Chapter 287: Wang Xiong’s Duel?
About five days later, Shirong and Lin Wu had crossed over the border of the Ling Kingdom officially and were now in a new region. Officially it was under the administration of the Tielao Kingdom, but because it was heavily inhabited by beasts it was left alone.
But since there were beasts here, Shirong did not let go of them. Killing the beasts allowed him to restore the spirit Qi that he depleted and even making a little profit on top too.
With this new addition, Shirong had a great time and Lin Wu was also steadily expanding his collection of raw bloodline data. Though these beasts were mostly Qi refining realm beasts with a couple of core condensation realm ones mixed in between.
The ratio was about 1:1000 so it was still hard for him to get a bloodline that may be useful in the future. After a few days of travel like this, Lin Wu decided to return to his main body and leave this one to function on its own.
He still set a few alarms so that the system could inform him when certain unexpected conditions arose that could not be dealt with normally.
Back in the new body, Lin Wu opened his eyes and checked the progress.
~Ding~
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HOST CULTIVATION: Infant stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [12,750/1,500,000] units (liquid spirit qi)
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“Damn… gaining spirit Qi even with a top grade cultivation technique is hard. Adding the two other ones that I need to practice also makes it slower…” Lin Wu muttered to himself, feeling a bit bored.
But he knew that this pave was still much faster than the others.
“Let’s get some routine tasks done then…” Lin Wu muttered to himself before contacting his servants for daily reports.
Most of the things were normal in the Millennium forest and his servants were still continuing their search for the items Lin Wu had asked for. The first shipment of fruits that they had found were also going to be shipped to him today.
The mole beast had required a few beasts who were going to bring the fruits to the entrance of the tomb and leave it there. They were warned not to get near the tomb all their life and thus were still scared to see it.
Thankfully, they were not asked to step into the boundary of it and thus were still willing to do tasks. In exchange, they were getting to stay near the fifth ring allowing them to absorb more spirit Qi from the air.
“I haven’t spoken to Wang Xiong for a while now either, I should try him.” Lin Wu said before contacting him through the jade slip.
“Senior?” Wang Xiong answered after a few seconds.
“How are things going there?” Lin Wu questioned.
“Umm… we had some trouble at the sect.” Wang Xiong answered.
“Oh? What kind of trouble?” Lin Wu asked.
“Upon arriving we went to report to the mission hall and told them about our success. While we were able to register out mission details, the rewards we got were minuscule since we did not hunt as many beasts as we were supposed to.” Wang Xiong replied.
Lin Wu nodded his head as he knew this was the original mission that Wang Xiong and his team had used as an excuse to come to the Millennium forest. Since they had spent most of their time in getting to the Tomb of the Taiji celestial and then returning back, they had not obtained enough beast materials.
In truth, Wang Xiong could have very easily hunted a lot of beasts with his newfound skills, but he was fixated on Lin Wu’s mission that he had given him. Also, hearing the story of Taiji Celestial had ignited a flame of purpose in his mind.
He now thought that these sect merits and rewards were useless in the long term. Instead of the sect’s approval, he needed to grow stronger himself and then help Lin Wu form an organization in this world.
“While the sect itself didn’t say anything about our low yield, our fellow disciples did not leave this chance to insult us. A few of those we already had disagreements with in the past and they did not leave this chance to mock us further.
Things got escalated and they threatened the rest of my companions. With that said and done, I could not stand back and challenged them to a duel.” Wang Xiong explained.
“So… you now have a few cultivators to kill, that should be easy.” Lin Wu said.
Wang Xiong went silent upon hearing Lin Wu’s words. Or rather the ease with which he had said them.
~Sigh~
“Do not forget your identity now. You are the disciple of the Taiji Celestial! Those maggots should be happy that they are getting to die by your hand.” Lin Wu said in a booming voice.
Wang Xiong who was sitting in his room at this moment, almost fell back due to the power in that voice.
~huu~
“Forgive me, senior! I forgot that things have changed now, I was still stuck in my old ways. I shouldn’t let the honor of master be solid in this way. I swear I shall let his name thunder across this world again!” Wang Xiong said with determination.
“Very well! Now get to it. Use the inheritance well and you shouldn’t have any problem defeating them. Besides, you are already at the peak of the core condensation realm. What kind of cultivators can even threaten you at this point?” Lin Wu replied.
“Ah, they are at the Nascent Soul realm.” Wang Xiong answered.
Lin Wu: ….
“Say what?” Lin Wu asked for clarity.
“They are at the Nascent Soul realm.” Wang Xiong repeated.
“How did you get in conflict with a Nascent Soul realm cultivator? Aren’t you all inner court disciples?” Lin Wu couldn’t help but question.
“Well, I am an inner court disciple but they are core disciples.” Wang Xiong replied.
