The entire group of Xue Yue clan members including the leader and the scholarly cultivator was rather flabbergasted at this moment. Every time they had launched an attack, this loin-clothed kid would throw a wrench into their plans. As such they silently continued to observe his actions wearily. But they would definitely attack if their targets attempted to escape. In fact, they would be worry-free and filled with confidence in such a situation!
Zou Rou who had just woken up stared at the black-robed cultivators of the Xue Yue clan in anger and brought out a golden talisman with the word 'SUN' written in gold. She continued speaking to Zhen Shi, "Hmmpf, you loin clothed idiot, you don't even know the Great Origin Gods? I don't have time to lecture you right now. But I do owe you my life. So, I'll tell you if we survive this."
She continued to speak while waving her free hand dismissively at Zhen Shi, "Qi refiners shouldn't get involved in a fight between Foundation Establishment Experts, you should leave and let this lady take care of this!"
Zhen Shi frowned, unwilling to turn tail and flee like a coward. But, indeed... he wasn't strong enough. As such he mentally spoke, "Status".
User: Zhen Shi
Cultivation Level: Qi Refining 6th stage
Cultivation energy: 100%
Race: Probably Human
Cultivation Path: Base-
Skills: Level Vision(Minor)
Exp points: 0/2200
OP(Otaku Points):20
Titles: Otherworld Reincarnator {Effect: Instant Spell Casting of most spells Intelligence +20 Charisma
+40}
Scholarly Bookworm {All user known data and information can be instantaneously viewed at the user's leisure. Never forget anything ever again!!}
Fake Tarzan (
Status: Naked Monkey pretending to be Tarzan with a dirty loincloth {Effect: Wearing the given loincloth grants a 10x action and reaction speed boost. Washing will negate effect}
Ignoring some of the details Zhen Shi fell into thought. But he was lacking ideas, so he shamelessly said, "System state suggestions to beat up these maggots."
Ding!
The user has not yet learned Unique Skill earned from Beginner Power Up Bag.
SHIET! *Cough* Nevermind System I only asked to check if you had forgotten. There is no need to be ashamed, after all, even geniuses make mistakes sometimes!
System "....."
Special Skill:
"WOAH..., You have my thanks, you bastard slime. Learn Hell's Flare!"
Ding!
Hell's Flare Skill learned. Skill completion reached 25% due to Fiery Soul Roots.
"Hoho, Little girl don't underestimate this handsome and scholarly self. MY POWERS cause the heavens itself to shake. Let's attack together," said Zhen Shi grinning with newfound confidence.
"Hmmppf... Maybe it's your loincloth that causes the heavens to shake... In embarrassment! Don't blame me when you die" she muttered while lifting the talisman up to shoulder level. On it, one could see the word 'Sun' shimmer, lightly revealing a strange symbol, ᛋ!
Zhen Shi frowned as he noticed this symbol. The fact that it was appearing amidst the word 'Sun' intrigued him even more. But as it shimmered weakly, ultimately leaving only the word 'Sun', lead him to even doubt whether he had actually seen it. Thus he pushed these thoughts to the back of his mind.
Zhen Shi shook his head while lightly grinning and shot back at her, "Geez, girl your beauty is blinding me, so ease up on this damn loin cloth. Do you think I love it?" while lifting his hand and condensing a small ball of black lightning flame.
"Wh-Whose beauty is blinding? Your loincloth is what's blinding!" muttered Zou Rou with a light frown but her eyes were still focused on the cultivators of the Xue Yue clan.
Zhen Shi sighed and ignored her, thinking "Tsunderes..." So tsundere's have a loincloth fetish as well? Maybe the system is a tsundere as well then?
System "..."
Now turning to the black-robed cultivators he grinned happily while imagining all the exp points he could obtain and said, "Brothers, how could you have the heart to hurt this poor girl? Where is humanity's love for pretty girls? Are you not ashamed?"
Although the cultivators of the Xue Yue clan were unsure about his origins and were rather cautious, they hadn't been truly afraid of Zhen Shi. As such, they were almost angered into attacking by the righteous words of this loin-cloth wearing man.
But the Stage 6 foundation expert signaled them to calm down. The group of cultivators initially showed disagreement, but with the support of the scholarly looking cultivator who seemed to be well respected by all, the leader of the group finally succeeded in his attempt.
The reason for them to do so was because they were apprehensive of the black flame in Zhen Shi's hand. After all, only Core formation stage experts can materialize elemental energies externally. Anyone capable of doing it at with a weaker cultivation level is a true genius with a deep understanding of elemental laws. As such the leader of the group and the scholarly cultivator was sure that this seemingly crazy cultivator was more than what he appeared to be...
Furthermore, Zhen Shi didn't seem to be utilizing any divine blessing as most geniuses would. Hence the leader of the group respectfully placed one palm and one fist together and said, "Little brother, my name is Xue Yuehai and my father is an elder of our sect." He gestured at the scholarly looking cultivator who was frowning, "And this is the genius proclamator of our clan, Lin Hai! He might be just an apprentice proclamator but he can still use edicts in this battle!"
The reason Xue Yuehai had pointed this fact out, was to show Zhen Shi that they held the upper hand.
Zou Rou spoke out hurriedly, "Loin clothed bastard, you have to be careful of that Lin Hai person. If he really is an apprentice proclamator and if he still can use edicts he should be able to launch at least two level transcending attacks!"
Zhen Shi hearing this realized that he really did not know enough about this world. He grew excited at the thought of learning more! But he wasn't particularly worried. After all, whatever-proclamators were nothing but garbage in front of a true level transcending tool, like a system!
Hearing their conversation, Xue Yuehai continued to speak out confidently, "I suggest you forget about this matter! In fact, we are in the right in this matter. That girl stole that pill from us."
This caused Zhen Shi to frown. Fuck! Could you have told me that before I declared you had to be ashamed of attacking a girl2?
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Still, he turned to Zou Rou and looked questioningly at her...
While still holding the talisman she lowered her head and said, "I needed the pill to help my father... I was willing to purchase it". Then she looked up with flames of fury in her eyes, "It was supposed to be sold at a fixed price. But this Yuehai bastard kept asking me to 'satisfy them' or pay a sky-high price. In the end, they were begging for me to steal their stuff!"
Ignoring Zou Rou who was shooting daggers at him, Xue Yuehai continued, "Little brother, I assure you that we will not harm you...provided that you join our sect. We worship Ammit, the devourer of souls. I noticed that Brother Shi does not have a divine blessing even though you possess the talent to transcend levels. If you join us, I'm sure we will be able to get you a high-tier blessing!"
However, hearing his words Lin Hai and all the other cultivators frowned and looked disapprovingly at Xue Yuehai. Lin Hai was unwilling to be in the same clan as Zhen Shi. This was because he was still angry at what Zhen Shi had said before, but, also because he was unwilling to have another genius stealing his limelight. Still, neither he nor the other cultivators said any of their opinions out loud.
Xue Yuehai turned his head at Lin Hai and gave a meaningful glance. This caused Lin Hai to instantly lose his displeasure. He now understood his fellow brother's meaning. By 'taking' in Zhen Shi they would be able to easily solve any of their displeasure towards him under the protection of the clan. And since the divine prophet spell and cultivation hiding was still unexplained, they might even be able to get their hands on some valuable treasures.
Now with the approval of the entire group Xue Yuehai continued to speak, "I admit that your words and choice of dress are....." he struggled to find the proper word, "...unique. But with your talent, you can definitely be a core disciple. Moreover, we never planned on returning this pill to the sect. Let us share it between ourselves and have fun with this feisty girl as well. What do you say, little brother Shi?"
Zhen Shi who was oblivious to the silent exchange between them was surprised. Ammit? The devourer of souls? She was only a minor goddess who would devour unjustified souls under the whims of Osiris, who was one of the primal gods of creation.
Nevertheless, Zhen Shi was growing more and more curious about the relationship between this new world and the gods of the old mythology.
Zhen Shi instantly laughed out loud, "Heh? What little brother Shi? Your brother down below is what's little. Do you dare to pull this handsome and scholarly self down to your level? DREAM ON! I might consider your request if it was from God Horus. Just shut up and pay for your crimes against the tsundere!"
There was no way Zhen Shi was teaming up with these idiots when he could team up with a pretty tsundere!
Lin Hai was extremely happy that Zhen Shi was unwilling to take this chance to live a bit longer.
On the other hand, Xue Yuehai frowned in anger and confusion. What's a tsundere? Can you eat it? And how does this loin clothed bastard no anything about my little brother? Did he peep?
Clearing his head, Xue Yuehai said with a shout, "Very well. You don't know what's good for you! Just because you have some ability in elemental handling do you think that you're invincible and capable of jumping cultivation levels like a proclamator? And you dare to wish for Lord Horus's blessings? A mere pipedream!"
"Fellow Brothers lets attack!!" shouted out Lin Hai with a grin. He preferred to straightforwardly beat this annoying Zhen Shi rather than use underhanded methods.
Thus the cultivators of the Xue Yue clan readied their weapons. However, seeing the ominous black flame and the Zou Rou's girl's golden Sun talisman they grew apprehensive. Xue Yuehai and Lin Hai could vaguely interpret that both of these attacks were bound to be unusual. Nevertheless, they readied their best attack as well. They started to move their swords about in a strange mind-numbing pattern.
Their bodies were instantly enclosed in thick dark black qi to the point that even their faces were hidden. The qi coalesced above their heads forming a terrifying black shadow of a strange monster! It roared while dashing forwards in attack leaving a burning black miasma everywhere it went.
Ignoring this, Zou Rou happily smiled at Zhen Shi for him supporting her.
That smile..... Zen Shi felt everything was worth it!
She then looked back at the black miasma monster while holding on to the Sun talisman with both hands and grinned devilishly while shouting, "Sky Sun Bone Sword talisman, Three swords descend!" This caused three swords composed of sun and starlight to appear in front of her and streak forwards leaving traces of a star-filled sky.
Zhen Shi also grinned in suppressed excitement, because he was going to use his first spell in this new world!
He disappeared using his increased 20x reaction speed and reappeared by the side of the Xue Yue cultivators, completely dodging the monster of black miasma.
"Hell's Flare" he shouted as he tossed the ball of "slime"-packed goodness at point-blank. The majority of the group had no time to block. Of course, blocking wouldn't have made much difference.
A black fire dome appeared on top of the group instantly covering six of them. Lin Hai was included in this but he had immediately raised his hands shouting, "Edict: Armor," just before being engulfed by the black fire dome. Meanwhile, the terrifying monster of dark black qi was struggling to hold itself together while going against the three swords, as half of the people supporting the formation had been attacked by Zhen Shi.
Thus the three sun and starlight swords easily pierced through the dark black miasma monster and dashed towards the Xue Yue cultivators. Two of the swords, struck two men cleanly on the chest instantly turning them into ash which blew away under the light night breeze. One unfortunate sword, however, entered the dome and burned up, emerging as a weakened streak of light which only managed to burn off an arm from Xue Yuehai who had previously barely dodged the flame dome. Now with all the cultivators in disarray, the black miasma monster disappeared.
Ding!
Congratulations to the user Zhen Shi for successfully subduing and defeating a Foundation Stage expert!
1000 exp earned.
For defeating your first foundation establishment practitioner, the user has earned a minor gift box.
Ding!
Congratulation to the user Zhen Shi for successfully subduing and defeating a Foundation Establishment practitioner(x4)
Ding!
Congratulations to the user Zhen Shi for obtaining some essence of a Sky Sun bone talisman. Rare Material Sky Sun Bone with assimilated runic energy earned!
Ding!
The user has earned 5 OP.
Ding!
Congratulations to the user for reaching the Qi Refining stage-Completion.
Zhen Shi ignored the notification as he raised an eyebrow in surprise. He could not believe that the swords from Zou Rou could pass through the formation and his
Nevertheless, Zhen Shi said mentally, "Open minor gift box".
Ding!
Minor gift box opened.
Congratulations to the user Zhen Shi for obtaining a lesser Spatial tear sword!
EHH? What's that? A weapon?
Lesser spatial tear sword[ A consumable item capable of dealing 2 attacks equivalent to a full-power attack at the peak Nascent Soul stage. Effective on cultivators below Spirit Formation. It can be used to tear spatial rifts which will randomly teleport the user alone within an area of radius 100km. Suggested use: Fleeing]
Nani? You give me a cultivation level transcending weapon and expect me to use it to flee? Since you tell me to do so, I definitely won't use it to flee.
System: "..."
Zhen Shi sighed with a light smile. Nevertheless, I have profited.
Meanwhile, the black fiery dome lasted for a couple more moments, eerily giving off no signs of its danger to the outside. At the same time, the Sun talisman in the hands of the girl cracked and turned to dust.
Turning to Zou Rou, Zhen Shi said, "That was a pretty good talisman. How was it so strong?" hoping to find out more about it.
But the girl ignored his question and pointed at him, "Loin clothed bastard, what sort of attack was that? Aren't you at Qi condensation? Was that a divine blessing? Or maybe a manifested title skill?..... Humph, I guess you're not too bad for your loincloth wearing self. More importantly, why'd you hit my attack? We could have taken down that main bastard," frowning grumpily.
Zhen Shi grew suspicious regarding her attempted dismissal of the question but decided to entertain her intentions for the moment and said, "I told you I shake the heavens. So don't make excuses pretty girl. I killed five of them, but you got only two and an arm!" saying so Zhen Shi laughed in satisfaction, besides he had gained rare material from it.
"You cheated you bastard... I hate you, both you and your loincloth!!" said Zou Rou grumpily crossing her arms over her ample chest.
Zhen Shi's smile grew wider seeing her actions. Grumpy Tsun Rou is cute as well!
At the same time, the Hell's flare dome disappeared revealing no traces of the other cultivators save for Lin Hai! His head and chest were covered in a majestic but cracking golden armor with dragon patterns on it. His body was covered in horrible burn marks except for his torso and head which were guarded by the armor. He stared in disbelief as his armor started to slowly fall apart.
Meanwhile, Xue Yuehai was scared out of his wits. As he held on with his remaining arm at the gap where his former arm had been, he shouted out while shivering, "You bastards you'll pay for this!!"
Zen Shi who was awakened from admiring the beauty, unhappily frowned at Xue Yuehai and prepared another hell's flare on his hand.
Seeing this, Lin Hai and the other lucky survivor immediately started to escape. But, at the same time, "My father is at the peak of Soul Transformation. So he'll definitely capture you lot and flay you alive!" shouted the now one-armed Xue Yuehai with a satisfied laugh. Immediately he took out a black talisman and crushed it.