With only 13 days remaining in his schedule to improve himself, Zhang Wu Ji doesn't have the leisure time to conduct what he was doing as usual on a daily basis. As the matter of handling the supporting faction from the Wen Wu City and Apprentice Hall is done, Zhang Wu Ji further strengthen his support behind the curtain, with Blacksmithing Department and Kitchen Department's people is standing on his side.
When the Master Chef finally left along with five pieces of Crystal Coins carved personally by the Wen Wu City Lord, Zhang Wu Ji ordered Bai Hei Tie to chose all the High-Quality Elemental Crystals to be given to the Master Chef as he will need to handle the process in establishing his life-dream Crystal Fountain and Crystal Pond for cultivating the Jining Freshwater Trout.
Since it was an improvement for both his relationship with the Kitchen Department and the Tian Village, Zhang Wu Ji did not comment too much, but gave an order to some familiar faces he'd seen from the Apprentice Hall to deliver his message towards the Northern Side of Wen Wu City, to supply sufficient building materials to the Tian Village with the burden of the cost is deducted from his part of the profits.
Although the Medicine Department did not express their standing, their action is very much slanting towards where Zhang Wu Ji and his WUJI Faction stands, thus, he did not need to worry about any drastic changes will happen at this particular department. What's more, his supporting compendium of Records related to the medical knowledge is supplied at the Medicine Department without charges, which increase their number of profit and success rate further than they can imagine.
Soon, he departed from the Seven Star Sect once again, riding the Iron Scale Bull straight to the Southern Bamboo Forest for the sake of personal improvement. Stopping at the resting Tea House by the roadside before the entrance to the forest, Zhang Wu Ji inquired about the Southern Bamboo Forest before entering. The waiter is puzzled by his question at first, but looking at his black robe with seven stars on the robe, his manner turns docile and timid as he answered the questions.
"Dear Senior Master, nothing happened from the forest lately, but please be careful with the threat that came from a fellow human. A few days ago, a group of about a hundred bandits entered the forest and yet to return until now. I'm afraid if Master Senior paid too little attention to your surrounding, you will be in danger from their sneak attack." The waiter quickly answered as he bends down lower until staring at Zhang Wu Ji's feet.
"That's not a problem. This is the payment for the food and drinks. I include some additional as your tips and another two extra Qi Sensing Pills, so go and prepare me a few carriages to store harvested materials. I will come back in around two to five days." Zhang Wu Ji paid ten Qi Sensing Pills for the food and the carriage rental fee he might require during his return. Without further words, he left the Tea House and went straight to the Iron Scale Bull.
"Go enjoy your own fun and look for your food, I will come back later." Zhang Wu Ji pats the bull's head and left it to run wherever the bull wanted. He took his step and enters the forest later when the bull is gone from his sight. Taking a very decisive approach, Zhang Wu Ji enters the forest without putting too many cautions in his heading as he went in.
"No wonder they say the Southern Bamboo Forest is rich with natural resources!" since this was his first time entering the forest alone, it was an amazing discovery. In the first kilometer of his route, Zhang Wu Ji notices over ten plots of medicinal ingredients suitable to concoct the Wound Mending Pill. Not only that, but he also went past a few animal burrows, which should be the nest of some random animals without cultivation strength.
He randomly plucks a stalk of medicinal grass to inspect their condition.
Iron Fibrous Grass
-Usage 1: when processed in the furnace, the fragile outer appearance will be removed to reveal only the best quality Iron Fiber.
-Usage 2: If the grass were to be left until they naturally sundried, the Iron Extract within is edible and was a good source of Iron inside human's body.
-Durability:13/13
-Note 1: because the grass is grown in a location rich with Natural Energy, the yield of edible Iron Extract and Iron Fiber is twice better than normal.
-Note 2: because the grass is grown in a location rich with Natural Energy, the plant maturity and five-time slower than a normal plant.
"No wonder the plants the hunting department harvested is void of seeds! This is the main reason!" Zhang Wu Ji finally unraveled the mystery hiding the secret of the reason why the Southern Bamboo Forest is rich with so many resources. It was due to the fact plants required five times longer period to mature, but in their maturity, their lifespan will be five times longer compared to those not grown from here.
This means, if a plant that creates seed after maturity can only live for a short period of time, then the plants that grown here with five times longer lifespan, can create their seed for five times before withers. Plus, based on the growth, how can a plant that will create seed five times have a low yield in the produced seed? It will be five-time richer better.
But this also let him realized one fact.
If he harvested any matured plants here, the quality of his concocted pills will, of course, better than other's multiplying by few times. This reason alone made him more interested to look forward to what kind of medicinal herbs or quality materials this forest holds.
Without further ado, Zhang Wu Ji begins his mission of improving himself. But honestly, it was much accurate to address his action as "Plundering" instead. By using the strong Imprinting ability from the Fist of Destruction Qi attack, Zhang Wu Ji imprints his fist every tree that he went through. On his shoulder hanged a wooden branch with a sack on it, one to collects the herbs and another for harder materials such as crystal stones, rocks, and Flame Rock that he upgraded after he collected enough of them to do so.
Half a day later, Zhang Wu Ji went out of the forest. It was a difficult option for him, as he was blessed with the ability to discern treasures from dirt. Using the Description Reading Skill he named himself, Zhang Wu Ji collects only the treasures that came into his sight, and ignore the lower quality products. Although he only operates by himself, Zhang Wu Ji's speed in finding a treasure is faster than the others.
Going back to Tea House once more, Zhang Wu Ji reserved the Wooden Shack located right behind the Tea House for the sake of keeping his item while he entered the forest again to plunder more stuff. He repeated the process for three more times until he finally met with an opponent.
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"Roar!" it was a Charcoal Hound, a 6th Stage Inner Qi Fighter strength Wild Beast. Like its name, the Charcoal Hound body is full of hardened fur that arranged neatly like a scale all over its body. Depending on their age, the number and quality of their Fur Charcoal will be different. Treated as one of the best fragrance enhancing material for cooking purposes, it's existence bring happiness to Zhang Wu Ji
But Wild Beast is still a wild beast. Zhang Wu Ji swings his ruler to creates the twenty air blades out in thin air, but the sensitive-exploded Charcoal Hound escapes from the surrounding blades like getting through a maze perfectly. The Charcoal Hound quickly made a counterattack and strikes from his unarmed left hand. Noticing the sly little tricks the Charcoal Hound tried to execute, Zhang Wu Ji allowed himself to be trapped.
He executes an attack physically through the Jade Ruler but missed the target as it made a leap and flew past Zhang Wu Ji's head together with a claw attack, but Zhang Wu Ji's left hand executes a Collapsing Fist and punched the Charcoal Hound on its jaw. The Charcoal Hound falls to the ground with a bad landing and tried to escapes, but the attack on its jaw disturbs the balancing sense within the hound as it bangs the tree before it tried to stands up again.
Walking over to the Charcoal Hound slowly, Zhang Wu Ji collected a piece of Fur Charcoal.
Fur Charcoal
-Usage: Cooking ingredient. The meat dishes that cooked under the burning heat of the Fur Charcoal will have a flavor of Smoked Animal Fat.
-Durability: 1/1
-Special: if the Charcoal Hound remains 2 meters distance from the Fur, the Charcoal can burn at its will.
The moment Zhang Wu Ji finish reading the description, he throws the piece of Fur Charcoal away, which it later ignites and burn the grasses all around the stone. The Charcoal Hound stares at Zhang Wu Ji with extreme anger and howled with all its might. Five seconds later, howls coming from all over the place returned their reply, as more and more howls coming towards his direction.
Unexpected by him, the Charcoal Hound can request for help through it howling, and the number that is called is not small either. Although most of them were either in a pair or three, their number is shocking. Within ten seconds, twenty Charcoal Hounds made their appearance on top of the tree not too far from him. Ten came out from behind the first Charcoal Hound he fought, and more howls can be heard from not too far.
"If none of you guys able to kill me, then I will be the last human you've seen." Zhang Wu Ji tightened his grip on the ruler, and with a mere thought to activates the ability within the Longfeng Jade Ruler, Zhang Wu Ji increase the damage carried by his weapon by fivefold, increasing the attack from 20 points into a total of 100 points in a split second! Armed with the now passive Shatter-Strike, Zhang Wu Ji steps forward in a strong step, carrying the eagerness to fight within his heart!
As a beast itself, the first Charcoal Hound that fought with him before took the lead to the attack, but the beast failed to notice the differences in the Jade Ruler and did not try to evade the attack.
"Bang!" the simple swing shatters all the bones within the hound, leaving it without any strength to move a single muscle. Seeing how fierce is the human's attack, the other hounds strikes together without any hesitation, but this unfortunate sight leaves the former Charcoal Hound grief with regret. Perhaps if the hound can speaks, it will say;
"Brother and sisters, please leave! Do not throw your life away! This is your brother's fault!"
Spectating through the fierce battle, the hound stares at the young cultivator as he chases the ground for his next target. Armed with that deadly Jade Ruler, each strikes equal to an experience of bones shattered into the size of gravels. Worst of all, the human is the one chasing them, and not otherwise.
Still, the fight did not go that smooth to Zhang Wu Ji, as a few parts of his clothing has been torn off because of the hound's sharp fang and jaws. Looking at the remaining ten or fifteen Charcoal Hounds, Zhang Wu Ji decides to leave them there if they hesitate to attack. But unknowingly, the remaining hounds actually escaped.
"All... Right..."
"Time to gathers all the available treasures on their body." Zhang Wu Ji went closer to one of the carcass and took the Crystal Surgeon Knife to begin to dismembered them completely. With the special effect from the knife's second usage, he met no disturbance when operating on the carcass. After spending about three minutes with the carcass, he collected three different items.
The Charcoal Hound's Fur Charcoals, the immature 6th Stage Beast Core inside the body, and their rock hard liver. From the way their fur hardened, the Charcoal Hound must have a very specific diet, which means their liver must be something special, because in the description when he collects the liver out, the information board came out as;
Liver of Charcoal Hound
-Usage 1: Unknown
-Usage 2: Unknown
-Durability: 30/30
-Special: When used as (Empty), increase the growth speed of the (Empty) creature.
With seventy Charcoal Hounds was killed, Zhang Wu Ji returned this time with a total of four sacks of gathered materials instead of one. But in the four sacks, one was lighter because the item carried inside was the collections of seventy 6th Stage Beast Core. He stored them back inside of the Wooden Shack like normal and return to the forest once more, no matter what is the time.
Repeating this practice for a total of five days, Zhang Wu Ji finally calls it a quit, after he collected materials enough to fit a whole wooden Shack. As the number of the item were too heavy for the Iron Scale Bull to carry, Zhang Wu Ji was forced to purchase two horses belonged to the visitors of the Tea House and carries all the material back to the Seven Star Sect through controlling the two horses as they gallop.
Altogether, it took him a total of six days outside before returning to the Seven Star Sect with three carriages full of Blacksmithing, Pill-Concoction, Cooking, and some Pottery Materials. The two disciples that offered to help him to drive the two horses end up getting three Qi Sensing Pills for their help, and when he returned to his courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by an unexpected guest.
"Master Mother, this unfilial disciple Wu Ji greets you." Zhang Wu Ji went forward to her side and kneeled before he greets her politely. After that, the Master Mother finally went over for a seat before she took out a blueprint in the form of a scroll for Zhang Wu Ji's inspection.
When he opened the blueprint, Zhang Wu Ji is shocked for the first time.
"This! This is a drawing! After transmigrating into this world for so long, this is the first time I ever observed a drawing!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised. This is exactly something similar to the construction blueprint he'd seen back in his former world. Although it was a shock at first, the small deterrence did not exceed the surprise he gets from reading the description from his Upgrade System.
[Obtained one Celestial Engineering Blueprint]
[Congratulation to the user for successfully unlock the first Celestial Profession]
[Featured System Unlock: Blueprint Option]
[User are now allowed to "Create / Upgrade / Amend / Recycle" a Blueprint]
[Information Corner!]
[Do you know that blueprint comes in ten different grades?]
Zhang Wu Ji stares at the blueprint within his hand and was surprised that, the blueprint in his has was, in fact, the creation method for the Flying Sword used by his master. But the more surprising thing, however, is the fact the Flying Sword his master used, were only a First Grade Blueprint.
"Master Mother. Based on Wu Ji's inexperienced observation, the blueprint drawn inside of the scroll is related with the Flying Sword my master rides whenever he travels?" Zhang Wu Ji made an expression of trying to guess the content he'd seen within the scroll, although he already knows the truth.
"Good. No wonder Liang Tian wanted me to give you this scroll. He'd said, if you can recreate the Flying Sword, it will be great, but I personally doubted the possibility of your success rate." his Master Mother praised him at first and mentioned her in confidence at him on her end of the sentence.
"Master Mother, this disciple will not waste the effort Master and Master Mother gave him. Even if the material needs something that comes from the Fire Mountain or Hell of Swords, this disciple will make sure he try all methods to obtain them." Zhang Wu Ji had his Master Mother to rest assure with his capability.
"Good. Then I will hand you the second thing, and also something I collected from traveling the world with your master." she took out a ring that seems to be made from some precious material. It comes in a complete ink black outer layer, but the surface shines like an onyx gemstone where it reflects the light like a beautiful mirror.
"Thank you, Master Mother." Zhang Wu Ji raised both hands to accept the remaining gift right between his Master Mother's two fingers.
Without further words, she left the ring on top of the disciple before she left the disciple like a gust of wind, without leaving any instructions related to the onyx black ring.
"Master Mother do possess the strength of an Inner Qi Lord. But I wonder why she has so little confidence at me and my ability?" the sentence she speaks puzzled Zhang Wu Ji and his simple mind, but it did not leave him pondering as the youth returned to his room immediately to properly inspect the blueprint, and his new obtained ability, Blueprint Option, of course!
But sometimes, reality does hit somebody unprepared for it hard, especially when they come twice in a row.
Sweat with the size of a bead drops from his forehead onto his chin as he went across the ingredients to craft the most basic version of the Flying Sword.
(10) 9th Stage Flying Beast Core from ten different kinds of Flying Wild Beast.
(10) High-Quality Crystal of any kinds.
(10) Low Tier Spirit Grade Iron Ingots
(10) Low Tier Spirit Grade Copper Ingots
(1) High-Quality Gemstone
"No wonder Master Mother look down on my ability to succeed in creating this weapon!"