There was a reason that Yang Xiao wanted to reach the foundation establishment realm that badly, and that was that he wanted to obtain face. As a qi gathering cultivator without background, no one would take him seriously and that was pretty bad.

But as a foundation establishment cultivator other cultivators had to take him seriously. Unless a gold core realm cultivator appeared he would be pretty save. And this was a small village area a gold core cultivator definitely wouldn’t come here. After all gold core cultivation was enough to become an elder in a small sect.

So that’s why foundation establishment cultivation was important. Since he was most likely to be troubled by foundation establishment cultivators, it was best to reach that realm as quickly as possible.

So after 2 more months he had finally a breakthrough, reaching the foundation establishment realm and the copper body realm. What greeted him first was the system notification.

„Slightly Better Beginner Cultivator

Reward: advanced wooden body technique, vigorous soul technique.“

Yang Xiao was slightly surprised he had actually obtained a soul cultivation technique. It wasn’t a very good soul cultivation technique from what he could tell but it was still amazing.

After all soul techniques were very important, having a soul technique was enough for small sects to start a war. He knew that after the information from the technique filled his mind. It didn’t just let him master the technique but it also gave him general knowledge about soul cultivation.

That’s why he knew know why some sects were fated to be forever small sects no matter how many talents they had. It all depends on if they had soul cultivation techniques or not.

After the gold core realm was the nascent soul realm and after the nascent soul realm was the soul combining realm. To have a chance to reach that realm both your nascent soul and your soul had to reach the strength of peak nascent soul realm. Meaning that without soul cultivation technique it was impossible to reach the soul combining realm.

So even if you were a genius that only appeared once every thousand years,you would still be stuck at the nascent soul realm if you were in a small sect.

After realizing that Yang Xiao felt really glad, even if he didn’t manage to find another soul cultivation technique after this, atleast he would still have a chance to reach the soul combining realm. He started to think carefully about his soul cultivation technique and realized it wasn’t as weak as he thought.

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Before he only noticed that the technique had no fighting potential, so he immediately thought it was weak. But it turned out this technique wasn’t for fighting but for healing. It was a technique of the life element, and it could help heal others and even treat soul injuries.

Not to mention because it was the life element his soul would recover faster then the souls of normal cultivators. It would also be very useful, because Yang Xiao had a high affinity with the element if life. Meaning progressing with this technique would be extremely smooth.

Yang Xiao started to become suspicious, why did the system give him so many techniques that strengthened the life force. He knew there was a difference between the element of life and wood. But would still carried a trace of the element of life and gave extremely strong life force.

He started to get annoyed when thinking about this. Wood and life were nice when you wanted to have a long lifespan and good recovery but it was inferior to other elements when it came to fighting.

He had read multiple novels, so he knew systems had a purpose. But what purpose had his system to give him life techniques. Especially that soul technique it was something that usually would be used by cultivators specialized in treating injuries of others. But he had clearly never expressed any form of interest to become that type of cultivator.

But he had still the feeling that the system was pushing him in that direction. Especially since he obtained the advanced wooden body technique, last time he had to draw lots for a new cultivation technique but this time the system just gave him the advanced version.

Of course it could just be the system being helpful, but Yang Xiao didn’t believe that a powerful entity like the system had no deeper meaning. Each of it’s actions were probably part of a deeper scheme that he couldn’t see yet. Only after becoming powerful enough would he have a chance to uncover the truth.

He wasn’t kidding when he said that wood wasn’t a good element for offense. If he had cultivated lightning instead all his attacks would be twice as strong. Or even more powerful, but he shouldn’t think to much about it.

Currently the system was his only hope to become a powerful existence. He knew that of he had reincarnated into this world without the system, then je would have to try to cultivate with an incomplete technique now. He probably would die before he even reached the foundation establishment realm.

So no matter what the system wanted he wouldn’t complain as long it didn’t hurt him. He even decided to see if the system would reward him if he followed the systems wishes. So if he started treating injuries now would the system reward him better then if he achieved something through fighting?

He seriously wanted to test this, his system didn’t talk outside of notifications. But he still wanted to discover it’s purpose, after all the more he knew about the system the easier it would be for him to obtain rewards.

The system had a deep scheme for him and similarly he planned to use the system. It just depended on who would in the end outsmart the other one. And since he had this theory it was time to test if the system really wanted him to become a doctor.