‘Sign in’ Su Yuchen completed his sign in of the day, after waking up from losing his consciousness.
[Ding! Daily sign in completed. Rewarded “Cosmic Whisper Earrings”.]
He immediately looked at the earrings placed in the system storage, it was a pair of ear studs made of a pale blue gem, the ear studs gave off a cool and soothing sensation. He wore the cosmic whisper earrings and then slowly sensed a peaceful aura enveloping him.
The grade of these earrings was unknown to him, and he was troubled about whether he should wear them when he walked out of his courtyard. The pale blue gem looks lavish and costly, certainly he couldn’t own them.
He decided not to wear them when he goes outside and only to wear them while cultivating as he felt they might be useful for cultivation because of the cool sensation they covered his mind with after wearing them.
He kept them back in the system storage.
Next, it was an uneventful day. At night, he took out the cosmic whisper earrings from the system storage and wore them. Still, he used the stellar rock for cultivation. His mind however was not as strained as compared to the previous days. The cosmic whisper earrings restored his mental energy and let him stay fully focused on circulating the life essence and condensing the astral energy.
Su Yuchen slept in his bedroom on that day.
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‘Sign in’ Su Yuchen completed his sign in of the day.
[Ding! Daily sign in completed. Rewarded “Raging Water Elixir”.]
He missed the elixirs from the sign in system.
During the first week when he activated the system, all he received as rewards from the sign in system were elixirs of different types. There was even a caution notification under the reward notification to use the elixir before he went to sleep.
Those elixirs transformed his body. When he woke up the next day, he was always healthier and stronger than the previous days.
There was no notification under the elixir he received just now, so he doesn’t know if it’s okay to drink it at any time.
He drank it before going to do his morning exercise.
Nothing happened the whole time he was exercising, but by afternoon he noticed light changes in his body, his body was giving off a light blue light from its skin. He decided not to leave his room before he looks normal. He decided not to drink elixirs when he had plans to go outside.
Radiating blue light when he was outside would be impossible to explain to others.
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Waking up before dawn, signing in into the system, exercising under the purple astral energy, reading a book or attending lectures and then cultivating at night with the stellar rock, this became the schedule of Su Yuchen.
He was undisturbed during his cultivation for nearly two months, no one came in front of him to trouble him.
He received a green metal bar for completing another 30 days of signing in, and after 30 more days he received another piece of the same green metal bar. There was no special reward for the hundredth sign in, which he highly expected.
Su Yuchen is filthy rich, but he couldn’t spend them outside. He had received 100 top grade stellar rocks in the two months. There were also more elixirs he got to drink through the rewards.
They all had a great taste and also completely transformed his body remarkably, his mind was also affected with this transformation, his thoughts were more clearer than before. Within a month he perfected all the stances for his morning exercise and got the permission to exercise independently at his courtyard every morning.
There was a particular reason for him to put more effort into perfecting his stances. It was because of the book he received. “Cultivation notes volume 01” book had 30 pages illustrated with stances to practise under the morning sun. These stances lets him efficiently absorb the purple astral energy, better than from the exercises he was doing before.
So, he needs to perfect the stances and get permission to exercise independently in his courtyard.
Although these stances put a lot of burden on him even after his body underwent an elixir boosted transformation, the purple astral energy absorbed with these stances enriched his astral energy. His astral energy that had his aura was adorned with light purple colour.
Nine Meridians and a dantian were filled with his purple powered astral energy.
He would be entering the Meridian Refinement Realm within the next two weeks.
During the same period his name was also spread in the inner sect and to some extent in the outer sect. He was the most talented recruit among the disciples accepted by the sect this year. Soon, the inner sect was aware of the humiliation he suffered on the day he went to the rune hall.
Su Yuchen became a coward turtle.
He couldn’t accept the looks from everyone around him and hid in his shell. He never left the courtyard except for exercises, lectures and buying feed for the horse. After receiving his monthly resources and perfecting the stances, he stopped going outside except for the lectures. The maid bought the feed for the horse.
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Also she kept him up to date about the discussions happening about him.
During this time, his relationship with his friends stagnated. He had a thought, the outer sect disciples who might recognise him could trouble his friends if he was seen hanging out with them. They might look at him as incompetent and also look at his friends as easy targets.
Logically they should not be doing that, he was the most talented disciple recruited this year, but the unreasonable behaviours of the cultivators that he heard from Senior Brother Li made him question about the possibilities of his thought happening.
His cowardly actions stressed his mind more than the pain from the cultivation during this period. It hurt his heart. He never wanted to stay passive during this period, but he didn’t know what to do.
This just continued to motivate him to practice hard and be diligent in his cultivation.
Unexpectedly, news about the discovery of a new secret realm quietened the discussions about him.
Without hearing the discussions about him, Su Yuchen’s heart calmed down.
Another thought struck his now cool mind, which cultivation fool would discuss about the humiliation of an ordinary person for more than a month even if the said person was the most talented disciple recruited that year? And according to Senior Brother Li, shouldn’t people try to show their favour to him?
He questioned his maid once again and then went outside to check about the situation by himself.
Damn! He was still a topic of discussion among the disciples, although it decreased compared to a few weeks before.
He rushed to Senior Brother Li and asked him about his thoughts.
“You are targeted”, that was the answer from Senior Brother Li.
He was baffled by the situation. ‘Was that loser a brain dead?’ he cursed, but still felt some doubts about the whole situation.
‘Or was it the background behind the loser targeting him?’ he thought and then asked Senior Brother Li same.
“You are from the Third Elder’s faction. The cultivators from other factions might be targeting you because of that. They want to disrupt your mental state.” Senior Brother Li said his guess. Disrupting the mental state of Su Yuchen could lead to him getting injured during cultivation.
“No, I don’t belong to the third elder’s faction.” Su Yuchen said.
“The elder who brought you to the sect belong’s to the Third Elder’s faction. You will be considered as a member from that faction. If you want to offend all of the Third Elder’s faction, you can announce publicly that you don’t belong to that faction.” Senior Brother Li sneered at Su Yuchen.
“What’s with this nonsense? I want to be an honest cultivator, I don’t want to join factions and pick fights.” Su Yuchen bellowed to the heavens.
Senior Brother Li started laughing looking at the look on Su Yuchen.
“Take the mission we recently issued and join our Mount Stable. For the next four months you can be free from any troubles. We are supported by a powerful elder, you don’t have to worry about anything.” Senior Brother Li suggested to Su Yuchen after controlling his laughter.
“What is the work?”, Su Yuchen asked him. He didn’t mind working at the Mount Stable, he took care of his horse for three years in the mountain village.
“Feeding the beasts. I will teach you about all types of beasts we have here and what they feed on. You need to remember it and feed them according to a schedule. You can receive 12 contribution points by completing this mission. This task should complete your quota and also keep you away from any unexpected troubles.” Senior Brother Li explained to Su Yuchen.
“What if something happens to the beasts in here when I feed them?” Su Yuchen had this thought while listening to Senior Brother Li and immediately questioned him.
“I am in charge of managing the stock and distributing it to you, don’t worry.” Senior Brother Li answered Su Yuchen.
“What if somebody buys a beast and then the beast gets into a problem and then this leads to questioning me?” Su Yuchen continued to ask his thoughts.
Senior Brother Li looked at Su Yuchen as if he was looking at a dumb buffalo, “Junior Disciple Su, you don’t need to be so paranoid. No one should be having a grudge on you. That guard would just proudly boast that he humiliated a highly talented recruit and should not be thinking about harming you. No one will be making plans to kill you.’
“Okay, Senior Brother Li. Then I will accept the mission at the contribution hall.” Su Yuchen just agreed to do the mission and dismissed the look Senior Brother Li had on his face. Disrupting his mental state might lead to his death, someone was trying to kill him. He remembered something and asked, “Senior Brother Li, will there be any guards asking for stellar rock at the contribution hall?”
Senior Brother Li stared at Su Yuchen and said, “No, there won’t be. That’s the only place those guards will not dare to ask for stellar rocks. Su Yuchen, you don’t need to be so stressed all the time.”
“Thanks for your concern, Senior Brother. I will try to relax.” Su Yuchen replied to Senior Brother Li.