Plop!
The beast core entered Ying's mouth like a rancid gummy bear, but instead of dissolving on his tongue like any other delectable candy would, it simply rolled off of it and stread down his throat!
Ying choked.
To his dismay and discomfort, the thing turned out to be anything BUT candy! It wasn't even edible!
"Sweet mother of...cough cough....ah, Vincent you...cough... idiot. The thing was...cough... brown for god's sake, brown! You should...cough... know better than trusting things that are brown! ...cough cough."
Ying reprimanded himself for putting his faith in such a... Brown object.
Luckily, he'd managed to spit the thing out in ti, just before it could reach his windpipe and actually kill him...
After a few more seconds of dry coughing, Ying finally managed to relieve himself, and then he profusely cursed at the inanimate thing before returning to what he was previously doing.
'Cough! I wonder if this is what the system ans by Qi diums... It could be. After all, these things are usually known to be filled with energy from the dead victim.' Ying fiddled the marble like object, before coming to a decision...
...For the second ti.
"Huuuu..." Taking a deep breath, Ying allowed the information of the to refresh itself in his mind. Thanks to the system, it was quite easy.
Fortunately, the Qi Absorption thod didn't require him to be in a lotus position, all he had to do this ti was breathe.
And that's precisely what he did.
Taking steady and simple but rhythmic breaths, Ying perford the technique. The thod varied slightly from that of his other Qi Gathering skill, but they were essentially the sa at their core.
Soon, he began to feel tingly but relaxing sensations run through his body. It was quite comfortable and extrely soothing. So much so that Ying could even feel the stinging pain of his broken nose slowly dissipate, alongside all the other bruises and injuries he sustained.
The experience was euphoric, but not really in the way one would expect.
It wasn't a profound, heaven-defying feeling like what it was depicted to be. It was soothing, that much was a given, but not in any way insightful or philosophical...
If he had to describe it, it was like sitting in a futuristic massage chair that seamlessly forced all of his senses into a deeply relaxing slumber.
Every once in a while, the clerk would raise the level by a factor of ten, arousing a number of mild goosebumps, before lowering it back to its previous index.
Ying reckoned the extra 'stimulation' to be the aftermath of the Qi flowing into his body as he would feel his Qi experience rise a little each ti it occurred.
The young cultivator wanted to try and figure out what made this skill so much different and, overall, better than the other one, but he couldn't. His mind was too busy being lted after all.
The ordeal continued for about three more minutes, before coming to a sudden halt. Ying was montarily startled.
"Huh? W-what happened?" He asked no one in particular, and unexpectedly, an answer did not co.
He allowed his gaze to venture towards the beast core, which remained in his palm as it supplied him with the Qi which he used to cultivate.
But soon, he discovered that the object had seemingly lost its vitality as it no longer glowed like an effervescent lightbulb. No, It had been reduced to rely a perfectly round piece of glassy brown stone.
'Did this happen because I absorbed all of its Qi?' Ying wondered.
Ding!
[You have achieved the requirents for a breakthrough!]
[Congratulations, player 'Ying!' you have broken through!]
[You have assimilated 500Qi!]
[Your power grows!]
Ying went wide-eyed at the ssages before him. He noticed that the leading ssage had gone from 'Cultivated enough Qi' to 'Achieved the requirents', but such trifling detail was no match for his excitent. In a hurry, he pulled up his status window.
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A strange on follows you.
You are a very unlucky mortal with the absolute unheard of worst talent for cultivation, you will later on beco the victim of countless failures and most likely eventually quit after accepting his fate. My evaluation is to give up while you still can.
]
When Ying saw the new stat indexes as well as his Cultivation level and Base, he was imdiately thrust into the throes of excitent.
'Yes... yes, Yes! HAHAHAHA!' Ying yelled within him as a broad smile appeared on his face. For him, it was as though each ti he made so sort of accomplishnt, he was proving the accursed system wrong once again.
Sothing he was always happy to do.
He also felt considerably stronger than his forr self. His muscles, bones and even his outer skin felt tougher and stronger than before, he delighted in flexing his wrist every now and then.
'Hahaha! Just you wait world, I'll be on the big boards in no ti!' Ying's grin broadened, and his enthusiasm reached an all-ti high.
But as if to spite him, a massive 'DING!' suddenly erupted from the sky which was calm until now, and a World Announcent arrived... well, two actually.
[Congratulations! Player 'White' is the first to slay a Body Tempering stage—Fifth realm beast!]
[Congratulations! Player 'White' is the first to slay a Body Tempering stage—Sixth realm beast!]
"..."
Ying was speechless.
In such a short span of ti, a player had already managed to defeat a monster at the fifth realm of body tempering, as well as a beast one rank higher in quick succession, whereas he'd almost gotten eviscerated by a friggin second realm beast?!
Was that even possible? Perhaps it was a bug, a glitch of so sort? In any case, the incidence still served as a rather sadistic wakeup call...
He opened his mouth, attempting to comnt on the ssage which he'd just received, but no sound ca from it, as though he had temporarily beco a mute.
".....''
Ying suddenly felt embarrassed at his own accomplishnts and, in silence, rose from his perch, then picked up his not-so-ordinary sword.
He completely disregarded the euphoric feeling from earlier, not prying into it, and just decided to return to the city gates and sell his pathetic ga, maybe get so asly pocket change from it.
Taking a few strides in the direction from whence he ca, Ying was suddenly forced into a grinding halt by a loud scream coming from the west. Or in his case, the opposite direction.
"KYAAAA!!"
It was a girl's scream and a really terrified one at that...
Ying cast his gaze westward, specifically the point where the shriek ca from. It was no longer a secret as the birds were already frantically rushing away from whatever was going on, but he didn't say anything.
"...!!"
For nearly a full minute, Ying quietly stared, all the while maintaining a blank expression, it seed he was deeply contemplating his next course of action–
"Nope, none of my business, soone else will handle that."
Then, without so much as a second glance, he nonchalantly turned away and started walking back to the city.
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