User: Yu Song

Qi: 790/2500

Realm: 3rd Stage (Body Refinement)

Techniques:

- Punch

- Run

- Throw

- Palm Strike

*First to Sixth form

- Fist of Danger

* First to Second form

Quests:

*Reach Body Refinement Realm - Completed! Rewards Ready!

*Reach Foundation Establishment Realm - (3/15)

Yep, looks like I can really get stronger by killing people.

I closed my status screen and stood up. I already refined the Qi I got from killing the other cultivator. And speaking of which-

I kicked his headless corpse and it face upwards, bending down, I started casually robbing the body and searched for anything that I found as useful while ignoring the moral complications that might come from me robbing a dead person. Besides, if this guy had any living relatives, they'd basically do the same under the legal light.

I nodded to myself while thinking of that type of logic. And it was true, actually, but except for the guy's family members, the most likely people to take his stuff would be his fellow invaders, making it worse because he clearly trusted them and stuff like that.

After checking that the corpse is wearing underwear, I removed his pants and became disappointed when I saw nothing important. Not even a hidden dagger in the leg?

I checked everything else and found nothing, "pretty disappointing," I muttered and lifted the guy's sword to my eye level so that I can get a closer look, "well, at least I have this right?" I pursed my lips, "but I don't really have a sword technique though..."

A female voice called out, "Yu Song?" I flinched, "T-that is you right?"

I sighed in relief when I realized that the speaker isn't Xie Wen but just another girl. Turning around, I saw a young- really young girl coming out of a pile of clothes from the other end of the room. She didn't look older than 10 and I know that Cultivators can trick you with their actual age but the little girl in front of me really was just that, a young girl.

"Hello," I tried to give her a reassuring smile. I wanted to ask her how I know her but I put that thought down. People are panicking and I'm pretty sure that talking to her like I find her a burden isn't a good idea in the middle of all this.

With the thought of helping out a young girl in mind, I approached her and bent down in front of her, "Come on, we should go," she nodded and grabbed my hand, then we started walking away.

Am I suspicious that she didn't back away from me even when I walked over to her? Yeah. Do I care? No. She's a young girl and that's what she looks like to me and I don't care even if it kills me. Children shouldn't get abandoned, especially when everything around them is erupting in literal flames and they might die at any moment because of it.

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As we made our way through the place, the little girl didn't talk and stayed silent. I didn't know her name and I didn't want to ask, just in case she found it suspicious. She didn't ask where we're going which means that I- or at least the old Yu Song - have a degree of trust when it comes to her, I didn't want to ruin that by letting her know that I don't even know who she is.

When my house came into view, I felt glad that no one's attacking it but at the same time...

I stared at the girl in worry, I wonder if Xie Wen is gonna tell her what happened to the old Yu Song.

Probably not right? Xie Wen is smart enough to know that giving this little girl panic is the worse idea you can have during a time like this and besides, who knows who she'll tell about what happened to me and the old Yu Song?

"Yu Song...?" and speaking of the devil, Xie Wen greeted me and the little girl with a bow as she stepped out of the door, "and-" Xie Wen didn't get to finish talking because the little girl is suddenly there with her, hugging Xie Wen as tight as she could.

"I was so scared!" she said while in Xie Wen's arms, the little girl started to sob, "I thought I was going to die or- or-"

Xie Wen patted her back, "it's okay,"

"Well, I'll leave you two to it, I think I got what I wanted but you know..." I shrugged, I wanted to kill more people so that I can get stronger and this night feels like the perfect opportunity to do it.

Xie Wen nodded, "very well, good luck Yu Song,"

"Bye!" I yelled excitedly- sure, but I actually felt pretty worried.

I left our house knowing that the little girl is safe with the barrier and Xie Wen. I walked, silently following the sound of explosions, I wanna be in the same place as all the action but I don't wanna go so near that I'm under the threat of dying from some stray fire of a powerful cultivator. I continued walking until I found a nice enough spot that I wouldn't be spotted by anyone weak.

I took a seat and raised my sword, it looks pretty normal but I still have the gash in my arm that proves it's anything but. I let go of the weapon and placed it right next to me. Closing my eyes, I focused on my senses and scouted for anyone so weak that they wouldn't even be a fight for me. I was lucky to beat Gang Gong and that other cultivator, they died because I caught them off guard.

Can I say the same for any of the others? Probably, yeah. But there's no way this attack isn't organized and the guy I beat felt like someone important enough that him going missing is probably gonna get noticed. I'm not planning on risking my life because I don't wanna believe that the invaders consider me as a threat.

The unnecessary sounds trickled out one by one until the only thing I could hear are the sounds of metal clashing against metal, pained grunts, Qi strikes, and explosions. All of those things are dangerous and they go from safe (people are even enough that they can block each other's attacks.) a bit dangerous depending on the situation (grunts of pain can mean two things, either it comes from my fellow disciples or the invaders, one means its safe and the other means that I'm probably gonna have to fight.)

Then there's dangerous (I can only release ice with my Qi punches and people shooting Qi out at will are way out of my league) and then there's things I should just avoid entirely because if a man can cause explosions, then you probably shouldn't fight him with a sword.

With self preservation in mind, I decided to willfully ignore the sounds of explosions and Qi and threw all my focus on listening in to the pained grunts instead. Some were close, others were pretty far. Sometimes I'd hear shouting too, I can't comprehend them, hell, I can't even understand anything that these people are shouting.

I continued to listen in until I found sounds that are close enough that I wouldn't need to walk that far.

And now that I've found my target, I only need to do one thing- I sighed and tried to calm down my loudly beating heart, it hammered my chest so hard that the sound reached my head and rang my ears. I was scared- no shit. - and that's the main reason why I don't wanna go out there and fight people. I knew I was lucky the first two halves and I also know that when I ran around earlier trying to find someone to kill, a small part of me hoped that I wouldn't find anyone and I'd go back to Xie Wen empty handed.

And it's just my luck that someone found me instead. I clicked my tongue. The resulting fight wasn't so bad and I even went as far as winning but holy shit that entire thing was terrifying in retrospect.

As fear continued to eat at me, I circulated my Qi and hoped that the cold feeling it gives is enough to calm me down and fortunately, it was.

I picked up my sword and stood up, turning my head, I looked west, there, the sounds of grunts and talking can be heard even when I don't focus on my senses. I gripped the hilt tightly, I was feeling scared again but it can't paralyze me now that I decided I'm moving.

I hope they're strong enough that I can get a good amount of Qi from them. I tried to encourage myself, I can get stronger by killing them. I did it again.

Sword in hand, I took my first step westward.