword but not even his storage bags worked. Everything that required Qi to function, including divine sense didn't work anymore.
'Qi is not working for some reason, but that doesn't concern me,' Ning thought. He immediately jumped forth and landed right in front of Mallus.
Ning looked at him dead in the eyes and said, "Here I am. Come, kill me."
Mallus shook a little. It was hard to say whether that was because of the cold environment or his pure terror of Ning jump so far with just his body.
Either way, he couldn't stop the shaking.
"Yo— You, how do you still have your strength?" Mallus asked with a shaky voice.
"Hmm? Oh, you didn't know? I am a body cultivator too. My body is just that strong," Ning said with a smile. He then looked behind those two, at the massive crater that kept shooting out Qi and snow into the sky, making an aurora in the night sky.
"Why is there Qi there, and yet not here?" Ning asked out loud. "Senior Mallus, won't you go check that out for me?" he said.
"Why would I do anyt—" Ning suddenly grabbed him by the robes and threw him into the crater. The moment he entered, the Qi started cutting up his body. However, he also immediately set up a barrier to protect himself.
The burst of Qi reaching the sky once again threw him up and down onto the snow with a Thud.
Ning picked him up from the snow and looked at his more bloody face. "Can you use your Qi now?" he asked. Mallus seemed to be severely distraught and didn't answer at all.
"Sigh, I guess you will have to find out for me," Ning said and walked towards Gai.
"N— No, don't come towards me," he shouted. "Don't you dare come towards me."
Gai tried to escape, but he couldn't walk anymore. The cold was getting to him. He stumbled and fell back onto the snow. Ning went forward and grabbed him by the collars.
"Please, spare me," Gai tried to beg for mercy, but Ning didn't care about any of it. He simply tossed him into the crater.
The moment he entered, Gai immediately put up a barrier around him as well, however, similar to Ning's situation, the barrier wasn't able to protect him completely.
Multiple specs of Qi blasted through the barrier and started making multiple cuts on his face. However, unlike Ning, he couldn't heal as fast. He too was thrown back onto the snow, and he slowly started bleeding the snow red.
Mallus barely stood up and saw his disciple being treated like that. "You!" he shouted, but the cold was getting to him as well.
Ning walked up to Gai once more and took away his storage bags. "Better not waste this," he thought. "Oh, you're up," Ning said as he looked towards Mallus.
"Can you use your Qi now? No, right?" Ning asked.
"Put down my disciple," Mallus shouted.
"Hmm… Him? Nah," Ning said and tossed Gai behind him into the crater. This time, there was no barrier protecting him. So before his body could even be sent flying upward, it was shredded into millions of bloody pieces and the blood showered as frozen ice.
"Yikes, I didn't expect that to get so bloody," Ning said as he winced a little. He then walked towards Mallus. Mallus was getting scared now.
Ning once again took him by the collar and threw him into the crater. Mallus managed to save himself with a barrier, but it was slowly getting weak. His cultivation base was running dry.
In a few more turns, he could no longer have any Qi to use, and would thus die as well. Until that, Ning would keep throwing him in.
Again, and again, and again.
Each time he threw him in, Mallus's body would get a little more bloody due to the fraction of a second he didn't have his barrier up. With each time, the barrier started letting more and more Qi in.
Finally, he fainted. Ning realized that he could no longer survive like this, so he took away his storage bags and tossed his body into the crater.
Similar to Gai, he too turned into bloody mist within minutes that started raining down on the snow.
Ning stood there and looked at the crater. "Damn, what do I do now?" he thought. The crater did nothing but shoot everything up, and it felt very hard to survive in a place where the Qi shredded you to nothing in seconds.
"Damn, this is a problem," he thought. "In the first, why can't I use my Qi?"
He sighed once more. He turned around and finally looked away from the immediate scenery. Far away in the sky, he could see light coming from the sun as if it was about to come up at any moment.
"It was daytime just now, so does the sun not show up in the Northern Pole, or am I just on the wrong side?" he asked.
"Either way, I will need to get out of this place. Let's see… I should go to this place and I can take a carriage or something to see the path along the way to the Seven Lights city," Ning thought as he looked at the map of Planet Kumia.
"Alright system, Teleport here," Ning said.
Host cannot teleport to that spot
"Huh? What's wrong with this place?" Ning was confused. "Whatever, go to this place then," he said.
Host cannot teleport to that spot
"What the hell? What about this location then?" Ning asked.
Host cannot teleport to that spot
"What the F*ck is going on? Why can't I teleport there?" Ning asked in frustration.
Host can only teleport away from the planet after collecting energy that amounts to 10% of the planet's energy
"… huh?"
Ning tried to understand what the system meant. "Wait, why do you think I want to teleport out of the planet? I just want to go to this location," Ning said as he showed the spot on the map once again.
That location is out of this planet
"How can it b—" Ning suddenly stopped. He looked around. He remembered the maelstrom, the flipping of gravity he felt, and the lack of Qi in the area.
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "I— Is this… a different planet?"
Yes. You are now on the Northern Pole of the Planet Vilmore
"And this planet doesn't have any Qi?" Ning asked.
None
Ning was a little flabbergasted.. He couldn't believe that he was on another planet right now. "Wha— How— What?" he made nonsensical sounds as he tried to make sense of the situation.
"So, you are telling me… that that thingy at the bottom of the Northern Continent… a portal?" Ning asked.
The Maelstrom is a wormhole that connects Planet Kumia to Planet Vilmore
"A wormhole?" he finally got the answer. "Did that maelstrom create a wormhole?" he asked.
No. The wormhole created the Maelstrom
When the two planets came into contact through the wormhole, the Qi of Planet Kumia and the Aether of Planet Vilmore mixed together to amalgamate into the specs of light in the air
"Aether… is that another form of energy?" Ning asked.
Yes
"So… can I absorb it? Is it in the air around me?" Ning asked.
System suggests you buy information on Aether and Aether users to learn everything
"Oh, yeah sure. Also… give me the map of the planet at the same time," Ning said.
The system showed him a list of knowledge he could choose from. Ning decided to go with the intermediate version of all of them to save energy for now.
He immediately learned about them. The planet was a truly unique planet; the upper half of the planet, the northern hemisphere, was just a massive ocean.
The southern hemisphere was a single continent with no name to it. Ning was shocked when he realized that he was currently on the southern pole of the planet.
"Sigh, I need to acclimated to it before I can properly user Aether?" Ning said as he realized that he would have to go through the same thing he went through with getting acclimated to the Qi.
"How much energy to fully acclimate this body, right now?" Ning asked.
It will cost you 216,000,000,000 energy
"Yes, acclimation is good," Ning said.
He thought for a second and asked, "you said a cultivator can collect those right?" he pointed towards the crater that was spewing out a mixture of Qi and Aether into the air.
Yes. Your body will reject Aether and only collect Qi
"And I do not need anything special like a spiritual root to collect aether right?" Ning asked.
No
"Alright then, let's see if I can collect it then," Ning said and walked close to the crater. He had his arm stretched upfront just in case there were invisible blasts happening near the crater.
He looked at the barrier-like wall that was forming due to the blast of Qi being thrown upwards. Ning slowly put his hands inside it. The moment he did that, the Qi and Aether amalgamation started cutting his arm.
He was a body cultivator, so it didn't immediately shred it. However, if he kept it there, he would have lost his entire hand in less than 10 seconds.
He immediately pulled his arms out and watched it heal in front of his eyes. The wounds were many but tiny enough that his healing could easily fix it.
"Ow! I can't even keep in there for 10 seconds, how am I going to return?" Ning asked. He took out something from his storage and threw it into the crater. That too immediately got destroyed.
"What about the spear?" Ning thought and quickly brought out the blue spear he had with him. It was one of the strongest objects he had created and so he wondered if even it could be damaged.
He didn't want to throw it in completely, so he put the end of the spear to test it first. At first, it seemed like it was okay, but at some point, it started taking damage and in less than a minute, it was close to being completely gone.
"Sigh, not this too. System, fix it."
Blue light shined as the spear end regenerated and fixed the end of the stick. Suddenly, he had an idea.
"Wait, what if I jump in with something ridiculously tough, and continuously fix it with the system as I make my way through the maelstrom?" Ning wondered.
"I really just need to make something really small yet really durable. Hmm… I also need to move on my own against this upwards blast too.
"I guess I will have to collect a lot of energy then. Sigh, the next few days are going to be horrible," he thought as he looked at his healing hand.
He slammed the spear into the ground and jumped into it. At the same time, he also pulled in his body into his storage space.
"System, wake me up when my cap returns," he ordered.
Confirmed
The moment his consciousness slipped away from him, he woke up as well. It was like he never slept at all. "Ahh, I've missed doing this. Now that I can get the energy in a split second, I should be able to collect billions in less than 10 minutes," Ning thought and started to get excited.
He jumped out of the spear into his body and put his hand into the crater. The Qi-Aether specs hit his arms, but instead of damaging, they only gave him energy.
It didn't even take a split second for him to collect hundreds of millions of energy. "Wow, this is going to be quick. I should sleep again."
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Ning's consciousness had returned back to him. Instinctively, he sent out his body out of his storage and jumped into that body.
Then, he stood up and plunged his hands into the dangerous burst of Qi and Aether. Within seconds, he absorbed a lot of energy and took his arms back.
He was starting to get the timing right, so he was no longer getting injured when he plunged part of his arm in there. Once that was done, he jumped back into the spear.
'Urghh, it's getting way too boring. How many times have I done it by now? 20? 30? Can I not do this again?' Ning complained to himself.
'How much energy do I even have?' he wondered.
'Status'
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[Status
Name: Ning Ruogong
Energy: 12 Billion
Separated Energy- [A/N : I've decided to put words instead of 000s going forward. Hope you guys don't mind]
Heat Energy: 8.25 Billion
Sound Energy: 750 Million
Qi Energy: 0
Kinetic Energy: 3 Billion
Skills: Simultaneous Thinking, Omniscient Map of Kumia, Omniscient Klavian Language, Candle Fire, Yin to Heat conversion technique, Night Vision I, Interdimensional Storage (Stopped Time; 522 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, Intermediate Map of Vilmore]
'Woah, 12 Billion? Then that means I can— Oh, wait no. Right, I still need nearly 2 Billion in Heat energy,' Ning thought. 'Well, at least I don't have to worry about Kinetic energy for long.'
He would now have to continue doing the same thing for another dozen or more days.
He looked around him and saw that the bloody mess he had made had been buried under fresh snow. There was no sign that there was a massacre that took place in this place around…
'How long has it been?' Ning wondered. 'Hey system, when did I come to Vilmore?' he asked.
You arrived at Vilmore exactly 63 days and 21 minutes ago
'Two months huh? No wonder my energy increased by so much. Let's grind a little more,' he thought and asked the system to put him back to sleep.
The grind was boring, but he kept it up. Waking up, taking out the body, jumping into that body, plunging your arm into the deadly burst of Qi and Aether to get energy, jumping back into the spear, taking in the body, and then going back to sleep.
That was the routine Ning followed for as long as he could remember.
Finally, He stopped after many iterations.
Once he plunged his arms, he took it back out and checked the status. According to it, he had nearly 11 Billion Heat energy, 10 of which he could use to double the cap right now.
He didn't hesitate at all. 'Double it.'
Confirmed
Congratulations, You have bought all Heat Energy Cap Increments
As a reward, the system has awarded host with [Toggle -Low-Level Heat Ignorance]
You now have the ability to ignore 15% of Heat that you come across
You can improve this skill in the shop
Ning was a little surprised at the notifications he had just received. "Wait? I've bought all heat energy cap increment?" he asked as he read the notifications.
Yes. You can no longer increase your Energy cap through Heat Energy
"So… there is no more doubling with heat energy? Are 3 doubles the most?" Ning asked.
All normal forms of Energy get 3 chances to double your energy cap
You have reached the max number of Energy cap doubles with heat energy
"Damn, that sucks. The other energies are a little harder to come by than heat energy. Hmm… although… this new skill isn't bad," Ning thought as he checked the information of the [Low-Level Heat Ignorance] skill once more.
"If I can ignore 15% of all heat energy at all times, doesn't that mean I don't have to absorb 15% of the heat I come across? What's more, I can toggle it to not work too," Ning said as he rubbed his chin.
"Yes, let's try it."
Now that Ning had 160 Million energy before he could reach the Cap, he decided to try out his theory. He put the toggle on so that he ignored 15% of the heat energy that he would be feeling now.
He breathed in and plunged his hand back into the light. He waited for just long enough so that it was time and pulled his hands back. He then opened the status to calculate how much heat energy he got in comparison to before.
"Huh? Did I not hit the cap?" He thought when his calculations showed that he hadn't reached the 160 Million he had still left.
"Oh, wait. I really did ignore it. No wonder I didn't hit the cap," Ning thought. He put his hands back for a split second to hit the cap and then pulled it back.
He thought of restarting the routine once more but stopped. "Wait, I need to think of ways to get sound and kinetic energy. Heat is pretty much useless to me now," he thought.
"Once I get sound and kinetic's final cap increment too, the cap increments will stop there. At that point… I will need to unlock the next energy" Ning thought.
"System, can you tell me what the next energy is?" Ning asked.
System will reveal that information once you collected 1 Quadrillion Energy
"1 Qua— What the hell? Why would you require so much?" Ning asked.
That is one of the requirements to learn about the next energy
"Fine, whatever, do what you do. I will go back to following the routine. I need to leave this place fast. I— I have people I need to go back to," Ning said solemnly.
He wasted no more time and jumped back into the spear and took his body inside his storage. It was time to start the routine once more.
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Around 20 or so iterations later, Ning stopped once more. He was getting a little frustrated at this point. On one hand, doing the same thing over and over was very vexing and he was about 3 more iterations away from tearing this hair out because of the monotonousness of the task at hand.
On the other hand, even after 20 iterations, his Kinetic energy had only barely increased by less than 2 Billion energy, which was a far cry from the over 4 Billion energy he had got from Heat energy.
"Urghhh, I need to find another way. This is going to take too long," Ning complained, but there was no other way. He had to stick to it.
"Sigh, let me refresh my mind," he thought and sat down on the cold snow to clear his mind. He started to cultivate. Of course, there was no Qi there for him to cultivate his inner Qi, but there was Aether, and he was going to try cultivating that, however, that worked.
He recalled what he had learned about Aether a few hou— months earlier..
Aether was a liquid that one could keep in their body and use to conduct what the Aether users called Aether arts. They would have to burn the liquid and use what powers they got from it.
However, even though Aether was a liquid, finding it in the liquid form outside of one's body was damn near impossible. Only in rare places where the aether was concentrated at a very high amount would one be able to find liquid Aether.
Otherwise, most people used the aether that was in the air, or perhaps the rarer version, Aether ores. The aether in the air was very diluted, so most people stuck to aether ores that could be mined from Aether pits.
Even then, both air and ore were really just vessels for the tiny amount of Aether liquids.
"So, the Aether in this Qi and Aether amalgamation is liquid Aether?" Ning asked the system.
Yes
"I see, then I need increased acclimation rate for the Aether right?" Ning asked. "Give me the costs."
Here are the Acclimation rate for Aether
You can pay 266 Million Energy to speed up the process by 2 times
You can pay 1.064 Billion Energy to speed up the process by 4 times
You can pay 40.64 Billion Energy to speed up the process by 8 times
You can pay 216 Billion Energy to fully acclimate right now
"Get me the 4 times one," Ning said.
Confirmed
"So, I also have to get cultivation techniques and such right? Can't I get automatic ones that do it passively? Now that I think about it, I need those for Qi as well," Ning thought.
Automatic Cultivation techniques are available with the rate of auto collection
Please chose Aether per second you will want to collect
"Aether per second? What's the normal amount needed to go from… uh… Aether Starter to Aether Student?" Ning asked.
Aether Starter and Aether Student were the ranks that were given to Invokers and Enchanters based on how much Aether they could hold at once.
Invokers were ones that could use Aether to create stuff, while Enchanters were ones who could use Aether to control existing stuff. All people in Vilmore had the ability to use Aether, but, not all of them could use a lot of it due to the physical limitations as well as resources.
Aether Starter was the starting rank and everyone in this world was one. Aether student was the next rank after that. There were 11 ranks in total and the world's hierarchy was set with that.
You need 10 Million Aether to go from Aether Starter to Aether Student. The requirement to go up a rank will increase by 10 times for each rank
"Hmm… wait, do I technically count as an Aether Starter?" Ning asked.
No. You were not born in this world. You will need to intake Aether and store it into your body to become a starter
"Hmm, and I will require the Aether Cultivation method for that huh? So let's see… 10 days should be fine. Give me an automatic one that can collect 100,000 Aether in a day," Ning said.
It will cost you 12 Billion
"12 Billion for just 100,000 Aether in a day? Isn't this just robbery?" Ning was flabbergasted.
Automatic cultivation methods cost a lot
You can get better value if you buy ones that aren't automatic
"Sh*t, you're right. However, at least with automatic, I won't have to worry about finding different cultivation techniques. In fact, I should buy this for all. After I have the energy of course," Ning thought and decided to start the routine back up.
He disliked doing it a lot but he was determined to get both of the Automatic ones for Aether and Qi, so he ignored all thought and just followed the routine. He also toggled off the Heat ignorance skill so that he didn't have to worry about losing heat energy.
He got hurt a few times while going that due to not knowing how much he could go on with the
In the next 30 iterations, he had enough Heat energy to waste on Aether's cultivation method.
"Alright system, give me the Aether one first," Ning said.
Should the system use Heat Energy only?
"Yeah, that was why I waited all this time to begin with. In fact, only use Heat energy for everything if possible," Ning said.
Confirmed
Ning suddenly felt something change in his body. It was like a new stomach had appeared inside his guts and it was hungry as hell. So, it started sucking in as much food as it could find.
"I can feel it. It's… right next to the sea of Qi. Wow, is this what they call the Sea of Aether?" Ning wondered. While he couldn't see it, the feeling was the same as when he first formed his Sea of Qi.
"I guess… that makes me an Aether Starter now."
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