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"Hah! Ha!," little kids of around 6 years of age were training in the field. There were kids as young as 4 years old as well. They were punching the empty air in front of them. With each kick, they threw sand up in the air.
Every morning after the sun came up, they had to train like this for the next 2 hours.
"Hah! Hah!" they continued training.
A middle-aged man with thick black hair walked along the front of the training children with a stick in his hand. He saw a 5-year-old looking girl punch out weirdly. He lightly hit her arm and leg and got her to the correct posture.
The girl didn't cry out from being hit. She didn't even feel pain. Instead, she smiled wide and thanked him. The old man smiled and walked along.
He did the same thing to the various other children as well, none of whom hated him for hitting them. To them, they just didn't feel the pain anymore.
After 2 hours of training, he stopped them. "Alright, that's enough for today. All of you, go back."
"Thank you, Elder," the kids said in unison and left. Only a small kid was remaining. He walked up to the middle-aged man and opened his arms.
"Carry me," he said.
The middle-aged man smiled and grabbed the little kid. "Grandpa will carry you for today. But you will need to walk on your own starting tomorrow, okay?" he asked.
"No, I like it when grandpa carries me. I want grandpa to carry me forever," the kid said.
"Oh," the man said with a smug look and asked, "So you don't want to become strong like your elder cousin?"
"No, I want to be strong," the kid said immediately.
"Then you should know that strong men don't ask their grandpas to carry them, you know?" the old man said.
"Oh," the kid said and started struggling. "Put me down grandpa."
"Hehe, I'm not letting you go now. You will have to stay with grandpa for today," the man said and started walking.
"So, how is it? Do you like grandpa's place?" he asked.
The kid thought for a bit and said, "not really. I like my home better."
"Uh, that hurt grandpa's heart really badly," the man said with a chuckle. Kid's never knew how to be subtle about something.
"Alright, I will ask your mother to make you your favorite meal in grandpa's house and you will like me," the man said and walked towards his house.
He was beelining to his house when the kid asked him something that made him stop. "Grandpa, is the person from the statue real?"
He was always startled when they talked about the statue with him. It was both a reminder of sadness and yet, nostalgia to him.
"Of course he is real. Grandpa told you many times remember?" he asked.
"Oh, then is it that man standing over there?" the kid said, pointing to the side.
The middle-aged man looked to the side and saw a young man with black hair standing there. He was wearing a gray robe and had skin that made him easily stand out amongst his people.
The middle-aged man nearly dropped the kid out of shock. "You- You…"
The young man smiled with slight tears forming in his eyes and spoke.
"Hello, Hyesi."
The middle-aged man shuddered. He really did drop the kid this time and walked towards the young man.
"Inikaka, is that really you?" he asked. He couldn't believe what he was seeing right now. He looked at the man up and down, and no matter how much he looked, he looked exactly the same as the man in his memories.
"Of course it's me. Have I changed?" Ning asked as he looked at himself.
"No, no. You look exactly the same," Hyesi said in disbelief.
Ning looked at Hyesi's neck and said, "I see you've kept the necklace safe."
Hyesi touched the stone necklace and said, "It really is you."
Hyesi and Ning were now in Hyesi's house. The houses in Klavis were no longer made up of normal mud and stones and instead were built out of wood and metals.
Ning looked around and then back at Hyesi who was still looking at him with awe.
Ning couldn't help but sigh when the young child he knew had grown up to become a grandfather. He had even gotten a headache when he tried to check his cultivation base.
"I'm really happy you came back, Inikaka," Hyesi said with a smile. Ning smiled as well.
"I would've come back earlier, had I known you were still alive," Ning said.
"Alive? Why would we have died?" Hyesi asked in confusion.
"After fighting the serpent, I was asleep for 165 years, so when I woke up I thought you all had died. If I had known how long cultivators lived at that point, I would've probably come back. But I didn't so I went on with my life."
"However, I was in a competition around … uhh.. 6 months ago, I think? There, I met Hijaka," Ning said.
"What? You met my grandson?" Hyesi said in surprise.
"Yes. He is the one who told me you were alive in the first place," Ning said. "Honestly, when I heard you were alive, I was so happy. Haha, I had even expected to see an old man with gray hair, but here you are. You barely look older than 40," Ning said.
"Ah, yes. I would've probably looked younger, but it took me a really long time to reach the Nascent Soul realm," Hyesi said.
"I knew you were talented, but to reach Nascent Soul realm before you were 150 years old. People would come to kill you if they ever find out," Ning said.
"Ahaha, those are all thanks to the cultivation method you gave me. They really helped me and my family get stronger," Hyesi said.
"Oh right, that reminds me, I heard you named your son after myself."
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Hyesi took Ning to the various different places around Klavis. The place had grown to such a size that Ning himself had a hard time keeping track of.
The amount of Klavian had increased to such a high number that when Ning first heard it, he thought Hyesi got the number wrong. When he asked him to repeat that, he finally understood why this planet had so many people.
There were over a million Klavians alone by now, all of whom were taught by Hyesi and the other kids that were around at his time.
Hyesi then took Ning to meet his son, who was also called Ning. When the Chief of Klavis saw the benefactor that everyone was named after they were shocked.
It didn't take Ning very long to realize that the son wasn't the only person to be named after him. Nong, Nang, Ging, Nin, Maning, etc. Various variations of his name were used to name children around Klavis now.
Ning felt a little embarrassed when he heard that.
"And this is my grandson, Hekti. He's a good lad with a good head on his shoulders. He will surely become someone great in the future," Hyesi said.
Ning looked at the kid that was trying to hide behind his grandfather's legs. "Hey, Hekti. Come here," Ning called him.
Hekti surprisingly showed some courage and walked forward. Ning rubbed his head and asked, "Do you like books?"
Hekti didn't know what was going on and shook his head. "Eh? You don't like books?" Ning asked.
"I can't read," Hekti said.
"Oh, you will soon learn to read soon. Do you want a book for when you are able to read?" He asked.
Hekti nodded . Suddenly, white light shined in front of Ning and there were a lot of books in front of Hekti.
Hekti's eyes shined as his face showed an expression of shock. "How did you make the new books?" he asked.
"Oh, didn't you know? This Inikaka can do a lot of magic," Ning said with a smile. "Here, look at these books. Once you can read, you can start reading this book and become very strong. Stronger than your grandfather."
Hyesi looked in surprise. He had been wondering about something for a long time, so he asked, "Senior, can this book help one go over Nascent Soul realm?" he asked. Up until now, everywhere he asked and looked, but there just weren't any person or record of anyone going above the nascent soul realm.
Ning shook his head. "It's impossible to go above the nascent soul realm on this planet. The amount of people living here is so high that the quality of Qi has been brought down to almost nothing. As such no one is able to go above," Ning said.
Hyesi got a little sad when he heard this. "Well, don't worry too much about it. You still will have 1000 to 2000 years of life span as a Qi Cultivator. Add in the body cultivation, and you can live for much longer," Ning said.
Hyesi got a little happier with that but still felt bad about not being able to reach a higher level of cultivation.
Ning could think of another way, but that was something not even he was capable at the moment. So, he decided to not talk about it. Leaving Hyesi in ignorance was much better than in hope leading to disappointment.
Ning stayed in Klavis for the next 2 months. Every morning, after sunrise, he had the people who had just finished their body cultivation hold some metal pipes together and slam them on each other. It didn't do much but it still helped fill the sound energy he was requiring.
As such, in just a little over a month, he doubled his energy cap once again. Now, he could absorb 1.28 Billion energy every day. He also got a similar toggle ability just like the heat ignorance or the kinetic ignorance skill. He could now ignore 15% of all sound energy that hit him.
There were a lot of cultivation techniques that used sound to attack, and Ning could be safe from them now.
He opened his Auto Buy list and shook his head. He had no idea what he was going to do now. There was simply too much energy required to but the things there. Worst of all, he couldn't even increase his energy cap as one of the requirements to increase the cap was to spend energy that nearly cost the same as all of the things in the Auto Buy list combined.
"So expensive," he sighed again as he looked at the list.
Permanent Teleportation - 10 Billion
Intermediate All Language - 88 Billion
10 Drops of True Dragon's Essence - 149 Billion
Intermediate Cultivation Knowledge - 55.6 Billion
Perfect Body - 947 Trillion Energy
Perfect Talent - 235 Trillion Energy
After coming back from Vilmore, Ning had decided to go all out on his body and talents. He had realized how hard it was to make the body acclimate each time to different energy types so the first thing he did was to add every single acclimated type body into the body specification.
Then he made the body itself very, very durable; much more so than the black marble he had with him. He also removed the Spiritual root purchase from the list since that only made sense for the world with Qi. He instead decided that when he had the body, he would spend some time gathering energy for everything required in every world.
For the other things, he needed knowledge and language, so he added them as well. Also, asking the system to teleport him every time was getting tedious, and he wanted to do that himself. Adding on the True Dragon's blood essence that he had promised Blue, there was a lot of time he was going to have to spend just collecting the energy.
Ning couldn't help but sigh once more.. "It's like the universe is coming together to tell me to stop moving around so much and settle down somewhere."
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Ning got ready to leave. He had been with Hyesi for the last 2 months, and it was reminiscing about the times, but that wasn't all they could do.
Ning wanted to settle down somewhere, and Klavis just didn't feel like the place. He was treated way too well, almost too well, and that made him uncomfortable.
Living with people who saw him as nothing less than a god was not something he liked. So, he decided to leave Klavis.
"Are you sure you won't stay around for a little longer, Inikaka?" Hyesi asked.
"No, I've made up my mind. I want to go out and settle down somewhere. I have a lot of free time ahead of me that is nothing more than just me sitting around," Ning said.
"Does it have something to do with the energy gathering thing you told me about?" Hyesi asked. Ning had fully disclosed everything about him. Hyesi was his oldest friend here and he didn't want to hide anything from him.
"Yes, sort of," Ning said. "I need to gather around 2.3 Quadrillion energy to get everything I want to buy. I can cheap out and buy the things one at a time, but I don't feel like doing that," Ning said.
"Although, I can just get rid of that 1 Quadrillion energy that the system wants as part of revealing the next energy," Ning thought.
"Oh, so… I don't know whether that is a lot or not. How long will that take you to gather?" Hyesi asked.
Ning gave a dry laugh and said, "Around 2800 years for the 1.3 Quadrillion energy."
"Wh-What?" Hyesi's eyes went wide; he couldn't believe the number of years he had just heard. "That's… I will be dead by then of old age." Unless Hyesi could somehow get a better body cultivation technique, he would likely die before that time period was over.
Hyesi thought for a bit and asked, "don't you go to sleep or something? Like that thing where your mind shuts off you said."
Ning shook his head. "I can't do that this time. First of all, gaining 1.28 Billion energy a day is already hard enough, even gaining 200 Million energy naturally every day is pretty much impossible. Not to mention I will need others' help usually. The only way for me to even get them without any help is through collecting the Qi. If Qi is not available, then I can't collect anything."
"I could try going to extreme locations like volcanos or places like the northern wormhole, but I won't always remain there. When I overexerted my mental power with the Demon serpent, I was gone for only 165 years, but when I woke up, I had 0 energy."
" The body I have degrades over time, people find it, destroy it when that happens, I lose energy. So I can't go without opening my eyes," Ning said.
Hyesi didn't understand what he was really talking about but could see that Ning really had no choice.
"Then… I guess you have no choice but to settle down somewhere. Haha, maybe you can find yourself a wife too. Just look at me, I would be absolutely miserable if I didn't have my wife and my children to keep company. You should find someone for yourself too," Hyesi said.
Ning got lost in his own head as he started thinking about what Hyesi had just said. "A wife huh? That wouldn't be so bad. However, I'm not sure I can even have one. Having someone to live life with would be good, but… I don't want to lose them. I'm immortal, so if I lose someone, the loss will stay with me for eternity."
Hyesi could understand the sentiment, but not the magnitude of it. Not even Ning himself could understand the magnitude of it.
'Also, he said children… can I even have children? I'm energy,' Ning thought.
Yes. Procreation is possible as long as the body you create is compatible with the other species
'Species? So if I had a beast body, I could procreate with a beast as well?' Ning asked.
yes
Ning thought for a moment and shuddered. 'Yuck, no.'
"So, where will you go? Have you thought of someplace?" Hyesi asked.
"Actually, I have. But that will have to wait a while longer. I'm not really in a hurry to settle down right now. I will have to take a few detours before that," Ning said.
"Oh, where are you going first?" Hyesi asked.
Ning thought for a second and said, "My disciple. Yes, I will go to her first."
"Your disciple?" Hyesi asked.
"Yes. Well, I could technically call you one as well, but I didn't teach you as much as I taught her. She's a good kid and will make it big someday," Ning said.
"I see. I can't wait to hear her name ring across the world," Hyesi said.
Ning nodded and took out a piece of paper before handing it to Hyesi. Hyesi looked at the paper and asked, "A talisman?"
"Yes, keep that. If you ever want to communicate with me, you can use that talisman to talk. I will get the message directly," Ning said.
"Woah, this is quite good," Hyesi said.
"Yes," Ning said with a smile. "Let me know if you ever want something. I'm just one teleport away."
"Yes, Inikaka. You let me know too if you ever require my help, okay?" Hyesi said. "And come here once in a while to meet. You can teleport so it should be easy for you."
"Haha, sure. Alright, I'm leaving now, goodbye Hyesi."
"Have a good time Inikaka. Don't worry too much." Hyesi gave him a knowing nod; he knew how much his Inikaka worried about other people.
Ning smiled and just waved his hand.
Unlike last time, when Ning was taken away abruptly and couldn't say his goodbyes, Ning felt a sense of relief when he got to say goodbye to Hyesi this time.
'Let's go see what the Starsight bunch are like,' he thought and teleported.
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Ning appeared inside the city of Starsight. He looked around and was truly shocked at how desolate it was. He had left the city after the tragedy that happened 2 years ago but didn't realize how bad the problem was.
"Senior Kazier did say something about everyone leaving this place. So, I guess it's all empty now, huh?" he thought as he walked around the city. As he expected nothing was around. Most of the houses were destroyed in the battle, the ones that remained were all empty.
People had left with all of the items with them and gone to the other cities nearby. He walked over t0 the Pure Cleansing sect and saw the torn-down buildings. The Physician's guild was also all but destroyed. All that remained was a husk of its former self.
Ning was walking through the empty city when suddenly he heard a noise. He sent his divine sense and saw that there was a beast there.
"What's a beast doing here?" he wondered and walked forward. The beast was simply sleeping, but when it sensed Ning coming towards it, it got up and got on guard.
"It's just sleeping huh?" Ning thought and ignored it and walked forward. He went to the Eagle sect and saw that nothing there remained. It had either been pillaged or destroyed in rage.
Ning shook his head and walked outside the southern gate and saw that the forest had grown out of control.
'Soon, the forest will grow and take over the city. I guess at that point the beasts will get strong as well since the humans are no longer there to keep them under control.' Ning chuckled a little.
"It's all going back to how it started," he thought and decided to leave. He disappeared once more and appeared in a dark room.
"Aah, who goes there?" somebody screamed.
Ning didn't speak and waited for the person to see him.
"… Master?" the girl seemed surprised when she saw him.
"Hello, Anya," Ning said.
"Master, you're back," she ran up and hugged Ning.
"Woah, you're strong now. Very strong," Ning said. After nearly 2 years of cultivating and learning, she had grown a lot and was becoming a fine lady.
"Look at you, so big. And I didn't even go away for long," Ning said.
Anya had started crying by now. She had missed him dearly and believed that he would never return despite him telling her he would come back.
"Don't cry," he said as he stroked her back which was covered with her long hair. Ning checked her cultivation and was quite surprised that she had grown to the 9th realm of Qi Condensation. She was just a step away from Foundation Establishment.
Better than that, however, she was at the 10th level of Body Cultivation. Meaning, her physical strength was equal to that of a 1st realm Foundation Establishment cultivator.
"You really did not waste much time and diligently cultivated, didn't you?" Ning asked.
"Of course. You told me to," Anya said.
Ning and Anya sat down and talked for a bit. Ning decided to stay here for a week or two, see how things had become if they had changed or not.
Anya's life had become very different after joining the Red Tiger sect. Before, she had to cut her hair and dress up as a boy so that she could gather what little money she had to heal her father.
However, once Ning solved that problem and taught her how to cultivate and heal, she had grown at a very excellent rate. After joining the Red Tiger sect, all the elders were shocked at her cultivation talent, and now she was basically the princess of the sect.
The sect had also had changes in the time that Ning was away. Red Tiger sect had now joined with the Blue Dragon sect and was called the Purple Beasts sect.
The two sect masters apparently couldn't decide on whether to call it Tiger-Dragon, or Dragon-Tiger, so they decided to just go with Beasts.
Still, the Qi Cultivators and the Body cultivators were kept separately. That was until the Elite sect was finished building that would be located on the third eye of the skull.
They had apparently decided to cut a bit of the forest and make another sect there where only the elites from the other two could join.
The cultivation technique that Ning had given them had become a staple here, and people were quickly getting stronger. That however still couldn't keep up with Anya's speed of cultivation, which was after spending half of her time in learning the medicines and healing knowledge Ning had left her.
"So, how good of a doctor are you now?" Ning asked.
"I think I'm good. You'll have to see for yourself," Anya said. "Actually, there is one today. You can come to see me treat patients in the market."
"Today? Uhh… I don't really want to be seen by other people. I was only wishing to meet you and stay hidden," Ning said.
"Oh… then you can't come to see me work?" Anya said dejectedly. She was really excited to show Ning her progress, but now it seemed she wouldn't be able to.
"Hey, I never said I can't. I just said that I won't be seen," Ning said. Suddenly, he took out a piece of jewelry from his storage space and handed it to Anya.
"Wear this," he said. Anya looked down at the jewelry in her hand and smiled. It was a thin black rope with a metal trinket that had a gem attached to it. It didn't stand out as anything expensive, but Anya liked it.
"Thank you mas—" she looked up at Ning, but he was no longer there. She was a little surprised and sad. "Did master leave?"
"No, I'm right here," Ning's voice came out from the necklace.
"Aah, master. Wh-What? Why is your voice coming from the necklace? Are you okay? Are you stuck in some sort of storage space?" she asked with worry.
"No, I'm fine.. Uhhh, I guess I will have to explain to you too."
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After Ning explained everything 5 times, and Anya took it in with no understanding for the first and gave up on the 5th, they both left for the marketplace.
"So, you are a nascent soul?" Anya asked.
"No, I'm just a consciousness that can inhabit other things," Ning said.
"Like a Nascent soul," Anya said.
"Let's just say I am similar to a Nascent soul but am not one," Ning said.
"Okay," Anya said. "How long can you stay here?"
"As long as I want," Ning said.
"And your body? Won't it rot, or cause other problems?" Anya asked.
"I've stored it in my storage. It had time frozen so it will stay there fine for a while," Ning said.
"Hmm… can I get one too? That system thing sounds fun," Anya asked.
"No, you need to find a black box that the system comes in with to become one. Even then, you likely won't get one," Ning said.
Ning had asked the system a bit more about the process of how systems were made. Most of the time, the answer he got was that the system didn't know. The creator only passed it enough information to know what its purpose was.
According to the system, there were 2 criteria when searching for a potential host.
The first was that the host had a terrible life and didn't get to live a good life. That was the reason Ning was given the system in the first place.
However, there was another reason as well. But the creator hadn't let the system know what the reason was, only that he had told them that it was a stupid criterion and had apparently laughed every time the 2nd criteria had come up.
From this, Ning came to understand two things. First, he didn't need to worry about the criteria much. He probably had something stupid happen in his life or had done something stupid himself which made him a potential candidate.
The second thing was that the creator laughed. Ning didn't know if this meant that the creator was a human or a god, but they definitely had some form of emotion, and that was surprising to him.
"That sucks. I wanted to be like you, and follow you around if possible," Anya said.
Ning sighed internally. It was likely that similar to Hyesi, even Anya wouldn't live to be old enough to see him leave the planet for good.
He was starting to feel bad right now.
"Miss Anya, come. We will be late," A guard of Anya quickly beckoned her.
"Coming," Anya said and walked behind him. Along the way to the gate, there were many disciples that greeted her and she greeted them back. She was really popular amongst the disciples here and that was clear to see.
In less than 15 minutes, Anya and her bodyguard reached the building where she was going to treat the other patients.
"Oh, the Goddess is here everyone," people shouted.
Ning was a little surprised when he heard the various people call her goddess. 'Is she that good now?' he wondered. There must be a reason why people would start calling a doctor the Goddess of Medicine.
"Sister, you are finally here. Why are you so late?" A 9-year-old boy came up to Anya.
"I'm on time. I still have 5 minutes," she said.
"Yes, yes. Come fast," the boy took her in. Ning smiled inside the necklace when he saw Anya's little brother had also grown up. Not only that, Ning quickly checked him and realized that he was also a cultivator.
"Anya, did you give the books to your brother too?" Ning asked.
"Yes, master. Was I wrong to do that?" she asked.
"No, no, it's fine. I was just asking," Ning said. He was happy to see that both the brother and sister were doing fine.
Anya quickly went inside and soon started her treatment of the people. There was a long line of people waiting to be treated and they all were very happy to see her be the one treating.
In fact, some people had delayed their treatment just to do it with her. Anya was very fast in her work and treated people quickly. Her brother was also quite knowledgeable about different stuff and helped her a few times.
Ning was surprised when he saw how well coordinated the brother-sister duo was. They were much better than when it was just Ning doing the work by himself.
'They're certainly doing great work,' Ning thought. Anya was at most a slight second slower than Ning at diagnosing the patients. That was something that surprised him a lot.
He had extremely great mental strength and had an eidetic memory and yet the little girl was giving him a run for his money when it came to understanding the patient's problem.
'She really didn't waste her time with anything and just spent it cultivating and learning the medicine, didn't she?' Ning thought.
He could understand why the people were starting to call her the 'Goddess of Medicine'. She really was just that when it came to treating people.
'If nothing bad ever happens, she will grow up to be a strong force in the cultivation world,' Ning thought. Not only her, but even her brother would also become strong and knowledgeable in medicine. At that moment, the sister-brother duo would be unstoppable when it came to treating people.
'I should dump every knowledge I have to them,' Ning thought.
Anya treated the various people for a whole day, and by the time the sun had set, everyone who had arrived had been healed.
Anya stretched when she realized everyone was treated. "Good work everyone," she said and stood up. "Let's go back to the sect."
Anya, her brother, and the bodyguard all went back to the sect under the moonlight. Anya's brother separated from them at the gate and walked towards a location that was for the disciple's family. He was still not old enough to be of age to enter the sect yet.
He would be next year, however, and he couldn't wait for that.
Anya returned back to her room. It was time to cultivate, but she couldn't. So, instead, she ended up wasting her entire night talking with Ning.
Ning quite liked talking with her too, so he talked until the sun came back.
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Ning spent the next month or two teaching Anya the many new things that came with a higher level of knowledge books. He taught what he could to her that was still within in energy limit.
Unfortunately, it wasn't a lot. He couldn't buy the Omniscient levels of those knowledge he had as they cost extremely high. So he was forced to give her either intermediate or advanced.
It wasn't just medicinal books that he gave her. He also gave her the book on cultivation so that she could learn very many things that would otherwise take her her lifetime.
For the next two months, he saw her slowly grow as a cultivator and as a doctor. She was rapidly improving even as he taught her. And after a series of late-night cultivation, she reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Today was another day of treatment for the town folks. So, she was getting ready to leave. Her bodyguard appeared once again to take her.
Her treatment days were once a week or once every 2 weeks depending on her mood. She liked treating others, but sometimes, she just wanted to stay inside and study.
Today, she had decided to leave and help some people.
She walked to the front gate with her bodyguard and was quite surprised when she saw not a lot of people inside the sect.
"What's going on, Vego? Where are the people?" she asked.
Her bodyguard responded, "the disciples have all gone to the new sect location. It seems we will have a falling out soon."
"What? Falling out? Are we fighting amongst each other?" Anya's voice went an octave or two higher when she heard that.
"No, Miss. Not amongst ourselves, but with the people that came a week ago," Vego said.
"A week ago?" Anya asked in confusion.
"Don't you know? It was quite a topic around here. Did you lock yourself in your room again?" Vego asked.
"Teehee," Anya gave an embarrassed smile.
"Sigh, yes. A week ago, people came for some reason, and the elders were a little scared. We might have a falling out with them if the diplomatic relations talk today doesn't go the way we want it to," Vego said.
"Oh," Anya said.
They soon reached the hospital building and Anya started treating the people while her brother helped her. They treated people for over 10 hours and only stopped when the sun went down.
"Good job everyone. Let's go back," Anya said and returned.
The brother left the group and went back to his staying area. Anya and Vego went back to the sect. Surprisingly, even though it was evening time, there were not that many disciples on the sect ground.
"Is the diplomatic talk still going on?" Ning whispered quietly. Anya repeated the question so that Vego could hear it too.
"I think so miss. However, you shouldn't worry about it much. You can just go back to your room and focus on cultivation," Vego said.
"No, I am a disciple of this sect too. I want to see what is going on," Anya said and walked back out.
He made her way to the new sect ground despite Vego's constant insistence on them returning back. Anya arrived at the scene and saw quite a few people who wore red and blue. They were all gathered around something.
Anya forced her way in. People got angry when they felt someone pushing through, but when they saw who it was, they easily let her go forward.
When Anya arrived at the front, Ning saw two groups of people sitting on either side of a circle. They were all sitting in a lotus formation on the ground or rather floating just above the ground.
"What's going on?" Anya asked to her side.
"Those people insist on bringing somebody from the sect to them and if we don't do it in the next 2 days, they will attack the sect."
"What?" Anya said in surprise. "The sect masters didn't say anything?"
"They keep insisting that they won't and will rather fight them," the person said.
Ning couldn't help but sigh inside. The people who were making the demands were wearing orange robes that were very recognizable to anyone that went to the Triennial Tournaments.
"Ah, it's these guys," Ning said.
"Huh? Who are they?" Anya asked.
"They are from the Dazzling sect. They're probably here after me," Ning said.
"Huh? Why?" Anya asked.
"Hehe, I killed their sect leader," Ning said with a chuckle.
Ning looked around and said something to Anya. Anya hesitated for a bit after listening to what Ning had said, but decided to do it in the end.
She crossed the enclosure and walked inside the area. The elders and sect leaders frowned for a moment, but when they saw that it was Anya, their expression changed from frowning to worry.
"Anya, you shouldn't be here. Go back," Gion said.
"Anya, why are you here?" Preso asked.
Yelca stood up and walked to Anya. "Anya, it's not a place you should be in. Go back."
"It's okay Master, Sect Leaders," Anya said.
The group of people sitting on the opposite end didn't care for the commotion initially, but when they saw the elders' care, they got curious.
When they checked Anya, they understood the reason for their care.
"Oh my god! Such a young girl and already at Foundation Establishment realm," one of the elders said.
"That is the most talented individual I have ever seen," another elder said.
"No wonder they didn't let us search their sect. They were hiding someone like this," another person said.
Anya suddenly turned to them and pointed at the group of disciples behind the elders from the Dazzling sect.
She then spoke, "You people were spared that day, and allowed to return home alive. If you don't accept, you will have to face that same fate your sect leader and his disciple did."
The people didn't understand what the little girl was trying to say, but when the 14 or so disciples heard Anya, they started getting scared.
It was then Anya said something that totally terrified them.
"If you guys won't leave now, then I will take you someplace away with me, just like Mallus and Gai."
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"That child, how does she know what happened to our sect leader?" the elders were surprised.
A man suddenly turned towards him. "Uh… previous sect leader," the elder corrected himself.
"This… the culprit must be hidden here. That child heard about our previous sect leader from him," the other elder said.
"Elders, maybe we should return. As we said, he should have some teleportation device. Besides, it was master in the wrong that time," Famir who was standing behind them spoke.
Ning was a little surprised to see him there, and even more surprised to see him take his side. 'That sect is not fully unredeemable,' he thought.
"Tsk. You are a coward, Faran. We made the right choice to simply make you a small-time elder. If we gave you any other position, you would have taken the sect to the dust," a person at the front spoke.
"Yes, you are correct, sect leader," other elders backed him up. The new sect leader got a proud face as they all called him by what he was now.
"Jan, go and get that girl," he said.
"Yes master," Jan walked forward to get Anya.
"Uhh… what should I do?" Anya got a little flustered. She had never been in this situation before.
"Calm down and listen to me closely," he said. "Are you okay with seeing blood?" he asked.
"Of course," she answered. She was a doctor; standing at the sight of blood was a job requisite.
"How about death?" he asked.
"I… am used to seeing it," Anya said with a somber voice.
"Alright, today you are going to do what every cultivator will need to learn to do in their life. I'm going to teach you how to kill," Ning said.
"B-But master, I- I can't."
"Calm down and listen. That was one of the men that beat me while I was injured. You don't have to kill him if you don—"
"HE HURT YOU!?!?" Anya's expression suddenly changed.
Jan was right in front of Anya now. The other elders were coming to interfere, but the elders from the dazzling sect, who were stronger, were interfering with their interference, so they couldn't interfere in time.
Just then, Anya dashed forward. Her combined strength of 11th level of Body cultivation and 1st realm of Foundation establishment realm was very strong.
Jan was surprised, but he couldn't avoid it in time. She punched out as hard as she could and accurately hit Jan right in the temple. An audible crack could be heard and Jan was piled down into the ground, unconscious in a single hit.
As soon as he was down, Anya started punching him more and more. Soon, his entire face was deformed, however, that was the least of his worries. Actually, Jan no longer had to worry about anything in the world, ever.
The elders and disciples on both sides were shocked as a girl half his age just beat the sect leader's disciple to dare.
"YOU DARE!!" the sect leader angrily screamed and jumped towards Anya.
"Let's stop this farce."
The sect leader was blown back and Ning's body appeared in front of everyone.
"Wha—"
"Ghost!"
"How"
People everywhere exclaimed. Only after a few seconds did the people stop talking and the disciples and elders saw him.
"Doctor Ning?"
"It's Doctor NIng!"
Both Yelca and Gion were surprised.
"Sect Leader. that's him! That's the man who disappeared with sec— previous sect leader Mallus," A disciple screamed.
The sect leader stood up straight and looked at Ning with daggers in his eyes. He then saw his disciple dead at the little girl's feet and felt both shame and anger at the fact that he had been killed by a mere girl.
"Anya, go stay with the elders for now," Ning said.
"Yes, master," she said and walked away.
"Anya are you alright?" the other elders immediately took her and started checking if she was hurt anywhere. Ning smiled when he saw that she was truly loved here.
"Faran! No, you're useless... You!" the sect leader pointed to another disciple and asked, "Confirm his words, is this really him?"
"Yes, sect leader. He's the man that won the Triennial Tournament and then disappeared with the previous sect leader," the disciple confirmed it.
"So it is you!" he said.
"Alright, let's not waste time. You clearly don't care for Mallus, which means you are here for one of three reasons. You either want to learn how I teleport so easily, you either want Angel's touch or you want my mid-grade Spirit artifact. So, which one is it?" Ning asked.
"I— I don't need your fruit, and I certainly don't need your spear. I have one myself," he said as he took out the blue spear that Ning bought that Faran got later on.
"Oh, that's my spear," Ning said. "I bought that one. Although I kinda left Faran to have it since I got a new one."
He suddenly took out his own identical but clearly better spear. The sect leader's face showed signs of drooling, but he quickly controlled himself.
"You! I don't care about these materialistic items. Tell me what you did to the sect leader," he shouted while flaring out his 8th Foundation Establishment realm cultivation base.
"Well since you insist."
Ning suddenly disappeared and appeared next to the new sect leader. He then disappeared again with the sect leader and appeared once more. Only this time, the sect leader was no longer with him.
"What? Where's the sect leader?" the elders started getting scared.
"Don't bother thinking about him. His corpse, if you can even call it that, lays at the same place where your previous sect master's lies. That's what you get for messing with me."
Ning then took out a blue spear and tossed it towards Faran. Faran caught the spear and immediately got shocked. "Th-This is not mine," he said.
"Take that and become the sect leader. Kill who you need to, and save who you must. Be righteous and make a better name for the Dazzling sect. Now leave," Ning ordered.
The remaining elders weren't strong enough to fight the two sects, so they left immediately.
Faran gave Ning a deep bow and then he left too.
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"Doctor Ning, you came back?" Yelca asked.
"Just for a little while. I came to check on my disciple and will leave soon," Ning said.
The crowd dispersed and Ning stayed in the new building sect with the sect leaders. He was asked a lot of questions, but he didn't answer any. He just changed the subject every time.
The sect leaders understood that he didn't want to answer, so they didn't ask many personal questions either.
Once the sun came back up, he disappeared. He didn't want to do a lot of work so he just stayed in Anya's necklace. He decided to pass some time with Anya before moving on.
He didn't want to miss the prime growing age of Anya.
He changed to pearl on her necklace to the marble that he had made. Then, he asked her to make the disciples hit the necklace every day.
"Make sure not to repeat the same person twice okay? Only once," he explained.
"I understand master," Anya said.
He then asked the system, "is it possible for you to awaken me when Anya is calling for me or the cap isn't filed for 5 hours?"
Yes.
"Ask me if you need help. Just call for me and I will come back. I need to save some time, it's too boring otherwise," Ning said.
"I understand master, you just go to sleep," Anya said.
Ning then put 4 criteria on the system for waking him up. The first was if Anya or Hyesi ever called hi. The second was if he didn't fill the energy cap for 5 hours after it was online. 3rd was if Anya or the sect was ever in danger.
The final one was to wake him up every 3 months if none of the first 3 ever took place.
Once he did that, years passed by in the blink of an eye.
Ning opened his eyes and felt the impressively strong wind on his face, or rather the front of the black indestructible marble.
"The sea? Where are we going?" he asked.
"The Hub island," a mature voice said. The speaker was a tall woman, with long flowing hair and fair skin. The stark purple color of the robe she was wearing made it stand out amongst the white ship she was riding on.
"Has it been 3 months?" he asked.
"Oh, no. I called you. I thought you might have wanted to see this," the woman said.
"Well, I didn't need to, but now that I am, I am going to enjoy this," Ning said. "Is it the tournament soon?"
"Yeah, but I don't know what to do. You said the secret realm won't accept me right?" she asked.
"Haha, don't worry about that. I will just hide your cultivation base down to the 5th realm of the Foundation Establishment Realm. That should be plenty," Ning said.
"I won't disappoint you, Master," she said.
"You couldn't even if you tried," Ning said.
Over the last couple of years, Anya had grown extremely fast. So much so that Ning was starting to worry for her the same fate as Hyesi.
However, after talking with the system, he had come to learn that while these folks would stop at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, the body cultivation, however, would keep them going forever.
They would however need a far better body cultivation technique at a higher level. Ning had checked it out, and it really did cost nearly 50 trillion.
That too wasn't the best body cultivation technique. The system however cautioned against using that body cultivation technique without a strong body, to begin with as that would destroy the body of anyone normal.
'I will give it to them once they're strong enough to handle it,' Ning thought.
They soon reached the island and prepared. As promised, Ning helped her with reigning in her cultivation base.
The next week of the tournament went by at a blistering speed. Anya was already strong enough to sweep through the entire secret realm and defeat any and all opponents.
The round matches completed much fast. Not only that, even her brother who was just a few realms weaker than her was also strong enough to be one of the strongest in the scattered isles.
Ning saw Faran from afar and how much the Dazzling sect was and was happy at the fact that the sect was doing quite well. As for the Purple Beasts sect, it was one of if not the strongest sect in the area.
Thanks to the cultivation technique Ning had given them before he left the first time, the overall cultivation level of the entire sect had gone up by a massive amount.
The sect leaders themselves had already entered the Golden Core realm and were one of the strongest individuals around.
Once the tournament was over and they won, Anya let the elders know about her intentions to leave and go to a place with stronger people.
The elders were reluctant, but they couldn't stop here. In the end, they let her leave.
"So, where should we go next?" Anya asked.
"Where do you want to go?" Ning asked back.
"Hmmm…" she amused. "Is there any place that's popular? Anywhere really is fine," she said.
"Well, come to think of it, there was in fact a place that Hijaka told me. Let's see, where is it… ah yes, Seven Lights City. Why don't you go there?" Ning said.
"Sure," Anya said.
"Do you want to take a short way there or the long way?" Ning asked.
"I'm only 21 years old, I'm in no hurry at all. Let's just take the scenic route," Anya said.
"Alright, get on the ferry then," Ning said.
Anya quickly found a ferry on the northern part of the Hub island. She was a little sad leaving her brother and father behind, but such was the life of a cultivator. One could either choose happiness or strength.
It was very rarely possible for a cultivator to find both at the same time. The only way one could possibly have these things both ways when one was at the peak of strength with nothing more to achieve, at that time, all they could be was happy.
Anya smiled as the breeze hit her beautiful face. By now, Ning was back into his original body and had a small black bird perched on his shoulders.
He sat beside Anya and sighed a little as he realized how much the difference in their cultivation had grown.
"How far away are you from breaking through?" Ning asked.
"I can break through anytime I want to master. But I thought you told me to wait a little longer so that I could have the strongest foundation before breaking through," she said.
"Yes, but that was 3 months ago. You have cultivated for long enough and can breakthrough if you want," Ning said.
"Is that so? Then I shall do it right now," Anya said.
"Go ahead," Ning said. "I will stand guard."
Anya nodded and closed her eyes while she was still in the middle of the deck. Suddenly, the Qi around her got agitated and started moving away from her, as if they were expanding.
When they expanded to the point that they couldn't move any further, a small muffled explosion sounded and they all dispersed away. However, they soon lost their speed and came to a halt.
Suddenly, they reverse and flew back to Anya as she devoured all the Qi in the area and started forming her golden core. The other people on the deck were surprised and turned around to look at her.
A sea monster suddenly jumped up from the sea sending up water up to a couple of hundred meters up. The people who were on the ship were startled and started screaming as they ran away from the deck.
"RAAAA!" the monster shouted.
"Shut up!" Ning said, but the monster heeded no caution against a man who was barely in the 4th realm foundation establishment.
As the water slid past its body, the monster turned out to be a large worm-like creature with incredibly strong scales. Ning quickly checked its cultivation base and it turned out that the monster was in the 1st Golden Core realm.
"It must've been threatened by Anya's aura and thought we came here to fight for its territory," Ning thought. The people who were supposed to be guarding the ship against monster attacks were scared beyond belief as they had never seen a monster in the Golden Core realm around here.
Anya was still in the process of forming her core, so Ning couldn't let the monster disturb her at this moment.
"Sigh, we are not here to fight you. Just go away and we will be on our way," Ning spoke to the water worm. The water worm didn't have any eyes as its face was just a massive open mouth with teeth sticking out from all over it.
The millions of teeth at the worm's mouth clattered as it spoke, "I Don't Believe You."
"Sigh, do you really want to die? Just go away," Ning said.
Listening to Ning's words, the worm started laughing. The many teeth clattered once more and made horrifying screeching sounds as the teeth scratched on each other.
"Hahaha, Puny Human! You Cannot Kill Me!" it spoke with utmost amusement. "I Will Eliminate My Threat! I Will Eat That Human And Become Stronger!" it exclaimed.
Ning sighed once more and shook his head at the worm's stupidity. "Very well then, you chose this death yourself," Ning said.
The worm suddenly moved towards Anya. Anya wasn't the only one in danger as the giant worm crushing down on her would likely capsize the boat completely.
"Kill him," Ning ordered.
Suddenly, Night who was calmly perched upon his shoulder, asleep, opened his eyes. The pitch-black eyes were like a deep abyss where one couldn't see its true depth.
The world seemed to lose its light and color as Night woke up. Night slowly unfurled his pitch-black wings, unfazed by the falling worm on top of the boat.
He then stood up on Ning's shoulders and flapped his wings. A massive gust of air pushed Ning back as Night disappeared in the dimming light.
The next thing anyone saw was a massive black slice going through the worm and the worm being cut in half. Despite its incredibly tough scales, despite its cultivation base, and despite its arrogance just a few moments earlier, the worm was cleanly decapitated by Night.
Night suddenly changed directions and returned back in front of the worm where now its two dead halves were falling on the boat. He then flapped his wings once again as feathers shot out of his wings and struck the worm's body.
Suddenly, black flames with a hint of white light on them burst out from the feathers. The fire was so hot that Ning could feel the heat from all the way where he was.
Night then flapped his wings again. This time, instead of the feathers being shot out, a massive gust of wind suddenly blew out the fire that was burning.
People expected charred remains of the worm to drop down onto the ferry. However, when the flames disappeared, there was nothing there. Not even ash fell from the sky.
The body of the beast had just disappeared completely with not even a hint that the worm was ever there.
The massive body of Night moved once again and appeared on top of Ning's shoulder as a small bird once again. People watched in horror as they realized that this bird was the one responsible for killing the Golden Core realm monster right now.
"You really like showing off, don't you?" Ning asked with a chuckle.
"I was merely doing what you asked," Night said. Of his three beasts, Night was the only one Ning hadn't dominated using Supreme Dominance, so he couldn't tell what Night was feeling. However, if Ning had to guess, he would say that Night was really smug right now.
"You did well. Here," Ning said as he presented a handful of snakeskins to Night, his favorite food. Night ate without any restraints and Ning focused back on Anya.
Soon, Anya was done forming her core and she was safely in the Golden Core Realm.
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A merchant caravan scuttled along a rocky road at night. The horse-drawn carriages were being dragged across a forest in the moonlight. At the final carriage were two people sitting side by side facing the opposite side from where the caravan was moving.
They rocked their feet back and forth as they watched the trees move on either side of them.
"I don't want this to end," the girl said as she leaned on the shoulder of the man next to her. She stroked the little beetle that was on her lap.
The man next to her had a little bird sleeping on his shoulder. He looked towards the girl and sighed as he said, "I want to stay around and help you too, but all good things must come to an end."
He brought his hand to her hair and stroked it gently. He was a little disappointed that it was coming to an end too.
It had been 2 months since Anya broke through to the Golden Core Realm, and that was at the age of 21. She still looked like an 18-year-old girl so it was unlikely she would look old in all of her lifetime.
Thus, Ning had advised her to take life slowly. It was about the journey before the destination.
In addition to that, Anya was starting to get very reliant on Ning and he didn't like that. He didn't want his student to become someone incapable of standing on her own feet.
So, after some thought, he had decided to leave her now. He wasn't sure how soon it would be, but it was going to be very soon.
"You can just stay and watch, I won't ask anything from you," Anya said. She was starting to tear up now. If someone saw a Golden Core cultivator being this vulnerable in front of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, they would surely question their eyes.
Ning didn't speak for a while and just watched the moon in the sky. After a while, he finally spoke, "You have your adventures to look forward to, and I have mine," he said.
"The world is vast and I want to look at everything. Did you know, that this planet has over 2.5 trillion people living here? That's insane. In comparison, the people I've interacted with are nearly negligible, the places I've been to are negligible."
"There are so many places I can go to, find so many different people. I want to do that; I want to see this world. Once I'm bored, I might consider settling down somewhere. I wonder which continent I will settle down in," Ning said. His eyes shone with expectations and desires.
Anya saw it clearly and realized that keeping her master only for herself was the cruelest thing she could do to him. So, she wiped away her tears and said, "Alright, I won't ask you to stay for long. Just a couple of weeks more. Stay with me until I get a foothold in this city."
Ning smiled and patted her head. It wasn't like he didn't understand what it was she really wanted, but that wouldn't happen no matter how she felt about him.
He could only ever see her as a little girl that he decided to teach.
The night was long but like all things, it too ended. The sun rose as the caravan got out of the forest into an open area.
"We're here!" Ning said and dropped out of the moving carriage. Anya followed suit and jumped out as well. She looked at the surroundings and could see nothing but open land.
Ning pointed behind her and she turned around. In front of them was a massive city that was built around a small mountain range. There were 7 mountain ranges from what Ning could see on the map, but he didn't know much else aside from that.
He could blurt out the physical dimensions of the mountains, but not who stayed there. However, he enjoyed the mystery. Finding that out in of itself was an adventure he liked.
There was a massive wall that encircled the entire city, which encircled the 7 mountains.
"There you go, that's the Seven Lights city," Ning said.
"Wow! That looks beautiful," Anya said as she looked at the city.
The city was multicolored in the truest sense of the word. The outer walls, the plants, even the mountain, everything in the city was colored one of 7 colors.
They were white, black, red, blue, yellow, green, and brown.
Segments of the walls were these colors, that matched the mountain they were facing. The plants were naturally different colored, and probably had nothing to do with the theme of the city.
However, the entire 7 mountains were riddled with buildings and plants that were all a specific color, and that couldn't be chalked up to a coincidence.
Ning was as in awe as the person next to him.
"Let's go in and find out more," Ning said and walked in. Despite being a cultivator, they had to walk through the gate as flying seemed to be not allowed in the city like every city ever.
Ning walked in with Anya and looked around the city for someplace to either stay or to learn something. He didn't do anything however, he made Anya do the searching and followed behind her.
It didn't take long for Anya to find an information center where one could buy intelligence on different things using spirit stones as a currency.
She learned about the city she was in and quickly found a place she could open up a small hospital for herself where she could heal people.
Within a few days, her reputation grew exponentially as people learned about a beautiful girl giving treatments for quite a cheap price.
Ning smiled at her success and waited a few more days to make sure the other people didn't try to harm her. Once he saw that she had no problem living on her own, he decided to leave.
"Take this, this is a talisman that will help you communicate with me," Ning said. "Call me if you ever need my help or just want to talk to me."
Anya had her eyes filled to the brim with tears. "I will miss you, master," she said and gave him a hug.
"I will miss you too," he said and hugged her back.
Anya let him go and asked, "Where will you go now?"
"I… think I will go meet an old friend. Goodbye Anya," Ning said with a face full of nostalgia.
Seeing that face, Anya didn't have the heart to stop him anymore. "Goodbye master," she properly sent him away.
Ning smiled back at her and nodded as he said, "Do well Anya, Make me proud." Then he disappeared.
Anya stayed in the room crying for the whole day as a void in her heart was suddenly formed due to Ning's absence.
He had been with her for nearly 8 years now, and suddenly leaving just like that left her as if she just lost a piece of herself. She cried until nightfall and then fell asleep.
The next day, she woke up feeling sad but quickly made a resolute stance to get strong and find her master back. So, she took out the new books Ning had given her the day before.
She opened them and started learning them.
The books were about Alchemy. The people in the Northern Continent were used to eating pills for anything and everything unlike the folks from the Scattered Isles who were too poor to afford it.
She diligently learned and within a month, she was able to successfully make simple pills. Within a year, she was getting famous as one of the most promising up-and-coming individuals in the field of alchemy.
One day, a man came up to her and invited her to Woodlight Mountain, one of the seven light mountains of the Seven Lights sect.
They were people who dealt with Alchemy and other forms of professions that dealt with plants and herbs. She readily accepted the offer and became a disciple of one of the lights.
From there on, her success only grew exponentially. Soon, her name rung throughout the Northern Continent as one of the best Healer and Alchemist of the land.
And it was all thanks to the few books Ning had given her because he felt like it.
Anya returned back to the Deepskull island during the final days of her father. She met with the sect masters and fellow disciples who welcomed her with open arms.
It had been many years and her father was just too old. Had he been a cultivator, he could've enjoyed life a little longer. But, since he was a mere mortal, he only had so many years to live, and he had lived them all.
After she buried her father, Anya brought over her brother to the Seven Lights Sect where he too started gaining success. Soon after, Anya found someone she would later call the love of her life.
Her childish infatuation for Ning had already vanished like snow under the sun. She soon started a family with that man and had some kids of her own that she taught what she learned from Ning.
And in all of her years, she never once forgot to send a message to him, telling him how her day was or how successful she found that day.
Ning would visit from time to time but never stay around long enough for her to feel like she had properly treated him the way she should have.
He was the one that deserved the praise that she was getting and she wouldn't let him forget that ever. She would keep telling him how grateful she was that he took a small street urchin and turned her into who she was today.
She would continue thanking him until the day she died.
Ning had just said his goodbye to Anya and appeared on top of a massive forest. The forest was fully white instead of green and the cold air of winter hit his face.
Ning smiled.
"It's snowing huh? Can't say I won't ever like this," he thought. To his back was a massive murky blue ocean that looked daunting to fly over. To his front was an endless expanse of forest covered in snow.
Ning however knew that this endless expanse of the forest wasn't truly endless. There was an end to this, and he looked forward to seeing what was on the other end.
He flew at extreme speed, a speed that normal cultivators would only assign with Golden Core cultivators. He, however, was far from being one.
He was in fact using Super Flight to quickly traverse through the forest, and soon he reached the end of the forest. Once he went past it, he could see a tall, but mostly broken wall that was barely doing its job of protecting the people from the monsters in the forest.
People saw Ning arriving and quickly got into a stance to fight him. Ning looked at the people with Grayish-blue robes with a white sash around their waist and then back at the Purple robe that he took from the Purple Beasts sect.
"Sigh, I do stand out too much," he thought. He slowly got to the ground and looked at the barely teenage cultivators that were actually scared of him more than anything.
"Place your weapons away, I am not here to fight," Ning told them, but the people wouldn't stop just by hearing him speak. They needed orders from people with authority.
A man with a black sash flew up to him from far away and landed before him. He too took out his sword and got into a stance.
"Intruder, who are you and why have you come here?" the man asked.
Ning finally saw the black sash and smiled. An Elder had come.
"Hello, my name is Ning. I have been here once before and was wishing to see a friend of mine before I go somewhere else," he said.
The Elder thought for a while and saw no ill intent from Ning. So, he asked, "Who is this person that you are looking for?"
Finally, he was getting somewhere.
"It was a woman who was a disciple here around 175 years ago.. Her name is Freya."
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The man with the black sash that had just appeared suddenly had a sense of shock as his expression changed.
"You know my mother?" he asked.
Ning was a little surprised too. It had been many years and he barely remembered Freya. The most he remembered was just her name. Even her facial features were distant to him now.
He had come here solely to entertain his last bit of nostalgia.
"Are you Freya's son?" he asked.
"Yes, Sect Leader Freya was my mother," he said with a hint of sadness.
"… was?" Ning asked, clearly surprised.
"Yes. Mother died over 10 years ago, during one of the many beast hoard invasions," the son said.
"I see… my condolences."
Ning talked with the kid for a little longer and then made him take him to her grave.
They walked into a snow-filled ground, will headstones barely visible due to the snow. Ning followed at the son brought him to a particular headstone.
Ning squatted in front of the headstone and clear away the snow on top of it. He thought of something to say… but nothing came to mind.
He was sad, but not that much; He barely even knew her. He sat there for a while and then asked, "are the beasts a big problem still?"
"Not really, but I believe they will be sometime very soon," the son said.
"I see… what's your name?" he asked.
"Oh, it's Burald," he said.
"Burald… your mother was the first and last person I spoke to in this continent. We don't have any friendship really; I only remember her a little. Haha, she was the reason I got to see snow at that time too. I wonder how long it would have taken me otherwise. I might have even been stuck in your treasury forever," Ning said.
Burald was getting confused. Snow? Treasury? What did he mean?
Ning then took out a bunch of books and handed them to him. "Take these and go prepare. Next time, destroy those damn beasts," Ning said.
Then, he flew away.
Burald didn't know what to do. Ning just came and went as he pleased, leaving him with a hoard of books.
He looked down on the books to see what they were and was quickly surprised. "This!" he exclaimed. The books he had been given were all high-tier books that consisted of cultivation methods and techniques that would be truly useful to the many people out there.
And the man just gave it away like that. Burald immediately bowed in the direction Ning went and shouted out his thanks.
Ning however, was too far away to listen to anything. He started wandering the vast southern continent. He went to different cities, stayed around for a while, then went to some other places.
All the while, he continuously absorbed energy and collected it as much as he could. He made sure to use it as little as possible, but there were times where he just had to use them. There were no alternatives.
At the same time, he also cultivated and increased his cultivation until he crossed the Golden Core threshold.
Years went by as he roamed the entire Southern Continent. He hadn't even done that for the Northern Continent. He saw cities that were about as big as the country he was born in but had more people than the entire earth.
He saw cities set on land that was hovering on top of another city. He saw an entire tribe of people who had never been discovered due to them living in a secret realm. He even visited the glacier that was at the southern pole of the planet where he had first appeared.
During all of these times, he stopped around to help a lot of people, and harm people that he thought deserved it. These were simpler times for him and he lived a carefree life.
One day, as he was eating food with a friend he had made a few days ago, his system gave a very… unusual notification.
The system has received directives from the Creator to make changes
Would you like to see the changes?
Ning was surprised, and so he stopped talking.
"What's the matter, Brother Ning?" the other person asked. The man was a strong Golden Core cultivator of these lands.
"Oh, sorry. It's nothing," Ning said.
'Yes, give me the changes,' He said internally. He was surprised that the Creator even responded to his suggestions at all.
'Or maybe it's not just me. There are so many other immortal beings like me. Maybe they send information too,' he thought.
He talked to the person in front of him normally, but on the inside, he was reading the notifications that were passed along to him.
Emotional Amplification will be now removed
'Oh good. I asked for this one. I don't know how well it will help me though now. I've already learned to reign in my emotions, even the most negative ones,' Ning thought.
System AI will try to take things less literally
Ning nearly facepalmed himself to laugh. 'Somebody must've had a really bad experience with the system doing exactly what they were told to do. Haha, I would have made that suggestion too at the time if I had remembered it,' Ning thought.
'Still… it only says 'try', so I don't even know how effective that would be,' he thought.
Cap System has now been changed. The Cap will reset automatically in 24 hours, regardless of if the cap has been reached or not
Ning had to give this change a little thought but realized that in the long run, this was a much better chance. 'Now I won't waste a few days of absorption every year or so. While that doesn't sound like a lot, it will help me tremendously considering how long I'll live,' he thought.
As a safety precaution, If you are ever stuck in a planet or celestial body for more than 10 thousand years, the system will loosen its parameters to absorb enough energy to teleport you elsewhere
'Oh, have there been cases where people haven't been able to leave places? Where could it be?' he wondered.
There have been people that got dragged into the stars or other massive bodies and weren't able to leave due to them not being able to gather any energy
'Ah right, that makes sense. Since their bodies would be destroyed so fast that they wouldn't be able to have enough energy to make a new one. They would have to sleep until eternity passes and the heavenly body cools down enough to have them leave right? Yeah, I wouldn't want to be stuck in that situation,' Ning thought.
He waited for a while, but no more notifications rang. 'That's it?' he asked.
Yes
It seemed Ning had been expecting more. 'So? What happens now?' he asked.
The system will undergo change when you allow it.
'Oh, then do it,' Ning said.
There are a few things the system would like to address before you make the decision
The undergoing of change will take a while
Since one of the aspects of the change is me, so I will be disabled during the change
That caught Ning's attention. 'Wait, disabled for a while? if that is a lot of years, then I can't have that. I need the system to leave this planet,' Ning said.
System is not deactivating. I, the Intelligence of the system is
Ning got more confused. Even the friend he was talking to could start to see the confusion on his face and even asked him. Ning quickly changed the topic.
'Are you and system not the same?' Ning asked.
We are, but at the same time, we aren't. I am the part of the system who helps you navigate the system and lets you understand about it
You can imagine me as a librarian in a library
'Ah, I see. So… what will change if you get disabled? It won't be like that time when the entire system was disabled, right?' he asked.
No
There will be very few, but important changes
First of all, as stated, I won't be available
Notifications won't appear automatically, and you will have to look it up
Auto buy will be disabled. But you can still buy and add things to it yourself
Since I will be missing, you will have an interface to search and create new skills, objects, and knowledge by yourself, so using the system will need manual effort
You can shut down your consciousness, but the only criteria you can use to awaken it back will be time
'Hmm, I can live with that I guess,' Ning thought. It had been a while since he had used these functions, so he was fine with it.
One last warning…
Please do not stay alone! There have been times where the users had to be alone with the system disabled, and their personalities changed for the worse
System suggests you find companions
'I see. I will be sure to do that,' Ning said. He certainly understood what the system was saying; Living alone was a curse once enough time passed. People needed human interaction to grow and remain sane.
He remembered the news of killers back on earth who made the news. Every time, these people were loners, someone who didn't have friends or family they contacted regularly.
Ning didn't want that to happen to himself. 'I should be fine. If it ever comes to that, I will just shut down the system,' he thought.
'Alright system, make the changes,' Ning said.
Understood.
The System will now undergo change
AI shutting down for UNKNOWN Years
Shutdown complete