The day of the Blossom Tournament came. Yàn Lìqín, Liàng Píng, Yin Mengxia, and Rèn Chāngmíng were all waiting at the academy gate.
“Why is he always making people wait?” asked Liàng Píng
“Come on, Liàng Píng. He didn’t wait when he heard your life was in danger. Cut your junior brother some slack.” teased Yàn Lìqín.
Liàng Píng could only grumble in response. He was sure Yàn Lìqín would have taken action if his life was in danger, but the fact that Yù Quán had taken action, not knowing that, meant a lot. It was hard for him to judge him. Yàn Lìqín seemed to hold it over him even if he wanted to.
“He is taking a while thought, let’s go check on him. He should be in a cultivation cave. He hasn’t left since he went there weeks ago.”
The group went over the cultivation caves. It was a hill with man-made caves dug into the sides of it. It looked like a colosseum if it was built with a hill in it. Each cave was built with formations and arrays to give people peace and privacy, so there was no way to see which one he was in. They could try calling out to him, but he might not hear.
Crack~... Boom!
Such sounds surprised everyone there. Yàn Lìqín went wide-eyed. He had experienced enough in life to recognize some things. These noises were familiar.
“He did it!” he exclaimed, then rushed towards where the noises came from. The arrays could hold noise in, but not noises as loud as those. When Yàn Lìqín reached the cave entrance, Yù Quán happened to be stumbling out. Yàn Lìqín tried seeing through his dantian but couldn’t see anything.
“Yù Quán!”
“I did it, Grand Elder…” Yù Quán said before falling to the ground.
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Yù Quán awoke to wind flying past and loud thuds on the ground. He looked around and saw everybody, excluding Elder Jiang, of course. Yù Quán didn’t think he would leave that library for anything—at least not a Blossom Tournament. Yù Quán was being carried; he must have passed out from exhaustion. He had been pushing himself to get his core formed. He couldn’t let there be a single mistake, so he heavily relied on the refined cores, down to the last one.
He looked over to see Liàng Píng carrying him. He was probably the strongest, but maybe he felt he owed Yù Quán for what had happened with the Supreme Wolf Sect. They weren’t far from the town, so Yù Quán stayed quiet for now so he could check his information.
Cultivation Information Updated.
Yù Quán
Realm: Body Tempering Realm
Stage: 1st Level Skin Tempering
Main Cultivation Art: [Stolen-eyed Mùmùlián Body](Level 3)
Strength: 400 Catties
Qi: 2000/2000 wisps
Strange Fire: (Level 2)Murderous Flame(x1)
Techniques:
[Mùmùlián Eye Stealing](Level 3)
[Mùmùlián Eye Refining](Level 3)
[Murder Mantra](Level 1)
Attributes:
[Strange Fire: Murderous Flame]
[Star Gazing Eyes](Level 1)
[Top-Quality Mortal Avarice Eyes](Level 1)
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[Top-Quality Mortal Avarice Eyes](Level 1)
[Top-Quality Three-Finned Boar Aggression Eyes](Level 5)
[Top-Quality Three-Finned Boar Aggression Eyes](Level 1)(x5)
[Top-Quality Five-Finned Boar Aggression Eyes](Level 1)
There was a lot for Yù Quán to take in. First, his strength and qi were now displayed in his information. He seemed twice as strong as the average man back on Earth. This should be because of the [Mùmùlián Eye Refining]. His qi appeared to have a max of 2000 wisps. That was all his core could hold for now, but it should be much more than the average cultivator. He had an abnormally large dantian, which meant an abnormally large core. He also had a perfect, pure core. As Yù Quán finished going through his information, they reached town.
“God, have you woken up yet?” Liàng Píng asked rhetorically. He seemed annoyed he had to carry Yù Quán all the way to town.
“Yeah, I’m up.”
This made everybody jump. No one expected him to be awake already, as they had all heard about his condition from Yàn Lìqín. Yù Quán got down from Liàng Píng’s shoulder and dusted himself off. Then he stretched and cracked his back and neck. When he was done, he looked around and saw everyone staring at him.
“What? Do I have something on my face?”
Yàn Lìqín was the only one able to speak. “Are you alright?”
Yù Quán briefly looked at his body, then looked back up and shrugged. “Yeah, I feel fine.”
They were all dumbfounded. Wasn’t he supposed to be over-exhausted and would need rest back in town? Yù Quán turned to Yàn Lìqín. “Grand Elder, will I have some time to do some quick cultivation when we get to town? I need some time to stabilize my cultivation.”
Yàn Lìqín looked deeply at Yù Quán, then turned and began walking. “Sure, sure, your fight in the tournament may not happen for a while. As long as you are in town, I don’t mind.”
Yù Quán cupped his hands and bowed. “Thank you, Grand Elder.”
With that, Yù Quán dashed away. Leaving everyone else completely dumbfounded.
…
Yù Quán made it to a somewhat secluded place and began doing everything he wanted to try after reaching the Body Tempering realm. First, the [Stolen-eyed Mùmùlián Body]. He was lucky that he walked out of the cave with his bag. Yàn Lìqín ensured he had it on him when they picked him up. He took out the eyes he was given and refined them all into parts of his body.
He first noticed that the refining tempered his body more than before. He didn’t have an exact number as he did now, but he was sure it was way more efficient now. When he was done refining all the eyes into his skin, he checked his information.
Yù Quán
Realm: Body Tempering Realm
Stage: 1st Level Skin Tempering
Main Cultivation Art: [Stolen-eyed Mùmùlián Body](Level 3)
Strength: 475 Catties
Qi: 2000/2000 wisps
Strange Fire: (Level 2)Murderous Flame(x1)
Techniques:
[Mùmùlián Eye Stealing](Level 3)
[Mùmùlián Eye Refining](Level 3)
[Murder Mantra](Level 1)
Attributes:
[Strange Fire: Murderous Flame]
[Star Gazing Eyes](Level 1)
[Top-Quality Mortal Avarice Eyes](Level 1)
[Top-Quality Mortal Avarice Eyes](Level 1)
[Top-Quality Three-Finned Boar Aggression Eyes](Level 5)
[Top-Quality Three-Finned Boar Aggression Eyes](Level 1)(x5)
[Top-Quality Five-Finned Boar Aggression Eyes](Level 1)
[Low-Quality Blue Wolf Ferocity Eyes](Level 1)
[Low-Quality Winged Watcher Awareness Eyes](Level 1)
[Low-Quality False Dragon Pride Eyes](Level 1)
“How many catties?!” Yù Quán was surprised. Refining three pairs of eyes into his body made him stronger by 75 catties.
“Isn’t this too much?”
Yù Quán’s mind was racing. Wouldn’t he be able to become unnecessarily strong as long as he had beast eyes? Moving the eyes to the sockets in his core also used the [Mùmùlián Eye Refining]. Would that temper his body, as well? He decided to test it out. He received three new eyes, so he would choose a few to test the new functions of the core.
Yù Quán looked at his new eyes. Ferocity was probably stronger than aggression, but he didn’t know. So, he would keep the level 5 boar eyes and use some others. Awareness probably gave the person a feeling of being watched. It was similar to avarice but probably wouldn’t make the person directly feel in danger. Yù Quán decided it would be best to keep one of the avarice eyes and replace the others. Finally, there were the pride eyes. Yù Quán didn’t know what they would do, but he knew it was different, so he would keep them instead of using them to replace a pair.
After choosing the three sets of Three-Finned Boar eyes he would transport to his core, he went back to meditation and started.
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