The sun went up and I knew that morning came. During the night I was meditating cultivating this new energy, qi, and I think I broke through to rank 3 of the warrior stage. Well, at least I think I did.
At first when I stopped my hold on the energy inside my body and gave it to rush inside my body I felt explosive power coming from where my dantian should be.
I kept cultivating and after 2 hours I had the same feeling of power, same thing happened 5 hours after. It seem to be getting longer time after time, or in other words I need more energy to breakthrough.
It's really like those stories and movies…
I was about to get up and explore the village for a bit when I noticed, why am I still in game?
Including all the hours I was playing from first starting the game to this morning, it should be around 12 hours. Looking at the ratio of one to 3 in real life it meant 4 hours passed. If not the game alert I made for dinner my mom or brothers should get me out of the pod. Can something really happened to the pod?
Sigh…
I can't really do much about it and worrying would not help.
That said I went out of the house and went to explore the village.
The village was stinking out of corpses, some were no buried yet and those who were, it was not in any way a propel burial.
I was aiming to walk to the village elder, ask him a bit more before going down to one of the city's when an old woman holding a big bowl of water crashed into me.
"Well, that’s a way to wake up. Here let me help you"
The woman caught my hand and got up. It looked like she were about to say something but as she saw who I was she immediately bowed and started to apologies.
???- "ahh, young hero I'm very sorry, please forgive me"
Leo- "its fine, it's actually quite nice that it woke me up. Please stop bowing it makes me uncomfortable."
I lied about the first part. After night of cultivating I could never feel better.
It seemed that my words worked as the woman stood normal and went to take the bowl back from the floor.
Leo- "anyway why were you running with water this early, and what is your name?
Zhu- "my name is Zhu and i am in charge in taking care of the injured, I was just about to bring them water…"
Injured? When I think of it I still have my swallow potion I could probably help a bit.
Leo- "Zhu, I come to get water with you, afterwards please show me where all the injured are, I think I may help.
I could see the hope on her face as she asked
Zhu- "Are you perhaps a doctor? Can you help us heal them?"
Leo- "no, I am not a doctor, but I can help you heal them."
Zhu- "ok I will trust you young hero."
We then went back to the river on the end of the village and back to when the injured were.
The place they used as a hospital was basically a house without anything in it but beds. Inside the house were 7 beds and I could see different people with different levels of injury's.
Aside from the people I could see a little girl, the little girl around the age of 7 were feeding one of the slightly less injured man.
Little girl- "who are you? Why are you here?"
Zhu looked at the girl with an angry look
Zhu- "I'm very sorry for the girl behavior, she doesn't know who you are"
Leo- "its fine, after what happened with the bandits I'm not surprised if she will be wary about strangers."
At first I thought she was some kind of helper to Zhu but she won't stay away from this man even after she was done feeding him.
Leo- "is this your father?" I asked the little girl, she nodded and went back to the sides of her father.
Leo- "Zhu, I can help you heal of them with a potion of mine."
Zhu- "do you mean exiler? No, we can't make you use that precious thing! After all you did fo-"
Leo-" no, it's fine. It's not a very important thing to me and I will only use few drops, more and it might kill them."
Zhu gave up and listened to my plane.
The plane was to mix a few drops of my superior swallow potion in the water she brought. 2 drop for each glass of water. It might not heal them completely and those who were crippled will still be, but at least they won't die.
We made the glasses of water and made each drink. It took around 10% of my potion.
Leo- "I will come later to check if it worked. It might not heal them completely but they will surely not die."
I went out in the way of the village elder house.
During my walk I could see some people looking at me, some with fear and some with recognition, recognition was something a witcher never got.
It's nice.
As said before the village was not big so I quickly got to the village elder house.
"Knock knock"
The door slowly opened and I could see the village elder
Village elder- "oh, young hero pleas come in"
We went in and i sat on the same chair form yesterday.
Village elder- "I will quickly make some tea and food"(srsly, xianxia novels have some connections to Britain.)
Leo- "no need I already eaten, and you know you can call me Leo right? There is no need to call me young hero"
Village elder- "how can I not? This is the least of the respect I could give you."
He came and sat in front of me
Village elder- "what did you come for today young hero?"
Leo- "actually, I have few more questions to ask."
Village elder- "go on then I will answer you to my capabilities."
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
Leo- "first, if you have a cultivation method why not let the people use it? They could surely fight with the bandits if they did."
Village elder- "could it be that you successfully cultivated from the technique I gave you?"
The village elder leaned a bit to me, it was if he was greedy for an answer.
Leo- " yes, I am not totally sure but I probably reached the warrior stage rank 3, why?"
The village elder eyes went open and he just looked at me without answering.
Leo- "is it that bad?"
He laughed in low voice which looked very creepy to me.
Leo- "is everything fine?"
Village elder- "yes! Yes! Come let me check your pulse!"
He took my hand and I could feel a small wave of energy entering it. Since it was weaker I could just reject it but I knew he had no reason to harm me…nor he could.
Village elder- "you are a genius! No! A monster!! Hahaha"
He started to laugh like a crazy man and my I had no idea why
Village elder- "you see, most people will not be able to cultivate, actually, it will be only 1 out of 10000 people. Then comes the matter of talent, with a better talent you would be able to cultivate faster, which means rise faster in ranks. But do you know that even for the geniuses from the big clan it will take a least a month to get to the third level of the warrior stage and this is with the help of precious exilres."
So this was good? Reaching only the third rank with so many stages beyond felt somewhat bad. If not for the power up which came with the ranks I would not see the point of cultivating that long.
Leo- "so the problem here is about talent? But you just checked my level, doesn't it mean you are a cultivator yourself?"
He stopped laughing and sighed but the smile was still on his face.
Village elder- "my days are gone, I only reached the warrior rank 2 and I can't seem to make a breakthrough. But you, you have unlimited potential!"
Leo- "ahem well to my second question. In case I go to a near city, do you know where and if I can exchange my gold coins for money? And any tips for what I should do after reaching the city."
Village elder- "yes, the closet city to here is green lotus city. Inside the city you could find a branch of the sleeping gaint auction house, they might exchange your coin and even identify it for you.
After you should go to the capital and join the annual tournament of the kingdom, a lot of clans will send their representive to check for new talents. With you talent I recommend you to stay in here until you reach seventh rank in the warrior stage only then you can be called safe"
Leo- "ok, I will take your advice in there and stay here for a bit."
Just as he was don’t speaking a woman rushed into the house looking for the village elder
??? "Old man! Old man! You have to come something wonderful happened."
Just as she got into the house she noticed Leo
Leo- "Zhou?"
She immediacy bowed and said
"Thank you young hero! Thanks for you now the injured are fully healed! I can't thank you more for using this magic exile for us!"
Village elder- "exiler?" he looked at me and had no idea what was going on?
We went to the house where the injured people were. On our way Zhu explained everything to the old man
Old man- " If only I had more to give you I would, trust me when I say that even our dead are thankful for you."
Leo- "there is no need to be that thankful, I only used a bit of my potion."
Old man- "even a bit of an exiler might worth more than a mountain of gold."
I just then understood that I underestimated this world worth of things, first I thought me reaching the third rank of the warrior stage was bad, then I just gave them a bit of the potion without thinking and it seems its worth a lot. I should be more careful when I get to one of the cities since not everyone will be like the people here.
We walked into the healing house and what I was seeing amazed me
Those 7 people who were just 1 hour ago sleeping on death door are now standing and walking without any difficulty! A guy whose left hand were cut did not regrow it, but new skin were already covering the wound.
This should not be swallow doing... I think?
By Zhu it seemed she ordered the 7 man to stay in beds for the time being… but they had no need for it.
And here it comes again…
???- "Zhu told us what you did, we can't thank you more! Everything you want and we have we will give you! I will even marry my daughter to you when she reach adulthood"
They all bowed to me like before. It surly getting awkward. The man who was talking was the father of the little girl from before… wait, when he said my daughter did he mean?
Leo- "like I said to Zhu and the old man there is no need to thank me since I only used few drops, and there is no need to marry your daughter to me… she should choose a man who truly love her when she grow up…"
This… engaging a little girl as a reward. This seriously never happened in any game I played. I know it must be a thing around here but still…
Leo- "actually I was not expecting this poti, ahem, exiler to work so greatly, it was supposed to only save you from death door. I truly don’t know what happened. If you want to thank me so just tell me your name.
Chao- " my name is Chao, and even if you didn’t know it will work so grealy you still help killing the bandits and saved our lives. You should not be ashamed of such deeds hahaha"
Ok….
Leo-" Leo " I said and shaked his hand. The little girl from before was hiding holding his legs the whole time.
Leo- "I will now go back to cultivating if you need anything just come and ask."
As I mentioned cultivating Chao looked at me then at the old man, the old man just nodded and he said nothing more. I then went away back to my house to cultivate.
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