chapter - 3

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"Hey brother Hong." came a shout from behind. Hearing the call Hong Li wasn't surprised and he almost instantly recognized the voice, as it was one of the friends of the previous owner.

"If it isn't brother Zhang, what's a rich kid like you doing here" joked Hong Li.

"Why?, is there somewhere written that a rich kid can't claim resources, when it's free on top of that." replied Zhang Yu.

The teenager's name was Zhang Yu. He and Hong Li were in the same dormitory. so they got to know each other like that. His eyes were pretty unique as they were blue in color, nose bridge was pretty high and a masculine body, overall he looked like someone from the western countries in Hong Li’s previous world.

As his father happened to be one of the foundation realm experts in the city, he was pretty rich. Although he looked like some useless rich young master but in reality he is a hard working teenager.

"I heard that you were doing a sect mission." Did you complete it?? Zhang Yu asked with some curiosity.

"No, I haven't." replied Hong Li with a dejected face.

"Why?? Did you encounter some troubles." Zhang Yu asked with a face full of question marks.

"Yeah, I encountered a sixth stage beast on my way and I didn't get to complete the mission" said Hong Li "but forget about it, let's just be happy that I am still alive."

If Hong Li said that he was getting hunted in a straight manner, then Zhang Yu might suspect something. So he gave a little impression of being dejected, this way he won't have to explain much and he would give the impression that he was still a little depressed.

"Yeah you are right. let's just be thankful that it was only a sixth stage beast, if it was a stage eight or ninth beast then you might not be here right now." Zhang Yu said without suspecting anything as he thought to himself. "Looks like the beast's expertise doesn't lie in speed as Hong Li was able to escape."

"But what are you doing here? I don't ever remember you coming here to claim resources, did your father get killed during some missions." Hong Yu joked with a straight face.

"Stop giving me curse you bastard!!, look your father broke through from stage fifth to sixth last night." said Zhang Yu with a proud look in his face

"So, you are here to claim the badge of a sixth stage cultivator."

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"Yeah, that's only one of the reasons, as a sixth stage cultivator I can choose a technique from the techniques pavilion."

"Which technique are you thinking of getting?"

"I lack speed, so maybe a movement tech........

"Oh, looks like it's my turn next, see you next time then, saying this Hong Li turned around and left without letting him finish his words.

'Bastard' Zhang Yu said silently to himself.

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After claiming his resources he started going towards his dormitory. When he got there, there was already another teenager there.

"So you are already back from your mission, Yang Long" said Hong Yu.

"Yeah, just got back from the mission." replied Yang Long.

Yang Long was a pretty quiet kid. His face features weren't particularly attractive as he was pretty plain looking with a black hair and eyes. There were three groups of people in each dormitory. At this time Hong Li happened to notice the badge with a number 6 hung in the clothes of Yang Long and he said "congratulations brother Yang, looks like even you have already crossed the fifth stage."

"Did Zhang Yu also cross the fifth stage then?" Yang Long replied as he heard 'even you' words in his sentence.

"Yeah, he has gone to claim his batch. He should be back soon, replied Hong Li as he joked "Looks like I am the only useless one in this dormitory, both of you have already reached sixth stage, but I am just at the peak of third stage."

"Nothing surprising, both Zhang Yu and I have B grade talent so it's normal to reach this stage, but don't be discouraged as talent isn't everything in this world." Yang Long said with a serious face.

Hong Li was speechless hearing this, he was just joking about it but looks like he took it seriously, but anyway "thanks for your encouragement." he replied in a friendly manner.

Talents were also divided into four ranks as rank “D being the lowest and A being the highest.” and Hong Li happened to be in rank C. Which was average as most people would have that.

After that, his consciousness entered the chamber and he took a low grade Qi and blood pill which can speed up the cultivation and started to cultivate.

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As the door opened, A masculine western looking teenager came inside the room and he saw there were already two people cultivating in there, but he didn’t go there to disturb them and he also started to cultivate.

Inside the chamber room,

Hong Li was pondering about cultivation resources. Although the chamber already makes his cultivation double that of other peoples. He still needs resources if he wants to make progress even more quickly.

With the cultivation resources he has right now it’ll only last him for 1 week inside the chamber.

So he has to think of a way to earn spirit stones. If he only relies on the missions from the contribution hall to earn contribution. It won’t last him for long, moreover his strength is weak right now so he won’t be able to do missions worth a lot of points. He doesn’t want to make the same mistake as the previous owner.

When he was pondering about this his body started to absorb a lot of spiritual energy and it started to gather below his abdomen and he broke through. Right now his spiritual energy was in a state of fog.

He didn’t get too happy as it was pretty normal to break through because he was already in the peak of the third stage.

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