Yang Xiao thought about confronting those people who came for tax from the village. But he stopped that thought immediately, he had read countless novels in his previous lifes, he would use the tragic experiences of the mc’s in those novels to learn and avoid future trouble.

He could already predict that if he beat up those people, stronger ones would soon come at that point he would be forced to run away. This would lead to his village being punished or wiped out and him having to go on a path of revenge.

On that path of revenge he would end up offending more and more people till he eventually would be fighting the immortal emperor, if he even survived that long. Instead of needlessly offending people it was better to find a way for the village to earn money and teach the young ones how to cultivate.

With that thought he waited till the tax people left, and walked towards the village after that. When he entered the village the villagers looked disheartened, they were unsure if they could survive the winter.

But their faces showed hope when they saw Yang Xiao, they hoped he would come with good news. Some villagers asked him how it went and if the sect accepted him, but he simply told them that he had good and bad news and he would tell them later in detail.

He had already made up his mind on what to tell the villagers. He was rejected by the sect but on his way back to the village he found a mysterious cave and inherited the techniques of a powerful cultivator. Normally the villagers wouldn’t believe him but when they see how much his cultivation progressed they would start to believe him.

With this thought he quickly walked towards his parents house. His parents names where Yang Tao and Li Yaoye, they were just some ordinary villagers that had their own farm so they were among the wealthy people in the village.

When his mother saw him she immediately greeted him „Yang Xiao you are finally home, quickly come inside and tell us how it went“

He could easily tell that his mother was excited, in her eyes he was extremely talented so he would definitely be accepted, she never even thought that her son could fail. Yang Xiao went inside and greeted his dad before sitting down and telling the story that he made up to convince his parents and the villagers.

„mom, dad first i have to tell you that i wasn’t accepted.“his parents were shocked when they heard that, his mom was even on the brink of tears. She couldn’t believe that her son had failed, and she was also worried about the future. She still felt confident earlier, but now? Without the support of the sect how would they survive this winter if they barely had any money left.

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Yang xiao immediately noticed the change in his parents expression and that they were in a bad mood and he quickly started to explain.

„Don’t worry even tho i wasn’t accepted in the sect i had a really lucky encounter on my way here. I found a mysterious cave and it turned out to be the inheritance of an ancient cultivator that lived thousands of years ago.

My cultivation has thanks to that already reached the 4th stage of the qi gathering realm. With the help of that inheritance i can definitely protect this city.“

His parents looked at him suspiciously, they weren’t cultivators so they couldn’t tell at what stage his cultivation was. But they had the feeling he looked more powerful, and they also knew their son wouldn’t lie to them.

„is what you said true?“ asked his mom.

He nodded and then explained of his intentions of wanting to help hunting and to help the children in the village to learn cultivating.

His parents finally accepted that he was speaking the truth and ran out to inform the other villagers. Soon the entire village knew that Yang Xiao had obtained the inheritance of an ancient cultivator.

Yang Xiao smiled, of course he didn’t actually find an inheritance, but with the system he was confident in being able to help this village rise. If he couldn’t even help a single village then he wasn’t worthy of obtaining the system.

He went to the hunters of the village and took a map from them. The map was from the forest, Yang Xiao wanted to hunt a few low level Spiritual beasts. Spiritual beasts had also cultivation stages, the once he wanted to hunt were the spiritual beasts at the qi gathering stage.

The meat of spiritual beasts had the effect that it would be able to fill the stomach better. If you ate normal meat you might have to eat again after a few hours, but if you ate the meat of a spiritual beast then not eating for a few days would be easy.

Those beasts were to strong for the villagers, but Yang Xiao was confident that he could hunt them as long he didn’t encounter a beast at the peak at the qi gathering realm.

Body cultivation and qi cultivation complimented each other cultivators who cultivated both would be far stronger then normal cultivators. While cultivators eho cultivated soul cultivation, body cultivation and qi cultivation were basically unrivaled within the same realm.

Of course Yang Xiao wouldn’t be so unlucky to encounter a beast that was such a genius. The spiritual beasts were usually only body cultivators and only a few unique races were an exception.

So as someone who cultivated both he had an huge advantage. Not to mention that his cultivation technique was a wood type technique, wood type techniques were famous for their fast recovery. If he couldn’t defeat the enemy immediately then he would stall for time and use his fast recovery to tire the enemy out.

With those thoughts he entered the forest, ready to fight his first spiritual beast. He was confident in himself but he still had never fought a spiritual beast so he had to be careful still. He was wandering through the forest, walking towards the danger zone that was marked on the villagers map.