The morning of the next day, Fei Li got a notification from the system.
[Notification: Liu Yue Wu and Zheng Hua Zhao are planning to set you up and Zheng Hua Zhao needs fire spirit grass.]
Fei Li sighed. “These guys just won’t give me a break,” he muttered, and at that moment someone knocked on the door of his wooden house.
Opening the door, he found Ke Er Lin standing there, kind of unhappy. “It’s a Gu Ban Pill from your big sister,” she announced, holding out a small wooden box. Unlike the Yuan Nurturing Pill, which aided in cultivation speed, the Gu Ban Pill accelerated physical recovery.
“Big sister?” he questioned.
“Yue Chen,” Ke Er Lin clarified. “She said she’s busy, so she sent this pill ahead. She might come to see you next month.”
It came to Fei Li’s mind. Yue Chen was a disciple of the Water Moon Clan, a neighboring sect even smaller than his own Long Lake Clan.
Although the Long Lake Clan has around a hundred disciples, it is still a small clan in this world. The Water Moon Clan probably has thirty or forty disciples.
“By the way,” Ke Er Lin said, “I saw Liu Yue Wu visiting you yesterday. I think she is not trustworthy. You need to be careful.” She said.
“Why are there so many girls around you?” she muttered while she was heading back for making pills.
Fei Li closed the door and thought he needed to learn some new technique for the upcoming fight. So he decided to go to the library of the clan.
When he got there, a man sat behind a simple wooden desk in the main hall, likely the librarian. Fei Li approached him politely. “Excuse me, I’d like to borrow a book,” he requested.
The librarian looked up, his expression impassive. “You can’t borrow books,” he said flatly. “You can only read them here. Besides,” he added, his gaze sweeping over Fei Li, “you need task points.”
Fei Li thanked him and left, heading towards the clan’s task hall. He chose a task related to herb collection, an additional assignment separate from his daily quota. He needed those task points if he wanted access to the library’s resources.
The next few days, Fei Li dedicated himself to collecting herbs. He also hunted low-ranking demon beasts for gaining experience points, which could be invested in the system for upgrading cultivation layers.
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And this time he won't bring any bodies of demon beasts back. He doesn't want Steward Chen to discover he's still hunting demon beasts.
Fei Li also found out that if you kill the same demon beast many times, the experience points will gradually decrease. So Fei Li sometimes would find other different low-ranking demon beasts to kill.
Finally, after several days, Fei Li got enough task points. He returned to the library and approached the librarian once more. This time, the librarian granted him access. “You can only go to the first floor and choose two books,” he said. “The other floors are restricted to outer and inner disciples.”
Fei Li nodded and entered the first floor. Rows of shelves filled with books before him. He searched for anything that could aid him in the upcoming confrontation. He focused on martial arts, magical arts, alchemy, Taoist scriptures, and array formations.
His eyes landed on a book titled “Wave Wall.” It described a water-based magical art. Fei Li’s five spiritual roots—metal, wood, water, fire, and soil—meant he could theoretically learn any magical art.
However, this “talent” has been considered the worst talent.
Cultivating with five spiritual roots is incredibly slow, so even if you can learn every magical art, you do not have enough spiritual energy to use magical art. It is still useless. But with the system’s help, Fei Li didn’t have to worry about the speed of his cultivation.
He reasoned that “Wave Wall” might be particularly effective against Zheng Hua Zhao. The system said Zheng Hua Zhao was seeking a fire spirit grass, leading Fei Li to believe one of his spiritual roots was fire. Water magic would restrict fire magic.
Having found an attack technique, Fei Li sought a method to replenish his spiritual energy. He discovered an alchemy text titled “Hui Ling Pill.” This pill, according to the text, could rapidly restore spiritual power. Fei Li decided to focus on these two techniques first.
After reading the two books in the library, the two techniques appeared in his system interface, both at zero layers.
He returned to his small wooden house and immediately invested his experience points. He enhanced the Hui Ling Pill alchemy to the third layer, its maximum, and the Wave Wall to the fourth of its five layers, exhausting his experience points.
After a short rest, Fei Li headed to the clan’s resource hall to purchase ingredients for the Hui Ling Pill.
Suddenly he found out that he had not much money because he stayed in the clan for many years, and the clan will give them 10 golden coins every month.He should have more money. From the remaining memories of the original owner of this body, there are some people who borrowed his money and didn't pay it back. The original owner of this body is really a “good guy,” and the new Fei Li won’t lend money to others anymore.
So he didn't buy many ingredients, but he wasn't worried about it because he’s got good alchemy skills.
The following week has gone so fast. Fei Li kept hunting demon beasts in the forest and making pills. He occasionally chatted with Ke Er Lin.
His cultivation had reached the sixth layer. His Mountain Splitting Punch had progressed to the third layer, and his Wave Wall had reached its peak, the fifth layer. Also, he had so many Hui Ling pills.
Today, as usual, Fei Li was going to the forest for hunting demon beasts and also collecting herbs, but he had a bad feeling, so he wanted to go back after two hours. but it’s too late.