I stopped thinking about how many monsters I had to kill and started to think about if I should kill rank 1 or 2 muscle refinement stage. While thinking about it non-stop I came up with a solution which was to at first kill rank 1 monsters to get used to them after getting used to them I'll fight rank 2 monsters, to temper my body.

I walked for a couple of minutes before I reached my house and I entered the small house. I entered the room to only be exposed to the aroma of food coming from the table, in the middle of the house.

I said "hi" to Lucy and went and sat on the chair to eat my lunch and get ready to start the mission the second I finished eating my food. As I was eating the food delightfully Lucy came to the table and sat on the opposite side of me while eating her food.

She looked at me then asked "What mission did you pick?" I took out the mission paper and gave it to her.She took a few second to read the whole thing, after she finished, she looked at me and said, "We are not doing this mission, you're not even rank 1 muscle refinement stage". I look at her than I say to the system "release my aura". As I released my aura the whole room started shining red as the grey and violet aura was released.

Lucy looks at me dumbfounded and starts to ask me, "When I did your bro Broke through and became a cultivator".

"It happened like 1 month ago, after I was injured by the bear".

She then looks at the violet, grey aura and asks, "what's up with your aura, don't you get an aura when you break through qi refinement stage".

I started to get nervous and try to come up with an excuse that I could tell her and get out of this situation.

"System, help me out, " I said in my brain, "There are 3 answering you can tell her"

"1. Tell her the truth"

"2. Tell her that you had an enlightenment in a skill that effected your aura"

"3. Tell her that an old man has been helping you in your dreams to cultivate and he thought you a skill about Qi that gave you an aura before reaching Qi refinement stage"

I was trying to pick one of the answers but none of them were believers, it's the same as saying I threw a bait in the river to catch a fish but I caught a Phoenix.

I couldn't choose any of the answers before I heard Lucy say "it's okay if you don't want to say it now but you can tell me later".

I felt a bit relief hearing her word cause now I had a bit of time in coming up with an answer.

After I finished eating I told her that I will be starting to do the mission, she insisted on coming along with me to do the mission but I didn't want her to get hurt and that would make me lose a chance of getting an upgrade card when she kills a monster.

I picked everything that I needed and went outside and started to walk towards the outer part of the forest where most rank 1, 2, and 3 muscle refinement monster live. I walked for 2 hours before I reached the outer region of the forest.

I started to look for any kind of rank 1 monsters, I didn't have to look for long before I found 2 monsters at rank 1 and 2 muscle refinement, breeding in the open air in front of me. I took out my sword that I packed as I was coming here and filled it with the bit of Qi I had and struck their head.

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The sword had a bit of difficulty going through the rank 2 muscle refinement monster, but it cuts the rank 1 one like a butter.

I was ready to see two numbers of upgrade cards go up but to no avail nothing happened and nothing went up except that I felt something going up by a bit. As the that bit went up I felt a bit more power in my body, I felt very shocked from this development and so I asked the system.

"What was that?"

"Congratulations! The host has discovered a hidden function, reward: 5 times the normal effect for 1 month" "What does this function does" "It fills 0.5% of your dantain when you kill am a living being and is at the same level as you are, the % percentage depends on the level of the monster if it's 1 level lower than you it divided by 2 and when its 1 level higher than its times 2.

"You will not get anything from a monster 2 levels lower than you, but you will get times 4 multiplier if it 2 levels higher than you. "I was over the moon when I heard the notification, this has been the same as just giving me the power to control. Than system said something else, "When your dantain is filled the system will store the rest of Qi inside the system so when you refine the Qi and break through, then I will again fill your dantain".

I was confused on how to refine Qi because when I cultivated the Qi was already refined by nature, so I asked the system " how do I refine the Qi?" It answered with "Just try to cultivate, but use the Qi in your dantain as the source of the Qi"."This is extra information formation for you, 1 hour 2% of qi refined

When you refine 100% of the qi you will break through and your dantain will be refilled with stored qi"

"warning you cannot use this function after 1 months and you can only store enough Qi in the system to make you break through 1 stage"

"Wait, why can't I use this function after 1 month" "Because when you first notice the function it was when I was testing it if worked or not and it did work, but you noticed the change, so I gave it to you to use it for 1 months with 5 times multiplications a gift."

"Then when can I use the function again"

"When you unlock it"

"How do I unlock it"

"Just try to get a mythical innate talent and physique"

I stopped asking questions and started killing whatever monster I saw.