Yang xiao was walking towards his village, he knew the villagers would be disappointed if they found out what happened. He wasn’t the original yang xiao but he had inherited all of yang xiaos memories, it would be a lie if he said he didn’t care about this villagers.
After all no matter how much he didn’t want it to be true he knew that a part of him was yang xiao. He had inherited all of his memories meaning yang xiao would life on within him. From now on yang xiao and paul would be the same person.
He didn’t know if anything else changed about him, it was to early to tell. But it was likely that his personality had changed without him noticing, after all absorbing an entire life time of memories would change everyone. But this was something he had to accept.
But there was one thing Yang Xiao wanted to do before he reached the village. The cultivation technique he received was both for qi cultivation and body cultivation. He was at the second stage of the qi gathering realm but he had never cultivated his body.
He wanted to enter the first level of body cultivation, he wanted to reach the first stage of the body strengthening realm. That was why he took a detour on the way to the village. He wanted to enter the forest that was near the village, since his cultivation technique was a wood type technique it would be more effective if he used it in a forest.
He stood in front of the forest and looked at it with complex feelings. In his last life he had died in a forest, he knew that it was unlikely that anything would happen to him if he entered this forest. From his new memories he knew that dangerous beasts could only be found deeper in this forest. He should be fine as long he didn’t go to deep.
But it was still difficult for him to get rid of the feeling of being scared. He definitely didn’t want to experience what happened to him in his last life. His only comfort was, that in this life he had the cheat of tasting bad. No beast would be willing to eat him, so he should be save.
With those thoughts he entered the forest and started looking for a cave to cultivate. He knew he should be relatively save but he still wanted to make sure that no one would disturb him. After 30 minutes of searching he found a small cave that he could use and he entered it and started cultivating.
9 days passed and he was surprised about his cultivation speed. He had already entered the first stage of the body strengthening realm. But because his cultivation technique cultivates qi and body he also entered the third stage of the qi gathering realm.
That surprised him, his knowledge of this worlds cultivation was still limited, but he assumed that yang xiao had actually been a really talented cultivator before he took over his body. It wad just a shame that hw never managed to show his potential because he had only a incomplete technique and he died before he could show his potential.
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Yang xiao decided to cultivate for another month, after that he would visit the village. He knew that hanging around the village would slow down his cultivation. But he had already taken over yang xiaos body the least he could do was help out his family and make sure they life a better life.
But he also knew that he couldn’t just life in seclusion. He had to find a way to obtain titles. He didn’t have that many ideas on how to obtain a title yet. But he did have an idea for a possible Title. In the Games of his previous life titles like monster slayer, demon slayer and such existed.
He felt that if he killed enough beasts then he would be able to obtain a title similar to that. The village had existed for multiple generations, they definitely would have a map of the danger zones in the forest. He would first cultivate in seclusion and then enter the forest to hunt down beasts once he felt strong enough.
A month passed and he had spent this entire month in seclusion. The only times he stopped cultivating was to eat or drink or if he had to visit the toilet. His cultivation progressed a lot in that time he reached the 4th stage of the qi gathering realm and the 3rd stage of the body strengthening realm.
He noticed that the cultivation speed seemed to slow down after reaching the 3rd stage. He was barely able to reach the 4th stage in the qi gathering realm in that month. But he didn’t expect it to be easy anyway. He knew that the higher his cultivation was the longer it would take for him to progress.
Besides this was his cultivation speed in the outer part of tje forest the deeper he went into the forest the faster he would be able to cultivate because the wood qi would get denser. So he decided to definitely make the deepest part of the forest his home after he had the strength..
Still his strength had increased extremely, of he met the robber now the robber wouldn’t even be able to fight back. But he didn’t care about that robber much anymore, if he met him he would definitely beat him up. Bur he wouldn’t go out searching for him. Not to mention he didn’t even see the face of the robber, he had better things to do then go on a path of revenge.
If he wasted time hunting a robber instead of cultivating then he would just hurt himself. He wanted to become strong as quickly as possible, he had played games before and he also knew how system works from novels. If he wanted to obtain more titles he had to get stronger first.
After staying in the forest for over a monhe finally decided to travel to his village. After not hearing from him for that long the villagers were probably worried. Soon after walking for a while he could see a village, he immediately recognized it from his memories. That was yang xiaos home, and his new home.
But something was wrong, he could see a few cultivators. Nothing special they were only at the qi gathering realm like he was to. He was worried for a second, but then he realized it was probably the tax people that came to receive the annual tax.
Yang Xiao knew this was bad, the villagers had already spent almost all their money on training a few youngsters to cultivate. It was in the hopes that one of them would enter a sect but none of them succeeded. With this if the village paid the taxes now they definitely wouldn’t have enough ressources to survive the winter. He had to find a solution to this problem and he had to find it quick.