= At The Inn =
After eating Luo Kai and Ken returned to their room. Luo Kai rented another room next to him to let Ken stay there at the moment. Luo Kai planned to let Ken practice cultivating to help him in his future hunt. As Ken would become his closest aid and it’s inevitable for him to witness some of his secret he also plan to place a [ Soul Mark ]* on Ken, in that way his secret would be save.
[ Soul Mark ]
A technique to make someone not disobey some specific order by the caster. Like not telling lies, obey every words, not leak secrets etc.
“Alpha, is there any entry level cultivation methods suitable for Ken? He’s an Asura so normal cultivation technique would not work on him.”
[ Searching for Asura Race Cultivation Method ]
[ Found 24,587 items ]
[ Filtering [ S ] and above Grade ]
[ Found 258 items ]
[ Filtering suitable for entry level ]
[ Found 3 foundation level items ]
[ [ S- ] Prime Blood Hell Technique ] 15,000pts
[ [ S+ ] Vengeful Asura Scripture ] 17,500pts
[ [ SS+ ] Mysterious Thunder God Sutra ] 25,000pts
“Alright this techniques are pretty good. They cost reasonable. How many points do I have now Alpha?”
Alpha : “Host have a grand total of 27 points”
“.……………………………………..”
“What do you mean by grand! You’re messing with me aren’t you!”
“Anyway I’ve got a bunch of spiritual herbs from before. How many do I have?”
[ [ F ] 289 pieces ]
[ [ E ] 356 pieces ]
[ [ D ] 221 pieces ]
[ [ C ] 567 pieces ]
[ [ B ] 2,672 pieces ]
[ [ A ] 3,891 pieces ]
[ [ S ] 785 pieces ]
[ [ SS ] 21 pieces ]
[ [ SSS ] 1 piece ]
“That was a pretty good harvest. Sell all herbs on the [ B ] Grade and below.”
Alpha : “A total of 4105 spiritual herbs are sold.”
“Where does that take me?”
Alpha : “Host currently have 21,534 points.”
“Dem, I’m still a thousand points short. Sell all lower grade A spiritual herbs. It should be enough.”
Alpha : “2,451 lower [ A ] Grade spiritual herbs are sold. Currently have 524,569 points.”
[ [ A ] 1,140 pieces ]
[ [ S ] 785 pieces ]
[ [ SS ] 21 pieces ]
[ [ SSS ] 1 piece ]
“I’m fucking rich! And I still have a lot of herbs to spare. I might as well learn an alchemy technique later. Alpha buy the [ Mysterious Lightning God Sutra ] for Ken. Also look for suitable alchemy technique for me.”
[ Purchase Complete ]
[ Bought x1 [ SS+] [ Mysterious Lightning God Sutra ]
[ 25,000 point deducted ]
[ Current points : 499,569 ]
[ Searching for Alchemy technique ]
[ Found 159,114 items]
[ Filtering for [ S ] Grade and above ]
[ Found 12, 598 items ]
[ Filtering for entry level ]
[ Found 352 items ]
[ Filtering for [ God ] or [ Demon ] Race ]
[ Found 4 items ]
[ [ SSS- ] Ancestral Saintly Alchemy ] 87,000pts
[ [ SS+ ] Six Sage Alchemy Formation ] 52,000pts
[ [ SS+ ] Mysterious Godly Enchantment ] 59,000pts
[ [ ? ] Radiant Immortal True Alchemy ] 250,000pts
“What’s this? [ ? ] Is there actually something in this world that even Alpha cannot identify? That’s new to me. I thought Alpha was omniscient.”
“Since it’s something Alpha can’t even identify it must be something good, and looking at this ridiculous price, as a reader of hundreds of wuxia novel, this must be a treasure, people call this “plot armor”, alright it’s decided, Alpha I’ll take the [ Radiant Immortal True Alchemy ].”
[ Purchase Complete ]
[ Bought x1 [ ? ] [ Radiant Immortal True Alchemy ]
[ 250,000 point deducted ]
[ Current points : 249,569 ]
“I’ve got lots of spiritual herbs to spare and practice my alchemy, let’s start it slow, at least make it to Level-1, in that way I would be able to try and improve my alchemy.”
After sorting out the techniques for Ken, Luo Kai headed to Ken’s room and handed him the cultivation technique.
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*Knock
Luo Kai : Lil Ken, open up, I’ve got something to give you.
Ken opened the door for his master.
Ken : “Master, I heard you’re giving me something?”
Luo Kai : “Let’s go in first.”
Ken and Luo Kai head in to Ken’s room and started discussing things. Luo Kai started to ask Ken some things regarding his origin.
Luo Kai : “How did you become a slave?”
Ken : “I’ve been a slave for more than a year now, I was originally just a normal commoner living with my parents. I only have my mother as my family, she was sickly but still forced herself to work but earn some living for us to eat. But her condition got worse and not long after she was bedridden. 2 weeks later she died. I was too young and I don’t know any job, no one accepted me even as a helper, I tried different jobs and since I’m not good with anything I got kicked out not long after I started, until I met my previous master’s father. He was good to me at start, he treated me as an ordinary kid, I didn’t even know that I was a slave at that time not until he handed me over to his child, that moment I’ve realized I was actually a slave. He would always curse me, beat me and didn’t even provide me clothes and foods. Other servants would sometimes provide me with those rock hard breads and if I am lucky I would get some leftover foods.”
Luo Kai : “You’ve been through so much already.”
Ken : “No, I feel like I’m quite lucky, since those hardships lead me to master.”
Luo Kai : “Alright, stop flattering, But do you know that you’re not a human?”
Ken : “HAHA master must be joking, why would I not be a human? Although this past year I lived lower than a dog, I’m still a human.”
Luo Kai did not respond to Ken’s statement but just looked at him intently and seriously.
Ken : “……….”, “W-Why are you looking at me like that master? Is there really something wrong with me?”
Luo Kai : “You’re not a human, Ken.”
Luo Kai : “And I think that you’re mother was really not you’re real mother.”
Ken : “!!!!!!”, “Master, I could take whatever insult you throw at me but I’ll never let you insult my mother. Not even if I die.”
Luo Kai : “Hey hey, relax. I didn’t mean it that way, of course she takes care of you so she’s your mother. But she’s not your biological mother. How could a human bore a pure blooded Asura?”
Ken : “What’s an Asura?”
Luo Kai : “It’s a race that didn’t come from this plane, it came from the [ Asura Realm ], a smal realm connected to the [ Blazing Firestorm Plane ]”
Luo Kai : “It is said that Asura’s can’t leave their realm without permission. But looking at you here, it seems like you’ve been smuggled. It could be also that you’ve been born outside the [ Asura Realm ]. But Asuras have strict rule, in giving birth to offsprings, they are not allowed to be born outside, either they are drag back to the clan to be punished or killed upon contact.”
Luo Kai : “Looking at you, you don’t show any characteristics of Asuras, some distinguishable physical characteristics of Asuras are huge physique, multiple arms, they also have different skin colors. But you don’t have any of those, you only have skin and bones for physique, your arms are like twigs, and apart from being dirty and stinky your skin color are pretty normal.”
Ken : “You really don’t pass any chance to insult someone master.”
Luo Kai : “Aherm. Seems like you’re parent tampered your bloodline a bit, it might be to protect you, but this kind of tampering won’t last long, I don’t know when will you show signs of being an Asura but if that happens you might get dragged back to your clan, you might even get killed. So before that happens you need to get stronger, to be able to protect yourself.”
Ken : “Are you a cultivator master?”
Luo Kai : “Of course! Oh! Speaking of that, here, this is a cultivation method for Asura, this would help you a lot. Don’t worry about things and just focus on cultivating. I’ll be in my room if you need. Try to reach the 1st Stage of Human Phase in 3 days, we’re going somewhere.”
Ken : “Understood.”
Luo Kai returned to his room.
“I now have a companion going forward, there’s still a few months till I met those kids, it’s been 3 months. I wonder how are they going, they are all talented kids, they might have a huge progress over this few months. I’m looking forward to now.”
= Blue Spirit Forest =
Blue Spirit Forest is a forest a few thousand miles West of the Mysterious Forest where they rescued Zordick. Blue Spirit Forest have lots of water bodies scattered through out both inside and outside. Local elders said that there are lots of water elements spirits housing the forest, they are said to be non-aggressive creatures and would only attack when provoked or if someone with ill intent with the waters appear, it that case the whole forest would be a danger zone and entry would be restricted.
Shin* : “We’ve got a little bit of gain, we harvested a couple of ripe spirit fruits to sell, it would cover our expenses for a couple of weeks.”
[ In case you forgot Shin is the arrogant brat from Blue Gale Sect, Sect Master Xingye told them to let him go with Orphius and his gang for allowing Xingye to accompany them in their 1 year journey to gain experience. ]
Xingye : “Still, we have not managed to get what we really came here for. Why is it so hard to get one fruit that we need but so easy to get others.”
Zordick : “Elder Brother forget it, our supplies would only last 5 days at most, it seems like we’re unlucky this time.”
Barlock : “No brother Zordick, brother Luo Kai said in the manual that [ Black Lightning Dragon Fruit ] is the best material to feed your [ Purple Winged Tiger ] it can not only enhance it’s strength it could also purify it’s bloodline.”
Zordick : “Brother Luo Kai also said that this fruit is so rare, that’s why he put on some alternatives, we can just use some rare fruits with lightning attribute.”
Orphius : “No brother, we should find this fruit. We should continue searching, if we still have not luck after 4 days then we will retreat and come back next time. Brother don’t waste the opportunity to own a beast with Ancient Divine Bloodline.”
Shin : “WHAAATTT!!! HAHAHAHA!! You poor bastards think that this little shit of a dog have an Ancient Divine Bloodline? What? You think beast with Ancient Divine Bloodline is some cheap commodity that is sold randomly?! HAHAHA!! Not even selling the whole Blue Gale City be enough to buy the most impure beast of Ancient Divine Bloodline!! HAHAHA!! Ignorant fools!”
Everyone looked at Shin Rogue. Someone want to beat the shit out of him, Someone want to slap him till black and blue and another want to kill him.
Orphius : “Stop it, just let him be, he’s the ignorant one. Since eldest brother said it has an Ancient Divine Bloodline then it must have.”
Shin : “What?!! HAHAHA!! Just because that arrogant piece of shit said that it has an Ancient Divine Bloodline y’all really believed him? Is a fortune teller? He just a fraud, a scammer, a swindler. A poor bastard with nothing but arrogance!”
Orphius was trying to calm everyone acting as the leader but upon hearing Shin’s words or insult for his elder brother he was not able to contain himself and his dragonic impulse surfaced. He lost him mind and was swallowed by his dragonic impulse not able to differentiate friend from foe. He rushed to Shin as the closest person to him. With suffocating murderous intent, Shin was frozen stiff, as a lower rank with multiple stages of gap, he was obviously not able to do anything and was suppressed by Orphius dragonic aura. Orphius was rushing with his blade baring Shin’s heart.
Barlock : “SHIT! Brother Orphius has lost it. Go grab the [ Mind Calming Talisman ] that eldest brother left for us.”
Zordick as the fastest member of the team grabbed the [ Mind Calming Talisman ]. Barlock block Orphius’ attacked but as he was a bit weaker than him he was pushed back a few step, but he still managed to hold down the rampaging Orphius. In a nick of time Zordick have managed to stick the talisman at Orphius forehead making him regain his consciousness.
Orphius : “W-What happened?”
Barlock : “B-Brother are you back?”
Orphius : “Barlock! What happened? Did I do this to you?”
Barlock : “No brother, I just slipped, that’s all.”
Orphius : “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to lose control like that, forgive me.”
Barlock : “Sister Xingye, please help us get up, take us there and we will treat ourselves.”
Xingye : “Okay brothers. Please be careful next time.”
Zordick was just looking at them, he took a glance at Shin who is lying down on the other side. He walked to him and help him stand up. He grabbed his arms and help him stand, but while doing so his grip gradually tighten until Shin’s hand almost break.
Shin : “Shit! What the fuck it hurts!!”
Zordick : “I’m sorry! I didn’t mean it.”
Zordick smiled wickedly and whispers at Shin’s ear with low, cold and murderous voice. His eyes are full of malice with nothing in it but desire to kill and shed blood a cold and scary gaze full of killing intent.
Zordick : “Next time you play this kind of shit in front of me, never mind the others, I’ll be the first to kill in the most excruciating way possible.”
Zordick slowly walked away and join everyone. Orphius said everything that Zordick did but didn’t say anything. He knows that he don’t have a right to say anything when he was the one to lost control over himself. He want Shin to be able to join them in whatever they do, he wants to share laughter and sorrow with everyone. But he also understood unless he change his shitty attitude he won’t be able to mingle with them. He won’t be accepted by his brother and even himself if he keep shit talking their eldest brother.
After hearing Zordick’s warning and seeing him walked away he also started to walk away in the opposite direction of everyone. He attend to his broken arm himself, patched it and put medicine on it alone.
Shin : “What’s wrong with this guys every single one of them has a brother complex. A bunch of weirdo.”
After the commotion they continued their journey to find the [ Black Lightning Dragon Fruit ] and after 4 days they still haven’t found even a shadow of it.
Shin : “Hey, it’s been 4 days, there’s still nothing. Maybe we should head back.”
Xingye : “No one would take you for a mute even if you don’t talk!”
Shin : “……………..”
Zordick : “Shin is right, we’re just unlucky, let’s just go back.”
Orphius : “Barlock, Xingye, what do you think?”
Shin : “If you really are so insistent of finding this fruit, there’s another place we could probably go, maybe we have a luck there.”
Barlock : “Where is it?”
Shin : “Have you heard of the Blue Lake Gorge?”
Orphius : “I know that place, I’ve passed there before. Seems reasonable. I heard many lightning attribute cultivator also head there to train. But it is a territory of [ Sky Fire Empire ] and It’s in the [ Crimson Sun Continent ]. And Sky Fire Empire is currently in a war, it’s pretty hard to enter there if you aren’t a local of Sky Fire Empire.”
Barlock : “I might have a way for us to enter. You know I am from Crimson Sun Continent, and I actually am from Sky Fire Empire, I was staying there just before the coming of age ceremony.”
Orphius : “Alright, it’s settled then, let’s head back now and prepare to go to Crimson Sun Continent.”
“Yes brother.”
= 3 Days Later =
= At an Inn =
[ Ding! ]
[ ? ] [ Radiant Immortal True Alchemy ] [ Level 0 -> 1 ]
Int++
Luo Kai : “I manged to have a minor breakthrough in my alchemy comprehension. Though I haven’t got time for actual practice, I think I’m able to produce at least High Human Grade Pills.”
[ Pill Grades & Ranks ]
Pill Grade is the Same as the cultivation Level.
Human -> Earth -> Heaven -> Axis -> Cosmos -> Sovereign -> Emperor -> Supreme.
And each Level is divided into different ranks.
Low -> Mid -> High -> Top -> Peak -> Perfect.
“If Ken would be able to comprehend the Asura clan cultivation technique he would be able to acquire either Fire, Lightning, Thunder or Dark attribute. Let’s just wait and see what he acquired and plan thing going forward after. It would be best if he awaken a Fire attribute in that way he and Warwick would be able to train at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.”
Few hours later Ken finished cultivating and managed to awaken a Dark attribute. It did not align with his original plan but it’s still better than not awakening anything. They head to a map store and asked for the store owners help to help them find a place for dark attribute cultivator to cultivate. After a pick and select session they managed to filter the best location for them. They settled with [ Ghost Emperor Mountain ] in the territory of [ Iron Haven Pavillion ].
Luo Kai : “Alright, we’ve settled the place, let’s go stock some supplies and depart after.”
Luo Kai and Ken was just casually shopping buying things here and there, Luo Kai spotted someone familiar.