System: You need 10 Corpse Blooms to breakthrough into Holy Foundation Realm.

"Wait, why?" Aiden shouted inside his mind. This was cheating. "It said 1 Corpse Bloom for the breakthrough.

System: The host is breaking through into Foundation Realm, which requires 5 Corpse Blooms, and doing it for Holy Core, which is in contradiction with the Dark Core.

Fuck! Where would he get 7 more corpses?

Something moved outside of the hut, so Aiden got up and moved close to the door. Someone was sneaking around the hut and, from the edge of the door, he saw three people surrounding the hut with swords and daggers in their hands.

Fuck, that bitch Wang Renmei seemed to have moved quite quick, and they must be here to kill him.

This wasn't going to work.

Aiden opened the door and walked right into the ambush. His fist moved squarely when he spotted the first guy with a dagger, hitting him squarely on his face.

The guy staggered back, bleeding from his nose.

Aiden kicked the other, still shocked, guy with sword and sent him flying away and then took off. There were three people, and he was only one person, so he wasn't sure if he could win here. And no matter what, he would not lose his life for a stupid rivalry.

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"Catch that motherfucker," someone shouted.

Aiden sneered, ducking around the houses. He wasn't heading toward the patch of forest, but toward the higher ground. There was a small cave around that place, and no one knew about it. In fact, only old man Li knew about it, as he had studied cultivation and alchemy in there when he was a low-level disciple of the sect.

In fact, there were a couple more places only old man Li knew as a head elder of the alchemy hall, including the secret warehouse of the sect, but those places were heavily guarded and Aiden didn't have the authentication medal on him. So, he could only choose the most accessible place for now.

A good thing, there was a graveyard near that cave, and he needed corpses to breakthrough. With people coming to assassinate him made one thing clear - this was a dog-eat-dog world, and he had to have power to live in this world. Only after reaching Foundation Realm he would have a chance to have his say in this world. Even the sect gave special privilege to Foundation Realm cultivators.

So, he had to reach Foundation Realm to get his revenge, and only by collecting Corpse Blooms he could reach that goal, because he fucking knew nothing about the qi cultivation, and even old man Li's memories were hazy about it.

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"Brother Zang, what the hell was that? Why did that guy attack us?" Pan Waji asked Zang Hu, who had got beaten by a random guy and his nose was completely out of shape. "And I don't get it. How could he hurt you with a punch? Was he a peak of Refinement Realm too?"

"Impossible. This is a low-level district, and no one would stay here after reaching layer six Refinement Realm."

"Do you know him?"

Zang Hu wiped the blood from his nose. "The fuck I do. I came here for the first time and that too to teach a lesson to that girl, Hao Pumi, and here I got punched right in my face. If I see that guy again, I'm going to pull his internal organs out with my dagger." He spat blood before heading toward their target hut.