He felt that balancing the size of his burning core within his transparent core is very important, and he should make sure not to expand his burning core too much because he might destroy his own cultivation.
At the same time, he noted in his mind that road of cultivation is much more dangerous than he originally thought.
Absorbing and understanding these important cultivation principles in his mind, Ceceada felt enlightened.
He took a deep breath and looked at his burning white robe. He then imagined the fire on it disappearing instantly.
Puff!
Without a warning, the fire was quickly put out. He walked towards the robe, patted it to shake some dust off, then immediately wore it again.
He looked at his own health bar and saw it slowly recovering it by itself, automatically using the pure mana in his core to heal his own body.
Right now, it is about eight percent.
Although it just took a few minutes to recover that much because of the current purity of his mana, he felt unsatisfied and wanted to proactively prevent calamities in the future. He sat down cross-legged and prepared to use the Sun Palm on himself.
"Sun Palm," He muttered under his breath, purely out of habit. His palm facing his chest.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, an extremely bright light came out of his palm, urging him to close his eyes in fear. Much to his surprise, that was unnecessary because he noticed that the bright light wasn't even hurting his eyes the way he expected it. In contrast, he even felt good while looking at it.
It seems like the efficiency of a skill is also determined by the cultivation or purity of mana, an idea that he had already known. So even if you don't upgrade a skill, it will still improve by increasing your cultivation level or purity of mana, albeit not as much when you just upgrade it directly.
In his mind, he can see that his health bar is now recovering much faster! In his estimate, he felt like he is recovering a percent every ten seconds, surprising him.
He can remember that he had only upgraded Sun Palm to level two not long ago.
Feeling that he still have a lot of unused points, he Intuitively checked his status just to make sure.
[STATUS]
[TITLE: Digital Health Bar]
[Cultivation Level: Level 1 of Elemental Formation Realm (-1800)]
[Expected breakthrough in 7 days]
[Skill: Sun Fist -Level 4- 1/2000 (+), Sun Palm -Level 2- 1/20 (+), Cultivation Thief (Unable to upgrade)]
[Physique: Mid Basic Physique -Level 5- 1/4000 (+)]
[Points: 2830]
[Unlocked function: Shop]
Various information went inside his mind and he saw some 'minor' changes. However, his mind is just focused in his points and Sun Palm's level.
When he saw that he only needed twenty points to upgrade Sun Palm to level three, he immediately ordered the system in his mind to do it.
[Ding! Thank you for upgrading Sun Palm to level 3! You now have 2810 points!]
[Skill: Sun Palm -Level 3- 1/200]
When he heard this in his mind, he looked at his palm but didn't see it get brighter. However, he can see his health bar recovery speed is sky rocketing!
The reddish health bar turned yellow in an instant!
He is surprised because he didn't even increase the mana that he is pumping from his core to his palm, just letting flow by itself naturally.
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After just a few seconds of waiting, he now recovered almost all his health points, turning his health bar to green!
Noticing that he is now fully healed, he stood up excitedly and prepared to leave the destroyed patch of land.
Whoosh!
But before he can leave, he suddenly noticed a projectile that is heading towards him, bursting through the air easily!
He didn't waste any time and backflipped without much effort, landing silently a hundred meters away. His body is so swift and agile, yet the air around him didn't make a single sound!
Bang!
A loud explosion sounded when the projectile hit the spot where he was just a second ago!
Ceceada watched as the dust from the impact settled and an eight meters deep pit was slowly revealed.
Ceceada saw the deep pit, but didn't care much. He can feel that the power behind that explosion is not that strong compared to what he can currently do now just by using his physical strength.
At the same time, he looked at a huge boulder on the edge of the desolate land where the vegetation continues, feeling that there are someone observing him.
"Well, that didn't work..."
On the very edge of the destroyed patch of land, an old man with a long hair spoke while chuckling, slowly revealing himself behind a huge boulder.
Behind the old man are ten men with ferocious look on their face while looking at Ceceada.
The old man looked at the young man in the distance and closed his eyes slightly, his eyes moving about around Ceceada's body and checking something. Right after that, his gaze landed on the plethora of rings that Ceceada wears in each of his fingers.
"Try to steal everything from him, but if he is stubborn, just kill him immediately. After that, we will continue looking for corpses to loot," The old man, with his hands behind his back, ordered the men behind him.
Hearing this, they nodded and looked at each other with a sneer painted across their face. Immediately, they revealed themselves one by one while preparing their respective weapons, making clanging sounds in the process.
One man with a disappointed face is holding a crossbow with an explosive projectile- a facsimile of the one that had just exploded.
The majority of men on the other hand are gripping their own melee weapons.
The men holding melee weapons closed towards Ceceada, running with a ferocious and greedy look in their face. When they got close enough, they also noticed the sheen on Ceceada's fingers, rendering their expression full of greed.
But even if they are showing greed, they still tried to check Ceceada's cultivation.
However, when they tried to do it, they found out that they can't detect his cultivation level, as if they were blocked by something.
Nevertheless, the greed in their eyes didn't diminish a bit. In contrast, it was even stimulated!
For no reason at all, they unanimously think that the young man in front of them is probably, at most, a lower ranked inner disciple of Sun sect, just at the very start of level seven.
They think that this cultivator's reason for venturing the Dyst forest by himself is to train or test his strength. If this is true, then Ceceada probably have a treasure in him that prevents them from checking his cultivation.
Because of Ceceada's young appearance, they completely disregarded the fact that there is another method to block other people from checking your cultivation- that is having a cultivation higher than them!
For them, it is very unlikely that Ceceada will have a cultivation higher than them. For them, he is no different from an infant who just came out of the womb; he can't possibly exceed their cultivation at such a young age, right?
Ceceada just indifferently looked at these men running towards him, his face devoid of worry.
He had already secretly checked the cultivation levels of these men and saw that the strongest is a middle-aged man with a strength of peak level seven. As for the old man who is just watching from far away, he doesn't know; he can't extend his cultivation detector that far yet.
"Give us all your items right now," A middle-aged man calmly ordered, his hand casually holding the handle of a huge axe that is resting on his shoulder.
As if they don't exist, Ceceada didn't look at them, his face showing no reaction to the middle-aged man's words.
The middle-aged man saw Ceceada's indifference, but no anger appeared on his face. As far as he know, these cultivation geniuses are very arrogant and doesn't show fear even at the face of death.
Even if he never entered a sect, he is very aware of the harshness just to get to the inner field. Thus, he just concluded that the cultivator in front of them is just probably used to facing life and death situation.
However, a bald man holding a spear from the same group didn't share the same sentiments as the middle-aged man.
"How dare you not obey us?!" The bald man's forehead furrowed when he saw Ceceada's indifference, his voice exploding with livid. He immediately pointed his spear on the young man, just a few inches away from his face.
With the bald man's swift movement, the air caused Ceceada's hair and robe to sway for a moment.
Much to their surprise, Ceceada still kept his eyes closed, his breathing stable as ever.
In Ceceada's heart, all of the collective strength of these people are no different from those mortal who are unable to cultivate.
"Are you an idiot?" The middle-aged man sincerely asked Ceceada, thinking that this cultivator is probably brain-dead. Although he is aware of the arrogance of geniuses, he don't think any of them will allow a weapon to come that close to their face.
Just like as always, Ceceada heard this, but bullied them by not looking at them, rendering the bald man extremely livid.
His grip on the spear tightened, causing it to tremble and emit a black, deathly aura.
If earlier, only his forehead is furrowed, his scalp is also suffering the same fate now.
"Kill him," The middle-aged man ordered the bald man without much care anymore, for he can no longer stand the arrogance of this man.
Hearing this, the bald man immediately extended his eerie spear towards Ceceada's indifferent face!
Whoosh!
Everyone in the group sneered when they can finally end this idiot's life!