Transmigration Upgrade Specialist. Transmigration Upgrade Specialist - N_A

Before reincarnated, he was a poor librarian that have to sleep in the library because he can't afford to rent a room. After reincarnated, he was a poor bastard that was despised by his two elder brothers because he was born with a worthless Martial Constitution.

But as a Transmigrator, he possessed a special System, [Upgrade] that allows him to strengthen anything in this world. How would he fare when he will need to earn, create, upgrade, and upgrade even more to reach the peak of the world?

"Screw that damn drunk driver, how can he drive in such an intoxicated condition! I almost lost my life because of his drunk driving!" A youth started to curse the moment he wakes up from being unconscious . From how he delivered the insults, it must be a traumatizing experience plaguing his mind .

When he finally noticed the change of his surrounding, he was shocked by the appearance of only fully grown oak trees and dense shrubs . It was devoid of any buildings made from concrete or vehicles . Heck, not even an electric pillar is seen around him .

"Did I went into heaven? I'm dead?" the youth shivers as he thought about what happened earlier . Being thrown into such an out of ordinary place without an idea of what's going on give him a chill . Worst of all, he has no idea about this world at all .

"If this is heaven, shouldn't the god assigned an angel to my side and telling me what to do? And this set of clothing, it's different from what I am wearing before I come here . . . " the youth complaint about being sent here without having a guide . But more question is added to his puzzled mind when he noticed his set of clothing . Instead of a T-shirt and Jeans paired with a pair of sneakers, he's wearing a traditional long-sleeved robe .

Although the pair of shoes is much comfortable than his sneakers, the feeling of wearing a long robe covering until his feet is a little uncomfortable, but since it did not bother him while moving, he ends up putting this matter aside, unbothered . But as his mind calmed, a noise of something sharp like an arrow piercing through the air came into his hearing .

A flying sword with a human riding on top soared past above his head . It was a sword with a length of 6 feet long, and between a feet width . The surprises of looking at a person standing on top of a sword and fly amazed him .

"Did I transmigrated? What is this world and why can these people fly in the sky by standing on top of a sword? Wait! I have to hide first! If they're ruthless people or bandits, I am going to be dead before knowing how I end up in this world!" the youth quickly hides under the dense foliage . Since he knows that it will do nothing good for him, he did not go ahead and alerting the others .

"I still remembered my previous memories what happened before I come to this world, which means, I am transmigrated to a different world . But is this my body or someone else?"

With haste, he runs around the woods to search for a source of water to look on his own reflection . What will he do if transmigrated and entered the body of a rapist or a bandit? What if he looked like the murderer? But soon after he found a stream of water flowing, his nervous mind calmed once more .

He'd transmigrated and entered the body of this youth in his fourteen to fifteen years old . Based on his facial feature, figure, and clothing, the previous owner of this physical body must be a young master from some wealthy family .

Touching the body here and there to inspect for any irregularities, he noticed a waist pouch hanged on his belt . As he already the possessor of this body, he brought out the content and started to inspect them . A piece of jade, a bottle of bitter medicinal pills in an earthenware bottle, and two books .

"Zhang? The same surname as mine?" the youth took the piece of jade up into his eye level for inspection . But the moment he did that, a voice came into his head while he was unprepared for this kind of shock .

[Functionality: increase and promotes the quality of any material user can hold in his hand . Cost of the promotion depending on the quality of the material]

[To upgrade, kindly select upgrade via mental or spoken . As an example for the user's introduction, the status of an item will now be included in the tutorial . Please note that the user is entitled to observe the information of every object before and after upgrade]

"I actually have such an amazing ability! Is this the power granted to me as somebody transmigrated into this world?" the youth laughed in delight as he read and compare the differences between the two Wooden Plank's description . Eager to try on his own, he brought up the piece of jade in his grip and waits for the description box to pops up .

-Information: A low-quality jade purchased by the Family Patriarch for the children of Zhang Family . Due to the engraver's lack of skill, the jade quality is insignificant .

"From outside, the jade seems to be precious . . . But from the description, this piece of jade is some low-quality trash . If I tried to upgrade this jade, will the price went up higher or comes with a special ability?" the youth inspects the jade through his eyes .

After confirming that there are no people except himself in the woods, the youth gently whispers the word "Upgrade" while staring on the piece of jade . Soon, a strand of illuminated threads came out from his body and entered the jade . It soon brightens the jade from within as the description box appeared .

-Information: A low-quality jade purchased by the Family Patriarch for the children of Zhang Family . Due to the engraver's lack of skill, the jade quality is insignificant .

With a point of increment in its durability, the youth choose to continue . In a flash, he upgraded the jade three more times before he felt exhausted throughout his body like his stamina and soul was sucked out from his body through some unknown force . Still, the updated description box that came into his view tells him that it worth the exhaustion .

-Information: A low-quality jade purchased by the Family Patriarch for the children of Zhang Family . Due to the engraver's lack of skill, the jade quality is insignificant .

"I should take a rest before I continue . . . " the youth close his eyes for a short nap . Since he was fine from being alone inside the woods for this long, he's confident that this location is counted as a part of the save zone . Which means it will be fine for him to take a short rest to rejuvenate himself before continuing .

Unknown of how many hours passed, the youth wakes up with the sun is almost set . Since the exhaustion in mind and body is gone from the rest, he decides to continue with the +5 upgrade . Like usual, he whispered the word gently . But as the strand of illuminated thread brightens the jade from inside, the sound from heavy footsteps came into his ears .

"Someone's here!" ignoring the description box, he kept the jade into the waist pouch before turning to meet their eyes . It was two youngsters, both in the age similar to his current body . Based on the clothing they wear, their status must be a servant or youths from a small family . The moment they greet him as the Third Young Master, he starts to pay attention to their words .

"Third Young Master, please come back with us . It is getting dark soon, and if we return home late, I'm afraid old master will reprimand us by not allowing us to eat dinner tonight . " one of the two youths came closer to him and tidy up his clothing, while the other guy filled the bottle gourd with water and handed it over to him for a sip .

"Do I know you?" the youth swing his arm to get the two away from approaching him . Walking away from them for a few steps, he smiled as he thought a way to make this two servants answer all his questions . Looking at how they treated him the moment they saw him, the previous owner of this body must be a debauchee!

"Young Master, please don't make fun of us . We already follow you since you're five until now . Its ten years, young master . How is it possible for you to forget the two of us?" one of them speaks and step closer to him, while the other is scratching his head with questions .

"What's wrong with our young master? Tell me he's not trying to play with us . Anyway, we'll go along with his wish until he's back home . Else, our ending will be worst than not having our dinner that simple . " the smarter one between them seems to caught their young master's game and decides to play along .

"My name is Zhang Da Yang, and this is Zhang Da Zui . We're your personal servants since you're five until now . " the one closer to him introduced their name again to this young master . And like how they're named, Da Yang's facial feature carries a hint of a meek goat appearance, while Zhang Da Zui's lips are exceptionally long .

"Then, what' my background? My name?" he walked over to a piece of rock and seat himself comfortably anticipating . Meanwhile, the two of them looked at each another before they came out with their assumption on their young master .

"Young master . . . Your name is Zhang Wu Ji . You're the third and youngest child of the Zhang Family's Patriarch . Your eldest brother's name is Zhang Wu Yuan, and your second brother's name is Zhang Wu Chou . Our old master's name is Zhang Qing Feng . We belong to the Zhang Family of the Li Jiang Town, one of the four major families in the town . "

"Yes . . . Young master . . . We have to go back to Zhang Manor before the old master teaches us a lesson . " said Zhang Da Zui . The two of them look nervous as if they were afraid to be beaten to death if they went home late . Since the two did not carry an ill intention at him, he decides to follow them back for now .

-Information: A low-quality jade purchased by the Family Patriarch for the children of Zhang Family . Due to the engraver's lack of skill, the jade quality is insignificant .

"An increase of selling value . . . . " he thought . Standing up and taking a few steps forward, Zhang Wu Ji looks at his two servants with an expression of a smiling face . By standing at there for a minute without doing anything, he speaks .

"Do I need to take the lead to bring you both back to the town?" his question startled them . Following after, the two quickly take the lead and bring Zhang Wu Ji back to the Li Jiang Town . Since it was weird that a young master like him suddenly wake up alone in the woods, Zhang Wu Ji questioned them why weren't they accompany him before this .

It seems that because of the challenge from the young master of another family, the former Zhang Wu Ji went into the Qing Spirit Woods alone without anyone accompanying him for a test of bravery . But after that, nobody knows what happen next . But this makes sure about something .

"The former Zhang Wu Ji's death is either accident or planned by someone else . It seems I have to pay more attention to people around me . If its possible, I will need to upgrade something that I can use to protect myself . " he said to himself as they continue their way .

The name plaque hung on top of the entrance into the town state their name out for the visitors and fellow townsfolk . Looking at the design of the houses and shop lots, Zhang Wu Ji felt a tinge of remembrance towards the building and customs .

The moment he entered the Li Jiang Town, Zhang Wu Ji monitored how the townsfolk live their daily life . Stalls were erected along the street, similar to how it was in his own world . Although their vegetables and fruits for sale are slightly different from what he'd seen, some still carry a resemblance to what he know back in his former world .

Looking at the fruits sold by one of the stalls, Zhang Wu Ji went forward to take a look . But his action generates a stare fill with hatred and anger from the stallkeeper . Worst of all, the other stallkeepers carried the same expression on their face too as they stare at him with the intention to beat him into a pulp .

"Is something wrong?" Zhang Wu Ji asked his two servants, but instead of answering, they tried to pull their young master and leave the street quickly . After turning from the main street to a different road, the three of them stands just before Zhang Manor .

"The main door is made of heavy iron metal? For what purpose?" Zhang Wu Ji is surprised by the two metal doors positioned in front of the manor . But without asking further questions, he continued his way until the Main Hall . The two servants of his kneeled just before a person sitting in the middle seat before they speak . . .

"Patriarch, we brought Young Master back from outside," they reported themselves to the old master immediately . But instead of responding to their report, the old master is staring at Zhang Wu Ji with a pair of burning eyes, filled with anger!

"You ingrate! Where the hell did you go!" he questioned the youth loudly . Looking at the old master almost explode from all the anger he held, the two servants sneakily retreated until they're covering their young master . Based on their experience, their young master's next reply is going to come with two different endings .

Either be beaten into pulps before thrown into the Ancestral Hall or kneeling on washing board for the whole night . Luckily, the percentage for the second ending is higher than the first . Or else, their daily fate will be filled with injuries and resting on the bed .

"I am having fun in the woods today," he replied without a bother to hide anything from this so-called father of the former Zhang Wu Ji . As an orphan in his previous life, Zhang Wu Ji has been longing for the feeling of having a father . But it may seem difficult in this situation .

Because of the former Zhang Wu Ji's regular antiques of causing trouble, his father, Zhang Qing Feng, is always forced to teach this brat a lesson . While he was eager to feel the life of having a father, he's fated to clean up the trouble caused by the former Zhang Wu Ji .

"Did you learn anything related to Pill-Making?" Zhang Qing Feng questioned the youth . In the fifteen years of feeding this youth, never once before he followed the arrangement from his parents . According to the Pill-Making and Blacksmithing teachers, They're out of the skills to educate his child .

In his mind, Zhang Qing Feng is complaining . Throughout his life, he fathered three children with his beloved wife that passed away when giving birth to Zhang Wu Ji . Among the three, Zhang Wu Yuan, studies in Military Strategy, Calligraphy, and Medicine . Zhang Wu Chou excels in Politic, Music, and Martial Arts .

But things changed when Zhang Wu Ji reaches his fifteenth years old . The youth was expelled by the teacher in all the subjects his two elder brothers attended before the two remaining teachers give up on him before classes even started . As compensation for not able to educate this youth, the two teachers provided him with a manual according to their own profession .

"Da Zui! Bring him to the Pill Making Room! Da Yang! Find Old Zhang Niu to collect three sets of ingredients to concoct the Wound Mending Pill! Let me see how good is your skills in Pill Making!" Zhang Qing Feng ordered the two servants to follow his arrangement .

"Wait . . . " he wanted to continue, but the quick Zhang Da Zui pulled his young master to escape from the room, while Zhang Da Yang went behind the Main Hall to look for the family treasurer, Zhang Niu for the three sets of ingredient to concoct the Wound Mending Pill .

Moments later, the young master is in the room with the three sets of ingredients . The two servants that have no knowledge in any of all these things can only stand outside while waiting for their young master to complete his task .

Speechless and blank, Zhang Wu Ji stands in the middle of the room and stares at the three sets of ingredients arranged nicely on the table . At the side of the table is a bucket filled with red stones and in the middle of the table sits a Pill Cauldron about the size of a small rice cooker .

"Oh my god . . . How am I going to salvage this situation? Should I just randomly concoct something out from the ingredients?" he wanted to cry as he looks at the ingredients . Left with no choice, he searched the room for any hint that can help him until he stumbles across a small single-row bookshelf .

"Oh, there's books related to Pill Making and how it supposed to proceed . " If he went forward and added his own copy of [Preliminary Education to Pill Concoction], won't the bridge to craft some a pill already built? All he needed now is to know how it was done, and followed the instruction carefully!

Without wasting his time, he took the six books out and placed them along with the seventh book in his pouch, and started to went through the information and teaching listed inside of the seven books . But this means his bad habit kicked in as well because before he transmigrated into this world, he was a Librarian that eat, sleep, and work inside the library .

Using the skills of reading and remembering the details he learned and tempered from being a librarian for his whole life, Zhang Wu Ji quickly finishes his revision on the method to start making a Wound Mending Pill . Some remaining time is used on checking out other stuff, before the door into the room is knocked .

"Young Master, Old Master says he will come to inspect you and your works!" Zhang Da Zui shouted right outside of the room to warn his young master . Listening to his words, Zhang Wu Ji laughed inside his heart .

"This two guys, they're quite loyal to me . " as a man with over thousand of episodes in watching historical, modern, and sci-fi dramas, how can he not understand the effort by his servants? He immediately went to a different side of the table and started the Pill Making by igniting the fire from the red stone and placed one of them into the fire pit of the Pill Cauldron .

Holding the Blood Stopping Grass and Healing Flower in both of his hand, Zhang Wu Ji placed the ingredients into an arrangement that's convenient for him to start concocting the medicinal pill .

Following accordingly to the book he went through earlier, the process to make a pill becomes easier like cooking a pack of instant noodles . Without spending too long in his concoction, Zhang Wu Ji completed the first batch of his Wound Mending Pill .

Accurate with how the book describes, each set of the Ingredient will yield a total of 2 Wound Mending Pills . After he took the two pills out from the cauldron, he inspects them through the description box .

"Hey, not bad at all . " he smiled as he studies the two successful pill he made a while ago . But before he can do anything with them, a kick came from the door and sent it open wide . Following from the commotion, Zhang Qing Feng stepped into the room to see what kind of shameful thing this youth has done .

But the instant he saw the two pills in the hand of the youth with the yet to cooldown cauldron, his reaction become different from what he's expecting to do before kicking the door open .

"Wound Mending Pill? This brat actually succeed in forging two pills from his first set of ingredients?" he cannot believe what he's looking . Suspecting that the youth may cheat, he inspects the cauldron personally . Only after he smelled the distinct bitterness from the medicinal herbs and the warmth still carries inside the pills that he approved his conclusion .

"Great! How great! Finally!" the answer he heard bring happiness into the mind of this patriarch of a family . As for the youth himself, he was thinking about how to take back the two pills he just forged into his pocket . But at this moment, Zhang Qing Feng suddenly turned to where he stands and throws his a pouch of a hundred Gold Coins .

"Take this hundred gold coins and buy whatever you wanted to buy . You better not spend them in the Deity Pavilion, or I will drag you out from the building naked!" Zhang Qing Feng laughed as he stored the two pills into his pocket and left .

Without anything to do, Zhang Wu Ji took the seven books with him and returned to his room for some reading . And in a flash, three days passed . This sudden changes shocked even his father, but he decided to ignore it .

"Da Zui, Da Yang! Come here and tell me, what's the best business to do in this town?" unexpected by the two personal servants of his, Zhang Wu Ji first question after coming out from his sudden seclusion is about where to make money?

"What happened to Third Young Master? Had the beating from Li's too much until he becomes nuts?" the two servants are puzzled with his changes, but after thinking for a while, they produced two different answers .

"I think that the best way to earn money is by selling pills . Young master, even our Zhang's apothecary only has Wound Mending Pill and Meridian Soothing Pill for sale, each of them cost 10 Gold Coins if they purchase them from our family shop . " Zhang Da Zui answered . But he received a scolding from Zhang Da Yang soon before he answered .

"Stupid! Do you know how much is the cost our family needs to bear to produce the ingredients to the Pill Master? We only earn half of them at the end of the day . Young master, I think selling treasures is the best business in our Li Jiang Town . "

"I saw one of the cultivator coming back with a cultivator treasure he calls [Black Iron Sword] when he sold them through the small auctioneer hall, it actually worth 500 Gold Coins! If our Young Master can explore the ruins to . . . Oh . . . " Zhang Da Yang almost completed his sentence before he becomes speechless .

If your Young Master is yet to be a cultivator, how can he explore the ruins that were filled with many strong beasts? When he thought about what he just said, he felt like he was twice dumber than Da Zui .

"Since only pill business is likely to earn the best profit, I will focus on the path to produce pills first . Anyway, that's what I have for now . " he hesitates, but chosen to focus in Pill Concoction for now in order to earn more money .

As he thinks back, during the previous four days within the Pill Making Room, he actually spends almost all of his time to upgrade . At first, he does that to the furniture inside of the room, before noticing that there was nothing special he can expect from them .

On and off, he repeated the same towards all furniture inside of the room . Before he went out of the room on the fourth day, he kept his final attempt at the Pill Cauldron, which he has the highest hope on it .

After four tries, the success rate finally reaches 25%, but it wasn't enough for him because the 25% rate means his production will be one success in every four tries . If this is what going to happen, what money can he earn?

Which is why, he took a complete rest, about ten minutes before he went out from the room to attempt for the +5 upgrade . And when the results came out, it shocks him .

"What! 50% chances to double the amount of pill concocted? This means it was like a 100% bonus reward by concocting pills regularly . " Zhang Wu Ji jumped in happiness when he saw such an amazing ability appeared on the +5 Pill Cauldron .

"I have 100 gold coins in hand, so let us go to the botanist hall to purchase some good quality herbs before we continued . " Zhang Wu Ji decides to take the thing seriously . If he takes his own sweet time to delay things instead, It might end up as a useless approach .

"Chances only came to those who know how to take it . Victory loves preparation . If I want to do this, let's start it and not delay it further . " the servants take the lead as the trio went to the Botanist Hall .

Inside here, almost a hundred different plants and flowers with various medicinal properties are up for sale . As for those major in botanist profession, high-quality seeds are available for purchase as well .

But when he steps inside the hall, the reaction he received is out of ordinary . If one would describe, their services towards the others are like a servant towards their master, but towards Zhang Wu Ji, it was like the there is an unresolvable blood feud between the Botanist Hall and him .

"Why all of them looking at me like I kill their nine generations?" Zhang Wu Ji asked, but when his servants heard about his sentence, they were completely speechless!

"Third Young Master, it was a blessing that your memories are so bad and forgetful . " Da Yang speaks in his mind . But instead, Da Zui explains the reason for all these malicious intent .

"Young master, you . . . Previously disturb the young lady belonged to the Vice Hall Master's family . . . You incite arson against two of their greenhouses, causing the Botanist Hall to lost a considerable amount of resources . . . And . . . And . . . You bought the people from the underground society with money to incite trouble in their hall, and you're still standing at the spot when you did your deeds . . . " Da Zui explanation is so detailed that he misses nothing in his words .

"Not only that . . . The street vendors we saw yesterday, you burn their stall one by one every day before you hired the carpenters to build them a new stall, those designs are all your choice . . . " Da Zui continued, where his words completely made Zhang Wu Ji speechless .

"Zhang Wu Ji, you're a disgrace to the name Wu Ji!" the current Zhang Wu Ji is completely speechless against his good deeds done before he transmigrates into this body . In fact, he was the one to suffer the consequences because of his own trouble . [1]

"How do I salvage the situation now . . . " the current Zhang Wu Ji is completely speechless at this moment . He considered asking for forgiveness or act as nothing happened, but no matter how he chooses, it still will end with creating more misunderstanding .

"Who calls this bugger to actually disturb other people's young lady and even burn people's greenhouse! Two greenhouses on top of that!" Zhang Wu Ji almost curses and slap himself in the moment of anger .

"Da Yang, go and purchase some medicinal seed, and tell them this Third Young Master has repented . I will prove this with my action, and not words . " Zhang Wu Ji finished his sentence before he turned around and left .

"You're . . . Tell me I'm not as bad luck as this!" he asked in a very polite way while praying to the god this lady isn't the person previous Zhang Wu Ji disturbed, but the luck says otherwise .

"PIAK!" a slap came from the left and ends from the right . On the face of this young master, a print of a palm with five distinct lines can be seen clearly on his fair skin .

"I've been wanted to do this for so long! How dare you grabbed my breast and pinch my XXX when you're at it!" her anger blows up to the highest temperature as she raised her leg to kick Zhang Wu Ji .

In retaliation, Zhang Wu Ji took his own leg up as well, trying to compete with her in raw strength, but when they clashed against each another, Zhang Wu Ji was thrown backward and destroyed another wooden counter not too far from where they engaged in a fight .

"What the hell! A kick from a lady made me thrown off like a blind arrow!" Zhang Wu Ji cursed in his heart . How would he know that between a trash Martial Body like his against a proper Martial Body like the lady, is between heaven and pig hole? [2]

"Young Master!" Da Zui quickly went to his master and support him to stand up, but no matter how it looks, Zhang Wu Ji is seriously injured in this exchange . As for Da Yang, he managed to purchase five seeds of two different plants and finished the 100 Gold Coins in a flash .

"Keep back the Wound Mending Pill you have . I'm not that cheap to use those worthless pills you guys made," he said that! Unknown to himself, such a word is actually more destructive than the immoral behavior he has shown towards the young lady!

Da Zui and Da Yang looked at their young master and was turned into a statue for not knowing what can they do at this moment . It won't be impossible for him to lost his life here at this moment, seeing what kind of words he just muttered from his mouth!

"What a strong word you got there . Can you show me what kind of magical pill if you dare to deem the Wound Mending Pill we have and created is worthless?" an angered Pill Master step forward to dare this youngster to uphold his words .

"Da Zui, Da Yang, go back to our manor and bring me the Pill Cauldron! I will show these frog under the well what do my words mean!" he bellowed . Listening to his word, the two treated the word as [Go back and bring some support] as they left in a hurry .

"If you want to see what is magical, provide me with a set of the best ingredients to concoct the Wound Mending Pills!" since he already challenged everyone within the hall that their pills are worthless in their eyes, why not he continues to push it further? With his upgrade, it was easy for him to outdo all of them behind .

"Bullshit! Everyone knows that a better quality will always create a better quality Wound Mending Pills . If you're so confident, then make it with the most basic ingredients!" another Pill Master step up from not able to hold his anger any longer .

"Fine! Then give me the worst quality ingredients for the Wound Mending Pill! I will make all of you speechless through action and not words!" Zhang Wu Ji replied . In his mind, he was already angered by them anyway, why not make thing worst and create more trouble?

Half an hour later, Da Yang and Da Zui returned with the Pill Cauldron . But following them from behind is twenty more servants of their Zhang's Family, with two of them stronger than everyone presents in the hall .

"Why are you taking more people here? The damn Pill Cauldron is very light!" Zhang Wu Ji who didn't anticipates how tense is the situation scolds his two servants to bring so many people over .

"Alright, we should get ready to concoct now . " taking two pieces of firestones and ignites them like a flint, he placed them below the cauldron to starts heating the cauldron .

Through a simple nice looking show, he silently upgrades the two ingredients that supposed to be put inside the cauldron first, before he placed them within .

"Look at how fresh the Blood Stopping Grass and the Healing Flower! I remembered they were almost withered and dried when it was presented to the debauchee!"

"Yes, that's impossible! But what he throws inside is a proper quality ingredient!" the crowd begin to discuss about the ingredients and what magic did he use to make these ingredient become fresh once again . Even as a cultivator of a third Tier might not able to do such a feat .

When all the ingredients are within the cauldron now, their answer to his words will be completely answered by the pill concocted within the cauldron .

The moment the procedural steps were completed, Zhang Wu Ji placed his hand inside to see how many pills were created this time . As he clawed his way to the bottom, he calculates the number of pills in his grasp .

"A Fu*king two pills?" he was shocked by the results . It seems that the special effect did not happen at his attempt . But after a moment of consideration, he agreed with the conclusion .

In his mind, the fact the cauldron can produce double the number of pills in a batch through chances is something cannot be exposed to the public .

When he opened his fist to the public, two Wound Mending Pill is revealed to the public . Although the quality of the pill isn't as high as expected, nonetheless, it was still a better quality than those the Pill Master tries to take out .

"It seems that the end product after using the upgraded materials will inherit the upgrade effects . " Zhang Wu Ji did not wait too long but swallow the two pills into his mouth . After all, he was an injured person at this moment .

But the fact he could produce two slightly higher quality Wound Mending Pill is already an amazing feat added that he was using those close to expiry ingredients .

In the mind of everyone present, if they could learn how to rejuvenate the ingredient before using, how good? They will no longer need to face the consequences of wasting their ingredients any longer .

"I hope this results answered your questions regarding my impudence to says that your Wound Mending Pill quality is lesser than my own creation . " Zhang Wu Ji did not idly stand there while listening to the other's discussion .

In fact, he tried to promote his own product through this little incident, in hope of bringing more business to their family . It was a success at the end of the day before the people from Zhang's left the Botanist Hall .

Back to their manor, Zhang Wu Ji uses the reason of injured to missed their family dinner, before he took a short rest to rejuvenate his body .

As for his body condition at this moment, upgrading five items before taking a short nap is his limit, with fifteen upgrade chances in one day .

Looking at the two kinds of seeds, Zhang Wu Ji tried to upgrade them before starting . But unfortunately, his effort failed . It gave him no response from taking the choice to upgrade .

"Does this means my ability is too low for now?" he questioned himself after trying the same thing for over ten times now . Since it was pointless for him to continue with such a non-productive effort, he decided to plant first and further upgrading them later .

"If I can't upgrade you from the starting point, then I will start from where I could . As a plant, you need not only soil, but water, fertilizer, pest control, human touch, and also shelter! I don't believe I can't make some results out from those when it was applied to you!" Zhang Wu Ji was talking to the two pouches with seeds inside .

"Da Yang, Da Zui! Come here and help me to plant these seeds at the nearest available plot of soil!" Zhang Wu Ji ordered . Minutes later, the two personal servants of his returned with their hand filled with dirt and soil .

"Young master, we found a suitable spot to plant the seeds . Leave it to us!" Da Yang snatched the two pouches and went with Da Zui following behind .

"Well, we're on the right track slightly for now . As for the next step, I will need to begin by strengthening my foundation! I wonder do our house library has . " Zhang Wu Ji steps out from his room, and begin to make his way over to the library, which the previous Zhang Wu Ji tried to burn because his father forced him to study .

[1] . The current MC's name is written as Wu Ji (Ultimate, Boundless, Infinite . It was a term used in the Taoism) . But instead, the MC labeled the dead Zhang Wu Ji as (Without boundary, Nothingness) . In another term, the current MC is insulting the Previous MC for being a pain in the ass .

[2] . A pig hole means a big pit used by the human to collect the feces defecate by humans . They were then used to creates fertilizer to grow plants .

The moment Zhang Wu Ji entered the library of Zhang's Family, a few servants in the family all prepared a bucket of water in hand . Because the previous experience of their Third Young Master tries to burn the library, this reaction becomes normal in their daily lives as a servant in Zhang's Household .

Taking over the identity of Zhang Wu Ji for less than a week, he has to gain more information and knowledge related to this world thoroughly before he actually did something wrong . Although . . . The chances of him killed because of the former Zhang Wu Ji reputable deeds is higher .

It took him two days to went through most of the reading material he considers important for him to know . What wonders him the most is their language and writings is basically the same as his former world . Except for the void of science, electricity, mechanical and building made of concrete, everything is almost similar to what he had seen before back in his own world .

Back in his world, it was level 1 to level 99, and a level 100 is counted as the strongest person ever endured . But even that was made into a video game and not in their real life . While for the circumstances in this world, they were pretty much similar to a video game .

This is what their cultivation tier called . In the branching Tier, one will weave the strands of Inner Qi to produce more power for the cultivator to control . In the earliest stage of the branching tier, A cultivator will have to weave a total of 100 strands of Inner Qi in their body until they advanced and become a proper cultivator .

This is also known as the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter Stage . Where everything begins . For every 100 Strands of Inner Qi weaved inside their body, it will be condensed into a strand of fighter Qi . Similarly, as long their amount of Fighter Qi reaches 100 strands, they can advance into the next stage, and so on . This will remain from the 1st Stage until the peak of the 9th Stage .

Entering the 10th Stage, they will be a qualified Inner Qi Warrior, a minimal requirement to become somebody associated with the Clans, Families, and proper Imperial Forces . This will continue until the 20th Stage, known as Inner Qi Soldier, 30th Stage, Inner Qi Master, 40th Stage Inner Qi Grand Master, until 50th Stage Inner Qi Elder .

Reaching 59th Stage in their cultivation, one will need to went through the Sheng Tian Process to cleanse their body and purify the Quality of Inner Qi, Physical Body, and Martial Body before entering the 60th Stage .

This stage is known as Inner Qi Lord, a grand title given to only those in this stage because they're now considered as a true cultivator that went through the cleansing process, where their strands of Lord Qi is twice stronger than before their Sheng Tian Process .

As they continue, it would be the 70th rank Inner Qi King, 80th rank Inner Qi Emperor, and the 90th rank Inner Qi Saint . Only by possessing 9,999 strands of Saint Qi can one obtains the ability to step in the sky, although the exhaustion of Qi will be extremely great .

Bur from rumors, it's said that the cultivation tier above the Qi Branching Tier does exist, but until now, no cultivator succeed in advancing past the borders between this two tiers .

"Wu Ji, what are you doing inside the library?" Zhang Qing Feng went to the library to see what the bastard is looking forward to accomplishing, but before he entered, Zhang Wu Ji opened the door and come out .

"I was reading . It seems our Ping An Continent is really interesting!" Zhang Wu Ji replied his so-called father in a nonchalant attitude, Unknown that his shallow reply will get the attention of his father .

"Quite interesting? What did you understand there from reading those books inside the library?" Zhang Qing Feng is shaken by the word this youth speaks . Only lingering in the library for two days, how many information can he grasp?

"If this brat actually understands the situation within the continent and what trouble us the most within the Li Jiang Town, it would be the best, even if he can't cultivate!" Zhang Wu Ji thought .

Ping An Continent, Four Imperial Kingdom, Qi Branching Tier, Beast Infestation, Profession, and Hierarchy . Is there anything I missed out?" as a librarian at his previous life, Zhang Wu Ji's bad habit such as thoroughly skimming through the book, revise them and simplified their content end up appearing once again .

But inside this useless debauchee Zhang Wu Ji, won't this turn into an uproar if the useless and unable to cultivates Third Young Master suddenly went to read books?

"Father, are you here to read some books as well? Some of them are too lengthy, they waste me too much time to went through the whole book," he asked his so-called father since they were both standing at the entrance of the library .

"Read your head! I'm here to see how you're going to burn the library! But you actually read? And understand the continent and the power delegation on top of that? Has the sun start to rise from the west now?" Zhang Qing Feng stares at the bastard child of his while plenty of words he wished to say went through his mind .

"Since my pocket money is limited, I was thinking about concocting some pills to earn money . Father, do you have a cultivation manual that I can learn?" Zhang Wu Ji replied his so-called father honestly . After listening to the servants that he only has 500 gold coins monthly to spend, and how he uses 100 gold coins to buy ten simple seeds, it seems that their family isn't doing too well .

But . . . How would he know that it was his own action that causes his pocket money to be deducted by so much? Zhang Qing Feng used to give him 5,000 gold coins monthly to spend, but he used the first-month money to visit the prostitutes in the Deity Pavilion for a total of five days and return home in life-risking condition .

After the pocket money was deducted to 2,500 gold coins, he took it to wreck havoc in the Botanist Hall, messing with their Vice Hall Master's only daughter, arson, and others . These actions almost took him his life when he returned to the Zhang's Family Manor with hundred cultivators wishes to kill him .

Then, it reduced to a mere 1,000 gold coins a month, which he used them to burn the stalls of the vendors from the business street . His father screamed "My God!!!" when he privately hires the carpenter to rebuild the stalls, but yet to give up in his ignorance, the former Zhang Wu Ji changes the design again and again, until the business street looks like a joke now in the eyes of other visitors!

Three times, in three months, after he reaches his growing age of fifteen years old . As for the education subjects, he was expelled from the six classes his two brothers took, and the Medicine Teacher and Blacksmithing Teacher give up on teaching him after five classes .

"Erm . . . Take it as a learning process, I will tell some people to bring you some ingredients to practice . As for those sold in Zhang's Apothecary, I will let you keep all the money it sold . " Zhang Qing Feng hesitates to let this bastard child of his handle the production, but a few additional pills for sale won't be a problem .

"As for the Cultivation Manual, I will have some people to bring you a few of them," he replied before leaving . But when Zhang Qing Feng returned to his room and listened to the report from the butler, his expression turn green from his decision earlier .

"That bastard child of mine concoct a better grade Wound Mending Pill by using trash medicine? How is that possible!" he almost cannot believe what he said, but from the word of the servants of Zhang's Family, Pills Masters, and people from Botanist Hall, how can that be false!

The next day, Zhang Wu Ji went to have a look at the plot of soil where the ten seeds are planted . Only three days have passed, so it was normal to not seeing any sprouts on the soil . But then, he walked over to where the watering can is placed, and tried to upgrade it .

"Amazing! He shouted when he read the description given by the upgrade system . Without waiting, he took the watering can and proceed to collect some water, but soon, stop on his track .

"Hah . . . Hah . . . Shit! My cultivation is still too weak for me to upgrade five times and still move freely!" he collapses at the side of the well, still with the hand holding the watering can .

Unknown to him how long had passed, Zhang Wu Ji awake from his slumber . His first sight is the knot on top of his bed, folded together to form a curtain that can repel insects when sleeping at night .

Standing beside him, Da Yang and Da Zui are shivering in worries, unknown what had happened to their young master when they went to collect the ingredients their master ordered .

"Yes, young master, please let us handle these smaller tasks for you . " Da Yang added . He later moved to a corner of their young master's room and took a few ingredients out for their young master to inspect them .

Although all the ingredients were nothing precious, still, his father delivered a total of 100 sets for him to play with them . This alone may cost his father between 500 gold coins, which was an enormous expense compared to a normal family of four that only need to spend less than 100 gold coins a month .

It may look like the ingredients doesn't worth as much as their seed counterpart does, but the reason for their differences is easily distinguished . The harvested ingredients carry no ability to further reproduce, but it was different from the seeds .

A skillful botanist can properly grow their own variant of plants, which will vary in their overall quality, and yield when harvested . For those bigger establishments, their ingredients may be sold for higher prices because of the better quality ingredient was presented .

The better the quality, the higher the chances of a successful concoction . For example, the half-withered ingredient he used a few days back to concoct might results in a failure or a single pill is concocted at that time, but he managed to concoct two pills . Furthermore, the quality of his pill is slightly better than their normal version .

A proper well taken cared basic quality ingredients may yield between two to three pills in a cauldron, while those better one may yield even more, depending on how well they were grown . Due to this sensitive circumstances, the botanist profession is often well sought after by those businesses excel in medicine .

"Da Zui, from today onwards, go to the plot where the seeds are planted and water them using the Watering Can in my hand before I collapse . Twice a day, and report to me if there are any changes in the sprouts . "

"As for Da Yang, come to the Pill Making Room daily to deliver foods and collect the completed pill to be sold at the Zhang's Apothecary . " Zhang Wu Ji delegates the task to his two servants and went over to the Pill Making Room .

Realizing that their young master wishes to sleep in the Pill Making Room, they quickly rearrange the bedding and belonging might be used by their young master and transferred them to the Pill Making Room, before they left to do what he ordered .

"Well, since father already delivered me 100 sets of ingredients, should we begin once again?" Zhang Wu Ji officially starts his attempt to earn more money . With the word of mouth quickly spread across the whole Li Jiang Town, 99% of the population living in the town was informed with the higher quality pill produced by the Third Young Master of Zhang's Household .

In fact, who isn't tempted to purchase the better quality Wound Mending Pill that will save their lives when fighting against the Beast Infestation in the wild?

Compared with a human with cultivation, the Beast can easily overpower a group of humans with similar strength as they do . As for the reason, because the beast only has two different stage before the advance in their ranks!

A Wild Beast is well known for their strength between an Inner Qi Fighter to Inner Qi Soldier rank . As for the Strong Beast, their strength is between Warrior Rank to Master Rank . After this two differentiation came in the Lesser Demon Beast and Greater Demon Beast .

Similar to a human, a Lesser Demon Beast is known for their strength between elder rank to an Inner Qi Lord . A Lesser Demon Beast will remain as one if they failed to break through the border between Lesser and Greater Demon Beast . The difference is significant because the breakthrough allows them to enter the Xia Di Process .

With each Strand of Inner Qi is worth 1 life source, a 1st Stage Fighter Rank cultivator can easily have 100 Life source to support themselves in a fight, but when that was used to compare with Zhang Wu Ji, which not even have 10 strands of Inner Qi, the differences are pretty huge .

"Unless I cultivate, It would be very hard for me to improve . I cannot remain so weak that I will collapse after five upgrades attempt . " Zhang Wu Ji knows that except to continue to train and strengthen himself, It would be difficult for him to overcome his weaknesses .

To support his production, no matter how tired it would be, he will have to concoct at least one set to be sold every day, which is why he will only supply one batch of the Wound Mending Pill each day, and spend the remaining points to upgrade the ingredients .

Each time, it took him between 3 to 4 hours of short rest before he can continue with the upgrading . After some calculation, he decides to upgrade only three times a day, which totaled up to fifteen attempts, and the remaining time will be used to concoct the pills, rest, and reading .

Even Zhang Qing Feng himself is surprised by the effort the child put into himself . Seeing how much of an improvement on the youth, he decided to deliver the two Cultivation Manual he previously spent some effort for the master to creates a copy .

Three days later, Da Zui is the first to came and reported to his young master about the plot with seeds . It seems that the ten seeds he planted had sprouted . Among the ten, half of them grows faster than the others .

Listening to his report, Zhang Wu Ji dismisses him from the room to continue to look after the plants . After all, the plants were properly nurtured by him through the watering can's special ability .

With only 15 units of Upgrade can be used, he only did upgrading 15 sets of the material, with three set has been used to concoct the Wound Mending Pills . The only unfortunate is that his three-set only yield him 8 Pills, with none of his three attempts managed to activate the special ability of the Cauldron .

But through this eight pills, Zhang Wu Ji already nearly wreck the entire Zhang's Apothecary because of the market for his Wound Mending Pill is too enormous . Cultivators from all over the town queue outside of the apothecary for the sake to purchase at least a pill before going out for their adventure .

From 10 gold coins per pill, the extreme demand caused the price to soar, reaching 25 gold coins for a single Pill! In the eyes of Zhang Qing Feng, he almost blamed the youth for his turtle speed in concocting the pills!

What he doesn't know about is, with the amount of cultivation strength and Inner Qi inside his body, how can he produce over one batch of pills?

[1] . The Sheng Tian here is a direct pinyin means Ascend to heavens . It was a proud and heavenly ordeal often used on those folklore stories where their MC ascend to the heavens .

"Third Young Master!" Da Yang came back with two books in his hand, which was given to him by their master to be delivered to Zhang Wu Ji's hand as soon as possible . Since the time is getting close to dinner, Da Yang came along with a tray of about four different dishes .

Being treated like a God of Wealth, Zhang Wu Ji's dinner was prepared especially for him . As for the latter Zhang Wu Ji, he complains in his heart, because his taste and preference on the dishes are out of the league . Forcing himself to clear the plate of rice and four dishes, Zhang Wu Ji warned Da Yang to not bring him any of these dishes next time .

Sour Plum braise fish with gingko, Steamed Vegetable with raw oysters, Braised Pork with pickled vegetables, and steamed chicken with Dark Soya sauce!

"You're the most eccentric idiot I saw in my life!" he complained again and again, while the whole kitchen is in a ruckus at this moment . The sudden changes in the young master's taste bud is a good news for them!

"We finally don't need to prepare those ridiculous dishes anymore!!!" the head chef cries in happiness when he found out that the young master no longer fancies those dishes . One has to say, the former Zhang Wu Ji is seriously creating too much trouble for a man with a weak ability like him .

The only fact remains is amongst the three children of Zhang Qing Feng, Zhang Wu Ji was his most doted child of the family, being the last offspring he and his dead wife produced . "Although he was a trash that can't cultivate, so what? He is still the youngest and most doted child between me and my wife . " this word has been blinding him whenever he had to come out and solve the problem caused by the youth .

"Did the heaven finally take pity of me and decided to turn my mindless child to a proper youth now?" Zhang Qing Feng pays his tribute to the dead wife's grave and smile whenever he thinks about the changes he had seen from the youth .

"Zzz . . . " Zhang Wu Ji was sleeping peacefully with two manual in his hand . Between the two, one of the books seems made from a higher quality material, where the brilliant it gives out to outshine the other one .

"This is amazing . I did not think that with the upgradeability, it can actually create such an amazing ability to come from the book . " Zhang Wu Ji praised his ability while caressing the book like it was a treasure he created .

"Should I try to upgrade this book as well?" he considered for a moment before he started . After a few time of succession, he finally upgraded it into +5, making him having two +5 Cultivation Manual in hand now .

This was the first manual in his hand, which is why he was holding the manual to sleep after overexerting himself previously . As for the second manual, it was quite a surprise as well .

Special: absorb opponents Inner Qi by 1 when touched by other cultivators . The only User can use the absorbed Inner Qi . Current storage slot is 3 Strands of Inner Qi

"Hahaha! I got a magical trick now! If I call the servant to come to me every day one, I can easily increase my amount of Inner Qi that can be used . " Zhang Wu Ji cannot believe that this way, he can begin to cultivate .

Although for normal people, they would require to follow the steps written in the manual to begin their practice, for Zhang Wu Ji, it was much more simple . To use one of the three Golden Body Manual Skills, all he needs is just to activates and provides enough strands of Qi to activates .

As for the meditation skills, it is even easier . All he needs is to practice his meditation, and every 60 hour and 72 hours, he will obtain 1 Strand of Inner Qi . This is almost like a cheat for a person with broken Martial Body like him .

"Tock Tock Tock . " three knocks came from the door . When Zhang Wu Ji went over to get the door, he noticed the hurrying Zhang Da Zui standing outside impatiently .

"Young master, the Soothing Flower seed already producing their bulbs, although it was only five bulbs, if we left it matures and wither, we can roughly double their numbers in our next replants . " Zhang Da Zui explained what had just happened on the plot of soil .

It seems, after the watering can have been used, the growing speed of the plants, especially for the Soothing Flower is getting slightly faster than normal . Although a normal Soothing Flower usually takes 10 days, about 240 hours to grow from a seed into a blooming flower, if they have been watered through the watering can often, the collection can be done after nine days .

"Great job, continue to manage the plot, let me know when the Violet Meridian Grass sprouts and begin to grow . As for the Soothing Flower, you can replant them after the seed is taken to dry . " Zhang Wu Ji gives a different set of orders before he prepares to return to the room .

"Ah, wait . Come here and touch the book . " he extends his hand out with the Golden Body Manual +5 to Zhang Da Zui . Obeying his master's order, Zhang Da Zui touches the manual, but feel nothing wrong from it . Without waiting for the young master to think of something, he quickly walks away .

"I can't wait to see the changes might happen on the plants . But for now, properly increase their quality is the best way to go . " Zhang Wu Ji returned to the room and absorbs the strand of Inner Qi taken from Zhang Da Zui . In this way, he can increase the rate of his production slightly faster .

For the next few days, he did not waste his time to rest unless it was required . Taking advantages of being a member of Zhang's household, Zhang WU Ji ordered all the servants to follow his direction . Each time he rings the bell in his hand, three servants with some cultivation strength shall stand before his room .

Every single day, one person can only come to attend to his needs once, and not more . Through this way, the remaining 250 units of ingredients were quickly upgraded to their +1 stage .

In his next seven day schedule, other than providing a two consistent Wound Mending Pills for their daily sales, Zhang Wu Ji spent all his time in upgrading, sleeping, and practice . The seven total days provides him with a total of 4 additional strands of Inner Qi, making his body a 9 strands Inner Qi practitioner .

For somebody that cannot cultivate like him, this was a cheat . An amazing one on top of that . With 9 strands of Inner Qi each time he wakes up from his short rest, he finished concocting all the ingredients very quickly but purposely leaving a few for later because it was essential to act like one .

With some additional Strand of Inner Qi in his body, Zhang Wu Ji tried to upgrade the item over +5, but unfortunately, his attempts failed to give him any positive response . After trying for a few times on several different items, he deduces that unless he entered the ranks Inner Qi Fighter, it will be very difficult for him to try upgrading over +5 .

Which is why, for now, he's completely engrossed in upgrading everything belonged to him into +5 status, but it seems except a few certain items worth the upgrading, the others aren't so much . Those bedding, teapot, chairs, and others all failed to get a special status at their +5, but after the upgrade, their durability and comfort are extremely high .

Once, his father went into the room and took a sit on the chair, and yet hesitates to left the seat because it was too comfortable . At the end of the day, his father took the chair away with him, leaving his room with one chair less .

"This brat has quite a taste . I remembered the time he bought that set of furniture for the sake of the color, I scolded him for two nights before agreeing to his demand, but to know that the chair is so comfortable," he said in his mind as he rubbed his face on the wooden chair .

"Did our master turn crazy after our young master becomes normal?" the servants are speechless when they see the high and mighty master rubbed his face on the chair instead .

"What are you guys looking! Go back to work!" when he noticed how embarrassing is his behavior, Zhang Qing Feng scowled at his servants and get all of them away from where he was standing .

"What trick can I get to quickly increase my cultivation strength?" Zhang Wu Ji was impatience to quickly increase his strength, but at this moment, he has no other choice but to depend greatly on the two and a half day and three-day basis for an increase of two Strands of Inner Qi .

For somebody impatience like him, this improvement took too long for him to see notable results . After going through a few books related to the cultivation and cultivators, he still failed to found a solution to quickly enhance his numbers of Stands of Inner Qi .

Soon, the batches of Wound Mending Pills entered the market in bulk . In his previous 80 attempts, about 30 of them did successfully activate the special ability, allowing him to yield 4 pills instead of two each time . But unfortunately, he wasted four sets of the ingredient to try concocting them in the strength of a +2 Ingredients, +3 Ingredients, +4, and +5 .

The end of his experiments is a complete disaster . All four sets of ingredients end up as a lump of medical waste . But after he groups them together to try upgrading them, it unbelievably works .

Without any consideration, he went straight to where he planted the seeds and scatters the fertilizer evenly on their soil before he waters them again . Perhaps it was due to the newfound strength of 9 Strands of Inner Qi, he did not feel tired after doing some basic works .

Meanwhile, not too far from the Zhang's Household, is where the Zhang's Apothecary is located . Currently, the stall is under heavy assault from the people from a group of underground society .

"Destroy their store, and take away all the precious medicine they got in there! Count it as the repayment for angering this 2nd boss a few months back!" a one eye male between his twenties came to cause havoc for the family . From the word he speaks, it seems this must be related to some disaster the Third Young Master caused .

"Stop right there!" the other servants from Zhang's came to aid their people, and very quickly, both sides engaged in a big fight . With the mood to only come out for a walk, Zhang Wu Ji was greeted with such a sight .

"Oh . . . Bloody and smells . Can't they fight somewhere else? Eh? Why our apothecary is being beaten into such a state?" Zhang Wu Ji finally noticed the terrible condition of their shop, and by sneaking from one person to another, he finally reaches the side of the shop, and check the people still inside .

"Third Young Master, why are you here! They're here to cause trouble with you!" a servant was shocked with their young master arrival . Without caring for their own lives, two servants quickly took him away from the store, which they were soon caught the attention of the one-eyed male .

"Stop there! I found you, damn Zhang Wu Ji!" he charged at the trio in haste, swinging the sword in his hand as he went pass their defense . Within five seconds, he reaches the trio and intends to give it a swing .

"Golden Protection!" with the Golden Body Manual still by his side, he activates the ability of Golden Protection by sacrificing two strands of Inner Qi .

"I remember that the Third Young Master is a trash and cannot cultivates! How did he deflect the sword attack!" one of the spectators was stunned the moment the sword was blocked by an invisible golden shield .

"I'll let you taste two Golden Fist at the same time!" upon the activation from the Golden Protection, he was completely absorbed into fighting against another opponent, which he activates the Golden Fist twice .

Like a golden gauntlet appearing on his right hand, he slammed his first strike at the head of the one-eyed male, before he strikes another hit on his chest .

"What? Did he die with just two hits? I thought it was nothing too much for him . " Zhang Wu Ji stands up from riding on top of the dead body . In his deep thought, it was a surprise to be able to kill a stronger practitioner with two strikes, but he forgot about the difficulties to master the Golden Fist!

If the master of Zhang's Household know that Zhang Wu Ji actually mastered the Golden Fist with only reading and practicing it for seven days, how will he process this?

"I think I just caused a trouble . Even I'm not a troublemaker like you does, former Zhang Wu Ji . " he scratched his head while looking at the spectators that were staring at him with their wide opened eyes .

Without being bothered by their stares, Zhang Wu Ji left the location after he rummages the dead body of the one eye male . It seems except the sword, a pouch with some gold coins, pills, and a random manual, there wasn't anything valuable for him to turn into his belongings .

Previously, during the ten days of concoction and practices, Zhang Wu Ji completed the concoction of 95 batches of Wound Mending Pills . Each batch yield him 2 pills, making it 190 pills in total before added with the 60 additional Pills came from the special activation .

The sales from them were estimated to be 6,250 gold coins . But the cash was given to him by his father because he sure it will be sold out before long . A few hundred pills hardly last a whole week, where their sales of the normal pill are between 500 to 1,000 pills a day .

It might don't seem like this, but in fact, the Li Jiang Town alone possess over 1,200 Fighter Rank cultivators, 25 Soldier Rank cultivators, and 4 Warrior Rank Cultivators .

The four Warrior Rank Cultivators are respectively the master of the household . Zhang's, Tie's, Li's, and Chen's . As for the 25 Soldier Rank Cultivators, each family possesses five of such masters, with an exception of 10 in Zhang's family .

This is the reason why Zhang's Household can be said to be the overlord of this town, allowing the former Zhang Wu Ji to do his biddings without worrying about consequences!

Without an aim along his path, Zhang Wu Ji came out only to take a breath of fresh air . Although he was slightly worried about his safety because of the deed former Zhang Wu Ji has done, but luckily, he too has a protective measure to protect himself now .

Window visiting each shop he walks past, he was completely absorbed into the culture practiced in this world . Their way of dyeing clothes, tailoring, and style of their shops are very much similar to where he came from .

In fact, except the additional of Cultivating Technique, Inner Qi, and the lack of machine, this world is almost comparable to where he came from .

"Zhang! Wu! Ji!" the young lady from the Botanist Hall so coincidently bump into the daydreaming Zhang Wu Ji, and practically shame her on the streets because the bump caused her to drop her bag of seeds!

"Again, you're here to make my life difficult! I will kill you this time!" the young lady fiery temper blow off the moment she saw Zhang Wu Ji, and without holding back, she launches her fist that was filled with the strength of a 60 Strands of Inner Qi towards him!

"Protect the young master!" a shadow came out from the tree in that instant, but before they reach their young master, it was a shock to see that their young master actually beat the lady, causing her to tumble on the ground before she knocks another person .

"What is this all about?" the Soldier Rank servant cannot believe his eyes . while at the same time, the young lady cannot believe that a weakling like Zhang Wu Ji, which has been sent smashing at the wooden counter, can retaliate and put her in the same condition!

"Come on! I got my Golden Body Manual with me . Unless you're a cultivator, it won't be a problem for me to completely trash you!" memorizing the move he learns from the movies he watched before, he presents the stance of Taichi in front of all people! [1]

[1] . Taichi is a form that was practiced by the old and young in Chinese communities as a form of healthy stances . In the novel works by our great grandmaster Jin Yong, the Zhang Wu Ji is actually a character in his work [Dragon Sword and Heavenly Sabre] . It was a very interesting drama once in Hong Kong

"This is impossible!" the young lady used an adult's arm to support herself while she struggles to stand back up in both feet . Although there aren't any visible scars or wounds on her, a slight injury is still can be noticed, since she was thrown tumbling for at least three round to four before she stops .

"I will make sure to kill you!" the young lady withdraws the short sword on her waist and charged at Zhang Wu Ji . With the appearance of the Soldier Rank servant is beside him, her little threat will not worth a thought, but instead, in reply of her threat, the young master took the sword he just confiscated from the one-eyed male to meet with her attack directly .

"Young master! Are you complaining about your life now!" the servant wanted to cry . Even until now his young master still tried to fight against the young lady directly .

But in fact, Zhang Wu Ji did consider his option before he rushed in front to face her attack directly . With one hand touching the manual he just looted from the one-eyed male, he found out about the Manual and their possible effect .

"It seems that through my special ability, I can directly use the skill to fight with the cost of my strands of Inner Qi . As long the manual is in my body or within my reach, the skill will be made available for me to use!" after realizing the special ability he got, Zhang Wu Ji decided to try his luck through fighting with this young lady .

"It happens!" his anticipation is granted when a line of air blade went straight at the opponent . In a very simple approach, he deflected the first attack of the young lady with an empty swing to generates the air blade .

The two swords clashed at each another, but another unsuccessful air blade was failed to form, as its disperse and creates some disturbance from the dispersal . That unintentionally caused the young lady to be disturbed .

But then, Zhang Wu Ji retreats . Instead of continuing pressing forward, he retreats for a few steps, simply pointing his sword down on the ground .

"Are you coming, or are you not?" he was patiently awaiting her next action . If the lady decided to call this the end, he will save a strand of Inner Qi, but if she did not surrender and continue to attack, he will execute the First Wave Strike on her .

Unfortunately, the younger generation is always rash . The young lady charged at him like a released arrow . Without any hesitation, he executes the First Wave Strike at the young lady, where it was easily launched by just swinging his sword from below until the air .

A crescent moon shaped blade made of Inner Qi went straight at the young lady, carrying the intention to kill along its path . The beautifully tiled ground cracked because of the intense sharpness brought by the crescent moon blade .

And in that particular moment, an Inner Qi Fighter makes his appearance to block this attack, using the two metal wrist protector in both hands .

"Brother, shall we call this over between the two youth's reckless fight?" the Fighter Rank protector requested with both hands cupped together .

"Of course . Argument and fights between two youths should not bring too much issue, please leave . " the Soldier Class servant replied as one of his finger hooks the back of Zhang Wu Ji's cloth, and stop him from going forward .

"As for the misunderstanding, I hope this two pills will be enough to compensate for the young master's shock . " the Fighter Rank servant throws a pouch with two pills inside before he left with the young lady .

Without saying anything else, the Soldier Rank servant took the pouch and bring his young master back to the manor as well, leaving the road with business and stores to continue their sales .

"Butler Guan, why did you give them the two pills! It worth 1,000 Gold Coins each!" the young lady is complaining as he escorted the lady back to their home .

"As for the sword skill he uses, it should be the Three-Wave Sword Art, brought to its fame by the hand of Lan Shan Clan from the Orchid Mountain . " the servant deduce the possibility where the sword art came from, as well his achievement in using the sword .

But what he failed to guess correctly, is Zhang Wu Ji is completely blank and useless when it comes to martial arts . The fact he just started to grab the sword is only an hour before their meeting . He also failed to understand the fact why Zhang Wu Ji can use the sword art at this kind of level .

"Young master, please tell me where did you get the sword art? Do you know the background of the sword art you just used?" back on Zhang Wu Ji's side, his servant is questioning him as they return .

"I picked it up a while ago . Didn't you see how I kill the one-eyed guy just now?" Zhang Wu Ji answer is so vague that it made the servant's eyes turn white .

"Anyway, do not use the skill again . It will not be good if those from Imperial Family or Imperial Troops to saw such a skill during their patrolling and visits to our town . " the servant did not continue to ask, because he knows that the young master in fact just got the sword and manual from the corpse not too long ago .

"Young master, the Three-Wave Sword Art famed because of the Leader of Lan Shan Clan . All people belonged to the Lan Shan Clan possess a manual to practice this art, do you know why?" the servant shakes his head left and right before he explained .

"Because Lan Shan Clan is a family of mountain bandits! The Orchid Mountain is where their stronghold is positioned . In this span of four years, the Imperial Troops already sent three teams to clear the stronghold, but they failed each time, even end up with all their headless soldier corpses are hanged on the entrance of Orchid Mountain . "

"The leader of their family, Lanshan Lanyue, is a well-known cultivator in his 19th Stage Soldier Rank . With this sword art in his hand, it was almost like cutting heads treating them as a block of tofu . " the servant quickly explains the trouble if the young master decided to learn this sword art, as well the bad history behind it .

"A martial art is good if it was used by a good person, and bad if it were used to do bad things . I don't believe that the Imperial Army will fail to notice such an easy fact . Even a person who trained in Blood Sucking Arts might not be a bad guy . " Zhang Wu Ji uses his own term to view this matter .

Heading straight to the Pill Making Room, Zhang Wu Ji immediately took his rest . Although he possesses nine strands of Inner Qi now, he spent five of them during the two fights . If he was forced into this situation again, perhaps the nine strands of Inner Qi will not help him, especially when he has no way to replenish them now!

It was after four hours of rest, Zhang Wu Ji woke up . Remembered that he got two pills from the young lady's servant just now, he opened the pouch to see what is so good about the two pills?

"He can give me over ten or twenty pills if it was Wound Mending Pill or Meridian Soothing Pill . Since the pouch only has two pills inside, It should be quite precious!" he thought, as the two pills rolled out from the pouch to be seen by him .

"Aren't this two pills . . . Inner Qi Cultivating Pills? If I'm not wrong, the store used to sell them for 1,000 gold coins each!" Zhang Wu Ji was shocked by the gift the servant gave to him and tried to consider the reason why he did .

Zhang Wu Ji considered all of his guesses, but none of them sound correct . In fact, the servant gives this two pills out because that was all he had at this moment . It was an unwanted intention to let this young master guess why would he do so .

After resting for 4 hours now, his number of Inner Qi has been replenished . With a hand holding the pill now, he decides to upgrade the first pill, following with the second .

"WHAT!!!" this is a direct increase in my cultivation! How amazing is that!" Zhang Wu Ji almost shouts out loud when he was reading the special description written on the screen only himself can see .

"Will the second Pill happened to have such a special ability too?" he guessed but decided to upgrade it to see the actual response came from the upgrade .

"The effect is different! It was different!" Zhang Wu Ji looked at the endless possibility he can see from the ability he possesses . Unless he further enhances his strength to have the strength to upgrade endlessly, it may be difficult for him to obtain treasures that can completely protect him .

"This one must be the father . Only he will not be bothered to knock softly when it comes to my door . " Zhang Wu Ji went to the door while holding the two pills . But before he finishes putting them back into the pouch and opens the door, it was already forced open .

"You brat, I heard from our servants that you killed a guy today? Not just that, you even look for trouble with the Guan's Family Young Lady?" Zhang Qing Feng walked into the room and tried to sit at the chair, but before his butt landed on the chair, he stopped .

"Yes . I killed one of the guys that I might piss him off last time . But since he was breaking our stores, I don't think there is a reason to reprimand me for that . As for the Guan's young lady, I did not look for trouble with her, but she's the one getting aggressive when she sees me . "

"Father, you know how well I'm behaving lately, am I right? I did not cause trouble, in fact, I helped the store to get more business . " Zhang Wu Ji's thicken his face as his lips started to speaks all the beautiful words for his father to listen .

"Did you say you used the Golden Fist style to kill the one-eyed male? He was a small bandit from the Lan Shan Clan you know?" Zhang Qing Feng can't believe completely all the words his child just said .

"God . . . If a boy less than 10 strands of Inner Qi kills a bandit with at least 50 strands of Inner Qi, where is the easy can be put inside the sentence? And he fought with the young lady of Guans . That lady is one of the well known Li Jiang's most Talented Twin Flower . Her Martial Body is the Lord Vermilion Stature, most suitable to learn flame element Martial Arts . "

"And you . . . Not only defeat people with a simple sword, you even put her in a shameful position . . . I'm afraid to even I cannot protect you from getting beaten . " Zhang Qing Feng thought in mind, while his butt still comfortably seated on the beddings .

"Father, can I go to a trip to the Qing Spirit Woods?" being a person that read through a few different books related to the maps, places, and dangerous locations, Zhang Wu Ji chose a relatively easier place to go .

"No! Based on your ability now, going to Qing Spirit Woods is out of the question . If you want, I'll allow you to go to the Deity Pavilion for this time . " Zhang Qing Feng replied . But from the view of a father and a parent, that's a seriously wrong alternative .

"Father, Wu Ji wanted to temper himself in the Qing Spirit Woods . From the records, the woods only have the beast that wasn't qualified to become a Wild Beast . Plus in the forest, I can easily found the resources I need to temper my strength, why not you allow me to try going there once?" Zhang Wu Ji insists to be allowed to go there .

"This child! I allowed him to go brothel and yet he chooses to go into the woods! He . . . He . . . He grows up!" Zhang Qing Feng almost cried when he sees how matured is his child now . How does he know that this kid is actually not going the to temper himself?

In fact, his method of tempering is not related to fighting at all . It was robbing! Instead of robbing the people and treasures owned by others, why not he rob the nature? He can easily find veins, herbs, and even beast tools with him .

"This is a Qing Spirit Woods! It was a place people call trash! You want me to give you ten servants to enjoy rubbish picking exploration with you?" Zhang Qing Feng turns mad, but he decided to further consider his words .

After a while in consideration, he agreed . But Zhang Wu Ji will have to follow his condition . If he did not obey the condition, the servant will take him back instead . With all the servants following the young master to the Qing Spirit Woods is his most trusted servants, none of them will let the young master do as he wishes .

"Sure, that's not a problem . Please tell all of them to bring as much storing material as they could . I will want to collect many things home . " Zhang Wu Ji stated before he walks out from the Pill Making Room . Almost without anybody noticing their changes, all of them already assume that the Young Master's bedroom is no longer at his own courtyard, but here in the main building instead .

"When did you want to go there?" Zhang Qing Feng asked . Although it won't be difficult for him to make the preparation within minutes of notice, it would still be better if the child can set up a date for them to depart .

"Three days later . In meantime, I want to go to the smith to pick up something . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to his father's question, and with a wave of his hand, the youth went out without waiting for his father's reply .

Unknowingly, Zhang Qing Feng's attitude toward this troublemaker has become less strict because of the changes he can see in this short half a month period . As for Zhang Wu Ji, he has been inside of this world for fifteen days already .

From the moment he found out the former Zhang Wu Ji has been killed secretly, he has never stopped being cautious in his surrounding . The step to earning money is a hoax, similar to this expedition three days later to the Qing Spirit Woods .

When he reaches the smith, Zhang Wu Ji went to the furnace section for the sake of looking for the best metal ore he wanted . Being seen as a brat trying to cause trouble here, one of the short-tempered blacksmiths came over to him and try to see what this brat want to achieve here by picking a few Mineral Ores out of the cart, one after another .

"Kid, what are you trying to do here?" the blacksmith came close to him with a hammer in his right hand . Although he was hot-tempered, he still understands the sentence "Know the Master Before you Beat their Dogs" is pretty well practiced everywhere . [2]

"Oh, I was trying to find mineral ores rich with Goethite and Magnetite," he explained his purpose over here, but the only issue is the term he mentioned are not understandable by the blacksmiths .

"What Goethite and Magnetite? If you want to buy metal, go get it at the front counter . If you want to smelt your own metal, then go pay for your spot . Don't disturb us who wanted to smelt and craft weapon here . " the hot-tempered blacksmith was pissed with Zhang Wu Ji's attitude and tries to kick him away .

"Can you just tell me what kind of Iron you have here?" unwilling to give up, he asked for their details . Since the blacksmith manual, he got wasn't focusing on the metal materials but only on technique, skills, and understanding, he is still lack of knowledge in this part .

"We have [Sentient Iron], [Pure Iron], and [Crystal Iron] . This three are the main produce of our smith . I don't know what you mean by your terms, but the ore you're holding now, is filled with more Pure Iron, and a little Sentient Iron . " the blacksmith explained their terms to him, but at his end of explanations, it seems that the Goethite was called as Pure Iron in their terms, as for the Magnetite, it should be called as Sentient Iron .

It was easy to decipher, because the fact this realm doesn't know and understands the effect of a magnet, thus the movable magnet iron was treated as sentient, while the pure main component of Goethite was treated as pure iron because of its physical properties .

"I see . I am interested to purchase mineral ores that have a richer quantity of Pure Iron please . " Zhang Wu Ji mentioned the reason he was here in the first place . What's hard to believe is that such a thin young master from some family actually wanted to buy the ores and not the completed products?

But of course, nobody dares to ask that question . After pointing at the few carts possibly have a good amount of the metal the young master needs . With the prices of 2 gold coins for each mineral rocks, Zhang Wu Ji chose twenty-five of them, before walking over to the counter to pay for his purchase .

"That would be 50 gold coins . " the attendant served him, and collect the payment from the youth . But at the same time when he pays for his purchase, the young master came out with a few questions .

"Yes young master, we did . Each set of tool cost a hundred gold coins . " the attendant replied . Knowing the prices for the tool aren't cheap at all, he purchases only two of them, before he had them delivered together into the Zhang's Manor .

Before he left, Zhang Wu Ji walked passed a shelf filled with longer weapons . Each of them has a proper craftsmanship, but after a touch on two of them, he was disappointed . Their quality actually lower than the sword he picks up after killing the one-eyed male .

When he was going to leave the smith, the rain suddenly poured down, causing the previously packed road to becoming empty . Where all people are escaping from the rain . Noticing that he did not have an umbrella, Zhang Wu Ji can only stay in the Smith and inspect their other works while waiting for the rain to stops .

"Attendant! Are these two books are for sale?" he asked . When the attendant came back to his side, the answer was yes . Each of this book is sold for 500 gold coins each because the writer of the book is one of the best blacksmiths in their town, Master Li Ren .

This old Master Li Ren is almost reaching his seventies now . Although he was half retired at the moment, the master did not take the retirement seriously . Instead, he wrote the two books in hope that there will be a youngster that can inherit the skill and knowledge he obtained after becoming a blacksmith for over fifty years now .

[1] . Goethite & Magnetite is two of the four forms of Iron Ore processed from the mined minerals . Magnetite seems to be used often in making magnets etc, research etc, while Goethite is the main component of most of the iron products .

[2] . Know the owner before you beat their dogs signifies the fact even if your opponent was a lowly servant or something, it doesn't mean that you can teach them a lesson, because, in return, their owner will come to kick your ass instead . Almost similar to "Do mess with people stronger than you . "

Usage: Allow the usage of (7) strand of Inner Qi to process Iron Ingots . Pulverized iron will then receive a 5% increment in their quality . Capped at 30% .

Usage 1: Allow the usage of (1) strand of Inner Qi to temper weapons . Each hammering will increase the weapon quality by 1% . Capped at 10% .

"Not bad, not bad . I will buy this two manual . Take this 1,000 gold coins away . " Zhang Wu Ji tosses the pouch with two strands of 500 gold coins to the attendant, and hold the two books like an idiot . How can other people understand what he was doing by standing idly with two art manual in his hand?

"Upgrade! Upgrade!" in fact, Zhang Wu Ji was busy upgrading the first book, Art of Pulverized Iron into its +5 stage before he proceeds to the Art of Tempering to +3 first . For the remaining two upgrades, he will either need to use the energy from the Golden Book Manual to replenish himself .

And out in the public, it will be difficult for him to ask random strangers to touch his book, thus he decided to do it later, and inspect the newly upgraded Art of Pulverized Iron first .

Usage: Allow the usage of (6) strand of Inner Qi to process Iron Ingots . Pulverized iron will then receive a 5% increment in their quality . Capped at 40% .

"What? Why did a special ability like this appear on a book related to metal arts? My god, are you fooling with me now? So if I suddenly upgraded a sword to have the ability to hammer iron, then what use would it be?" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to faint when he saw the special ability the book obtained .

Luckily, the rain has stopped, thus he managed to found the open gap for him to quickly return to the Zhang's Manor . On his way, the crowd on the road begin to grow in numbers, added with the rain a while ago, the floor was still soaked with muddy water .

Feeling unhappy if his cloth is dirtied by the water splashed by human's steps, Zhang Wu Ji took the back alleyway to return to his family manor . But halfway pass the alleyway, he noticed a small yellowish stalk of grass growing in the wild .

"What? This small little plant actually have the durability of 10! Does this means its life source is extremely powerful?" Zhang Wu Ji considered a while but took the stalk of grass home to put them on the soil . Since he was trying to get newer seeds from the plants he tried to cultivate, the addition of Kind Heart Grass will increase the quality of his plants .

When he went home, the item he purchased from the Smith is here . As for now, he can only order Da Zui and Da Yang to transfer the item into the shed and had the servant empty she so he can use it as a temporary forge for himself .

After going straight to plant that Kind Heart Grass on the plot of land, Zhang Wu Ji went to the inspect the process of turning the shed into a temporary forge . When he reaches the location, he pushes open the door and noticed that the servant of his already arranged tools in a way it will be comfortable for him to use .

Two crates full of firestones were placed by the side of the furnace for their young master to use as he wished, but at the other side of a corner, an additional set of tools can be seen .

"These two guys are quite smart for their looks . If I managed to get something good from the exploration, I will give some to them first . " Zhang Wu Ji makes a promise in mind and went back to his room . As usual, he will ring the bell to have three servants come to him and touch his Golden Body Manual .

After two times of ringing the bells, he upgrades the remaining manual to +6, before he went to the temporary forge . Here, he repeated the previous process once again, and end his day with almost all item upgraded into their +5 . But after a day of tiring works, he finally can sleep happily, because the preparation for his next day is already completed in a single day .

And in his upgrading spree, he managed to get three of them with a good ability after the final manual, while the others are just considerable .

Usage 1: Allow the usage of (1) strand of Inner Qi to temper weapons . Each hammering will increase the weapon quality by 1% . Capped at 15% .

In the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight into his new forge to begin processing the materials . If he processed all the Iron Mineral Ore in the forge, he will roughly obtain a total of 1 ingot to 1 1/2 ingots for the Pure Iron, about half ingot for the Sentient Iron, and a quarter ingot of Crystal Iron .

In fact, their amount of percentage of ores determines the rough amount of the metal he could get from them . To begin with his work, Zhang Wu Ji first utilized the Stone Forge ability to increase its speed of melting point, before he begins to transfer the molten into a crucible .

This was the first step for him to obtain the initial form of the ingot before he begins to remove their impurities . For a simple ingot like this, It will take him at least five times to seven times of hammering before it can be counted as a pure piece of Pure Iron Ingot .

Of course, at the same time, he will need to make sure that the flame separates the Sentient Iron from the initial Pure Iron Ingots . To complete this process, Zhang Wu Ji needed to constantly touch the metal to inspect them, making sure that the piece of ingot only contains pure Goethite and no Magnetite and Silica within at all .

This might be difficult to achieve for a normal blacksmith, but for a cheater like him, it was like a quality scanner at work . Completely scan and determine the quality of a metal before they were sold .

With the bell in hand, Zhang Wu Ji utilized the right of being a young master of the house to its limit . Although there were only two more days before the appointed time to enter the Qing Spirit Woods, Zhang Wu Ji did not lose himself to wait for it but to work hard in a different profession .

Once, his father sneaks into the forge when he was sleeping in the Pill Making Room . And when he took the three pieces of ingot into the hand, he was completely shocked .

"How can this brat produce such a Pure Iron of this quality? Did the teacher passes him with a special art to refine the metal into this level?" Zhang Qing Feng was shocked by the Pure Iron in their 15% Quality . Their impurity was still at 40%, which is the most difficult part for Zhang Wu Ji to process them .

And at the side of the Pure Iron, he noticed smaller quarter ingots and a tiny Pill size beads . It was respectively the Sentient Iron and the Crystal Iron, known as Magnetite and Siderite . The Siderite or Crystal Iron was the most difficult material to obtain in the Iron Class, where their total yield was only 1% of the total production .

Did he intend to craft his own magical tools? In this world of Ping An Continent, Magical Tools, also known as a spiritual case, are one of the most magical item every crafted by those masters of their profession .

In each profession, they have their own material to create their own version of Spiritual Casing . For example, a Pill Master can create a pill that can hold a lingering spirit within, where it can get stronger the more it was fed with pills . A Blacksmith may create his own Weapon, Armor, or Ornament box to contain the spirit, which will be stronger as it was feed with weapons and its ingredients .

But Zhang Wu Ji is just a new student of these fields, how can he grow up so quickly? This question started to bother Zhang Qing Feng, but in this world, no father will complain about his child's speedy growth, because that will means he can protect himself better in the future .

"I think it is time for me to enter the blacksmith business . " Zhang Qing Feng convinced himself in his mind, as he walks back to his own room .

At the next morning, the aroma of a sumptuous breakfast successfully wakes this young master from slumber, as he quickly dresses before going into their Dining Hall . Here, a round table was set still on the ground with the capacity to seats 16 people, is filled with over twenty different dishes for a normal breakfast .

It was the first time for Zhang Wu Ji to see such a grand meal before him after transmigrated into this world for such a long time . After his father makes his appearance on the table, the father and son dig in, where Zhang Wu Ji was acting like a hungry wolf and cleaning the plate one after another .

If it was as before, Zhang Qing Feng already gives him a slap by now . But since the moment he contributes to the family's apothecary, his treatment towards Zhang Wu Ji slowly become better, with each day is filled with hope .

"Yes, dear father . I am busy making a tool for myself to use on the expedition so I will hole myself in the shed again until tomorrow morning . " Zhang Wu Ji did not think too deeply about his father's question and continue to gulp the food after he replied .

"What are you trying to make? Do you need more ore for your works?" since he knows his child is trying to get deeper in the knowledge of Blacksmithing, it was normal for him to offer more resources that could help him further .

"It's fine, father . I can go to the smith to purchase the ore I needed . No need to worry about these small matters . " he replied to the question .

"If that what you say . Do you mind telling your father what you're making?" Zhang Qing Feng is curious about his child intention to smelt and purify the metals . One needs to say, that a Pure Iron of their 5% Quality was sturdy enough to be cast into metal tools for daily usage, and for weapons, a 10% Quality Iron is enough to make a military grade weapon .

But with the piece of Ingot in the room reaches 15% Quality, it was difficult for him to consider why would his child need such a good quality iron for .

"I intend to make an Iron Ruler from the Iron Ingot I refined," he replied . But the moment he mentioned the word [Iron Ruler], his father's heart dropped .

"Such a good quality Iron is used to make an Iron Ruler? Are you joking with your father now?" he wanted to ask, but he controlled himself from doing so . If Zhang Wu Ji were to let him know he wishes to refine its quality into 40% grade, his father might be shocked to death .

A normal daily used tool only required an iron of 5% quality to be cast, and for a military grade weapon, a minimal requirement of Iron in their 10% quality is needed . For any Iron in their 20% quality were to be used to craft into a special weapon that will be issued to a commanding officer usage .

When an Iron Ingot went above 21% Quality, they reach the quality to be molded and crafted into a Cultivator weapon, which is known as High-Quality Iron . As for any iron that reaches quality exceeding 40%, they will be treated as a treasure by those cultivators because the iron will be suitable to contain a spirit, and can be said to become a Spirit grade crafting material .

"Ahem . . . Do you have a need to use the ruler in the expedition?" Zhang Qing Feng asked . Although he has no control over what his child want to craft using the Military Grade Pure Iron, it won't be a problem for a father to ask what his child wanted to use that for, right?

"Nothing, I enjoy using a ruler more . It's made of Pure Iron, so it's strength should be good enough for me . " although he replied in a casual way, in fact, it was because of his bad habit once again . During the time he was working as a librarian, Zhang Wu Ji has mastered the Librarian Ruler Technique, which is so amazing when faced with the ton of books left by stupid Library visitors each night!

Each slash will move the book from their current position, each stabs will return the book into its shelf, each slap will arrange the book in order, and each strike will remove the rubbish left on the table!

"My child is still as useless as ever . . . " Zhang Qing Feng gives himself a facepalm, looking at how amazing his child is, to daydream in the middle of his reply .

After leaving his father with some polite greetings, Zhang Wu Ji left the Dining Hall in a hurry and entered the shed . He was slightly worried that some servant might take the piece of Iron to use for something else, but instead, it was still as of how he left it yesterday .

Without wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji started with the heating of the ingot, and continue with the hammering process . With two additional strands of Inner Qi today, his total strands are now increased to 11 now . Since it was left with nothing else except further refining the Pure Iron Ingot, the task is completed after going through the process for half a day .

For every two times, he called for the servants, he can only apply a strike of the Art of Pulverized Iron on the piece of Pure Iron Ingot . Every time after the first strike, he would have to collect the replenishment of Inner Qi before he reheats the piece of an ingot, and hammer it again . Forging through this way, It was no wonder he took half a day to complete the task .

With the metal reaches a complete 40% Quality, it was a well refined High-Grade Pure Iron . His next step will be to mold the piece of ingot into the shape of a ruler . Although it doesn't take too much Inner Qi compared to the refining process, the molding step will still take considerable time because his skill was lacking .

But luckily, the hammer and anvil to increase the speed of the molding process, which is why Zhang Wu Ji is confident he can complete his work before tomorrow morning . The effort continues until midnight, where his two meters long Iron Ruler is completed . He holds the Iron Ruler up above his head but noticed it was so light weighted, not putting any stress on him at all .

"What? Remove the burden of weight?" Zhang Wu Ji was shocked with the natural special ability his Iron Ruler possessed . Without delay, he strings the two bucket of Firestones on a side of the Iron Ruler before be proceed to lift the two buckets up .

Unbelievably, it was still so light, as if there weren't anything on his ruler at all! The two buckets of firestones were lifted up into his shoulder-length height, as light as a feather .

The door suddenly knocked, and Da Zui pushed open the door to come in . But when he was looking at his unbelievably strong young master, he was completely shocked .

After he sees the servant has calm down, he released his grip over him, and tell him to not reveal the fact to anyone else . Convinced that he will no longer cause any trouble, Zhang Wu Ji calms himself down and begin to upgrade the Iron Ruler .

"Impossible! If I cannot upgrade you, then what's your difference between a ruler and a lifting wood?" he cannot believe his bad luck after putting so much effort at creating the weapon but failed to upgrade it .

"It must be my condition is too weak . It must be!" he rings the bell once, and three more servants came to him . After he refilled his Inner Qi to the maximum capacity, he proceeds with the upgrade again .

In the next morning, a knock came into the transformed shed . After noticing there was no reply from the inside, Da Yang and Da Zui opened the door to have a look but noticed their young master is unconscious on the ground with his hand on the ruler .

After a while, the two servants took their young master back to his room, and tidy him up for a moment until they young master wake up from his state . The first word he mentioned when he wakes up is;

"Young master, you were unconscious on the floor yesterday, are you feeling well? If you're sick, we can call off the expedition and make it later . " Zhang Da Yang answered and check his young master's condition before he agreed to anything else .

"I'm fine . I must be too tired at all the works yesterday . Where is the ruler in my hand?" he asked as he did not see the Iron Ruler all around the corner of his room .

"This ruler is quite heavy, young master, are you thinking to use it as a weapon?" Da Zui took the ruler into the room . Although it looks like a normal Iron Ruler, it was still crafted using one an a half ingots of Pure Iron in their High-Grade quality . The weight alone is 18 . 6 kilograms .

In the eyes of people using a weapon in their daily life, a normal sword should only weight 1 . 4kilograms to heaviest 2 . 5 kilograms, which labeled as a claymore . But the ruler alone weight heavier than ten swords .

If it were used for normal purposes, it's weight can be ignored, but when in a battle, a close to 20 kilograms weapon is a burden, no matter how strong is the cultivator using the weapon .

Without waiting for his servants to question him anymore, Zhang Wu Ji stands up from the bed and changed a different set of clothing before he took the Iron Ruler in his hand . Like playing with a wooden stick in his hand, he swings the Iron Ruler using only one hand and walks over to the entrance of the Manor .

Outside of the Manor stands ten servants, each of them possessing a strength of at least a 6th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, and the strongest among them are two 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter . Among the ten of them, one is carrying thirty sturdy baskets cramped together, while another guy is walking along with different tools behind it .

"Look at the Zhang Family, why are they heading to the Qing Spirit Woods with so many people?" the people walking along the shopping street was notified with their movement and the numbers of their team, but very fast found the reason they did it .

"Yes, that trash . Something must come into his idiotic brain for his father to order ten Inner Qi Fighters to follow him into an empty woods . "

The resident of Li Jiang Town was full of negative comments as the team went out of the town . Since the Qing Spirit Woods is not located too far from the town, added with their lack of resources, beast, and treasures, it soon becomes a place for adulteries and cheating to happen .

On their way deeper into the woods, torn pants, unwanted undergarments, are all thrown everywhere, indicating these places are completely fine for people to cheat against their partner here . In fact, not too far from their party, a soft moaning sound can be heard .

"Screwing in the early of the morning, what a pair of adulteries!" one of the servant complaints . But without notice, the others call him to shut his mouth, in case they cause an ire of their young master .

Who can win against the Young Master Zhang's conquest of enjoying three days of sex nonstop in the VIP room of Deity Pavilion? In that three days, he almost enjoys all the ladies available in the pavilion and demanded more before he collapsed and sent home with the reason overexerting his sexual health .

Soon, they finally entered the inner part of the Qing Spirit Woods . Except being surrounded with withering trees and useless foliage and vegetation, the group has no idea why their young master want them to come here with so many baskets and tools .

"What are you guys standing there, take a basket and come to collect all of these herbs . " Zhang Wu Ji pointed at a patch of wild grasses on the ground and ordered his people to collect them .

"Do we have a container to collect Liquids? If yes, bring it here and collect the sap from this four trees, only this four and not the others . "

"Can you see there are some fruits on the taller part of the trees? Only take those with a red color on their skin, leave those without there . "

"This . . . That . . . Come here . . . Get that . . . " Zhang Wu Ji continues to have his servant collecting the item they thought to be rubbish until eighteen of the basket is filled .

"Alright, I will stay here for the night, one guy stays here to accompany me, while the other nine guys take the item back to the Manor . Place all of them near the shed I'm using, and for the grasses, flowers, and fruits put them inside the Pill Making Room . "

"Come back before tomorrow morning, and bring more basket here . " Zhang Wu Ji ordered . Hesitates, but the other nine still dare not to reject the order of their young master .

Having no choices at all, they brought the rubbish back, only to be laughed at by the residents as they walk past the street until they reach the Zhang's Manor .

It was a shame, a despicable act their young master had them do, but without any choice to reject, the servant stored the trash in the places their young master mentioned before taking new baskets and return to the Qing Spirit Woods .

Although it only took them three hours to enter the inner woods, it took them over five hours to return to the Manor, took a short rest, before coming back to the inner woods in the morning .

Meanwhile, at the night, Zhang Wu Ji and a 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter are sharing a skewered rabbit as their dinner . The servant did not expect Zhang Wu Ji to complete the culinary preparation himself, but when he shared the meal with the servant, it further questioned him .

It was too bad that none of them can know the truth behind his sudden changes of their young master's attitude and personality, but since the changes are nothing bad, the servant can only appreciate it . But still, he dares himself to ask a question he thought it will bring up his young master's fury .

"Young Master, can this servant know why did you collect so many trash and have the servants bring them back to the Manor? If I'm not mistaken, the others must be the laughing stock now, when they entered the town," he asked out of curiosity .

"My answer to your question is; a person's poison is another man's meat . " Zhang Wu Ji replied in a mysterious way, but his abbreviation is not wrong . It may look like trash for others, but will that be the same to Zhang Wu Ji who have the ability to upgrade?

What is the problem if the treasures quality was low? Treasure still a treasure, and since the people all treat them as a trash, why shouldn't I collect all of them? You guys don't want it anyway!" Zhang Wu Ji smiled as the sentence appeared in his mind .

On the following day, Zhang Wu Ji repeated his antique again . Pointing at all kind of trash and waste, he had is people collecting them gently like handling a treasure . Each of them was collected and brought back to the Manor, where it turned the Manor into a garbage collection area .

No matter how much Zhang Qing Feng can control his temper, it all gone on the third day . Because in the time of three days, the just changed child of his actually collected so many garbage back to the home!

Looking at the Manor filled with garbage all over from the courtyard to the backyard, and covering the shed completely, stink and hard to tolerate, his father went to question what his child wanted to do .

"Brat! Come here and receive your penance! What are you doing by bringing so many trash home!" he went over to where the youth is taking his shower and pulled him out from the bathtub .

"I'm not bothered . Tell me what is the reason to collect all this garbage, if it is not convincing, I will have you personally remove them all by yourself!" Zhang Qing Feng warns him to give him a good explanation .

"I learned the two Manual you brought me . Aren't the manual is to strengthen our body and increase our ability to control more strands of Inner Qi?" he explained, but only himself know that it wasn't the real case .

"That's true . . . But . . . How did you cultivate? I remembered your Martial Body are not capable to control the absorption of Qi . Unless you have assistance from the pills, it would be extremely difficult for you to do so . " Zhang Qing Feng said .

His word is true, from the time Zhang Wu Ji was five, he was being fed with unaccountable numbers of Qi Sensing Pill that will allow him to feel and absorb more Qi at his surrounding, but no matter how hard he tried, the results are disappointing . One strand every three years is the best he could do until he was fifteen with five strands of Inner Qi .

But within half a month, this child actually increased his strands of Inner Qi from 5 into 13? That is an amazing feat . It was almost one strand of Inner Qi every two days . But his guess is almost correct nevertheless because Zhang Wu Ji did increase his strands of Inner Qi two strands in every three days .

"Anyway . . . Back to the point! What are you doing by gathering all the rubbish in our place!" his attention was turned into somewhere else for a moment, but return to the track after he finishes thinking about it .

"Father, since the treasure was neglected over there in the woods, why not the Zhang Family took them back?" Zhang Wu Ji explained, insisting that the item he brought back is a treasure and not trash .

"Then tell me, what is the grasses used for? I don't believe you that they can be concocted into pills!" Zhang Qing Feng pointed at the stack of grasses piled in the basket . Each of them carries a dirty and purplish hue on their tip, and when they were crushed, the grasses released fumes smell so bad, like a rotten egg .

"Father, this grasses? Let me make something for you . When you know what you were looking at, you might send more people to pluck them all . " Zhang Wu Ji laughed as he took five stalks of the grasses to the well near to his room, and begin to clean them . After all, cleanliness is important before the begin of a concoction .

"Five trash blades of grass to concoct pill? I will see what you're trying to do . " Zhang Qing Feng harrumph and took a seat on the extremely comfortable beddings used by his child .

Secretly, when he washes the stalks of grasses by the well, he proceeds to secretly upgrade them so their quality is better before he starts to prepare the concoction . Although this stalk of grass was less fertile and lower quality herbs, they were in fact, the unbudded Violet Tip Spirit Grass .

A well taken cared Violet Tip Spirit Grass released calming fragrances that could relax a person during his meditation, furthermore, the pill concocted from a proper Violet Tip Spirit Grass has a ten times stronger calming effect .

It was due to the unsuitable soil and nutrition caused the lower quality Violet Tip Spirit Grass failed to grow, but after so long surviving in the wild, their method to protect themselves from predator grows, turning their fragrance to stinging smells that make people doesn't want to eat them .

But after the concoction, they will still carry the same properties, and this is why Zhang Wu Ji collected them back . It was for the sake of concocting the Violet Calming Pill .

Normally, it only required two stalk of the Violet Tip Spirit Grass to concoct one pill, but due to the lack of extracts inside of the wild grown grasses, Zhang Wu Ji used five instead of two .

He fired the cauldron to get it ready for the concoction . With all the ingredient is placed within, Zhang Wu Ji prepared the concoction, and control the amount of heat was used to form the pill . After twenty minutes, he extinguished the fire, before he completely removed them from the cauldron .

Since the cauldron was out of flame at a sudden, the cooling process has begun . In not even ten minutes, it lost all the heat completely, this was the time Zhang Wu Ji went to open the cauldron's lid and released the fragrance of a medicinal pill completely opposite of the smelly grasses .

"This grass is actually Violet Tip Spirit Grass? How can they look so different from the one mentioned in the Compendium of Herbal Records!" Zhang Qing Feng stands up as he quickly steps to the side of the cauldron .

As an owner of an apothecary, he was well educated and rich with knowledge related to herbs and the pills, including how they look and smell . But the one his child concocted was not even out of the ordinary through using trash ingredients, it was even more effective than usual!

"How could this be! The ingredient was a lower quality, a different strain, but how can their end results were better than the one I smell and taste before?" Zhang Qing Feng still cannot believe what he saw . Previously, he received an order to provides five Violet Calming Pills to an elder from the Chen's, and it worth 100 gold coins each for a basic quality one .

"I assume the none upgraded version should be around 10% - 11% strength?" Zhang Wu Ji calculates the rough amount of increase it received from the upgrades . Although the prices of this pill can try to yield 100 gold coins to 130 gold coins each, it was a profit for him who did not spend a single penny to obtain all the ingredients .

"Son, are you planning to sell this pills?" Zhang Qing Feng questioned, he anticipates his son to sell this in their apothecary, but this time, he will have to take a small profit from him, because he cannot keep selling things for his child and still pay for the fee .

"No, I'm not interested in monopoly this . Father, you can sell everything through the shop . It will only last until all the ingredient is used up . " Zhang Wu Ji replied .

"Father can send people to dig more of them back, then we can . . . Oh . . . " Zhang Wu Ji almost finishes his word before he realized that he really did what his child said before . "If you know what is this, you will want to pluck them all . "

"Damn kid, although you collected one good ingredient from the Qing Spirit Woods, it doesn't mean that the other thing might be trash . You better reveal what are all of them before I had you throw them back to the woods . " Zhang Qing Feng continues to scold him but leaving with a smile thereafter .

"Father, oh father, your acting is a little too bad . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he continued to handle the ingredients . Since his total of Inner Qi is still limited, Zhang Wu Ji continued with his procedural steps of ringing the bell, three servants come . The cleaned Violet Tip Spirit Grass is finally all upgraded to+1 after three days .

He was transmigrated into this world for 24 days already . As of now, his total of strands of Inner Qi reached 15, enough for him to process quite an amount of item before rest . In the eyes of the servants, their weird young master was practicing with something different again, until he suddenly appears with 150 Violet Calming Pills in hand .

The suddenly available Violet Calming Pills was hiked into 140 Gold coins each, and within three days later, It was all sold out . The demand is still there, but the Zhang's apothecary promised that new stocks will come in soon when they're available .

As for the other products, most of them were either Meridian Soothing Pills and Wound Mending Pills, which was sold for 25 gold coins each . Because their quality of pills was increased consistently, the residents and visitors chose the Zhang's Apothecary as their main reason to visit when they entered the town .

On the 33rd day, his Inner Qi strands finally reach 21, four times more than what he used to be one month ago . Now, the part of the medicinal ingredients he harvested was completely used . Only the tree saps, rocks, and some other seem to be useless item remained in the courtyard, where his temporary forge was located .

Although it was pointless for him to keep thing as a secret, it was still a safe bet to not telling anyone in the family that the trash remain here is the reason he entered the woods at the first place .

For a normal cultivator or blacksmith, they were useless junk, but for him, one with the ability to inspect the item and upgrading them, this stack of an item were treasures!

"Today onwards, you will regain your freedom to view the world again . Although you will no longer retain your previous appearance, with you in my hand, I will bring you all to the peak of the world!"

"young master, are you sure you need that much of firestones in the shed?" his two servants almost cannot believe what they were hearing when Zhang Wu Ji requested for a total of 15 buckets filled with firestones .

For a normal family, a Firestone is enough to provide enough heat to warm a house during the night, and for Medicinal Concoction, the maximum limit of Firestone to be used is 8, where it was only applicable when proof heating the medicine in their final process .

As for a blacksmith, a fired furnace will only require 20 firestones at their maximum limit . Any further will be completely wasted because the flame can no longer increase any further than 20 firestones . But with the capacity of burning for 6 hours, the length is far more than enough for a blacksmith to craft his weapon .

If a bucket can fill 200 firestones inside, then fifteen buckets are equals to 3,000 firestones . In the eyes of the seller, they might think that the buyer is intending to burn the whole city overnight .

But as a servant, they have no choice over this matter and went out to collect as many firestones as they could . The Firestones are nothing valuable . It was easily found from any nearby mountain caves with strong Yang Energy . Like stones that were scattered all around every corner of the world, the Firestone can be found in any location without difficulties .

While waiting for his servant to deliver the item he requested, Zhang Wu Ji took the leisure to separates the material according to their types . Through the extremely detailed information given by the system, he can perfectly distribute all his treasures before he runs a major modification on them .

As for the treasures, they weren't anything special, but broken swords, tools, and other materials that were tossed away and was delivered from one place to another because they were unable to walk across the passage of time .

Some of them were rusty, and most of them were broken . As for those still intact, they were either unusable or losing an important part in their structure .

But for him, this all was a part of what his world call it; Recycled Metal . Through a very detailed process and careful handling, he can properly harness all the material and reserve them to be collected together, before he proceeds with refining them into a proper ingot of various metal once again .

After he completed the separating process, his task begins . Taking each of them one at a time to be melted and cast, Zhang Wu Ji depends completely on the hammering process and did not spend any of his available strands of Inner Qi to activates the Art of Pulverized Iron .

He has a mountain of materials waiting for him to work with them, why would he spend a few days for the sake of refining a high-quality metal first?

Plus, the material stinks! Because they were thrown aside in the wild for the only god know how long it was . So, as the first step of his recycling, Zhang Wu Ji have to completely mold them together into separated ingots first, and then begin to rework each of them .

But because most of them came from unknown sources, the work to separates them before rework is a seriously long process . The tidying process took him three more days, making his total Strands of Inner Qi reaching 23 now . The three day of only work and rest generates a fatigue that leaves him asleep for the whole day before he wakes up in the next afternoon .

With all the so-called trash has been cleared and refined into separated little plates, Zhang Wu Ji needed to start working on them, to combine them together for a higher purity ingot . With his Art of Pulverized Iron still on their 40% cap, He completed the work by spending one and a half day on them .

The end results of all the work were 5 Iron Ingots in their 40% Quality, 13 Bronze Ingot, which only in their 3% quality, and a small part of Silver, Gold, and six smaller gemstones in different colors .

Unexpectedly, the other materials weren't able to be enhanced in their quality, because his skill is only usable on Iron Type materials . But it was still a good effort for the bronze ingot to reach 3% quality, based on his current blacksmithing skills .

With the five Iron Ingots in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji decided to spend two of the ingots to craft some weapons for those following him to the Qing Spirit Woods previously . This is his own way to show his appreciation and other's effort .

According to his memories, he remembered that among the ten servants, five of them were using a medium length sword as their primary weapon, while three of them were using spears, and two using a twin-headed broad-ax .

With 32 kilograms worth of Pure Iron, it was not difficult for him to craft the five swords, three spear-heads and two twin headed broad-ax . But the difficulties to look for a proper wood strong for spears and axes are more difficult .

He takes a chance on the third day to look in the lumber mill but failed to obtain a proper wood that was suitable to be used with the two kinds of weapons . Only after asking around he managed to found out that the Ironwood is the best material to be used as the shaft for a polearm or heavy weapons .

Without waiting any longer, he went into a woodcutter hut not far from the Ji Liang Town to purchase five of the processed Ironwood to be used on the weapon . The Woodcutter was kind enough to sell him the wood first, although he needs it as well to create a new handle for his woodcutter axe .

After hearing what the woodcutter needs, he went back to prepare a proper woodcutter axe head first, before he took the head back to the hut to deliver his promises . The moment he saw the woodcutter attached the handle and head together, a usable axe is formed .

As a return of kindness, he helped the woodcutter to upgrade the axe to +5, where it now carries a special ability to increase the speed to take down a tree . In a way, this was the best ability it can provide to an honest woodcutter .

At this moment, his total strands have increased to 25, three quarter away from becoming a full-fledged 1st Stage Inner QI Fighter . After he distributed the ten weapons to the servants, each of them was drowning in happiness because their young master actually crafted the weapon personally for them .

In a way, this expression of gratitude does help Zhang Wu Ji to buy their loyalty to remain in Zhang's family, it also helps him in a way to obtain more support from the servants in the future .

As for the remaining Pure Iron, he crafted them into ten Riot Shields . Completely taken Zhang Qing Feng's expectation by a surprise . What's more, he labeled each of them with a pattern that helpful for him to arrange them in a proper formation .

Six of the Riot Shield carries defensive properties that can help reduce impact, damage, and increase durability, while the remaining four carries the ability to reflect damage and throwing weapon against the opponent .

Zhang Qing Feng was unconvinced at first, but after he tried to give Zhang Wu JI a lesson, he ends up having a bruise on his face, all thanks to the offensive shield effect . In the end, he was convinced, although it was a terrible lesson for an Inner Qi Warrior .

With this little expedition and task are finally completed, he regains his day to do everything as he likes . Although in his hand there were still a few unused ingots, it wasn't that suitable for him to utilize them now, because he still lacks the skills to properly harness the usage .

"Young master, It's been quite long you didn't go out to have a look on the street, and we heard that there will be a merchant coming to the Li Jiang Town today to sell his wares, should we go and have a look?" his two servants who have been bored to death because their master was too busy to entertain them .

Since they were assigned to be by Zhang Wu Ji side at all time, they were not allowed to do anything else except under their young master's order . As for the plot of plants he had Da Zui taking care, the time for harvest just come yesterday, and after some meticulous attention on them, all the seeds that came from the plant were expected slightly better than the one planted a month before .

In the differentiation of quality, they were divided into five different categories, but each of them varies from one to another in a very distinctive way . The category are [Basic], [Advance], [High], [Spiritual], and [Saint] . And in each of the category, they were [Early-Middle-Advance-Later-Peak] differentiation, to further divides the quality control even further .

As for his seed in hand now, all of them were rank up from Basic / Early to Basic / Middle category, which is quite a good improvement . As for the Middle category seeds, their condition is confirmed to produce two seeds when withers and seeds will be available if the flowers allowed to grow .

This was a better quality seed when compared with the normal quality one sold in the Botanist Hall . But since he was not in a hurry for the plants, It would be sufficient for him now to keep the seeds for the future .

Since it was a good day for him to visit the streets, Zhang Wu Ji followed the two servants as they lead him out to look at some merchandise, as well to enjoy some of the street foods . Their journey went smoothly without any issues until they reach the location where the Merchant is bargaining with the customer wish to buy his product .

"Not bad for a merchant, his merchandise is actually quite good . " Zhang Wu Ji took a look from not too far and was attracted at a book kept inside a box . The engravings on the box were quite detailed, where it further enhance the prices of the book if sold together .

"Can I take a look on the box with the book?" coincidently, Zhang Wu Ji and the young lady from Guan's household were showing interest on the same item . Their words came from the same time, thus it was difficult for the merchant to decides on whom to give the book .

"You again! Get lost before I teach you a lesson!" the young lady did not learn from her previous defeat, and tried to look for trouble with Zhang Wu Ji again .

Being a gentleman, he did not feel offended . In his mind, the sentence of; "Woman like you are a lot back in my previous world, we call it unmarried tigress, you know?", but he did not speak that out loud .

"Fine, go ahead and read that, I lost interest on that item now . Boss, can I take a look at that detailed piece of jade please?" Zhang Wu Ji shifts his attention to the jade, and no longer continue to mess with the young lady .

But the lady was not satisfied with that reply . Her action is completely like a beggar asking for more, as she tried to snatch the jade as well, instead of taking a look at the book .

"Are you looking for a trouble?" Zhang Wu Ji lost his mood to continue shopping . With this young lady purposely looking for trouble, others cannot blame him to retaliates .

"So what? I will buy whatever you want to see, so try and come to get it!" she loudly exclaimed her words as she stands right before Zhang Wu Ji .

"Boss, you hear that pack the jade and the book for her, she's willing to buy it if I have interest in it . You should give me a gift because I help you to complete the sales of two item . " Zhang Wu Ji response with her words, taking advantage of her words to let the merchant pack the thing up .

Losing the interest to continue, he turned and decided to leave . It wasn't a big deal for him to not able to buy anything since he can obtain different abilities from upgrading the items in his hand .

"Zhang Wu Ji, you dare to ignore me?" the young lady burst into anger, and withdraw her sword to attack the former . Left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji can only reply to her action on his own .

"I've been giving you a personal space to show off until now, and you still looking for trouble with me . Since you wanted to fight so much, then come over and give it a shot!" Zhang Wu Ji felt it was pointless to back off from the trouble .

Since the trouble came to look for him, it was proper for him to response! And the response is to whip her butt until she no longer dares to look for trouble with him .

"I will see how strong are you now! I am now a 1st Stage Inner Realm Fight! Ahh!" with her sword pointed at Zhang Wu Ji as she speaks, she was swiped aside by the 18 . 6 kilograms Iron Ruler and fall to the ground like last time .

Looking at the small and weak attack, he swings the Iron Ruler hard in a horizontal and releases an air blade to retaliates . The simple swing destroys her attack before she can do anything, and from over fifteen steps away, Zhang Wu Ji charged with his Iron Ruler pointing at the sky!

"Slapping Style!" like an extended palm of his, the ruler smacked hard on the lady's bottom, giving her painful experience all over in his extreme beating .

"Stop!" the guardian of the Guan's finally appears, trying to send away the ruler with his sword attack . But before he managed to do what he wished, Zhang Wu Ji swing his Iron Ruler once and send the guardian away like a flying arrow .

"That's a 3rd Stage Inner Qi Fighter . . . " the young lady look at the servant flying away from her and was turn speechless from the incident . Even the other spectators and the merchant's jaw has dropped from looking at a none cultivator send a cultivator flying away!

The spectators turned into cheers as they were looking at the fight between the two youngsters, but before Zhang Wu Ji can continue to teach the young lady a lesson, she starts to cry .

"Wauwaa!!! You bullied me! You're the one says that I can hit you for a lifetime before you grab my breast! You scumbag! You did not do as you promise!" the young lady revealed everything between them, making Zhang Wu Ji embarrassed with himself .

"That's your promises with the former Zhang Wu Ji! That's not me!" he wanted to cry out loud, but it was pointless to do so . With his head is looking downwards, he walked to the young lady and awaits for his penance .

"Piang!" only a few loud sounds of either iron kettle or wok clashed at each other can be heard . When the crowd disperses, only Zhang Wu Ji was left with his two servants .

"Young master, although you were a jerk before this, I'm sure you will not make such an unprofitable promise just to touch that tiger's breast . " the two servants replied at the same time .

"We're not sure, but I'm sure young master you've been fondling over hundreds of breasts when you're at Deity Pavilion, why would you be sacrificing so much just to grab her medium buns?" Da Yang added .

"Aiya . . . Zhang Wu Ji, Zhang Wu Ji . . . If you did ask properly when you do your trick last time, I will agree with your request for sure, but why did you try to take advantage of it?"

"Young master Zhang, this merchant is thankful at your for backing off from a fight before just for the same of my business . " the merchant approached Zhang Wu Ji and thanked him for not causing trouble at the beginning .

Although in the end, it still happened, at least the thought is what's counted . The merchant still left his store opened, waiting for the young master to take a look at his merchandise before he closes for the night .

"Young master, you will be my last customer before I left the Li Jiang Town, go ahead and take your time to choose one thing as my gift to you . " the merchant said as he waved across the merchandise on the portable stall .

"So, the book has been taken away by that little tigress . " he shakes his head in disappointment because the item he wanted the most is the book . Since it was bought away, he can only choose another item .

After selecting for a short moment, he decides to choose the piece of jade carved with a Wu on both surface, and also a ring with an embedded gemstone . Since this two item is most probably better off than the others, he finishes his purchase by paying 1,000 gold coins for the ring and taking away the jade for free .

Afraid that he will collapse once again like when he upgraded the Iron Ruler, he returned to the Manor together with his two servants . As it was dinner time when they returned, Zhang Wu Ji joins his father for a dinner as a respect, while the two servants went back to their own quarters for their own meal .

Being a follower of the young master have a special perk . At any time of their meal, their portion was prepared and placed aside, removing the need to fight for more rice and dishes each time .

But this matter was unknown to the young master, as he was still enjoying his meal with Zhang Qing Feng . After everything was finished, Zhang Wu Ji excused himself back to the Pill Making Room and took the few items out in the open .

Although the Iron Ruler did have a +1 increase from his previous upgrade, this time, unless he has sufficient preparation, he will not dangerously risk himself to upgrade the Iron Ruler .

As for the other two items, it was a new discovery for him to see the special usage brought by the ring, increase of women attention but reduced in men attention, and also the fact the gemstone possesses its own durability as well . But the Wu's Jade is still unknown to him because this was the first time he has seen an unknown status written on an item .

"Its a success . I see what is wrong now . It was because I'm trying to upgrade the Iron Ruler when I only have 11 Strands of Inner Qi . Because I have 25 strands of Inner Qi now, the upgrade no longer put a toll on my body any longer . " he checked his condition after inspecting the Iron Ruler . He did have less 10 Strands of Inner Qi now after the upgrade .

"It did say Blood . Would it activate only after I drip a drop of blood on the jade?" Zhang Wu Ji makes a small cut on his finger and drips a drop of blood at the jade before he touched the jade and tried to upgrade it once more .

"Impossible . . . " he took the jade up in his to inspect the jade's appearance, but soon noticed that the drop of blood already gone from the jade!

One drop after another is dripped onto the piece of jade, where it was devouring the blood faster than Lenox Zhang can supply it . After providing over a 100 ml worth of blood to the jade, it finally changed . A hint of red colored hue begins to mix together with the white jade, turning the jade into half red, half white .

"It changed . . . The description of the jade changed into a different name as if the previous identity is to protect itself from any harm . But after receiving so much blood from him, it finally begins to trust this owner and revealed a portion of its identity .

"Do you want more? I will give you more . " Zhang Wu Ji continued after he rested for a while . Once again, he provides another 100 ml worth of blood into the jade, but this time, it wasn't enough for him to reveal its next secret the jade has been hiding .

"A normal human can only provide 350 ml of fresh blood every three months, but it wasn't enough for me to activate it after 200 ml of my blood . . . Fine, let's risk it!" he steel his mind and continue to provide another 100 ml worth of blood to the Jade, and finally received a reaction he was waiting for so long .

The White Blood Jade shine in a red color before the engraving "Wu" on its surface changed into a word Zhang . If this is how it works, perhaps the previous owner was a family of Wu, but he was sacrificed in some battle and only this piece of jade was remaining through the passage of time .

"Seriously? That's what it says after absorbing so much of my blood? Thank god! But where could I look for blood with high potential of Inner Qi . . . Wild Beast . . . I will have to hunt wild beast to complete such a task!" Zhang Wu Ji confirmed the primary fact of the White Blood Jade, but before he can proceed with his hypothesis, he will still need to conduct a few experiments to make sure .

"I will try to purchase some wild beast from the market first, if it is successful, then I will make a trip into the bigger forest . " Zhang Wu Ji convinced himself, but before going for a rest, he continued with another attempt to upgrade the jade .

In the next morning, loud drums and cheers were coming from the outside of the manor, disturbing his beautiful sleep due to the blood lost last night .

With both eyes barely opened, Zhang Wu Ji wakes up and dressed properly before he went to the Main Hall to greet his father . But his father who usually stays in the Main Hall is missing today .

"Where's father?" he asked a servant that was busy cleaning the floor, and it seems that the noise outside was the reason his father was missing in the early morning .

When he went outside, it was completely crowded with residents and visitors along the whole street, with a stage was built in the middle of the square .

"Greetings to all residents of the Li Jiang Town . Thank you for the four main families, the Zhang's, Tie's, Li's, and Chen's to warmly receive me during my humble arrival in the town . I am much honored with your appearance here during our sect's talent search . "

"As you may already know, my arrival to this town this time is to find a few talented individuals to follow me back to the Seven Stars Sect to receive personal tutelage from our distinguish elders . My quota this time is to select five talented individuals from this town before I went to another . "

"Thus, I welcome everyone that confident with your strength to come up and presents your martial talents to everyone, and grab one of the five chances presented to all of you here . The restriction is to those below 18 years old . If you're ready, you may start now . " the speaker for the Seven Star Sect finished his words before he went to the sit alongside with the four head of the family .

Without waiting too long, three youngsters went up on the stage to compete against one another . With each of them in their early 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter strength, their performance was not too bad, but it was quite boring to look at . After one of the three was kicked from the stage, another three went up and started their own battle .

"This youth is Li Jian Cheng, I am the youngest child of the Li's Family . Please anticipates my performance!" he greets the four family heads and the representative before participating in the battle, but the moment he went into their center, a three consecutive punch sent the three opponents out from the stage before they can react .

In a short while, four younger generations from the eight most well-established family went up to the stage . Among the five slots, only three families will be kicked out from the match, but they were all confirmed about one thing .

It was a normal thing for the Zhang's to fail this test, because of no matter what, the youngest of the family are well known to be a trash Martial Body that cannot cultivates at all!

Soon, the Qing's, Tian's, and Wang's younger generation also entered the stage, and kicked away the other weaker participants from the test, before the seven fights until only five remains .

But on that instant, a figure walk up to the stage in slow steps, ignoring the fact that the seven strongest youth is standing on the stage now .

"Wu JI, what are you doing on the stage, get down from there now!" Zhang Qing Feng scolds him in front of everybody, asking him to leave the stage .

"Senior from the Seven Star Sect, are we allowed to use a weapon in the fight?" Zhang Wu Ji steps onto the stage along with the Iron Ruler on his hand . This was the first time Zhang Qing Feng saw the Iron Ruler he made .

"That brat, it is quite long for a youth of his size . " he was surprised the youth can easily hold the ruler up on hand without any difficulties .

"Seven Star Sect focused in weapon and none weapon martial arts, using a weapon, of course, won't be an issue in the fight . " the representative replied, but in his eyes, it was a surprise to see a youth using an Iron Ruler as a weapon .

"Thank you, elder from Seven Star Sect . " he stood up straight at a side of the stage and prepared to fight for another spot to enter sect . But before that, he added another sentence to start everything up again .

"What are you guys waiting? Either jump off stage yourself or I will send you out . " he blurted . The sentence brings everyone into fury, except Guan Qing Han .

"You're too proud, let us teach you a lesson! I'm sure Senior Zhang will not have anything to say if we teach his son on his behalf!" the others charged at him altogether .

But in a split second, the Iron Ruler was swung like a whip, slapping at each of the six participants from other families until they were thrown out from the stage .

And especially for the young master of Li's, he was slapped by the ruler on the face and buttock and left the stage while moaning in pain . . .

"What just happened? It was a heavy Iron Ruler for god sake but he used it like a whip?" all five notable figures sitting on the side was shocked by what they have seen . If a person that cannot cultivate as Zhang Wu Ji is trash, then what are those that were defeated by him in a split second? Unrecyclable trash?

"Brother Qing Feng, it seems that the Zhang's family produced another strong figure again . Previously, the Eldest Zhang Wu Yuan was recruited personally by his honorable Teacher of the State as his personal disciple, and later, it was the second child Zhang Wu Chou was chosen to become the direct disciple to the Heavenly Sword Sect . "

"Now, even the third son was an amazing talent that can defeat other cultivators without possessing a cultivation himself . How strong will he be, if he were to be given a chance to cultivate successfully?" the representative praised Zhang Qing Feng for his greatness in producing three talents in the family .

"Senior, it was too much of a praise . Too much!" Zhang Qing Feng was shocked, but at least he still maintains his calmness when replying to the elder .

"Good, Good . It seems that my mission will be completed earlier . I don't need to visit another city anymore . You, youth, will follow me back to the Seven Star Sect to be accepted as the direct disciple of the headmaster!" the representative was so happy to see such a talent, and can't wait to go back as soon as possible .

"Elder, I hope she will be selected as well . One has said before, no matter how strong is a man, he will be gentler than a rabbit when facing the only lady that can control him . " he looked at the lady before he finished his sentence .

"Hahaha, great, great . Both of you will follow me then . Go back and prepare, our ride will come soon enough!" in fact, they were not given any chances to slowly pack . With a rush, Zhang Qing Feng took his son back to their home and ordered the servants to pack him essential clothing, medicines, and some money before allowing him to go on a journey .

"You're a grown-up man now . But still, always remember to do everything with a limit in your mind . Do not worry about your father . With your brother as a student of the State's Teacher and Direct Disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect, your father's safety is well protected . "

"All you need to remember is, learn as much you could at the sect, and do not overconfident in yourself because you're still not a cultivator . . . Always . . . " before he finishes his word of farewell, the main door already receive few strong knocks .

"Father, do not worry, I will take care of myself!" he waved his hand at everyone in the manor and left the town soon after joining the convoy .

Riding in a carriage pulled by two horses, and followed by ten more cultivators on a horse with a cart behind them, the convoy returned to the Seven Star Sect, which is about 6 days journey from the Li Jiang Town if they were to travel without stopping .

Since the sect has a smaller establishment scattered along their route when they were going back, the convoy changed their horse twice, before they reach the entrance to the sect .

Although it was not located high up of a mountain, the Seven Star Sect is still a very established sect with 50,000 disciples . Their sect was located not too far away from the Wen Wu City, and up to the north of the sect, is the well-known mountain path called Orchid Mountain, which housed the Lan Shan Clan . [1][2]

the Li Jiang Town was located east of the sect, six-day journey by the horse, and between their journey, they will enter two small towns before reaching . And most importantly, the southern part of the Seven Star Sect is the main attraction that brought Zhang Wu Ji here .

"Alright, I will be bringing you two to your temporary residence first . This was the treatment we often give to those with good potential because they will become the pillar supporting our sect in the future . "

"Tomorrow morning, the both of you will enter the examination to determine your talent and ability to handle the challenges . From there, you will be then selected by our elders to be their direct disciples . "

"Remember, the test is not all about cultivation, sometimes, they will check the aptitude, the upbringing, and the inner quality of a disciple . So try your best to pass the test . I'm sure with your talents, even our headmaster will be twitching to accept you as his disciple . " the representative of the sect finished his sentence and left the residence .

Left with nothing to do, Zhang Wu Ji went to choose a room and sleep . Although the carriage was not uncomfortable, being put in the same carriage as Guan Qing Han was a torture because the lady did not stop herself from harassing the youth along their way .

The attitude of this two makes the representative understand one thing . The word "A man will be gentler than a rabbit before a woman that can control him" is true . In fact, after the two youth left the Li Jiang Town, the head of Guans immediately paid a visit to the Zhang's Manor to discuss a marriage between the two youths in their similar age, and also to wipe away the misunderstanding between the Zhang's, the Guans, and the Botanist Hall .

Back at the residence, Zhang Wu Ji was trying to sleep . During the past 6 days of traveling, his total strands of Inner Qi increase by another four again, making his current strands standing at 29 . But as a none cultivator, he knows that if he was lacking in a certain kind of quality, it is possible that he will be sacked before he managed to pass a single round of the evaluation test .

"I can't completely depend on the two books to increase my Inner Qi, with the speed of two strands every three days, It will take me five months before I have enough to increase my strength by 1 Stage . I will need to find a new alternative, but what can I do?" he considered his option for a moment, and then remembered the two Qi Sensing Pills in his pouch .

"If I eat them and cultivates, it won't be a problem for me to get 2 strands immediately, but what can the six hours do for me, since the former brat can't even successfully get a single strand of Inner Qi after eating this like water for fifteen years?"

"Shit! I got no idea at all on what I can do now! Even if I use the White Blood Jade, where do I get the blood from?" he scratched his head for a while before a knock came from the door .

"Who? Her?" he went to the door with the two Qi Sensing Pills in hand and went to open the door . When he sees the lady was standing outside with her pajamas and a book in her hand, Zhang Wu Ji's caution against her is reduced .

"You asshole! Call me Qing Han or Han-Han for god sake!" she cursed in mind, but slowly raise the book in her hand before she begins to talk .

"I . . . I was too rash on that day and took the liberty to take away the book you want . . . Can . . . You forgive me? You can have the book here . " she placed the book right before him, and timidly, she talks .

"Ah! It's actually that book! What should I do now . . . " he was surprised that the book will find its way back to his side without him missing it .

"I am at the wrong too, I believe this Qi Sensing Pill will be better for you instead, please take this back . " like exchanging their presents, he placed the two Qi Sensing Pills at her palm while keeping the book away .

"No, I can't take both from him because the pill still cost 1,000 gold coins each . The book only cost me a few hundred coins to purchase anyway . . . I guess I can do this instead . " she considered about this for a while, before she put a Qi Sensing Pill back on his hand .

"This, you will take one, and I take one," she said . Surprised by her generosity, Zhang Wu Ji checked the status of his pill, before he decides to say something .

"I will!" she replied in a smile, and turn around to leave the room, but before she forgets, she turned to him again and loudly said; "Good Night!" before she runs away sheepishly .

"She does have a very attractive side on her when she wasn't pissed off . " Zhang Wu Ji comments before he returns to his room and closed the door .

"The book! You're back to my side! I'm going to see what is so amazing about you!" his calm demeanor changed after he exhaled . Being put in a difficult situation of having nothing to improve his speed of cultivation, the sudden appearance of the book was like a pie dropped from the heaven to feed this hungry bastard .

"What? Increase in speed when I beat people and got beaten? This . . . How can I go with it?" he immediately considers his alternative, but except asking for Guan Qing Han to pummel him, there is no other choice for him to look for a beating .

"Wait . . . I am inside the Seven Star Sect anyway, how about I . . . Go out and look for people to beat me or me beating them?" he stops considering Guan Qing Han first . Given her attitude, if Zhang Wu Ji asks for a beating, she will do it without mercy .

Secretly, he went out from their residence and randomly look around for a training ground . One has to say, the Seven Star Sect is at least fifty times bigger than his residence for sure! He was looking around for the training ground but notice nothing but closed buildings and some disciples were chatting at each other after their practice session .

With his skin on the face thickened, Zhang Wu Ji went to the group of students to ask for a direction, but most of them were so high up in their own little world and ignored Zhang Wu Ji's polite request .

"Get the hell away! Look at yourself before you talk to us . Are you wearing the robe of a Seven Star Sect Disciples? If not, then don't come over to try and get close to us . We're from two different worlds . "

The random bullets filled with despising sentences shot at Zhang Wu Ji mercilessly, but luckily, the youth was sturdy enough to not be pulled into the same level as them .

"Still not leaving? Then don't blame me to send you back home by crawling!" one of the disciples stand up and charged at Zhang Wu Ji with a punch, but not noticing the Iron Ruler from his back, Zhang Wu Ji whacked him using the ruler until he was unconscious on the ground .

"How dare you look for trouble with us!" the disciples immediately get furious from his atrocious action! Where should they put their face if they failed to teach a none cultivator a lesson for messing with Disciples of the Seven Star Sect?

"Come to attack me!" he swings his Iron Ruler within discrimination at everyone and pummels them until they fainted on the ground . After settling the issue with this ten disciples, he went to another location .

The only differences are this time, it was not to look for the training ground, but to pummel disciples that way too high above themselves in their thinking .

"Even if the sect wants to send me away, so be it . After I'm done with you, it will be the bandits from the Lan Shan Mountain," he tells himself, as he steps forward .

From one section to another, Zhang Wu Ji very quickly obtained the name Torturing Demon . It was the first time they see a youth holding an Iron Ruler and walk around the residential area to pummel the disciples .

As for himself, it was a fun thing to pummel them, because with each of them was defeated until fainted, he will receive a small strand of Inner Qi flying around him like it was converging into a proper strand of Inner Qi .

"I'm done with the seventh group now, let us get the others . " after defeating a few groups, his confidence grows, it seems unless they were well-trained elites, else, it would be difficult for them to resist the strike from his Iron Ruler .

But what he did not know is that his action has started to attract the upper-class students studying as a direct disciple of an elder . Since his residence was located at a Basic Disciple area, none of them were presenting any threat to the Torturing Demon .

As he went on with the giving of pummelling lessons, two elders standing inside the Reflecting Pagoda is occupied with their discussions related to the next direct student of the sect headmaster . In front of them was an old man in his eighties, with seven swords of different length standing behind him while their tip was inside the stone floor .

It seems that the representative that brings Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han is here as well . In fact, he was one of the two Grand Elders of the Seven Star Sect, the Grand Elder of the Right, Xing Yi Chen . As for the other person standing beside him, was the Grand Elder of the Left, Yang Chen Kun .

The headmaster in his eighties is the current and also fifth generation headmaster of the Seven Star Sect, known as The Lord of Seven Swords, Liang Tian! He was one of the most amazing figures that thread passes the Sheng Tian Process twenty years ago before he took the title as the fifth headmaster of the Seven Star Sect .

"It seems that the both chosen one from the grand elders is coming out to wreak havoc . Who do you think will cause more problem?" Headmaster Liang Tian says as he spreads his sense of an Inner Qi Lord across the land belonged to the sect .

"Hmm . . . Torturing Demon, huh?" Headmaster Liang Tian smiled when he heard about the commotion related to a demon holding an Iron Ruler looking for people to pummel .

"While at the same time, slight far from where Zhang Wu Ji is wrecking havoc, is another youngster in his 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter strength . Instead of causing trouble like Zhang Wu Ji, he challenged the disciples to fight him in a Battle Royale, with the rewards of 10,000 Gold Coins if they managed to defeat him .

"Tell young Sixth and young Eighth to go and teach them both a lesson . Hahaha . . . " the headmaster mentioned two people to take care of the commotion . After the two grand elder went for their arrangement, two person is on their move to handle this matter .

As the headmaster of the sect, Liang Tian personally accepted nine direct disciples . Each of them was called the young first to young ninth . Their title does not stay too long, and changes always happen whenever the younger tried to challenge the older .

With the strength of a 3rd Stage Inner Qi Warrior, the two young disciples of the headmaster went straight to where they were fighting, and very soon, Zhang Wu Ji is standing just right before him .

"Me? I'm Zhang Wu Ji, can you lead me to the training grounds for me to practice a bit before tomorrow exam?" knowing that this person is much different from the weaklings before, Zhang Wu Ji greets him politely .

"Sure . When I defeat you, I will drag you to the Training Ground to be paraded . You're quite daring to come and make a mess with the Seven Star Sect . " young eighth speaks his reason to stand before him . Being a person filled with pride as the headmaster's eighth direct disciple, he was proud and too proud .

"I'm here looking for the training ground, but none of the seniors cooperate, and even take action to assault me, am I not allowed to even retaliates?" Zhang Wu Ji tried to reason with him . But he received no respectful replied in return .

"If we say you're wrong, then you're wrong! We are the disciples, not you!" he blows up from Zhang Wu Ji's reply and took the advantage to launch an attack first .

"Shining Seven Sections!" the sword in his hand shines like a bright fluorescent tube that blinds his sight, but with Three Style Dog Ruling Art, he retaliates valiantly while having his sight blinded for a moment .

"What a heavy Iron Ruler, and he can still swing it like a feather . " Young eighth retreats for a few steps, and tried to see the weaknesses behind the sudden burst of frenzied strikes, but failed to notice anything .

"Four Steel Ruler Art! Swing!" with the edge of the ruler is in his hand now, he made a 360 degrees turn with his Iron Ruler acting as the fulcrum! A sudden unconventional attack came and strikes young eighth aside before he can do anything to block the attack!

"I'm going to let you see an air blade!" Zhang Wu Ji swings the Iron Ruler again, creating an air blade heading at the disciple with high speed .

"New Iron Ruler Art . . . Buttocks Blooming with Flowers!" the ferocious yet funny buttock strikes slaps at his bottom without a method to resist .

It was an unconventional attack, but when it was used unconventionally, it was the strongest attack to use against a person who followed the steps blindly until now!

"Boring . I'm going back now, I lost my interest to go to the training ground any longer . " he turned around and left the place, taking his own sweet time back to his own residence .

This two item was dropped on the ground when one of the disciples was disturbed by the fight . And since he did not return to collect them, it ends up getting into Zhang Wu Ji's hand instead .

As for the fight just now, he only managed to defeat and pummel ninety-eight students, since one of them was the young eighth with the strength of 3rd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, he ends up getting three little strands from him .

Altogether, it wasn't much, but his total Inner Qi strands increase to 30 . Unless the test is going to start on the third day morning, it will be impossible for him to get more strands of Inner Qi for now .

"I'll better off planting the seed then . " he considered his ending in case he really failed to enter the Seven Star Sect and become their disciple .

Sleeping quite well, he wakes up from slumber the moment sunlight rise from the east . With everything was prepared before he came out, Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast before they followed a disciple to the location the test is going to be conducted .

Here, he noticed that except for the two of them, there are another hundred and forty-eight more participants waiting to enter the testing ground . Almost all of them were well dressed, some are even better in term of clothing quality, design, and their expressiveness in showing out their wealth .

And at not too far from his sight, he sees at least fifty disciples with bruises and walking sticks on them . It seems that few of those he pummels yesterday are actually helping out in this exam .

"It seems that the exam is not going to be easy . . . I shouldn't pummel them that hard yesterday . Now I'm going to suffer for sure . " Zhang Wu Ji slightly regrets his action yesterday, but not too much, because it brought him fun, and it brought him a strand of Inner Qi .

"Greetings, to the 150 of you here . I believe everyone has a good sleep yesterday, to prepare for today's test . I will be reading out the rules of the test once, so pay attention at this to not cause anything wrong in your test . "

"The test is split into five different categories, and each will test you in the content of Talents, Skills, Attentiveness, Ability, and Heart . Only by passing this five test you're qualified to become the disciples for an elder . "

"The moment I ring the bell, everyone will enter the cave to conduct the test at the same time . Only those passed all five test will be allowed to come out, while those who failed will be evicted from the cave automatically . "

The speaker was an elder, taking the position of the guardian and also the person in charge of this examination process . With a shake of his hand, the bell ring, indicating the test is starting .

Without bothering about anybody else, Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han join along with the moving group and entered the manmade cave about one and a half meter wide . It was slightly dark if looking from the outside, but the moment they entered, it was actually dimly lit with mysterious Night Glowing Pearl that will continue to shine as long they were fed in a location filled with Natural Qi .

But without anyone knowing, the simple test started to become a marathon, where those leading at the front line suddenly begin to run . Unable to fight against the flow brought by the frontline, Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han were forced to follow the flow and begin to run as well .

Estimated about ten meters of running, the entered a bigger chamber which was well lit with a large amount of Night Glowing Pearls . The chambers were empty, with only more tunnels leading to unknown places and discarded rocks scattered around the whole area .

After calculating, Zhang Wu Ji noticed there were a total of seven tunnels, each of them came with a very different formation, but when it was posted in front of a librarian who read too much book in his life, Zhang Wu Ji did not hesitates but to chose the last and final tunnel, and leading Guan Qing Han along with him .

It was really mysterious, because not even in her own mind were considering to follow Zhang Wu Ji along in his path . The last path led them into a different chamber that came with different words carved on their entrance wall .

[A Diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections] is carved on the entrance of the left, and [An unrefined Jade are worthless as a weapon] is carved on the entrance to the right .

"You choose first . I will take the remaining one . This will be where we separate . I hope you do well in the exam too . " Zhang Wu Ji replied, and let her make her first decision .

"Then . . . I will take the right tunnel! The word carved on the wall suits me better . " as expected by Zhang Wu Ji, she chooses the right tunnel to enters . The fact one will always choose a path more suitable for his character is always true .

"Alright, I will go to the left tunnel then . Good Luck . " Zhang Wu Ji look hesitates, but in his mind, the left one would suit him even better, because of his physical flaws .

Entering the tunnel on the left, it leads him into a smaller chamber that shines brightly with over a thousand Night Glowing Pearl is embedded on the ceiling . In the middle of the chamber is a podium with a manual .

He steps into the room, walked to the podium with a manual and inspect all the words surrounding him . But unexpectedly, the guide to pass this level is written on the surface of the podium .

[Flaw or not, Talent is what make a person to succeed as a cultivator, and ascends to become a saint . Take ownership of your own fate, and make use of your talent to master the art in the manual to break through this level, and proof your talent . ]

Instead of flipping the manual, he went to a section of the wall that seems different from the others and activated the Fist of Destruction Qi by paying 3 strands of Inner Qi . Not putting too much strength, he lands his fist on the wall and destroys them in a single hit . In the term of destruction power, it was nothing lesser than a master of this art .

Still walking in the tunnel, he continues his way until he reaches the second chamber to test him in skills! This chamber was slightly bigger than the one in the first test, and it was fitted with many different profession tools and materials that were suitable to be processed .

"So, the test for skills is actually a test to see how good I am in professional skills . Then this would be too easy . " he explored the room to look for the Pill concoction section, and check the ingredient they put here .

"Again? Wound Mending Pill?" he looks at the prepared ingredients and felt disappointed . It seems that because the profession is not treated as highly as the personal cultivation, thus the minimal requirement for one to pass the Skill test only required one to complete the most basic test in one profession .

Easily, he finished the concoction of Wound Mending Pill without any difficulties, before he explores the tools surrounding him . After thinking for a short moment, he decided to went over to complete the Blacksmithing task as well . it was a test to prepares and refine a Copper Ingot and Iron Ingot . Although the task wasn't as difficult as it thinks, to process out a pure copper ingot from their provided materials, it was a difficult task . But still, Zhang Wu Ji able to complete it without a hitch, especially when he got the ability to scan the product he created .

He turned and prepared to leave, but when he walked past the section of a Botanist, it pains his eyes to see how a proper Ice Leaves Tea Tree is placed so close in proximity with the furnace .

"The person who places this pot here should be killed and feed to the dogs . How can he place such a fragile plant near to the Burning hot Furnace!" Zhang Wu Ji complained . But finally, he completes the Skill's Test with a three profession success .

What he doesn't know is the test of attentiveness was also been evaluated along with the test of Skills . As the person who realized the mistakes of placing a plant near to the furnace, and taking the effort to refine a proper quality copper ingot, he passes the third test at the same time, with flying colors .

The tunnel continues, until he reaches the Chamber to test his ability . Here, the chamber only contains an orb made from jade, placed on top of a podium . It was a treasure known as Jade of Inner Mind, a treasure that can give an enlightenment to many things .

Some people succeed in breaking through, some obtained enlightenment in their martial arts, and some obtains the vision for their future . By placing his hand on top of the jade, he was brought into a world where he was looking at a person with the body made of luminescence light .

"Are you . . . Upgrade?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . But soon, the light vanished from his sight, where the vision before him turned into a scene happening in Li Jiang Town .

"Li Jiang Town, wait . . . Under attack?" Zhang Wu Ji fall into confusion when he saw a scattered group of troops is attacking the residents that trying to escape . Among them, few of them was the servants of the Zhang's Family .

"Stop!" Zhang Wu Ji wields his Iron Ruler and tried to charge at the attacking soldiers, but as he tried to move, the Iron Ruler's weight completely holds him still on the ground, unable to move a single step .

"Damn! Inside here the Upgrade Effect is not existent!" Zhang Wu Ji felt the sheer weight of the Iron Ruler that won't budge a single centimeter . Without anything else in his arsenal, Zhang Wu Ji is left with only his normal punches and kicks .

"What is this test? Ability? What do you mean with ability? What do you want me to do in this test?" he was completely confused with his current condition . Being put in the situation without his ability, he was actually a trash!

"Wait . . . " he walked over to somewhere close to him and took a box out from the rubbles . It was quite a modernized weapon containers he's seen before back in his own world .

"Oh yeah, this is the weapon they said to be the most destructive shotgun in the world right?" He opened the box and took out the so-called Kel-Tec-KSG shotgun, loaded with twelves rounds of shells .

"Damn, having just enough 30 Strands of Inner Qi is a troublesome matter . " after noticing he lost a third of his physical strength, it must be due to the high consumption of Inner Qi is needed to upgrade the weapon .

"The only issue is, why would this weapon appear here out of sudden?" he was still slightly confused . That item should belong to what he owns in this world were useless, while those weren't supposed to appear in this world actually appears .

What's more, it was very tangible and solid . What he did not imagine was that this is a created world through his mind . Since he possesses two lifetimes of experience, the limited power of the jade was failed to process only one memory completely, making his world is intertwine together .

And the intertwine effect . . . Caused a disruption on the experience created by the Jade of Inner Mind . It made things impossible become possible, and end up useless against somebody like Zhang Wu Ji .

With the weapon in hand, he becomes the hunter, turning the slaughtered to become the slaughterer . Armed with a modern weapon, no spears and swords were his matches . The damage of 24 completely decimates his opponent armor, weapons, and even magical treasures .

The win he obtained in this test almost caused the Jade of Inner Mind to crack . This was the first time the jade, filled with a spirit within, was scared stupid from trying to fight with such a character .

"Does this means . . . I pass?" he looks at the surrounding that returned to normal . The Iron Ruler was still by his side, and the Kel-Tec-KSG 25 was gone from his hand .

"Damn! With this weapon, I'm the lord of this place . " he thought about it for a moment, but finally understands that everything that happened, was an imagination, a test for him, to test his ability in handling matters, heroism, and the ability to take on responsibilities .

With four test passed, only the test of heart remains . This test was extremely direct and simple . By placing his hand in the Crystal of Clarity, the crystal will then release a brilliance depending on how clear is the heart of the owner .

If the brilliance of the crystal reaches only one-fifth of the crystal's height, it means the heart is spoilt, untamed, rash, and ignorant . Such quality of a heart wasn't suitable to be taken as a disciple, as the risk of defecting, betrayal is higher than usual .

If it managed to reaches two-fifth of the crystal's height, it recognized the owner's heart to be in a state of confusion, unknown of what path he should go in his life . Those that were categorized in this quality were given a chance to improve, but difficulties still remain .

As for those reaches three-fifth of the crystal's height, which was a pass, the brilliance indicates the strength, stubbornness, and the aim to excel . Those that were evaluated to stand at this level are counted as qualified to become a disciple of the sect .

The four-fifth brilliance is much rare than the previous three . Except possessing the value that worth better than the former, those stands in this category are always the talents that were groomed since birth to partake important positions in their future, as the pillar of the humanity .

Only the rarest kind of people worth standing at the top amongst the top . The complete brilliance from the crystal was only given to people with utmost talent and will be assumed to be the pillar of humanity from birth .

The complete brilliance was also the minimal qualifications for a crown prince to be crowned as emperor, where only the most capable amongst talent worth such a position .

When Zhang Wu Ji went to touches the test of heart, he followed the guidance given by the engraving and allowed the crystal to evaluates the quality of his heart . After a while of closing his eyes, Zhang Wu Ji opened it when he realized that the crystal no longer absorbing any Inner Qi from him .

It wasn't a disappointment, but it wasn't an excellent result either . three-fifth brilliance . Zhang Wu Ji was barely a pass in this examination .

"Well, three-fifth is still a pass . With my kind of talent and ability, passing the test is enough for me . " he exhaled breath, and relaxed because he finally completed the whole test, and should be going out from the cave now to met his appointed master .

When he exits the cave, it creates a commotion that was later spread to the whole Seven Star Sect, shocking both masters, disciples, and subordinates .

Zhang Wu Ji, Fifteen years old and two month . Martial Body Aptitude, None! Cultivation Strength, 30 Strands of Inner Qi, yet to enter the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter! Weapon of choice? Iron Ruler! Profession? Pass in Pill Concoction, Blacksmithing, Botanist, and Medicine!

With so many special traits one can see from him, even if he wasn't a quality to become a cultivator, the masters and elders in the sect will still choose him to become their direct disciple, and turn into one of the Sect's most important pillar in the future .

Outside of the cave, he was surrounded by twelve elders, each elder was busy introducing themselves and their specialized profession, trying to hook Zhang Wu Ji into their own faction . With such a major character inside their faction, not only their overall strength will increase, even the quality of his disciples will see a great change due to the participation of an amazing disciple .

But no matter how much the ten normal elders and two grand elders tried, none of them managed to hook him into their faction . He was personally greeted by the arrival of the Seven Star Sect Headmaster, the Lord of Seven Swords, Liang Tian .

"Yes, headmaster . " seeing how much reverence and respect this elder received from the twelve elders, he immediately understand the importance of this old man . If will be impossible to get the respect from all twelve elders if he wasn't an important character .

"Good . Although the lacking of a Martial Body hindered you in cultivation, you still able to achieve 30 Strands of Inner Qi at your fifteen years old . What's more, the amount of your knowledge in three different professions isn't shallow either . "

"This only indicates one thing . You're a cultivating and knowledge maniac! This is the quality I'm looking at my students, are you willing to become my direct disciple?" the headmaster extend his invitation to the youth before him .

What an honor! The headmaster came personally to obtain the youth standing before the thirteen of them . If this situation was seen by the other youth brought back by the Grand Elder of the Left, what would he think? To imagine that a youth will not only become the first to leave the Cave, he even obtains promising results from all five test, if this wasn't a talent, then what is talents?

"This youth will need to understand one thing before he decides . May this youth dare himself to request?" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his palm together and speaks .

"Go ahead! If that's not something I cannot do, it will be granted!" since Liang Tian already decided to take this youth as his disciple, he felt there will be nothing left for him to hesitates .

"If a master can't even answer certainly to his direct disciple, then why does he desire to take him into his faction? For the fun to take somebody away from others?" this is everything in his mind at this instant .

"Zhang Wu Ji wishes that he will be given the liberty to access everything he wanted, all for the sake of knowledge!" without anybody expecting his intention is to be given the ticket for complete freedom, Zhang Wu Ji speaks his heart out .

"My complete loyalty, and all I ever blessed," he replies in a very deep answer, that possibly only the headmaster who will become his master, understands it .

This was the beginning of a new era for the Seven Star Sect, an era where their prosperity was the source of jealousy in the whole Ping An Continent .

Time passes a little quick, and two days soon passed as he was being taken from one building to another . Because his position was slightly special, Zhang Wu Ji received a much proper and high-quality clothing material, along with an Advance-Grade weapon, Seven Leaves Sword .

That was not all! As a Direct Disciple, his position is currently the newest Young Ninth, also just started to get known as the Master Senior Ninth . The master senior title is only given to the nine headmaster's direct disciple, whom also need to learn about how to handle a certain task within the Seven Star Sect .

Marking his 39th day in this world, his number of Inner Qi has finally increased to 32 strands . Standing right in the front of his own courtyard [1], he started to measures the total of land was assigned to his usage . This was what being a Direct Disciple of the Headmaster Liang Tian represents .

Receiving the similar treatment like the elders, Zhang Wu Ji can receive a total of 100 Qi Sensing Pills each month, and also there will be unlimited raw resources made available to him . After knowing that he can even hire the other disciples to help him in many kinds of different matters, like a personal butler for the rates of one Qi Sensing Pill a day .

"Master Senior Ninth, do you need any help? I heard you're a qualified botanist, I can help you with many botanical matters . " suddenly, a disciple approached him with the intention to look for an employment .

"Are you knowledgeable with the Yin Ling Fruit Tree and their harvesting method?" Zhang Wu Ji knows that to properly managed his own little farm, it will be important for him to hire helpers that can work on his behalf with the resources and tools he provides .

Even more important, was the knowledge to handle some specific plants, such as the Yin Ling Fruit Tree . This plant carries a very sentience familiarity towards the person who grows them, and in return for the care the person gives, the Yin Ling Fruit they produced will vary in their term of quality .

Like its name, the Yin Ling Fruit was an edible product of rich Yin-Element inside, which is fine to be eaten raw, cooked, and even after they were concocted into pills . The richness of its Yin-Element allowed the person that consume them to have a better balance in their body's Yin and Yang energy, improvement in bowel activities, and strengthen their physical body from frequent consumptions .

This was a fruit that can expect to sell very well in the market, as well if they were produced and provided to the peoples within the sect . Although it's wasn't too much to be proud off, the opportunity of having the Yin Ling Fruit to eat in daily basis can easily attract over thousands of cultivators to purposely enroll in the sect .

"Yes, Master Senior Ninth, I am confident with my experience in handling the Yin Ling Fruit Tree . " the disciple confidently reply to his questions while anticipates Zhang Wu Ji's reply .

"Great, prepare the tools for gardening purposes, we will discuss the location for where they should be planted . If you have any opinion on the lands, let me know . " he agreed to hire this disciple . But before he turns around to do something else, the disciple has a request for him .

"Master Senior Ninth, can I enter the courtyard and take a look first before I prepare the materials?" he said . Looking at his serious face, Zhang Wu Ji agreed, and lead him to the bigger plot of land filled with weeds on it .

"This piece of land need some works to be done . For starter, I will arrange for a new irrigation system to be done and separates this piece of land into four parts . Based on the growth of the weeds in this piece of land, the most fertile part would be our bottom left, followed by the upper left and upper right . Because the bottom right did not have too much weed on it, the possibility is only two . "

"Something must be disturbing the growth of the weeds in this part of the land, or the land was just plowed not too long ago . " after he shared his expertise in this matter, Zhang Wu Ji is more confident with his decision .

"Great . Can you possibly try to see what is suitable to be planted at the other part of the land as well?" checking at the size of his land, he estimates their size to be about 1 . 3 acres, a size of an international Football field . Based on his knowledge of plants and their suitable gap to grow properly, a quarter of his land can fits 250 - 270 trees .

But after some consideration according to the knowledge he got in this world, the best maximum number of the Yin Ling Fruit Tree to be planted should be 100 divided into ten rows, with ten trees each . This will allow each of them to have a more spacious spot to grow independently without the need to fight for nutrients .

After the disciple introduced himself as Tang Yuan, he left happily to get ready with all the preparation he needs . And what is more important of, is the approval of Zhang Wu Ji to allow him to stay in his courtyard . Being a basic outer disciple, those like Tang Yuan are only lucky enough to receive 3 Qi Sensing Pills each month .

They were more of a servant disciple, instead of proper inner disciples . With only 3 Qi Sensing Pills a month, they will have no choice but to search for employment all over the Seven Star Sect . Some even venture to the outside just for the sake to earn their livings .

By receiving the right to stay in the private courtyard of the Master Senior Ninth, was an enormous upgrade in his position . What he doesn't know yet is that this little daring attempt of his actually turn his life around, allowing him to live even better .

With the issue of handling the farming part is completed, Zhang Wu Ji took his free time to visit the two Profession Room provided to him by the sect . The two of them are separated into two ends, which was a proper consideration looking at how extreme is the Blacksmith Profession in handling their metallurgy works, and how completely serene a master need during pill concoction .

"Not bad, most of the basic materials were prepared for, and even some revision materials for me to read if I stumble across an obstacle during my work . The sect seriously treating me like a young prince here . I guess making things a little extreme are not something bad sometimes . " Zhang Wu Ji was impressed with the arrangement but more impressed with himself on the title he got himself two days ago .

"Torture Demon, huh?" he laughed at his own nickname, but the deeper he think about it, the more he felt about the need to utilize the nickname!

"Torture Demon, why can't it become something else? Upgrading Demon? Hahaha, that's funny, but it sounds good anyway . . . " Zhang Wu Ji talked to himself as he walks around his courtyard . With a total of 32 Strands of Inner Qi, he furiously upgrading everything he can upgrade, from beddings to chairs, and soon into even the vase, statue, doors, and cloth hanging rope .

"Hahaha! I can now keep all my treasures in this little storage room without worries of theft . " he laughed his surprise off and went to get a proper rest, before facing the challenges coming next day .

In his dream, his mind went to think about the condition of the little lady Guan Qing Han . If he wasn't mistaken, she most probably will pass the test as well, the only differences will be who's her appointed master will be .

But he did not ever imagine, that instead of being picked as a disciple amongst the elder, Guan Qing Han was actually taken into a more private faction that was hidden from the eyes of the public . It belonged to the faction of the mistress of the Headmaster, which operate in secrecy as the protector of the Seven Star Sect .

"How is the father now? Did my disappearance from his sight made his temper become better? Did Da Yang and Da Zui eat well when I'm no longer around?" even just staying together for just a month, the close relationship between him with the three gives him the most longing impression during his stay .

"Since my master already accepted me as his direct disciple, it is normal that I will do something for the sake of the sect . But I wonder what is highly sought after in this sect . Should I just focus on plantations? Or should I work something out from the metallurgy part for them?"

"If the thing did not get too smooth at that part, how about Pill Concoctions? But the sect has their own Pill Masters as well, it might be not that impressive compared to them . " Zhang Wu Ji reconsidered his choice again .

"What should I do . . . " he begin to ponder about what he can do for the sect and failed to obtain an answer for quite a long time . Time went quickly as the next morning arrived . There were a few knocks on his door, but as he wakes up and dressed himself up, the visitors were greeted by another person .

"Somebody in my house? Is the person Tang Yuan?" he remembered he allowed the guy to move into his courtyard, but his speed is a little too fast, right?

"What happened?" Zhang Wu Ji asked Tang Yuan about the commotion happening before his main entrance . It seems that because the news of Tang Yuan was hired spreads and created some jealousy from the others, thus all of them were here to obtain their own chances as well .

"Hehehe, it seems they news you hire me was spread across the whole sect since I'm only an outer disciple, the others think that with their status, their qualification is better than me . " Tang Yuan answered him truthfully . Knowing how straightforward is his Master Senior, why should he twist his word around and beat around the bushes?

"If you're willing to work free for me for one week, I will consider hiring them as well . Then see how many of them willing to stay after that and report them to me . " Zhang Wu Ji finished his sentence and entered the small tool room Tang Yuan stored the gardening tools inside .

Without bothering about those still outside, Zhang Wu Ji furiously upgrades the tools into their +5 conditions . Although only a few carried a special ability with them, at least it will still worth something .

He even thought about making his own tools, because, after the experience with the Iron Ruler, it might be plausible for him to craft his own wares to use . That might give him some good special abilities too!

"Eh! Aren't you guys a little too realistic?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised with the sight of not even a single disciples remained at his entrance . It was just a few hours for god sake!

"People only know what is good for them when they found out about it . Before that, it was pointless to try and argue with them about this matter . " he thought, as he continues walking until he reaches the Seven Star Sect free market opened by the merchants .

Here, plenty of different merchandise can be brought, as long the discussed price was agreed between the buyer and the seller . As for Zhang Wu Ji's appearance here, was very simple .

With a hundred of Qi Sensing Pill in hand, why can't he bargain them for the item he needs? Although the merchandise may not be well sought after by the disciples, the Qi Sensing Pill was product merchant and disciples coveted .

It's simple . "I'm a Master Senior . Either they were timid of stupid, I shall be the one to be approached, not the other way . " this was what he was told when he entered the sect .

"Is this honorable mister is the rumored Master Senior Ninth, Zhang Wu Ji?" at last, one of the merchants approached him to try and sell him something .

"This lowly junior does not worth the word honorable . The fame remained to my master . I thank mister to respect my master instead . " Zhang Wu Ji politely replies, while carrying the presence of a humble cultivator .

"Master Senior Ninth, you're too kind to this middle-aged man like me . How about coming to my stall to view some of my humble but worthy merchandise?" the merchant pointed at his stall with merchandise and prepare to take all precious item out for inspection .

Having 95 Qi Sensing Pills remained with him, Zhang Wu Ji is quite a wealthy customer at the moment . Added with his own little bit of wealth, he's carrying 100,000 gold coins with him at this moment .

Unlike the other merchants, this one carries many different kinds of mineral stones amongst his wares . Based on the appearance of his stall, he must be quite an expert in metal business, thus all his wares are focusing on mineral stones, mining tools, and special processed plates .

Touching most of them, he obtains a rough understanding of them . Two-third of the mineral stones came from the mines not too far from the west of Wen Wu City, well known for their density in an equal amount of Sentient Iron and Crystal Iron .

This mines largely contributes to the improvement of the Wen Wu City, where it helps the city to obtain their names from . Due to the wider range of materials the Sentient Iron and Crystal Iron covers, the Wen Wu City are well known for their production of Scholars material, such as Sentient Fans, Sentient Brush, and of course, the most popular Sentient Crystal Accessories that look like a jade pendant, bangle, and brooch .

Since earrings are not a well sought after accessories in this world, most of the ladies including Guan Qing Han did not possess any earholes that can allow them to put on an earring . But this instead increases their demand on the item such as wrist bangle, waist pendant, and brooches in their chest .

And before him, the stock of 50 Mineral stones here worth a total of 300% of Magnetite and 110% Siderite . This amount equals to three Sentient Iron Ingots and one and a tenth ingot of Crystal Iron!

"What is your offer if I intend to purchase all of them from your stall?" his sentence is an easy one, but for those hearing it, their heart falls onto the ground with a "Thump!" sound from their heart .

"Master . . . Master Senior Ninth . . . Are you serious about buying all the mineral stones?" the merchant understands the meaning, but being a merchant mainly deals with metal related products, this was the first time his merchandise was so well sought after!

"I can make you an exception of 2,000 Gold Coins for the 50 Mineral Stones . " he immediately gives out a considerable price for the wares, but the figure did not impress Zhang Wu Ji at all .

"Boss, I said all of them from your stall . Not only the mineral stones," he repeated his words once more . His repeat on the sentence again caused the heart of the others to fall once more .

"This . . . I am seriously don't know how to open a proper price . . . " this was the first time he was pushed into a situation he got no idea how should he set a price . Although the prices of each merchandise were set earlier, it was a price set for negotiation, not final .

This means if he did bargain for a very low price, it will be an unprofitable sales, but if he set it too high, then the buyer may decide to not follow up with the intention to purchase .

The situation makes him become speechless for a moment before he decides to make this transaction as an investment for a better future . So what if he failed to obtain this newly appointed Master Senior's good impression? Just count that as a bad luck then!

"Master Senior, I've come out with a good price for everything in my stall, that would be 20,000 Gold Coins, please! As for the gratitude to clean all my wares so I can return to the Wen Wu City with an empty load, please let me present this special formation plate to you as a gift!" his investment is equally huge!

This was a trick of making the client pay more by giving them back something on equal! Unexpectedly, it was beautifully presented by him without prior preparation!

"Great! 20,000 Gold Coins it is!" he took the total of 20 Qi Sensing Pills to the boss to complete his transaction, and without a delay, the merchant personally drives the stall back to his courtyard to unload all his purchase .

He was the one everyone laughed when he brings a movable stall filled with nothing but mineral stones, but now, he was the person everybody was jealous off because of his good business .

"Who will ever know that from Pottery, Herbs, books, weapons, to metal, he would choose Metal products without a moment of indecision!" this sentence came into everyone's mind, but nothing can be done now because Zhang Wu Ji had left the free market area following with his purchase .

"We should invest in metal products next time! Based on his purchase this time, he must be a disciple with blacksmithing as his supporting profession!" the group of envious merchants stares at the stall that left and Zhang Wu Ji who went towards a different way .

[1] . The courtyard used in this chapter was taken from the traditional style Chinese Courtyard House . It was called as Shiheyuan in Chinese, and you can easily get their information from Wikipedia .

While the merchant is delivering his purchase to his private courtyard, he himself went to pay a visit to the rumored protected Knowledge Pagoda belonged to the Seven Star Sect .

Separated into seven different floors, the Knowledge Pagoda was the place to keep all the heritage martial arts and numerous information related to the Ping An Continent here .

Holding the identity plate of the Ninth Direct Disciple of the Headmaster and also the Seven Star Order Plate, Zhang Wu Ji was allowed to enter the Knowledge Pagoda without any obstruction from all the elders standing on guard .

In fact, he was even allowed to take the manuals out from the pagoda for the reason of revising them directly in his place, but a limit of only two is allowed each time . This was the most the headmaster can fight for him, as the Elders guarding the Knowledge Pagoda did possess a higher status in compared to the others, standing in the same position as their headmaster .

It was said that if any of the elders guarding the pagoda requested to overtook the position of a headmaster, their request will be granted without any rejection, even from the headmaster himself . The reason for this is actually very simple .

All the elders standing guard here are the most important pillars of the Seven Star Sect, who was given the absolute right even above the headmaster himself . They are not only a guard but the most loyal and trusted elder of the sect that will never leave the sect to their demise no matter what happened .

In total, they were seven Pagoda Elders, with the seventh Floor Pagoda Elder being the oldest among them . He was also the strongest cultivator in the whole Seven Star Sect, with the cultivation of the 64th Stage of Inner Qi Lord, two-stage higher than the headmaster Liang Tian .

After paying his respect, Zhang Wu Ji was only allowed to enter the first floor of the Knowledge pagoda because of his limited amount of cultivation . In the eyes of the seven Pagoda Elders, his cultivation was something even if a pig can cry it will not help .

"32 Strands of Inner Qi? Not even an Inner Qi Fighter? Liang Tian, you were too much of a disgrace to step so low just to take in a disciple of this level . " this was the sentence came in all seven Pagoda Elder's mind .

He took two hours just to explore and read one complete shelf filled with books . Among all of them on the first shelf, he found two books that leave the best impression on him .

"I will bring this two-manual home first . For the earlier stage, I will see if the copied manual will be able to provide me with their similar abilities . " unexpectedly, he wasn't here to look for a cultivation manual that can help him in a various manner, but he was, in fact, searching for manual with lesser words written inside them!

If this kind of manner is known by the seven Pagoda Elders, he will be skinned and deboned before the elders throw him into a cage with dogs to feast on him! This was the first time they will be met with such an attitude when visiting the Knowledge Pagoda!

After an inspection, the First Floor Pagoda Elder allowed him to return with the two books, with the time limit of return not longer than a week . Happily, he left the Knowledge Pagoda while leaving the elders puzzled with his attitude .

"The brat took the Bone Strengthening Art and Lone Star Sword Art as his earlier studies," he reported to the other six Pagoda Elders in their private hall below the Knowledge Pagoda . This was also the location the treasure of Seven Star Sect, the Art of Counting Seven Stars is kept .

"This two manual is the weakest and also most basic among all the others . Did he choose them because of their easier to understand and cultivated records?" the Second Floor Pagoda Elder asked .

"Maybe, but based on his current cultivation strength, it will be a miracle if he can understand the first part of the Lone Star Sword Art . " the First Floor Pagoda Elder replied .

"Anyhow, we will continue to monitor his progress, order the Knowledge Restriction Force to monitor his activities within the sect . " the Sixth Floor Pagoda Elder speaks, but as he finished his sentence, two silhouettes vanished from the room .

They were the rumored private forces belonged to the Knowledge Pagoda's Seven Elders forces . Each of them was only tasked with one duty, control the leakage of the Seven Star Sect martial arts to outsiders!

Before he returned to his own private courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji paid a visit to the office where they were keeping and providing all the writing materials to the disciples requiring them . Taking advantages of the position of a Master Senior, he ordered them to provide him with a stack of paper of all qualities to his courtyard, and also hand him the manual of Paper production for a read .

Although they were not a precious knowledge and can be easily obtained in any of the bookstores, Zhang Wu Ji's action still puzzles them when he insists to read the book no matter what .

When he returned to his courtyard, the first thing he saw is a half tidied plot of land handled by Tang Yuan alone . In this prospect, he wasn't a match against Tang Yuan, who have over ten times of experience in handling the soil and plantations to promote their growth .

Since the helper had gone to rest and cultivates, Zhang Wu Ji can only silently enters his reading room and starts reading the Bone Strengthening Art first . Although he understands that without reading the manual he will still obtain their effects, this manual didn't belong to him in the first place .

It will be pointless for him to upgrade this book for the possibility to obtain two strands of Inner Qi before he returned the book to the Knowledge Pagoda . Even if the profit of the upgrade is good, it was still not a viable solution for him to handle his needs .

Without further ado, he started, from writing them in a sentence first and tried all different methods to upgrade and enhance the writing capability . It took not too long for him to realize one thing . No matter how he writes the words down, each letter of them will cost him one strand of Inner Qi to write, and another one strand to upgrade the sentence .

But the differences are not too significant until he finished a total of 5 sentences with 26 words in total . After upgrading them, the sentence did not carry too many differences compared to the original version, but certain letters did change or transformed into a different meaning .

Such words like Gather, Collect, Condense, and Create, were soon differ from their original version . But because it was only 26 words in five sentences, it still cannot prove their differences compared to the original manual in his hand .

It was something to say about its percentage of accuracy, but the special ability the paper does have causes him to become speechless for a moment . But because the 26 letters are barely covering a single page, he decides to just copy them for now, without utilizing any Inner Qi in his writing .

Taking sleep in between of his rewriting works, it took him a night of rest to complete one and a half pages of the 32 pages thick manual . At this moment, the complete page of the Bone Strengthening Art become 9 . 5%, while their second page is in their 6 . 6% accuracy . In his estimation, if each pages accuracy can reach 10%, it should be good enough for him to present this modified version to his master to review .

"Nothing was there to be shame about!" this was what inside of his mind . So what if he's not a cultivator yet? Does it take a cultivator to rewrite and rephrase a manual to bring out their might further? The answer is a "No" for sure . It took somebody with a hand to rewrite a manual, be it a cultivator or not, that was not important at all .

As it was already morning, he will have to show his face in the plot of empty land behind is courtyard for the sake of a proper appearance . If he was similar to the other seniors that boss the disciple around while enjoying themselves, were they even worth the title of senior at the first place? This was what motivates him to act as a proper example, even if he was just being described as despicable yesterday on the wall .

"Those who understand will not speak, but those who don't will speak too loud . " this was his quote used to describe the people that only know how to look at the shallow appearance, and speak like they understand .

When he reaches to the places that start to look like a farm now, he was greeted in person by his helper Tang Yuan the moment his silhouette appeared in the vicinity . Being the person hired on a whim, Tang Yuan cares about his attitude well, although they were just for the sake of a few Qi Sensing Pill . Such an attitude is commendable to Zhang Wu Ji's eyes, while they walked across the newly built but still dry irrigation system .

The part of the land on the bottom left was plowed and ready for the planting of Yin Ling Fruit Seeds, and inside of the Tool Room, Zhang Wu Ji already saw the little pouch with seeds inside . There were at least 200 seeds within, but none of them were upgradable at this moment because of his lack of cultivation strength .

After the inspection was over, Zhang Wu Ji left Tang Yuan to continue with his task, while he left the farm and went into the Blacksmithing Room to start inspecting all the material he purchased from the merchant . Except the fifty mineral stones, there were ten more different items nicely placed on the shelf, with the exception of the Formation Plate was nicely wrapped and left on the working table .

"I wonder what is the Formation Plate and it's usage . " being a person recently migrated to this world, he's a frog in the well about this matter . But it wasn't something to be blamed, because even the former Zhang Wu Ji and after reading all the books in the Zhang's Library, he did not found any recordings related to a formation profession at all .

-Usage 3: Through the conversion of Qi Sensing Pill, it allows the plate to convert them into Qi Accumulating Pill with the ratio of 50 to 1 .

This piece of treasure is too amazing! But why would the merchant give this out just because he charges me slight extra from the merchandise? Did he not understand the amazingness of this formation plate?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised with the gift the merchant gave him .

Of course, he did not know that because of the lack of the status reading ability he possesses, the normal cultivator like them are not able to distinguish the treasure they were holding in their hand . Furthermore, the formation plate in his hand now can only be activated personally after the blood contract is made, thus it was impossible for the merchant to understand it's usage at all .

"Perhaps I can try to upgrade the formation plate instead? Upgrade!" his hunger to see an additional ability to overcome his fear, and let him tried to upgrade the treasure in his hand .

"Aargh! I'm too weak!" he laments his incapable ability, what's good to him if the item wasn't able to be upgraded? But at the same time, he forgets that for those people without his ability to upgrade, they were using the normal item that wasn't lucky enough to receive his upgrade!

Alone, he stays at the Blacksmithing Room to prepares the fifty mineral stones that were rich with Sentient Iron and Crystal Iron . It did not take too long for him to prepares them now, but when it came to the part to refine their purity even further, it becomes less difficult compared to before .

As he grows stronger, the number of the attempt he can upgrade also increase significantly . When he found out that as long he managed to get a minimum 4 hours of rest when he exhausts his total Strands of Inner Qi, they will replenish altogether the moment he awakes . This was a great bonus when it came to the number of upgrade attempts he can use each time he rests for four hours .

With greater strength came greater responsibility . On the morning of his third day, he was summoned by his master to gathers in the Reflecting Pagoda . Although it wasn't visited by others frequently because it was a building belonged solely to the sect headmaster, this Reflecting Pagoda did not fail to carry its fame of being the second most important building within the Seven Star Sect .

Today, the nine of them was summoned to attend a private lesson conducted by the headmaster himself . It was said that being a disciple of an Inner Qi Lord was an honor that can be carried into the grave and gave a promised wealth to over three generations .

But for the Lord of Seven Swords, Liang Tian himself, this simple class he conducts once every week weren't too important at all because, at the end of the day, the cultivation of his disciple is still heavily depending on their understanding and effort . His classes were merely a shortcut to allow them to understand things further in a much well-guided way, and not bam on the wall until they found out themselves .

Today, the topic their master cover touches the part of comprehending the meaning brought by the manual . It was a coincidence that their master took the Bone Strengthening Art as the manual of his choice to be comprehended . For some of his senior in their 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter Tier, a complete comprehension on the manual and learning it within a day or two was an easy task, but to grab its essence hidden deep within the art is difficult .

The quote of "Ten years below the stage, only ten minutes on the stage" reflected perfectly on this topic because understanding varies from shallow to deep . Mastering differs from thorough to completion . A simple martial art will be destructive if it was used by a cultivator, and a cultivating art will become worthless if it was used by a normal peasant .

The deepness of his teaching is still quite profound, although his teaching was only focused solely on using the Bone Strengthening Art as the example . When he decipher the quality of his master rephrase and interpretation on the art, his quality of work is even better . This let him understand the amazing ability of his upgrading skill, and how can it contributes to the Seven Star Sect .

"But wait . . . " he thought about his intention for a moment . After calculating the amount of his Inner Qi now, they just turned into 34 at this morning .

He continues to be dazed by his own thought until his master finally caught him daydreaming while in his class . His strictness is already well known among the eight previous disciples, but it was unknown to the ninth! While the other senior brother and sisters of his are smiling, their master throws a brush at his forehead with a little strength from his cultivation!

"Fiush!" the brush flew across the air until his forehead, but it was blocked by a layer of Golden Protection shield . While still remaining in his daydream, Zhang Wu Ji did not lose his awareness of his surrounding and defended against the flying brush while still in his deep thought .

His master was impressed, with the other eight disciples . Facing their master and daydream? None of them dare . Defending their master's attack? Impossible . Continue to daydream even after what happened? Even if they were Liang Tian's son, none of them will dare to do such a thing in the class!

"He was still in his dream for god sake!" the eighth that was pummelled by him a few days ago shouted . The shout wakes Zhang Wu Ji from his thought, and let this youth look at his master face directly .

"Come, share what did you catch in your daze . " he smiled and walked over to the side of the youth . Before he takes a seat on the empty spots on the chairs, he added .

"I'm going to pummel you like how you pummel your eighth big brother a few days back if you actually tell me your mind went to the brothel when I'm teaching the class . "

"Master . . . " Zhang Wu Ji turn speechless when he listened to his master's warning! Why would his master mention such a thing if it wasn't because of the former Zhang Wu Ji's special act!!!

"Senior sister and brothers, Junior Zhang Wu Ji did use his opportunity to bring home the Bone Strengthening Art to practice two days ago, but unfortunately, his cultivation did not manage to have any improvement even after he tried to learn the Martial Art . "

"As for the reason, it was a luck that master's class today touches the topic, and even use the Bone Strengthening Art as the example . This further answers my questions related to the earlier pages of the Martial Art and allows me to have an inner comprehension for a moment there . " he took his own version of Bone Strengthening Art to be compared with his master's copy before he allows the other senior brother and sisters to read them .

Although it was only one and a half pages long, their differences between the three copy are huge! What's more, Zhang Wu Ji's version actually works better in their initial stage, and it was easily used by the eight seniors and his master to try their effectiveness .

"Good! Good! To see that although ninth's cultivation is too shallow, his mastery over Comprehension of Martial Arts is actually so much higher, even might be better than the master himself!" Liang Tian did not keep his praises as he knows it should be given to this youth for his small achievement barely after holding the book for two days .

"Why would you say so?" Headmaster Liang Tian was puzzled with his out of ordinary reply, but the next sentence came from his disciple made up his mind on ease .

"Because this disciple is yet to achieve his complete comprehension on this Bone Strengthening Art! If a bucket of half-filled water is treated as a full bucket, then where does the motivation to complete them properly will go? Master! Please allow Wu Ji to complete this challenge before he accepts master's praise!"

Unexpected by all of them inside of the small classroom, Zhang Wu Ji stated he wishes to completely comprehend the Bone Strengthening Art before he took his master's praise . When his statement came into their ears, all of them agreed, both master and his seniors . Yet, Liang Tian still hesitates slightly, but still decides to ask .

"The Bone Strengthening Art is just a lowest class Martial Art compared to others stored within the Knowledge Pagoda, why not try something better instead?" he understands the eagerness to complete the challenge, but when it was taken to compare, a person who spends ten years in a weak Martial Art are still weaker than one with strong Martial Art, even if the stronger one's comprehension wasn't as deep as the former .

"Master, Wu Ji believe that all Martial Art is equal . Stronger may seems better, but it represents my unstable foundation when they were taken to a test . Wu Ji thinks, the foundation in martial arts lies on how deep is your understanding on the trash, before you actually know what is a gem means . " his explanations toward his own understanding received an agreement from all of them, making even the eight seniors decided to support him in any way he needs .

Seeing the sight unveiled to him, Liang Tian is satisfied . It does take a disciple to motivates the relationship between them to grow . What his disciple needs is not a strong cultivation, but a strong bond! A strong master-disciple bond will overcome the might from the father, and a strong bond between disciples will promote their growth! In this world, what is stronger than the word of Bonding?

"Great! This is what your master, me, wanted to see! I did not imagine that it was achieved by such a simple matter that none of us actually think about it! Little Ninth, go ahead and do that . Do not afraid if you fail, because if this means that the brotherhood between the nine of you are strengthened, this will be the best gift even you all give to me . " Liang Tian said and took a rest on the lazy chair placed not too far from them .

"Thank you, Master!" the nine of them left the class since it was over, but deep inside the heart of each of them, a kindling of flame name brotherhood has lit .

"Junior brother Ninth, let me know if you need any help!" the eldest and also their first senior brother came to his side and express his gratitude . Being the oldest and strongest among the nine of them, he has the responsibility to take care of them and mediates their misunderstanding whenever it happens . It wasn't too difficult at all, based on each of their attitudes, but sometimes, the argument still happens .

And since it was an opportunity to do so, except stating his position as their big brother, he also tried to pull both eighth and ninth together to forget about their previous misunderstanding, because no matter what, they were still brothers and sisters in the same faction under their teacher .

Especially when he used the quote "The fingers can only bend inwards but not outwards . We're all the fingers and flesh of the headmaster, thus no matter what happened, the finger will only bend together to form a fist" . Holding no grudge in him at the first place, Zhang Wu Ji agreed . Politely, he bowed to his eighth senior brother and greets him before they give each other a hug .

"We're brothers . " eighth says . But after that, a call from their fifth sister and sixth sister summoned the seventh and eighth brother away, as the four of them does have a prior plan to visit the Southern Bamboo Forest for a short few days expedition .

This time, the four of them will stay in the forest for a total of four days before they left with whatever treasure they able to harvest . Zhang Wu Ji interest to join heightened when he heard their plans, but without any preparations, it was impossible for him to join their party . Left with no choice, he can only promise to join the other four senior's expedition next time .

Since there was nothing else for him to do, he returned to his courtyard to monitor the progress of his small farm . It seems that after a great effort, the farm is now carrying an appearance closer to how it supposed to look like . With only 75 Qi Sensing in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji left another new batch of 25 Qi Sensing Pill to Tang Yuan before he left to complete his own task .

Looking at the salary paid upfront without any words, this action caused Tang Yuan to feel more appreciation towards Zhang Wu Ji . "Is this what they call magnanimous?" he thought and continued with his farm works once again . With his amount of experience, Tang Yuan help Zhang Wu Ji to decide the three other kinds of plants to be planted .

Taixia Condensing Plant, a medicinal ingredient that produces a Taixia Condensed Dew that can attract Natural Qi in the surrounding air . If it was taken prior to meditation, it will increase the strands of Inner Qi creation speed . If the Taixia Condensed Dew is used to concoct the difficult to succeed Taixia Qi Pill, it's worth will be increased by at least a hundredfold, because the Taixia Qi Pill is said to have the ability to create an additional Strand of Inner Qi in a cultivator's body .

Yantai County's Mandrake Plant, a medicinal root that possesses the medicinal worthiness stronger by the hundred year ginseng by ten folds . Used to concoct the Yantai Pill, they were a much more difficult situation, such as during a deadly fight in a war, or during the clash between two strong cultivators . The Yantai Pill can effectively remove all injuries and increase the strength of a cultivator by 50% strength, allowing him to have the second chance to fight before he falls .

Although the Yantai County is no longer exist in this Ping An Continent due to the Beast Infestation attack, a few of their products still managed to remain through the passage of time, and still in use until now . This was the one of the three product in the world still carrying the Yantai County's name on them, with another one martial art and one fighting weapon .

As for the third plants, it was actually the Kind Heart Grass, which Tang Yuan use in an attempt to fertilize and revitalized the last plot of the soil in the farm . Although it was unknown why this part of the soil is lack of nutrients, based on his experience in Botanist and Gardening, he has enough confidence to turn this plot of land into a useful one .

Just like this, another three days pass very quickly, his effort was slow, but with 36 strands of Inner Qi with him now, the 32 pages of Bone Strengthening Art was one fifth completed, with 6 pages were rewritten, and another 26 pages remained .

10 . 1%, 9 . 7%, 9 . 1%, 9 . 4%, 9 . 6%, and 9 . 9% . This was the accuracy of his rewrites, but still, he dares not to compile the six pages together in afraid of it end up as an incomplete copy of Bone Strengthening Art . With only almost two pages were completed every single day, Zhang Wu Ji expects that he will need another 13 days more before he can complete the rewrites of the whole manual .

But from the positive changes he did see in each of the pages he completed, their differences are pretty significant . Even if the completed result were only a quarter better than before, this was still a proper experience for him and allowed him to redo the same thing all over again, only in the next time, he will strive for results, and not only the answer of his test to understand his [Upgrade] .

With a mind full of rewriting the Bone Strengthening Art manual again, he returned to the writing table, but a heavy knock came into his courtyard door, shocking the two only people staying within this courtyard .

"What happened? That knock is too hard, correct?" Zhang Wu Ji was stunned by the sudden knock that sounds so hard but still came to the entrance to see what happened . Without any delay, he took away the plank blocking the Main Door to see what was waiting for him outside .

"Junior brother, quickly, come to Reflecting Pagoda now! The seventh brother is heavily injured! We have materials in hand, but even our Pill Masters and Physician failed to help!" his eighth brother pull him over quickly, without letting him have the opportunity to grab some of his belonging .

The two of them ran in a hurry and entered the Reflecting Pagoda without any obstruction . Inside the room, their seventh brother was surrounded by two physicians, two pill masters, which was continuously inspecting his condition while their master, Liang Tian is using his Inner Qi that went through the Sheng Tian Process to keep his life intact with the body .

A coagulated blood was extracted by one physician with a special container tool before he left that by the side, and return to remove all the coagulated blood .

When Zhang Wu Ji looked at his seventh brother's situation, he was speechless . No matter how it looks, his brother should be poisoned right? What is wrong with the two physician and pill masters? But when he looks at their method of medication, it was understandable . Coagulating Blood is a rare occasion, only seen sometimes when it came in contact with the toxin that can take life in a matter of hours .

"Senior, did you people met with a Jade Toothed Bat before all this happened?" Zhang Wu Ji immediately noticed the origin of the issue, but before he can rashly act, he will need to know more information about this before they continue .

"Yes, we were attacked by a couple of Jade Toothed Bat when explores a cave, but as I know, Jade Toothed Bat does not possess any poison and weren't a deadly Wild Beast at all . . . " the fifth sister answered the question, but based on her experience, it was not something to be worried about .

"This is why! We are all not paying attention to the main reason why his situation become like this! The Jade Toothed Bat is not a poisonous creature, but it doesn't mean that their teeth are completely free from poison too! I suspect that the Jade Toothed Bat's cave is filled with poisonous Wild Beast, am I correct?" Zhang Wu Ji immediately shares his hypothesis in this matter and stops the physician from taking out the coagulated blood too much .

"Please, senior, allowed my senior brother to consume this mixture, it will give him more time to struggles while we were looking for a cure . " he delivered the cube formed after mixing the Wound Mending Pill and Coagulated blood to the physician and turn his attention at the fifth and sixth sister .

"Senior sister, let me see the corpses, if they were still inside the Southern Bamboo Forest, we have to go there quickly before the item to removes the poison is gone!" Zhang Wu Ji hurried the two senior sisters to help him, but their eighth brother took five dead bodies of the Jade Toothed Bat and placing them on another table .

"This one should be the bat that bitten the seventh brother earlier! Help me to drain the blood and fill them into a container, I will return to prepare some medicine that can helps seventh brother recovery . Two physicians, I beg you to maintain my senior brother's heartbeat and stops the blood coagulating on his chest from entering his liver and heart . " Zhang Wu Ji did not wait for their answer but left in a hurry .

His quick response received a nod from all the elders inside the room, and while the fifth senior sister is still in confusion, their eldest brother came to urge her to hurry up . Immediately, they look for the container to fill the blood from the Jade Toothed Bat and bring the container to his courtyard .

When the sixth sister entered his courtyard, she finally realized the reason this youngest brother of theirs returns to his own courtyard . With the Furnace is fired at their full force, Zhang Wu Ji took the one and only ingots of Crystal Iron to be cut into eight pieces before he proceeds with the hammering .

It was a complete bet for the sake to creates a proper Crystal Iron made surgeon knife, that soon was tempered together with the blood taken from the Jade Toothed Bat . The creation process took him close to one hour to get everything done, and at the end of his heavy works, a beautiful and translucent crystal-like hand knife is standing nicely between his two fingertips .

Because the Crystal Iron carries a hue of brown, the handmade surgeon knife looks brown translucent as it was held in his hand . While the sixth sister was impressed by what she was seeing, Zhang Wu Ji is busy upgrading the surgeon knife instead .

-Usage 1: when used on the patient suffering from poison, the blade will extracts all the toxins from the patient body through the wound this blade cut opened .

"Erm . . . The other usage of this surgeon knife is good, but aren't the special ability is a little too useless?" Zhang Wu Ji is speechless as he reads the special ability descriptions . No wonder the sixth sister is impressed with the weapon that shines in their brown hue . It was not because the tool was made out of material in their higher quality, but it was because of the Crystal Surgeon Knife's special ability!

"Ninth brother, we should hurry, it's been one hour pass after you went out from the Reflecting Pagoda!" she reminds her junior brother on the time they spent, and in a rush, the two left the courtyard without the blood from the Jade Toothed Bat .

When the two left, Tang Yuan just came back from his farm works and was shocked when he saw a bottle of Beast Blood was placed on a table just outside the blacksmithing Room and his own . Happily, he keeps the blood into his room and withdraws a seed from a pouch he always put on his waist, before he submerges it inside .

While he wasn't paying any attention and begin to cultivate, the seed absorbs the nutrient from the blood before it begins to germinate . But the sprouts do not carry a leaf, but it looks more like a newly grown tuber that continuously sucked the blood dry .

"Master, we're back!" the sixth sister finally returned together with the youngest disciple which they all was now placing their hope on him . When he left the pagoda earlier, both of his hand is empty, but when they return, there was an additional weird looking knife in his hand . It brings out a brown hue while held in his hand, where all the elders are expecting the tool should have some helping effect in their situation .

"Master, please let me treat the seventh senior brother . " Zhang Wu Ji walked towards his master, and without explaining the usage of his Crystal Surgeon Knife, he requested to be left alone with his senior brother while he's conducting his treatment .

For the two physicians and Pill Masters, they have experienced elder in the field of medicines, thus they know it was a polite gesture to leave when asked . Due to the secrecy of their medical methods and practices of each physician, namely only the teacher of the physician is allowed to stay during his treatment .

With only the seventh disciple, their master and Zhang Wu Ji in the room, he took a seat just beside his senior brother, and inspect the location where the poison has spread . Since he was bitten on his right underarm, that location will be the best section for him to give it a cut .

The blade gently cut open his flesh, and when it was pointed downwards in a very convenient angle, the poison that spreads throughout his body is now beginning to converge together to meet at the point where he opened a small wound . Following from that, blood in their jade green color begins to drips from the wound, until the blood started to return to their maroon color .

The final drop of his seventh brother's blood was kept in a container similar to the earlier one with coagulated blood and allows him to inspect them .

"The seventh brother is saved, but I need the most miraculous pill that can help the seventh brother in his recovery!" Zhang Wu Ji shouted as the four elders walk pass the curtain again . When they look at the seventh disciple's expression, it seems that the dangerous situation has been reverted, and this concern had been put aside .

Now, only the recoveries from his injuries are the most important matter they need to handle . While the elders are working on his physical recovery, Headmaster Liang Tian took the youngest disciple out from the curtained area and meet up with the remaining disciples .

Each of them was worried at each another, and when the news of his safety came out, the fifth sister, sixth sister, and eighth brother released a mouthful of air, knowing that their seventh brother's safety is assured . It was a big mistake for the four of them to went into the Southern Bamboo Forest without a preparation in the terms of antidote .

Although he cannot reprimand them from being too reckless, it wasn't proper for him to reprimand them too much over the limit as well, because even as a master himself, Liang Tian failed to notice the fact his seventh disciple was poisoned, and not heavily injured . If this incident was not because of Zhang Wu Ji's expertise, perhaps his seventh disciple will become a memory by now .

"Ninth, you did a great deed today by saving your seventh brother . As your master, and also a helpless old man that cannot protect the life of his beloved disciple, I am thankful to you for your effort to save your senior brother . Tell me, what do you wish, if the master wants to rewards you with something?" this was the biggest reward he ever gives to his disciple . It was practically a favor to a beloved child, that even if he wishes to kill the others, Liang Tian will not hesitate .

"Master, Wu Ji have no request for now, but he does have a little urge to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest as well . Wu Ji wonder can he be granted with the approval to enter the forest?" Zhang Wu Ji thought about what he wanted, but before he waits for the reply, Liang Tian replied came .

"NO! Unless you reach the 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, you will not be allowed to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest . Take this book back and read them . You will know why master stops you from entering the forest before you're a full fledge cultivator . This will not be a negotiation at all . Think about what you want, and I will grant you other wishes, but except this one . "

"Wu Ji understood . " he bowed, knowing he did piss his master with an immature request before he obtained a proper strength to defend himself . After excusing themselves, all the disciples left, with only the four elders still beyond the curtain .

"Tell the Shadow Faction and Knowledge Faction to not disturb my disciple further . " headmaster Liang Tian whispers, but to the ears of people he wanted them to deliver the messages, the word was as clear as shouting . In a quick movement, the silhouette hiding at the two only windows in the room left, leaving the decoration as how it was when they vanish .

While all the others are going back to their own courtyard after such an experience, Zhang Wu Ji did not return but went to the Pill Concoction Building instead . Knowing that his day might not go as smooth as now, he knows that he will need to update his knowledge, and not randomly upgrading what he has!

As for him now, the knowledge in Pill Concocting and Blacksmithing is the most precious profession that will allow him to protect himself . With the position he holds now, entering the library to browse their books will not be an issue at all!

"I will need to obtain the recipe to concoct pills that could increase my strength and recover my Inner Qi when I'm at exhaustion . It will not be positive for me to continue like this, because the moment I lost all my strands of Inner Qi, I will become a sitting duck waiting for others to decide my fate!"

He steels himself and begins to went through their collection of books when he entered their building . With the Seven Star Order Plate in hand, he was allowed to enter anywhere without obstruction, except any personal places such as the disciple's own room and elders office .

Although they weren't comparable to the collections available in the Knowledge Pagoda, the books stored in this small recording vault is still nevertheless amazing in his eyes . Not only they contained ten times more books compared to his Zhang's Family Library, they were also various of recordings related to the other elders and pill master's finding from their thorough research throughout their years .

It took him three days inside the Recording Vault to scan through their books and scrolls . During the three days, Zhang Wu Ji almost behaved like a librarian he was before, and begin to rearrange all their books according to their usage, and the topic they focused on . Medical, Inner Qi Branching Tier, and beast related .

The unusually messy Recording Vault was cleaned by Zhang Wu Ji while he was reading, and from that moment, he becomes the Pill Concoction Building's most honorable guest . Who doesn't like a person that can tidy and clean their vault while reading? It reduces their workloads and what's more, tidying the recording vault is the most challenging task, where the Pill Concoction Building was treating the job to tidy the vault as a form of penalty .

He was already here in the sect for almost three weeks already . Although there weren't any sudden improvement in his cultivation, the achievement in the section of knowledge and the relationship between him and his senior brother and sisters are significantly improved compared to before .

His relationship with his senior brother eighth is repaired, and also with this incident of his seventh brother, he was sure that the bond between him and the eighth seniors should be closer by a lot now .

When he entered his courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji was greeted with the arrival of his eight senior brother and sisters in his courtyard, each of them was exchanging their opinion in cultivation while waiting for their youngest junior to come back .

Since they know that their youngest junior was very fond with reading, the eight of them were here with a small gift, namely books, to be given to their junior as a sign of good will . Only their eldest senior brother came with a second gift, which was a box with another hundred Qi Sensing Pills .

"Eldest brother! This gift is too much!" knowing how valuable is the Qi Sensing Pills, Zhang Wu Ji intends to reject the gift at first, but were forced to accept them when Eldest brother mentioned that this was delivered to him by their master, who doesn't want anyone to think that he's being impartial and over pampering the youngest disciple too much .

"Oh . . . Since it comes from the master, then I'll accept them . Please help me to thank our master and tell him that the ninth will do something in return for such a gift . " Zhang Wu Ji requested that his eldest brother deliver the message back to their master, and accepted the box with a hundred Qi Sensing Pills .

"Ninth, we're here for one request actually . " the second brother steps up and speaks . Being the most straightforward among them, he was the best candidate to bring up this matter .

"My second brother, please tell, you know ninth will not hesitate to help if its related to his eight senior brother and sisters!" Zhang Wu Ji replied, and pay attention to his second brother .

"To be honest, your eight senior brothers and sister all went out to challenge the disciple from another sect in our previous visit, and up till now, our weapon is still not repaired into their peak condition yet . Although your Eldest brother, me, third and fourth is safe and fine with the half-broken weapon, if we were to met with the incident with the seventh brother again, the weapon will be a hindrance, and not help!"

"It was because seventh brother's Seven Leaves Sword break in the battle that the Jade Toothed Bat managed to give him a bite . This time, since ninth is here, can your senior brother and sisters request you to help us repair our weapons?" the second brother explains their difficult situation to their youngest brother after the sixth sister see how amazing is his ability in handling the metal through forging .

"Of course! If I am not using my ability for good, then for what am I learning blacksmithing? Senior brother and sisters, feel free to leave your weapon to me and tell me how would you like your weapon to be done . Since it was almost in a broken state anyway, why not we mold them into a better weapon that suits ourselves more?" Zhang Wu Ji agreed to help his eight senior brother and sisters and decides to do more .

What is the use of repair if they were not suitable, to begin with? Once it enters the furnace, they will undergo the most profession changeover, and so, stating the changes in the sword is the way he can make sure that this eight new weapon will suits his senior brother and sisters perfectly!

"Since our ninth brother says so, everybody, let's not hesitates with this and be decisive! Tell our brother what we want in the sword when they undergo the forging!" the eldest stand-up and lead the other closer to their youngest, and begin to describes their requirement on the weapon .

Although it took a while to decipher the real meaning between his eight senior brother and sisters, at the end of their discussion, h managed to understand what they actually wanted . And for the next step, he will keep all of their weapons, because they were all used by his respective senior brother and sisters until they turned into this state .

With all of their weapon is already in his hand, how can he not start his work now? Zhang Wu Ji knows that without sufficient material to be used, it will be difficult for him to complete their weapon makeover within a few days, thus he went to the sect's Weapon Forge to request for some higher quality metal, such as Pure Iron and Sentient Iron .

It reduced the need to smelt the mineral out from the ore, and he will be left with only two works . Removal of the impure silica inside the ingots, and removal of other Iron components from the Ingots . He will only need and use the purest and highest quality Iron in his hand, and not the semi-completed products .

Armed with the barely sufficient Strands of Inner Qi, Zhang Wu Ji started . With only 38 strands of Inner Qi, he can only manage to use to Art of Pulverized Iron for six times before he exhausted himself from continues . With every 4 hours pass, he continued the execution of the Art of Pulverized Iron, until he finally completed the two Pure Iron ingots in their high-grade quality .

With only one and one-third ingots is required, Zhang Wu Ji first combined the first ingot with the one-third part of the second ingots together, to form an Iron rod before he cut them into eight pieces of round plates . What weird from his cutting, the fifth and sixth Round Iron plate is smaller than the others, and the seventh's Iron plate is twice the size compared to the other similar .

Taking the first, second, third, fourth, and eighth Round Iron plates, he begins to forge them in the alphabetical order, starting from the first plate . The reason behind this arrangement was because of his senior demands a different length, weight, and also in their shape .

With his eldest brother's first, Zhang Wu Ji fire the furnace into their top temperature before he starts shaping the plate into the form of a sword . As the eldest among the nine of them, his first senior brother requested for a sword that came in the length of exactly 1 . 6 meters long on the blade, and void of the handguard because of the familiarity for using the Seven Leaves Sword for so long .

As for the second and third brother, their request is to craft a weapon that comes with a heavier sword guards, because amongst the nine disciples, second and third brother is the chubbiest among all, with the whopping size of 130kg in weight . Therefore, to match their size and strength, possessing a thicker and heavier sword is a must .

The fourth brother and eighth brother are more to design, where both loved literature and calligraphy since young . Their demand is simple, a blade similar to the Seven Leaves Sword, only in a better quality, and the engraving of [Seven Star] in the blade's body .

As for the fifth and sixth sister, their demand was a sword specially crafted for them, with the length of 1 . 5 meters long, and as light as feather, but more durable than a block of steel . Due to the two senior sisters are a very refined ladies, their demand on the sword should come with not too much, and not too over decorated, to represents the simple yet elegant life of theirs .

Lastly, is the seventh brother sword, which was broken during their fight in the cave infested by poisonous Wild Beast and also Jade Toothed Bat . Being the biggest physically among the nine of them, the seventh brother is standing as high as 2 . 32 meters tall when he did not bend his knees . To a person of his size, a proper length sword is a must .

Specially crafted and sharpened, Zhang Wu Ji crafted a 2 . 22 meters long sword for his seventh brother, which carries a more special shape, which stating how eager the wielder wishes to pierce through the seven stars . With their initial shape is formed, he can begin with working on their body, sharpness, weight, and designs .

The process to complete the eight swords took him six days in total, where his Strands of Inner Qi increased to 42 . When the door into the Blacksmithing Room is unlocked, his eight senior brother and sisters gathered before him, just to take a look at the eight swords placed on top aligned together on the working table .

"Junior brother, is this eight sword all belonged to each of us?" the fifth and sixth senior sister immediately fall in love with the eight swords, especially the fifth and the sixth, with the engraving of Mei (Beauty) and Ya (Elegance) on the body of their blade .

As for the seventh, he placed his hand on the body of the seventh blade, engraved with the word Ying (Bravery) on its body . "I love this sword!" he shouted . It was so loud everybody closed their ears for the sudden eardrum smashing voices .

"Seventh! See where we are first! You actually screamed when looking at the sword!" second and third senior brother scolded the seventh, but the two fatties were actually hugging the sword at their chest, afraid of losing them away .

Zhang Wu Ji was first feeling regretful when he noticed that the two sword for his second and third brother actually helps in the diet . It was a trash ability for sure, but based on the two senior brothers, he wasn't too sure if its a trash or a treasure . On their sword is the word Sou (longevity) and Fu (Prosperity) engraved .

As for the eldest senior brother, his sword was just right in his hand . Suitable handle, length, and weight, the body of the blade were even engraved with the word Da Ge (Eldest Brother / Big brother) on it . It was just up to his liking, as he begins to sheath the sword .

While for the two quieter fourth and eighth brother, they both quietly inspecting their respective Wen (Knowledge) and Wu (Martial Arts) sword . With all eight of them were holding their own sword, Zhang Wu Ji left each of them with a piece of paper, to further their understanding of the Yi-Jia Sword .

Looking at all of them hurried to the training ground to test their new sword, Zhang Wu Ji smiled and sent them away . The moment all of them were gone, he collapsed . A six-day continuous forging is so hectic it almost took half of his life away . What's more, each of them was upgraded to +5, which required 10 strands of Inner Qi each time he upgrades them .

Laying flat on the ground like a dead person, he was spotted by Tang Yuan that just came back from the farming works . He was shocked with the collapsed young master, and quickly took him back to his room and let him rest properly while going to the main kitchen in the sect and requested for the best meal to be prepared .

"Seven Layer Star Aura!" the fifth and sixth sister joint their defensive technique together to form a gigantic defensive field in the middle of the training ground . Standing outside of the coverage of the aura, the seventh raise his sword high up above his head before he howled loudly .

The moment the skill was activated, seven brilliant swords formed out of thin air and strikes into the combined Seven Layers Star Aura, and they both started to cracked one after another . With the seven swords and seven layers of defensive aura are gone, the eldest brother, fourth, and eighth execute their confinement wheel ability and locked the three from continue to move .

The two end up getting bullied by the other six of them until they were smacked into the ground for eating too much each time they were having a group meal .

Back to the young master Zhang Wu Ji, he slept for one full day before he finally wakes up from his slumber . For the first time in this world, he was stricken by hunger from not eating properly for the past six days . His stomach growls for food, and at the time the meal was served, the staff from the kitchen received the order to prepare even more food for their Master Senior Ninth .

He swept clean the food that was prepared for three people consumption before he finally stops himself from continuing . The moment he's done, Zhang Wu Ji remembered that before this, the eight senior brother and sisters of his gave him a collection of eight different books .

Looking at the eight slightly rare record books, Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of warmth given from the book as cold as ice . It was a way of kindness shown by his senior brother and sisters after they been so kind to him . But unfortunately, the eight books did not carry any special properties after being upgraded, so they end up becoming the collection of books for him, and not something to be brought everywhere .

"Wait . . . Why do I insist on rewriting the Bone Strengthening Art when I have a shorter version of the Fist of Destruction Qi Manual in hand? This manual only have eleven pages!" he remembered the short Fist of Destruction Qi Manual that was placed on the podium during the sect test, and they were allowed to keep the manual with them as they leave .

After considering a while, he decides to drop the Bone Strengthening Art for a moment, and begin to focus on the Fist of Destruction Qi Manual first . With 42 Strands of Inner Qi now, his action was a little faster than before .

The only insufficient is the paper that was delivered into his courtyard are beginning to thin, leaving him with only the lowest quality Xuan Paper, a kind of paper perfect for blurry ink drawings but not on taking notes . Left with no choice, he decided to temporary rewrite them for now, but only to be copied into a better grade Xuan Paper once the stock arrived from the Seven Star Sect's management office .

By using the worst quality Xuan Paper which were more suitable only for the drawing purposes, Zhang Wu Ji struggles to pen the words on the paper that will blur at the moment they made the contact with the black ink . These struggles make Zhang Wu Ji to a slowdown in his process of writing, but put more attention in the amount of ink he should use in each word, and estimates the spreading of the ink the moment the brush touches the paper .

In the first paper, they end up being a trash . It was more accurate to call it a paper dab with ink, and not written . As on the second trial, he succeeds in making them half readable, but it was still considered as a trash . The only weird matter on the paper was their description .

"How can the page for Fist of Destruction Qi become corrupted page instead? Did I copied them in a wrong way?" Zhang Wu Ji tried to decipher the differences between the two first pages, but except the overspread of inks and some blurry words, nothing unusual is spotted .

"This . . . Tell me that's not something incredible in this world . " Zhang Wu Ji seems to found out the reason for the pages to become corrupted, but it was something so insignificant to be discerned by somebody who read too much book like him!

"I just realized that, In this world, except the description related to the plants, medicine, this world, actually yet to found out the possibility of coloring and describing something through drawing and pictures!"

"I should pay my fourth brother a visit!" Zhang Wu Ji packed his important belongings and decided to walk out of his courtyard, after so many days holed inside for various of small matters!

According to the arrangement, Zhang Wu Ji's courtyard was positioned just at the left side of the Reflecting Pagoda, with the arrangement of the 1st disciple, 3rd disciple, 5th disciple, 7th disciple, and 9th disciple . While for those that were positioned at the right side, they wo uld be the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th disciple .

With each of them having their own courtyard and land to do practice their own hobbies and profession, this answers the reason why the fourth and eighth senior brother both carries the hobbies of Literature and Martial Arts . Although the way from the west side to the east side from the Reflecting Pagoda is not far, they weren't too close either .

Passing through the training ground first, Zhang Wu Ji first noticed the seriousness of his six senior brothers and sister's new weapon, with another two human shape craters from not too far away .

"This two must be second and third senior brothers leftovers . " Zhang Wu Ji looks at the accurate line and shape that describes the physical shape of the two, and suddenly an intention of making the clay model from the two craters appeared .

"I should make fun of them when I got a chance . " Zhang Wu Ji left after he stops for a moment to look at the sign of battle, under the watch of the other elder disciples, and slave disciples . In the mind of every people on the training ground, all of them carries a hint of jealousy, but none dare to express their mind .

When he reaches the courtyard belonged to the forth, Zhang Wu Ji knocked the door three times, indicating that he came with a request . He waited at the door for less than five minutes before a servant came to open the door, inviting the youngest Master Senior inside to take a sit .

"Up to forth senior brother's style, everything should follow the nature, come and go with nature . " Zhang Wu Ji was impressed with his fourth brother's courtyard that was arranged in a unison of flowers, plants, and fishes in the middle of his courtyard . At each of the corner, a sculpted word of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter was positioned at the four corners .

"Ninth brother, how kind of you to visit my humble courtyard! What brings you here today?" his fourth brother came out from his room immediately to greet this beloved junior of his . In fact, how can he not be this welcoming, after seeing the miraculous recovery of the seventh, the amazing weapon in his hand, and also the talent he has shown to their master?

"My fourth brother, the junior was here for an outrageous request, hope the fourth brother can help enlighten this junior!" Zhang Wu Ji bowed before his fourth senior brother, in order to obtain his approval .

"Why! Junior brother! Do not carry all these small ceremonial gestures with me, else I will not agree with calling you as my ninth brother!" he sped and stops before Zhang Wu Ji, and pull his back straight on his spine . Brothers do not bow to each other . What a good word, what a family!

"Tell me, if the fourth brother can do it, he will even take his life as the payment to fulfill junior brother's wishes!" his fourth senior brother pat at his chest as he talks .

"Wu Ji was thinking about getting and enlightenment from viewing the collection of arts and calligraphies you've collected after such a long time . At this moment, Wu Ji was stuck in the middle of deciphering the Bone Strengthening Art, and was trying to obtain some breakthrough from the Fist of Destruction Qi Manual," he explained his request to came here personally .

"That's it? Do not mention looking at my collections, even if you want to enter the Pavilion of Arts in the Wen Wu City is possible if you want!" his fourth brother grabbed Zhang Wu Ji's wrist as he led the junior into his specially built building for appreciating the collection of arts .

It was until they reach the building his fourth brother released his grip . Taking out a key from his waist, neck and from his butler, his fourth brother unlocked the three locks from the door, and push them open . It seems that this room was as precious as the treasure vault of the Seven Star Sect!

"Junior brother, go ahead and appreciates them . Butler Lu, please prepares the best tea for me, and prepares some high-quality fruits for us to enjoy here . " his fourth brother ordered the butler to quickly prepares the refreshments and drinks while inviting Zhang Wu Ji to have a look on his collection .

When he entered, his impression of the art, literature, and calligraphy was all destroyed and renewed into a brand new sight! Unexpected to his unknowledgeable self, The appreciated art in this realm is actually . . . Actually!

"Oh my god! You ruin my eyes!!!" Zhang Wu Ji felt like scratching his eyes because the tool left in the preserve jar is in fact, the reproductive organ belonged to an Inner Qi Master Beast!

"This world really did not possess any drawings and pictures . Is that why the Ping An Continent's people only managed to reach the highest tier of Inner Qi Lord in their life?" Zhang Wu Ji theory is practically correct, but without sufficient ability, the answer to this question will not be revealed .

"No, I'm mistaken for something I saw, but the fourth brother, your collection is absolutely amazing!" Zhang Wu Ji knows that in the term of art, perhaps his senior brother might be better than him, as he was just somebody that wasn't well accustomed in this world he's living .

"Yes . All of them here worth a few million gold coins, so it was very difficult for me to keep them in the collection because too many people want them . " the fourth senior brother explained . He went over to one of the books placed nicely on their shelves, and return to Zhang Wu Ji's side for him to take a look .

"Fourth senior brother, why are you bringing this book to the table?" Zhang Wu Ji believes that most of the literature records here are related to literature, there should be nothing he missed . But before his fourth senior brother managed to describe the book, his hand touches it, and a status came into his mind .

"Four Phases?" Zhang Wu Ji's eyes opened wide when he read the description on the item . His sudden action shock his fourth senior brother because even himself have no idea what is this secretive book with their title was missing is all about .

"Junior brother, you recognize this book?" he placed the book down before returning to the seat an ask his brother a question . With another hand, he prepared to turn the teacup for the tea butler Lu to brought into the room .

While the butler was filling the teacup, Zhang Wu Ji's attention returned to where he was . Staring at his senior brother, Zhang Wu Ji decided to ask about the identity of this mysterious book .

"The fourth brother, I'm sure the background of this book was mysterious enough for you to place them on one of the bookshelves . Tell me more about it please . " Zhang Wu Ji hates to guess when he wanted a serious answer . By asking his senior brother in a straightforward manner, he awaits the answer patiently .

"This book came from our master . He said, when he read through three-quarter of the contents, it gave him the impression of an appearance of four different animals . A Lizard, a pangolin, a fox, and a crow . Taking the four of them as a guide, our master created the Four Beast Style, which gains him a nickname "Beast Equal" except his own original nickname . "

"In fact, he was slightly disappointed when the style he created only contains four different styles, given the sect he was from was name Seven Star Sect, but because this Four Beast Style allowed him to step further as a cultivator, he accepted them, but kept them deep inside of his heart . "

"And this book was given to me because, among all of us, I am the only one to appreciates such treasures until you came . How about you overtook the responsibility to take care of this book, and give this senior brother a time to relax instead? I'm sure master will not reprimand me for giving this to you . " his fourth brother actually decided to pass him the responsibility to take care of this book .

In a way, it was inherited . For his master that was standing strong at the 59th Stage of Inner Qi Elder, it was a difficult obstacle for him to overcome the Sheng Xian Process . But because of this book was by his side when he breaking through, it becomes a treasure which was also his regret, and proudness .

And when it falls into his fourth brother's hand, he failed to decipher them . For somebody still in the power of the 6th stage of Inner Qi Fighter, understanding the book is even more difficult than trying to fly in the sky .

"Junior thanks fourth senior brother for the gift and he promises will sacrifice his life to protect it!" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his palm together to form a gesture of gratitude . Due to the earlier matter, he no longer feels that it was required for him to bow!

One should only kneel to his parents, his teachers, and his king! The only exception is if the kneel will buy back the dignity of a man! As for bowing, it was the same! One should only bow to his seniors, his elders, and his respected acquaintance, unless the person is respectable, the bow shall not go to the wrong people!

"I know that after this discussion, you will be heading to a seclusion training once again, it seems like you're in love with seclusion . Go . I will handle my own place when you were gone . " his fourth brother smiled and gave him a reason to leave . But before he did, Zhang Wu Ji decided to make something to repaid his fourth brother's kindness .

He pointed his finger at the little metal container that used to kept the fresh tea leaves, and upgraded them . Other than that, he even purposely requested to view the jade pendant on his fourth senior brother's waist .

"Thank you, Fourth senior brother, Wu Ji will excuse himself first!" Zhang Wu Ji left the fourth courtyard as he rushes back to his own, to begin with, his seclusion training once again .

"Quickly send this two stack of Xuan Papers to the Master Senior Ninth's courtyard . " the person in charge of delegating the materials to different buildings, pagodas, and courtyards is busy distributing the writing material requested by each of the significant people . And among his order, one of them belonged to Zhang Wu Ji's courtyard, requesting for two complete stacks of uncut Middle-Quality and High-Quality Xuan Paper .

Additionally, he includes another stack of material and a book that might be interesting to the Master Senior Ninth, in hope that this small gesture will bring him some profitable return . Even if they don't, what was there to lose since the person who took in your kindness is a respectable disciple of the Sect Headmaster?

With haste, the slave disciple that was assigned with the task quickly sent the material over and went pass Zhang Wu Ji whom also coincidently on his way back to his own courtyard . He noticed the disciple but did not go over to reward him for the work, because this was a part of their duties . If he ends up rewarding each of them, then how will he handle when all of them are rushing to get his orders?

After the slave disciple left, Zhang Wu Ji entered his courtyard and got greeted by Tang Yuan who was busy handling these small matters while he was away . Being absent from the farm for too long, Tang Yuan accompanied him as he went to inspect the farm .

It was almost a month since he moved into this courtyard . Although Tang Yuan efficiency is high, his cultivation strength is slightly too low, with only 80 Strands of Inner Qi after training under the supplies of Qi Sensing Pill for so long . Even himself, who did not bother to cultivates too much already possess 42 strands .

"Is there a way for me to help him strengthen himself?" Zhang Wu Ji did consider about giving him the copy of the Golden Body Manual and Inner Reversal Manual, but that's mean his cultivation will stagnate instead . With no other choices, for now, he decides to inspect the farm for now, and think about the solution for later .

Since most of them were only seedlings, Zhang Wu Ji has no choice but to touch them one by one in order to inspect their kinds . His action took Tang Yuan by surprise, as he looks at how attentive is the senior master ninth towards each seedling he meticulously taking care of . Even though this action was just an act of his to inspect all of them, it brings even more respect to Tang Yuan towards his master .

"It seems that Tang Yuan planted three different kinds of plants except for the Yin Ling Fruit Tree . The Taixia Condensing Plant, the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant, and the kind Heart Grass . But I guess I need to tell him to adjust a few things first . " Zhang Wu Ji already completes his inspection at each of the seedlings .

"Tang Yuan ah . . . The irrigation transferred too many water supply to the Yin Ling Fruit Tree's side, making water content in the soil is slightly too much, make sure you take note of that . As for the Kind Heart Grass, their maturity should be at around another one week, make sure when you harvest them, extract their essence and use them to increase the nutrient in the water before you water the plants . "

"As for the dried straws, use them as tinder and burn them far from our farm, before you mix the ashes with some soil and sprinkle on the soil . Make sure you water them after you did . Especially for the Taixia Condensing Plant, make sure to cut their leaves when they begin to grow, only by giving them sufficient stress can a Taixia Condensing Plant grow up perfectly . "

"Always remember, an overpampered plant is nothing different from a young master grow up with a golden spoon, they trash, but just have a better packaging . We want good quality products, not useless products . " Zhang Wu Ji left after he finished his instruction .

"Wow . . . " Tang Yuan was impressed with the skill his master had . Only by randomly touching the leaves of the seedlings can allow him to understand which part he gave less attention . As for the two solutions, cutting the new leaves from the Taixia Condensing Plant and burning the straws from the Kind Heart Grass after extracting their juice was a completely new idea .

"I will enter seclusion training from tonight, can you help me to complete a few tasks?" Zhang Wu Ji took his own Ninth Direct Disciple Identity Plate and passed to Tang Yuan .

"Master Senior Ninth, please state the task you need me to complete . " Tang Yuan grabbed the identity plate with both palms as he looks at his master for a moment .

"Try to gather two equal stacks of Southern Silk Bamboo and Yuanning's Mulberry Bark for me . Fill them into the two jars here evenly, I will need them to process my own paper . " Zhang Wu Ji completed his words as he pointed at the two water jars as tall as his waist . Leaving him to process his words, Zhang Wu Ji entered his own room once more .

"Tang Yuan ah . . . Tang Yuan . Since being my testing rat will not hurt you in any way, I hope you won't blame me for using you like this . " Zhang Wu Ji looked at the Fist of Destruction Qi Manual in his hand for a slight moment and grab a piece of Meddle-Quality Xuan Paper to begin his works .

Shrouding himself in complete silence, Zhang Wu Ji spent all his effort in improving the content of the Fist of Destruction Qi into a much better version . With the speed of having 42 words completed each time before he slept for four hours, it was estimated that he will need about two rest to complete a single page . That's equal to a total of eight hours every page he completed .

In one day, he estimates that three pages can be completed without a problem . The eleven pages of cultivating methods were all upgraded and were simplified compared to the one before . Using a similar Middle-Quality Xuan Paper as the material to transfer the content from one to another, Zhang Wu Ji finally completed one manual for the first time .

It was something worth to be celebrated when he inspected the quality of the completed manual he meticulously spends three of his precious time to complete it .

"One additional usage were included after it was upgraded in the term of contents! I will need to give this manual to Tang Yuan so he can practice the skill . We shall see how strong he becomes after he learns this skill . " he rushes out from his room and went to the farm in order to search for the subordinate .

Staying in the farm busy handling the irrigation, plants and removing the weeds, Tang Yuan were completely blank from what Zhang Wu Ji has prepared to him . Calling him from not too far away, Tang Yuan cleaned his both arm and legs before he put on a proper shoe and went to where Zhang Wu Ji stands .

"This manual is deciphered and improvise . Try to learn it, when you come back to me two days later, let me see the changes . " Zhang Wu Ji simply placed the manual in his hand, and return to do his own work once again .

At the same time, he returned to his courtyard again, only to noticed that the two jars he requested Tang Yuan to collect the materials are completed . Furthermore, he collected another half jar full of materials, just enough for Zhang Wu Ji to craft how own higher quality paper .

It was easy to begin but started to get tougher as their procedures go along the way . Using the memories of what he has read before he transmigrating into this world, the Xuan Paper made from his former realm was far better in the term of quality, and durability .

Over here, the quality of their Xuan Paper was differentiated into three kinds . Low-Quality that were used by peasants for bigger words, or treated as a cheaper material to be used for the child or learner to study . It was only after one was qualified in both brush and paper can he begin to use the Middle-Quality Xuan Paper, a much more expensive and proper made paper that does not smear the ink too much during their writing .

As for the High-Quality Xuan Paper, they were only used on items and treasures, such as the Rumor of Four Phases given by Zhang Wu Ji's fourth senior brother, the Golden Body Manual,, and the Inner Reversal Manual . There was an even higher quality, known as Superior Xuan Paper, which came in a golden hue when the paper was dried and ready to be used . It was the one and only material that only the imperial family are qualified to use .

Without an example from the Superior-Quality for him to look, Zhang Wu Ji estimates that when his product was completed, it should be at least in the same grade as a Superior-Quality . This wasn't an absurd way of thinking, because if even the High-Quality Xuan Paper were only as good as recycled paper in his former world, then the best the Superior-Quality can be is only as good as virgin pulp A4 Paper for office use .

To begin with the making of his own version of Xuan Paper, Zhang Wu Ji first soaks the two materials in cold spring water that came from the irrigation channel . The soaking procedure took six hours to complete before it was cooked under the water of boiling temperature for another six-hour again .

When Tang Yuan was done with his daily duties, he was surprised by Zhang Wu Ji's personal effort in making something from the material he collected three days back . It wasn't difficult to collect the materials, but in between, there were some obstacles caused because of a large amount of Yuanning's Mulberry Bark inside the order .

Only after he presented the nameplate of the Master Senior Ninth the guards of the Sect Entrance allowed him to enter without further questions . Looking at how concentrated is his master in producing his own products, Tang Yuan's heart burst with an approval towards this person .

"Even as a Master Senior, he did not carries the attitude of a proud being . This action alone worth my loyalty!" he said in his hear, and return to his room to learn the Fist of Destruction Qi given by Zhang Wu Ji to him earlier while he was still busy with the task inside the farm .

As every disciple does, Tang Yuan himself does possess a copy of the Fist of Destruction Qi manual as well . But only after he went through the new copy of Zhang Wu Ji he noticed the differences between the two copies . If it was to be compared, the original version is more to a traditional way to launch a fist, while the new version copy is more of how to strike .

A strike and a fist were two different matters . One was an infant-feasible record that teaches one on how to swing a fist, but the other one is related to how to kill, defend, and fight . The small differences in only a few words in every page are sufficient enough to change a learning manual into one that thought people how to kill .

What's more, the word used in the manual is much more direct, without any hint of twisting the word around for one to guess . If it was practiced properly, this First of Destruction Qi might be stronger than any none cultivator's manual by one fold .

As for Zhang Wu Ji, his cooking process is finally completed as well . With the first two initial liquid sources is kept aside, Zhang Wu Ji took the now soft pulps of bamboo and tree barks into a wooden mold to form them into a biscuit thick layer and placed them at the plain patch of land that was slanted to a side located behind his courtyard .

This ten biscuits of fibrous pulps were estimated to be dried and bleached naturally until they turned white before it was taken back to be made into a pot of slurry water . While waiting for the biscuits of pulps to be bleached naturally, he returned to his room for the sake to decipher the Bone Strengthening Art again .

Through the use of the High-Quality Xuan Paper this time, he begins again with its first page . With the speed of 2 page every day now, it took him sixteen days to completes the process of upgrading the manual! With the second successful attempt at upgrading the Martial Art Manual, he can confidently say;

It was a delightful moment that should be celebrated . Knowing that he should take this copy of the manual for his master to have a look, a knock came to the courtyard's door in an unhurried pattern . Assuming that Tang Yuan can answer the call on behalf of him, Zhang Wu Ji took his own time to change to a newer set of clothing before he went out of his room .

"Master Senior Ninth, headmaster requested you to be present in the Reflecting Pagoda now, all other Master Seniors has already reported themselves there . " the elder disciple came to deliver the instruction the moment he saw Zhang Wu Ji . Since he already dressed, he decides to make his way with haste and drops a Qi Sensing Pill to the Elder Disciple when he excuses himself .

Going out in a hurry, he did not notice that Tang Yuan happened to have a noticeable change in his physical body, and also strength . Relying on the effect of Qi Sensing Pill and the new version of Fist of Destruction Qi, Tang Yuan successfully entered the cultivation strength of 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . His fighting strength improved, with the Fist of Destruction Qi now reaching the peak of his Lower tier .

It did not take too long for him to reach the Reflecting Pagoda, and when he entered and went to the highest floor, Zhang Wu Ji greets all his senior brother and sisters before he went to the side of his master to request for his forgiveness to be late again for the lesson .

"Did you successfully deciphering the Bone Strengthening Art?" Liang Tian was looking at his youngest disciple and smiled as he asks the question .

"Yes! Master! Wu Ji successfully decipher the Manual and hope master can take a look to make sure there weren't any mistakes at all?" Zhang Wu Ji lifts the book up before his master's chest, awaiting the master to grab the manual to have a look .

"Good, Good . Since all of us are here now, shall we let the youngest to read the manual out to us to listen?" Liang Tian passed the book back to Zhang Wu Ji and proceeds to take a seat waiting for his student to starts .

With the manual in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji begins to read the content of his own version of manual . The content he brought out amazed all his senior brother and sisters, even his master was shocked by the possibility of the revised version of Bone Strengthening Art can bring to the sect .

"This . . . Give me the manual, I will tell the people from Knowledge Pagoda to learn on their mistake! How dare they say I am daring enough to challenge the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder for the sake of a new disciple! This will shut their lips for a long time! Hahaha!"

"I won't dare to think about it at all! My disciple actually gave me the opportunity to slap the seven elders in their brains!" Liang Tian was so happy when he heard the complete reading of the revised manual, and demand that the manual should be given to him for a short while .

This ends the class prematurely, but none of the senior brother and sisters did get angry for a very quick and short class . Instead, they gathered around the youngest junior because of his little effort managed to make their gloomy face master laughed so hard for the first time it sound funny to them!

"You should follow us to the Wen Wu City tomorrow, I heard from those people that just came back from the city said that a small auction is going to be held, and one of their treasure is actually a Converging Qi Fruit! The eight of us has discussed that we should participate in the auction to purchase the fruit because if it works, ninth brother you can have a burst of 5 Strands of Inner Qi created after consumption . " his eldest senior brother said .

It seems that their plan to visit the city is set, the only additional thing is to call Zhang Wu Ji to tag along . But when he heard about the auction, Zhang Wu Ji become speechless .

"Damn I did not earn a single coin when I'm inside the sect for such a long time!" he calculates the amount of cash he has . Except for the 100 Qi Sensing Pills his master gave him, Zhang Wu Ji has just handed 30 Qi Sensing Pills to Tang Yuan for the salary of the second month . Deducting another Qi Sensing Pill to the elder disciple just now, he was left with 19 Qi Sensing Pill with him, another 30,000 Gold Coins from the previous profit before he left Li Jiang Town .

In total, he only got about 149,000 Gold Coins worth of wealth, which is barely enough for him to purchase too much thing in the auction . If it got heated because of the special usage the fruit contained, the fight over the bid will become even higher .

"I guess I can only make something to be sold then . " Zhang Wu Ji agreed with his senior's invitation and decides to meet at the sect entrance tomorrow morning . Without too long, all of them split and return to their respective courtyard, while Zhang Wu Ji went over to the back of his courtyard to look at the pulp biscuits . It seems all of them has gone through a few washes, leaving them with beautiful plaster white color on them .

Since it was dried, the moving process is simple . Through the strength of himself, Zhang Wu Ji took the ten biscuits back to the courtyard and begin to create his own Xuan Paper . First of all, he prepared the container used for bathing purposes to create a pool of slurry water mixed with the dried pulp, before he summoned Tang Yuan out to help him .

With all the papermaking material is completed, Zhang Wu Ji upgraded the screen that was used to collect the paper, and also the stacker for him to place the formed Xuan Paper on it . Although the process of creation only varies slightly from how the people in this realm does, the differences it made are more significant .

"Good job, this is how we need to do . Although the process is slightly slower, the quality of the paper is better than any Xuan Paper you've seen before in your life . " Zhang Wu Ji praised Tang Yuan for his assistance and also swift movement in preparing the Xuan Paper . In fact, after a few time of gathering the mashed pulp in the slurry water, he was qualified enough to handle the process on himself .

It did not take too long but two hours is all it needs to complete everything . Under his next instruction, Zhang Wu Ji ordered that Tang Yuan should prepare another batch of the Southern Silk Bamboo and Yuanning's Mulberry Bark so they can start making another batch of Xuan Paper .

The procedures next after the stacking process is drying, where the two of them was busy hanging and brushing the paper to remove the existence of water inside every single sheet of paper . They were busy from the evening until it passed midnight before the paper was good enough for him to properly trim them and roll each of them into a roll of three meters long and one meters wide paper, and stack them all together into twenty different rolls of Xuan Papers .

Usage: Premium-quality paper worthy of being used in writing and drawing . Written records inside the paper are durable against fire, water, and rot .

"That's amazing!" Zhang Wu Ji was impressed with the paper he created all by himself . Would the price of his premium-quality paper will be low? He decides to took ten rolls to be taken into the auction and quickly went out to meet with his other senior brother and sisters waiting at the sect entrance .

When he reaches the entrance of the sect, Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the carriage his master provides to the nine of them . It was a damn huge decorated carriage as a Hummer H1 pulled by six horses!

"What is happening here?" Zhang Wu Ji still cannot believe his eyes when the door into the carriage is opened and inviting him to get in . Although it was just a random similarity, it was still something bearing a little lookalike impression, almost stating that the design of the carriage originated from the hummer .

"This is our master's Thousands Li Carriage, with six of his most beloved horses . the last one still in the back of his pagoda though . . . his sixth sister who was also a beast tamer stated, and invites the junior to enter the carriage .

Without wasting more time, they departed under the escort of another hundred elder disciples by their side, following from all four sides . Meanwhile, inside the carriage, the eldest brother begin to explain their intention into this auction, and how much capital did they brought .

after it was added up together, the nine of them possess an amount of 1 . 44 Million Gold Coins, but after he took the ten Premium-Quality Double Xuan Paper Roll out, the eight of his senior brother and sister were impressed until their jaw cannot be close together .

"This is the Superior-Quality Xuan Paper, something only the people from Imperial Families can use!" the fourth and eighth brother stated when they touch and inspect the paper . As the only two among the nine of them well versed and educated, it wasn't wrong to call the two most knowledgeable among the nine of them .

"Junior brother, did you only have ten rolls with you?" his fourth brother, also the most avid collector among the nine of them quickly asked .

"Ninth, be kind and give one of this to your forth brother! It will be my most stunning collection ever!" unexpected to him, the fourth brother's eyes are completely into the Double Xuan Paper Roll, where he can even let go the identity of his senior brother for it .

"Fourth senior brother, please! Stand up! We're fellow disciples, why will I not agree to give you one of them if you asked?" Zhang Wu Ji quickly pulls his senior brother back on his two feet without any intention to receive that kneeling at all . For him, this was over the limit he can accept .

"You must remember your promise! In return, let me get you another gift in my collection vault!" he smiled after seeing how quick his junior brother agreed to his request . In exchange, he wanted to give Zhang Wu Ji one of the treasures kept in the vault, but who will expect that the gift he intends to present to his junior brother was something Zhang Wu Ji wishes he did not see that before in his life .

Their trip went unobstructed as they close their distance with the Wen Wu City . Being one of the most welcomed guests in the city, the nine junior and senior disciples entered the city and went straight to the location where the auction will be held . It was a recently opened establishment known to the public as;

Their name was extremely humble in the opinion of the public, but under the sharp eyes of sect disciples, this wasn't true at all . With the ability to hire two 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighters as their guards in the entrance, who dare to look down on this humbly named establishment?

Without an invitation card needed, the nine fellow disciples entered the courtyard three times larger than their own inside the sect and were ushered to the private seating that was allocated for those representatives came from the sect . Inside the moderate auction hall that was big enough to cater for 300 participants, it was bustling with cries of bidding and exchange of words among one part of the hall to another .

"Sold! Congratulations to Patriarch of Tang to successfully win the bid for this Inner Qi Replenishing Jade with the price of 300,000 Gold Coins!" the auctioneer announced the successful bid made by one of the participants within the hall .

After spending a few minutes of courtesy exchange between the auctioneer and the buyer, the auction return to their originated situation once again, with a different treasure was taken into the stage at this moment .

"As an auctioneer myself, I am hateful to announce that, if I am not the one standing here, I will covet this treasure from everyone! May I proudly announce that the next treasure that was put into this auction, is!!!"

"This treasure is something that all qualified Pill Master coveted, in fact, we only have one of this treasure to be auctioned this time . I have to explain again even if everyone present in this hall knows their miraculous effect . " the auctioneer was too qualified to stand at such a position when Zhang Wu Ji sees how skillful is his tongue in twisting the words to increase the prices of this treasure .

Perhaps, many people were like him here, unknown of what was the mysterious coal is all about, but through the word he used to describe that he will need to explain it again, it will create a symptom that caused everyone to act as they know about it before putting up their bids .

"The treasure we have here are capable of increasing the success rate of a concoction by 50% . I doubt everyone here was well informed of the difficulties faced by a Pill Master when they were trying to concoct a pill where their quality far surpassed any other pills we've seen in everyday life!"

"In fact, I personally saw one Pill Master use this Mysterious Alchemic Coal before, and the results is a stunning Top-Quality Qi Bursting Pill that allows one to break through the border between Stage 19 and Stage 20! That attempt created two Top-Quality Qi Bursting Pill, which one of them were sold in our auction a year ago!" the auctioneer explained and shares even his own experience witnessing the creation of two Top-Quality Pills through the usage of this coal .

Given the fact the Humble Hall of Treasure was indeed sold a Top-Quality Qi Bursting Pill in their previous year's auction, thus further confirming the fact that this miraculous coal does possess the ability to increase the success rate of concoction by 50% . But at the same time, the auctioneer hides another fact as well, in order to trap the bidders to bid!

He deliberately hid the fact in order to use this Mysterious Alchemic Coal, the Pill Master will need to spend three sets of the materials instead of one set to concoct the pills . At any case, this will not affect the final quality of the end product, but if one is going to concoct some rare pills, how will that be easy for them to gather the required materials?

"The price of this treasure is priced at 200,000 Gold Coins . Each bid increase the price by 10,000 Gold Coins, please start bid now!" the auctioneer started the bidding process with a knock of his hammer, and the prices begin to raise without the intention to stop .

The prices strike until it slowdown at 550,000 Gold Coins and begin to stops at 570,000 Gold Coins . The final battle of this bid end up between two fat elderly, which look like a person with some background in medicine and pill concoctions .

"600,000!" a voice belonged to a youngster surprised everyone inside the hall when he suddenly outbid the two elders in their battle of prices . While everyone turns their attention at him, one of the fat elders shouted again .

"Sold! Congratulation of this young master for successfully bid this treasure, I wish your Pill Concoction succeed and please consider the Humble Hall of Treasure if you wish to sell them in the future!" the auctioneer congratulates him while the staffing process the purchase with the youngster, when he obtained the treasure, he did not remain in the hall but left without a word .

"That man is very mysterious . " his eldest senior brother comments, but then, a staff came through the curtain to see if the group of 9 fellow disciples have any request . As expected, the eldest senior brother took out nine of the Double Xuan Paper Rolls and look at the staff .

"We have some high-quality treasures for sale, can you get the appraiser to come and appraise the treasure before opening the price?" the eldest senior brother speaks as he passes one for him to have the first look .

"This!" it was impossible for a staff of an auction hall was not knowledgeable to inspect the treasures . He can easily discern that this paper here was a precious Superior-Quality Xuan Paper . To easily took nine rolls out for the auction, the staff immediately excuse himself out the curtain and ring the bell twice .

It was an indication that somebody has a precious treasure that required an experienced appraiser to personally attends . Without spending too much time to wait, the senior appraiser came to inspect the treasures, while another treasure was sold again . It was a mineral rock with a high concentration of Crystal Iron, which was a rarity even in the Wen Wu City with a mineral vein not far from them .

Their next treasure was a set of three yet to mature Violet Majestic Grass, an essential ingredient that was used to concoct the Purple Majestic Pill that can enhance the quality of Inner Qi of a cultivator . It was said that if one were to refine their Inner Qi through the usage of Purple Majestic Pill over five times, the quality of their Inner Qi will be as pure as somebody who went through the Sheng Xian Process .

"Pei! What was the use of three Purple Majestic Grass if the King of Valley Dew is not in your hand? The grass can only survive for ten days after they were removed from the soil, but the dew is only available if there is a three-day continuous rain before collection!" Zhang Wu Ji scorns in his heart because the material was great, but their usage was limited .

Added with their effect were only allowed one to refine the pill each time they went through a tier, it will be ridiculous to refine such a pill unless they came from some prominent families or imperial families .

Without paying too much attention at the auction, Zhang Wu Ji eavesdrops the discussion between the senior appraiser and his eldest senior brother, and the agreement to sell the treasure were sealed with a cost of 5% of their total sales will be deducted as the processing fee . The two staff left them after they collected the treasure with care .

"Junior brother, the treasure you took out is actually one quality above the Superior-Quality Xuan Paper, where did you get them from?" his eldest senior brother shares the word spoken by the appraiser to all of them to listen .

"I made them . " he smile and answered his eldest senior brother with a lack of seriousness expression . But the simple word he muttered surprised the eight of them .

"The appraiser say their price is at least 1 Million Gold Coins each roll . Since you got 9 rolls there, it's worth 9 million at least . " his eldest senior brother shared the last sentence the appraiser spoken .

"It seems we have some new treasures just came into the auction hall! Because the seller wishes to sell this in a hurry, we have no choice but to reduce the expectation on the selling prices . May I present all of you with a treasure that only used by the Imperial Families?" the auctioneer brings his antique speech out once more, and introduced the treasure brought by the staff onto the stage .

"This is the Superior-Quality Xuan Paper, but their quality was one tier above the superior as well! We afraid we do not have any of the names to categorized them for now, but I'm sure the few we have here will be the only one for sold until we get more news about this treasures . "

"Two million . " one of the bidders immediately outbid the others by doubling the price . With a hefty amount of 2 million was offered in the first call, he kills all other competitors in bidding on this roll of Xuan Paper . The whole auction hall turns quiet from his action . Even the auctioneer is speechless, but no matter what, he will have to proceed with the auction .

"Sold! Congratulations to Elder Yang from the Wen Wu Military Forces, I am sure this roll of superior among Superior-Quality Xuan Paper will be the best when used by you . " the auctioneer did not forget to lick the shoe of the bidder to create some familiarity between the Auction Hall and the bidder .

"Settle the bill later! Quickly went through with your other auctions! You all, listen well to my words, if you're not looking for trouble, do not mess with me on getting all the Superior of Superior-Quality Xuan Paper!" the Elder Yang warned the others of his intention in getting the Xuan Papers and will resort to threatening if somebody tried to mess with him .

"This elder is a Sh*t! He purposely threatened the others so the next roll will not be that expensive because nobody will try to compete with him!" the fourth senior brother muttered while looking at the Elder Yang seated not far from them .

From his background and also visibly seen guards standing behind him, this person should carry quite a position within the Military Forces of Wen Wu City . It's said that no matter how strong is a sect, their strength will be lost to the Militarized Forces . No matter how strong is the Military Forces, they will be defeated by the hand of Elite Forces, and of course, the Elite Forces will not be able to become a match against the Imperial Army .

the differences in their power are similar to a force of Inner Qi Fighter against an Inner Qi Warrior, and so forth . The higher the tier of your opponent, the easier you fall without a chance to retaliates .

Under the warning, the bidding for next item continues, but when it comes to the second, third, and fourth unit of the Xuan Paper, their prices end up being bought through 1 . 1 million Gold Coins each . The trend continues until they reach the eighth roll, where it was sold for 1 . 1 million again .

"Young masters and patriarch of prominent families, may I present you all with the main attraction for today? Everyone, please take attention on the stage now, where our main treasure will make its appearance!" the auctioneer activates the mechanism hidden under the stage, allowing a hole to be opened from the middle, slowly rising up to the center of the stage with a beautiful box embed with gemstones .

The fruit was releasing a beautiful and mesmerizing color of its skin, which carries a hint of pink like apple, but hairy like a Kiwi fruit . on top of its stem, it was still attached with a tree branch, where at the end of the branch is a container with a glistening liquid that seems nutritious for the fruit .

"This is the Converging Qi Fruit! I believe everyone in the hall knows, that if a none cultivator consumes this fruit, the possibility of having at least 5 strands of Inner Qi constructed in their Core is almost 100% . The fruit will still be effective to people that were stuck in the border between stages, and usable to all cultivators from Inner Qi Fighter to Inner Qi Master!"

"The bidding price of the Converging Qi Fruit will starts at 700,000 Gold Coins, each bid will increase the price by 100,000 Gold Coins! If you're ready, please start your bid!" the auctioneer slammed the hammer and started to get barrage with bids coming from all over the hall, with screams and sign lifted in all four corners .

"This is crazy!" Zhang Wu Ji looked at the heated battle between the bidders and how concentrated is the auctioneer in calling for their bidding price . If this were a match of who can speak and repeat the fastest, the auctioneer will win even if he was competing against the whole Auction Hall visitors .

The bidding competition soon stopped at 5 . 5 million Gold Coins, which were bid by the Elder Yang personally . At first, there were a few bidders still dared to fight against him, but when the bidding amount reaches 5 . 5 Million, nobody dares to outbid him any longer . It wasn't because they were afraid, but it was because they don't have such a capital to fight against the Wen Wu City's private militarized forces!

"5 . 8 Million Gold Coins!" he raised the number board up to announce his participation, which wasn't well received by the elder . His smiling face turned sour at that moment, and two of his guards personally make their trip to the other side where they were to warn them .

"6 Million Gold Coins!" Elder Yang shouts after he notices that two of his subordinates has taken the action to warn them for their guts to compete with the elder . He was thinking about how will he utilize the Converging Qi Fruit, but before a smile came to his face once more, another call for a higher bid came into his both ears .

"6 . 2 million!" Zhang Wu Ji has no restriction in his action . Even if the elder from the Militarized Forces is threatening him, so what? With his master still owing him a favor, it will not be difficult for him to behave as he wishes while still inside this Auction Hall!

"Brat! Are you trying to look for trouble when visiting the Wen Wu City? Do you know what is our background?" one of the guards threatened the group of nine, warning them to back off from continuing their bids . But it was unfortunate because they finally met their match inside of this Auction .

"Go back and tell your master, we're from the Seven Star Sect . The nine of us are the direct disciples of the sect headmaster, Lord of Seven Sword's Liang Tian!" elder senior brother stands up to warn the two guards to a standoff . He did not use the word [Get Lost] but it was nevertheless an imposing action .

"So what if you're from the Seven Star Sect? 6 . 4 million!" Elder Yang stands and step closer to the edge of where they were, and decided to see which youngster were so daring while fighting against him in the bid . When he noticed that his opponent was a youth in his fifteenth, all his patience burst at that moment .

"I was disturbed by a youth of fifteen years old?" both of his eyes opened wide, unable to believe that an elder like him was actually annoyed by a youth . When his subordinates came to report what they were told by the disciples, his impression towards the nine youth become even worse than ever .

"How dare the disciples of Liang Tian dare to come to make trouble with me!" the elder started to lose his mind after knowing that the one that was messing with him was in fact, the disciples of the headmaster himself . This was taken by him as a provocation! An action that indicates the Seven Star Sect possess the mind to rebel against the Militarized Forces and the Wen Wu City!

"So what if you're the disciples of the headmaster? With the power of my troops, I can easily eradicate the Seven Star Sect and leave them without a single leaf remain alive! Men! capture them!" the elder turned into complete ridicule, trying to apprehend the nine disciples before the auction was over .

"Elder Yang, friends from Seven Star Sect, please stop . " a cultivator suddenly appeared between the two sides, stopping them from continue to clash with each another .

"Please, for the sake of the flourishing business and also the kindness of both side of gentlemen, kindly remain calm as we continue with the auction . " the middle-aged man appeared in between of the two, and stop them from starting a fight .

"Guo Cheng Hai, get lost from my sight and I will leave your Humble Hall of Treasure alone! If you tried to stop me, don't blame me when my troops lever your building and leave you with only the walls from four sides!" Elder Yang warned the middle-aged man who stands in between them .

"Guo Cheng Hai? The Tonfa Battle Maniac Guo Cheng Hai?" as the eldest senior disciple of Liang Tian, he was extremely knowledgeable with the well-known cultivators traveling around the Ping An Continent . The person before them was a well-known battle maniac that once challenged the whole generation of an Imperial Families for a fight, where he defeated 99 younger generations before defeated by the strongest cultivator in the same generation .

Guo Cheng Hai, do you think I dare not to destroy your establishment?" Elder Yang threatened and took his unsheathed his sword hold by one of his personal guards, and tried to attack him . But his action was taken as an offensive manner by the people of the Humble Hall of Treasure, causing a fight to begin!

Outside of the establishment, there was over another hundred of soldiers in their 3rd and 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . When the shout of Elder Yang is heard, all of them withdraws their weapon to fight against the people belonged to the establishment, and even some passerby were included in the brawl .

Just with a shout! That was how easy it is to incite a fight, and how intolerable is the overbearing manner carried by each of the members of Militarized Forces . They completely ignore the fact the person in charge of this city didn't belong to their faction and dare to behave in such atrocious manner!

"Hall Master, our main door has been destroyed! The Militarized Forces are coming into our courtyard as we talk!" a supervisor of the establishment reported the situation to his master, but it was useless, because just minutes after his report, the intruders already smashed the door into the hall, and barge into the hall without any control .

Swords and spears were pointed and random people, trying to incite fear to everyone in the Auction Hall . This was a normal gesture as a soldier to control the crowd and their rebellious action, and pressure those braver people to step down from what they intended to do .

But when it was used in a peaceful scenario, this action turned into an act of rebellion, with the intention to shuts everyone's mouth from continuing to spread the news of their atrocious manner . Because all of the soldiers were well trained in their camps, they're much more organized and easily surrounded the whole Auction Hall .

"Yang Hai! You dare to overstep the Wen Wu City Lord's authority?" Guo Cheng Hai warned him, intending to give him another route to back up from being this overbearing . Unfortunately, the Elder did not take this chances to retreat, but instead, getting even more furious in his way of talking .

"Guo Cheng Hai, I will shut your place today!" his leads his people to take an action . With the intention to slaughter everyone inside the hall, the troops and bidders clashed against each another . For those patriarchs from other houses, they were temporary safe because most of them were in a cooperative relationship with the City Lord's Faction and also the Militarized Forces, but for those who aren't, their fate is completely dependant on their own .

"Kids, I'm sorry but please leave this place . I don't want any of the people from Seven Star Sect is injured inside of my establishment . Tell your master Guo Cheng Hai will come personally to ask for forgiveness for such an ill-treatment when his disciples are here!" Guo Cheng Hai sent the nine of them over at an escape route, before he added another sentence and charged at Elder Yang .

Meanwhile, the auctioneer looted the Converging Qi Fruit into his hand and escaped through a secret tunnel behind where he stands . Guo Cheng Hai did not show any reaction from his sudden action, which means he has all his trust against this auctioneer of his .

"Damn, we're here for the fruit but it ends up becoming a fight . " their eldest senior brother said as they escaped, but soon, even their route ahead was being blocked by the incoming soldiers, and they were forced to fight . It wasn't a threat for a cultivator like his eldest senior brother, Han Gen who was at his 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, but when one was being surrounded by over twenty 3rd to 4th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, their path of retreat become even harder .

"Second, third, protect the others as we retreat . " the eldest senior brother ordered his two junior brothers in the similar cultivation strength like his to fight while the other retreat, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Ji steps forward with the Iron Ruler in his hand .

With the assistance of Lone Star Sword Art and also Three-Wave Sword Art, Zhang Wu Ji's each swing with the iron ruler not only created one, but two air blades to attack at the incoming enemies . Added with the attraction to obtain more Strands of Inner Qi from those he beaten, it would be a fool for him to not fight them but retreats .

And against everyone expectation, Zhang Wu Ji was the one to make a killing . Each of his swing till turns a soldier to kiss the ground passionately, as he steps forward to chase his targets . Looking at such a behavior, the others suddenly remembered that their eighth brother was suffering from this treatment when their junior still waiting for his entrance test .

Like a hurricane attacking forward instead of upwards, Zhang Wu Ji took the lead to an attack and charged at the crowd of fighting soldiers . Although some of his swings accidentally hit some other random bidders, it did not stop him from continuing to charge forward .

In the eyes of the others, the youngster with a strength to lift up a close to 20 kilograms Iron Ruler and still use them like a bamboo stick was an amazing feat which nobody can perform it without years of practice . And what is the age of Zhang Wu Ji? He was barely fifteen and a half years old up to date!

"Got 1 Stand of Qi at last!" he defeated a total of 25 4th stage fighters and received an increase of 1 Strand in his body . But that doesn't mean it's over . It boosts his settled mind further and hunts for the soldiers instead . Looking at how ferocious is the disciple from Seven Star Sect, Elder Yang and Guo Cheng Hai both stopped fighting .

"Brat! How dare you challenge the might of our faction! This was your greatest mistake! I will personally teach your master a lesson after I'm done with you guys! Let me see how strong are you against a 15th Stage Inner Qi Warrior like me!" the person called Yang Hai strength were something not everyone can compare with, but the word teaching their master a lesson seems to be slightly too far from his reach .

"Oh!" a loud voice came from the outside of the Auction Hall, and on the next second, four swords about two meters in length cut through the four walls covering the whole building, and with two more swords came into the building they completely lift the roof portion of the building above, allowing lights to shine into the Auction Hall .

"It seems like myself, Liang Tian, are too quiet lately . " the headmaster of Seven Star Sect personally made his appearance in the Wen Wu City, in order to protect his disciples and also teach a certain person some lesson for overconfident with his mere ranks .

"Master!" the nine of them quickly bowed at their master . This is also the first time Zhang Wu Ji look at his master's might and strength as a well known Inner Qi Lord, in his 62nd Stage . He was stepping on a sword about three meters in the length and half a meter wide, making him floats on the sky as he can fly .

"Master can fly!" Zhang Wu Ji was amazed by what he has seen . This was the second time he sees somebody riding on top of a sword . The first time was when he just transmigrated into this world almost two months ago .

"Guo Cheng Hai pay respect to his benefactor, thank you for the grand arrival at this humble auction store and also please forgive Cheng Hai for not having the ability to properly protect the nine young master senior from those with ill intention!" he quickly kneeled as he faced the direction where Liang Tian is idling in the air .

"Hahaha, why mention those little gestures again . It wasn't much, wasn't much . Do not take that little gesture too seriously . " Liang Tian laughed as he accepted the gratitude Guo Cheng Hai shown . He soon turned his attention to his nice lovely disciples, and talk to them .

"Atrocious and overconfident at his own strength . He may have the ability to do what he likes here, but when it came to handling master's anger, he might be the first to vanish before master shown himself in Wen Wu City . Since he was caught red-handed in the auction the moment he finished his sentence, his death is inevitable .

"Yang Hai, since you were so confident on your own strength, how about I give you a chance? Fight against my nine disciples alone . If you managed to walk past the Humble Hall of Treasure's entrance, I will ignore what you've said earlier, and even pay you back 10 Million Gold Coins as compensation for my disciple's immature manners . "

"But if you don't, I hope you have a coffin readied for yourself!" with a wave of a hand after he finished his sentence, the rooftop that was supported by the six swords were thrown away out of the city, and preparing a better stage for him to observe their fight .

"Why will I be afraid with your nine disciples that only three of them were in their 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter? You better prepare nine coffins for them instead!" Yang Hai loss his temper, and charged at the nine disciples instead of escaping .

"Lone Star Sword Art!" the eldest, second, and third waved their sword and face the attack of Yang Hai head-on . The clash pushes the three to a retreat, but Yang Hai's palm did not end up unscathed either . Blood flows from his palm and drips down at the wooden floor below their feet .

The fourth and eighth charged with their weapon, and in a split movement, they activate the confinement wheel against the elder and restricts all his movement . The fifth and sixth sister attacked, but even after restriction Elder Yang's strength is far above the nine of them, thus he easily destroyed the first wheel and deflected the two swords with his own .

Charging his attack as his fellow brother and sisters is fighting, the seventh activates his Seven Sealing Swords ability and strikes at the elder Yang with seven flashing lights! The attacked strikes his four limbs, and it was lucky the attack on his head, chest, and crotch was missed because of his lack of controls .

"Good!" their master Liang Tian and the owner of the Humble Hall of Treasure praised the seventh for his decisive attack . This was what each of his disciples needs in their heart, a will that allows them to be decisive, and a mind that made them deadlier than anyone else!

With all eight disciples has taken their move, only Zhang Wu Ji was left . He was also the only one holding a weapon different from the others . It was an Iron Ruler instead of a sword, and it was a heavier weapon on top of that . In the eyes of most of the people, his choice of weapon is ridiculous, but none of them will say so at this moment after they see how he battered the soldiers by using that Iron Ruler like a bamboo stick .

"Which one will you choose, if you're going to be battered by a youngster? Iron Ruler that weight almost 20 kilograms or a bamboo stick with the weight of fewer than 200 grams?" it was an obvious choice no matter how one will think .

"Master, please forgive Wu Ji for not learning his art properly, it may be seen ungraceful when I fight . " Zhang Wu Ji bowed at his master's direction before he calmly took his step forward . That little polite gestures gave Elder Yang a split second to prepare himself, pops a Wound Mending Pill, and held his sword properly, but it gave the public a respectful gaze at Zhang Wu Ji for his elegant yet convincing manner .

Relaxed and calm, he simply swings his Iron Ruler three times, leaving six air blades flying across the air and strikes at Elder Yang without any warning! He was thrown backward for five steps before he stopped, but another two air blades followed . He slashed in a slanted direction, cutting the two air blades without difficulties, but it gave Zhang Wu Ji a chance to executes the Advance version of Lone Star Sword Art!

The beginner achievement that all his other senior brother and sister were at enables them to projects a blinding star when they executed the Lone Star Sword Art . The strength it brought is immense and threatening, able to defeat the opponent's confidence before it clashes .

When their mastery reaches the intermediate achievement, the Lone Star Sword Art can be executed freely, and the strength of the attack was doubled compared to the beginner achievement . This achievement was only held by his eldest senior brother at this moment, taking the position of the strongest disciple generation in the Seven Star Sect .

But at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji's Advance attack gave everyone presents a shock, because the Lone Star Sword Art executed by him brought the might of a falling star striking at his opponent . The threat brought by the pressure from his attack demolish the seats and decorations surrounding him, and when it reaches the Elder Yang, his weapon was shattered .

A proper sword was destroyed with sheer physical force, leaving the blade, handle, and guards apart on the floor! Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Ruler is domineering enough to use a sword art on a long ruler! If somebody dares to say this was impossible before, it was made possible now!

"Who says a sword strike cannot be made from a bamboo? Who dares to say a palm tightened together to form a blade aren't a blade at all? This was a fact! A miracle that can be achieved with the strength of a cultivator's Inner Qi!"

The elder collapsed with both knees on the ground, begging for a forgiveness . Zhang Wu Ji look at his master's stern expression, and without giving out a reply, the Iron Ruler, which were thought to be blunt, actually beheaded the elder with a decisive swing!

The head was sitting on top of the Iron Ruler's tip before it was thrown at the auctioneer's stand to warn the other soldiers to stop what they were doing and leave this place quietly . It was a simple performance, but the result it achieves were a solid impression that made the position Seven Star Sect hold, ascends to greater heights .

"Liang Tian, how dare you to let your little brats to make a mess in my city?" another huge and bulky cultivator make his appearance . His choice of weapon was a gigantic broadsword of five meters in length, and two meters wide . Only the handle alone was at least 1 meter in diameter . Standing on top of the blade, he speaks with the headmaster at the same height .

"Commander Yang Yi, long time no see . " Liang Tian ignored his question but greets him instead . Although the appeared person was also in the same cultivation as he does, it did not give him a sense of threat, because he was too familiar with the attitude of this person before him!

"Are you the brat that just happened to handle the pest of my Militarized Forces?" Yang Yi's voice becomes a gigantic bell covering the nine disciples, as he questioned . Liang Tian did not make a move, because it wasn't an issue for him at all .

"Dear Commander, this junior indeed the person that kills the Elder, kindly reprimand this junior alone, and please leave my other seniors . " Zhang Wu Ji answered . He did not kneel before the commander, but instead, bowed at him with a straight 90 degrees posture .

"Heroic . Young . Well Mannered . Liang Tian, it seems like your new disciple is quite a good seed! I am envious of you!" he turned his words to the headmaster, and each of his words came out as a praise to the youth .

"Unnoticed of my eyes, the little Yang Hai was actually such a disappointment . Your loss will be repaid in the double, and do not hesitate to call these monkeys to help with the repair . Do you understand?" Yang Yi completed his sentence towards Guo Cheng Hai, but at the ending of his sentence, it was directed to each soldier that was still standing in the vicinity of Humble Hall of Treasure .

"Good, disperse, or I will charge everyone here for the intention to rebel against the Wen Wu City Lord!" he waved his hand to disperse the innocent public and awaits the location to be cleared .

It did not take too long for the crowd to disperse, and when only the soldiers, Liang Tian, Yang Yi, Guo Cheng Hai, and the nine disciples were left, the auctioneer finally crawled from his hiding spot .

"Master, this is the Converging Qi Fruit . . . " he presented the fruit to Guo Cheng Hai . Without further ado, Guo Cheng Hai passed the fruit to Zhang Wu Ji, and added;

"This was my gift for such issue happened in my establishment . I understand you may feel like rejecting this gift, but listen to me, I will not be stingy towards the disciples of my benefactor, in fact, I want each of you to have some of this small gift as well . " he took out another few boxes in his hand, and distributes each of them to every disciple .

Within the boxes were a collection of three healing medicine, namely the Life Chasing Pill, Qi Recovery Pill, and Blood Mending Pill . The three of a set were medicines that only cultivators can use, and each of them wasn't cheaper than the Qi Sensing Pill, but much more expensive .

The moment one entered the world of cultivation, their lowest known currency starts from 1,000 Gold Coins, also worth 1 Qi Sensing Pill . The pill, in fact, the cheapest daily commodities are known in a cultivator's daily life, and without them, trading for higher quality treasures cannot be done .

"Let us return, everyone, comes up to my sword, as for the carriage, return as soon as possible to the Sect!" Liang Tian invites all his disciples to ride the sword with him when the carriage shall be on their way behind .

"Ninth, I am very proud of your performance today . Do you know why master come personally to the city just now?" Liang Tian questioned Zhang Wu Ji for the reason he was here . Although it wasn't a secret that the nine of them went out from the sect to participates in the auction, it still not something to be concerned with, because the problem with Elder Yang wasn't something that will be dangerous to all of them .

"Master please explain . Forgive Wu Ji for not being able to guess what was in the master's mind . " Zhang Wu Ji was a person that hates to guess, thus he gives up and decided to ask instead .

"I was arguing with the Seven elders from the Knowledge Pagoda after I took the new rewrite version of Bone Strengthening Art from you . At first, the seven old farts did not believe my words that this rewrite version is much better than our own, but I forced ten disciples to learn the art and being guided by the eight of us, and each of them immediately entered the 2nd stage of Inner Qi Fighter . "

"The new version let me shut the mouth of the seven elders, it was so much fun! How dare they stop me from cultivating my disciples!" Liang Tian was so happy he almost lost his composure as their master . When he realized that he was behaving like a child, he coughed twice, and get back to his usual manner .

"So, the master will owe you two favors for now . Think about it properly, I will not ill-treat you if you need anything . And one more thing . . . " his master gave him another favor to keep, and after hesitates for a moment, he questioned the youth again .

"Dear master, the eight swords are indeed Wu Ji's personal effort . Is there . . . Any problem?" Zhang Wu Ji admits his own creation and handiwork to craft the swords, but at the same time, he will have to wait for his master's recognition, because by personally modified the kind of sword used by members of the Seven Star Sect are a challenging behavior towards the tradition .

Taking their master as an example, he personally crafted his seven swords in different length, size, material, and quality in order to show the world of Ping An Continent that he was one of the prodigies nurtured by the Seven Star Sect . But when he was doing this challenge, he was a cultivator if 59th Stage Inner Qi Elder, which hardly over a hundred of people at that time dared to stops him .

"Good . You continuously giving me surprise each time you came across something . Before the test, you taught all the slave disciples a lesson and become a Torture Demon, after the entrance exam, you caught my eyes to accept you as my ninth disciple, you made the Superior-Quality Xuan Paper, rewrite a newer version of Bone Strengthening Art, crafting eight Yi-Jia Swords, and now, pummel and killed an Inner Qi Warrior before becoming a cultivator yourself . "

"I am not surprised that you will come out with something more the longer you stay in our sect, but I want you to remember something!" his master praised him for a moment before his tone turned into a restriction and warning .

"Without a proper strength, one will only meet with danger because of the talent he has shown! Humble is a virtue, secretive is stability . A tree may not stand tall without ten years of effort, and yet a flower cannot resist from withering after they bloom . Do you understand what your master means?" he used a few quotes to deliver the message, but still, it was for the safety of his disciple .

"Wu Ji understand . Without foundation, I will not able to last long in the real world, and yet without a little bit of control, I will end up exposing my worthiness to the enemies that have ill intent on myself . Being humble is good, but it doesn't mean that going on the humbleness way is correct . " he interpreted all the quotes his master speaks and managed to get all of them on his point .

"Good . I suppose you know what to do back in the sect . " his master ends their conversation and soon, their flying trip ends when they reach the Reflecting Pagoda . All of them returned to their own courtyard, but this trip proved to be fruitful for Zhang Wu Ji .

At the end of the day, he earned the profit of having eight of the Double Xuan Paper sold for 9 . 7 Million Gold Coins, while the remaining one was exchanged for the Converging Qi Fruit . The Bone Strengthening Art that he refined were also returned to his hand . With sufficient wealth and also materials, it wasn't a problem for him to start cultivates properly .

Previously, when he was done with the Bone Strengthening Art rewriting, he did not even take a moment to check on its status, but now, he realized that how foolish it is to not see what he got before he passes it to others . At the same time, he now has another treasure in his hand as well, the precious commodities, the Converging Qi Fruit .

"Damn! The Converging Qi Fruit is actually on its way to rot! But what is with the crazy Usage type with the same effect? No, wait . . . The 5th usage is increasing the strand of Inner Qi by 2 instead of 1 . Should I try to upgrade it?" Zhang Wu Ji attention came to the Converging Qi Fruit first . It seems that the fruit has been harvested from the tree when it was ripe .

"I should try to upgrade the Converging Qi Fruit . . . Upgrade!" he tried to upgrade the fruit, but there was no reaction . It was a fluke again . Only heart, but nothing happened .

"Am I still too weak? Should I get to Inner Qi Fighter cultivation before I can start to upgrade certain item? Nevermind, I'll leave this damn fruit for a while and cultivates the Bone Strengthening Art instead . I did not imagine that this version of Bone Strengthening Art is so much stronger than before . " Zhang Wu Ji was impressed with his own ability to even able to upgrade the words and quality of the cultivation of art .

Carrying the same intention to upgrade the manual, he proceeds . It was a lucky thing that he possesses 60 strands of Inner Qi now, allowing him to spend 50 of them for a +5 results .

It was an unexpected result because when the manual was upgraded, their effect was upgraded to 3 strands of Qi is created for every three days, and it increases his recovery rate in fatigue and exhaustion of Inner Qi by 1 hour . This means his upgrading rate has increased by at least 25% faster .

"With myself just got my increment yesterday, It was a good thing I got this manual back from my master . Altogether, I will have 5 strands on Inner Qi increased every three days . With this speed, I will be able to enter the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter in another twelve days, which will be the end of two months as a disciple of Seven Star Sect . "

"That should be fine . I can spend the time to upgrade another Cultivation Art instead . I should begin with the Golden Body Manual and also Inner Reversal Manual for this twelve days, if thing proceeds in a positive way, I will happen to have three better cultivation art for myself to use . " he decides to remain low profile after hearing the advice from his master .

With a new target once again, Zhang Wu Ji did not behave wildly like previous but spend most of his time cultivating inside of his room . Meanwhile, for the twelve days of behaving himself within the sect, Zhang Wu Ji did make an appearance to the farm where the Kind Heart Grass is undergoing their second maturity .

It was important because the plot of land with the less nutrient in it will become normal after two more sessions of maturity, then he will be able to harvest one more kind of different plants whenever he needs . While at the same time, he did not neglect his work in rewriting the Inner Reversal Manual and Golden Body Manual .

The two manual possess 45 pages each, end up as 90 pages in total . With his increase of speed in recovery and also higher amount of Inner Qi he possesses now, the rewriting works end up very quickly, and he managed to get both of them done in the last day just before his Inner Qi increased by 5 strands again .

He did not dare to change the manual in the middle of the three days because of worries that the effect will end up restarted once again . When his total day in the sect finally clocked at 2 full months, his total strands of Inner Qi finally reaches 100, allowing him to enter the enlightenment to went through the process to become a qualified 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter!

Although the enlightenment wasn't a big deal at all, it was still a crucial process for one to thread pass before becoming a qualified cultivator!

Seated on his comfortable bed, Zhang Wu Ji's mind entered the void, with a hundred strands of Inner Qi revolving around him as he flies across the void to a destination he does not know . Each strand of the Inner Qi is wriggling like a worm as they followed him . The wriggling becomes more intense as he continues his journey, and soon, each strand combined themselves from 100 to 50, 50 to 25, 25 into 5, and five into one single wriggling strand of Inner Qi .

"This . . . How can this happen?" Zhang Wu Ji touches the strand of Inner Qi that just transformed from the combination of a hundred, and a status appeared right in front of his sight .

-Description: when one finally succeed to become a cultivator, the True meaning of Inner Qi Branching Tier starts . Each time a hundred strands of Qi were gathered and condensed into a strand of True Qi, one of the hundred points in the Branching Tier will be lit . Only when a hundred points are lit will the cultivator obtained the qualification to enter a higher tier of Cultivation .

"It was actually True Qi, I bet not many people actually know about this . If that's the case, will it have any disruption for me when I am using stronger abilities during a fight?" Zhang Wu Ji has just entered this realm of cultivation and already been given with such a deep meaning because of the existence of his Upgrade System .

It wasn't bad for a person to know more, but it is destructive if a person without sufficient understanding to know too much . At the end of the day, he might end up stagnate at a place because of the inability to further his understanding, or he will end up entering the wrong path because of a wrong understanding .

Thus, he decides to not delved too deep into this matter, before he was to read and obtained more information and knowledge related to this realm of cultivation .

His flight in the void soon overs when the darkness suddenly turned into brightness, it was a blinding sight to him, as he closed his eyes and awake in his room once more . Before his sight, the existence of the dust-like energy in the atmosphere was clearly visible, and some were even busy scattering themselves like a flower spreading their pollens .

"Is this how the Natural Energy in this world multiply themselves?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by how each of the single entity energy was moving in the air, finding for a partner and mixed together to scatter their seeds further . This process took one minute to complete, and from each combination of a Yin Energy and a Yang Energy, they can scatter into over a hundred thousand of the newer energy, and then, the process continues once more .

It didn't take too long for Zhang Wu Ji to noticed that the energy was actually intangible as if they belonged to a different dimension that will not be disturbed even if he wished to do so . The wave of his hand went through an unaccountable amount of the energy, but they weren't disturbed at the least .

He was still busy researching and concluding his hypothesis and then, a suction energy came from a room not far away, furiously absorbing the energy in the atmosphere .

"What happened?" Zhang Wu Ji followed the suction energy that was so obvious in his eyes and soon reached the doorstep before Tang Yuan's room .

"The energy was absorbed by us during cultivation? But I did not utilize them at all, instead the Upgrade Ability allows me to thoroughly converts them into a strand of Inner Qi every three days . " what happened just helps him make a conclusion at what he has seen . Next, he was considering about will it do good if he inquires his seniors regarding this matter .

But if it wasn't turn out well, then instead of happy of him entering the 1st Stage of Inner Qi, they might think that their junior was a freak instead .

Keeping such an experience around him as a secret, for now, he took a walk to the farm without notifying Tang Yuan . He wished to put some spare time to rest before he continued with his cultivation once more . Since the rewrite of a newer version of the Inner Reversal Manual and Golden Body Manual is complete, he can begin his cultivation at a higher speed .

The walk to the farm was calm, as it was at night at this moment . Crickets were singing from all over the places, but it did not annoy Zhang Wu Ji at all, instead it turned into a lullaby that calms his worried mind . At that moment, it gave him a new understanding in one matter .

"Everything is a treasure, as long they were capable to contributes to a human's life . So what if the item weren't as capable as something else when they were compared? A medicine is to either save or kill people, it was the same to a weapon, armor, instrument, and even cultivation manual . "

"As long it was to be used for good, it was a good thing . If it were used for bad, then it was a bad thing!" Zhang Wu Ji understands the fact that he should have known in his previous life, but only managed to thoroughly enlighten himself from tonight's walk .

Placing his finger on each of the leaf sprouting from the Seedlings, he inspects each of their quality before he concludes that Tang Yuan's effort is going on the right track . The guidance he gave to him previously is useful, where after two months of effort, the plant is getting on their right track, growing healthily and perfectly in a well-prepared condition .

When he returned to the room once more, he took the two rewritten manual out for an inspection, and were satisfied with their new results, especially after he upgraded them into +5 . Putting this upgrade aside, he completely forgot that he was an Inner Qi Fighter now .

"Both of them were amazingly good! If I actually have them before this, it won't take me too long to achieve the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter!" Zhang Wu Ji calculates the possibility brought by this three revised manual in his hand . Given the ability he possesses, it won't be a dream at all to become stronger than his master if he was given enough time .

The current increment was 15 strands of Inner Qi every three days, if he progresses according to this calculation, it won't take him too long to become an Inner Qi Warrior . After the calculation, he will only need 180 days, which means only half a year is all he needs to become an Inner Qi Warrior .

"Good! The dream to become an Inner Qi Warrior is not too far away! And when I become stronger, it will not be impossible for me to obtain stronger cultivation art that will allow me to thread even further in life!" his dream suddenly turned into a wider scope, it was no longer just to live better, but to excel and progress even further .

And during this three days, he completely spends them by taking a good rest before he awaits the increase if 15 strands of Inner Qi . But what happened next, shook him to his core .

"Why didn't my Strands of Inner Qi increased by 15???" he calculates the total amount of the strands of Inner Qi in his body, and they have still remained as one strand of True Qi .

"This is impossible! Don't tell me, my Upgrade Skill is a bust after I entered Inner Qi Fighter Tier? This can't be happening!" Zhang Wu Ji almost screamed after he was shocked by the lack of fifteen additional Strands of Inner Qi in his body .

"This is bad! Really bad! Did I lost my ability to check item status and upgrade it?" he fanatically run around the room and touches the Iron Ruler placed at the corner .

"I still can see the status of my item . . . Phew . . . " he felt relief when he still noticed the box of description when he touches the Iron Ruler .

"Silly me, my Iron Ruler is still at +2 status . Should I upgrade it to +5? Or maybe +6?" he smiled as he decided to upgrade the weapon he loved so much .

"Not bad, Not bad at all!" he laughed the moment he noticed the additional Special Ability on the Iron Ruler now . It seems that he can affirm that for every +5 upgrade, most of them will obtain a Special Ability unless they were something not useful in his life .

"But the question still remained unanswered . Why didn't I receive the increment of 15 strands of Inner Qi on my third day?" Zhang Wu Ji convinced that his ability is still with him, but a question mark still remains . Having no other choice at all, he went to the Knowledge Pagoda once more, for the sake of taking a look at the collection of cultivation manuals and Martial Arts in the library .

It did not take too long for him to reach there, but this time, his appearance was taken much more seriously, without any negative comment came from the seven pagoda elders . Instead, all of them nodded when he requested to enter the Knowledge Pagoda for a short period of time .

He was treated as a young lord coming into the library to study . Not only the collection of books for an Inner Qi Fighter were collected together near him, but there were also two slave disciples waiting outside of the room waiting for his order . But without feeling bothered by the two slave disciple, Zhang Wu Ji paid his attention in reading relevant books related to the cultivation after one becomes an Inner Qi Fighter .

The material he read includes those such as the eye-opener for a person when he reaches the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, understanding Cultivation, the differences in each stage as a cultivator went higher, etc . Their coverage did not cover too deep into the cultivation, but for the meantime, it was enough for him to understand one thing .

He touches and inspects a few of the Cultivation Manual Specialized for those in their Inner Qi Fighter tier, and the content in the descriptions was quite shocking to him .

"It seems that the explanation of the differences of Inner Qi and Fighter Qi is correct . No wonder they say only by collecting 100 Strands of Inner Qi will allow you to become an Inner Qi Fighter . It was because a hundred strands of Inner Qi is equal to 1 Strand of Fighter Qi . Then what are the differences between Fighter Qi and True Qi?"

"In my initial hypothesis, for now, True Qi should be only created each time a person entered a higher stage of his cultivation . The Strand of True Qi is not something usable, but they were treated as the Igniter for the 100 Branching Point . Each strand of True Qi will lit a point in the Qi Branching Tier, and only when all hundred points of the Qi Branching Tier is ignited will one have the qualification to enter the cultivation stage further above the Qi Branching Tier . "

"I will need 100 strands of Inner Qi to create one Fighter Qi, but if this were how it goes, I will need to wait 21 days for me to create 1 strand of Fighter Qi from my existing available bonus gotten from the three manual . I will end up needing 210 days, equivalent to 7 months to break through and enter the 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . " he calculates the number of days he needs to progress, and the more he calculates, the worst is his headache .

"With three manual were rewritten, I will need one more to complete my collection of four different phases before it was used for a fusion . Should I look for those none cultivator quality cultivation art to upgrade first?" he returned to the bottom floor where all the none cultivator manuals were placed together .

But before he started his search, Zhang Wu Ji placed two Qi Sensing Pills at each of the Slave Disciples hand and instruct them to tidy the mess he created, and also to bring so food and drinks for him because he has been spending about half a day inside the Knowledge Pagoda without food and drink .

With the two no longer paying any attention to him, his usual behavior surfaced . With a finger pointed at the each of the books he saw, he proceeds to read their descriptions without bothering what was the book is all about . What he doesn't know is that there was a hidden silhouette hiding behind him and remembered each of the action he made .

"What is he doing by touching every single book before he moves to others? Was he reading properly?" the silhouette was confused by his ridiculous action, but maintain hidden without losing herself . In fact, this person was a recently appointed member of the Secret faction belonged to the Headmistress, Guan Qing Han .

She was tasked with the mission to cooperate with people from Knowledge Restriction Forces to monitor each visitors into the pagoda and inspect their intention . And coincidently, Zhang Wu Ji was here while she trying to complete her task .

Zhang Wu Ji was busy going through every single manual that was placed carefully on the shelf, and each time when he found one with Tai Yin Phase word in their description box, he will take this book out for further reading . It took him about two hours to completely went through all the books and found six of them categorized in the Tai Yin Phase . He went through and compare each of their effects before he finally decided on one of them .

"Well, although I'm not a female since it does give me an increment of Vitality and Strands of Inner Qi, I will use this instead . And after I finish copying this manual, I will begin the first fusion attempt, and see what can be done from this . " he considered his choice if action after he finishes the rewriting of the Nourishing Yin Technique . With this addition, it will allow him to finally able to fuse the four rewritten art .

Without wasting his time, he placed the remaining five manual back on the shelf and leave the pagoda . Outside, he let the first Floor Pagoda Elder inspect what he intended to bring out before he approved his request and let him leave . This sudden choice gave Guan Qing Han a big question mark .

"What happened to him? He was looking and considering that few manuals before happily selected one before leaving . Did he even open and read their contents before taking one and leave?" she was completely confused with the nonchalant attitude given out from Zhang Wu Ji, but it was pointless for her to think about it as the answer will not come to her .

Back to Zhang Wu Ji, he was rushing back to his own courtyard in order to complete the task in his hand . With a hundred and fifteen strands of Inner Qi in hand, he can easily complete two pages each time before going for a rest . This gave him the probable confidence that within three days, he can complete the whole Nourishing Yin Technique before he fuses them together .

It did not take lesser or longer, but exactly three days pass the moment he completed the newer rewrite version of the Nourishing Yin Technique . The three-day duration also gave him another fifteen strands of Inner Qi, making him at 130 Strands now .

But Inner Qi is still Inner Qi, no matter how much you have, you will still need about 1,000 strands of them to breakthrough from 1st stage to 2nd stage, and continue until he reaches the 10th stage and becoming an Inner Qi Warrior . No wonder the cultivator says that only after you become a cultivator you will realize the differences between none cultivator and a cultivator .

Perhaps, without the Upgrade System, he will end up as a fool that busy cultivating himself by slowly gathering the fruit of his effort together until he finally breakthrough . Without such a system describing the effect each of the cultivation art manual, until when he needs to cultivate using one cultivation art alone until he becomes an Inner Qi Warrior?

But still, luck is a weapon when it can be used in life . This is why he was much more fortunate compared to those that weren't that lucky . Although, he was currently . . . Less lucky than how it should be .

"What the hell do I need the cosmetic effect for! And that's still for a lady after I rewrite you and use a proper paper material to do so!" he was complaining after he sees the two special ability enhanced by the manual . The anger caused him to throw the book flat on the ground, but after a few minutes, his heart was pitiful at the book and pick it up once more .

Still, when the description screen came out, he ends up doing the same thing again . This repeated for three times before he went to collect some of the Double Xuan Paper Tang Yuan created, and return to his room to prepare for the fusion attempt .

"Shit! It cost Inner Qi to fuse the four manuals!" he was worried because the moment his first strand of Inner Qi was absorbed, he knows that based on his strength, he can only maintain for two hours and ten minutes before he was out of Inner Qi .

Seated in a meditation posture, he calms his mind down, and entered a mediation process, in order to replenish the loss of Inner Qi as the fusion continues . Not long after that, he falls asleep .

when he was asleep, the strands of his Inner Qi were continuously replenished and used, until several hours later, he woke up . He was greeted with a completely new manual in front of him, which were automatically compiled and made by his system .

Although the book related to the Rumor of Four Phases is something written by a human, the Upgrade System still able to activated itself through a special way, and end up creating a new product placed just before the master of the system .

"The hell, System! How dare you continuously irritate me with your weird and ridiculous special abilities!" Zhang Wu Ji was pissed with the special effect of the fused manual sitting before him . Without restraining himself, a hand grip that books up and throws it on the ground without any sympathy .

The only thing this time is instead of picking it up, he left the room without a word and went to take a breath of fresh air outside of his room while taking a look at the floating energy around him, busy fusing with each another and then scatters into a hundred thousands bit once more .

"I may have overreacted myself a little just now . . . " Zhang Wu Ji calms his mind before he returned to his room once more, and pick the book up from the ground . Reading the contents written inside of the book, Zhang Wu Ji noticed and understand the real meaning behind the Small Nourishment Art, and also the Bronze Emperor Wheel .

During a battle against difficult enemies, the Bronze Emperor Wheel will become his trump card, which when it was activated, creates a tangible Bronze Wheel that can be controlled at will . The Wheel can be activated for a total of 3 minutes and allowed the user to control its movement at will .

As for the Small Nourishment Art, this was a medical expertise technique . It allows the converted amount of Inner Qi to become a ball of recovering energy that can help remove poison, injuries, and illness that were categorized below 19th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior .

With himself is already well categorized, he kept the manual by his side, after the four previous manuals he rewrites were already all taken as the payment to begin the fusion . Without having too much to do, he decides to take a rest for another day, before going to the free market on the next day .

In his mind, he wonders what will happen tomorrow when the trader saw him . Previously, when he was taking a walk at the free market, he shocked the others by completely purchase all the merchandise in his store, and this time, he considered any of them will have merchandise that worth buying once more .

His rest proceed quite well, without any disturbance coming here and there . One straight rest leads him to awaken in the next morning, where the kitchen staff was coincidently delivering the breakfast over to the courtyard .

This was the first time he saw the kitchen staff, after staying in this courtyard for two months now . Thinking about those troubles he caused every time he has a seclusion, Zhang Wu Ji took a few Qi Sensing Pills out from his pouch and distributes them to the four kitchen staff, where they were leaving happily after they set up the dining table filled with foods .

In their eyes, each of the Master Seniors was extremely generous, but this new Master Senior Ninth is exceptional . It was not because he gave them too much, but he gave each of them the similar amount that can be said as too much!

"I'm going to deliver food to him no matter when he wants . If the kitchen has no food for him, I will go hunting for the food he wanted to eats . "

the four of them were quite imaginative and considered their next action when they left . Not known what happened to them, Zhang Wu Ji continues with his breakfast and left for the Free Market after he completed the meal and rest for a while .

But this time, he wasn't going there alone, but with Tang Yuan following from behind him . it seems like that guy was interested to purchase some materials as well since the plot of land behind Zhang Wu Ji's courtyard was spacious enough to have a few personally cultivated plants for himself .

He did ask what the guy needed, but he kept things as secret, stating that it wasn't too valuable for the master senior to purposely purchase that for him .

"Fine, since you don't want me to buy for you, I will just upgrade for you then!" the left together while each having their own thought in their own mind .

When the two of them reaches the Free Market area, it was bustling with people . When he paid attention to the crowd, it seems that the four kitchen staff was here as well, fighting against somebody for the sake of purchasing a set of kitchen utensils .

"Ahh . . . Looks like, except a few main profession like those I know, those lower profession is also quite popular amongst the choice of the disciples studying in the Seven Star Sect . I wonder what kind of other profession is available in this world . " Zhang Wu Ji and Tang Yuan entered the square and begin their window shopping .

In a flash, Tang Yuan vanished from his sight . It seems that the fellow found the stall he's looking for . As for Zhang Wu Ji himself, shopping without a motive, it would be difficult for him to look for something to buy . Luckily, he possesses the ability of Upgrade, thus he can inspect each item he was interested with, only with a touch .

"Good morning, Master Senior Ninth, why don't you come to have a look on the humble wares I got for this time?" a merchant that previously missed Zhang Wu Ji quickly approached him and tried to sell him his ware . When Zhang Wu Ji was greeted with those mineral stones that were placed nicely on his movable store, he immediately feels, nauseating .

"I stopped playing with blacksmithing for quite long after I finished crafting the eight swords for my senior brother and sisters . Now you want me to get some minerals again? No thanks!" Zhang Wu Ji entertained him for a moment before he excused himself . Even after touching a few of them for his inspection, their quality was not up to his standard .

If the previous trader's collection of mineral stones were unpolished crystals, then the collection of this trader are completely overpackaged rocks . It was pointless to even spend the time to smelt them, especially when Zhang Wu Ji was a millionaire now . Turning around, he left the trader speechless as he looks at his worthless ware .

"That idiot, even from far I noticed that the quality of his product is low . Master Senior Ninth, why don't you take a look at my wares? Their quality was higher . " another trader approached Zhang Wu Ji to market his products, and luckily, he did not follow the path of the previous guy and convert everything in his store into things he wasn't familiar with . His store was filled with herbs, some little production tools, and also some refined Iron in their Basic Grade .

"These few items are not bad . " Zhang Wu Ji pointed at three different item . Two of them were medicinal herbs, and one was a crystal that was hidden deep inside a decorative rock . The moment he pointed at this three item, the trader immediately explained their characteristic, before he gave out a price of 11,000 Gold Coins for all of them . Since the rate was worth and quite a bargain, Zhang Wu Ji purchased them .

-Usage: essence was to be extracted to concoct the Xian-Lady Pill, this item can help greatly in reducing the ache suffered during a female menstruation . Works miraculously especially for cultivators in strong Yin Element in their body .

-Usage: a dead pupated worm that was fed with Kind Heart Grass . Useful as a great fertilizer for plants that bear fruits during harvest . Can be used continuously to increase the quality of soil and trees .

-Usage: Absorb the Natural Essence surrounding the Vein Rock to be condensed into purer Natural Essence . The purer energy essence is helpful in assisting cultivation, relief a person's mood, and increase longevity .

The earlier two product cost him 2,000 Gold Coins in total while the Vein Rock cost him 9,000 Gold Coins . It was worth the price he paid because nothing could beat the effect of longevity it gave, especially nobody might know about this fact because they don't possess the Upgrade System as he does .

Going on from one store to another, Zhang Wu Ji failed to obtain any precious treasure at all . His expectation towards the ware increased, because of his own special ability . Thus, after wasting some of his time looking randomly, he decided to stop looking and awaits what will come to him . This was the best choice, especially to a person that hates shopping, and hates to randomly look for treasures to be bought .

He sat down in the middle seating spot provided in the middle of the Free Market Square, and end up being approached by some random traders that wish to sell their merchandise . But unfortunately, none of their wares were interesting enough for Zhang Wu Ji, where he waited until the afternoon before he decides to leave .

"Master Senior Ninth! Please wait for this trader!" a trader that was late for his business rushed over to the square, betting in his heart to see Zhang Wu Ji once more . He was the trader that has all his merchandise purchased by Zhang Wu Ji last time . It seems that instead of being late for business, he was delayed because of a certain issue .

"Look at that idiot, he was late for so many hours and still dare to ask Master Senior Ninth to wait for him . What does he think himself is? VIP merchant?" the crowd comments and look down on him because they heard his voice from afar . But the more they despise him, the worst they will felt because when Zhang Wu Ji turned his head at the incoming merchant, they begin to talk without bothering what the others think .

"Master Senior Ninth, I'm sorry I am late today . May I interest you with this special plant?" he immediately asks for a forgiveness first because he was late . But at the same time, he took a smaller pot with a special kind of soil inside, where a beautiful looking tree with a fruit hanging on the branch grown in it .

"What a good quality Sun Facing Fruit Tree! What is the age of this plant?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised with the appearance of the Sun Facing Fruit Tree, which is the essential ingredient to concoct Qi Sensing Pill! With this tree in his hand, as long he can continue to plant the seed of the fruit when the fruit was harvested for the concoction, it will be an easy matter for him to grow another Sun Facing Fruit Tree!

Such a tree wasn't distributed or made for sold, because no matter how poor is a person, every single fruit grown from the tree is worth at least 4,000 Gold Coins if it were sold to pill masters, and worth 7,000 to 10,000 Gold Coins if they were to be made into Qi Sensing Fruit! The tree can grow from a small seed into a seedling in one month, from seedling to sapling on their second month, and grown into a so-called mature tree in their third month .

After maturity, they will begin to grow the Sun Facing Fruit, with the harvest of 1 fruit each month . Their seed can be grown into another tree, and it will only take another three months to mature, and fruit will be able to be harvested in their fourth month . A businessman with only one tree to start with are able to get at least 8 trees at the end of his first year, to 96 trees in his second year .

It was a good business to step in, because of the stable rate of the Qi Sensing Pill, and unless a new pill is created which were even economical than this fruit, their stability will maintain for a long time, perhaps until one day the continent reaches their last moment of prosperity .

"Dear Master Senior Ninth, the Sun Facing Fruit Tree is exactly 3 month and 7 days old . This was a very precious plant that I spent quite an effort to obtain them from the Southern Imperial Kingdom's Herbal Hall . I hope this plant able to get into your eyes . " the trader chose his word carefully, but he did not know that the moment the plant appeared before Zhang Wu Ji, his complete interest was already on the plant itself .

"This treasure worth even more than the White Zircon Pure Vein Rock! The Pure Vein Rock can prolong a person's longevity, but this Sun Facing Fruit Tree can continue to support the treasury of the sect for a long term . If I were able to use [UPGRADE] on the plant, who knows what miraculous effect will appear?" Zhang Wu Ji's complete attention was put on the plant, making the trader immediately understand the silence .

"Master Senior Ninth, let this humble trader deliver the wares to your courtyard first . I believe you will want this item for sure . " the trader was understanding enough to directly drive his store straight to where Zhang Wu Ji's courtyard located, and that small gesture took all the others by surprise .

"Damn! Did the guy get his lucky stokes again? How can all our merchandise weren't up to his interest, but that guy does? Did they discussed what he wants before he brings everything here to sell?" the other traders' complaint when they end up becoming the losing side once more . The jealousy is burning high into the sky, because which trader wasn't dreaming about having all the wares in their store cleaned by a buyer?

Back to the courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji was generous enough to pay a full 1 million Gold Coins, or 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills . Kept in a nice jade bottle of 100 pills each, Zhang Wu Ji hands 10 jade bottles to the trader before he drops all his wares in the courtyard, and excuse himself . His trip to return is a must to walk past the Free Market, where he shows a few jade bottles in his hand to those still in the market, and rouse their jealousy further .

As or Zhang Wu Ji, he wasn't as idle as the merchant and proceeds with identifying the products he bought from the trader . This was the second time he came to trade with Zhang Wu Ji, and he was confident that his wares are one level further in the terms of quality and prices . This is also the reason he did not consider too much and gave him a thousand of the Qi Sensing Pill without any hesitation .

It seems like this time, instead of spending the time to collect high-quality mineral stones, he spent most of his time to collect few different seeds, herbs and also some good quality vase and pots that were beneficial for a person to pay attention in herb cultivation . It was a very thorough consideration because the trader completely provides all the required tools to begin cultivating medicine .

-Usage: Planted to be grown into 2 or 3 Golden Dandelion Flower, where every 50 petals can be used to concoct the Heartburn Pill, a medicine that can be taken by cultivators practicing in Fire Elemental Arts .

-Usage: Planted to be grown into Water Hawthorn Root before harvested to concoct Water Pill, a medicine that highly sought by Water Element Art Cultivator to consume during training .

-Usage: planted to be grown into Poisonous Lotus Root, where they will be extracted into juices before cooked into an ointment used to remove poison . The concocted product can be used orally and externally, and the extract can be used to test the poison potency before usage or cure .

-Usage: planted and nurtured with good quality silica rocks to grow into single bulb Crystal Rock Flower . The bulb of Crystal Rock Flower can be used in Blacksmithing as high-quality Elemental Crystals . They can also contribute similarly when used in Elemental Cultivation .

-Usage: Able to cultivates Precious plants in their 1st Tier Category . Plant grown in the Liang Mountain Earthenware are more resistant to insect because of the insect repelling effect the clay carried during the baking .

-Usage: to be cultivated to grow Sun Facing Fruit, the main ingredient to concoct Qi Sensing Pill . The seed of the Sun Facing Fruit Tree can be planted to grow into an additional Sun Facing Fruit Tree .

-Special: Each Fruit will take a full 30 days to grow, one tree can keep growing fruits for one year, before they withers and left with the Exhausted Sun Root .

"Good! I did not think before that the merchant is able to read my mind, and provides me with relevant materials that I will need to grow my farm . With the additional 4 kinds of seeds on my farm, the production of my own medicinal pills can be quickly readied, and this will promote the growth of the Seven Star Sect . " Zhang Wu Ji was delighted when he found out that the trader has just fulfilled his aim to help the sect to grow .

"I am happy . Within a short period of time, I will be able to help contribute to the sect and fulfill my promise to my master . By that time, I will be granted freedom to do anything I like . " Zhang Wu Ji remembered the promise he made to his master before he becomes one of his direct disciples .

"Tang Yuan, are you home?" Zhang Wu Ji summoned the fellow out, and in a short while, he appeared from his room . At last, Zhang Wu Ji did pay his attention at the youngster and finally found out that this follower of his changed slightly from when he was here two months ago .

"Did you advanced?" Zhang Wu Ji asked because he can feel that Tang Yuan's strength now is in his 160 Strands of Inner Qi . Although it was quite a good improvement from the previous, he did not miss the fact that his improvement wasn't only in his overall cultivation, but his physical strength .

Using the New Fist of Destruction Qi Manual, Tang Yuan's physical strength has increased by at least 4 points by now, after he continuously practices them in order to not disappoint Zhang Wu Ji's effort to assist him . What he did not know is that by practicing the moves and skills inside of the manual, it was beneficial to his cultivation, especially when his physical strength can contribute to his overall cultivation speed .

"Yes, Master Senior Ninth, Thankfully to you, my speed of cultivation has increased significantly . " Tang Yuan bowed as he answered the question . He did not forget that two months ago before he served Zhang Wu Ji, he was still a lowly slave disciple that only qualified to enter the ground floor of the Knowledge Pagoda, and they even needed to pay for a single Qi Sensing Pill as the entrance fee .

But now, he was a fully qualified Inner Disciple that were allowed to enter the ground and first floor of Knowledge Pagoda without any form of payment, and even his monthly supplies have increased into 10 Qi Sensing Pills monthly . With the increase in supplies, he can easily support his usage a little longer .

"Oh, since you're already an Inner Disciple now, should I increase your pay by 2 Qi Sensing Pills every day?" Zhang Wu Ji took another thirty Qi Sensing Pills out from his pouch and filled them into a jade bottle before he left it in his hand . Stunned by his generosity, Tang Yuan can only bow in gratitude, after the word thanks you no longer able to describe how thankful he is .

"I have a few new seeds over here, and also a new Sun Facing Fruit Tree, can you help me to manage them?" Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand at a side, and show the stacks of new items and seeds he just purchased . Being a person that obsessed with matters related to the Botanist Profession, Tang Yuan interest immediately revealed as he went closer to inspect the initial products .

"Golden Dandelion, Water Hawthorn, Poison Eating Lotus, Rock Flower, and Sun Facing Fruit . All of these plants are 1st Tier Plants! Their usage in the field of medicine is vast, and even some Inner Qi Warrior may need them when they organized an expedition . Plus we're all still living in a 1st Tier State, so it is fine if we can enjoy such product . "

"Plus, the Rock Flower need a good amount of Mineral Stones to grow, this means I will need to go to the blacksmith more often to purchase those grounded mineral dust and leftover waste to make sure they grow up properly . Are we going to grow them based on blacksmithing purposes or cultivating purposes?" Tang Yuan immersed deeper into the field of his expertise, where he soon started with calculating the number of soil, fertilizer, and their density of soil, sand, and rock to be put inside of the Liang Mountain Earthenware Pot .

Ignoring Zhang Wu Ji that still stands at his side, Tang Yuan begin to inspect the seeds one after another and differentiate them according to their quality, and density of soil and water it needs before he started to arrange them in a box wet cotton inside . It was a very good method to begin to cultivate the seed, allowing it to start sprouting before they can be transferred into the soil .

There were a total of 200 seeds, thus it will be easy for him to accurately arrange all of them in a row of four, fifty pots each, the arrangement is easily done, especially when he has some free time to prepare the soil while the seed is still growing . One month is all it needs to grow into a seedling . On its second month, they will quickly grow into a sapling and turned into an adult plant at the end of the third month .

With most of the thing was handled by Tang Yuan, Zhang Wu Ji prepares something else . After shopping for some herbs from the market, Zhang Wu Ji now will need to prepare the concoction for 10 sets of Xian Lady Pill, 100 sets of Wound Mending Pill, and another 50 sets of Violet Calming Pill .

"I guess I will need to get one additional subordinate to help me prepare ingredients and also sell them . " Zhang Wu Ji jokes with himself, but in his mind, the intention does exist .

Cutting contact with the outside world for six days, Zhang Wu Ji strength has increased drastically . Every three days were worth 3 strands of Fighter Qi, which is equivalent of 300 strands of Inner Qi, but when this speed of cultivation is shown to Tang Yuan, he falls into the irrigation channel without control . The shock was huge .

As a cultivator in his 160 strands of Inner Qi, Tang Yuan was confident that he can reach the 2nd stage in a year, and try his best to graduate from being a disciple the moment he enters the age of 20 . but unfortunately, he wasted one year in total by being a slave disciple until he finally taken by Zhang Wu Ji as one of his trusted subordinates .

The slight changes turn his life, granting him not only 60 Qi Sensing Pills monthly, but he was also given full privilege to practice the newer version of Fist of Destruction Qi directly, becoming the first direct disciple of Zhang Wu Ji . And for all this, his master only requested that he will handle all the task to cultivates the plant carefully .

But from Yin Ling Tree, Yantai's County Mandrake Plant, and Taixia Condensing Plant, his workload soon increased by almost doubled, when in almost a week back, his master brought back a total of 200 seeds back to the courtyard again . Now, his workload is 500 plants, with a full plot of Kind Heart Grass that were to be harvested to be made as an extract as fertilizer for the other three plants .

As a 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter, his stamina is about 10 times stronger than normal people, which allows him to cultivates 100 pot of plants without difficulties, but given with his expertise and advance body strength compared to a normal cultivator, he can easily handle over 250 plants, but that were the maximum he can handle unless his strength increased into 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter .

Understanding the difficulties in handling the task he gave him, Zhang Wu Ji decision to hire another assistant wasn't a mistake, but first of all, he will need to make sure this subordinate of his understand the importance of hiring one more person to help him, and not mistaken about his good intention . This was the most difficult matter to handle, especially when Tang Yuan was previously a Slave Disciple that have to suffer many unjust just for the sake of earning a few Qi Sensing Pill .

In his seclusion of six days, Zhang Wu Ji completed his concoction attempt and was holding a total of 30 Xian-Lady Pills, 200 Wound Mending Pills, and also 50 Violet Calming Pills . After he calculates the numbers of pill he got in hand, he can easily estimate that he can easily earn 15,000 Gold Coins from the sales . But what he wants from selling this 280 pills are not the gold coins, but good potential subordinates .

By bringing Tang Yuan along in his attempt to look for a proper disciple to follow him, the two of them walk past the places the sect sell their medicines and entered the location where the Slave Disciples stay and practice . Their accommodation was worst even when taken to be compared with the previous small manor he stays during his participation in the entrance exam .

Each building consists of at least 100 rooms, and each room was only at the size of his Tool Storage Room . Zhang Wu Ji was slightly despised for purposely taking a look at their living condition, which also can be seen as an action to mock the less fortunate slave disciple, but with Tang Yuan following him, he easily gets rid of them by scaring them off . It wasn't a difficult task at all, because after all, Tang Yuan is a 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter now, and where at least one time stronger than most of them .

Added with the availability of New Fist of Destruction Qi in his disposal, it is not difficult to say that Tang Yuan can easily trash everyone here, alone . But this wasn't their intention in the first place . After he found a spot that he can sit, Zhang Wu Ji went to the stone chair and rest his butt on it without bothering if it was dusty . He speaks, and mention his intention to come here today .

Taking a bottle of Wound Mending Pill, Qi Sensing Pill, and Violet Calming Pill, Zhang Wu Ji begins to talk . His intention is simple . To search for a talent amongst a pile of trash . The possibility of success is low, but the probability of the person selected will be granted with plentiful of benefits is high . Zhang Wu Ji intention is also simple, where he was looking for a person that capable of helping Tang Yuan and Zhang Wu Ji, as well excellent in handling accounts, selling, and knowledgeable in the field of medicine .

"I understand that most of you here were suffering from difficulties in order to break through, but I need to warn all of you first, we Master Seniors did not have it easy either! We have to train and practice, become the role model, and handle more than one kind of profession and matters related to the sect in order to assist our master to further his leadership in this sect . "

"If we were to compare, your task was only helping to remove the weed, but we Master Seniors were required to choose the seed, plant them, cultivates them, and even take care until they grow in order to pay them back to those that help in removing the weed . Don't you all think so?" his word was actually logical, but such truth wasn't something widely accepted in the eyes of commoners, because in their mind, they were at least qualified to receive a slightly good treatment, no matter if they were weaker or stronger .

"If the Master Senior Ninth is suffering so many difficulties, then why do you have a free time to come here for nothing? Why not you return to your own courtyard and continue your works?"

The crowd begins to mock him for being too honest . In fact, some of them were throwing vegetable waste and also some raw eggs at Zhang Wu Ji to send him away from their Slave Disciple District . But none of them noticed that their activities were under a sharp gaze by the headmaster from the Reflecting Pagoda .

"How dare those lowly disciples to behave in this way towards a disciple of mine! Xiao Gen! Xiao Yan! Come here!" headmaster Liang Tian summoned his eldest and second direct disciples to his side and looking out of the window . When the two of them noticed what was happening at their youngest junior brother, their mind was filled with hatred as well, because of those atrocious actions!

"Good! What a respectful manner you all displayed . I wonder how will the future become if you were to be given the chances to become an Inner Disciple! Will you end up bringing the younger generation until they grow, or will you be as selfish as now because of all these misfortune events?"

"You say I mock you? Ask yourself, which Master Senior in your eyes weren't a model disciple with various of talents in them? My eldest brothers were a swordsman and a training physician, my second brother, and the third brother is a gourmet and each of them have their own Livestock Farm, my fourth brother and eighth brother was a scholar, and a martial artist and my seventh brother is the leading head of guards that maintain the safety of our Seven Sword Sect!"

"Even my fifth and sixth sisters were excellent musician and dancer! What does all of you are? And yet you say I come to mock you? Do you think you all worth our mockery? We mock the world! We mock people from other sects and clans, we mock those that cheat, ****, kill, and thief, but we don't mock our own brother and sisters! Are all of you stupid?"

"Even we ourselves have no time to rest because we have to bring the sect to a much more glorious status, but here, you lots are actually complaining about not having enough resources? Did I not remember that when I was offering you, people, that who works for me for a week without complaint, I will hire them? Do you think that I am a person that will go back with my own words?"

"That was for your own good! If you continue to survive through such a mindset, you will end up endangering our sect because of your attitude, personality, and manner when you bring yourself everywhere! If you think I am exploiting your weaknesses, then throw few more eggs at me! Who dare to continue to do that I will give you a pill in each of this bottle! There are only 100 pills in each, so take your chance now!" Zhang Wu Ji lectured the thousands of Slave Disciples before him, and provoke them to continue throwing vegetable waste and raw eggs on him .

But as he provokes them, everyone from different corners of the Seven Star Sect was looking at where the commotion started . Every single person was betting in their mind, [Will they continue to throw? Or will they repent and submit to their mistakes?]

As everyone begins to question those were in the location, one disciple step closer to Zhang Wu Ji . In his hand were two more chicken eggs that were prepared to throw at Zhang Wu Ji when he retaliates . When he was five steps away from Zhang Wu Ji, he kneeled and raise his hand, before smashing the two chicken eggs on his own forehead . The yolk flows from his forehead and stings his eyes, but he controlled himself from blinking .

"Master Senior Ninth, it is my fault for saying you're exploiting the slave disciples and defame you . Please give this useless junior a word, I will immediately die to compensate for my mistakes . " he slammed his forehead on the ground and asked for his forgiveness . This incident shocked the whole Seven Star Sect after they see how the slave disciple acts .

One after another, like an infection, the guilt in their heart caused the few thousand disciples to kneeled and slammed their forehead on the ground, asking for his forgiveness . If such a benevolent Master Senior weren't worth their respect, then the sun must be rising from the west from now . All his action worth their respect included his magnanimity towards all of them .

Still, no matter how much he wanted to do so, Zhang Wu Ji can only select the fifty most considerable talents to grant them with his gift . He passes three pills to each of them, with the female having an additional two Xian-Lady Pills in their gift . When the distribution of gift was over, he distributes the remaining Wound Mending Pills to the others that seem injured and decided to continue with his initial intention .

"I need two disciples that can serve me well . They have to be knowledgeable in medicine and herbs, and good in selling products . Other than that, I want ten disciples that have experience in handling a business, because I am planning to establish our own Seven Star Apprentice Hall! And for the starting of our business, we will establish our foundation at the Wen Wu City!" he speaks out his mind, and await their reply .

Soon, a few of them raise themselves and describes their ability, and after a few rounds of test and trial, he finally ends up with thirteen slave disciples that were the cream of the crop amongst the group of so-called trash . In the eye of the others, his choices of selection may be a foolish selection, but in his own eyes, this wasn't an issue at all .

By copying another thirteen Fist of Destructive Qi Manual, he can easily promote the strength of the thirteen slave disciples, and increase the strength of his own faction, which also serves his master's faction indirectly . And in his opinion, Zhang Wu Ji was confident that his master will not reject his proposal to establish the Seven Star Apprentice Hall .

After arranging their temporary residence in his own courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji distributes 390 Qi Sensing Pills in total to the thirteen person and promised that in this incoming two to three days, he will provide each of them with a copy of his own version of New Fist of Destruction Qi Manual . Without wasting time, Zhang Wu Ji went to the Reflecting Pagoda in order to inform his master of his intention to establish his own faction .

But when he reaches the top floor of the pagoda, his eight senior brother and sisters were already there accompanying their master . Seated not too far from the group is the representatives of three other factions, handling a different department in each of their own hand .

The three Department elder with the Grand Elder of the Left, Yang Chen Kun, handling the important matters of the treasury, distribution, and recruitment .

Entering the highest floor, Zhang Wu Ji greets his master first, before he proceeds to greet the others seated not far from the four corners of the room . It seems except the faction of the headmistress, the other two factions was a strong contender against the headmaster faction because inner competition inside of the sect is good in promoting the improvement of the sect .

"Master, Wu Ji just came back from the Slave Disciple District and recruited thirteen additional disciples to aid this disciple to help this disciple in organizing a new establishment I call Seven Star Apprentice Hall . Disciple intention in establishing this hall is because disciple believes that by having a proper stepping stone provided to the disciples of the Seven Star Sect in order to let them advance further . "

"in return of this assistance, all we need is providing them with a proper position and task, and by this way, even those lack of qualification, lack of talents, and less fortunate can have a proper guidance to lead them to grow . " Zhang Wu Ji's point of view in further prospects was very thorough, but in the eyes of the other two factions, this was a waste of resources .

"Chances are given only to those that willing to grow . I would say this future prospect of yours are a waste of resources and time! Plus, what are your intention of using the Seven Star Sect name as the name of your apprentice hall? If you're so confident, I would suggest you use something unrelated to the Seven Star Sect, in case your failing approach in the name to build the Seven Star Sect further will destroy our initial foundation that was built for a long time . " the Grand Elder of the Left gave his opinion regarding on this approach .

"Yes . Plus this plan of his will cost an enormous figure to starts . Only by taking the amount of money needed to build his initial Seven Star Apprentice Hall, we will at least spent over ten million Gold Coins, which equivalent to 10,000 Qi Sensing Pills to start . I will roughly calculate the figure needed only to maintain one department, it will at least cost 1 million coins each year . That's 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills . "

"And, I haven't even started with the cost of training, examination, materials needed . To spent so much to train a group of Slave Disciples? I would rather spend the one thousand Qi Sensing Pills yearly to cultivates the Inner Disciples and Direct Disciples instead . At least when all of them reaches the 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, they will be qualified to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest to hunt for Tier 1 and Tier 2 materials!" the elder handling the Treasury Department and also Grand Elder of Left, Yang Chen Kun comments .

With the rejection from two sides, and a support from another, only the faction of Headmistress yet to speak . She maintains with her silence for a while longer before she taps the wrist section on her comfortable chair . Instead of speaking in her seats, she prefers to stand up as she speaks .

"Master Senior Ninth . How long have you been inside of our Seven Star Sect?" her first question shook the heart of everyone within the room . Honestly says, not even the eldest disciple of Liang Tian, Han Gen and his brother Han Yan, dare to propose such a proposal even their time inside the sect is over five years now .

"Two months and seven days exactly . Headmistress . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to her honestly . It wasn't a secret at all that he was the most recent batch of intakes that recently happened two months ago . With only two months of stay as a disciple in the Seven Star Sect, how dare he mentioned the word [I do this for the sake of Seven Star Sect improvement]? Is he qualified to speaks in such a way?

He does not qualified at all, even if he was the most doted direct disciple of Headmaster Liang Tian! Worst of all, his headmaster wasn't the strongest cultivator in the sect as well! He was only standing at the third spot! The first spot was always steadily held under the hand of the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder, with the strength of a 64th Stage Inner Qi Lord, followed by headmistress herself, with the strength of 63rd Stage of Inner Qi Lord .

As a headmaster of the sect, Liang Tian only held the third place in the competition of strength, with his 62nd Stage of Inner Qi Lord . Although their differences are only one stage and two stage behind, it was all it took for the stronger one to defeat the weaker one without a chance to retaliates .

And only a freak like Zhang Wu Ji was capable to fight against people like the Elder Yang from the Wen Wu Militarized Forces, who were 15 stage above his level . But equipped with such an ability to overcome an opponent of two-tier above him, who dare to question his ability? This was what Zhang Wu Ji thought at first, but when it comes to the question of the headmistress, he was completely beaten .

"Two months is barely accepted as a loyalty . I might trust your intention to be pure, but did you hear the word [Purest White Paper is the easiest to be smeared with just a drop of ink]? I am afraid that even if we allowed you to do so, their future wouldn't end up being as pure as your thought, because, in the real world of a cultivator, the temptation is too strong for one to resist . " her words were logical enough, especially on the part of her quote, and the temptation .

If a slave disciple can easily be swayed by a mere speech from Zhang Wu Ji, how are they strong enough to reject the temptation when they were offered by 100 or 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills? The figure might be quite large for a person to fork out, but one must always remember, [Those from the dark will not lack wealth] .

If this is the issue, how can the Seven Star Sect and the factions that controlling the sect's four directions allowed a mere disciple to establish such an important establishment?

"You want to establish an additional faction to help your master to rule over the whole Seven Star Sect? Dream on! The few old elders like us will not allow that . No, even if you're the person that possibly rewrite the whole new Bone Strengthening Art . You cannot blame us either, because since the ancient era, the fight to obtain the highest position and power is always around in our lives, and it will not vanish because of a mere explanation!" all the elders were thinking the same thing .

"Master Senior Ninth, can this old woman ask you a question?" the headmistress questioned the youth . It seems that their final decision will depend on this question and how he answered it .

"What makes you considered establishing the Seven Star Apprentice Hall? Won't the talent, resources, and effort worth more when they were used on potential candidates that might become the pillar of the sect in the future? Why would you consider cultivation those slave disciple that we treated them as subordinates instead? Are they worth the sect putting so many resources to?" the headmistress question was right on the most important point, where she gave him the opportunity to obtain her approval .

"Master Mother, Wu Ji's answer is Yes . The slave disciples and less potential Inner Disciples are worth the resources we're giving to them . If everyone here doesn't mind, can Wu Ji make a bet with everyone here, that even without the support of the Seven Star Sect, the Apprentice Hall will still successfully grow? At most, two year is all we need to become an establishment even bigger and richer than the Wen Wu City's Militarized Forces . " his answer by giving a question and confidence that he will succeed shock everyone in the room .

"I hope Master Mother will not blame Wu Ji for questioning everyone here . Can any of you answer me, who done your laundry, plantation, herb arrangement, recording in a various matter, handling task and missions, conducting cleaning and cooking to everyone within the sect, and many more insignificant responsibilities?"

"I even dare to say, even myself, as a Master Senior, still need them to help me manage my own farm, and three more only to handle my normal task . I won't hesitate to dare the elders and everyone present here, that you will not need them to do your mere simple task . If it's a mere task, why do you need others to handle them, and in fact, you need somebody so insignificant and you despise to handle the task? Aren't this an ironic topic to discuss?"

"We're not better . We're only stronger than them, older, experienced, and have some authority . If we were in a similar position as they do, will we do well in their family? I doubt that because even a trash like them can be sent to the Seven Star Sect to try becoming a disciple, what do you think about their more elite siblings? Are we the only sect in this Ping An Continent?"

"Instead of considering myself trying to cultivate trash, I will call myself a person that will not let go a single talent . Even a farmer is more experienced than us in the field of tilling the land to prepare the soil . And a herbalist is more experience than any of us i the field of cultivating medicine . "

"Are we mighty? If we're thinking like that, I will honestly say, the Seven Star Sect will be doomed! Because it was led by people like you! Do you think that because we have an Inner Qi Lord in the sect it will protect us forever? Even a single Inner Qi Warrior can be killed by a person like me, do you think an Inner Qi Lord is mighty?" his question brought up the anger in the others, especially the bottom six elders from the Knowledge Pagoda, and the three elders .

Only the Grand Elder of Left and Right, the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder, Headmaster, and headmistress understand the depth in his question . This simple question allows them to understand one fact, this youth future prospect is many folds above anyone else in the sect .

Didn't the headmistress mention that spending the resources only on those with talents and good prospects? Didn't the elder of treasury mentioned that it would worth more if they spent their resources on those with good future? Then why are they going opposite of what they were saying? Does this mean Zhang Wu Ji wasn't worth all their effort to cultivates?

"I am convinced by your answer . I will support you in the establishment of Seven Star Apprentice Hall, but I have two restrictions . " the headmistress is bought by his answer, but she did not immediately give up in stating her requirement .

"First, unless they were stable enough, the Apprentice Hall are not to take the word Seven Star Sect in their name, until their overall wealth is comparable of the Sect's One-Quarters Wealth . And the second will be I want to hear what is the initial profession you intend to introduce in the apprentice hall . We might not lack books, but I believe we're lack of talents and also backups to begin . " the headmistress stated her requirements .

"Dear Master Mother, Wu Ji has considered the answer to the second question, Seven professions, starting from Herbalist, Alchemist, Forging, Papermaking, Martial Arts, Construction, and Hunting . This seven main profession will be what we will be focusing on . As for the name, it wasn't a must to take Seven Star Sect's name, but please take note that no matter what, we will be a part of Seven Star Sect . " Zhang Wu Ji confidently answered her two requirements, and the answer completely obtains her approval .

With the vote of two support and two against, the Seven Star Apprentice Hall, were allowed to establish under the temporary name of Apprentice Hall directly . It may not seem like a grandiose name, but the intention wasn't for the sake of a name but as a stepping stone .

Proceeding according to his own words, Zhang Wu Ji did not take a single penny from the Seven Star Sect Treasury because he was a wealthy person, to begin with . With a simple agreement between the Humble Hall of Treasure and Zhang Wu Ji's Apprentice Hall, they sold five more limited version of the Double Xuan Paper Roll, and this time it thoroughly earns him 7 million Gold Coins in two simple auctions .

That took him six more days to complete the initial preparations, while the new ten subordinates with forty temporary assistants are busy with their own preparations . The fact five of the seven professions he chooses for the apprentice hall were based on the profession of his subordinates . The fifty of them were evenly distributed to ten members leading their own design for the Herbalist Profession, where they utilized three million Gold Coins to purchase the nearby 2 acres of land to promote their own production of herbs .

Following the similar track like the Herbalist Team, is the Forging Team, the Alchemist Team, and the Hunting Team . They quickly establish their base of operation, taking up the Southwest, Southeast, and Northwest corner of an empty plot of land just beside the Herbalist farming land . The Construction Team were agreed to be their core because of their sensitive responsibilities, and without fail, the forty team members from others came to aid them to hasten the completion of their initial building, which cost another two million Gold Coins to build .

It was an extremely costly project, which might be failed if Zhang Wu Ji weren't as capable to earn money as how he does . But what they didn't know is following from behind, Zhang Wu Ji has begun his first method to start earning some money . It wouldn't do if this Apprentice Hall failed to help him to earn money without himself being on the establishment .

The six days he took granted him an additional 6 more strands of Fighter Qi in his body, his body was now capable of controlling 13 strands of Fighter Qi in his body while having 1330 strands worth of Inner Qi to help him in many of his daily tasks . But unexpected enough, this youth still did not notice that he completely has forgotten about upgrading his item over +5, since he already passed and become an Inner Qi Fighter now .

He rewrites another thirteen New Fist of Destructive Qi Manual to be distributed to his followers, and when their initial building was completed, Zhang Wu Ji did not waste his time for small celebrations, but immediately follow up with the sales of better quality Wound Mending Pills, Meridian Soothing Pills, Xian-Lady Pills, and many more, such as a limited version Violet Calming Pill .

But the profit brought by these pills aren't comparable to the Military Grade Weapons made from his forge . After he passes some techniques to the other ten efficient blacksmiths, they did not take too long to learn how can they product metal in such quality . Since it was an early start of their business, Zhang Wu Ji and his people did not take it easy, but to begin recruiting more Slave Disciple to join their Apprentice Hall in a part-time basis to learn more and also earn their temporary keep .

It was more profitable than what he expected when business keeps coming without stopping . At this moment, only the Herbalist Team, Papermaking Team, Martial Art Team, and Hunting Team still yet to bring back some profit back to the hall . They were nervous and starting to get into a mental breakdown until Zhang Wu Ji tells them the motive this four department was established .

The herbalist team should provide a continuous supply of medicinal ingredients to allow the Alchemist Team to continue their production, while the Martial Art Team and Hunting Team should work together . The Martial Art Team can also be taken as the security department for the Apprentice Hall, to make sure they protect their business from people coming to cause trouble .

Lastly, the Papermaking Team, where Zhang Wu Ji not only teaches them the trick to produce a different material of Xuan Paper, he even treated this department as a luxurious commodities department, where their new product, the Mulberry Xuan Paper are only made for the City Lord, Auction, and prosperous family to use . It was a starting of a new trend, where everyone was forced to learn calligraphy and reading just in order to follow the trend of using the custom-made Mulberry Xuan Paper to communicates .

Two days later, he personally invited the Headmaster and Headmistress, along with the Wen Wu City Lord, the Militarized Forces Commander, and some extremely wealthy merchants and families just for the sake to honor the opening of the establishment . Even the blind can see that the Apprentice Hall were backed by the Seven Star Sect, while the City Lord and Militarized Forces are only here to grace them .

In another side, it was a surprise for them to noticed that even the Humble Hall of Treasure was invited . Guo Cheng Hai is even treated as one of their honorary guests during their opening . When all the ceremonial practice is complete, the Apprentice Hall is officially opened for business, and on this day, many different merchandises are up to the sale, and among them, the Mulberry Xuan Paper were among the best seller .

It was said that in their first day of opening, the Papermaking Department makes a profit of 500,000 Gold Coins, followed by the Alchemist Department with a profit margin of 350,000 Gold Coins . Even the Forging Department also managed to earn 150,000 Gold Coins of profit in their first day . In total, their sales were 1 million Gold Coins, breaking the record of Wen Wu City's most profitable establishment in the record .

But this wasn't all . Zhang Wu Ji's efficient skills and meticulous attention at the apprentice's performance and how they handle their work further increase their performance, although none of them do understand the fact most of the tool they were using were all upgraded, thus their success rate, results, and the effect was stronger than normal . Although this shortcut was despicable if it was exposed, what was better than a continuous success record in their practice?

With the Apprentice Hall able to handle themselves, Zhang Wu Ji soon detaches himself from personally managing them . It was important for them to work independently because this should be what the slave disciple excels in . Micro Managing and Manpower Handling . Their capability in this aspect is forever above Zhang Wu Ji, especially due to the unfortunate condition they were in .

Today, it was a very fruitful day, when the disciples that were in their 2nd Stage to 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter came back from their hunts . With the payment of 25 Qi Sensing Pills every day, the team of 5 members was to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest to harvest for any materials they stumbled across in their exploration . Sometimes, the result was dependable on the efficiency of the team, and also a part of them is based on their luck .

There wasn't an assurance in their exploration, as some team might come back with only a few stalks of herbs instead of a basket full of treasures . But this small lottery of luck still able to get the attention for most of the businessman, because the small bet may end up as a possible big profit when the exploration team came back .

Of course, their result was still bounded by the restriction, and to remove the restriction of all these, knowledge in hunting, cultivation strength, and some luck is very important . Thus, some team is able to charge a higher rate knowing that their team is more excellent than the others . And this was why Zhang Wu Ji purposely cultivates and educates his own Hunting Department and Martial Art Department for the sake of this reason alone .

"Master Senior Ninth! Look at what we found! The two teams of five members each immediately report themselves to their master when they returned . In their eyes, it was full of a surprise because, in their first time of hunting and procuring precious materials, they would end up stumble across so many good treasures! Each of their eyes was shining with confidence, and eager to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest once more .

If only a two days effort is so profitable, then how much will that be if they were to enter for one week? The two groups immediately compare their total number of harvested resources, but when they were busy competing, Zhang Wu Ji did not intend to join into their small little brawl and instead go to check the treasures they brought back from the Southern Bamboo Forest .

If there was something to be surprised with, then the fact the forest is able to remain rich with resources after so many expeditions is conducted by the human every day is what surprised him the most . Even himself after trying his best to upgrade the tools and fertilizers can he sped up the growing process of a plant by few hours, how can the forest does it as they can grow in 24 to 48 hours?

From the treasure they brought back, most of them were matured plants that were rich with medicinal properties, but it did not contain any seeds that can be planted . This means the medicinal herbs that were harvested from the Southern Bamboo Forest are rich in medicinal properties, but they lack matured seeds that can sprouts!

The next weird information he found was that most of the medicinal herbs they collected from the forest are likely Grass and flowers, which means that it was void of any tuber and root like herbs . Doesn't this seem weird? Back in his world, no matter how untended is the wild forest, the richness of flora and fauna is always fascinating, and there will be no lack of flowers, grass, roots, and tuber plants . Even some fruit that was to grow inside of the soil, such as potato and yam can easily be found in the wild .

Other than that, it was a collection of good mineral rocks that was gathered inside of the forest, and also some fruits and leftover materials such as treasures and pouches of the dead cultivators, and also some Wild Beast's corpses . But this stuff was the minority, while the herbs took the majority of the treasure they collected from the Southern Bamboo Forest .

"Master Senior Ninth, please inspect this two treasures . " the two team leader both took their most precious gain of the day for his inspection, and without disappointing the two leaders, he stretches his hand and touches the two item . The first one came in a shape of a scroll that was rolled together, but because of the passage of time, some of their content was washed away and smeared because of vapor, heat, and beast cause . As for the second item, it was a watermelon shaped fruit that was completely dried up, but still, its hardness wasn't something that can be broken by a mere military quality dagger .

"This two treasure is not bad, but it was useless for our establishment at this moment . Place this within the Construction Department's Vault for safekeeping and make sure nobody touches these items . I will inspect them carefully when I have some time to do so . " Zhang Wu Ji ordered . The treasure was a stunning find for him, especially to a person like him that can make sure what is the item is all about . But no matter how, he still needs to maintain his composure, and keep the thing one at a time .

After he paid their salary according to the rates, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his own room, which was separated from the other buildings . His own little building came with four different section, with a main room in the middle . Each section is able to be transformed into a profession related workshop, and these meticulous design came from the talented individuals from the Construction Department .

"These guys will be fine with their own approach for now . As for safety reason, I will only send the exploration team into the forest once every week, and we will see how they progress from there . Its been over a week I did not return to the Seven Star Sect, I suppose Tang Yuan and the other three must have some improvement by now . " Zhang Wu Ji arranged the occasion of their exploration and started to concoct some pills for now .

With the mindset to return to the Seven Star Sect in the next few days, he will have to prepare stocks that enough for the Apprentice Hall to sell, because the Pill Concocting Ability from those in the Alchemist Hall were still limited to only untiered medicinal pills . Only by providing some of the higher quality pills himself can the Apprentice Hall continue to do business, even while he wasn't around .

"Master Senior Ninth!" Tang Yuan was the first one to notice his return after he went out for so many days outside in the Wen Wu City . Following from behind were another three new subordinates of his, one skillful in Blacksmithing, while another two was knowledgeable in herbalist profession . With the four of them by his side, he can confidently say that most of his preparatory works are completed, leaving him with only some final touch .

And being a person that already capable to concoct tier 1 pill in people's eyes, Zhang Wu Ji selected to stop himself from dwelling too long in the learning and practices in concocting the untiered medicinal pills, such as the Wound Mending Pill, Meridian Soothing Pill, Violet Calming Pill, and few other basic pills . When he thought of this matter, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that even for a sect like Seven Star Sect, their usage of pill still delves with the Untiered to Tier 1 Pills .

Although the Qi Sensing Pill were calculated as a Tier 1 Pill, their usage is very stable, and it was still usable even for a cultivator over 60th Stage, 70th Stage or until 99th Stage . They call the Qi Sensing Pill one of the Universal Medicine, a type of medicinal pills that can be used no matter how weak or strong is a cultivator . Unlike Wound Mending Pill, if this medicine were to be taken by an Inner Qi Fighter, they still carry a slight effect, but after they entered the cultivation of an Inner Qi Warrior, the Wound Mending Pill will no longer able to support the cultivator's life source, which is why a stronger version of a medicinal pill is required .

For this reason alone, the scholars and cultivators both contribute to the prosperity of the humanity, and were hell-bent on looking and researching new recipes, which can be used until today . Their contribution greatly allows all of them to be the pioneer of the humanity, and they were the lifeline of all the cultivators even until now .

The only unfortunate is that all this were happened over a few millennia ago, and none of the pioneers remain known to the people within this Ping An Continent . The only thing they left was the recipes, their whole life worth of notes and the medicinal treasures that were what now known as the Predecessor's Inheritance . Instead of being used to further their understanding, the Predecessor Inheritance is being worshipped instead, completely wasting their initial usage .

After not coming back for so long, Zhang Wu Ji first gave his farm a visit . Looking at the plantations that were beginning to grow, especially the Yin Ling Fruit Tree, and the Taixia Condensing Plant, their harvest can be expected to come from the end of next month . As for this month, his expected harvest is nothing else except another batch of the Kind Heart Grass, and also a Sun Facing Fruit . This fruit will mark the beginning of his concoction of Qi Sensing Pill .

"Master Senior Ninth, please take a look on this list . We have check with most of the disciples and also some of the explorers or merchants that came to our sect once a while, and compile this list of Medicinal Pills that were distributed and available in our area . " the four of them presents a piece of paper with plenty of names on the list, stating most of their name and usage . Since their Seven Star Sect was the tyrant of this area, this location is also known as the Seven Star County, with a total of 3 cities, 15 towns, and 30 villages .

In total, the population of the Seven Star County reaches 4 . 8 million, but the Seven Star Sect only have 50,000 members in their sect . Their location in the Ping An Continent was located at the Upper South State, under the jurisdiction of the Southern Imperial Kingdom . In total, the Southern Imperial Kingdom is divided into thirteen different states, with three states in the North, South, East, and West . The final State belonged privately to the Imperial Family, where their location is situated in the middle of the Southern Imperial Kingdom .

As for the South three states, they were respectively the Upper South State, closest to the Imperial Capital, followed by Middle South State and Lower South State . Their status did not differ from each another, but inside of each South State, were a total of ten different County, and each of them was controlled by a different powerhouse, like the Seven Star Sect as an example .

Similar to their differentiation of county and states, even the medicinal pills that were imported and exported from one part of the kingdom to another varies from each another . The Lower Southern State is always well known for their ability to produce many Battle Pills, and the Middle Southern State are well known for their Cultivation Pills . As for the Upper Southern State, they are well known not for their Pill abilities, but their richness in flora and fauna, which gave them an unaccountable amount of plants to be exported to the other two states yearly .

It was said that without the Upper Southern State, the two other Southern State will immediately encounter a drought of pills, where not even a single pill can be made because of the lack of resources in their own state . And among the ten-county in the Upper Southern State, the Seven Star Sect was placed at the seventh spot, but initially fighting against the eighth, ninth, and tenth spot counties for the yearly gift that comes from the Imperial Kingdom's Capital State .

Ten-Layer Recovery Pill, Inner Qi Replenishing Pill, and Blood Form Pill, this three were amongst the most well known medicinal pill that replaced the position of the Wound Mending Pill, Meridian Soothing Pill, and Yin Ling Fruit . The three of this pill were rated at Tier 1 Medicinal Pills .

Qi Accumulating Pill, Yantai Pill, and Scarlet Dissection Pill, this three is the next on the list, where each of them was replacing the Qi Sensing Pill in the term of increasing cultivation speed, and the Violet Calming Pill that helps in reducing the anxiety of a cultivator when breaking through the stage . Each of this pill in this second list cost extremely expensive, where unless one willing to pay over 100 Qi Sensing Pills in exchange, they will be impossible to obtain any of this three pills .

Last on the list is the Taixia Pill, Yin Essence Pill, Qi Bursting Pill, Purple Majestic Pill, Fire Pill, Water Pill, and Poison Lotus Antidote . The few items in this final list are either rare or normal medicinal pills in their Tier 1 strength . They weren't extremely precious, but a few of them were difficult to obtain in any mean of way, especially the Taixia Pill, the Purple Majestic Pill, and the Qi Bursting Pill .

And up to date, Zhang Wu Ji's farm is steadily planting and cultivating the Yin Ling Fruit Tree, Taixia Condensing Plant, Yantai County's Mandrake Plant, Golden Dandelion Flower, Water Hawthorn Root, and Poison Eating Lotus Root . This means, among the 13 pills mentioned in the list, he accumulates the raw material to produce six of them, with only the exception of Ten petal Lotus Plant for the Ten-Layer Recovery Pill, the Qi Essence Silkworm for the Qi Replenishing Pill, the Blood Juicy Fruit for the Blood Pill .

Additionally, he was also lack of the Sun Root, an essential ingredient to concoct the Qi Accumulating Pill, and the Scarlet Flower and Scarlet Grass that can be used to concoct the Scarlet Dissection Pill . As for the Qi Bursting Pill and Purple Majestic Pill, it was a dream to concoct them for now, because not only the pill is a rare commodity, even their ingredient is a rare treasure that hardly found . But of course, the effect brought by them is exceptionally well, especially from the Violet Majestic Pill .

"Do we have the way to look for the ingredient for . . . " Zhang Wu Ji intends to speak, but his subordinates interrupted . Three of them were fighting, while the one excels in blacksmithing is smiling awkwardly because of their manners .

The three of them came out with their sentence, and without considering too much, Zhang Wu Ji assigned them to look for the plants and the silkworm to start producing their own supply . The three left immediately, leaving only Zhang Wu Ji with one more guy remaining .

Following his lead, Zhang Wu Ji entered their now more well-equipped Blacksmithing room, with the Fire Stones is placed nicely at one side . The Ingot Shelf was completely stacked with many Iron Ingots in different Quality, and they were nicely arranged according to their type . The only lacking is the Crystal Iron, where unless one has the ability like Zhang Wu Ji's upgrade, it will be almost impossible for them to remove the mixture of Crystal Iron inside of the ingots .

After he selected a few and begin to purify the ingots again, Zhang Wu Ji conducted each step twice to let the subordinate to learn how to properly extract the Crystal Iron hidden deep inside of the ingots . Although it wasn't too much, a mere 7% of Crystal Iron in an Iron Ingot is enough to leave the produced weapon crack easily, because, at the end of the day, the metal wasn't formed into a sturdier form like Alloy, but still maintaining the flexibility and usability of an iron .

With the void of Silica inside of the Metal, the impure form of the metal may easily break because their composition is yet to reach 100% Purity . In fact, the Iron weapon he encountered up to date still has the possibility of having their durability lowered until they were broken . He believes, unless it reaches a 100% purity in the metal, even a 99% quality Iron will still break .

"Oh yeah, I still haven't ask for your name properly . " Zhang Wu Ji looked at the subordinates of his and inquired about his name . It was impolite for him to order around without knowing what is his name . Feeling honored and appreciated, the slave disciple quickly introduce himself once more .

"Master Senior Ninth, this subordinate's name is Bai Hei Tie . I come from the Bai Village which was located at the border of our Seven Star County . Everyone in my village is a professional miner, blacksmith, forger, and smelter . Each of us practically grows up by taking up one of this four main lesson in order to support the Bai Village, but I am lucky enough to have some aptitude to cultivates, thus I received the opportunity to enter the Seven Star Sect . "

"It just because my cultivation were too low, and that is why I only managed to remain in the Slave Disciple Tier . " Bai Hei Tie introduced his background and where he came from . It was normal for one to introduce himself, but seeing how his story goes, it seems that this subordinate from the Bai Village was unfortunate enough to land himself in the Slave Disciple Tier, and end up suffering for it .

Even without himself asking, by just seeing how this 16 years old subordinate only have 60 strands of Inner Qi in his body, he must be working hard to deliver the money home just for the sake of maintaining his family expenses . Based on his skill and technique in smelting and forging the metal, Zhang Wu Ji can easily guess that their Bai Village is indeed living a very hard life .

"Do you know what is your Bai Village's main produce there?" Since there was a mineral vein nearby their Bai Village, it would be foolish to not inquire about their production . Rather than spending so much to obtain the right to mine in the Mineral Vein near Wen Wu City, why don't he import them instead? Not only he can help the Bai Village in this way, but he can also easily bought the heart of this disciple so he would be loyal to him alone, and that means loyal to his headmaster's faction .

"Of course, Master Senior Ninth! Back in the Bai Village, my family members are the head of the smelter, and my eldest brother is the assistant for the head of the forger, so I am very familiar with the metal produced by our Bai Village . The mineral vein that expanded not far from our Bai Village does contain a good amount of Silica, Copper, Jade, and Mined Bone . " Bai Hei Tie answered .

"Great, deliver my message to your Bai Village, tell them to provide me with Mineral Ores that were rich with Copper and Jade . I want you to personally go there to collect the sample ore for me . This is important . So go and get it done quickly . " Zhang Wu Ji did not hesitate and gave him a thousand Qi Sensing Pills to Bai Hei Tie .

"Master Senior Ninth, this amount is too much, even if we charge a delivery fee for this . " Bai Hei Tie was a fellow blacksmith . Although he was limited in the area of smelting and forging, for now, it does not means that he was lack with common sense and also the sensitivity on material prices . In fact, a part of Zhang Wu Ji was doing this on purpose because he wishes to see how can this subordinate perform under stress .

"I already mentioned before . I want the sample ore . Make sure the results are complete because I have a reason to make such a big order . " Zhang Wu Ji ordered . In his mind, he was attracted to the fact the Mineral Vein contain some components of Jade and Mined Bone, which was one of the toughest minerals in the world he knows .

"Understood! I will depart now and return to the Bai Village to handle this matter!" Bai Hei Tie nodded and with the thousand Qi Sensing Pills in hand . He left immediately after he withdraws one of the horses from the stable . Estimated from the strength of the horse, he can reach the Bai Village about nine days later .

Although the distance was covered by the speed of his stead, the distance from their village is about nine hundred kilometers away from the Seven Star Sect . With the limitation of between 100 km to 110 km distance covered, it can be considered quick in the normal standard .

Added with the delivery of the materials will take some time, he estimates that he will have to wait for a month, give and take, to wait for the arrival of the material to his courtyard . and of course, he will need to answer the Blacksmithing Department on why he went pass their jurisdiction and went straight to orders the mineral ores from outside without going through them .

Plus, if the Blacksmithing Department knows that Zhang Wu Ji purposely transports the mineral ores from a mineral vein 900 kilometers away, they will go crazy with their curse! In the vicinity of Seven Star County, the records of their available mineral veins were in total, nothing more nothing less, 22! And in the 22 Mineral Veins, 1 of them was closest to the Seven Star Sect, located at the outskirt of Wen Wu City!

the nine hundred kilometers away from the sect transportation were completely ridiculous, especially when the delivery has to go through the Wen Wu City to reach the Seven Star Sect .

As the instigator of this soon to happen incident, Zhang Wu Ji is still void of the knowledge about the severity of this action and continued with the process of smelting the Iron metal in his Blacksmithing Room . It wasn't too much of a disturbance, but for him, it was an eyesore due to the description appeared in his sight,

Reading the description, he shook his head in disappointment . The skill is barely there, but his subordinate Bai Hei Tie cannot be blamed . Such ingot is still usable, and in fact, most of the Seven Leaves Sword distributed to the disciples are made from such lower quality Pure Iron Ingots .

It was durable enough, as long as their composition of Pure Iron reach the minimum amount of 77%, and were above 10% in their purity . Because of his skill and ability to use the Art of Pulverized Iron, he can easily form a 40% purity iron ingots . Added with his ability to discern the information of the ingot he touches, he can easily deduce how good is his handiwork, when it was to compare with others .

With over 1600 strands of Inner Qi at his disposal, the great number of smelted Iron Ingots weren't a threat for him, who need to spend few days just for the sake of refining few ingots for himself to use . looking at the over a hundred Pure Iron Ingots, he has a thought to just throw them away .

The reason for such a thought is because their quality was extremely low! No wonder the Bai Village still maintained poor and difficult . With their ability to only manage to process and smelt the metal into this quality, it wasn't wrong for him to assume that not only they were forced to conduct more processing to provide more varieties of product for the outside world .

This was why each villager in the Bai Village are either a Miner, Blacksmith, Forger, or Smelter . it was because each of them excels in one kind of products . The miner produces Raw Mineral Ores, the Blacksmith produces tempered metal products, such as arrowheads, metal rods, and some Copper Scales .

As for the Forger, the item they produced were Shaped metals . the demand for metal wasn't only on Ingots alone, but some does request them to come in coins, plates, and smaller Refined Bars . Lastly, the Smelter was only producing one kind of products . Smelted ingots, that comes with many impurities . This position was the easiest, and also the cheapest because no matter what they do, their only responsibility was to smelt the ore to produce ingots, which will be handled to others to refine them properly .

"I should improve my skills too, in case I can't even be compared with the others like them . Guess it was time for me to visit the Blacksmith Department to copy a few books from their vault . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks in his mind, as he rearranged the Pure Iron Ingots, Sentient Iron Ingots, and Crystal Ingots back on the shelf, all in their 40% Purity, qualified to be labeled as High-Quality Ingots!

It was worthy to be called as an amazing view if one were to be given the chances to take a look at the shelf stacked with 35 Pure Iron Ingots, 13 Sentient Iron Ingots, and 2 Crystal Ingots . Because each of the Ingot's purity reaches 40%, they're able to carry a beautiful and attractive composition that attracts people in their first sight . If they were to be put in the auction, such a high-quality ingot can easily obtain the prices of 100,000 Gold Coins, 200,000 Gold Coins, and 500,000 Gold Coins as their starting price respectively .

Without anything else he needed to do in the Blacksmithing Room, Zhang Wu Ji came out and head to his room for another good rest before he heads to the Blacksmithing Department tomorrow . Missing the comfort brought by the goose feather blanket that was upgraded by him previously, Zhang Wu Ji falls asleep within minutes after he dug into the blanket, and awaken at the next morning, under the call from the Time Caller .

Knowing that he came back to his own courtyard yesterday, the people from the kitchen were no longer skimpy with their amount of dishes sent to the ninth courtyard . In total, they deliver twenty-two different dishes to his Dining Hall, where Zhang Wu Ji shared the dishes along with his three subordinates . When they look at the number of deliciously made dished placed on the table, the four couldn't help but drool from that bomb of food fragrance .

"Master Senior Ninth, if there weren't anything else for now, please excuse us . Kindly enjoy your meal . " the four kitchen staff excused themselves after all the dishes have been prepared and displayed on the Dining table . Smiling on their way back, each of them was carrying an additional five Qi Sensing Pills on their little trip . It was like working as a waiter for a salary of 5,000 Gold Coins each time they appeared .

The moment their breakfast was done, Zhang Wu Ji gave a few of them his instructions . From their initial conversation, Zhang Wu Ji gets to know the name of the other two people, Zhao Xiao Hua, the only lady among the four, and one more guy named Zhang Ya Pin . Both of them were yet to enter the 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter cultivation, and only have around 50 to 60 strands of Inner Qi with them .

Although each of them already received their own copy of New Fist of Destruction Qi, their speed of progressing is still low to be compared against Tang Yuan, who already at his 190 Strands of Inner Qi now . But this guy should be still dreaming about entering 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter because he has yet to understands that to enter the second stage, he will need to condense ten thousand strands of Inner Qi to form 100 strands of Fighter Qi .

"The Taixia Condensing Plant should reach their maturity soon . I suggest you three to go look for some Dried Bottle Gourd to use as the container to keep the dew it produces every day . As for the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant, try to not disturb them too much at this time, at the end of fourth month, we will begin to harvest all of them completely, and remember to harvest them and leave a part of their leg in the soil, that will let them continue to grow again . "

"As for the other plant, continue with how you guys handle them, it should be fine for now . Hei Tie will be away from us for a week, so if there were any material sent by the blacksmith department to our courtyard, help him to receive for temporary until he comes back after two weeks . "

"I will go to the Blacksmith Department for a while . Tang Yuan, follow me and bring me some of the Mulberry Paper we stored in the Treasure Vault and follow me . " he gave them the instruction to follow before he ordered Tang Yuan to collect the papers and escort him to the Blacksmithing Department . The reason for this was simple . He wanted to instruct Tang Yuan further in his cultivation before he ends up practicing abnormally .

"Tang Yuan ah, I noticed that your cultivation is already around 190 Strands of Qi now, it was a good result . " he started his sentence with some praises first, to not let this subordinate feel that he wasn't valued .

"Dear Master Senior, this subordinate does try to climb up the 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter now . I am confident I can enter that stage if I were given another week to cultivates . It was all thanks to the Fist of Destruction Qi Manual you given to each of us . Not only my cultivation speed has increased, I feel that my physical body is stronger too . " he replied, and let Zhang Wu Ji know the changes happened on his body .

"That is great, but always remember, it wasn't an easy thing for a 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter to climb up in cultivation stage without sufficient knowledge, so pay a visit to the 1st floor of Knowledge Pagoda and went through some of the manual first, that will solidify your cultivation further before you recklessly advance . " he did not went to the differences of Inner Qi and Fighter Qi for now because he believes that based on Tang Yuan's ability to understands the manual, it will be easy for him to finding out the differences .

It will also be beneficial to this subordinate, because with a sufficient guidance to advance in his cultivation, what he needs is not by giving them all the best thing he could, but to guide them using the correct method to promote their growth carefully . In his mind, a proper education worth ten times better when they were given the chances to find what's wrong in their path .

With his word is delivered, Zhang Wu Ji allowed Tang Yuan to leave, while he himself entered the Blacksmith Department and requested to be given the opportunity to visit their library, which is also treated as the vault for the workers to store their precious products inside . It was an atrocious request to be given free access into the vault at first, where he received a complete rejection by all the junior, senior, and elder blacksmith .

"Do you know that the content stored in the vault is worth over 100,000 Qi Sensing Pills? That's 100 Million in gold coins! It is impossible for us to allow you to enter . Who knows what you might take a thing or two out without us noticing?"

"So, that's what you were worried about?" Zhang Wu Ji was angered after he receives a total rejection to entered the vaults . He scanned his surrounding, and walk towards the smelter section, where a few apprentice blacksmith and slave disciples were busy placing in the crushed ores the high-temperature furnace to be smelted .

Waving his palm outwards, he signaled the apprentice to leave the spot for him, before he selects a few of the ores within the cart and proceeds to crush them into smaller chunks of mineral ores . By having a copy of Fist of Destruction Qi within him, he can easily activate the Middle-Grade attack to strikes the crusher to crush the ore even further, until they were enough to fill the crucible .

Reaching to the bellows placed not too far from where he stands, Zhang Wu JI utilized his strength as an Inner Qi Fighter to send the flow of pressurized air into the burning firestones and increased the strength of the flame even further . The moment the temperature of the furnace reaches 1500 Fahrenheit, the Iron Mineral hidden inside the mineral rock melted and producing a molten mixture of slags and metal ores .

The moment he stopped sending the pressurized air into the furnace, the top part of the molten liquid were started to solidify, whereby using a metal rod, he turns the rod slowly to collect the yet to solidify slags out from the crucible before he repeated the firing process once again . Only after repeating this process for three times he was satisfied with the end product and poured the molten liquid metal into two casting mold .

The two casting mold with the beginning to solidify metal are soon placed inside a bucket of cold water for quenching, and the moment it was out from the casting mold, Zhang Wu Ji did not let the two Ingot rest, and placed them back inside another furnace to begin refining them! Each of his steps is perfectly executed, without a hint of waste movement is seen in his steps!

The two pieces of Pure Iron Ingot is soon being fired into their near melted temperature before they were hammered on the anvil to remove the impurities! The hammering occasionally released little chunks of silicate layer that were the remnants of silica residue inside of the Ingot, and also some shattered crystals that looked like broken beads . This was the impure form of Crystal Iron, but the skill to properly extract them weren't available to the blacksmith until now .

The hammering process to remove the impurity soon was over, with himself Launching a total of sixteen strikes, eight on each ingot to bring them into their 40% purity . The results were stunning when his two recently forged ingots overcome all the metal ingots in the working area and bring all their metal ingots into shame . If the ingots can turn red because of that, perhaps all of the ingots is going to become pig iron at the end of the day .

"High . . . High . . . High-Quality Ingots! It's a High-Quality Ingots!" one of the senior blacksmith seated not too far from their spot were shocked until he tosses the piece of Iron blade he was working on aside, and stands near to where the two High-Quality Ingots were placed . Using both hands, he lifts the Pure Iron Ingot like it was a fragile infant in his hand, as he smells it, softly knock it, and then used a piece of unlit Firestone to scratch its surface .

"It is! It is a properly crafted High-Quality Pure Iron Ingot! Even I cannot produce such a quality without working on the ingot for at least five days, and I am not confident to produce them at all! You're skillful, I admit my mistakes to stop you from entering the vault . You're far more qualified than all of us here to enter the vault!" the senior blacksmith said the word in his mind .

In fact, most of the blacksmith were people with a straightforward and simple mindset . In their eyes, the capability was important, and the better the blacksmith is before them, the higher the respect they will receive from their fellow friends and colleagues . In the eyes of the Blacksmith, the crafted products were their child, the Ingots were their infants .

They can eat less, sleep less, but they can't survive without the mineral ores and their products by their sides . This kind of obsession was indirectly shaping their attitude and life, giving birth to this profession call profession Forging Master . And in this whole Ping An Continent, each single of them were worshipping the one and only acknowledge Forging Master, which is well known in this whole continent .

Forging Master, Gou Jian, who was brought to fame in his ability to forge the weapon used by the Northern Imperial Kingdom's Emperor, a 78% Purity Low-Tier Spirit Grade Imperial Sword! Using this sword, the emperor met nobody that can be a match to him at all, where the Imperial Sword has devoured the lives of over 100,000 swords in its life before its master sat on the Imperial Throne .

And now, before this group of Blacksmith which weren't qualified to even be called as an apprentice Forging Master, was witnessing the creation of a 40% High-Quality Pure Iron Ingot in their making . What's more, the person that smelted this two piece of 40% High-Quality Ingots were only in his fifteenth years old and three months! If he wasn't a prodigy, then who is?

Witnessing the ordeal with their pair of eyes, all the blacksmiths in the Department with their hammers are hitting the anvil nonstop, where it was a gesture of approval towards what they saw . It was a complete turnover, from disagreement to complete approval . Without wasting any of their time, the crowd personally escorts him to the vault, and allow him to have a look on their collection up to date .

Facing such a situation, Zhang Wu Ji can only smile as he followed them to the vault, inside this huge underground vault, it was a surprise to him because the total amount of smelted products completed weapon and armor were all stored properly here for the sake of finding a suitable partner . But under the watchful eyes of everyone here, it was the product are not qualified to be accepted by this young prodigy!

"Dear seniors, please allow this junior to put his heart in reading the books and appreciating the products made by so many seniors!" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his fist together and requested to be left alone inside the vault . After a few exchanges of pleasantries, the door to the vault is closed, leaving him with all the treasures kept within .

He paid attention to their footsteps, and the moment all of them were gone from the underground, Zhang Wu Ji relaxed and added a sentence he hesitates to say .

"How can you call this stack of unrefined trash as treasures!" he exhaled and was disappointed by the quality of the stored ingots, minted coins, weapons stored I here . Touching them one after another, it was another row of disappointments .

Ten thousand Seven Leaves Swords were stored inside here, but none of them were carrying the similar durability and status . Each of them was varied from 4 to 6 points in attack and 2 to 4 points in defense . Their durability is even worst, carrying only 16 points although they were made from Pure Iron . None of the ten thousand swords carries a special ability within, which can only be described as a stack of military quality weapons waiting to rust before they can be used .

The armor and shields that were custom made for certain elders are even worst . He thought that if the elder were even using this kind of weapon, they are no different from being a slave disciple . How can they use such a crap to defend the sect? It was an utterly pathetic sight in his eyes, making him become speechless even more .

Luckily, the records of the book placed on the three shelves were better in quality, he did not spend any more of his time to inspect the products in the vault but used them to went through the books instead . It did not take him too long to read those more important books, but after he compiles most of their useless records, Zhang Wu Ji came out with two of his own created manual, which he named them as;

He did not further upgrade them nor purposely rewrite them to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the written manuals, but so far, after he compiled all the information be taken from the book, its natural effect were already sufficient for them to manufacture Copper Base Product into 50% Purity, and Iron Base Product into 40% purity .

Given the reading material provided by the three full shelves of books, this where all he can do in return for them . Of course, he copied another three more techniques Manual for his own usage, which were worth rewriting and upgrading in his own opinion . But he did not consider to contribute the rewrite version if it was done, because the sudden rise of knowledge and skills a department may not be a good thing .

With his motive to visits and copied some reading materials from the Blacksmithing Department's Vault is completed, Zhang Wu Ji prepared himself to leave, but before he did, a hint of regret, forgiveness, and pity appeared deep inside of his heart . It did not come from the fact he copied the few manuals because he has left them with two similarly precious copy of compiled records that will greatly enhance their productivity .

With only the Mulberry Xuan Paper in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji couldn't think about another method for him to leave them a message . Since the production of Mulberry Xuan Paper came from his own, it wasn't ridiculous for him to say, "it wasn't a waste at all, I made them myself right?"

Cutting them to about a row of words large of messages, Zhang Wu Ji rearranged the difficultly stored ingots that were kept until now, and slit a piece of paper on each of them . On the paper was the instruction of how many hammering and refining process they should go through before they were qualified to be called as a proper Ingots .

Feeling that he no longer left any regrets remained inside of the Vault, Zhang Wu Ji left . It was until the next morning when the apprentice entered the vault they noticed the two compiled copy of the manual, where it was collected and brought to the Department Elder for his inspection . Being the best Blacksmith among everyone in the department, the Department Elder were no strangers to the inspection on the manual and records brought back by some disciples and elders for their vault's collection .

But after he went through and experienced the wonderful guidance brought by the two manuals, his confidence was completely shattered into pieces, and bring this elder down on his knees .

"Department Elder, this two manuals is left by the Master Senior Ninth . He visits the Vault yesterday before noon and left before midnight . Except this two manual, junior found out that each ingot was rearranged according to the number of refining process they should go through before they were qualified to be called as proper ingots . "

"Tell the two Vice Department Elder to come here . Tell them that we need to hurry and go ask the Master Senior Ninth to take the three of us as his disciples!"

The moment he returned to his courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji went straight into his room for the sake to rewrite the three outdated Blacksmithing Technique Manual and his two newly created manual . It was an important project for him, because only after rewrite can he enhance their usefulness when he immerses himself in forging . Although their improvement may end up superficial, a small crab leg is still a meat .

Holding over 1600 Strands of Inner Qi with him, the rewriting did not take a toll on him, as he easily copied half of the first book before heading for his rest . But unfortunately, before he managed to doze off, a commotion came from outside of his courtyard's main door, where the visitors are knocking at the door without controlling their own strength . The continuous knock caught the three subordinates attention, where Zhao Xiao Hua have no other way except to see who was so daring to knock the Master Senior Ninth's door in such way .

But when the door is opened, the Three Elder ranked senior came in without an approval, and immediately went to the courtyard's garden, afraid of being rejected before they mentioned their request . Since the three-person before her belonged to the Elder's ranking, Zhao Xiao Hua has no other choice but to inquire about their arrival .

"Three elders, can this junior inquire the reason of your arrival . I am afraid that our Master Senior Ninth just came back from outside and in need of a good rest before anything . . . " Zhao Xiao Hua politely asks as she was afraid of invoking the wrath of the three elders because of the differences in their status . But what was happening next changed her view towards her master and also on the three elders .

"Little girl, can you try to call your master out? Please tell him the Department Elder and two Vice Department Elders have something we need to inquire him . Please deliver our request to him and try your best to ask him to receive this three old man?" the Department Elder actually lowered his tone as he speaks with the junior . In fact, his tone is more to asking for a favor and not demanding for an audience .

"S . . . Sure! I will go and ask now!" she quickly answered to their request and prepared to the left to the room Zhang Wu Ji slept inside, but as she turned around, one of the Vice Department Elder took a small medicinal pouch out and placed them on her palm . Although the elder was holding her hand during this moment, it was more to a reward to help them convey a message, and not how a leecher trying to take advantage of a lady .

"Three elders please wait for a moment, this junior will wake Master Senior Ninth now . " she was confused with all these changes . It was well known in the whole sect that the Elders are all high and mighty individuals, why will they change their tone when it comes to their Master Senior Ninth? Additionally, all three elders from the Blacksmithing Department is here, if Bai Hei Tie is here, he will be surprised until he falls on his bottom .

She moves quickly and reaches where the room was located, but before she can knock, it was opened from inside . Zhang Wu Ji walks out after hearing out those loud knocks on his main door and intends to see what happened . But as he comes out, Zhao Xiao Hua is standing by his door, so he conveniently asked .

"Reporting to Master Senior Ninth, the Blacksmithing Department's Department Elder and two Vice Department Elders are requesting for an audience, in fact, they passed me this medicinal pouch which is quite heavy for the sake of making sure you will accept their audience . " Zhao Xiao Hua was well known for Zhang Wu Ji's behavior, which was told by Tang Yuan personally .

"Bring me to them," he replied . Walking in big and steady steps, he followed his subordinates and walked towards the three elders, while Tang Yuan who was smarter went to prepare the tea for the four of them while talking about those important matters . The only lacking is that Zhang Wu Ji has no habit of drinking top quality tea, thus his courtyard only have the most simple upper-class Soothing Chamomile Tea leaves in their kitchen .

"Three elders, please be seated . It was a lucky day for this junior to have his courtyard receive the shining grace from the three elders from Blacksmithing Department . Can this junior ask, what brings the three elder here today? Did this junior's arrival into the workshop disrupted the progress of the seniors?" since he just came back from the Blacksmithing Department's Vault this morning, it should be related to his handiwork . Either on the two manual or because he messes with their ingots .

"Hahaha, Ninth Direct Disciple is too polite, this three old man really underserve of such a statement . In fact, the three of us were here for the sake of one matter . It was extremely important thus I hope the Ninth Direct Disciple will give it a thought before deciding . "

"The three of us has gone through the two manuals Ninth Direct Disciple left in the vault this morning, and we were surprised by the depth and immensely simplified techniques that were thought inside of its contents . This three shameless old man immediately tried to follow the guidance, and it was an unexpected, a nine of nine success in our attempt to refine the Advance-Quality Metal straight from the moment they were smelted from the Raw Mineral Ores . "

"The Blacksmithing Department has received the grace of your abilities, and this three old man wishes to take you in as our master . Do you mind accepting this three old man that was halfway into their grave as your disciple? Please give us the chance to learn from you, and teach what we could so those from the more unfortunate condition can obtain their part of growth . " the Department Elder unexpectedly kneeled before Zhang Wu Ji, and it was just right on the time that Tang Yuan is here with the four cups of newly brewed tea .

The elder lifted one of the cups and hold it with both hands . With the height of the cup of tea above his temple, this action signifies the seriousness of his words and crucified his intention to take this person as his master in the Blacksmithing Profession .

In their mind, this wasn't a shameful matter . There was over a hundred thousand case where one from the older generations is willingly becoming the direct disciple to a junior generation, for the sake of furthering their understandings in a profession . There was a word says that Talent and Knowledge are what justified a person's seniority . Ability and Might are what justified a person's strength .

"Department Elder, please stand up! Why would this kind of thing happened to me?" he immediately tried to hold the Department Elder up from his knees, but how can a 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter can compete with an elder in his Inner Qi Elder's strength? Even in the competition of stubbornness, he may lose . As he thought of all this sudden occurrence, the other two Vice Department Elders followed the first's footsteps, and also kneeled with their hand both holding the cup above their temple .

"This two junior that lacked knowledge in the blacksmithing also wished that the Ninth Direct Disciple will give this two a chance as well! Please do not reject our effort!" the two of them must be practiced while coming on their way . There is no such coincidence that the two of them muttered the same sentence together .

Looking at this situation, the three subordinates were speechless with the shamelessness of the three elders . What made all of them kneeled on the ground? Even if their Master Senior Ninth is too amazing for one to accept, it doesn't need you, three elders, to do such an act, right? Why don't you consider how are we going to process this sight before us when we're going back to sleep and cultivates?

"I don't know what makes the three of you went to such a length just for the sake of accepting me as your master, but I will be honest, I might no as knowledgeable and half of you . " Zhang Wu Ji was turned speechless after he sees how committed are the three elders in their action . Left with no other choice, he accepted the three of them, and see what funny thing were they trying to do .

"Master! With your ability to easily produce 40% High-Quality Pure Iron and Sentient Iron from raw materials, even the Department Heads from other sect and clan will discard their sect to come and become your disciple . "

"Alright, tell me, what do you three intend to do?" Zhang Wu Ji knows that this three must stumble across some difficult issue, causing them to be this desperate . But it was hard to guess, because no matter what, it was a rare occasion that a Department Elder and Vice Department Elders are left in such a sorry state, making them so desperate at that .

"The truth is, the three of us are barely a skillful Blacksmith, to begin with . We were lucky to be given the opportunity to grow under the previous Department Elder, but he passed away before he taught us all the skills he knows . At the end of the day, we were left with only half of a bucket full of knowledge, but doesn't know where is the tail, and what is the head . "

"This ends up putting the Blacksmithing Department in a very dangerous position, where our quality of weapons and metal crafted weren't up to their standard . In a matter of fact, we are only able to barely produce material in Military grade and above, and the wastage from our department is quite high as well . "

"Due to this matter, the Blacksmithing Department are wasting too much but our production remains low . Although the supply is above the demand at this moment, we cannot continue to only produce half dependable weapons that will endanger the disciple's life if they went out on an expedition . In order to get rid of all these weaknesses, we hope master can help the three disciples in this matter . "

The three did not have any intention to hide any of the problems from his knowledge, which were a good thing especially towards Zhang Wu Ji's personality that hates to guess for the root of the problem . While at the same time, the three elders were a fellow blacksmith, thus their personality was also being mold according to their usual direct, straightforward, and honest manner .

"I see . That is an important matter . It was like what the three of you mentioned, the quality of the weapons stored inside of the vault are not up to their standards . I will give each of you with a task for now, and try to complete the preparations before I can think of another plan . As for now, stops the distribution of the worthless Seven Leaves Sword, and issue a call for the disciples to return the sword back to the Blacksmithing Department, and tell them that the department just found a new technique to increase the durability and lightness of the weapon . It will progress without issue like this . "

"Other than that, I want you to create a mold for few different items . We will craft weapon straight from top quality ingots, thus we can skip the earlier process to hammer the ingots until we obtained the desired piece . The mold should contain the blade, the guard, and the pommel part . Make sure all of them were crafted well and accurate because this is how mass production weapon is made . "

"Next, is to refine all the metal ingots in your vault . Use three-quarter of them and refine them until they reach proper Advance-Quality ingots . We will melt all of them later for the sake of producing a brand new Seven Leaves Sword for the disciple's usage . Last but not least, the two manual I compiled have all the required technique to enhance your results in refining the metal, and also in your smelting process . Follow the guidance well and for now, the three of you will act as the supervisor and mentor for the senior and junior blacksmith . "

"If we have any Inner Qi Fighter's members, used them efficiently by placing them in the position of a bellow blower, and also the Rock Crusher Operator . This will help them to prepare the raw material faster . In the future, I will teach you all how to utilize enhancement material to increase the quality of the Metal Ingots created, so order the department to stop operating like how you do now . Stop all operation and run a renovation to repair all your tools and furnaces . "

"Check their condition . If it is broken, repair them . Make sure there weren't any opened channel except the single vent that came from the Bellow . Remember to maintain the fire in 1500 Fahrenheit, this is the best temperature to control the separation between the slags and molten metal . The procedure, for now, may look similar to how it was, but this were all used to give you guys more experience in how to measure the purity of the molten metal before you're qualified to directly skip the refining process and went straight to molding . "

Zhang Wu Ji completed his instruction for now . Since he was still filled with the impression of how bad is the quality of the manufactured materials, it wasn't a regret to agree to help this three new "Disciple" of his to a changeover in the term of quality the product they will distribute . Not only that, if he managed this matter well, he can easily absorb them into his master's faction and strengthen his master's overall support within the Seven Star Sect .

"Disciple understands! We will immediately go back and make sure all this instruction will be completed . Can disciple be daring to ask, when will master feel like coming to visit the Blacksmithing Department again?" the Department Elder asked . Even if they managed to obtain his agreement, it was still important for their master to make his appearance in the department for them to pay their respect at this [Master] of the elders .

"No need . I will pay a visit as an undercover inspector once a while to the department . This will also be my test of how the three of you managed the disciples under you all . Finding a master isn't difficult . The difficulties lie in the way they mentor their students . A proper mentor molds the shape of their disciples in character, moral, knowledge, and talents . You cannot only look at them through their talents alone, do you understand?" Zhang Wu Ji stated his intention, and how would he expect the three to mentor the juniors in the department for their improvement .

"As for the three of you . . . Come back here two days later, I will teach you something I know . Oh and also, bring over all the reading materials you have, I want to check on them . " he left them with a final instruction and decided to leave aside all this . If he did not try to do so, perhaps the three will continue to kneel there forever . But before he forgets, he added one more sentence;

"Xiao Hua, return the medicinal pouch to my disciple, it wasn't the correct way to be rewarded for the works a person has done . Your rewards will come from me instead, for handling this matter with complete honesty . " Zhang Wu Ji left for his room and drop on his bed . The act he has to give out when facing the three disciples of his were much more tiring than upgrading, especially when he was quite exhausted from rewriting half of the first manual .

Sleeping through the hour, he wakes up like normal after four hours . With a little more effort, completes the first manual and begin with the second manual . This one was slightly thinner than the first one, but their words are not too packed together as well, making things easier for him to finish rewriting . His occasional rest came four hours each time, and in just a single day, he finishes executing the Knowledge Unlocking at the first three manuals .

Coming out to stretch his limbs for a while, Zhang Wu Ji went to have a sit on his courtyard's garden, and reminiscence about what was happening a day before this . It was funny and shocking at the same time, which almost made him speechless, especially when the Department Elder suddenly kneeled before him . If his master were looking at his during that moment, what would he think?

"I wonder will master get jealous with me for accepting three disciples older than myself and him?" he chuckled, but then, a sound that only appears when clothes were touching at each another came into his ears, making him turn around to look at the sudden visitor .

"Quite . Where have you been? It was almost three month from the day we were accepted as disciples of the Seven Star Sect . " Zhang Wu Ji stands up and walks towards the lady . Unknowingly to himself, he actually felt happy when he saw the little lady was standing not far from him . It was a breath of relief coming out of his mind, after occasionally pondering about her wellbeing .

"You lied . I know you're not really thinking about me . " she pouted and turned around, making a bet in her heart by saying two words repeatedly;

Zhang Wu Ji who wasn't a romantic guy, to begin with, so instead of hugging her because of the eagerness in his heart, he ends up slapping her back hard, like how guys and girls back in his own world greets each another .

"You slap my back instead of hugging me? What does that mean?" Guan Qing Han turned herself to face that idiot without a hint of romanticism in him and gave him a punch on his chest .

"Augh! That's strong . Wow! It seems that your cultivation is already at 3rd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . " he moaned from the pain once and started to praise the lady for her quick improvement for reaching 3rd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . Three months ago, her cultivation was still at the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, where she merely have over a hundred Strands of Inner Qi .

But seeing her now, she must have at least 20,000 strands of Inner Qi now . The amount was amazing in his eyes because he barely has over 1600 Strands of Inner Qi, but he did not calculate the advantages of him getting three hundred strands of Inner Qi for every three days . If this fact were to know by others, perhaps he will immediately become the grandmaster to the others, due to the amazing speed without the need for training .

Plus, this youth is a monster that overcomes 16 stage of cultivation, a total of two-tier of strength opponent in a few strikes, and even behead the opponent without mercy . Even a fool may not dare to cause trouble to him without sufficient confidence to escape from his grasp .

"So what! You're the monster, not me . Increasing your strength from barely thirty strands of Inner Qi until now as an Inner Qi Fighter, your improvement is a monstrous one . Even my master tells me to try pry open your mind to see how you cultivate . Is seclusion training so fun?" she retaliates his praise with her words . It was the truth . If the public knows how Zhang Wu Ji carries himself in the Seven Star Sect, perhaps all of them will come over to see what is actually inside of this person's mind .

He was talented but humble and secretive . He was mysterious, but that mysteriousness was what captured the heart of the people to follow him . He was weird, but weirdly dependable as well . If one would need a word to describe him, its called [Freak], but if they need two words?

"Back to our topic, where did you go in this past three month? I did not see you anywhere at all . " Zhang Wu Ji asked about her situation . Although he wasn't as socializing as the others, he still gets to know some news all around . Since Guan Qing Han has completely vanished from the name list of the disciples that entered the sect, she must be either expelled for failing the test or taken into some secret faction .

In fact, she was by his side a few times . During the time he went to the Reflection Pagoda for his seventh senior brother's issue, during the time he went to the Knowledge Pagoda to look for a manual, during the time he went to the Auction Hall, and during the time he was debating with the elders to establish the Apprentice Hall .

"I am the direct disciple for the headmistress, that's why you hardly see me . Our faction is always hidden and we dedicated our time to training, unlike you, who have so many activities here and there," she answered his question but did not dwell too deep into the important matters .

"Well, as long you're in the sect, it will be great . I can see you most of the time then . " Zhang Wu Ji happily speaks out his mind once again, making the young lady started to get misunderstood again .

"You . . . You want to see me often?" her eyes immediately blinks like shining stars just came into her eyes . It was flashing with happiness .

"Yeah! We're from the same town after all, if we don't look after each another, then how are we going to tell our parents? They might blame us for not able to establish a proper standing in the sect!" he replied, but at the end, this failure in romanticism still cannot evade the fate of getting slapped .

But this question will remain unanswered once again . Luckily, the young lady was infatuated with him, or else, Who can guess what is his ending in his future . . .

The next day, which is another three day period once again, Zhang Wu Ji's morning happened to have three additional members in their breakfast . This caused the kitchen to prepare even more dishes because the additional three members are none other than the three Department Elder and Vice Elder!

"Good morning! Master!" the three disciples greet their master altogether, and bowed 90 degrees facing him . Although the three subordinates had seen this scene yesterday, to see it once more still gave them a shock, especially when the three of them were serious about all this master-disciple relationship .

"At ease, let's have the breakfast together, and everyone will return to their own duties . Tang Yuan, did you went to the Knowledge Pagoda to view some of their cultivation manuals?" Zhang Wu Ji paid his attention first at Tang Yuan, his first subordinate . It was important because the fact did he understand his motive to advise him to visit the tower will lead him to see how well can this subordinate perform .

"Yes, Master Senior . I found out the weaknesses in my cultivation, and I had made a copy of a cultivation art . Can Master senior please check their contents if it suits me?" Tang Yuan withdraws a manual from his chest, and hand it over to Zhang Wu Ji with both hands . This was the basic manner one needs to follow when facing a senior, or their masters .

"Not bad, it was a good choice . " Zhang Wu Ji flips through their contents for a quick glance, but in reality, he was going through the description of the Item as he flips their pages . After he finishes his act, he returned the book to the subordinates, trusting that their speed of cultivation will be depending on how frequent is their speed of learning .

"Master Senior, Xia Hua, and Ya Pin also found some Qi Essence Silkworm . Unfortunately, the few that we have were not healthy enough to be spun for their essence silk . We will need a few materials before we can start to feed them with the Yuanning's Mulberry Leaves . We cannot simply purchase a large amount of the leaves to feed them because if they were fed with withered leaves or those without proper moistures inside, the Qi Essence Silkworm will end up with a disease . "

"I would suggest that we plant our own Yuanning's Mulberry Tree, and for the purpose of feeding the Qi Essence Silkworm alone . This way, we can directly control the Qi Essence Silkworms diet so they can produce more of the essence silk . But to succeed with this, we will need one to two person to specialize in handling this matter, because the Qi Essence Silkworm is very sensitive to their surviving environment . " Zhao Xiao Hua finished her first starting followed by Zhang Ya Pin with the ending .

With their explanation are so detailed, Zhang Wu Ji agreed with their request to plant the Yuanning's Mulberry Tree . Since this plant's purposes are only to be made into Xuan Paper (With the exception of his specialized Mulberry Xuan Paper) or Qi Essence Silkworm's food . In fact, without cultivating their own tree, they can easily gather the leaves from the wild or purchase them from the Botanist Hall, but the two subordinates were questioning their quality .

It was a correct approach because the mass-produced leaves might come with a disease, unethical fertilizers or method, or any others tricks for the sake of increasing their sales . Since the Qi Essence Silkworm was a sensitive lifeform, a slight change in their food will end up destroying the whole batch of materials . This was accurate, because their end product, the Qi Replenishing Pill's quality will be affected by the Essence Silk they gathered .

"Master Senior, can Ya Pin give a suggestion for now?" he daringly came out with a temporary solution, but still, it was important to be approved by Zhang Wu Ji before he proceeds with it .

"Go ahead, I am all ears . " Zhang Wu Ji replied . This kind of personality is what made his subordinates dare to suggest, and will not hesitates to find the way for the best approach in their task . As long the quality wasn't disturbed, it will be good changes .

"I believe I hear that the Hunting Department in the Apprentice Hall were available to dispatch? Can we utilize their expertise and strength to escort me to collects the wild Yuanning's Mulberry Leaves for now? I will personally go to the Outer Zone of the Southern Bamboo Forest to collect sufficient numbers of the leaves and return . It will be a simple mission . " Zhang Ya Pin suggested .

"That is out of the question for now . You're barely a 1st Stage Inner Qi Cultivator . Even at the outer zone of the forest is slightly safer, we cannot put aside the fact Young Wild Beast and Peak Wild Beast resides in this zone . If the Hunting Team were to encountered the Flame Eye Bear, you're toast!" Zhang Wu Ji rejected the suggestion . It was a good idea nevertheless, but it was still too dangerous .

"Go ahead, it was good that there was an additional suggestion when we're questioning a possible way to cultivates those Qi Essence Silkworms . " he was opened for a suggestion since they were still in the part of looking for a solution method .

"This disciple does have his own variety of cultivated Yuanning's Mulberry Tree . Because the sundried Yuanning's Mulberry Leaf is perfect to be made into tea, the three of us are very obsessed into the making and cultivating of the leaves and the main tree . If the master needs the seeds for the tree, this disciple has many stored inside of his shared manor . " unexpectedly, his disciple is the one that provided a solution method to Zhang Wu Ji .

"This three old man . I forget that back in my world, the Mulberry was used and planted for their high concentration in anti-oxidation and anti-aging effects! It was also used as blood sugar controlling medicine for the diabetic patients! How did this three know that it was perfect to be made as tea?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled when he looks at the three new disciples .

"It was worth taking them in . Since this three were so obsessed with drinking Mulberry Tea, they should have quite a good number of plants right?" Zhang Wu Ji was having a good expectation at their collection, and without wasting his time, he decides to went to see their collections!

"Bring me there, the three of you, follow me as well, let us pay a visit to my three disciple's shared Manor," he ordered . And full of expectation, the three of them quickly lead the others to follow along until they reach a manor so tightly covered by the pots of shrubs . From afar, the identity of the plant already revealed themselves .

They were grown in a controlled environment, thus, their height and also the number of growing fruits were controlled to preserve their utmost quality . Fruits that were grown from these well-maintained plants are always better in comparison with the other natural grown trees, thus when they were dried and harvested for the seeds, it can be grown into a more healthier and stronger tree .

Based on the number of trees in their small garden, It seems that the three of them did not lack patience in growing the tree . A touch on the still unripe fruits revealed all their effort placed at cultivating all the trees here .

-Usage 2: the seed in the center of the fruit can be cultivated and grown into a new Yuanning's Hybrid Mulberry Tree . The speed of the seeds growth will be matured in one month .

It was a very good plant, plus, the plant he was inspecting at this moment was the youngest among the 31 pot arranged in a circle . If this plant's fruit were to be replanted again and again, very soon, all the other pots will be replaced by a higher quality Yuanning's Hybrid Mulberry Tree .

"Make sure you leave this fruit for me when it was dried . Pass it to Tang Yuan or Ya Pin so they can start to cultivate our own . As for the leaves, it seems that there were over three thousand leaves for Ya Pin to select, do you mind giving some to your master to cultivates his own Qi Essence Silkworms?" Zhang Wu Ji reminded them to present the first seed to him for cultivating purposes and requested to be given a small portion of the leaves .

"Of course! It was our honor to have the Mulberry Trees we cultivate is suitable for the master to use . " the three of them were so happy that their lifetime effort was accepted by their talented master . But in Zhang Wu Ji's mind, he will not accept their goodwill without giving them something in return .

"Tang Yuan, gather some dried branches and went to the kitchen to light a fire . Make sure the Cast Iron were hot when I come in . The three of you, go and prepare the best quality container for your dried tea leaves for me, leave them in the kitchen . " he completes his instruction and went for a small bamboo basket . With the small bamboo basket at the size of a frying wok, Zhang Wu Ji walk around the Mulberry Trees and randomly plucks their leaves .

"Aargh! My chest hurts!" the three of them felt the same way, looking at how careless is their master in collecting the Mulberry Leaf buds, and ignoring those wonderfully grown fully spread leaves . He did not stop at one but went through all 31 trees to collects all their leaf buds before heading to the kitchen .

Inside, Tang Yuan already completed the heating preparation of the Cast Iron Plate and retreated a few steps to let the Master Senior take his position . The three elders soon followed and come with a clean container that was really well made . It was made from Hundred Year Spirit Oakwood and was a good material to preserve natural ingredients, especially medicinal herbs .

"Leave me alone . Close the door . " Zhang Wu Ji rolled the clothing on his waist and waited for all of them to leave the kitchen before he started with the roasting . After looking at how the three placed the matured leaves widely spread on the bamboo made strainer, he understood how the Mulberry Tea leaves were enjoyed by the three . It seems like they were using the most orthodox technique in preparing the tea, thus it ended up looking like a rolled cigarette paper, but with a browner greenish color .

But by using the method of roasting the tea leaves, Zhang Wu Ji applied the same on the young buds of Mulberry Tree, in order to bring out their flavor even further . By skipping the process of withering, he can maintain their flavor without allowing them to oxidized further and drying them in one same process . Using his hand skilfully, he roasts the tea leaves by copying the technique he'd seen from the videos distributed all over the multimedia devices in his previous world .

The results came out beautifully . The leaf buds came from the combination of 31 Mulberry Trees end up with only an estimated 3 grams of prepared roasted tea leaves . The fragrance of mulberry, bitterness of the tea, and some sweet and sourness of the Mulberry fruit are spread the moment the door into the kitchen is opened, and intoxicated the six of them that still stands outside of the kitchen .

"What an amazing fragrance! It is qualified to be called the god amongst all tea!" the three tea obsessed elder cannot help but to praise the quality of the produced tea leaves which carries the fragrance they were still deeply intoxicated with .

"Prepare six teacups and two pots . Bring me some hot water that was freshly boiled . " Zhang Wu Ji stepped out from the kitchen, along with the container covered with a lid on its top . Each of his steps calmly executed, bringing this Master Senior to the chair placed not too far from them as he took a seat and rest himself .

Following after a few minutes, Tang Yuan, Zhang Ya Pin, and Zhao Xiao Hua returned with two tea sets and also a big pot of boiling hot water . The six of them soon seated right before their master, before Zhang Wu Ji stands up and opened the container with the roasted Mulberry Tea Leaves inside .

The blast of tea's fragrance blown them away for the second time, as he placed two spoons of the tea leaves into two smaller pots . With a quick action, he filled the two pot with boiling hot water before he used the water within the pot to clean the teawares used in the tea ceremony . With the first three steps is completed, the teacup used to hold the tea were turned to be cleaned by the second pot of tea, and it was also the hint of the beginning of the actual ceremony!

The next pouring of hot water was like how two dragon dance as they both went into the two pots at the same time! If it was back in his own world, this was an unachievable feat, but with the aid of Inner Qi in this world, he can easily branch them into two, using his Inner Qi that was invincible to heat and cold .

Waited for a total of 45 seconds exactly, he poured the two pots of tea into their pitcher cup to rest for a total of 15 seconds, before it was distributed into six evenly cups . With all the preparation is completed, Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand, directing the vapors into the nose of the six of them .

"Drink . " it was a very simple instruction, but this also meant as the approval to the six of them to enjoy the cup of brewed Roasted Mulberry Tea .

The first moment when the tea entered their mouth, the tongue immediately releases the first impression . The sweetness of the Mulberry Fruit, The sourness of their outer parts, the bitterness of the recently grow leaf bud, and the condensed fragrance of the Mulberry Tree, was delivered from their tongue into the brain before the sip of tea entered the airway of their throat .

The swallowing action emptied the liquid from the through, going straight into their stomach as the beneficial nutrient from the sip were absorbed into their body . This mouthful of tea causes a release of a gas going back to the throat, as a satisfied light burp came back to the outer world .

But that was not all it is from the seemingly sophisticated Tea Ceremony! In fact, how can a mere Roasted Mulberry Tea Leaves personally prepared by Zhang Wu Ji can be as simple as a burp?

-Usage 1: Removes the severity of Illness and Injuries by 15% when the tea was prepared through a proper Tea Ceremony (Effect only applicable once)

-Usage 2: Enhance the cultivation by 10% for all cultivator below Sheng Tian Process when the tea was prepared through a proper Tea Ceremony (Effect only applicable once)

-Usage 3: Increase the ability to fight against the Inner Demon during advancement when the tea was prepared through a proper Tea Ceremony (Effect only applicable once during advancement)

With the elder leading the changes happening on their body, his old injuries due to the scuffle between him and an enemy is beginning to recover . Although the injuries were only recovered by 15%, that was all it needs for him to completely expelled the negative effect the injuries carried! The removal of the injuries further enhances his guts to try and break through from the 55th stage into the 56th stage .

It was the same to the other two elders, where the slight 10% increment of Strands of Elder Qi is all they need to break through the border of 51st Stage to their 52nd Stage! In a flash, the three elders were trying to advance in their cultivation under the look of four younger disciples a quarter of their age .

The tea also granted Zhao Xiao Hua and Zhang Ya Pin with a small amount of increase in their Inner Qi . Although it wasn't enough for them to entered the Inner Qi Fighter tier, it was still beneficial for them because the effort they need is shortened by a significant time .

Soon, a commotion breaks right inside of the Seven Star Sect . And to be exact, it comes from the direction where the elder's of the sect resides . Three white lights beamed through the clouds, indicating the process of an advancement is a success .

"What is wrong in this world! How can three elders advance altogether at the same time? There must be something amazing happened, quickly go there to have a look!" the commotion leads the crowd to question what had just happened right inside of the Elders accommodation area, and decided to went there to have a look .

"Damn! We can't get in! How are we going to see what had happened inside there?" the mixed crowd belonged to the slave disciples and Inner disciples are gathered right outside of the entrance, unwilling to risk their future just for the sake of seeing something unknown to them .

"Thank you, master!" the three elders kneeled right before Zhang Wu Ji . It was a surprise to each of them after what had just happened right in front of everyone present . The three elders that were stuck in their cultivation for quite a long time has actually breakthrough with a simple sip of a Roasted Mulberry Tea . If one wanted to mention the miracle they seen in life, this will be the top miracle amongst all of their stories .

"Ya Pin, make your trip daily here to collects the Mulberry Leaves to be used as feed for the Qi Essence Silkworms . If there were anything else you need, do not hesitates to mention to the three elders . The three of you recently advanced, so you will need to stabilize your foundation before continue to do what you supposed to do . I will remain here no longer to give you space to cultivates . "

"Everyone, proceed with your own task, I will return to the courtyard by myself . " Zhang Wu Ji finishes his words and walked towards the exit . Since Tang Yuan and Zhao Xiao Hua still have their works undone in the farm, they followed him as they returned to the courtyard .

Outside, the crowd is yet to disperse . Seeing the three disciples coming out from the Elder's Accommodation Sector, some of them amongst the crowd wished to question, while some wishes to curse . But none of them dare to proceed with what they were thinking, because the person walking right past them, is the well known Master Senior Ninth that was being generous to them .

How could a crowd of woodpeckers dare to be mischievous towards the person that previously bring a part of their fellow Slave Disciples out from their difficult situation, and up to date, most of them were given the opportunity to help in the Apprentice Hall for the sake to earn a few Qi Sensing Pills?

The business in the Apprentice Hall wasn't just amazing, it was sufficient enough to support over a hundred of disciple's usage of Qi Sensing Pill every day, which is a great feat . Unless a well-established sect or clan, this kind of treatment were considered luxurious for those not that wealthy .

Without any obstructions, the trio returned to the courtyard . With Zhao Xiao Hua excuses herself to the farm first, Tang Yuan went to the Dining Hall and prepared to carry all the books brought by the three elders into Zhang Wu Ji's room before he excuses himself as well and returns to his works . Inside the room, Zhang Wu Ji rested himself for a moment, before he took the five manual he completed their rewriting and upgrading .

At the same time, he remembered something extremely important, which he felt like cutting off his skull and see where did this part of the memory was hiding before he coincidently found them .

-Usage: By paying (10) Firestones as the tribute, allows the user to create (1) Flame Rock . Each process cost 100 Strands of Inner Qi to execute .

"It seems all the Manuals I copied from the library is not too bad . The only unfortunate thing is their Four Phases effect is questionable, making me not daring to Fuse them together . If the results are good, I won't complain, but if their fusion ends up worthless, then it will be a waste of time for me . How good if I actually could get a good ability that can recycle all the failure item in my hand . " Zhang Wu Ji inspected the five manuals in his hand and kept them all together .

Perhaps, he will be the only one in this world that will walk around the house and outside with few manuals kept by his side . Others have Pills, gold coins, and treasures or weapon tied on their back or their waist belt, but for Zhang Wu Ji, it was manuals . Luckily the manual wasn't as thick like those dictionaries or collection books of Guinness World of Records size manual, else he will look like a glutinous rice forcefully wrapped with the clothing .

"Nope . I should let them improve themselves . Looking after them too much will spoil the broth . Leaving them, for now, will be the best idea, because not only they can improve their own skills without me putting pressure on them, it can also let them grow a pair of balls to face the hurdle made by fellow humans . As long there weren't anything special, I will let them progress without restrictions . "

"The farm is going well for now . I am confident with Tang Yuan's ability to handle the plants, added with Ya Pin and Xiao Hua's help, the farm management will become even better . At the end of this month, I can expect 1 fruit from the Sun Facing Fruit, 100 Yantai County's Mandrake Plants, 100 of the Yin Ling Fruits, and a random number of Taixia Condensed Dew . That will be the day for my production to come . "

"Should I just focus in handling the Blacksmith part for now? Oh wait, I forget about that!" Zhang Wu Ji considered his current situation and options he got, and suddenly remembered about something he has forgotten for so long until now .

"I entered the stage of Inner Qi Fighter already! When did I assume that +5 were the highest I can upgrade? I am so foolish to assume that and let my Upgrade System stagnated for so long! What a waste of a special ability!" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to slap himself, but he was no fool . Only people with no brain should slap himself hard . He wasn't a fool, thus he shouldn't do it .

"Let us starts with something normal first . " Zhang Wu Ji went to the Blacksmith room after he remembered such an important research on his own ability . How can he let this topic aside now, after taking so long to remember? It was the most important matter for now, at least in his mind .

"Seems like the appearance of the five manuals at this time were just at the right time! We should begin with small weapons first!" Zhang Wu Ji fired the Furnace to begin his crafting . Without any specific requirements, he selected the most simple to prepare weapon, which was a short knife with a shape similar to a Celtic Dirks . [1]

With only between 200 to 250 grams of weight, the 12 kilograms weight Pure Iron Ingot was more than enough for him to mass produce them in large quantities . The reason he selected the dirk was very clear, he wanted to massively upgrade all the weapon he could craft in a short period of time, and the Celtic Dirks without sophisticated design and appearance was the best choice for him to made .

It wasn't too easy, but given the skills and also the passive effect that came along with the manual in his possession, Zhang Wu Ji spent between 12 hours in order to complete the initial appearance of the weapon before he proceeds with the detailed touch and also sharpening . In a complete day, he completed 45 Celtic Dirks, while throwing the remaining three back into the furnace to be made as a smaller chunk for recycling purposes .

Since it was crafted altogether at the same time, the quality of the dirks was even, without any of them were in better quality or worst quality . This was the most basic requirement he needed it to have in his crafting process, because if each time of his crafting will end up creating weapon better than the first again and again, then where is his average standing point in his weapon-crafting?

Although quality products were important, it failed to match against the importance of stability . Because without stability, one can only persistently craft better weapon, and higher quality once after another, but he will no longer capable to craft an averagely accepted weapon because this method taken for his approach indirectly canceled his retreating point when he unexpectedly fails .

"Not a bad quality, plus all of them were crafted quite well, as it was only taking me close to one single day to complete all 45 of them . If I place more effort in tempering the metal and the weapon before completion, perhaps their quality will become even better . But that will cost me at least ten more minutes handling each dagger, so it will at least take me another seven an a half hour to complete them . " he played with one of the daggers as he inspects their build quality .

If this design of a dirk went out to the public market, perhaps it will be despised for their short and pitiful range of attack, it was not even qualified to be used as a proper cooking knife, but only those from Zhang Wu Ji's previous world will understand how deadly is this [Iron Thrusting Dirk] when it was used in a one to one fight .

The 4 points in attack might seem puny in the eyes of many, but how many people have the defensive ability of 4 points? If it's wasn't because of the passive effect of +5 points in Vitality, Defence, and Strength provided by the Bronze-Grade Nourishment Art, perhaps even himself will fall under the 4 points attack dagger .

"Let's make it through +5!" Zhang Wu Ji upgrades process successfully until it was +5, placed on this crucial moment, he proceeds . A shout of [Upgrade] overcome the crackling sound came from the furnace, as the weapon in his hand . . .

"Why? Did my upgrade went wrong in between?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the results . This was the first time his upgrade actually failed . It wasn't difficult to discern, because all his upgrade experience did not end with the upgraded material disintegrated into a pile of ashes . He touches the leftover pile of metal ashes on the ground, and unexpectedly, a status came out .

"You ass! This was your way to remind me?" Zhang Wu Ji almost wanted to spit a mouthful of blood when he read through the description . But it was pointless to get angry because that was a remnant of his failure . If he gets angry on a pile of ashes, what will that make him? A failure than release his failed anger on a pile of Ashes of Failure? He must be the craziest people in this world if he did .

It continues until he finally succeeds at his fifteenth dagger . Carried with all the happiness in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji jumps in the Blacksmithing Room to congratulate himself in the success, but he forgets that the time outside was a few more hours to sunrise . The others in the courtyard begin to thinks;

"Damn! The +6 ability actually increased an additional Skill! Or did that happened at +5? Damn! My mistake for not paying too much attention when I was upgrading . But that's fine . With my success rate now, maybe I can get 3 of them in +6 status at the end of the 45 dirks?" his happiness stops in between when he noticed the absent-minded him forgotten that when did the 2nd ability happened .

He continued . Although the upgrades only cost him 6 strands of Inner Qi each time, the toll taken into his mind and body were something that only a proper rest and rejuvenates . It went along negatively until the 27th dirk, where it was a success .

The result was similar, but he noticed the differences . The ability was given when it reaches +5, and on +6, it still follows the law of the normal upgrades . Which means, his surprise is going to be at when it turns into +10 . But this also means one fact to him .

It will cost him over a hundred, perhaps a thousand of the same tool for him to lucky enough to upgrade them into +10 . Only by looking at this attempt to upgrade them into +6, it took him 27 dirks to have two successful upgrades . That was a 1 success in every 14 dirks . To have 10 units of the +6 dirks, he will need to first craft 140 dirks to have them upgraded and then continue with the second tryst to make them become +7 .

"My path of an upgrade is not an easy one to treads . If this is the initial cost of my upgrading system to works, I guess being ten times richer than how I was now is still not sufficient to support this kind of way of exploiting my expenses . " Zhang Wu Ji shakes his head with disappointment . But he still continues with the upgrades, and as expected, he ends up with three success to reach their +6 status, and when he tried to have them become +7, it was a complete failure .

It wasn't a pointless overnight for him, but it was a fruitless one . With no successful result in his hand, he returned to his room for a good night rest . In his slumber, his mind did not get calm but continued to search for the correct way in improving himself using the upgrade . Because he worked himself too hard last night, Zhang Wu Ji ends up missing the breakfast and sleep all the way until afternoon .

Nobody came to disturb him, allowing him to get a satisfying rest before he wakes up to freshen up himself . The three disciples of his made the breakfast session a habit, pushing themselves over to visit the courtyard once every morning . It was also a shock to them that their master was waking up late, but after listening to Tang Yuan's explanations, the accidental action ends up to become an attitude the three of them worshipped .

"We were kept in the dark regarding our master's effort in improving himself . How shameful of us to take his lesson for granted, while our master actually continued to improve himself when everyone was asleep . What an amazing perseverance of a teacher in the morning, a practitioner in the night!" the worshipping of the three become crazier the longer they were left with too many unknown elements to imagine .

Coming out from his room, the few kitchen staff already prepared some of the dishes to be placed at the Dining Hall the moment their Master Senior Ninth came out from his rest . The dishes were specially prepared, just for the sake to fill his stomach while they prepare some piping hot food out from the kitchen . It was like the kitchen is working 24 hours a day, because no matter at when he was looking for a food, the kitchen is always ready with a sumptuous amount of food .

"Should I venture into the food industry next? If I can introduce canned food, will that generate me another pile of income?" he jokes as he eats . It was a joke for him at this moment because, for this person that had lived his second life, he was a person that never properly cooked before! His previous life were a competition of who made the best Instant Noodles before they died, and in this life, he was a wealthy young master that doesn't need to enter the kitchen at all!

[1] . the Celtics dirk were a decorative dagger that was made with a very beautiful handle with an extremely short blade . There was a longer ceremonial purposes version, but I prefer the smaller one . Take it as the obsession after watching the Actor, Wu Jing's, movie, the [Wolf Warrior 2] .

"Master Senior Zhang Wu Chou arrived!" a loud and clear shout came into a courtyard with a tall three floored building right in the middle . Running along by the side of the building was a trench of water with fishes feeding on the fish meal scattered by the disciples walking around to enjoy its beautiful sight .

Following from that call, a carriage pulled by four well-breed horses stops right before the entrance . Two servants walked over to the carriage and opened the door, allowing the people seated within to come out . One by one, the people seated inside came out from the carriage, followed lastly by a young master in his seventeenth years old . His appearance carried a slight resemblance to Zhang Qing Feng, especially on the part of his eyes and eyebrow .

This male is Zhang Wu Chou, Zhang Wu Ji's second brother, which was older by him for two years . Carrying himself in a haughty attitude, Zhang Wu Chou entered the courtyard with four subordinates following from behind . His strength was among the top three strongest youth within the pavilion, with the cultivation in his 13th Stage of an Inner Qi Warrior .

The four subordinates each carried a sword, six meters in length, and weight varies from the material they were used to make the four swords . Each of them contains a special meaning because Zhang Wu Chou was the one and only disciple within the whole Heavenly Sword Sect that managed to cultivate the most profound sword art in the sect, known as;

The Spring Sword that carries profound style to overcome enemies in a cheerful manner, the Summer Sword that carries deadly ferocity to destroy the enemies with pure raw strength, the Autumn Sword that retaliates all form with their complexity, and the Winter Sword, a style that kills without smearing the pureness of a white snow .

This was also the reason he went everywhere with his four subordinates, namely Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter . The four of them weren't weak, as each of them come with the cultivation of the 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter .

Zhang Wu Chou is a scholar, as well a Martial Art Cultivator . He was a master not only in Politics but also in Music and Arts . Today, the meeting in this pavilion is arranged by none other than himself, because within of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Zhang Wu Chou wasn't only the direct disciple of the headmaster, he was also their appointed Director of Sect External Affairs, in duty with handling those affairs related to outside of their sect .

The South Heavenly County was the fifth strongest county among the ten in the Upper South State . Inside, there were 4 cities, 21 Towns, and 50 Villages . By only controlling the number of their tributes monthly, it was a great deal for a single person to handle . This is the reason why, inside of this building, there were a total of 98 people waiting for his instructions .

"Greetings to Director Zhang!" the crowd inside of this meeting hall greets him altogether, bringing his importance even further right before the meeting starts . Zhang Wu Chou did not answer them, but with both hand opened wide, he signaled the crowd to be seated as he walks toward his own seat right in the middle of his own seat . If Zhang Wu Ji saw the chair his second brother laid his buttock on, he will immediately realize that this was how the world first chair with wheels is created .

Of course, the ancient version is much sophisticated, where to move his facing towards the desired direction, he will need to turn the control wheel on both of his left and right . It was a weird experience at first, but after leading the monthly meeting for so long, he already gets used to operating it .

"Villages," he mentioned a word, which brings up the 50 Village Representatives stand up from their seats . Proceeding one by one, they reported the number of tributes that were delivered by their village, before another one followed . The Spring and Summer will inspect the delivered materials before it was directed to Autumn and Winter for storage . This goes along until he mentioned another word .

Forty-two representatives stand up, divided into twenty-one pairs . The pair were in control of their towns production, mainly in medicinal herbs and also other more previous products, such as wine, hunted animals, and pills . Similar to the Village Crowds, the material was inspected before it was stored .

"Director, Tian-Ling City this month are proud to present the Heavenly Sword Sect with a total of 30,000 Qi Sensing Pills, 2 tonnes of Purple Essence Jade, 200 Advance-Quality Pure Iron Ingots and Sentient Iron Ingots, and 100 boxes of Camelia Flower Essence Tea Leaves . " the two representatives reported everything written in their list .

The Thirty thousand Qi Sensing Pills were worth 30 Million in total, added with the precious Purple Essence Jade worth 20 Million, the 400 Ingots worth 30 Million, and another 10 Million for the 100 boxes of tea leaves, their tributes on a month alone worth 90 Million Gold Coins . This amount was over nine-fold compared to Zhang Wu Ji's income .

"Good! Your city's profit is increased once again . . . Now, Tian Shi City!" he praised the performance of the representative's report and called another city . But their report was lackluster in comparison against the Tian Ling City's performance .

In this meeting, the Tian Ling City was the one with the highest amount of tributes, worth 90 Million, followed by the Tian Shi City, Tian Huo City, and Tian Lin City with 70 Million respectively . The Town group's figure was even smaller, capped at between 1 million to 5 million Gold Coins . As for the Village Groups, their contribution was all raw materials, which was the best they can provide due to the limitation of their power .

"Great work everyone . Your rewards from the Heavenly Sword Sect will come soon . " Zhang Wu Chou praised all of them before he left the meeting hall without waiting for anyone to reply his words . While the people inside of the building is ongoing, the outside of the pavilion was already crowded with many humongous carriages that were specialized with carrying heavy weights . The carriage is pulled by a kind of Peak Wild Beast known as Iron Scale Bull .

These Iron Scale Bulls were domesticated Wild Beast in their Peak cultivation of a 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter and were one of the few kinds of Wild Beast that can easily accept their condition as long they were fed with good quality foods . As for the good quality preferences, it was Qi Sensing Pill .

Pulling the tribute goods worth over a few hundred thousand millions with them, the crowd led by Zhang Wu Chou returned to the Heavenly Sword Sect . As for the promised rewards, they were actually water from the Sword Mountain's Natural Waterfall, where it was nourished for generations by the members of the Heavenly Sword Sect using their own Strands of Inner Qi .

The Bottled Water from the Sword Mountain in Heavenly Sword Sect were precious natural commodities that were distributed in a controlled manner for years and was one of the most sought-after tributes even the Lord of Upper South State covets .

"Reporting to Master Senior, we received a letter from your father . " his subordinate, Summer, hand an enclosed letter to Zhang Wu Chou with both hands . He received the letter and open to read its content, only to give out a sour smile . Although his relationship with his brothers and father weren't bad, towards his youngest brother, Zhang Wu Ji, he has a different opinion .

First, his youngest brother has grown up and was accepted into the Seven Star Sect . It did not further express the detail of him being accepted as a Master Senior because this letter was sent not too long after the news of his acceptance was received .

The second is that because of the two parent's wishes, The Zhang and Guans had agreed to become the matchmaker to pull the youngest Zhang Wu Ji together with Guan Qing Han . Their marriage will be discussed further when the two return from the Seven Star Sect after a year .

As for the third, it was related to the family business . At this moment, the Zhang Family already take the initiative to purchase the unused land near to the Qing Spirit Forest and completely immersed themselves into the business in Pills and Botanist . Their family standing was twice better than before, and it was all thanks to their youngest brother that started the planting and collecting materials from the Qing Spirit Woods .

"I wonder how eldest brother will react when he read the same letter addressed to him . " Zhang Wu Chou smirks and destroys the letter, letting the wind blow them away .

"Master, do you need this three disciples to do anything for you?" without noticing the time has passed, another five days have passed . His strands of Fighter Qi were worth 25 strands, and up to date, he spent a total of six ingots to mass produce the Iron Thrusting Dirks just for the sake of his upgrading research . The effort of his promotes the awe of his three disciples, but when they noticed that their master had missed his breakfast for six continuous days, it becomes worries .

This is why at this morning, the three of them remain in the courtyard until their master came out from the room . Kneeling right before him, their appearance is more like disciples kneeling because of their mistake and not like disciples that trying to get rid of their master's worries .

"What are you three doing again? Do you like kneeling so much?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned them . It wasn't an issue for him as that weren't his knee, to begin with, but for a person that wasn't originated from this world, it was unusual for him, especially when each time he saw this three, they will perform such an action .

"Stand up!" he shouted at them, which they finally understand the meaning behind his questions . But still, they maintain their attitude towards their master and awaits his next order . From the six pieces of ingots, he crafted a total of 270 of the Iron Thrusting Dirks, but only 3 were left in his hand, while all the others turned into ashes of Failure because of his failing attempts .

Holding the Dirk nicely in his palm, Zhang Wu Ji strikes at the decoration stone ball that was standing at his side . The sharpness of the Dirk cuts the stone in a perfectly smooth line, as it slid down and cracked when it reaches the ground . It gave the trio a shock because, in their mind, it was a ridiculous opinion for them to consider that a dagger that small can actually be this sharp .

"This is the Iron Thrusting Dirk . It was a new design I come out with . As for their usage, it was more likely to be prepared for a female that wasn't a cultivator but needs to protect themselves from any attacks . Its blade was 6 inches long, which means it's scabbard will only need to be simple . It can also be treated as ceremonial weapons, especially when specially ordered by a father to their child, or from a master to his disciples . "

"What do you think about this weapon?" he passes three of the +6 Iron Thrusting Dirks to his three disciples, and let them study the weapon back in their own place . This way, he can divert their attention, and reduce the frequency of their visits to where he is . With the research on successfully making his weapon +10 quality, aside disturbance is not needed .

Like this, Zhang Wu Ji let his three disciples left, and return to take a short rest before he continued with the upgrading works once more . Insisting that his first upgraded item should be a weapon he made, Zhang Wu Ji continued with his craft . One after another, the Iron Thrusting Dirk were created one after another, only to be turned into Ashes of Failure for an unaccountable number of times .

The first day of the month greets the courtyard with stacks of Yantai County's Mandrake Plant, which was finally harvested after they matured exactly in 90 days . But that was not all . The first batch of Yin Ling Fruit was ripe enough for harvest as well . A total of 100 fruits were harvested, each of them was kept in a nice basket that was specially woven for Yin Ling Fruit alone .

And at the side of the two plants were a beautiful fruit with the shape like a mango, but carrying the beautiful skin like a scorching sun . This is the precious commodities that although it wasn't rare, it was a fruit that likely nobody will waste them for the sake of eating, the Sun Facing Fruit .

That was not all . At the bottom side of the Sun, Facing Fruit placed three Bottle Gourd, filled with the Taixia Condensed Dews . With all the ingredients were ready, Zhang Wu Ji came out from the Blacksmith, inspect each of the items before he ordered them to be relocated into the Pill Making Room for him to follow up .

One needs to know that, for those Untiered Medicinal Pills, a combination is a must to further enhance the effectiveness of the end results, but for those tiered pills like those ingredients he possesses at this moment, it was better to concoct them in their purest condition, which was after they were recently harvested .

He took a short rest, and went to the Pill Making Room quickly, and begin with the process of concocting the Taixia Pill from the Condensed Dew first . Although they were all Tier 1 Medicine, none of their production recipes were difficult to follow . In fact, the Taixia Pill was one of the easiest pills to concoct, and easiest to fail as well due to their sensitivity to heat .

Since the dew that was collected already combined into one entity, Zhang Wu Ji poured all the liquid substance into the Cauldron, before he started with the firing of the Pill Cauldron . By controlling the heat in ten stages, he started the first process, stirring . This starting step was important in order to allow the concentration of the Taixia Dew to mix evenly, as they will start to get more viscous the longer they were heated .

When the fire reaches the third stages, the first bottle of the Taixia Condensed Dew begins to get as thick as a caramel, where separating them and molding them into sphere shape pill is made possible . When the fire reaches the fourth stage, he collected the now moldable Taixia Condensed Dew to shape them . The procedure was like making a fish ball in his previous life, where Shaping, Rolling, and separating is the three most important steps to distributes them into their own before they return to the Pill Cauldron for the last step .

The bottle gourd is able to carry a total of 1 liter of liquid in them, thus from this 1 liter of Taixia Condensed Dew, Zhang Wu Ji successfully mold nine pulls out of the concentrate and left with about three-quarter of a complete pill . But it wasn't usable because one batch of Taixia Condensed Dew can only be fired until completion and any firing after their completion will destroy the pill completely .

This is also the reason why the Taixia Pill success rate is too low, it was due to the failure rate is too high, and the success rate is too low . Over fired the concoction will result in failure, lack of heat will result in failure, and if the condensed dew weren't sufficient enough to be formed into a pill, it was a failure as well .

But towards Zhang Wu Ji, these failure common senses weren't applicable on him at all, because depending on the success percentage applied on the Pill Cauldron, he can easily concoct the pill without worrying about the end results . All he would need is a proper ingredient, and voila, it was successfully concocted .

With the form of a pill, the molds were fired to the final stage, it was beginning to turn from caramel color into beautiful pearl white before a hint of greenish color came into sight . With the fire is completely dimmed, the results were an excellent nine round bead-like pills .

-Usage: Immediately form a strand of Fighter Qi in the Cultivator body after consumptions . Effect reduced by 10% each time a pill is consumed . Reduction effect capped at 5% minimum, an equivalent of a 5% incomplete Strand of Fighter Qi is created .

"Damn! This pill is such an amazing treasure! That's an increase of 100 strands of Inner Qi after consumption! This means by taking in 20 Complete Taixia Qi Pills, I can increase my amount of Fighter Qi by 6 strands! And if I am that unlucky to maintain in my Inner Qi Fighter strength, the removal of 95% of the reduction can be removed in 95 months, which means it was a 9 years before I can consume them effectively again . "

-Usage: Immediately form a strand of Fighter Qi in the Cultivator body after consumptions . Effect reduced by 10% each time a pill is consumed . Reduction effect capped at 10% minimum, an equivalent of a 10% incomplete Strand of Fighter Qi is created .

"Hey! What's wrong? Why didn't a new special ability came into the pill? It must be a malfunction, I should try another pill!" he attempts on trying again, and because of the high amount of Inner Qi in him, he did not notice that the Complete Taixia Qi Pill's upgrade cost 10 Strands of Inner Qi each time .

"Still the same . . . The only additional compared to previous is that the weakening effect is removed slightly faster . . . " it was not a disappointment, but it wasn't an improvement either . Left with no choice, he upgrades the nine Complete Taixia Qi Pills to their +5 status but did not go through the limit because these pills are too much for him to lose .

"I should complete the remaining two bottles before I start with the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant . " Zhang Wu Ji returned to his serious matter once more . As for the remaining two bottles, they were only worthy for seven pills and eight pills, making his total of Complete Taixia Qi Pill goes up to 24 pills . With the Taixia Condensed Dew is finished, he can begin with the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant now .

Each of the Mandrake Plant carries a resemblance with ginseng, but their size is at least ten times bigger than the normal hundred year ginseng . Similar to a human, the Mandrake Plant does have their own sexual differentiation . The Male Mandrake comes with a more evenly distributed body, four limbs, and a tail at the front, while the Female Mandrake has a chestier upper part and very thin limbs . Of course, the female mandrake does not possess a tail .

The creation of the Yantai Pill first required the Pill Master to start by skinning the Mandrake's skin, leaving only their inner flesh which looks like a Chinese Yam, and they even have some sticky transparent substance coming out from their body, which is also the Mandrake Plant final defensive measure . The substance is not deadly, but 10% of the unknowledgeable Pill Masters always forced to retire because of this skin burning substance .

And to counter this substance, their only way was to combine the Male and the Female Mandrake Plant together and bring them to boil . This will allows the two sexually different Mandrake Plant to counter each other's substance, leaving only the boiling fresh skinned root out from the water, void of any dangerous substance .

And with this preparation steps was over, the Pill Master can then starts to concoct the essence . The two roots will then be cooked inside of the Pill Cauldron, and their burnt fiber is to be removed before the complete essence of the harmonized concoction is extracted . Once the unwanted remain was removed, it was the time for the final step, firing the cauldron into the maximum temperature .

This process can be considered done the moment the firestone exhausted their flames, leaving the Pill Cauldron cooldown to release the medicinal fragrance enclosed within . A successful pill carries a hint of bitterness in their fragrance, and a low-quality pill carried the hint of burnt in their fragrance .

When he opened the cauldron, a blast of medicinal fragrance spreads out to the whole room, covering its air with thick bitterness flavor, but void of any hint of burnt . It was another success at the first try once again, with the beautiful White Pill as large as an eyeball is removed from the Pill Cauldron .

"What is wrong with this description? Did the name Yantai Pill is fake?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the name it was shown in the description . Up to date, many of the items he read in their descriptions matched the name given by the public, and even the Iron Ruler he made, or the Dirk he crafted carried the name correctly . But when he looks at the description of this pill he just made, it was completely different from what he knows .

-Usage 1: Completely recover the Injuries and exhausted Strands of Fighter Qi immediately, the effect will gradually reduce in minutes, and two hours after consumption, the consumer cultivation will reduce by half .

-Usage 2: Allowed the user to obtain the ability to utilize Death Qi . Amount of Death Qi utilized will further increase the injuries and reduction of cultivation by 5% each time .

"Damn! The Yantai County is seriously vicious!" It was a pitiful fact that they were destroyed, but in order to cover the fact of this deadly pill, they changed their name into a glorious Yantai Pill, known for their usage to instantly recover their injuries and replenish exhausted Fighter Qi . But no matter what, it was an immoral act to hide the side effect of the Yantai Pill from the public even if the pill were to meant to be taken at a life and death situation!

If he did not possess the ability to discern and read the true condition of the product he touches, perhaps even as a Pill Master himself, Zhang Wu Ji will still be deceived by the hidden fact behind this fake Recovery Pill . It wasn't qualified to be called as a Recovery Pills at all, but it was far more qualified to be called as a Forbidden Medicine! This truth was revealed to him indirectly, out of a coincidence .

Does this fact . . . Worth destroying the fame after death the Yantai County received after so long? No matter what, the Yantai County still being worshipped as heroes among the humans, because of their sacrifice to fight against the Beast Infestation, only to end up as being swallowed completely, leaving no human alive within the whole piece of land .

"For the name of human's protector that had sacrificed themselves, I will let you keep this small hint of deceit down to your grave . But under my eyes, I will promise myself that this Yantai Pill that I concocted, will not be used by any of the people belonged to the Seven Star Sect in any situation!" Zhang Wu Ji decided . It was a painful decision to do so, but sometimes, the legend is what leads people to survive through times, and not the truth .

And at the same time, Zhang Wu Ji noticed another fact, which leads him to agree in one of his hypothesis . The destruction of the Yantai County was, in fact, a disaster caused by themselves, because of their approach and extreme cultivation in concocting their famous Yantai Pill .

-Usage 1: the Yin Yang Mandrake is sexless until they matured . Upon maturity, the medicinal effect within its body will be transformed into a precious medicinal ingredient, suitable to be concocted into many different kinds of Medicinal Pill due to their Yin and Yang harmonized quality .

-Usage 2: the Yin-Yang Mandrake Plant is a well sought after aphrodisiac coveted by the Beast because of their effectiveness and the ability to increase the count of copulation they can endure . A female Mandrake enhanced female beast conceiving and birth ability, and a Male Mandrake increase the amount of production and time they can copulate .

"I think, none of the residents inside the whole Yantai County does know the fact that the Mandrake Plant that they were so proud and massively cultivates throughout their land, was the reason their county was destroyed . The beast honestly cannot be blamed for this, because even a human might lose control when their sanity is already been controlled by lust, especially the whole Yantai County is cultivating them all over in their lands .

"In fact I do feel pity for the crowd of beast during their successful Infestation, but there should be a large number of casualties as well, due to the aphrodisiac . " he feels like laughing because he successfully discern a truth, but it was an ironic incident, the moment he understands the fact hidden for so long .

"I should look for more knowledge and information related to the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant first . Since the description stated their harmonize Yin and Yang within the plant is suitable to concoct many medicines, there must be some hidden recipes that not many people know . Perhaps looking for their remains will be a good choice to start . " he decides that no matter how dangerous the pill and the mandrake, they still worth a chance .

With 98 remaining Mandrake Plants remained, Zhang Wu Ji separates their differentiation, according to a set, and it was unfortunate there were only 14 remaining Male Mandrake Plants, and the other 84 belonged to the Female Mandrake Plant category . In the end, he only able to concoct fifteen Mutual Destruction Pills, or he decides to remain with the name Yantai Pill for now .

The remaining 70 Female Mandrakes plant are to be sold in the Free Market when it's possible because they will be no use for him at this moment . Instead of keeping them for another three months, it was a better suggestion to sell them for the prices of 1 Qi Sensing Pill each . It will worth 70 Qi Sensing Pills at the end of the day .

Usage 1: The fruit essence extracted from the Sun Facing Fruit is a high-quality material to be concocted into Qi Sensing Pills . According to the scale, every 10 units of essence were worth 1 Qi Sensing Pill after completing the concoction .

It was an easy task to concoct the Fruit Essence from the Sun Facing Fruit . All he needs will be to land a cut in the middle of the fruit and remove the seed which was as big as an avocado seed . The flesh of the fruit carries the texture similar to a sponge, whereby pressing them hard the juice inside of the fruit will be extracted .

To concoct the Qi Sensing Pill, the process must be done from a completely cold Pill Cauldron . The chances of failure are almost non-existent because the concoction process is too simple . By firing the cauldron and continue to stir their juices, the Qi Sensing Pill will slowly form . According to the senior Pill Masters that publish their own revision books, the concentration enzyme inside of the fruit essence is very likely to bond together when they were left under the stressful condition of heat .

As their maximum number of essence unit are 10, each of them will be combined in a size of ten and results in few marbles looking pills left inside of the cauldron when all the fruit extracts run dry . Normal fruit always carries over 70 units in their fruit, while some better fruit produced by the Imperial Kingdom are likely to yield the amount of 90 to 110 units in their fruit because of fertile land, Condensed Qi Atmosphere, and professional Botanist .

Not too long, he ends up eight Qi Sensing Pill richer, without any special note to be found from his handmade Qi Sensing Pills . After taking a proper rest, he started to works on the Yin Ling Fruit, which look like a peach but void of the seed inside of the fruit . Instead of having a seed inside, the Yin Ling Fruit is filled with pulps that hold the Yin Ling Fruit juices together .

The process is only allowed to be done by hand, where the next step after harvesting, is to peel the skin of the fruit like it was a pomelo fruit . The peel was then discarded to reveal its mesocarp, or also known as the white flesh layer of the fruit . By peeling them one side after another, it soon revealed the juicy vesicles, which the human name them pulps in his own world .

The process of extraction the juices were actually easier than its difficult descriptions mentioned by the recipe . By gently removing the central column that holds all the pulp together, Zhang Wu Ji easily extracts the juices from the fruit like a bubble is popped . That pull revealed the central column with many cork-like tips, which hold the juices in the pup together .

By removing the column, the juices flow into the cauldron . He then throws the remains into a basket and proceeds with the next fruit . Following the procedure stated by the recipe, a total of five Yin Ling Fruit is required to complete a cauldron of concoction, where it will then be fired and stirred, until it reaches the medicinal potency they required .

Following the instructions, the concoction quickly formed into a pile of powder, with seven pills remained at the bottom . Because the Yin Essence Pill possess the coldness that can sooth the clash of Yin and Yang element within a cultivator body, it was a commodity that was sought after by many cultivators, especially for those reckless cultivators that accidentally went out of control .

-Usage 2: Balancing Yin and removing Yang . Female consumption will have no side effect . As for the male, an overdose of the Yin Essence Pill will cause hormone to unbalance, turning the male into a sissy for a while .

"This pill effect is as usual again . It means that only the Yantai Pill effect has been tempered . The recipe must be either modified or changed due to some unspeakable reason . But that is not something I need to handle . As long I can control the usage of the Yantai Pill for those people close to me, it will be more than enough . " Zhang Wu Ji reconsiders his thought while continue to make another batch of concoction .

His final result were 24 Complete Taixia Qi Pills, 15 Yantai Pills, 8 Qi Sensing Pills, and finally 75 Yin Essence Pills . This concoction result was a very positive result for him, but the wastage of 70 Mandrake Plant still hurts him, because they were worth 35 pills if their number is evenly distributed . But sometimes luck does play an important role in this matter .

At the same time, a person finally returned from his task . Standing right before the door into his Pill Making Room, Bai Hei Tie stands there to wait for his master to come out . He was impatient to share what he got in his trip, but at the same time, hesitates to disturb him because the silence and calmness are important during Pill Concoction .

"Ah, Hei Tie, you came back? Did the arrangement for the mineral ores goes well?" Zhang Wu Ji met Bai Hei Tie the moment he opened the door from the inside . With that guy standing straight like a plank outside, it was impossible for him to not greet the subordinate .

"Master Senior, Hei Tie successfully made an order for ten batches of the mineral ores in their best quality to be delivered to the Seven Star Sect . At the same time, I collected a few of the refined materials for your inspection . This is all come from the Bai Village so I can assure that their quality is good enough . " Bai Hei Tie quickly took out eight items, categorized into four different types .

[Pearl Silica Block], [Translucent Silica Block], [Chalcocite Block], [Malachite Blocks], [Jadeite Cubes], [Nephrite Stone], and finally, the [Kaolin Clay], and [Mined Bone] . [1]

"Four materials divided into eight different categories! I did not imagine before, but at least six of them were precious material that will obtain my attention!" Zhang Wu Ji happily inspects the material and scanned the quality of every single item placed on top of the table . He almost wanted to say;

But he decided to keep the thing in his heart instead of bringing that out because sometimes, a note made into a heart is better than speaking them out loud . It was his way to preserve the thin line that connects him and Bai Hei Tie together .

"This is great! All if the item were in a very excellent quality, and it was done within two weeks just for the sake of my inspection . Did you say that their delivery will come in ten different batches? That's a good news . " Zhang Wu Ji happiness is no longer contained . His excited expression and tone even attract Tang Yuan, Xiao Hua, and Ya Pin to come out to have a look .

"Since everyone is here, come over . " Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand to the other three and ordered them to come before him . With the four subordinates is here, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws five Complete Taixia Qi Pills, and five Yin Essence Pills out from two different jade bottles . Placing one pill on each and two Complete Taixia Qi Pills at Bai Hei Tie's palm and two Yin Essence Pills at Zhao Xiao Hua's palm, he gave them some instructions .

When the four subordinates listened to his instruction, how can they not be emotional? In fact, the weaker will Zhao Xiao Hua cried because their master just gave them a precious pill that can instantly give them one strand of Fighter Qi upon consumption, and the Yin Essence Pill that can improve their health and also balance the Yin and Yang Element within their body .

"Master, the two pills is too precious!" the four of them tried to return the pills back, but it was rejected with a palm standing straight before them .

"No rewards without effort . This is what you all qualified to get as long you willingly contributes on behalf of me . As long you remain productive, this kind of rewards will only get more and not less . Stop with all this too valuable and returning the pills to me because, in fact, they were concocted from the material you guys spend so much time to cultivates . " Zhang Wu Ji convinced them that this was mere rewards for their works .

With those embarrassing sentences is said, Zhang Wu Ji left the four to decipher his words, while he returned to his room for a good rest . Of course, that is after he collected the eight items back to his room . With them placed on the table, Zhang Wu Ji concentrated his mind and collects his thought to consider something important .

"Everyone follow my lead! We will now clear the Wen Wu City treasury, and let us catch a few hundred to thousands of beauties to give birth to our lovely babies! Hah!" the leader of this troops of bandits speaks a few words to motivates his people before he whipped the buttock of the horse he's riding, and ride downhill .

Leading them in the front were the three brothers of the Lan Shan Clan, Lan Shan Yi, the eldest third generation child, Lan Shan Yue, the second and only daughter of the Lan Shan Clan core members, and Lan Shan Yao, the third and pampered child of the Lan Shan Core Family .

The three of them are in their 17th, 18th, and 19th, and well known for their brutal and abusing manner, which destroyed three villages situated inside of the Orchid Mountain! With one thousand bandits lead by this three leader and also ten more Bandit Assistant leaders, they launch their attack, with two priority targets in their mind .

Translucent Silica = Clear Calcite in real life . The calcite was made into many ways in pharmaceutical, constructions, and also as reiki healing crystals for some practitioners .

Chalcocite Block = one of the most important copper mineral, which categorized as Sulfide Minerals . In this novel, it will be treated as a raw material before they were refined into a proper high-quality Copper Ingots .

Malachite Block = also one of the most important copper mineral, categorized as Carbonated Minerals . The malachite carries a more crystalline appearance, which in the novel it will be treated as Crystal Copper, a greener crystal version used mainly not for a weapon, but as accessories .

Jadeite / Nephrite = this two is still jade, but their differences vary in [Creamier Green color for Jadeite] and [Heavier Green Tone for Nephrite] . In our world, Jade was a crystal that not able to combine into a bigger piece with a high technology to perform the gluing process, but since this is a novel with imagination, expect none common sense fact .

Kaolin Clay = a nature Clay mineral, or also more likely to be known as "China Clay" to the world . The Kaolin Clay carries a more Iron like hue, and some lighter color like white, yellow, and light orange . If you search them in Wikipedia, their uses are expanded into many, like ceramics, toothpaste, and also medicine .

Mined Bone = Bone ash in our life, it was a material that formed from calcinated animal bones . It was used in the creation of Bone China wares, but in this novel, their natural become Mined Bone, a Calcinated bones like material that came from nature, and in this fact, for now, it was from the Mineral Vein indirectly . (I hope this answers your question, my dear reader [Gortox] .

While he was still sleeping, the Wen Wu City outskirt is facing a rigorous attack lead by the three third Lan Shan siblings . The attack received heavy retaliation from the city, but due to a large number of refugees escaping from the fire of war, the city gate was not allowed to be closed at this moment .

Fuelled with the experience from fighting and robberies, the eldest of the three siblings, Lan Shan Yi lead his people and charged into the City wall, and tried to destroys their enemies from the inside . The attack lead by him quickly gives out a result of a temporary victory, with many soldiers are either injured or killed . Corpses lying almost everywhere, but most of them belonged to a male .

As for those females, there was a special squad among them that specialized in drugging the females before they were dragged into a cage pulled by an Iron Scale Bull . This sight alone shows how organized is this troops of bandits, and also in their way in kidnapping, robbing, and killing .

But in the eyes of those higher-ups, such as the Seven Star Sect, this was a challenge to their authorities . Not even the Seven Star Sect can freely use the three Iron Scale Bulls in their collection, and yet the bandits from Orchid Mountain can simply drive one out for the sake of kidnapping female to be brought back home to ****?

And due to the written rule that was passed down from one generation to another, those above Sheng Tian Process aren't allowed to participate in these kinds of battles due to the unspoken rules, and so, only those within the Inner Qi Elder and below are allowed to participates . This restriction caused the destruction to alleviate further, causing more damage just because of the sake of protecting their image as a Sheng Tian Cultivators .

Soon, the Militarized Forces came out from their base and strike deep into the formation of the bandits, but what they did not imagine was the weapon of those bandits was smeared with the poison from their Orchid Mountain, known as Hallucination of Orchids . Like its name, those poisoned cultivators will begin to hallucinate, and everything they see in their eyes will turn into man-eating orchid flowers .

This poison soon caused internal damage to the Militarized Forces, because the poison forced their people to fight against their own . It was a very bad situation, which forced the people at the northern gate of the Wen Wu City is retreating back to the central .

With another layer of the defensive wall erected in the inner city, the Wen Wu City is safe for time being, until the aid comes from the Seven Star Sect .

At another side, their youngest leader, Lan Shan Yao is leading an attack towards the Apprentice Hall located at the Northeast of the Wen Wu City . Following behind him is a total of three hundred bandits, all of them in their 3rd and 4th stage of an Inner Qi Fighters .

But the moment they reach the Apprentice Hall, all of their gate leading into the building is closed tightly . The quick spreading news and fire burning from the City north gate allowed the members of the Apprentice Hall to prepare and quickly seal the doors before trying to defend themselves .

One of the members, which is the disciple that smashed the egg on his own and kneel before Zhang Wu Ji run to the top of the building and ignites an arrow before he fired them up to the skies . The exploded fireworks notified the slave disciples that worked in the Apprentice Hall before to rush towards the Master Senior Ninth's courtyard and bang his door ferociously!

"Brother Tang Yuan, Apprentice Hall shot a firework just now, that is our emergency signal! Please tell Master Senior Ninth!" the group of slave disciples quickly explained their reason, but before Tang Yuan reacts, the gong in the Training ground ranged, calling for a gathering of all disciples!

"Wen Wu City under attack! Wen Wu City under attack! The attackers are the people from Orchid Mountain!" many disciples that received the news immediately spreads the news of the attack, and tried to gather as much disciple as possible to react on this attack!

But this gathering will take a lot of preparation! By the time their preparation is completed, the attack will be over . But without preparations before dispatching people out, won't that equal to the act of "Delivering food to the mouth of a tiger?"

As the gong continue to get beaten, Tang Yuan went to Zhang Wu Ji's door and knock politely, but in a more extreme manner . Since the youth wasn't sleeping, to begin with, he opened the door . Minutes later after he got briefed by Tang Yuan and the other slave disciples, Zhang Wu Ji prepared to leave for the city .

"Junior brother ninth, come up!" before he can react, a sword hovers just above his courtyard, with his eight senior brother and sisters were riding on top of their master's Flying Sword .

"This!" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to ask, but the important matter should come first! He jumps upwards and balanced himself on the sword, before the sword driven by the Grand Elder of the Right, Xing Yi Chen .

"Ask later! We will go now!" the grand elder drives the flying sword immediately as they headed at the Wen Wu City, but this action may cause disturbance to the public later, no matter if they won or lost . Because, in order to defend against the attack by the third generation of the Lan Shan Clan, the Seven Star Sect were forced to send in nine strongest disciples from the sect to deter their forces .

"What a bandit! How dare you attack my efforts and my life achievements!" when the sword almost reaches the airspace belonged to the Wen Wu City, he noticed another explosion happened not too far from his place .

"Senior brother and sisters, I will protect the Apprentice Hall, everyone please be careful!" he hop and descends from the flying sword and went straight to the Apprentice Hall's direction in order to make sure nothing happened on his hard earn treasure and cash, his people, and of course, his buildings!

"Damn! How come the wooden door of their entrance is so difficult to destroy? We already chopping them for almost half an hour now!" the three bandits complaint because the door is still standing sturdy after so many strikes from their swords .

"Same here! The wall is not too high, but those defending behind the wall is what makes this issue difficult! How can they know where we will come in from?" a few bandits were injured after being stabbed by a spear the moment he tried to jump across the wall as high as six feet .

"Three-Point Fighter Qi Fist!" Lan Shan Yao strikes at the Main Gate using his full 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter's strength, and still, he was shocked with the sturdiness of the door . Although his attack managed to cause a destruction force worth 22 points, it was barely enough to destroy the door with a strike! After the reduction of 16 points due to the poor physical defense, only 6 point of damage managed to destroy the door slightly, reducing its durability by 6 .

"One more!" Lan Shan Yao strikes for the second, third, and fourth time, only to finally see an almost broken door . But his attempt is deemed to be a failure . Fuelled with the intention to obtain his boss attention, the three bandits went to attack the main door with their sword once more, and assist in the recovery to return to normal . The once almost broken door was repaired out of the blue due to the three idiot's attack .

"Are you here to help me or disturb me?" the thought angered him because that four strikes already took out almost 200 strands of Fighter Qi inside his body . Although he was a 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, his maximum limit of Inner Qi is only about 800++, thus the tiring part is normal for him .

"Stop! How dare you mess with me outside of my place!" Zhang Wu Ji appeared, along with the Iron Ruler on his right hand . He landed on the ground right in the middle of the bandits, and without a warning, the swing of his ruler strikes and landed a critical hit on two of the unaware bandits!

"Master Senior! Master Senior Ninth is here to save us!" the members of the Apprentice Hall cried out loudly, with swords and spears clashes at each another when those inside shouts . With a roar, the door is opened, as the twenty members from the Martial Art Department and Hunting Department came out to assist him .

"Fist of Destruction Qi!" the twenty people execute their killing move at the same time, blowing apart all the bandit's crowd away from them . The surprise was shocking enough to make all of them awed with it, while twenty of the bandits is crying on the ground, with few punches mark on their body and face .

But at this moment, those from Herbalist, Alchemist, and Forging Department went out from the building, and tied the bandits using the rope in their hand, and links them together, to not allow any of them successfully escape .

"How dare you mess with me! Three-Point Fighter Qi Fist!" Lan Shan Yao angrily shouts and execute a three chain attack at Zhang Wu Ji, but through a swing of his Iron Ruler, he deflected two attacks, and received the last attack with a heavy strike from his middle tier Fist of Destruction Qi!

The retaliation from Zhang Wu Ji pushes the opponent back, but he did not relax himself seeing he was able to overcome the attack . This may just be the weakest attack from his opponent to gauge his strength before he retaliates in a profound manner . But for the bandit boss, this ends up as a disgrace! The reason is simple, it was because by saving himself from landing a deadly strike, it means;

Lan Shan Yao pushes his strength to his top, and like a ferocious beast, he strikes forwards with both palm were covered with his Fighter Qi . With such a risky charge, he must have some trump card hidden in his hand . His both palms randomly strike the stones and building as he approaches Zhang Wu Ji, and up to his expectation, this Bandit leader did hide his trick from his opponent's sight .

His hand turned into his back, and with a pull of his wrist, a soft copper made sword was revealed Lan Shan Yao strikes his strongest and deadliest attack .

"First-Wave Strike!" unexpectedly, he executed the lowest tier attack from the Three-Wave Sword Art, the Sword Art that made his father's name famous in the Seven Star County .

"Shatter Strike activates!" Zhang Wu Ji activated the 2nd special ability possessed by his Iron Ruler . And with a heavy strike, his attack destroys the copper sword which was made from a very soft alloy material, before the Shatter Strike landed on his body .

Three strikes . One on his chest, one on his back, and the last one on his pelvis . This three Shattering Effect Strike cracked almost all the bones in his body before Zhang Wu Ji tied him up . As for the others, he easily defeated them along with his members, and lead to the North Gate to provide assistance .

Following behind him is the 301 bandits that were soon to become his bargaining chips when he tried to stop the other bandits . Although the others wanted to follow Zhang Wu Ji, he stops them from doing so, and only allowed the ten from Martial Art Department to helps . With ten more people helping in handling the bandits, they make their way forward .

And while walking like a slave is chained together, Lan Shan Yao keep thinking about what had just happened just now . If his memories did not fail him, he remembered that the blacksmith of their Lan Shan Clan said before;

"The Soft Bone Copper Sword is my best creation that will not break or shatter no matter in what condition . It will be the best weapon for you . "

"Did uncle lied? But he does me so much, which means the weapon is impossible to be destroyed in a simple strike . There must be something wrong with his ruler . It was made of Iron, based on the weight, it should be extremely heavy, but how can he wield it so easily?" Lan Shen Yao went into his deep thought even when they already reach the north gate .

The remaining bandits are still fighting against the other soldiers and the eight direct disciples of the headmaster . With the eldest senior brother and the second brother handing the two Lan Shan siblings, the others were quickly handled and awaiting for their further actions . Zhang Wu Ji ordered his people to keep a watch on the captives and charged forward .

At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji position is almost standing above their eldest brother . Because of his straight and direct attitude, most of his action obtained the approvals from his senior brother and sisters . With his participation in this battle, their spirit rouse, where the fight against the remaining five hundred bandits ends very quickly, without too many casualties .

As for the small numbers of poisoned soldiers, Zhang Wu Ji utilized the Crystal Surgeon Knife in his hand to remove their poison, before they returned to normal . But the side effect of the poison had seeped into their mind, leaving some trauma in their mind forever .

Not too long in their battle, the 900 members of the bandits are all caught, leaving the two Lan Shan siblings still fighting against two of the Seven Star Sect's disciples .

"Hahaha! What a great Seven Star Sect . I see you send all nine disciples to catch us . Do you think that will become possible? Even if you win, your name will be smeared by us!" Lan Shan Yue, the second of the three siblings comments as she was getting tired under the persistent attack from the second senior brother .

"Smear our name? You lots from the Lan Shan Clan is not qualified!" Zhang Wu Ji answered her comments with his own decisive and mighty tone . Carrying the impression of a scholar with an Iron Ruler on his hand, Zhang Wu Ji steps forward while pulling the youngest Lan Shan Yao our from the crowd . His action was out of everyone expectation, but it was normal in Zhang Wu Ji mind because he watches too much movie during his previous life .

"Let me ask . If a dog bites you, will you bite the dog back?" Zhang Wu Ji quotes a word he heard in his past, but when they heard his question, their answer was unexpectedly . . .

The Lightning Hound Beast was a Wild Beast with an estimated strength of around 15th Stage Inner Qi Warrior . If they were bitten by a dog like the Lightning Hound Beast, of course, you will need to bite them back, at least you can still land a few attacks on them . . .

"My point is, you bandits are not worthy to smear the name of the Seven Star Sect . So what if we sent our people to defend against your attack with our full strength? This means that we place the people within the Seven Star County as important as our own! Facing an attack from the bandits like you, I believe even those that not from our county will step forward to fight!"

"I would smear my own if we failed to stop you people, but what is happening now? You lots are under our mercy!" Zhang Wu Ji strikes his blade of words deep into the heart of the two siblings, and at this moment, the flame of anger inside they heart explodes! This leads the two to attack Zhang Wu Ji with the intention to kill!

"Do you think I will be scared by your attacks?" Zhang Wu Ji raised his Iron Ruler, and swing three times toward the two . The three swings generate six air blade in total, causing them to defend themselves while airborne . The pressure caused the two to fallen backward, but before they can take an action, the tip of the ruler already reaches before the eyes of the two, and with a slap from the Iron Ruler, it sends the two down kissing the ground!

"Aargh!" the oldest of the three, Lan Shan Yi cries and swing his sword to executes the Dual Wave Strike from the Three-Wave Sword Art, but it was deflected by the same attack from Zhang Wu Ji . This sudden changes shocked the crowd included the three siblings .

"How can he execute the Dual Wave Strike with such a precision? The attack that was executed without any effort at all!" Lan Shan Yi calms himself before he steadily steps forward once more . This time, with a very precise movement, he executed the same Dual Wave Strike for the second time, but like how it was before, a simple swing cancel out the attacks, before Zhang Wu Ji charged at his opponent and gave him a heavy strike, beating his soul out from his mind in a single hit .

Zhang Wu Ji soon turns his sight at the remaining lady standing there . With the Iron Ruler on his hand, he steps forward, seeking to take action in case she did not have any intention to surrender . One step after another, he soon reaches two steps right before the lady .

"Aww . . . You're a bad guy! How can you come so close with the intention to hurt me? Please be gentle to me ok?" the shameless Lan Shan Yue suddenly turned into a timid young lady that was so good in her pestering act . It even caused a few of the guys to have a hardon seeing how seductive is her movement . Unfortunately, all this seductive technique were useless against Zhang Wu Ji . . .

"My exposure towards pornography is even more than what you think, little lady! Do you seriously think that you can be a match against those amazing busty lady like what I've seen in my previous life?" Zhang Wu Ji almost wanted to blurt out all the amazing experience he got in his first youth .

"It's ineffective?" Lan Shan Yue was stunned with the all resistance Zhang Wu Ji . In a side fact, this is almost like a perfect husband candidate for the ladies all over the world . Decisive, Charismatic, Sharp, and High Integrity . All sorts of wonderful praises seemed to be made only to reflect this youth better . Even the despicable Lan Shan Yue wasn't resistant to such a charm .

"It was effective, but in a wrong way!" Zhang Wu Ji answered her question, and with an accurate swing, he placed the lady lied facing down on a piece of rock as tall as one meter, before the slap from the Iron Ruler came in! Instead of being seduced to do all sort of naughty things on her, Zhang Wu Ji was seduced to do something naughtier!

The Iron Ruler turn into an iron snake, whipping her buttock without mercy . Whenever a layer of her clothing is torn, he will replace them with another layer of pelt for two reasons .

The first is because of no matter how, the purity of a lady cannot be tarnish, even if she was a part of the bandits, to begin with . As for the second reason, it was simple . The longer he whips her, the worst the injuries will be . By placing a piece of pelt in between his Iron Ruler and the smooth buttock, at least, the clean bottom of the lady can be preserved . This is the last of the consideration he gives to the lady .

After a hundred whips, he finally stops . Leaving the situation to be handled by the people from the City Lord and Militarized Forces, the nine hundred and three bandits were all locked inside of a prison and awaits for the delegates from the Seven Star Sect to arrive before having all of them brought to the court to be judged .

"The city residents are grateful for your help in helping us to went through this journey together . We can't thank you enough for your kindness!" the crowd filled with the resident of Wen Wu City kneeled before the nine disciples and one elder .

This sudden gesture made all of them uncomfortable because those overbearing attitudes weren't something the nine disciples enjoyed . And in order to remove the awkward situation towards all of them, Zhang Wu Ji take the liberty to suggest something .

"Residents of Wen Wu City! I believe that after so many problems just happened, none of us remembered that the most important thing, for now, is to fill our stomach! Come! The Apprentice Hall invites everyone to come and fill your stomach first!"

"We have professional Construction Department, Which is why you all will need not to worry about the issue with the reconstructions! I will tolerate no people that dare to leave the Apprentice Hall without filling their stomach until they burst!"

"Master Disciples, can this elderly speaks a few words with you all?" an elder who is also the North Gate Representative came towards the nine of them with the intention to explained something . Luckily, the location they're at the moment is inside of the Apprentice Hall building .

"Elder please speak, if this nine disciples can help it, we will not hesitate to get it done . " their eldest senior brother answered his request to speaks and seated just before the elder to listen to his needs .

"The attack just now caught over twenty females in a different age, some of them were peoples daughter, some is other's wives . I hope the nine Master Disciples can provide us with some assistance to rescue the ladies from their distress . " the elderly explained the situation to the nine of them .

Without further ado, they immediately consult the situation with the Grand Elder of the Right and discussed the number of affected families . After recognizing most of their members, Zhang Wu Ji took the lead to catch up with the running Iron Scale Bull, while the others maintain the safety and guarding the perimeters of the North Gate in case the bandits have back up troops that managed to escape .

Meanwhile, the City Lord, the Commander of the Militarized Forces, and the Grand Elder of the Right is discussing the task to rebuild the houses and also some buildings, but due to the lack of resources and expertise, their discussion end up stopping in between before further reports related to the building materials and available workers came into their hand .

If this matter had been made known by Zhang Wu Ji, perhaps they don't even need to wait before making a decision . In a side fact, who can compete with the wealth of the Apprentice Hall at this moment? With himself missing from handling their treasury, it was filled with more and more precious material, and also skillful workers . The Apprentice Hall can easily command over ten thousand of the workforce in rebuilding the northern side of the Wen Wu City .

"That's the carriage with Iron Scale Bull! It wasn't driven by anyone, that's why the Wild Beast is still loitering around this area!" one of the members from the Martial Art Department made a remark the moment the group of eleven people saw the slowly moving carriage . They immediately catch up, but at this point, it still wasn't an easy task either .

An Iron Scale Bull possess the strength of the 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, so how can those people from their group have the ability to fight against it? Fighting against a fellow human, one may possibly catch him unaware and making some mistakes in a group fight, but it was different when the opponent becomes a Wild Beast .

A beast possesses twice the awareness when compared with a human, and on the body of an Iron Scale Bull especially, each part of the beast is a weapon . The body of the bull carries more than five different weapons, and if it was not for it timid nature, handling a beast of this strength is akin to seeking for own's death .

"Master Senior Ninth, what should we do now?" the subordinates asked for their next instruction . Being Zhang Wu Ji's subordinates is always comes with a perk, and for them, it was the privilege of learning the New Fist of Destruction Qi and also been given with sufficient QI Sensing Pills as long they work .

"Charge head on!" Zhang Wu Ji instruction is very simple, but that simplicity generates fear and awe at the same time . They have no idea that Zhang Wu Ji is this confident in his approach is because all over his body is filled with the item that comes with some special effect .

"Shatter-Strike!" Zhang Wu Ji activates the same technique for the second time, and with a continuous swing as he gets closer, air blades are formed in dozens and strikes at the Iron Scale Bull without a mercy . For Zhang Wu Ji, this was something fun for him, but for the subordinates, their master is a freak!

"Can we even destroy a single scales on the Iron Scale Bull's body?" this is what in their mind at this moment . But the reality does show then that even the heaviest defend of a beast is failed to fight against a mere air blade created from a few swings from an Iron Ruler .

Like the scales is made from eggshells, it shatters each time the air blade strikes at the Iron Scale Bull's body . The attack before reaching the bull already destroyed all its defense, leaving it only with its Iron Piercer Tail, Twin Iron Horn, and its four Iron Hoofs .

"MOO!!!" the Iron Scale Bull cried out loud and stomps its front hoofs down on the ground . Then, after cutting off the strings tying down itself with the carriage, the Iron Scale Bull charged at Zhang Wu Ji with its top speed . But no matter how ferocious is the Iron Scale Bull, it was meant to be defeated today .

The Iron Ruler of a weight close to 20 kilograms is pierced into the ground like a sturdy pillar and standing from behind, Zhang Wu Ji awaits the bull to come and challenge his Iron Ruler's might . The sight is like how a Matador is testing the ferocity of the bull .

"Moo!!!" the Iron Scale Bull strikes straight at the Iron Ruler, only to be bounced back like a Bamboo Slingshot . It flew about six meters high backward and slammed at the dense foliage full of shrubs and thorns . Without any of the Iron Scales protecting it anymore, the Iron Scale Bull can only cry in pain .

These pain might agitate its anger further if it was before, but with itself void of any Iron Scales now, the bull can only cry in pain . The Irony of life . . . An Iron Scale Bull well famed for its strength and defense end up crying because its body was full of injuries due to the sharp thorns covering the dense shrubs .

"Bring everyone back to the city . I will handle the Iron Scale Bull personally . " Zhang Wu Ji instructed the others . Albeit they were filled with shock from the battle, the importance of bringing the kidnapped female back to the city is still a priority . With the route is already cleared from any remnants of the bandits, it was safe for them to escort them back, even if Zhang Wu Ji did not follow them .

Watching at the leaving crowd of females under his subordinates lead, Zhang Wu Ji walks closer to the Iron Scale Bull and took a Wound Mending Pill out from his pouch . He placed the pill right before the nose of the bull, and in that instant, even suffering from pain, the bull still tried to eat the pill .

"You're gluttonous right? Did they promise you that you will get food if you help them?" unexpected to even himself, Zhang Wu Ji was speaking with the Iron Scale Bull . If this sight is seen by people from his own world, he will be sent into a mental hospital immediately .

"You sure?" Zhang Wu Ji took a few more pills out in his hand, with one of them is the precious Complete Taixia Qi Pill . When these pills are out in the open, the bull no longer maintains itself any longer . The gluttonous self quickly overcome its pride, where the tongue quickly came out and tried to lick the pill .

"Moo . " the Iron Scale Bull still persistent for a while, but give up in the end for the sake to consume the few pills . But of course, Zhang Wu Ji will not give such a good reward before the Iron Scale Bull contributes to him . He only fed it will few Qi Sensing Pills, and that was enough to make the bull followed behind him happily .

It's just that the injuries the bull suffered is worst than he expected, thus, filled with a mind to treat this Iron Scale Bull as his lab rat, Zhang Wu Ji executed the [Small Nourishment Art] on the Iron Scale Bull to see what will happen . A flash soon went through from his body and entered the body of the Iron Scale Bull and begin to help in its recovery .

The injuries due to the thorny shrubs are the first to heal before some greenish substance were forced out from a hidden injury under its ribs . From the look of the injury, it should be around for quite a long time . Does this mean that the Iron Scale Bull was captured somewhere else before it becomes the transport of the bandits?

Soon, most of the injuries are removed, and from its skin, slightly hardened scales is started to grow, leaving the Iron Scale Bull to look like how it was before . But the only differences is that the recently grown scales is still very fragile, thus it was not suitable to be used in a battle for at least one week .

"Hey, your scales grow back! Can I use them as replacement of my Iron Source next time?" Zhang Wu Ji jokes when he sees how fast is the growth of its new scales . But of course, he knows that it was because of his Small Nourishment Art ability . The wonder of his Upgrade System just thrown him into more and more wonderful, because of their amazing effectiveness even towards Wild Beast .

The group of females under the escort of ten subordinates reaches the Northern Gate first, followed by Zhang Wu Ji about half an hour later, riding on top of the Iron Scale Bull . This sight gave the residents another shock again because even a kid knows that;

This sentence is true to the earth, but the missed the fact how Zhang Wu Ji healed the Iron Scale Bull from its injury and also that previous illness . Given with a new life to start again as a normal Iron Scale Bull, it will be impossible for it to not allow its master to ride on it .

"Junior brother, that Iron Scale Bull . . . " the fifth and sixth senior sister approached their junior to take a clearer look on the Iron Scale Bull, which had been tamed . It was a fun thing, especially for the girls to approach the animals to take caress them, but such affection towards a bull is his first time .

"I just tame it . It used to under control by the bandits through force, so I end up getting its loyalty by feeding it with a few pills . " Zhang Wu Ji simply answered his senior sister's question, but even a fool can guess .

"Fifth Sister, Sixth Sister, do you like it? I can give it to you two to take care if you want . " Zhang Wu Ji patted at the head of the bull, which if obediently rubbed its head on his chest at the next moment . It was a normal thing for a male to be rub on the chest, but for girls, it was a different reaction altogether .

"Ah! No!" the two were scared by the action done by the bull on Zhang Wu Ji's chest . For the girls, it was like themselves got molested by the beast, although it doesn't means anything at all .

"Damn bull! You're doing that on purpose!" Zhang Wu Ji knows the reason behind the bull's action . With the bull this smart, how can it did not realized the fact female human hate to have their chest touched by others? It was a daily sight in the Bandit's stronghold, where the females were like rabbits that all the man chase and hunt, before fiercely caress their chest .

As the three of them with a bull busy having their discussion, the families with their female member kidnapped came right before Zhang Wu Ji, and gave him a kneel again . It was to show their gratitude towards the savior for saving a member of their families, to allow them to be together once more .

"Please stand up! Please!" Zhang Wu Ji went over to lift all of them back on their feet, and end up getting even closer to them, especially when all the yet to married young ladies were eyeing on him like he was a prince in a white armor .

"Master Senior Ninth! The elders and City Lord summoned all Master Disciples into the building!" a subordinate from the Herbalist Department came to look for him, where he immediately excuse himself from the public and leave with his fifth and sixth senior sisters .

"The attack burn down a third of the houses and buildings in the area of Northern Gate, and in a rough estimation, we suffered about 500 soldier casualties, and another 100 of them will not be able to contribute to the military any longer because of the mental trauma . " one of the elder representative gave a thorough report .

"After calculating the military expenses and tributes for the dead soldiers, we estimate that we will need at least 50,000 Qi Sensing Pills to be paid to the five hundred families, and the rebuilding of all the building will cost another 50,000 Qi Sensing Pills . At this moment, we're out of refugee supplies, which means we will need to spend at least 10,000 Qi Sensing Pills monthly to support everyone for now until all their buildings are completed . " another elder representative reported .

"As for the training of the soldiers again and rebuild our City Wall, we will need to spend another 50,000 Qi Sensing Pills again . This incident really put a toll on our expenditure . " the final elder representative completed the reports . Which gives all the others in the room a heavy sigh . At the end of the day, it still came to financial difficulties . Like how it was in his previous life, money is what made people go around .

"At the end, it still comes to the difficulties of money?" Zhang Wu Ji considered the situation carefully, and before he makes any decision, Zhang Wu Ji take things a step forward by questioning the elders first .

"Three Elder Representatives, Can this junior ask, what kind of resources is the most abundant in the Wen Wu City?" he came out with a question without waiting for them to agree to answer . Looking at the youth who stands up and ask such deep questions, the three elders ordered their subordinates to come back with a list .

"In reply to the Ninth Direct Disciple, this elder will begin to read the resources that can be easily found in our West, North, and South Region . "

"In the north, we have small numbers of the self-maintained farmer that focus on planting and harvesting the Ruby Grains to be made into rice . Depending on the season, their harvest was twice a year, and in between of the harvest, they will be planting medicinal herbs like Blood Stopping Grass and Healing Flower, which can be harvested in a month . "

"As for the West, that is where our Wen Wu City's Mine is located . Here, our main production was Iron Mineral Ore, rich with Sentient Iron, an average amount of Pure Iron, and a very minimal amount of Crystal Iron . Other than this three materials, we also produce Coal Silica and some Clay . "

"Lastly, the South is where the Southern Bamboo Forest is located . Our main harvest from the forest are mainly medicinal herbs and some younger beast meat, sometimes, we collect the grown bamboo from the forest to construct buildings or other things . This is all the produce we made in the Wen Wu City . " one of the elders introduce and explained the situation of the Wen Wu City, which seems nice from the outside, but poor in the inside .

Even Zhang Wu Ji himself felt pathetic with a city that has so little products and resources made available . Their sizes were nothing lesser than the city he stays in his previous life, but in the term of production, the city he says in his previous life not only produce high-quality steel and metal, they were the world biggest contributions in textile and woods . Let aside the issue in grains or wheat supplies, the city also have their own filtration plant, canning factory, and also training school and university for them to study and graduates with a major profession in one of the industrial fields .

"Should I industrialized them?" it was a difficult choice for him to decides because this will indirectly be related with the way people look at the Seven Star Sect . Helping out a city out of kindness is not a problem, but the problem is how will those people from above, means the emperor, the State Minister, and the other counties will react . It might be treated as the intention to rebel against the Southern Kingdom straight away because of the approach!

"YES! That's it!" Zhang Wu Ji suddenly becomes happier as he finally obtained the solutions to something he wanted . He turned to the direction where all the people were still waiting for his reply and said;

"The Apprentice Hall will contribute in the reconstruction of the northern side of the Wen Wu City, as for the payment, we're unable to say we will do the works for free, but in exchange, I will allow the Wen Wu City's Departments to shoulder the cost, and allowed you to repay the cost of reconstruction works in an Instalments! This will allow the Wen Wu City to continue to grow, but also maintain the financial stability to further strengthening themselves!"

"As for the materials, I am sorry but to request the miners under the City Lord's order to assist in increasing their production, and in return of this payment, we, the Apprentice Hall will gladly provide temporary shelters and job opportunities to those willing to work, and to those misfortunate families . " Zhang Wu Ji offered .

"Are . . . Are you serious with what you just said?" the City Lord was so shocked he stands up and reconfirm again about what he just heard . The other three elders cannot believe it as well, except the Commander of the Militarized Forces, because he is slightly not too [Bright] enough .

The Grand Elder of the Right were impressed with the idea Zhang Wu Ji mentioned . Similarly, the eight senior brother and sisters of his were caught by surprise and stared at their youngest junior brother from hearing such an innovative and new method to handle the method of payment .

"Yes, City Lord . As long the City residents assist in this matter, we are confident the Apprentice Hall can help in reconstructing the Northern part of the Wen Wu City and also strengthen the City Wall from being attacked by the bandits so easily next time .

"Great! What a great idea! Let everyone in the city knows that from now on, The Northern side of Wen Wu City rebuilding will be tasked to the Apprentice Hall, and for the time being, the Apprentice Hall will accept all incoming manpower to increase the speed of their works . The meal will be prepared two times a day for the young and the old, and for those working force, three meals will be provided instead . "

"The Wen Wu City will not apply any taxes on the Apprentice Hall in the period of the rebuilding the Northern Side, and at the same time, the City Lord Management will not restrict the Apprentice Hall in any manner!" The city lord completes his instruction to be read out back to the public and turned to face Zhang Wu Ji once more .

"Ninth Direct Disciple, this old city lord is incapable as you do . Thank you for your magnanimity to help the Wen Wu City to stand on their own once again!" the city lord did not hesitate and gave Zhang Wu Ji a bow . In terms of value, whose bow can stands on par of his master and his father?

It's been two days after the bandit's attack . After the announcement was made public by the people from the City Lord's Management, the whole Wen Wu City is ongoing major changes in their mind and also slowly in their profession . With the participation of the Apprentice Hall in the rebuilding works, the majority of the residents from the North Gate volunteered to help in their works .

And for a person like Zhang Wu Ji, being stingy towards people that volunteered to help wasn't even exist in his dictionary, where he provides not only meal and accommodation to the people, he even paid them based on how many days of work they complete .

It was a fair and Square deal, where for cultivators, they will receive one Qi Sensing Pills for every day of their works, similar to the members of the Apprentice Hall . As for the normal residents without cultivation, they were paid with 1,000 Gold Coins each, but due to the safety issue at this moment, their payment will directly enter the Wen Wu City Resident's Bank .

With a slip of payment with their name for every day of work, the possibility of missing a payment is gone from the way he conducts his business . As the time pass for two days, his name becomes even more well known, with almost 90% of the residents and officials in the city recognized this young and talented individual .

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji is still busy with his research to find a new and cost-effective source to be used as the material to construct buildings . He considered the use of Coal Silica, or also known as black mica in his world as the main source to construct a stone building, but after considering the option, a part of him feel like choosing for the Clay Brick as the main construction material instead .

Left with both side winning his heart, Zhang Wu Ji were left with two options, and between the two options, it was clear that the Coal Silica win the majority for now, because skillful clay worker and transportation to process the clay into bricks is not that much compared to miners .

But after a while of considerations, Zhang Wu Ji's opinion finalized . Coal Mica is a product that was great if it was used as an insulator, but their durability in facing the passage of time is still questionable . As for clay, their texture is firmer because the bond within the material is stronger than the Coal Mica .

Since he wasn't prepared to be making glasses like the microwave doors, oven screen, and boiler glass, then why should he aim to process such a high-quality Coal Mica for? And for the Clay products, he will face a shortage of materials, which might delay his rebuilding works . Which is why, he considered the option to produce a more durable material, with good insulation quality .

It wasn't a surprise to the public, but still, to be bringing a whole new product once more, Zhang Wu Ji is proud of himself . The feeling of able to use all his knowledge he got from reading the books in his previous life finally can be used efficiently in this world .

In his previous world, the mica was used a the main ingredient in cosmetics such as foundation powder . But the public did neglect its potential in constructions, whereby adding the ground mica into the compound will increase their resistance to cracking . With such a new formula to produce the Clay Bricks, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the people to start producing the Raw Clay-Silicate Bricks .

Their procedure is simple . By assigning a group of mixed to evenly mix the clay and Ground Coal Silica together, their adjust the clay-mix into the desired consistency before they were pressed by the residents that possess the strength of at least a 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . With a sufficient arm strength, they can press the clay-mix properly into the desired shape, before they were placed on a piece of wood to be sun-dried .

For Zhang Wu Ji's brick, they'll have to make them into a dried before fired processed bricks . Through this double method, he can assure the quality of the product will be at the top grade of them . Although learning and physically handling the creation of the product is difficult, he can easily score the top results because he got the assistance from the Upgrade System .

-Usage: easily arrange and durable . The Masonry Brick comes with amazing airflow and insulation during hot summer and cold winter . Building built or layered with the Masonry Bricks are resistant to cracks and rain, making it the best material to be used for proper construction buildings .

"Seriously? That's your effect?" Zhang Wu Ji eyelid is unable to close because of the shocking Special ability granted to the Masonry Bricks . What's more, each one of the bricks carried the same usage, durability, and special, which means if he built a house using 1,000 of the bricks, their defending is equal to 5,000 Durability multiply by tenfold . That's an equivalent of 50,000 durabilities .

"With a house of 50,000 Durability, how easily can they be destroyed? I created a treasure, a treasure!" Zhang Wu Ji raises from where he was, while still being impressed by his amazing blueprint to create this random but unexpectedly amazing Masonry Brick .

With this product, he can easily build over a thousand houses with amazing durability, and based on the barren land where he stands now, a proper blueprint of a properly built city can be constructed! But before he does so, first of all, he must obtain the approval from the Elder Representative before he can proceed with the restructuring plan .

Zhang Wu Ji went straight to the Apprentice Hall building to obtain the approval to proceed with his ideas, but without an obstacle, the elder representative replied him saying that the City Lord has given his consent that any idea that comes from Zhang Wu Ji will be approved without hesitation .

Of course, it will be a fool . Using the right he was entitled, Zhang Wu Ji started his grand project of transforming the Wen Wu City's northern side, by building the houses each using the same way as how the people from his world did . By arranging the houses together, he followed the diagrams learned from the Bagua to arrange eight houses together in a row, before an open road separates them .

At one line of the houses, there will be a total of eight rows, where it end up as 64 houses for 64 families in a horizontal line . Inside of the houses, he paid an attention in two parts, namely their Living Room, Dining Room, Study Room, and Bedroom as the first of the four Phases, and Garden, Backyard, Main Entrance, and Back Entrance as the second of the Four Phases .

The first represents the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, while the second represents the North, South, East, and west . This design followed the arrangement of the Bagua, which was taken as a calculation that represents good luck, fortune, Wealth, and Health .

And on the second line of the houses, he designed them to be a more spacious and well-designed Courtyard, suitable to reside by larger families . Each row will have four houses, added up to a total of 32 courtyards that were far more than enough than what it should normally be .

Following this way of constructions, the third line is where the main street, built for the business and markets is located . He followed the way how the building looks from his previous world and places them side by side with each another . In total, there were 16 shops, split into two rows of eight shops each .

With the same way, he constructs another two lines of the courtyards and houses on a different side, to complete the temporary construction project of the building plan before the workers came into the location and begin to build according to his requirements . Because the construction does have some relation with the plants, the herbalist helps out in the arrangement of the plants and trees, to make the houses seem to move livable .

The total of 208 buildings is reaching their completion very soon . With the Initially 10 members in the Construction Department, their members increased into 50 about ten days ago . Now, their number of people helping in the manufacturing of the Masonry Brick increased, and given the fact most of the cultivators among the residents are satisfied with what they were doing, thus the production not only remain stable, in fact, their numbers increases because more cultivators started to come from the West, South, and Eastside on order for an employment .

with the increase of production of building materials and workers, the work estimated to be complete in another three more days . With this overall project is completed, Zhang Wu Ji's attention can slowly move to create more basic homes, which he selected to create similar model houses like apartments in his life, but the technologies at this moment are only more suitable to creates a building like the old Chinese communities houses named Tulou .

The Tulou building is similar to 4 to 5 floors high building, carrying the sight of a round shaped building with their own communities area within their own courtyard . It was a building created for the masses to lived, where once single Tulou can supports over fifty families in the smallest, and over 200 in some bigger Tulous .

And this Tulous will be his final project to rebuild the north side of the Wen Wu City . Through the six lines of houses, courtyards and shops, Zhang Wu Ji will become the main section for the north side constructions, with eight more tulous built in the arrangement of the North, Northwest, Northeast, South, Southwest, South East, and finally east and west .

As long the land has been marked by Zhang Wu Ji after his calculation, the construction can soon begin . The manpower in the Wen Wu City is truly humongous, and seeing so many untouched lands just because the city's official wasn't capable enough to develop them, Zhang Wu Ji have no choice but to spoon feed them with some of the buildings, method of constructions, and also help the city by providing them with one additional product to be exported .

"Master Senior Ninth! We finished the judgment o the bandits . After all agreement from the judges and officials, they decided to imprison the bandits for 25 years before they were dispatched to the County side to help in constructing the roads and explore the natural forest all over the Seven Star County . "

"At the same time, we found this three cultivating and martial art manuals in the possession of the three siblings . Because the judges claim that the belongings of the bandits shall be handled by the city lord's management, he ends up issuing all the item worth monetary value to be distributed back to the families affected by the bandits attack, while this three manuals shall belong to Master Senior Ninth . " the representative from the City Lord Management came to inform him about their verdict and handover three manual into his hand .

"Thank you, representative . It wasn't proper to not return a gift for the person that come especially for such an insignificant reason, so please accept this little appreciation gesture . " Zhang Wu Ji happily accepted the three manuals, but at the same time, exchange them with a Complete Taixia Qi Pill and a Yin Essence Pill .

Receiving the appreciation gift from the youth, the representative mood was cheered up to a whole new level . As a mere cultivation of a 5th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, the Complete Taixia Qi Pill was a treasure that almost every Inner Qi Fighter Stage cultivators covets them, but it was too much of a rare commodity for them to easily purchase in the market .

"Thank you, Master Senior Ninth . Thank you! If there is nothing else this representative can do, he will excuse himself from bothering the Master Senior no longer . " the representative politely excuses himself from continue to bother Zhang Wu Ji with his pointless chatters . The twelve days staying inside of the Wen Wu City allows everyone to know, see, and witness the character and personality this [Master Senior Ninth] carries wherever he goes .

He was a person that detests Evil, promotes Righteousness, and Supports the poor and will not yield to the rich . Carrying such a feature written in his face, Zhang Wu Ji's name spreads not only to the surrounding of Wen Wu City, it even went past the Seven Star Sect and spreading through the six villages until it reaches the Li Jiang Town .

"Master! Master! There is news about our third young master in the Seven Star Sect!" Zhang Da Zui quickly entered the Zhang's Manor and shared the news with the others in the house, especially to their Master Zhang Qing Feng . At this moment, their house is no longer the small combination of two courtyards with a little more space, but it was expanded into a size of a six courtyard wide Manor .

Currently, the Zhang Family within the Li Jiang Town were the strongest families in the top eight households, and even the Guans is invited to become their neighbors, sharing a third of their buildings under the agreements of business purposes . But this cooperation generates hates from the other six families, especially from the Li's and the Chen's .

This caused the situation in the Li Jiang Town is not as peaceful as before, but with the wealth they amassed from the excellent business with the nearby villages and towns, the Zhang Family grow even bigger, with over a thousand members in their house when the number is combined with the Guans .

A family with a thousand members strength is quite difficult to handle, especially most of their members are loyal to the Family . Although among them were hired, their position within the family is not low, thus reducing the possibilities of them rebel against the family . What's more, if the Zhang's can easily pay for the member's requested salary, it means that the Zhang Family financial situation is strong .

"Tell me, quickly! What is the new about our Wu Ji?" Zhang Qing Feng drops all the matter bothering him and turned to Zhang Da Zui and rushes him to quickly speaks everything out . Like how a father reacts, it was an anticipation each time when the news related to his youngest child came back .

"Our third young master is super amazing! He was taken as the ninth direct disciple of the headmaster, and now carrying the name [Master Senior Ninth] inside and outside of the Seven Star Sect . From what they shared, Young Master Wu Ji participates in many of the sect's reformation, and not only changed the way the Blacksmithing Department in the sect refines their weapon, our young master Wu Ji also engrossed himself in the field of Pill Concoction and Martial Arts!"

"Recently, the Wen Wu City is under the attack from those bandits lead by Lan Shan Clan, and our young master with his eight senior brother and sisters came into the battlefield to sweep the bandits and captures nine hundreds of them, including their three bandit leaders! Three Bandits Leader from their third generations!"

"Now, young master's name was spread across the whole Seven Star County, and sooner or later, everyone says that he will carry the title [Top Disciples of Seven Star Sect] at the end of this year, replacing his eldest senior brother . " Zhang Da Zui finishes his stories in one long shot and having difficulties to breathe as he ends his stories .

"That useless brat! How can he become this mature when he was wrecking the whole Li Jiang Town when he was slightly younger than now? Did a trip to the woods earlier this year get rid the uselessness in him? DId he turn over into a new leaf now, and started to contributes to the society?" Zhang Qing Feng mind is in a complete confusion .

As a father, how can he not realized that these changes were too sudden for him to accept? If the youngest were this mature, to begin with, will he be carried home in a stretcher because he spends three days three nights inside the Deity Pavilion, suffering vitality losses because of rigorous sex?

Will he burn and damage the stalls and half of the Botanist Hall because the young lady of Guans did not agree to his engagement? Will he be mature enough to not wreck his future in the studies in the Scholar Pavilion? This was all impossible, but it did happen!

"I wonder what actually happened to my Wu Ji . . . I hope it was the doing of the gods, seeing how much I pray to them because my child's relationship amongst sibling is not good enough . " Zhang Qing Feng went to the ancestor's Altar and prayed to them before turning to the heaven and Earth Altars .

"The Zhang's next generation is all grown up well . Looks like the time for our Outer Zhang's House to return to our Ancestor's Land are soon to happen . " Zhang Qing Feng holds a plaque on both hands as he bowed to the ancestors .

In a blink of an eye, another six-day passed . The constructions of most of the building and houses are completed at last, with the remaining eight Tulaos is ongoing . Their completion is expected in another two to three days, and after so many days of construction and also the production of the Masonry Bricks, the resident's main focus started to change, moving from the sector of plantation into the construction sectors .

Of course, the production of such a top quality building materials were not their choices of export . For the alternative, Zhang Wu Ji changed the formulae of the Masonry Bricks, and come out with two alternative versions . The first one is a more porous and lightweight, suitable for exporting business, and for the second, they were made into a more durable and resistant to weeds and fungus .

It was taken into consideration when the Masonry Bricks Ver . 2 and Masonry Bricks Ver . 3 is created . Based on the county's environment, the two new versions are expected to sell like hotcakes in the other villages, towns, and cities because of their good durability and resistance . What's more, the cost of production is very low because Zhang Wu Ji's upgrade on the production materials is able to reduce the wastage during production .

Meanwhile, for Zhang Wu Ji, his attention is diverted into the establishments of medicine plantation inside the northern side of Wen Wu City . With a well organized and specialized greenhouses is created in between of each Tulou, this farming methods allowed the residents of the city to focus in a different focus of exportations .

Due to the richness of nutrients found in the soil, the Upper South State is always being hailed as the holy land for the medicinal herbs of any kind to flourish in this land . Like those medicinal used to concoct Wound Mending Pill, they were sometimes treated as a weed and being cleared instead because of the effortless access to a mass harvest . Added with the existence of Kind Heart Grass that only can grow in this state, the longevity of this land used to amass the medicinal herbs are expanded to even further, allowing the people living in this state to exploits the land .

Although Zhang Wu Ji did not possess such a mindset to exploit the resources in this land, part of his action does . The way he requested for the supply of minerals to be sent from the far away Bai Village is one of the examples . Similar to this action was the effort to help the Wen Wu City to expand their export business, which promotes the exploitation of the mines and the soil .

Luckily, based on the rough calculation using the supporting records and reports, Zhang Wu Ji can safely deduce that, as long this realm he's transmigrating into still possess the ability to churn out Inner Qi, the continent's metabolism will continue, from land to raw materials, to products, to consumers, and back to the land once more . Like a growing and recyclable source, the resources will not be lost, no matter how extreme is their exploitations .

With two professions and production are all arranged and handover to the residents, Zhang Wu Ji exhaled a breath full of unimaginable stress . It took him 18 days from the beginning of the planning to production, and rebuilding the whole north side of the Wen Wu City, before 80% of all their major rebuilding works is completed . In an estimated three to six more days, all the planned structures will be completed .

And that will also be the moment all the affected families will be able to start to move into their residence . The smallest of three to five members will be allocated into one of the Tulous, which will be able to support a total of 300 families, which means their number of residents living in a Tulou can reach between 900 people to 1,500 peoples .

As for the houses, their capacity can allow a family of over twenty members to live in there, which already includes the servant or relatives . A total of 128 families can be fitted into the houses, marking their number of the resident can fit up to 2,560 peoples .

Lastly, the thirty-two courtyard houses, with the capacity of fitting over one hundred members in the house . That will equal a total of 3,200 peoples . Excluding the shops which main purposes are for the reason to support their expanding purchasing power, the total project of rebuilding the whole north side of Wen Wu City is now able to fit a total of 2,560 families, with a capacity of holding an estimated number of 17,760 residents .

Although this estimated figure might not able to fight against the booming migration effect that will affect this location in another half a year once the news of this residential and production zone is spread to other villages and towns . Thus, to handle this sudden booming business in the uprising of properties, production, and exports, Zhang Wu Ji left a second development plan in the City Lord's hand, allowing him to retake the helm of rebuilding the Wen Wu City and increase their capacity of housing more residents and increase their productivities .

Without even calculating the number of days he was here, his four subordinates, Tang Yuan, Zhao Xiao Hua, Zhang Ya Pin, and Bai Hei Tie personally came to remind him . The reason for their arrival here is because the material delivered from the Bai Village is all been moved into his courtyard, with the excess material is safely kept outside of their building .

The ten batches of Mineral Ores ended up completely covering the ninth Courtyard, making it look like a rock forest rather than a proper courtyard suitable for living . And while on the inside, the farm productivity is going on very well, with the second batches of Taixia Condensed Dews, Yin Ling Fruits, and Sun-Facing Fruit is coming out in expected nine more days .

It was surprising to Zhang Wu Ji because he did not think that his fourth month inside of the Sect actually passes so fast . Within a blink of an eye, twenty-one day already passes, and it also indicates that he missed the merchant's wares once again .

"Well, I guess I will compensate that guy for not being around in the sect then . " It wasn't a must to think like what he just did, but when Zhang Wu Ji considered the effort that merchant might place in his shoulder just for the sake to find materials that suitable in his eyes, his consideration towards the merchant become much better . In this world, there was only one thing a person cannot overlook, and its called;

"Master Senior Ninth!" a familiar and close resemblance of the merchant's voice came into his ears . The following sound from the rolling wheels came as quickly until the person shows himself before this Master Senior .

"You! I was just thinking where should I go to find you!" the edge of Zhang Wu Ji's lips went to the edge of his cheeks when he saw the familiar face came closer to him . Based on how much effort is this guy puts in order to satisfy his vanity to purchase some treasures, how can he be skimpy in his small token of appreciation?

There were only three treasures in his stall as if he were keeping them for the sake to be sold to Zhang Wu Ji . But in the term of quality and usefulness, perhaps only Zhang Wu Ji can properly appreciate them . It was a no discussion sales once again, with the selling price of one million Gold Coins is accepted straight away . He packed the item together for the Master Senior and left to hunt for the next treasure once more .

The merchant left, and Zhang Wu Ji followed his subordinates as they ride the carriage home . It was a specially made carriage, and the engine to move it is none other than his new pet, the Iron Scale Bull . Of course, this return also means that Zhang Wu Ji is multiple times richer again, with about 18 million Gold Coins in his hand at this moment .

And the wealth will continue to increase by time, because not only a quarter of the profit from exportation will be given to him, the future productivity from the upcoming harvest from the eight greenhouses in the north side of Wen Wu City too will give him a great supply to concoct many kinds of Pills for sales .

But most important of all, the cost of rebuilding the Wen Wu City is listed as a debt to the Apprentice Hall, which means, a few installments of payment from the Wen Wu City Lord will come sooner or later, making him another 50 Million Gold Coins richer!

Inside the carriage, the four subordinates are putting in their effort to cultivates, while Zhang Wu Ji is inspecting the treasures he got from the merchant as well from the City Lord after passing a court verdict to the 903 prisoners . Unlucky for them, all of them were to be imprisoned for twenty-five years before dispatched into the County's border for slavery works .

-Usage: to be planted and harvested for their Ten Petal Lotus Bulb . The seed in the bloomed lotus pod can be replanted again for their next yield .

"This was all the items I needed . With all the mineral ores is delivered to my courtyard, it seems that the upcoming day will be busy . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled . It was a happy news that he able to further upgrade his treasure, but at the same time, it means he will start to get busy all over again .

"I did not get any proper rest at all if I'm correct . . . " he thinks about what happened before once again . Before the incident in the Wen Wu City, he just managed to settle his three disciples from bothering him, and before he made all of them researching the Iron Thrusting Dirk, he was busy researching the secret behind his upgrade .

And in the middle of it, he was concocting the pills from the harvested material in the farm, preparing tea for those people, and handling some task form the four subordinates to handle . Now, he will have to start using all his time to craft his own cauldron again before he proceeds with other stuff .

Soon, the carriage stops as they were obstructed by the guards for the entrance to Seven Star Sect . Although it was an atrocious manner for them to dare to disturb the Master Senior Ninth's route, it was acceptable when the engine of the carriage was an Iron Scale Bull in its 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter .

Being the senior among the four subordinates, Tang Yuan quickly went out from the carriage to inform the guards that Master Senior Ninth, Zhang Wu Ji came back to the sect . The Iron Scale Bull is the pet of the Master Senior, so it should be allowed to enter the sect's vicinity .

It did not take too long for them to inspect Tang Yuan's words and allows the Iron Scale Bull with the passengers within the carriage to continue their journey until they reach the Ninth Courtyard . They left the carriage the moment the Iron Scale Bull went idle . It was obedient enough to go straight to the side where the farm and their tools are located, and rest there until it was time to eat .

Taking the chances everyone still in the middle of the courtyard at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji hand over the hundred Ten Petals Lotus Seed to Tang Yuan to be planted, and also instruct Bai Hei Tie to help him in handling and refining the materials from the Bai Village . With only two people working on the ten batches of Mineral Ores worth at least 20 tonnes is completely impossible, thus, left with no other choices, Zhang Wu Ji summoned his three disciples to come over to give him a hand .

With four tonnes of Mineral Ores to handle each person, their task is a very simple, completely refine all the mineral ores to separate them into eight different entity . The earlier the metal and mineral is processed and separated, the sooner he can begin to refine them .

But, even for Zhang Wu Ji himself, it was an extremely difficult process for him to completely separates the eight different materials perfectly . After a few pieces of research for the most efficient method, Zhang Wu Ji's mind is settled in the option to refine them into four kinds of material first, before he handled them personally .

The procedures to separates the Silica, Copper, Jade, and Mineral Clay is much simpler because the melting point of each material differs from each another . Before the Grounded Mineral Ores is placed into the furnace, Zhang Wu Ji sieve through the grounded powder to make sure that the content of the powder is completely smooth without any bigger and rougher sand particles .

With the preparation is complete, the Smelting process begins . Starting from the copper with the melting point of 1,100 Celcius, they were the first and also the earliest Metal that started to melt and form first . Making the processing repeatedly, Zhang Wu Ji teaches them in the way to melt the copper component correctly before the temperature went on higher, where it will soon reach the melting point of the Jade Mineral .

The powder within the furnace went through a few smelting processes repeatedly until the amount of Copper remained in the powder is lower than 5% before they increase the strength of the heat into over 1,250 Celcius, which is the required temperature for Jade .

Luckily, the Jade mineral in this world is much more different from his world . Back in his own world, Jade's texture is much more brittle, unable to be reform together once they were melted from the high temperature . In a side example, they were much more similar to Obsidian . But in this world, the Mineral value in far more different from the jade in his own world, where the manufacturer remolds the jade into the size they desire before the jade was polished, engraved, and crafted into a fine piece of the decorative cabochon, a name plaque, or a bracelet .

Similarly, their process will only stop once the remaining Jade in the grounded powder left with not over 5% . the continues for the 1,450 Celsius temperature for the Silica, and leaving the clay alone to be mixed into a pile of clay that soon separates into a Kaolin Clay and Mined Bone .

This procedure was able to be completed because the final part of the mineral is, in fact, the clay mix and not pure silica . using his System to read the overall composition in each of the grains formed from the heating, Zhang Wu Ji rearrange them into a different crucible to be melted and formed into the complete sizes of an Ingot .

But the process is still far from completion because unless he separates the two components from each material, the final quality of his product will end in a failure . The reason is easy to guess . The two components inside of the metal ingots or mineral were fine in their natural form but weren't good when forced to bond together .

Like the Pearl Silica and the Translucent Silica, this two were fine if they were separated and can be used in many different ways, but when they were mixed in a single entity, the result will be an extremely brittle material that cracks easily like a glasses and shatters from a small pressure .

Similar to copper, they were a conductive copper and non-conductive copper . When this two different copper type is mixed together, results called Corrosion Prone Copper is produced . As for the reason, it was called Corrosion Prone Copper is because this copper is what comes out from refining all the dietary nutrients in human's body .

As for the Jadeite and Nephrite mix, there wasn't a trouble on their quality because the Jade Mineral in this world is amazingly special, but when a creamy color of yellowish, Light-Green, Dark-Green, and Violet is mixed together, the results usually end up as trash Jade .

The only best product that can be separated with the usage of water in the mixture is the Kaolin Clay and Mined Bone because of the Mined Bone is not soluble through water but through oil .

In his world, exist a solution named borax, which he can use them as the catalyst not only to separates the two minerals but also overheat the materials as they feed it within the Furnace! This tempering process further strengthen the separated materials once they broke apart, resulting in a top quality material .

Author's Note: Kindly do not take the smelting, planting, and common sense knowledge seriously in this novel because it was a transmigrated to another world, so some common sense is not applicable, but I will try to make it as understandable as I could, through my bad writing of course!

"Hei Tie! Summon my three disciples here! Quickly!" Zhang Wu Ji was wrecking his own brain with the memories related to the mineral resources available throughout the county, but only to find out that there wasn't any related information or changes of name in the mineral Borax, which used as the flux during welding and smelting the metal or crystals .

Without the assistance of the flux, the process to separates the two different type of materials will become much more difficult for him, especially when the total amount of raw material that he will have to handle is up to a total of 20 tonnes in raw weight . For a forge, 20 tonnes of materials can be easily processed within a few days, but for Zhang Wu Ji and his four helpers, their efficiency cannot be questioned .

It's considered efficient if their performance were a tenth of the speed if compared to all the workers working in a single Forge . If they managed to shorten it to one-eighth of the speed, they can be said to be performing very exceptionally . But at this moment, What Zhang Wu Ji was aiming for is to speed up his results even further, by searching for the existence of the item called Flux in his world .

Here in this continent, perhaps the exact usage of the flux in Metallurgy is still yet to be found, but in his own world, the metallurgy works are all related and supported by the existence of the Borax, acting as the flux to assist in the oxidation, increasing melting points, and also in this case, to separates the two components of materials through the extreme Cleansing process .

"Master, did you summon this three disciples here?" the three immediately greets their master when they reach the courtyard . The only difference this time, they did not kneel .

"Tell me, do you know what is Borax, or something similar to mutation, explosive power, or volatile crystals?" Zhang Wu Ji gave them a few examples to look for while they trying to remember the material that might happen to exist in their period of servicing the Sect as the Elder and Vice Elders in the Blacksmithing Department . Based on the number of raw materials they encountered until now, the three is the best candidate to ask at this crucial moment .

"Master, the disciple is useless in answering such question, but disciple does have an idea what master is looking for . Before the death of our previous master, he found a very special kind of crystal rocks that can be grounded into powder form, which when it was used in smelting, it will create amazing sparks and intensity of flames . We called this Crystal Rocks [Melting Crystal] because when it rains, the Crystal Rocks will melt and mixed with the water . "

"The mixture did not create any pollution or whatsoever in the water sources, this it was treated as a stone similar to salt, something that formed in the nature but we do not know about their usage . " the eldest explained what he remembered in the past, when they were looking at their master when he was forging a weapon or metal . They remembered that the effect of using this grounded powder is very special, but at the same time, their master's death is also due to this Melting Crystals .

"Great, where can we get them?" Zhang Wu Ji inquired . With the existence of the Borax in this world, his intention can be said to be half success . Without waiting for them to continue, he asked about the material's whereabouts . But the reaction from the disciples changed as soon as they heard him .

"Master, that place is not far . If we followed the east direction after coming out from the sect, we will travel past the Tian Village, Ren Village, and Yun Village . Heading up north from the Yun Village, we will reach the Salt Mountain . The Melting Crystal can be harvested from this area . But they were difficult to be transported, so even our master brings his own Bottle Gourd to collect the Melting Crystal's powder that he grounded after using a manual crystal grinder . "

"Master, allow this three disciples to go and collect the crystals for you!" the youngest among the three suggested . But his suggestion was rejected without a moment of hesitation from Zhang Wu Ji .

"Tian Village, Ren Village, Yun Village . If I'm not mistaken, their distance was about 1 day from each another, and if the traveling is done by riding a horse, it will only take half a day to reach? That's fine . I will ride that lazy bull to visit the three villages and take a look on their local produce . You guys will overtake my position and complete my portion of the task as well, while I am looking for some new resources . " easily, he distributes all his works for the four of them to handle before he decides to went for a journey by himself .

It was fortunate and unfortunate at the same time . The fortunate thing is that as a Master Senior, he's allowed to leave the Seven Star Sect without obtaining any approval from the elders or door guards before he leaves and enters the sect's vicinity as he likes . But the unfortunate thing is that because the Sect restricts the disciples to return to their hometown to visits their families, even Zhang Wu Ji is applicable to this rules .

Without even spending one complete day inside of the sect, he runs outside once more, just for the sake of having his own part of the fun, while his subordinates are still busy handling the task he delegates to each of them . Luckily, Zhang Wu Ji's fun is supported by his amazing abilities, from Pill Concoction to Blacksmithing, establishing the Seven Star Apprentice Hall, rebuilding the Wen Wu City, and many more of his sect shaking accomplishments .

If it was not because Liang Tian accepted him as the disciple without too much hassle, perhaps the one becoming the disciple is Liang Tian, but not Zhang Wu Ji . When it was taken into comparison, except the weaknesses in cultivation strength, Zhang Wu Ji's overall talents shocks everyone within the Seven Star Sect, or perhaps, outshine all of them even if mixed together to be compared .

As for the cultivation strength, it can be strengthened by time, but how about talents and experience? This is depending on the person himself, especially when it was taken to a comparison, Liang Tian's age at least fourfold older than him . Without wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji rides the Iron Scale Bull as the duo went out from the sect in haste, afraid to miss the morning in their first village, also known as Tian Village .

Although this Tian Village is the closest to the Seven Star Sect, they were not overly pampered by the sect . Their main produce includes Edible fruits and meat products, Cooking Grade Charcoals, and Wheat in powder or raw form . The production of this three type did not obtain the appreciation from the Seven Star Sect itself, but due to their position as the closest neighborhood to the Seven Star Sect, this Tian Village is also known as the [Village Food Grows] .

Every month, the villagers pay the tax to the sect in the form of food supplies . And in the few recent years, their soil is suffering from a certain kind of issue, causing the crops and livestock grown is inflicted by the disease . Because it wasn't transferrable from the livestock or crops to human, they're practically safe from the disease . But the problem caused the Tian Village to suffer from the low yield of grown crops and the burden from high tax .

When Zhang Wu Ji entered the village, his black Disciple Uniform with seven stars on both shoulder reveals his identity to everyone in the village, causing everyone, no matter they're working, cooking, sleeping, or playing, to come before him and kneel as they greet him .

"Greeting to Master Senior . This Village Chief is too slow in receiving the arrival of the Master Senior and makes the Master Senior wait plainly while entering the village . This Village Chief worth dying ten times for his negligence, worth dying ten times for his negligence!" the Village Chief is treating him like a tyrant, that will come and destroys their village if the villagers did not kneel .

But for Zhang Wu Ji, this kind of honor means nothing to him, because even if one were a trash, he was still a man, women, an elder, or the parents of a family! If it was to kneel, they should face their parents, their elders, and not somebody like him!

"Please stands up! Why are the villagers closest to the Seven Star Sect is put into such a condition!" Zhang Wu Ji yelled, ordering all of them to stand up . During his short path from the main road to the village, he noticed that most of the crops are suffering some kind of disease, and even the cows and poultries appeared to be dying from sickness . If this matter was made a note to the Seven Star Sect, won't the sect order a complete destruction to the village to control the spread of the disease?

"Dear Master Senior, the Tian Village has been struck by this disease for almost two months now . We already checked the water source, and also stop planting crops, but it was no help to cure this disease . We tried asking the sect to help in this matter, but they were no response until now . Please forgive us, please forgive the people of Tian Village!" the Village Chief treats Zhang Wu Ji like the person that came to shut their village and not a savior .

It was normal . In fact, which youth in the age like Zhang Wu Ji have the ability to find the cure to this matter, when even those that born and grown in this village failed to look for a solution . If a Beast Tamer failed to tame a beast, will ask a dancer to help works? If a construction worker unable to build a building, can a Pill Master help?

"Start from the beginning, when did this happen?" since he was already here, it wasn't a trouble for him to stay for a day or two to help them to solve this matter . If the edible sources were to be gone from the Seven Star Sect, from where they will have to search for the next supply of raw edible materials? What's worst, the incident of the bandit's attacks towards Wen Wu City already destroyed most of the edible Ruby Grains, which means this year harvest is going to be nothing at all .

If the Seven Star Sect faced food supplies difficulties, won't that made the Seven Star County the biggest laughing stock amongst the ten counties in the Upper South State? Reason? It was a simple one to answer . If the richest State in amongst the three in soil is facing food difficulties in one of their counties, what would that imply?

The unworthy ruler of the county or the useless State Minister that unable to do his job properly? If this really going to happen, maybe out of wrath, the emperor of the Southern Imperial Kingdom will give the verdict to chop all the heads belonged to the peoples of Seven Star Sect .

"Master Senior, the problem starts like this . . . " the Village Elder with a few trustable villagers came forward to begin explaining the situation for him to make a conclusion .

It seems that two months ago, there was an issue of a few outsiders is killed and left on the source of the river, but after it was noticed by the villagers, they quickly went to clean the spot and buried the six unfortunate outsiders not too far from the river source . At the first week, nothing particular happened, but when it comes to the second week, the chickens and ducks were the first one to be inflicted with the disease .

At the third and fourth weeks, the cows and sheep are affected, and some weaker crops withers without reason, leaving only some stronger plants like fruits and grains still survive . But few more weeks after that until now, even the grains and fruits are affected and begin to rot without reason .

The villagers started to kill the livestock inflicted with disease, but who knows, even those animal that they purchase from outside their village also inflicted by the disease after few days . Although the meat is still edible and the sickness does not spread people, the weird thing is, only the cultivated grains, livestock is inflicted with this disease, but those random fruits, trees, and animal-like wolves or foxes are fine and free from those diseases .

"This is weird . How can the disease spreads to the crops and livestock, but not the wild trees, wild animals, and humans?" Zhang Wu Ji is puzzled by such an explanation, but to make sure he got to the root of the problem, he will need to inspect everything happened in this village .

"Take this Name Plate and send a villager to the Seven Star Sect . Look for Tang Yuan and pass my message to him . After that, guide the people this person name Tang Yuan gathered and return here . He will act as I required . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws a piece of Jade with his name on it, and hand it over to the Village Chief . His instruction was;

"Yes, Master Senior! This old man will quickly go and instruct the healthiest person to deliver the instruction!" the Village Chief took the Jade with both hand and retreats . It was better for him to inspect the surrounding by himself, thus Zhang Wu Ji waved his palm and ordered the others to leave him alone . Without wasting time, Zhang Wu Ji explored the Tian Village and inspect most of the items that can give him any tiny bits of detail .

After checking most of the item touchable, including dead animals and crops remains, Zhang Wu Ji still failed to found the reason for this issue . He did not give up but went upward following the water source, all the way until he reaches the place where not too far from the river is six simply made graves .

He went and inspect the grave and its stones, but noticed only another clue . All six of them were the students that came from a Medicine School for the reason to search for a poison similar to cyanide . But it did not says that their death is related to the cyanide, nor it was due to the poison existence attracts the attack from the Lan Shan Bandits .

"Wait . . . Cyanide? Don't tell me . . . " Zhang Wu Ji emptied a jade bottle and used them to collect the water that came from the lake not far from the graves . He remembered that the villagers said that the six of them were killed by the Lan Shan Bandits, so as they afraid that the infection will come if the corpses are unattended, they dug six holes to give these unfortunate people a proper burial .

But in exchange for their kindness, the villagers are struck by disaster, where their crops and also livestock is dead after they give these people a proper burial . Of course, this was the opinion from an outsider, but given the fact Zhang Wu Ji possess the [UPGRADE] system, the jade bottle finally explained the reason why this disaster happened .

Usage: Pesticide, Gold Mining . Concentration too low to affect human, but long period consumption will cause organ and oxygen processing failure .

"No wonder the crops and livestock are dead . They were drinking these cyanides all along! Although the concentration is lack to kill a human, overconsuming them for a longer period still equals to an organ failure too! But why did the plants and wild animals is fine? This is the main question!" Zhang Wu Ji continued to look for the main reason of this differences, and left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji can only dig the soil in the nearby tree to check the main reason .

"Do the underground still comes with another usable water source? The Tian Village has been using the water source that comes from here for many generations, but do the source of water from this lake comes from another hidden location?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned his own findings, and try to follow the trail to look for the true origin of the water source .

First of all, is to search around the lake, and see if there were a hidden cave where the water source flows out from . As for the second, will be personally entered the lake and search for an underground water channel which diverts all the flow of water from somewhere else to here . The first option is practically safer, but the second option's possibility is higher .

"I wasn't in a rush, so I don't mind trying the first option now . " Zhang Wu Ji explored and check all the nooks and crooks all around the lake, and even harvested a few matured seeds to be planted back in his courtyard in the future . But this option did not have a positive or reliable result .

The mounds were all closed and no water source is especially richer at these areas, so the only choice left for him is to dive into the lake and search for the water channel . This may be his one and only options now because, except the flat area surrounding the lake, there was no other positive opening that will lead him to where he wanted .

"But first of all . . . Where, how, and in what way can I extracts the Cyanide from the water source?" Zhang Wu Ji searched his pocket and all over his body for something that might be useful, until he found something .

Holding the Crystal Surgeon Knife +5 in his hand, the knife shines brightly like it was a lit LED light . The shine pierced through his skin, showing a pinkish red flesh of his hand holding the knife . But his intention to hold this knife is not for fun but in order to collect as much Cyanide as he could .

Luckily, he brought quite an amount of bottle gourd to collects the borax, this he transfers all the pills on him into the Bottle Gourd before he arranged the Jade Bottle by his side . The reason was simple . Cyanide is an extremely volatile liquid, which is why he was having a headache for being unsure on how he can extract the Cyanide perfectly from such a big mass of water .

It will be pointless for him to do anything except starting to collect as much cyanide as he could while waiting for Tang Yuan's arrival . He expects this guy might bring over 100 Slave Disciples over for his simple summon, but that's fine . A help from a hundred people can make thing faster, especially when this Tian Village is in need of a quick changeover .

Suffering this disaster might be an unfortunate incident for them . But amongst the misfortune, a person such as Zhang Wu Ji actually appeared at this village to save it, was a good thing . Perhaps if Zhang Wu Ji was here before the disaster happened, their fate will be sealed by destruction, but since the fate brought Zhang Wu Ji here to inspect this matter, they can only pray to the gods and thanked them for their kindness .

Although the water in the whole lake wasn't a living patient, it was categorized as one, because the water is poisoned . By slicing the surface of the water, a pungent smell that caused a person to feel nauseous were gathered all over on the blade . Before the gathered Cyanide liquid gathered enough to form a perfect drop, Zhang Wu Ji makes a swift movement to lift the Crystal Surgeon Knife higher to allow the whole Jade bottle to enter the gap and allowed the Cyanide Liquid to drips into it .

He repeated the procedure as many time before the others arrived, but after the first three Jade bottle is filled, the process to fill the fourth is a third slower . This little change hits his curiosity as he filled another Jade Bottle to inspect the solution within the bottle .

Usage: Pesticide, Gold Mining . Concentration too low to affect human, but long period consumption will cause organ and oxygen processing failure .

"It dropped by 0 . 01mg, but the concentration is gathering a third slower . Does a large amount of water affects the speed of the collection?" Zhang Wu Ji made his initial guess, but soon, he noticed that the water flowing down the river will go past three falls before they entered the irrigation channel designed and assembled by the villagers . Using the advantages of the smaller Irrigation Channel, Zhang Wu Ji quickly returned to the area and run his tricks .

"The water from the river did not flow into their village, but it was collected using this water mill to redirect the water from the river straight into the village! Why didn't I notice that?" Zhang Wu Ji quickly reaches the spot where the resident is still busy moving the water collected by the water mill back to their village .

"Stop! Throw away all the water! Empty all the tanks and send villagers out to forage fruits with high sugar content! I will help you all to cure this disease! Until the people from the Seven Star Sect is here, nobody is to drink or use any water that comes from the river directly! I will remove the poison in the water before allowing them to be distributed!" Zhang Wu Ji stopped the others from continuing to carry the water back .

At the same time, because of his words, the villagers quickly throw away the water the moment they heard the word [Poison] . Some of the villagers immediately returned to the village to inform everyone about the Master Senior's instruction, and very soon, the water in the village's well, jars, boiling pot, and others were all thrown before they carried their containers to where the Water Mill is located .

With the help of three villagers, Zhang Wu Ji treated the water by removing the content of the Cyanide inside the water completely before he allows the villagers to collect and use the water . But before they started, every single villager took the water home under his instruction to clean themselves first before eating and drinking . All of their belonging is washed to remove the remnants of poison still remained in their clothing .

"The quality of the water indeed becomes better . " the villagers that used to suffer hair loss is the first to notice the differences . The number of fallen hair is reduced further, and the itchiness on their scalp is gone from using the water .

Soon, the water stores in the village are replenished . And at the same time, Tang Yuan's group of people is here with over a hundred carts pulled on their way over here . Inside the carts are shovels and hoes, also some heavy duty tools that sufficient for them to turn the village upside down . Under Zhang Wu Ji's instruction, the group of Slave Disciple heads to the direction of the lake, along with a few carts of different materials .

"Unfortunately, I have no other method except temporary using the modern filtration system to filter the water . Perhaps in the future, I can create my own electricity and chlorine to purify their water source . " Zhang Wu Ji was apologetic to the villagers because no matter how amazing is his system, he still faces difficulties to properly control the amount of cyanide poison inside the lake .

But one thing for sure, the concentration of Cyanide inside of the water is getting lesser . In his estimation, as long he continues this method for another short period of time, he will be able to clear the cyanide poisoning affecting this water source . But his interest in looking for the main water channel did not lessen .

Using the machine previously used by the deceased Blacksmith Department Elder to ground the charcoal into tiny pellets, Zhang Wu Ji created a gigantic water filter that gave the river their first filtration before they went further to the direction of the village . First, he shortened the width where the water from the lake flows, creating a much narrower gap to force the water to come down from a redirected channel .

Second, the bigger rocks scattered around them was cut into a fine piece of blocks before they were arranged nicely like a churning mill and two fish net is thrown inside to prevent the finer gravels to flow outwards . They continued with placing the fine charcoal sand inside, before placing some sand used for certain construction, and layered them with a few layers of textile material, to prevent everything inside to went out of the water filtration channel he crafted .

The only thing that was less satisfying is the filtration system he made is consist of a few parts, which he face difficulties to upgrade them . Although the filter might work better than he expected, this was the first time he felt slightly helpless in his bidding to conduct a goodwill at other people .

[Note: Zhang Wu Ji's upgrade were only applicable at item touchable by hand, one unit at a time . This is why he was powerless to upgrade thing like sand, gravels, but it was fine to upgrade bottled water . As for the fertilizer, he was upgrading last time, it came in a size of a tennis ball, which was to be put on the soil by the side of the plants . ]

"half of you return to help them in managing their farms . Another half will help me to prepare the water suitable to water their farm . After everything is done, we will come back to this water source, I want to look for their main water channel to see where is the water came from . Perhaps from this, we can increase the yield of their crops . "

"This means, our food in the Sect is going to become even luxurious, do you all get my meaning?" Zhang Wu Ji convinced them that by helping these people in advancing their initial agriculture skills, the return will come back to them in the future . As in this case, it was better edible meals . And they have to remember that this effort is still a paid employment, they still getting paid to help .

Because all of the work the hundred helpers and villagers, their farm transformed into a brand new appearance . Luckily, the edible food source such as vegetables, fruits, and also roots grow very easily, especially when they were given with a new plot of land that was recently plowed .

With over ten different kinds of plants and fruits, Zhang Wu Ji' responsibility in helping this village is finally over . He now only has one more unfinished aim staying in this village for so long .

With the concentration of the Cyanide inside of the water is only 0 . 01mg left, it was similar to a normal river water with a slightly higher content of Cyanide . Zhang Wu Ji felt it was safe for him to dive into the lake, thus he undress, leaving only a layer of the thin robe as he dives deeper into the lake . Luckily, it was still afternoon, and the depth of the lake is roughly 20 meters, allowing the sunlight to shine into the lake and illuminates the waterbed .

He searched their surroundings and found nothing useful except some leftover trash, two set of intact human bones, and some gold coins inside, which might be thrown into the lake for fun . But the results of his diving is still the same . He found nothing inside the lake .

"This is impossible! Without a water channel, where did the water supply came from?" the question haunts his mind as he continues to search for their surrounding . It was until nightfall, a dim light of blue came out from a gap hidden behind of the rocks .

Zhang Wu Ji went to inspect the location, and the closer he swims to the dim light, the clearer it becomes . When he reaches the blue light, he noticed that the previous wall formed by soil and rock has vanished, turning into an opened cave with gentle water flowing through .

"What in the world is this miraculous occurrence?" what happened obtained his attention, as he entered the cave without any obstruction from inside of the cave . It doesn't take him too long to reach the small chamber, where only a piece of shining crystal around the size of an ostrich egg is seated .

Whenever the moonlight flashes through the tree on top of this chamber, water will be created from the crystal as they flood the room and flow into the cave and become one with the lake . This repeated for many times, until the sunrise . Unexpectedly, the flow of the water continues . It works even during sunrise, no wonder the water source from this lake continues for so many generations .

"I wonder what is the blue crystal . . . " Zhang Wu Ji places his hand on the blue crystal, but there wasn't a description came out in his sight . It was weird, so he unconsciously scratches his head before he repeated the process again .

"Why is there no reactions at all?" Zhang Wu Ji inspects his ability by touching other things, but those item descriptions came out instead . He then went to touch the crystal again, but again there were no reactions . This means his system is not gone, but it might be too weak to inspect this treasure .

Disappointed, he turned around and prepare to leave, but then, Zhang Wu JI noticed another smaller gravel-sized blue stone under the water . He placed his hand into the water to grab that piece of blue stone . The moment he touches the stone, a description came out .

-Usage 1: Produce unlimited water source of 100ml every hour . Effect doubled when the Water Sapphire received the blessing from Sunlight and Moonlight .

-Usage 2: When used in smelting, allows the weapon to carry one additional special ability and also maintain the ability of the Water Sapphire .

"What the hell? did I just picked up a precious treasure out of luck?" Zhang Wu Ji quickly search the bottom of the cave in case there was any more of the Grains of Water Sapphire is hidden, but after he adjusted the whole ground, he found nothing .

Zhang Wu Ji left the cave without feeling that he lose something . The natural occurrence is amazing, like how big is the crystal sat nicely inside of the cave . This kind of blessing is something the heaven blessed the people of the Tian Village so it would be unforgivable for him to rob this wealth from them .

He returned to the Tian Village and noticed that everyone is busy with the farming works, in a short period of three days, he turned this piece of dying land into a blessing, allowing more and more plants to be grown here . Although the threat from the cyanide is still there, he already cleans most of them and created a filter for the sake of filtering one more layer of the water before they flow through the Tian Village .

A work has to be done adequately, but not overboard . By filtering the water in their first waterfall, it removes the concentration of cyanide inside the lake water before they were allowed to flow at the second waterfall . The oxygenation process from the water flow will allow the water to carry their healthy nutrients as they reach the Tian Village .

With his initial task is completed, Zhang Wu Ji spends one more night in this Tian Village before he left in the next morning . The Village Chief wanted to present him with some gift before they left, but because of their own trouble, they have no precious treasure that worth presenting to the Senior Master .

One of the villagers did try to match their daughter with Zhang Wu Ji, but out of his own respect, Zhang Wu Ji politely rejects that by mentioning that he wished to spend more time in cultivation, and not thinking too much about the human relationship . Plus in his heart, Guan Qing Han's position does take a large chunk inside .

He left the Tian Village and ride the Iron Scale Bull straight into the Ren Village, where this village main produce is wine and dried foods such as mushrooms, meat jerky, and salted vegetables . Here, there wasn't any matter that needs him to be bothered, so after a night, he heads straight into the Yun Village and reaches there after three more days .

After sleeping for a night in the Yun Village, Zhang Wu Ji followed his guide as they climb the mountain and for the first time, he saw the rumored Salt Mountain . From afar, the smell of heavy concentration of mountain salt spreads in the air and entered his nose .

"Master Senior, I hope this helps . " under Zhang Wu Ji's request, the guide took a whole night to search for a wooden cart that is good enough for Zhang Wu Ji to store all the Bottle Gourds he purchased from the Ren Village before coming over .

With all his preparation is completed, Zhang Wu Ji head to the Salt Mountain to search for his important component, the Melting Crystal or also known as "Borax" in his previous world .

The path climbing up the mountain is easy, but the process to harvest the Melting Crystals is difficult . Because of the restriction from his system, Zhang Wu Ji can only try to procure those solid blocks of crystals and not those grains on the ground . With the cart, he can stack the blocks of crystal he found first before he looks for a place to ground them into powders .

The overall process is not difficult, but the only difficulties are on looking for the crystal blocks and the process to ground them into powder . Without himself noticing, Zhang Wu Ji spent three days on the Salt Mountain to completely filled all the Bottle Gourds in his hand before he heading back to the Seven Star Sect .

"My pile of works is going to increase more and more!" Zhang Wu Ji shouts . When he thought about the new batch of Yin Ling Fruit and Taixia Condensed Dew, Zhang Wu Ji sighed because his workload is increasing more and more, until he barely has time to process them into a complete product .

Although he a millionaire at this moment, it doesn't mean he has enough people to assist him in many matters . In fact, a lot of his task was delegates to the others, but at the end of the process, it will still depend on him to make the last adjustment .

Entering the Seven Star Sect, he returned to his courtyard, and this time, it was much tidier compared to before . The Mineral Ores that were stacked outside of his courtyard is gone, and the pile of newly harvested herbs is neatly arranged in his Pill Making Room .

As for the Blacksmithing Room, a pile of half completed the eight materials also neatly arranged on the few shelves that were used to store the metal ingots and blocks . Seeing such a tidy arrangement in both of his most used room, Zhang Wu Ji only can praise them with a single sentence .

"Younger brother Tang Yuan, did master come back?" the three disciples, with the oldest name Li Jing, and the two younger called Li Yin, and Li Tong asked . After so many occasional conversation and cooperation, the seven of them, especially the one followed Zhang Wu Ji for the longest, Tang Yuan, is accepted by the seven as the big brother of the group .

Zhao Xiao Hua will be the big sister as she was the only female in the group, and the three disciples will take the three youngest spot among the seven of them . Of course, this seven positions that they created by their own also carried a very special meaning, which is the seven that received the "Blessing" from Zhang Wu Ji in the period of their servitude .

"Younger brother Li Jing, Senior Master did return from his little trip to the Yun Village, but he's having his rest now to rejuvenates his fatigue accumulated after staying in the Tian Village and Yun Village for so long . " it was awkward for Tang Yuan to address Li Jing in such a way, but the three insisted that they were to be treated in such a way, this is a form of their respect towards those being with their master longer than the three, and also being the one that understand their master the most .

Meanwhile, Zhao Xiao Hua, Zhang Ya Pin, and Bai Hei Tie are reaching their important stage to enter their 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, thus the three of them is still staying in their own room to break through . At this moment, only Tang Yuan is outside handling most of the matters related to the Ninth Courtyard . This is also the reason why Tang Yuan is the oldest brother among the seven of them .

It was because of his straightforward approach and dependable personality that made the other six to appoint him as their oldest brother . While they were busy discussing their master's condition, Zhang Wu Ji is busy with his own matters . It is accurate to say that, one after another, the task keep on coming and piled by his side .

The reason is that he finally noticed the pile of book that was stacked on a corner of his room managed to lure him into his Reading mode once again . Among the pile of books, Zhang Wu Ji found a very interesting book named;

The content written in this book is extremely accurate, and before it was upgraded, the success rate when having this book as he refines the jade is increased by 30%, and the quality of the refined jade is at 55% . This is why instead of resting, Zhang Wu Ji made use of his time to process this book before he rewrites it again to increase their efficiency .

With over 7500 strands of Inner Qi, Zhang Wu Ji is currently a 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter about a quarter more to the second stage . Although the advancement to 2nd Stage doesn't require the cultivator to went pass an enlightenment, it was still an important ritual for one to meditates until they break through the border .

The book of the Jadeite and Nephrite Manufacturing Technique is extremely thick, but that was because most of the content related to the material sources are mixed together to form this thick book . But under him, he separates the content into three parts before he begins his rewriting .

The three sections of descriptions are further repaired, their word is enhanced, and the meaning in the words on every step is then imbued with a source of confidence, because this soon to complete book may soon become his next most precious treasure, after the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art . In his own thought, Since the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art is only at the bronze grade, will there be a Silver, Gold, and even stronger grade?

But that was something to be answered in the future . The amount of Strands of Inner Qi in his body allows him to rewrite the whole book in a single night . And by the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji has already completed his first round of rewrite and was preparing for the second round . It did not take him to long to completes that because his memory about what he will write is already imprinted inside of his mind .

After comparing three version of his rewriting, Zhang Wu Ji finally agreed with the end results, but still, he hesitates to fuse them into one . He lands his finishing touches on the book the moment it successfully entered the +5 Upgrade . In fact, he did try upgrading the two remaining version of his new copy, but before it entered +6 Stats, the book disintegrated into a pile of Ashes of Failure .

"I guess it should be time for me to go and process the materials . " Zhang Wu Ji changed to a new set of clothing before he went out from his room . It was a little late in the afternoon, making the center courtyard is void of people walking or resting for a tea .

Unobstructed, he walked into the Blacksmithing room . He arranged the powder from the Melting Crystal to be positioned near his Furnace for easy access before he started . But it wasn't the starting of his Refining Works, but Zhang Wu Ji actually executed the New Firestone Upgrading Technique . With a large amount of Firestones in his Blacksmithing Room, Zhang Wu Ji upgraded them one after another, until the amount of firestones in his room is completely replaced by a total of 50 Flame Rocks .

The Flame Rock usage is practically similar to the Firestones, but the only differences are the heat generated by the rock can reach 1,000 Celsius at starter and can be increased until 2,200 Celsius maximum . Although this amount of heat was over the melting point for the Jade, they were also can be used to force the jade to enter their maturity stage . A matured Jade have to went through numerous amount of molten and heat to increase the strands of Jade Crystals in their composition .

The more the strands of Jade Crystal is formed inside of the crystal's body, the sturdier and stronger it will be . To achieve this reason, Zhang Wu Ji decided to imitates the strength of the flame stronger than lava to promotes the building of the Strands inside the jade body, and that will be before he splits them into their own respective Jadeite Rock and Nephrite Stones .

Although the two jade were equal when they were mixed together, the fact Jadeite's gravity differences are much higher than the Nephrite . With one lighter and another heavier, the molten Jade can be divided from one another easily without too much effort is required . And in between, the Distinction Jade Manufacturing Art also promotes the separation speed, allowing him to completely separates the two from one another .

In the following, Zhang Wu Ji process each of the blocks of jade arranged neatly in the shelf and separates them into two parts . The procedure took him half a day to complete before he focused on refining the piece of jade, only accepting the top quality jade and reprocessing the jade again . This procedure again too him another half a day, as he falls asleep inside of the Blacksmithing room after a while .

In the next morning, the sound of Slave Disciples moving the Firestones wakes him up, as he was completely exhausted during his attempt to process the Jadeite and Nephrite . But his end product does attract the attention of the Slave Disciples especially one of them who was staring at the total of twenty pieces of beautifully processed Jade blocks .

"Di's Jade! This is the Low-Earth Quality jade!" the slave disciple kneeled before the piece of Di's Jade and absorbed into what he was doing as he stares at the jade-like it was able to suck a person's soul into the jade . But before that happened, Zhang Wu Ji called him back into his mind as he stands up and bows at the Master Senior for his atrocious act .

"Did you mentioned that this is the DI's Jade? Tell me where you learned about it . " Zhang Wu Ji asked . The reason is not that of his action irritates Zhang Wu Ji, but the fact the Slave Disciple know about this Di's Jade is a wondrous matter because he was still trying to decipher why is this quality of the jade is called Di's Jade? And what is the Low-Earth Quality Jade?

"Dear Master Senior . This junior name is Yue Juan, my family background is professional Jade seller and engraver, thus I know many kinds of jades," he explains his identity first, in case Zhang Wu Ji are not reprimanding him but rewarding him? This was his bet before he continues .

"From my father's record, there was a total of four type of Jade in this world that is known to be the top grade amongst all the jade in this Ping An Continent . The first one is the Di's Jade, which carries the mark of a creamy green color, and when one look at the jade before a fire, the jade will become semi-translucent like the creamy part of fat of an animal is melted and become a layer of oil . This Jade is graded as the 75% Quality . "

"The next one will be the Tian's Jade . This jade carries green and blue hue inside, and will also turn transparent when the jade made contact with body warmth . Only those jade in their 85% Quality is worth to be called as a Tian's Jade . For the next one, is the Kun's Jade . The Kun's Jade is mined from highly condensed quality jade mines and carries 95% quality before they were processed . There was less than a hundred item was made by the Kun's Jade . All I know from the record is that the jade carries a purplish color in their body, and the color will remain beautiful even from human contact . "

"As for the last one, my father says that's called Qian's Jade . Its the highest quality among the jade with 105% Quality and this kind of jade is sturdy enough to be mold into life protecting treasure . In this whole Ping An Continent, only five pieces of the Qian's Jade existed . And each of them was in the hand of the Emperor from North, South, East, and West . " This is all I know, Master Senior . The youth called Yue Juan explained everything he knows to Zhang Wu Ji .

It will take some time for him to decipher, but for now, the last thing he needs is disturbance from the outside, so he sent Yue Juan away by giving him a gift of 5 Qi Sensing Pills . The Slave Disciple also understand such fact and quickly went out after he obtained his rewards .

"So, altogether, I have ten Jadeite Blocks and ten Nephrite Blocks . Their quality was the same, but only differs in their color . " Zhang Wu Ji took three of them in his hand, and toss them into a Crucible made from combined Iron Steel that can handle the heat above the maximum temperature of the Flame Rock can provide .

His process to craft the jade is extremely simple . By melting the Jadeite and Nephrite in their own crucibles, Zhang Wu Ji prepared another long squarish cast for him to allow the molten Jade mixture to be poured into the cast, creating a proper frame for him to be chiseled later .

For Zhang Wu Ji, his weapon is not a requirement to be sharp, but its requirement is always the same, a ten millimeters in thickness and thirty millimeters in width, and two meters long ruler is a must for him . This is the equal proportion for a person that always following the measurements like Zhang Wu Ji .

If his action were to be seen by a person from the beginning until now, they will comment that his method is filled by pointless steps, because first, he grounded the Jade material into powdered form before everything starts . At the second steps, he melts the jade in the mixture of ore material powder until they formed into rough pieces, and melted once more to form a bigger jade block .

At their third steps, Zhang Wu Ji personally works with the jade, and reform each of them into their own kind of Jade material, before they were formed into the Di's Jade that the Slave Disciple Yue Juan was so obsessed with . The fact of the Jadeite Di's Jade and Nephrite Di's Jade is separated and upgraded to their top condition is already a known matter, but how can he now, so daringly and foolishly melted the two Di's Jade resources only for the sake to mix them together in a cast?

But can the word normal be applied to a person with Zhang Wu Ji's ability? Perhaps, when the Block of Rectangular Jade is formed and sculpted into a shape of a Jade Ruler will the others agree that his technique was the one and the only correct way to do so!

Confident with his ability to complete this piece of artwork, Zhang Wu Ji calmly waits for the piece of Rectangular Jade to solidify . The best moment for him to carve the Jade Ruler would be the time when it was still halfway to its cooling process . This is also the best time to carve the jade as it was in the best carving condition .

He took the chisel, file, and the small wooden happen and upgraded them before he begins . The process proceeds slowly, with a very detail and careful strokes each time, until it was finally taking a shape of a Jade Ruler . The Jade Ruler took an oval but hexagonal curve shape of a ruler, where both of its edges will not touch the ground if it was placed flat on the ground .

In the middle part of the Jade Ruler, Zhang Wu Ji carved a beautiful motion of a flying Dragon and Phoenix . The carving seems almost alive, with the beautiful color of the jade envelops the dragon and the Phoenix, especially on the part of their eyes . In the middle of the two mythical beasts, is a hole that allows the Grain of Water Sapphire to embed inside perfectly .

The moment the Grain of Water Sapphire entered the holder spot made especially for the ruler, it flashed once before the middle part of the intense Green turned into bluish, which carries the personality of the infamous Coral Jade . With the last step is finally completed, Zhang Wu Ji allows the Jade Ruler to cool down until it reaches a completely solid state .

His final product was a beautifully intertwined Jade of a beautiful spiraling of Green Jadeite with the Violet Nephrite from one end to another, with the dragon and phoenix at each side, both baring their mouth at the Water Sapphire in the middle . The completed product shines brilliantly before it's master, as he moves his hand towards the Jade Ruler and grabbed it into his grasp .

"You're extremely beautiful, do you know it?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled at the Jade Ruler in his hand . Like it was customized to fit nicely in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji holds the Jade Ruler with comfort as he swings the Jade Ruler to test it . It was an important inspection because unlike the Iron Ruler of close to 20kg of weight, the Jade Ruler required to have a balanced proportion amount of Jade in both edges, tips, and also the center .

In his hand, this ruler still carries quite a weight, but luckily it was made of full molten jade, thus the durability of this weapon cannot be questioned . In the test of strength and durability, perhaps this combination of two type of jades is much stronger than the Iron Ruler by multiple times .

After finishing his initial examination on the quality of his new Jade Ruler, Zhang Wu Ji feel it was the correct time for him to inspect the description given by his [Upgrade] System, but before he was able to do so, Tang Yuan came into the room in a hurry, with both of his hands is holding a White Radish as thick as Zhao Xiao Hua's thigh .

"What is wrong with you?" Zhang Wu Ji is puzzled by the sudden entrance of his subordinate, Tang Yuan . Plus he came in with two White Radishes in his hand, so the answer should be only one thing .

"Master Senior, the vegetables especially planted for you is delivered from the Tian Village! Look at this White Radish! We even have White Cabbage, White Onions and even Dragon Eyes Fruit!" Tang Yuan pulled him out for this puzzled Master Senior to look at them .

It was like a display of crowned vegetables all over his courtyard garden, with over ten different type of vegetables and some fruits are waiting for him to eat them . The Village Chief and also the lady the villager trying to match him and her together was also in his courtyard .

What surprised the two is that even as a Master Senior, Zhang Wu Ji's appearance is extremely humble, especially when the three disciples made their appearance into the courtyard like usual . The only differences this time is each of them came with a box in their hand .

Because the two visitors did not carry a hint of cultivation in their body, the three disciples treated them as those normal servants that were here to complete some task . They overtook the two villagers and show up before Zhang Wu Ji, and opened the boxes in their hand to presents a total of fifteen high-quality Iron Thrusting Dirks for him to inspect .

"Ah . . . " Zhang Wu Ji understands the anxiousness in his disciple's mind, but it was still an inappropriate behavior to overtook other's chances to speak before their turn . But looking at the age of this three disciples, he took this mouthful of anger into him and inspects the Iron Thrusting Dagger they presented .

"Not bad, not bad!" Zhang Wu Ji was impressed by the quality of dagger they created after making some studies on the Iron Thrusting Dirk he passes to each of them not too long ago . It seems that the talents from this three can still be polished because they did not age along with their ages .

Still, it was appropriate for him to compensate the two villagers, especially the lady for such a treatment she received from the three Jing, Yin, Tong disciples . He lifted two of the Iron Thrusting Dirk and hand them to the Village Chief, and also the lady as a goodwill .

He also then compensate them with a total of 100 Qi Sensing Pills, because of the effort to present him with their first batch of harvest is a sign of an utmost respect towards him . If he was such an unexpected petty person that will think ill of the villager's gesture, he will become unworthy to enjoy the first sweetest harvest that came from the Tian Village .

"Master Senior, this is too precious for the two of us to take . . . " the Village Chief that has plenty of experience in this hesitates to accept such a treasure for a mere harvest of vegetables and fruits . Even if he dares to take the dagger back, the other villagers might kill him for his bravery to accept the gift .

But Zhang Wu Ji did not bother with his words . Instead, he paid his attention to the young lady in her fifteenth as well and asked her a very simple question .

"Since working in the fields may not be suitable for a lady like you, why don't you stay here to serve me instead?" Zhang Wu Ji offered the lady with a job that can easily secure the financial situation for her family .

The problem is . . . The word "Serve me instead" is taken by the lady as the gesture that he wanted to ******* with her, in return, he will take her in . Of course, being a young lady that was given such a chance, how can she reject? Without further consideration, she accepted, with a wrong set of thinking .

"Alright, I am going to get busy with my own matter . Tang Yuan, send the Village Chief and little lady back to the Tian Village and let her pack her belongings before coming over . If you need, throw a few Qi Sensing Pill to that stupid Iron Scale Bull so you can ride it comfortably . As for the three of you, follow me into the Blacksmithing Room . " Zhang Wu Ji instructed before he pointed at the three disciples to follow him back to his working room .

As for Zhao Xiao Hua, she immediately get closer to the new member of their team, and being a youth filled with many butterflies in their heart, Zhang Ya Pin and Bai Hei Tie immediately introduced themselves as the third brother and fourth brother, and the pointed at the three that barge into their conversation as the fifth, sixth, and seventh brother . With her addition into the courtyard, she will be the youngest of all, as their eighth sister now .

"Eldest brother, Second Sister, Third and Fourth brother, this sister's name is Liu Yanni . I come from the Tian Village about one day distance from the Seven Star Sect . I am the only child of the family, and all of us are the part of the farmers in the village . I hope brother and sister can take good care of Yanni while she's serving in this house . " she timidly introduced herself .

"Hahaha! Sister Yanni, don't worry . Although none of them seem like a proper guy, in fact, they're very nice . If any of them dare to bully you, just let this Elder Sister Xiao Hua knows, I will teach them a lesson for you!" Zhao Xiao Hua went closer to hold Yanni in her grasp and warn the others .

Everyone is quiet as they look at the two girls . Soon, their conversation gets even friendlier as their exchange of words is getting much more comfortable . It was until an hour later Tang Yuan drive the Iron Scale Bull out from the farm, and carried the two back to their village . As for the others, they returned to their own post, with Bai Hei Tie is temporary taking over Tang Yuan's position in taking care of the plants .

"The three of you! Do you understand what did you do wrong earlier?" Zhang Wu Ji started to reprimand them because of their unmannered act in coming into people's conversation earlier . It may seem not something serious in the eyes of the public, but for Zhang Wu Ji, especially, this manner is something that one should follow . Especially when the three of them will maintain their seniority as the fifth, sixth, and seventh in this courtyard .

What will happen if the next time they barge into the conversation when Zhang Wu Ji is discussing something with somebody bearing the same outer appearance, but in fact, he was a city lord of the county or vice sect headmaster of a sect from somewhere else? The three of them will be dead without a space to beg for their forgiveness!

"Forgive us, master!" the three immediately kneeled before their master . When they finally noticed how their master treated the lady from before and also that elder, they suddenly realized that the fact their master said is true! They were lucky that the two person is just a simple Village Chief and a Village Girl, but what will happen if they're a Cultivator and also the cultivator's grandchild? Won't they dig their own grave with such a small mistake?

"This will be the first warning to the three of you . No matter what, everyone that came to my courtyard or looking for me is a guest . If he wasn't one, I will not restricts any of you seven . . . Wait . . . It's eight . I will not restrict any of you to behave wildly . But before that, everyone here is a guest, do you understand?" Zhang Wu Ji sternly lectures them, and for the sake of them remembering what happened today, Zhang Wu Ji had them put up their bottom .

Three slaps from the Jade Ruler gave them a lesson that they will remember . No matter where, when, or how, the lecture of a teacher shall always come in a form of "beating painfully but still filled with love!" But for the three, it was lucky there's only four of them in the room . What will the brother and sisters think when they found out that their teacher gave them a hit on their bottom .

"Master, that's a . . . Jade . . . Ruler . . . Oh my heavens, it was so beautifully crafted!" the youngest, Li Tong, noticed the tool in their master's hand . When he noticed the beautifully intertwined spiraling of intense green and violet from one tip to another, and also a part of a Coral Jade on the middle, it stunned him completely .

"Is this master's new weapon? Did master create this using the Jade Blocks? But that should be impossible, the two kinds of jade is mixed thoroughly and even the separating works will take at least over a week to complete it . But Master just get it done after he returned from the Yun Village!" Li Jing is the first one to notice the amazing building texture laid on the Jade Ruler .

"Yes . This is the reason I had everyone to come and help me . In fact, I am going to give each of you a reward . Tell me, what do the three of you want? I will ask others later for their wishes too . " Zhang Wu Ji placed the Jade Ruler on the table for the three to appreciates and asking for their wishes at the same time . Indeed, the Jade Ruler is personally crafted by Zhang Wu Ji personally, without any assistance from his four Blacksmithing helpers . But this doesn't mean that their prior help is smelting and form the metal and crystals into blocks did not contributes to the end results .

He was a person that always make sure to reward people that helps him in achieving his aim . And for this reason alone, he will make sure that he will use the remaining fourteen pieces of jade to craft something for each of them . But as for now, he has no idea what item is the most suitable for them, and to get a better idea, he decided to ask the three .

"Master, Jing believes that any gift that came from the master will be appreciated by the seven . . . No . . . Eight of us . I believe master's hesitation is because you worried that the treasure will not match each of us based on quality, but please rest assured . The three of us are old enough to understand that the value of something master gift is based on the meaning it held, and not the quality . "

"Master, please go ahead with what is inside your mind . Do not worry about our differences in cultivation and status . " Li Yin completed their sentences and bowed at their master once more . This answer gave him a very good impression on the gift he will craft for the eight of them . Although the eighth, Liu Yanni is yet to properly become a part of their eight brother and sisters, her joining into this family is expected .

"Alright, the three of you can leave now . Come back in the four days later . As for the time being, do not disturb me or look for me . Make sure you inform the others as well . Let me know when the fourth morning came . " Zhang Wu Ji sat on the chair between the Anvil and the furnace once more and entered his deep thought .

He took a deep breath, and rest his mind before everything else . Under the arrangement from the three disciples, the firestones and meal are prepared and left right outside of the Blacksmithing Room, and the remaining brother and sisters were informed that they should not disturb their master for this few days, until the fourth day morning .

While inside of his room, Zhang Wu Ji is busy considering his option to craft something meaningful for the eight followers . The eight of them will be the only disciples that following him, and each of them carries a very meaningful position right inside of his heart .

Tang Yuan was the holder of the Qian Diagram because it represents his ability to think and considers . Zhao Xiao Hua is Li Diagram because of her ability to love her members . As for Bai Hei Tie, he represents Dui Diagram due to his perception ability and also represents the action of [See/ Monitor] . For Zhang Ya Pin, he represents the Kun Diagram for his existence .

As for the remaining three, Li Jing represents Kan Diagram for his Power and Strength, Li Yin represents Zhen Diagram for the bravery to speaks, and Li Tong represents the Gen Diagram for his ability to become/ depending . Lastly, is the new addition to their numbers, Liu Yanni, who is the perfect candidates for her to represents the Xun Diagrams, which represents the feeling .

After a few deep thoughts, Zhang Wu Ji decided . The gift that he will give to the eight of them will come in the form of a Coin, mixed with the solution of eight different materials . This will be the only markings that represent each of them as one of the followers of Zhang Wu Ji .

Using the Mixture of Jadeite and Nephrite Di's Jade as their main core, Zhang Wu Ji prepares a casting mold to initiates the beginning of the process . Two different type of Jade is poured into the cast to creates a piece of Solid Jade that was flat on both sides, with the width slightly bigger than a person's average palm . The thickness of each piece of the Jade is between 10mm, which was durable and strong enough for him to carve them .

Using the same chisel, he soon carved open a deeper ring-shape section that will allow him to pour the first and second layer of the ingredient . The mixture of Kaolin Clay and Mined Bone soon taken out for him to mess with them . As the two most durable material with the highest melting point, Zhang Wu Ji took only a small part of the separated ingredient to be applied to the Jade .

The First two rings were opened 1mm depth into the Jade, this it was easy for him to fill the first gap with one side of Kaolin Clay, which have a Chalk White appearance, and on another side, it was the Mined Bone, which carries a slightly yellowish color . The eight Jade piece is then fired for four hours, to make sure that the clay that filled the ring solidify properly .

After a little of Cooling Process, Zhang Wu JI started with the second and third ingredient, the Silica . This time, he carves away the remaining of the jade touching the Kaolin Clay and Mined Bone layer, before forming the third and the fourth ring that was slightly smaller, but deeper, entering about 2mm into the jade .

For the third and the fourth rings, Zhang Wu Ji melted the two different material, the Pearl Silica and Translucent Silica Blocks . Similar to the Jade, the method to divides the two different material is by heating them past their melting point, before letting them cool . The Transparent Silica is very particular in their molecular activities, making them only mixing together with the similar molecule and not others .

By overheating the mixed blocks, again and again, Zhang Wu Ji dug the hardened Translucent Silica from the Pearl Silica each time before reheating . Only after he noticed that there is no longer a hint of the Translucent Silica can he concludes that the process is completed . By heating them once more, Zhang Wu Ji took the small crucible and poured the molten Silica accurately until they were just enough to sit nicely without bumps on the jade .

Zhang Wu Ji did not split the copper into their own, but instead, he decided that he will the copper in their crystal form instead . Because of the consistency from the produced Copper Ingots is not pure enough, after placing them in open air for too long, the Malachite Crystal regrows on the Ingot again due to the existence of the Malachite Crystals contact with the oxygen .

He remembers . During the time he was still in his previous world reading the book of Spiritual Healing, a part of them did mention that the Malachite Crystals works as an amplifier for human's soul, and also carries a very fine healing attribute . Taking this few advantages in mind, he decides that for the final two touches, one of them will be this Malachite Crystal that was made from the Copper Ingots, and further enhanced by him through Strands of Inner Qi .

Different from how he produced the metal and crystals, the Malachite Crystal is to be polished, and not melted . This made each Malachite Button he polished carries a different marbling against each another . With an accurate shape and length of 4mm, Zhang Wu Ji completed the eight Malachite Buttons before he slots them into each of the piece of Jade he crafted .

As for the final ingredients to become a part of the eight pieces of jade, Zhang Wu Ji selected none other than the Siderite, or also known as the Crystal Iron . similarly to the metals, Zhang Wu Ji melted them and splits them respectively in a different single-sided crucible for them to cool before he polished them .

Due to the concentration of Iron is denser than the previous ingredients, Zhang Wu Ji faces difficulties to polish the Crystal Iron into the desired size . The overall preparation took most of the time in hand until three days and two night passed . The piece of jade finally got its eight different materials made and inserted into the Core of the jade, but his work is far from over .

Next, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with the process of sanding and polishing the side of the pieces of the Jade, and forms them into a hexagonal shape . This step equals to craft a piece of Eight Diagrams Formation, but instead of the traditional eight diagrams is carved on the flat surface, Zhang Wu Ji replaced the diagrams with eight different material is used to craft this piece of jade .

Finally, the eight pieces of handcrafted treasure were completed . The only step left is to engrave the name on this jade and gave them a completed name . During their creation period, the Jade has already been categorized as unnamed .

With the completed name an engraving carved into the eight pieces of handcrafted treasures, each of them released a beautiful shine, comparable when it was placed against the Jade Ruler belonged to Zhang Wu Ji himself . What's more, he just remembered that he did not take the chances to read the description on the Jade Ruler itself!

Afraid that he forget that again, where it's already the fourth day from the time he completed the Jade Ruler . He took the Jade Ruler with both hands and awaits the description to come out .

"What! Is this my new Jade Ruler? This is a joke, right?" Zhang Wu Ji cannot believe what is all the status says . An attack of 20 points with Shatter-Strike is activated all the time . If he paid 20 Strands of Fighter Qi, he can increase his damage to 100 points .

What's more, his Fighter Qi will recovers by themselves even if he did not rest . This was a great improvement compared to the previous Iron Ruler . As for the two ability to self-repair and generates pure sapphire water, it wasn't that surprising anymore after he sees what's the Iron Thrusting Dirk can get .

And while he was still absorbed into the reading and deep thoughts, a notification sound similar to his handphone suddenly bring him back to his consciousness . The sound came once more as a notification box appeared before him . Instead of just inside of his eyes, it was a panel of selection right in front of him .

[-Do you know that your maximum upgrade is +5 without cultivation, and with each stage of cultivation raised, you can increase them by +1? You're stupid!]

"Aargh! I wasted so many days and materials just for the sake to try to upgrade the dirk to +7! My money is gone because this information box came out late by so many days!!!" Zhang Wu Ji heart is aching because of the losses of the great amount of time and money .

"Master Senior, everyone is waiting for you in the Dining Hall . " Zhao Xiao Hua came to call her master to make himself present in the Dining Hall because the fourth day, which he instructed all of them to be present, is here .

"I'm Coming!" Zhang Wu Ji hurried to change his clothing, and before that, he grabbed the box containing the eight pieces of jade he crafted for them .

"Good Morning, Master!" the eight of them greets Zhang Wu Ji the moment he made his appearance in the Dining Hall . The Hall is currently filled with many different kinds of new dishes, due to the sudden incoming stock of fresh products that delivered especially from the Tian Village . And in between of the eight followers, Liu Yanni is the only one without the Fist of Destruction Qi Manual .

Her cultivation was also the weakest, with only eleven strands of Inner Qi . Amongst the group now, Li Jing was the one with the highest cultivation, with the strength of a 56th Stage Inner Qi Elder . Following behind him is Li Yin and Li Tong, with their strength at 52nd Stage of Inner Qi Elder .

After that, will be Tang Yuan himself, with the strength of 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, and followed by Zhang Wu Ji, Zhao Xiao Hua, Zhang Ya Pin and Bai Hei Tie in their 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . Except the three Inner Qi Elders, all those that still in their cultivation strength of an Inner Qi Fighters is still depending on the Fist of Destruction Qi to cultivates, which started to seem a little too slow .

In his hand, he currently possesses two special manual, the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art and the Ten Petals Orchid Cultivation Manual . Although the two manuals in his hand are amazing, it wasn't allowed to be distributed . The Bronze Grade Nourishment Art was something he created out of a whim, while the Ten Petals Orchid Cultivation Manual belonged to the people from the Lan Shan Clan .

If he allows the five of them to train on either of this two manuals, won't this creates a commotion in the Seven Star Sect because of the unknown origin of the Cultivating Art?

But it was a difficult matter to consider as well, especially if he were to rewrite the manuals inside of the Knowledge Pagoda just for the sake of making something out from the books . In his opinion, it doesn't matter if the manual was taken to be cultivated by other disciples, but like many cultivators, Zhang Wu Ji wishes to have his originality in his own cultivating art, and not heavily depending on those borrowed and learned from a library .

But since it was their time for breakfast, Zhang Wu Ji waved his palm to indicates everyone to be seated, before he started their meal by having a scoop of the soup first . The breakfast was sumptuous enough it fills the stomach of the nine of them without any problem at all . Their meal progressed by Zhang Wu Ji taking the part of the most senior amongst them, as he scooped a few mouthfuls of dishes to each of them .

Soon, the meal was over, where the other kitchen attendants quickly clear the table before they left . Following Zhang Wu Ji for so long, Tang Yuan understands the meaning of his master . He followed the kitchen attendants out before handling thirty Qi Sensing Pills to them to be separated into five pills per person . It was until the outsiders are gone, Zhang Wu Ji started to talk .

"Inside of this box is the marking that indicates that the eight of you were my eight most trusted attendants . For Yunni, I know you've just become a member of this family, but I am confident with you because I trust that my eye will not discern wrong about somebody I personally chose," he speaks while taking the box out from his side . When he opened it's cover, eight beautifully polished and worked jade is presented right before all of them .

-Usage 1: When the jade is carried by people with loyalty towards Zhang Wu Ji, increased their speed of cultivation by 0 . 5% for every point of loyalty

Each of them carried their own piece of Jade, and from the moment they put on the Diagram Jade, the instant effect of increasing the relationship amongst master and attendants immediately put on their effect, where their conversation started to become livelier . This kind of changes is what Zhang Wu Ji aims for because only by having such a close relationship can he says that his attendants are all in a similar mindset .

A knock came from the main door, where Tang Yuan took his position as normal and went to answer the call . When the door was opened, Tang Yuan were greeted by a personal attendant from the Master Senior First . He was here to deliver the message that Liang Tian is summoning all his disciples to the Reflection Pagoda for a lesson once again for this month .

Last month, due to the matter with the Wen Wu City, their classes were canceled because of the assistance to the city, but since there wasn't any disruption happening this month, their class are able to proceed as usual . Zhang Wu Ji allows his attendants to handle their own matter before he followed his eldest senior brother's attendant to the Reflection Pagoda .

The moment he reaches the highest floor, Zhang Wu Ji greets his master first before turning his attention at his eight senior brother and sisters . Taking a seat somewhere close to them, he followed the lesson with all his concentration because the topic for today touches the matter related to the Upper South State, the State Minister, and the power controlling the ten counties .

Amongst the ten counties, they were separated into two different categories . The Upper Counties that consist of the first spot, Five Flame County reigns by the Five Flavours Flame Sect, the second spot, Blood Marsh County, led by the Blood Art Sect, the third spot, Snow Maiden County, led by the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, the fourth spot, Black Iron County, led by the Black City Armored Forces, and the fifth spot, Heavenly South County, led by the Heavenly Sword Sect .

Next, is the Lower Counties, started with the sixth spot, Crystalline River County, led by the Upper South Merchant Corporation . The Seven Star Sect and Seven Star County are holding the seventh spot, and on the eighth spot, it was the Willow Timber County, under the hand of Mystic Engineer Establishment . The ninth spot is belonged to the Jie's Clan managing the Jie County, a small county that only has 1 town, 2 cities, and sixty villages in their land . As for the last spot, it has always belonged to the Herb Valley Sect, which only has one city and five towns in the whole land of Herb Valley County .

And once a year, the ten leading powerhouse in the ten different counties will gather at one place, according to the turn-on which county shall hold this gathering . And for this year, their gathering will be at the land belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect .

This once a year gathering aim is to choose and select ten strongest participants amongst the ten counties of talents, to be sent to participates at the end of the year competition to choose the strongest state's representatives . The content of the end of the year competition always remains secret until it was announced, and for this ten counties gathering, their date has been set on the 1st of the next two month .

Hearing about this news, except the first, second, third and fourth senior brother, everyone entered a moment of shock . It seems that their four senior brothers did participate in the competition, but from their expression, it must be a complete defeat .

"It's fine . Win and lose is something normal in our world . As long we survive, we can overcome them once more . This time, let's us get a better result than last year . " their eldest senior brother calmly answered the others as they seem worried about his mindset .

"Last year, the lower counties topic is related to sword fight . For so long, our position is always the best among the five lower counties, but out of sudden, the Black Iron County came out with an amazing candidates that beat almost everyone in the lower counties and climb their spot into the fourth in the upper counties . " his master begins to explain the situation to everyone . Except the seventh, eighth, and Zhang Wu Ji himself, the other six already known about this for long .

"The most devastating part is that when he was fighting with your four elder senior brothers, the opponent only takes one strike to defeat each of them . As the best sect with Sword Art in the lower counties, this was a disgrace . Worst of all, the Crystalline River County that used to follow the instruction from the Upper South Merchant Corporation also cultivated a strong disciple that defeats your senior brothers in a few strikes . "

"This left us a devastating spot of only taking the 7th spot in the whole upper south state . " the headmaster solemnly explains everything that happened on the last gathering, and the reason why their four senior brothers show such an expression .

"May Wu Ji ask about what is the topic for this year's gathering?" Zhang Wu Ji interest in joining this gathering ends up become higher than before . In his mind, this gathering is something fun for him to attends .

"The topic for this year is Battle Royale . The five Lower counties will send 10 participants from each county to participates in this fight . The 50 participants will fight until only ten was left . The final ten will then be matched against the ten final participants from the upper counties . "

"Based on the results of their total participants, the number of surviving participants will decide the spot the county will hold . Because of this matter, the classes were conducted for me to question each of you . Do you want to join the Battle Royale?" Liang Tian explained and answers the question Zhang Wu Ji asked before he asks them another question .

"Wu Ji is joining for sure . It will be the best time for me to try my new weapon . " Zhang Wu Ji agreed without a moment of consideration . In his mind, this was something he will sure having so much fun, so why not?

"Ninth junior brother, the battle is not as easy as you think . In the lower counties alone, your eldest brother and second brother's strength is among the top, but they were not the strongest . The Upper South Merchant Corporation is rich, and they can easily produce many medicines without bothering about the money issue . I think they will send at least ten 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, or maybe a few 8th stages amongst them . "

"Even the Willow Timber County and Jie's County is expected to have the strength that can match against us during the battle . If you're thinking about your previous feat, I would suggest you to not overlook their strength . Amongst all of us here, who doesn't have the ability to win opponent few levels above yourself? But in the Battle Royale, we will be fighting with people like us . " the second senior brother explains .

"Senior brother and sisters . With the strength of the nine of us, what is there to be afraid of?" Zhang Wu Ji is confident with his brother and sister's capability in their fight . If he can further strengthen them before the gathering, their chances of winning will be even greater .

"Ahem . . . Since the competition mentioned that each county shall send out 10 participants, I've chosen one more person to join the team to make up the numbers . You may come in . " the headmaster clapped his hand twice after he finished his words, and a beautifully curved silhouette entered the room .

"Guan Qing Han!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised . It was not because he missed her or anything, but it was due to the fact her strength is already a 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter . With this kind of cultivating speed, won't this girl be called as the genius among the genius?

"Let me introduce her, she's the direct disciple of your headmistress, Guan Qing Han . Similar to the two of you, she's in the 7th Stage as well, although she had just broken through . With her addition, I believe our chances of winning is going to be slightly higher . " Liang Tian begins to introduce the lady to those inside the room .

With an addition of a female, the room turned up to be livelier . The ten of them continues with their discussion with the headmaster in order to plan their improvement and also tactics during the gathering's competition . Not only that, Guan Qing Han is a very quick-witted lady, which she managed to found many flaws in between of their tactics, and gave them a prior chance to rearrange them once more .

Seems like, among the ten of them, the eldest to eighth is all focusing on their practices on the Seven Star Sword Arts . They were seven different series of the sword art, and for Zhang Wu Ji, he only read through the first chapter, the Lone Star Sword Art . As for Guan Qing Han, she received the direct teaching from the headmistress, making her achievement in the Star Protector Sword Art reaches the level of deeper mastery .

On the Cultivating Technique, each of them included Guan Qing Han is practicing the Seven Star Burst Manual, a special manual that only given to the disciples that earn enough trust and confidence from their masters . It was because Zhang Wu Ji is too busy with his own thing that he missed the moment to receive this manual .

"Ninth, you cannot call yourself a disciple of Seven Star Sect if you did not learn a thing or two related to the Seven Star Swords . I suggest you visit the Knowledge Pagoda to take the revision manual related to the Seven Star Swords . They're the compiled version of seven different manuals, which represents the Seven Star Sect's martial art . " the fifth senior sister smile and lectured him .

"Wu Ji understands . Wu Ji will go and take a look sometimes to read through the books . " Zhang Wu Ji replied, but at the same time, Liang Tian walked over to the youngest disciple and handed him a book with the title;

"Thank you, master!" Zhang Wu Ji kneeled before his master and accepted the book with both hands . Their master soon allows them to leave, but the other nine was curious with their youngest sister strength, thus they decided to take a moment to spar in the Training Ground not too far away from them .

"Juniors, Please excuse the ten of us to use the Training Ground today!" the fourth and eighth went to the ground and requested to be left with a bigger space for them to practice . Some remained as spectators, but most of them left after hearing the request . As for Zhang Wu Ji, he was busy upgrading the book into its +5 stats before he went through its content .

While he was still immersed in the reading, the fight between the nine disciples entered a critical situation, where their exchange on each another end up in a stalemate . The first, second, and Guan Qing Han retaliates with their strongest attack, while the remaining six of them defended . The Fifth and Sixth's activates their Seven Layer Star Aura to defense, but it was still pointless when it was used to fight against the attack of three 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighters .

Half of the combined energy strikes through the shield aura and breaks them, but the remaining half of the aura bounced to where Zhang Wu Ji is still sitting and reading his books . They quickly shouted at the junior so he can react, but who knows, instead of leaving or escaping, he took the Longfeng Jade Ruler out and pointed a tip on the incoming energy strike .

"Poof!" the Shatter-Strike effect works on the Energy Strikes, especially effective on intangible existence . He swings his Jade Ruler slowly for a moment before Zhang Wu Ji smiled at the others and said;

Without waiting for their reply, he kept the book into his chest pocket and smiled while thinking about the effect the Seven Star Burst Manual .

-Usage 1: Allows the activation of Seven different stage of Star Burst Technique . 1Star (12) / 2stars (24) / 3stars (48) / 4 Stars (96) / 5stars (192) / 6stars (384) / 7stars (768) Fighter Qi is required . each layer doubled the Strength, Speed, and Spirit of the user .

-Special 1: Upon activation of the Star Burst Technique, allows the user to control the shape, speed, distance, and strength of the formed Air Blade .

By activating the 1st star of the Star Burst Technique, Zhang Wu Ji overall Strength, Speed, and Spirit is increased, but the most important of all is the ability to control the formed Air Blade . He did not hesitate to wait for the senior brother and sisters to answer him but placed the tip of his Jade Ruler on the ground .

Coming with a screeching sound from the contact between a Jade and the tiles, the Shatter-Strike ability caused the ground to explodes before the gigantic air blade is created and strikes at the nine fellow disciples . It was so far the most humongous air blade everyone ever seen in their life .

"How can this be an air blade? It should be called as tsunami blade instead!" the spectating crowd shouts as they stand up from their seats from the suddenly turned exciting fight . One against nine, the Master Senior Ninth is challenging all his senior in a round of sparring match . The gigantic air blade with the size of mini-wave strikes into the ninth people, but it was easily deflected the moment their eldest senior brother executes the second strike from the Seven Star Sword Art .

"Junior brother ninth! It was a surprise for us to see how ridiculous is the size of your air blade, but I'm afraid that is far not enough for you to easily break our attack!" the seventh senior brother speaks as he waved his sword all the way up above his head, and with a scream, he executed the third strike from the Seven Star Sword Art! Like a piercing bullet, the three strikes came into his reach in a flash .

"Triple Wave Strike!" Zhang Wu Ji executes the third skill from the Perfected Three Wave Sword Art obtained from the Lan Shan Clan members to deflect the three strikes, but his fourth senior brother wasn't going to let his seventh brother and ninth brother take the fight to themselves . With his Yi-Jia Sword in hand, he executed the fourth strike from the Seven Star Sword Art!

"Sword Strikes from Four Direction!" the attack that strikes from four different directions aimed at his four limbs, but that short window of movement allows Zhang Wu Ji to vanished from their eyesight! He's literally gone from the battlefield in a flash without anyone noticing!

"Fist of Destruction Qi!" a shout came from just on the left of the fourth brother as the fist landed on his waist . It was a simple spar, this Zhang Wu Ji did not apply too much strength to execute this attack . But the momentum from that hit sent the fourth senior brother quite far from where they were fighting before the eighth senior brother sent the fifth strike to stops Zhang Wu Ji .

"Wheel of Five Sword Element!" the attack carries the strength of a fiery Qi as its strikes, but Zhang Wu Ji activated the [Bronze Emperor Wheel] from the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art to fight against his eighth brother's attack . Although the attack came from a 4th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, it's power of destruction is unmatchable if one were to fight against this attack using his raw strength .

But that unmatchable destructive power was forcefully smashed into bits the moment the Bronze Qi Wheel was formed right in the middle of the air between them, as the wheel strikes at the nine opponents to stop them altogether . Luckily, the activation of their fifth and sixth senior sister's Seven Layer Star Aura protected them from the immense pressure .

The opened window of merely few seconds gave the two side a moment to take a breath, but for the two sisters trying to fight against the Bronze Emperor Wheel, it was an attempt to fight against a rock with the hardness of an egg . In this case, it was two eggs . Without the need to extort even more pressure, the Bronze Emperor Wheel strikes at the team of nine people when the double layered aura shatters .

But once again, their eldest senior brother and second senior brother saved the situation once again . As the two among the three of them with 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter's strength, the executes the sixth strike from the Seven Star Sword Art together, aiming to defeat their ninth junior brother with a single strike . Before the attack came out, the eldest senior brother added a sentence .

"Senior brother and sisters! Do not underestimate your youngest junior brother! Lone Star Sword!" he executes the first strike of the Seven Star Sword Art as he replied to his senior brother's words . Hiddenly inside his heart, Zhang Wu Ji speaks to himself as he executed the 3star Burst from the Seven Star Burst Manual . With his strength is now tripled, Zhang Wu Ji's Lone Star Sword Strike is now six-time stronger than before the activation because of the double the damage when executing any strikes from the Seven Star Sword Art .

The three attacks clashed at each another before they canceled out each other . The remnants of the three strikes create a gale that blows everyone unstable from their seats or standing, and the remains of the gale even reach where the Reflection Pagoda is erected on the ground . The commotion is finally over when the gale stop blowing all over the place .

"Is this what I achieve in this generation?" Liang Tian speaks as he held the soft and tender hand of the headmistress as they spectate the sparring from the top of the Reflection Pagoda . Looking back at the headmaster with a pair of the eye full of obsession, the headmistress answered his question with a very gentle "Yes . . . "

"Swords from Seventh Heaven!" Guan Qing Han took the opportunity to strikes the moment the gale is over, but the mistake from Zhang Wu Ji's movement caused him to activates the wrong attack on the wrong person! His Three Strikes Dog Ruling Art suddenly made it's appearance to the public, before it slaps the bottom of a virgin young lady . The worst thing is not because she was a virgin, but it's due to her strength as a 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter .

The embarrassment of this strike rouses her anger into the stage of an angry Queen mother, like a palm with five fingers, carrying the power as strong as five Mountain Tai slammed at Zhang Wu Ji's left cheek . In physical exchange, how can a mere 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter stand against the strength of a 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter? The slap brings Zhang Wu Ji flying away over half a meter distance before he landed flat on the ground .

"Quickly, tell the others Master Senior Ninth is awake!" a lady's voice came into his ears as he barely able to open his eyes . From the familiarity of the voice, it must be Liu Yanni instead . He struggles to open his eyes, but that struggle caused him some pain from the leftover of the slap . From the public perception, Zhang Wu Ji's face turned into a head of a pig because of the bruise on his left face, and due to the heavy landed on his right face .

"Damn . . . Her slap is seriously poisonous and deadly . I can't even open my eyes after I got one slap from her . . . " Zhang Wu Ji complained, unaware of his Goddess of Death were seated right beside his bed . The other senior brother and sisters wanted to warn him, but it was already too late for Zhang Wu Ji to redeem himself, especially after he describes her with the word [Poisonous] and [deadly] .

"I have to strengthen myself quickly . The moment I healed, I will go to the Knowledge Pagoda to pick the remaining of the Seven Star Sword Art to practice . I also need to increase the speed of my cultivation, else I will keep on getting bullied by that tigress Guan Qing Han . Who's willing to marry her if she continues to behave like a tiger towards a nice man like me?" Zhang Wu Ji continues to talk, unaware of his action of digging his own grave deeper .

Instead of replying to his words, Guan Qing Han expressed her anger with a slap on the bedside before she left quietly . The voice that came from that slap created a trauma in Zhang Wu Ji's heart the moment he heard the similar voice once more . When the footsteps left the doorstep, Zhang Wu Ji asked .

"I'm sorry for collapsing during our sparring match . Is everyone alright?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . But luckily he cannot open his eyes now, else he will understand why his eight senior brother and sisters sighed and pitied him . When he noticed the group did not reply to him, he took it as they were worried about his condition . Understanding wrongly, he added a sentence of words to make them feel better .

"That's great . Now that you're fine, then you have to excuse us to return to our own courtyards . " they started to excuse themselves from continue to bother him from rest . But in their mind, all of them pitied his future because he literally dug his own grave and waiting for his proper burial .

With everyone has left, Liu Yanni excused herself as well, because the time is starting to get late . After confirming that only himself remained inside of his room, Zhang Wu Ji executes the Small Nourishment Art on himself to recovers all his injuries and exhaustion from his previous battle . Through that sparring match, he noticed his own weaknesses, which is on his number of Fighter Qi usable during the fight, and his battle experience .

Although the nine of them were facing some difficulties when fighting against him, Zhang Wu Ji understands that was because they weren't used to fighting against him in a group battle . Plus because of their close relationship with each another, it becomes even more difficult to spar seriously until any of the sides end up with serious injuries . But this consideration will not happen during the gathering match .

After taking a good rest until the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji came out from his room once more, unknown that he just caused himself a grave matter to handle in the future . Inside the Dining Hall, the group of nine enjoyed their breakfast before everyone returned to handle their own matters . It was just a single night after the sparring match has passed, but the commotion it created did not reduce . In fact, they end up motivating many disciples to practice even more intensely by aiming to reach their nine master disciple's height .

This time, when he went out from his humble courtyard, it was crowded with many Slave Disciples and Inner Disciples awaiting for a little guidance . But because of Zhang Wu Ji's sensitive position, none of them approached him to ask for his guidance directly, but a smaller part of them was smart enough to notice that most of the followers of this Master Senior Ninth have a task in hand that has to be completed daily .

Instead of approaching their master, it's better to start from his attendants . But because the three elders are not approachable due to the differences if status, the disciples waits for the five disciple attendants instead . Without being bothered by their acts, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the Knowledge Pagoda in order to borrow a few manuals . He understands that due to his side performance, his status in the sect is slightly increased, but it was still not enough for him to overuse his fame for the sake of borrowing a few more manuals .

He took the privilege to borrowed a total of five manuals and copied two . This was the most efficient method for him as the restriction of time is just barely enough for him to note down two manuals before it was taken back to be cultivated . With seven manuals in hand, he returned like how he came out, without bothering to ask why are those visitors are loitering outside of his courtyard .

The rewriting process soon become like a habit to him, especially when he has an oversupply stock of Double Xuan Paper in his own room . With over a million Gold Coins for every roll of the Double Xuan Paper, Zhang Wu Ji is literally sleeping at the side of a few hundred million worths of treasure . Yet, he was treating them as a normal writing paper for him to rewrites the manual he took back to his courtyard .

This rewriting process ends up taking another eight more days until there was only another 42 days before the Upper South State's Sect Gathering . Other than having a quiet advancement into his 2nd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, they're no special disturbance at all .

In this eight days, he completed the rewriting process to creates six new version of the Seven Star Sword Sect, with only the last Strike manual, is not available to him . Although it was only six strikes in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji successfully fuses them together into two parts .

The first Strike to the Third Strike is fused together with an addition of his own version of the Perfected Three Wave Sword Art . The end results of the fusion were quite shocking to him as it able to motivates him to combine the Fourth Strike to Sixth Strike with another additional copy of the new Perfected Three Wave Sword Art . This two attempt end up giving him a much more completed version of the Seven Star Sword Art, with only the Seventh Strike, remains .

-Usage 1: Allow the user to execute (10) Lone Star Strike / (50) Twin Star Piercer / (120) Triple Star Wave by paying sufficient amount of Fighter Qi

-Usage 1: Allow the user to execute (290) Star from Four Direction / (520) Five Element Star Wheel / (800) Six Star Alignments by paying a sufficient amount of Fighter Qi

Using the seven different manuals to fuse into two manuals were a big improvement . Based on his current difficulties, Zhang Wu Ji may only able to carry about seven manuals on his body, excluding the other weight placed on his body of course . Luckily, the Wen Wu City Resident's Bank was kind enough to accept his banking approach, and in exchange for his large amount of money, they provide him with a stack of specially made coins imbued with the strands of Qi from the City Lord .

Each of this Crystal engraved coins came with the seal of the City Lord, as well a hundred strands of Qi inside of this coin forming a special recognition data that extremely difficult to be broken . The coin was worth a million Gold Coins each, thus instead of carrying over 50,000 Qi Sensing Pills wherever he goes, it was easier to carry only fifty special coins and some spare change .

In his hand, the most important Manual is, of course, the Bronze Grade Nourishment Art, followed by the Ten Petals Orchid Cultivation Manual, Fist of Destruction Qi, Orchid Assassination Art, Qi Directing Sutra, Lone Star Sword Art, and the Three Wave Sword Art . But now, the final two manuals was replaced by two different manuals, which is the Upper Part and Middle Part of the Seven Star Sword Art . Of course, this number did not count the books he carried in a sling carry he often took whenever he goes .

This also means the two additional manuals that he copied before leaving the pagoda are excluded from the total numbers of books he carried in his body . But after he considered their usage, it was a very good option for him to hand them to the five attendants to practice, because the two book is more related to the improvement of physical body and also battling experience .

But after some consideration, Zhang Wu Ji stops himself from giving them such an early stage manual, because of two different reasons . The first one would be due to the fact this Physical Body Art are more suitable for practitioners with a strong hand to hand combat abilities . As for now, none of the five younger attendants of his qualified to be called as hand to hand combat cultivators .

"I suppose I will have to gather a few more manuals before I created something out of luck . If the creation is good enough to support their cultivation until they reach the strength of an Inner Qi Warrior, then it should be good enough for me to let them inherits it . " Zhang Wu Ji's expectation in his soon to fusion result is greater than his expectation on others .

As the time is still a few hours before sunrise, Zhang Wu Ji quietly came out from his room to took a bath . He entered the Pill Making Room later after his bath to concocts the Complete Taixia Qi Pills and Yin Essence Pill before he left the room and take a walk outside without being accompanied by the sleepy Iron Scale Bull . If this scene were to be seen by the public, the Iron Scale Bull might be going to get a beating lesson to ignore the master when he was out in view .

Since it was far too early in the morning, nobody was loitering outside except some kitchen workers that were busy preparing the morning breakfast to be delivered to many different departments . Their attentiveness and effort in preparing the food always obtained the appreciation from this young Master Senior, but this is the first time he steps closer to the kitchen without having a destination set in his walk .

"Ah! Master Senior Ninth, are you here to get some food? Wait for this junior for a while, I will bring you some Pork Bun and also Liver Congee to enjoy!" the kitchen staff that stands closer to the opened door noticed the Master Senior and approached him to check if he was here to grab some food . It did not take him too long to return with five more kitchen workers that came along with some tableware, and two of them is holding some food arranged nicely on the plate .

"Master Senior, please enjoy the meal, if you need more, feel free to ask the few of us!" the one that approached him offered to bring him more if Zhang Wu Ji wasn't enough with this few dishes . Being showered with such an attention and care, Zhang Wu Ji can only smile as he took his first bite on the steaming hot pork bun . Before long, he took a sip of the soup before he started with the Liver Congee, and with his bare hand, Zhang Wu Ji grabbed the fried Youtiao and took a bite .

The kitchen workers return to their position while Zhang Wu Ji is enjoying the food . The fact this kitchen is so big shocks him, but the fact they weren't that appreciated compared to the other few departments saddened him as well . In his mind, he thought;

"How can a department that provides so many delicacies to the others to enjoy during their mealtime end up unappreciated by the members of the Seven Star Sect? Fret not, Kitchen Department . Let this Master Senior took you guys into your new heights!" Zhang Wu Ji stands up as he finishes the Youtiao in his hand, but that action ends up as the act to ask for more foods!

"Master Senior Ninth, here is some additional dishes . I noticed you were waving to us from afar so I brought you some additional dishes for you to fill your stomach . " the kitchen worker earlier came with over ten more dishes for him to enjoy his fill, but Zhang Wu Ji wished he can tell the kitchen worker that he misunderstood his previous action . It wasn't to demand more food but he has the intention to improve their department .

"Is the Kitchen Department Head Chef busy at this moment?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . Being very understanding at this moment which is the rush hour of food preparation for the kitchen department, Zhang Wu Ji did not immediately ask to be entertained by their department head without prior appointment . It might be not a disturbance for him to personally ask about the department head, but for Zhang Wu Ji, a proper manner is the best approach to meet a person with a good impression .

"Elder Zhu? You're looking for Elder Zhu? He's busy now . The group of executive Culinary Master is busy preparing a hundred dishes for the Reflecting Pagoda because our headmaster is meeting with a group of mysterious people from the Upper South State's Minister Mansion . " the young kitchen helper explained . Listening to his words, Zhang Wu Ji felt it was unfortunate, and leave after handling them about a hundred Qi Sensing Pills for his part of a good meal .

Only after walking for another hour Zhang Wu Ji returned to his courtyard . And at this time, it was crowded with some Slave Disciples and Inner Disciples again . When everyone noticed his arrival at the entrance of the courtyard, they successively greet the Master Senior before he entered through the door, but before the door was shut, Zhang Wu Ji asked them a question .

"Are you all here for the sake of learning something?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned . It wasn't difficult to answer, but the problem lies inside of the answer . If one answers them without thought, they're direct, but lack of reservation . If they answered too thorough, it means they thought, but lack of motivation . It was a trap question but yet, a very direct question that tests a person's aptitude .

Some hesitate, some ponder, but among the crowd, only two speaks out . They step forward before Zhang Wu Ji's entrance and answered him with two different answers .

The two answer is different, and yet the same . It impresses some people for their bravery, and attract despise from others that were more negative . But this action they took obtained Zhang Wu Ji's approval . He may have decided to not accept any more attendants for his house as five of them inside the courtyard and three visiting attendants already give him an immense headache, but he will not be so cold towards the fellow member of the Seven Star Sect .

"I will give the two of you two Qi Sensing Pills . Use them to do or cultivate something that can be presented to me in three days . If the results satisfy me, I will consider letting you guys practice a new physical cultivation manual that I revised after reading some collections of physical cultivation manual in the Knowledge Pagoda . " his test was simple and difficult at the same time .

The two took their sponsorship for the test and immediately excused themselves to look for something they can do . Leaving the others staring at the Master Senior Ninth with their blank expression . Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he looks at those that remain outside of his courtyard . After a minute of exchange using their eyes, Zhang Wu Ji continued with his words .

"It was because of confidence . You guys may grow up in a different situation . Some maybe came here after many struggles and fight . But you will always need to remember, Strength is something that can be trained, respect is something you build throughout your life, but Confidence comes from your heart . A person without confidence will not succeed, no matter how easy is that thing!"

"Do anyone of you don't understand my words?" he shouts out loud at a sudden, but after a line of lecture, the disciples before him were all enlightened, and replied him in the same moment .

"Good! I will give each of you a chance as well . From today onwards, continuously go to the Kitchen Department to help the kitchen staff in their distribution of the Sect's meals . Tell them this is the order from the Master Senior Ninth . When you have done this works until the end of this month, come back and tell me what you think . If your mindset passes my test, you will know how to answer my questions . "

"Now, if all of you understands, then disperse and return to cultivates . What are you guys still doing here without any production!" he completed all he wanted to say and ordered them to disperse . Within a few minutes, Zhang Wu Ji cleared the people surrounding his courtyard with merely a few sentences, which will actually benefit them in the future .

From everything he did, Zhang Wu Ji actually did not realize that all of this small reputations and seed of hope he spreads which initially going to return the favor to him in the future . But before this, he will need to make sure he's able to fulfill the promises of granting them a copy of his own modified version of Physical Cultivation Manual . Since this initial selection met with his need to provide his own five attendants with a better Physical Cultivation Manual, it was fine for him to get it done earlier .

But first, he needs almost all available Physical Cultivation Manuals to starts . Without a sufficient number of Fusion Materials, it will be pointless for him to try making something out of thin air . Sitting in the middle of his courtyard's garden, Zhang Wu Ji pondered about his option to mass purchase as much cultivation manuals as he could . It was until Zhang Ya Pin came back with Liu Yanni and Bai Hei Tie gave him a solution method .

It's just . . . Zhang Ya Pin and Bai Hei Tie came back with a bruise on their face, indicating there were caught in a fight not too long ago . The appearance of their Master Senior at the garden is unexpected, making the fact they got a bruise on their face cannot be covered . Zhang Wu Ji was furious the moment he noticed the injuries on their face and sternly question them .

"What happened?" he adjusted his facing towards the three, and question them . The three quickly kneeled on the ground noticing that they stirred his anger, and quickly explains the situation to Zhang Wu Ji . As he listened to their explanations, his anger roused into a greater height, especially when the situation turned into such a way .

The three went out to an open market not too far outside of the sect, because they were interested in checkout what kind of wares is available outside of their sect out of their curiosity, but as they window shop through a few road stalls, a group of rascals tried to take the advantages of their eighth sister Liu Yanni, and touches her beautifully curved bottom .

Of course, this caused the youngest to screams, but this action thoroughly provokes the group of rascals to behave even worst until they tried to forcefully take Liu Yanni away . As her scream soon got her two elder brother's attention, they got into a fight, but amongst the group of rascals, one of them was a young master of a Study Hall belonged to the South Wen Wu City's wealthy family . Using his strength as a 3rd Stage Inner Qi Fighter strength, he defeated the two without too much effort is needed .

But because the two did not hesitates to land a strike from their Fist of Destruction Qi on the young master, their action provokes his anger even further, until he smacks the two with his Pole Hammer right on their face . This caused the two to end up with a bruised face, and a loss of few teeth on their left jaw .

"What a daring Young Master from some wealthy family . I wonder do the people in their family understand the quotes [Know the owner before you beat somebody's hound] because the owner of this three hounds is soon to come back and gave them a lesson . But wait . . . I just remembered that they don't have such a common sense, thus it would be better for me to give them a lesson personally . . . "

"Wait . Did the two of you say that he belonged to a Study Hall?" Zhang Wu Ji remembered the issue when he was also quoting the sentence [ You don't bite a hound back when you've been bitten by them], so it was pointless to teach them about this quote, but when he remembered the word Study Hall, he suddenly end up with a very wicked smile that can swallow a person into endless darkness .

"The three of you, each of you find ten slave disciples to come over with me . We will pay a visit to the Study Hall belonged to the Southern side of the Wen Wu City!" Zhang Wu Ji swings his wrist as he stares at the lazy bull grazing on the entrance just by the side of the farm entrance . The moment it noticed the stare from its master, the Iron Scale Bull quickly went over to the master for a little patting, and immediately take it's master to where he wanted to go .

Listening to his order, the three soon gathered the remaining two people before going to the Slave Disciple's area to recruits people to follow them over to the Wen Wu City . With a group of fifty-five people strong, Tang Yuan leads everyone over to the direction of the Wen Wu City's Southern Entrance, following after their Master Senior's Ninth footsteps .

As the group followed the path he went past, Zhang Wu Ji is busy having an animal-human conversation with the Iron Scale Bull to determine the right or wrong in his upcoming action . In his deep thought, he considered the action of heavily injuring his attendants is a grave mistake that could end up destroying the instigator's family but does the mistake worth such a big counter-reaction just because a few teeth of his attendants were forcefully pulled out from the smack of a hammer?

Zhang Wu Ji considered his action thoroughly before he conducted them because the fact he was still a Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect means that each movement and action he took, will end up affecting the name of the Seven Star Sect . The consideration of this matter caused Zhang Wu Ji to evaluates the intensity of his action against the name of the Seven Star Sect, either it was a positive or negative impact on the sect .

"Lazy Bull, do you think it was bad to destroy the Study Hall and confiscate their collection of the books just because of a mistake was done by their foolish young master?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned the Iron Scale Bull, only to get an intense nod from the bull as it walks .

"Alright, Then I'll reduce the amount of QI Sensing Pill in your meal . " Zhang Wu Ji continued . The Iron Scale Bull continued to nod, but suddenly, it noticed the differences in the sentence, and complaint in its sadness .

"MOOOO!!!" it swings the head left and right to express its dissatisfaction . But with a laugh, Zhang Wu Ji put away the joke he just did, because they were almost outside of the Southern Entrance right now .

When he appeared on the Iron Scale Bull, with an appearance of a Black Disciple Robe with seven stars on both of side of the arm further expressing his status in the sect . With a voice enhanced with the strands of Inner Qi, Zhang Wu Ji stated his name and position as the Iron Scale Bull moved further one step after another .

"I am Zhang Wu Ji, the Ninth Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect and Hall Master of the Apprentice Hall, I request to enter through the southern gate along with my fellow disciples to look for some guidance from the Study Hall of the Southern side!"

"Young Master Senior, Please come in!" the soldiers standing right on top of the wall greets the Master Senior as they opened the gate to allow his entrance . It did not take too long before the fifty-five disciples entered the Southern Entrance as well and followed the direction led by the soldiers to the outside of the Study Hall . Of course, his entrance when still outside of the Southern Entrance gave the opportunity for people to deliver the message to the Study Hall Owner, but he failed to react in a short notice .

Hence, his subordinates came out and greet the Young Master Senior, but he was pulled aside by Tang Yuan who was standing at the front most of their arrangement . The Longfeng Jade Ruler made it's appearance to the public for their first time, but this first time is also the instigator for the sudden rise of demand in using Long Ruler as a weapon in the future .

With the support of the Upper and Middle Seven Star Sword Art, Zhang Wu Ji created a total of twenty Air Blades with the sizes of a rampaging bull as it strikes at the outer wall at both sides of the Study Hall outer entrance . The ferociousness of this twenty air blades destroys the study wall without leaving any part of the wall remain standing . Worst of all, it was all shattered into small pieces of gravels, without further effort is needed to recycle them .

"The owner and the young master of the Southern Study Hall, come out and face this Master Senior's Wrath!" like how he did when outside the Southern Entrance, Zhang Wu Ji's shout alerts all the fighters and hired elders inside of the establishment to come out and face this commotion from a disciple from the ruler of this county . As for Zhang Wu Ji, he was still standing on top of the Iron Scale Bull as the stupid bull is chomping on the two Qi Sensing Pills in its mouth .

"This Master Senior, please explain the reason for this sudden action! I am afraid that I will need to report this to the City Lord and the Headmaster of the Seven Star Sect if the reason weren't strong enough for the Ninth Master Senior to destroy all my blood effort to build the Study Hall!" the owner of the Study Hall came out fuelled with anger seeing how the outer part of his building is destroyed .

"Where is the young master of yours?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned . The moment he questioned, Zhang Wu Ji to ignites the fire hidden deep inside of his heart, putting aside the peaceful and timid personality as he took out the Zhang Wu Ji's personality that filled with an oppressive force so heavy it made people feeling difficult to breathe . The question he brings out suppressed the Owner of Study Hall's question, as he ends up trying to reply instead of insisting for the answer for his own question .

He looked at the left and the right for a reply, but seeing that his question is getting nowhere without an answer, Zhang Wu Ji raised the tip of his Longfeng Jade Ruler once more, with twenty air blades hovering in a circle waiting for their actions . This overbearing attitude was suppressing all the cultivators right in front of the two sides, and even those in their Inner Qi Warrior stage is not excluded from the pressure .

"S . . . Stop . . . " the Owner of Study Hall was a second too late to stopped Zhang Wu Ji from taking his action . With a simple swing towards the Study Hall, the twenty air blades strike like they possess an eye on their own, attacking twenty different parts but did not completely destroy the Study Hall yet . This surprised the Owner of the Study Hall because even as a peak 19th Stage Inner Qi Warrior himself, he'd yet to achieve the ability to manifest an air blade at all, yet this junior in his 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter is playing with twenty of them like nobody's business .

"Master Senior, please! Please stop! Search for the useless child of mine and drag him here if you needed to!" the Owner of Study Hall's oppressive forces is completely gone seeing how resolute is Zhang Wu Ji's action . "So what if I'm stronger than him? He was the doted disciple of the leader of this county, yet I'm only a small Study Hall owner . This was a battle that cannot be won unless I am as strong as his master . " the owner though .

About five minutes later, a youth was dragged on his butt as the elders from the Study Hall forces him to make his appearance before the Ninth Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect . From his appearance, Zhang Wu Ji can feel an urge to gave this youth a few slaps because he could see the former Zhang Wu Ji from his terrible appearance of a debauchee . Looking at the pair of father and child, Zhang Wu Ji started to speaks .

"I am exactly here to see what gave you the guts to land your hand on my people, and where did you come out with the obsession to play with a hammer!" Zhang Wu Ji left the Iron Scale Bull and take a few steps closer to the father and son pair, with plenty of air blades hovering by his side, sometimes dense, sometimes missing as he stands five steps apart from them . It did not take him further to continues .

"Come, I give you the chances to make your step . If you succeed to touch a strand of my hair, I will give you this pouch with fifty million Gold Coins inside . " Zhang Wu Ji took the pouch from his waist and throw them right in between the father and child and him . All the air blades vanish from his side as he waved his Longfeng Jade Ruler without a concern on the two .

Although the life of his child is important, the attraction from the fifty million gold coins is not weak either! The father softly tapped his son's back, indicating him to take a step forward and attack . As long he managed to touch a strand of his hair, that was enough for him to earn that fifty million gold coins! "What is so difficult about that? You're still a 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter at the end of the day!" the Owner of the Study Hall thinks .

With the Pole Hammer in hand, the youth steps forward in a charge . Unfortunately, before he managed to take his fourth step, a gigantic air blade like a wave already throws him up in the air before the raging torrent of air blades pummels him in each part of his body without allowing the body to fall onto the ground .

Floating in the air through the support from the air blades, Zhang Wu Ji effortlessly delivered a torrent of air blades to make sure the youth got his lesson . This weakened air blades maintained the momentum, although the damage it dealt was reduced to a tenth of its original damage . But being taught with a lesson through this way, it shows the public that the might Seven Star Sect was unmatched, at least in the eyes of the public .

His action is similar to "You can look for trouble, but unless you possess the strength to support it, do not overstep your boundaries" to the people spectating what was happening here . While he was still giving the youth a lesson, Zhang Wu Ji pointed at the Slave Disciples and moved his finger towards the Study Hall, and mentioned the word;

As he finishes his words, Zhang Wu Ji Stops . The youth is void of any heavy injuries, but the pain caused by the lesson did not fail to creates a trauma inside his mind, which would teach him how to behave in the future . Feeling that wasn't enough, Zhang Wu Ji added a condition before he waits for the book's collection to be completed .

"If you want your books to return, come up to the Seven Star Sect's Ninth Courtyard to collects them . The more you come forth and leave, the faster you will be able to collect all the book I confiscate from you . Not only that, for every book you took back, I will have the people from Apprentice Hall to deliver ten Masonry Bricks to you to rebuild your Study Hall . "

"You can treat this as a lesson, but let me tell you one thing . . . A character is molded from young, and not from wealth . If you failed to understand this, you're not qualified to open a Study Hall . " Zhang Wu Ji completed every sentence he wanted to say, and the moment the books have been confiscated by his people, Zhang Wu Ji left along with his people . Even the City Lord did not make his appearance here, allowing the Master Senior Ninth to do anything he wishes .

"You! Unfilial Son! How can the Tao Family groom such a trash using our precious resources!" the owner of the Study Hall slapped his son's face for the first time out of anger and left the place which only the remains of his Study Hall is left . Today's even indicates the destruction of the Southern Side's Study Hall, which will last for long until the Tao Family's Young Master finish collecting the books from the Ninth Courtyard .

Meanwhile, on his way returning to the sect, Zhang Wu Ji did not ride the Iron Scale Bull anymore but leave it to carry a large number of books on their way back . Zhang Wu Ji and the others ride the carriage they prepared, and as they go on their way, Zhang Wu Ji did not waste any of his time but started to run through the books and separates them into few different stacks .

Each stack is held by an attendant, while some unused one was thrown aside because of their irrelevant content related to this world's information . Those books usually carried no status nor effect, and only works as something that can be sold like the jade . Worst of all, he found three books that contribute to enter the Inner Demon state, which is completely trash among the books .

"No wonder the cultivator's strength in the Wen Wu City remained at this level . It was due to these collections of trash like books and records! How dare these people to use books as the tool to bring people into an Inner Demon State!" Zhang Wu Ji is so angry he ignites a Firestone and burns the books . Among that 20,000 books, about five hundred of the book were worthless records, and about 300 of them were a waste of time to cultivates them . Without feeling guilty, Zhang Wu Ji destroys those records to soothes his mind .

The five attendants before him maintain their silence as they traveled, and only the sound from the horses and the cries from the Iron Scale Bull is heard . When they reach the vicinity of the Seven Star Sect, Zhang Wu Ji gave them five Qi Sensing Pills per person for their help in moving these books in a short notice . With his room is now 19,300 books richer, Zhang Wu Ji spent his time to rewrites each of them, in order to obtain further knowledge about this world and also it's cultivation arts .

But no matter what, a rewrite is a rewrite as Zhang Wu Ji collected those useless books and compiles them into a more effective cultivation method . The 19,300 books soon been tidied and were left with a mere 12,500 books, but this little works took him three days to complete . When he was ready for another day of effort, a knock came from the door as Tang Yuan requested for his presence .

It seems that three days after, the two Slave Disciple that once stand out and express their aim to loiter around his place has returned to report and shows what they cultivated in this three days . Of course, as a person that keeping up with his promises, Zhang Wu Ji went to meet the two of them, along with two Physical Cultivation Manual that he recently compiled . Although their effect wasn't as high as his expectation, their quality was the highest among the Untiered Cultivating Manuals .

-Usage 1: Increase the Strength / Response / Defence / Agility of the Practitioner by 0 . 2 each time they completed the set of 12 movement steps .

-Usage 2: Allow the execution of WUJI Long Fist by paying (22) Inner Qi . Damage doubled each time the user entered another tier of cultivation .

-Usage 3: Strengthen the user with 13 Strands of Inner Qi every 72 hours . Effect applied as long user practices the 12 movement steps for three hours daily .

With two copies of this new manual, Zhang Wu Ji took his seat right before the two Slave Disciples and awaits their performance . The first one introduced himself as Lin Antai . Instead of spending the two Qi Sensing Pill, he used them as the catalyst to allow him to increase the depth of his cultivation, and as a person that came from the Lin Village not too far from the Bai Village, he is well trained in the art of Canine Subduing .

The way he executes the fighting style is quite rough, but it does contain a hint of effort placed in his practice because no matter how rough it looks, the deadliness of his each strikes still able to subdue most of the unskilled opponents . If it was used to fight against canine wild beast, perhaps the strength is much stronger than on a human .

"Good! What a good seven steps of Canine Subduing . No wonder the Lin Village is well known for their excellent products such as Wolfskin and Animal Pelts!" Zhang Wu Ji praised the disciple for his excellent performance, but at the same time, he took the Lin Village into the sentence to not gave the disciple too much of a confidence at himself . With a small gesture, he delivered a copy of the manual to the disciple's hand for him to start his cultivation .

"Master Senior Ninth, this junior's name is Bai Qing, I am similar to brother Hei Tie, also from the same village . Unfortunately, I am not that skillful in martial arts, thus I did not pay any attention to trying to cultivate myself with it . I spent the two Qi Sensing Pills to purchase some materials to do something I am good with . " the disciple named Bai Qing too two pieces of Sentient Iron for his inspection .

Zhang Wu Ji was a master blacksmith in the eyes of many disciples in the sect, due to the ability in crafting eight swords that were used by the First to Eighth Master Senior . Next, he took the three elders from the Blacksmithing Department as his direct disciple in blacksmithing, before he crafted the Longfeng Jade Ruler in his hand . This is why the disciple named Bai Qing risks his effort by refining two ingots of Sentient Iron in order to obtain Zhang Wu Ji's approval .

And, his won his bet . The moment Zhang Wu Ji noticed the two ingots, he inspects them through his [UPGRADE] system, and noticed that the purity of the total metal in this two ingots is a good 89% Sentient Iron / 10% Pure Iron / 1% Crystal Iron quality . This expresses his effort further in refining this two piece of ingots, because, without a similar ability like his own, it's extremely difficult to refine an ingot with this quality .

"Good, this two Ingots reaches a very high purity, but still, you need to put more effort to make them into a proper piece of Sentient Iron . " Zhang Wu Ji was impressed by both of them as they did not fail to obtain his approval . As long they're able to show that they did give an effort to try, they will obtain his approval . Without delaying, Zhang Wu Ji hands him the remaining copy of the manual and sent them off .

"Master Senior Ninth, the young master from Tao Family is here . " Tang Yuan came to him with the second matter . Following him from behind is a young tiger just lost it fangs when it got beaten three days ago . Although his attitude is nothing full of agreements, he at least made his effort to come over to the courtyard for the sake of his father . This sight made him understand one thing .

"Master Senior Ninth, this junior Tao Luo Yun pay his respect and also asking for his forgiveness . " the young master from Tao's Family kneeled before Zhang Wu Ji . Seeing his attitude is fitting, Zhang Wu Ji took a book out from his chest's inner pocket, and hand the book over to him .

"This book is a rewrite version of my own . Inside, it combines the three major topics of a Cultivation Path related to [Dao of Cultivation], [Mind of Cultivation], and [Cultivator's Inner Morale] . Bring this book home and read them . Unless you finish this book, do not come back to bother me . " Zhang Wu Ji sent him off before he returns to his own room . Among the six to seven thousand of books he compiled and disposed of, this book is one of the ten proper books that were beneficial to the people of Wen Wu City and also to those cultivated in the sect .

He expected the youth will need at least three to six day to cultivates, which is enough for him to put on all his effort to rewrites and repairs all the mistakes before he allows the young master of Tao to collect them back . His motive in this act is simple . Instead of teaching him with a lesson and gives him a trauma that won't be gone in his future path, why don't give him another chance?

But he did not pay too much attention to this matter, because for now, the number of his responsibilities to handle is too overwhelming . Except for skipping some breakfast to refine the manuals, Zhang Wu Ji did not put any of his time to cultivates other things . He completely forgot that by the early of next month, the first harvest of the medicinal herbs brought by the merchant will reach their maturity .

What's more, Zhang Wu Ji did not pay a visit to the Blacksmith Department yet to inspect the results from the rework on all the disciple's Seven Leaves Sword, and not only that, it seems that the Iron Thrusting Dirk is incorporated into the production as a second weapon for all the disciples to carry . It did not receive a good response at first, but after a few deadly situations between the inner disciples during their exploration into the Southern Bamboo Forest, the Dirk slowly become acceptable in the mind of the disciples .

One more issue he forgot, is that this master senior is a 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter now . Instead of busy handling so many responsibilities, he should be having fun in exploring the forest . Perhaps until somebody mentioned about going to the forest for an exploration, he will continue doing his own thing .

Day passes quite quickly until it was already six days later . At this time, the close to twenty thousand books is finally completely refined by his effort, with only a thousand of them left . But that thousand books that he edited all by himself perhaps worth more than the sect itself, because each of them was not only a compiled version, they carry their own little side effect that will help one in their own cultivation and professions, which is very important for the improvement of a county .

And in the six days, the Young Master from Tao Family is unexpectedly made his appearance in the courtyard daily, he even spent all his time in studying those profound books that were compiled and refined by Zhang Wu Ji . These short six days were the most wonderful not only to this youth but also for his parents . The Tao Luo Yun that was a trash once before, changed into a new leaf, as somebody that not only cultivates in his own mean, he even become a role model that guides the youth generation in the Southern Side of Wen Wu City .

These sudden changes were soon turned into a respect on the Master Senior Ninth's teaching . The Southern Side that was once proud with their own ability to develops due to the lack of threat from the Southern Bamboo Forest, started to accept the improvement and advanced tools and materials to further upgrading their Southern Wen Wu City .

Up to date, Zhang Wu Ji's action has personally affected the Northern Side and the Southern Side, with the exception of the eastern and western side . The western side is more packed with rough buildings, and the east was under some influence by the Seven Star Sect . Due to the majority of miners resides in the western side of the Wen Wu City, it was very underdeveloped .

Although there were only three more days before the end of the month, Zhang Wu Ji did not bother to wait and distributes three manuals to each of them for cultivation purposes . As the five attendants know how much effort the Master Senior placed on their improvement, they accepted the three manuals with a heavy heart .

Usage 2: For every 1 point of Physical Fitness is achieved, increase 1 Strand of Fighter Qi . Effect limited to maximum 1,000 strands of Fighter Qi .

After handling them with the three manuals, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his room, as he found out that among that thousand books he created, Zhang Wu Ji accidentally steps upon a miraculous manual that may become the changing point in his cultivation .

Perhaps not too many people know about the fact, but the fact of Zhang Wu Ji's Trash Martial Body is a well-known fact in Li Jiang City . It was precisely due to this matter he was despised by his two elder brothers due to the lack of a heaven-defying Martial Body like them . Between his two elder brothers, the first possessed the Violet Emperor Martial Body that made his Qi appears in a violet hue . The Violet Emperor Martial Body allows his eldest brother to not only have thrice the speed of cultivation but also thrice the strength and understanding of anything related to cultivation .

As for his second brother, he possesses the Heaven Qi Martial Body, a body that requires twice the effort to cultivates and advance, but in return of the effort, he will face no difficulties in advancement and also lack of Qi inside the body . The Heaven Qi Martial Body not only can replenish the Qi by itself, but it can also even heal others from grave injuries .

It was only due to the youngest of Zhang's Family is a Trash Martial Body, or else, won't the female all over the continent coveted Zhang Qing Feng to conceive their child because each kid he made, comes with a heaven-defying Martial Body!

-Usage 1: Allows the user to transform his Martial Body to Martial Tyrant Body . Activation of the Transformation Art cost a large amount of Qi within the user's body . The higher is the quality of Qi, the faster is the conversion rate . The Martial Tyrant Body is capable of withstanding and cancel other Martial Body except for Emperor and Saint Class .

-Usage 2: The moment the user attains the Martial Tyrant Body, the natural energy source available in the atmosphere can be used to replenish the exhausted Qi inside his body .

-Special 1: During activation, the user will suffer a backlash from overconsumption of High-Quality Strands of Qi, the possibility of entering [Berserk] Status is extremely high .

"This is a very difficult choice . . . " Zhang Wu Ji wanted to start the transformation of this ability, but as he knows, the activation of this transformation art will cause him to goes into a berserk condition, which is equivalent to being bitten by the Devils Bite . The moment he entered this condition, the blood circulation and Qi circulation will run wild . If this situation continues frequently or went on for too long, it will cause more damage than benefit to the body in long run .

He considered his situation and weight the pro and cost before he finalized his decision . At the end of the day, Zhang Wu Ji selected the option to proceed . Holding the book in hand, Zhang Wu Ji pops a Yin Essence Pill into his body before he begins the activation . With the order is executed in his mind, the forced the Strands of Inner Qi within his body to escape from his core (Dantian) before they formed into a ball of needles that continuously pierced into his skin to activates his meridian all over his body .

The activation withdraws a thousand Strands of Inner Qi out each attempt, and one after another, Zhang Wu Ji is suffering extreme pain caused by the attack of thousand needles of Qi . It may be an intangible source of energy, but when they entered his body and drilled into his vein, the pain that it caused reaches the situation where you accidentally knocked your pinkie toe on the cupboard .

In the first three attempts, the pain was extremely unbearable, but when it entered the fourth until seventh attempts, the pain that entered his body is multiplied, until it reaches the moment Zhang Wu Ji may lose his conscience . But that moment as well allows him to understand, what does it mean by entering the [Berserk] status . Within his sight, everything turned into blood red, with only lighter red and darker red can be seen in his sight .

Although he only entered the condition for a mere five seconds, that was enough to give him a mental trauma that extremely deep into his mental condition . Other than the blood red vision, he smelled the stench of blood which was so thick it made a person feel nauseous by sensing it . The wooden floor right before his eyes turned into a pile of bones soaked with blood flowing all over him, and the feeling of despair is extremely heavy .

He believes that if he entered the real for another five more seconds, he might lose control of his own sanity, and begin to run amok killing people and destroying houses . With his ability to executes any martial arts without learning them, what can stop him from a massacre? Perhaps only his master, headmistress, and a few elders could . But it won't be until he kills a large number of people .

This time, he continued . By popping two Yin Essence Pill instead of the one like his previous trial . At this moment, he was hungry for the high-quality Scarlet Dissection Pill that works much more miraculous than the Violet Calming Pill . With his preparation is done, he entered the condition once again and went through another three attempts to complete the 1st % of his transformation .

With only 124 strands of Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Ji only possess enough Strands of inner qi for 12 attempts, until he rests for a few hours . The three more attempts went successfully without any hitch, but the moment he obtained the 1% of his Martial Tyrant Body, his body begins to release a thick layer of dirt as smelly as a pile of feces that was collected for over a week old . Immediately, he rushes to take a quick bath from his personal bathtub and cleaned the water before it was noticeable by anyone inside the courtyard .

As he dried his hair, Zhang Wu Ji saw paid his attention to the surrounding Natural Energy again . Although their existence was nothing surprising to him, the moment he noticed that the Natural Energy were slowly absorbed into his body, it indicates that his body is returning to how a cultivator should have .

"This! This is impossible!" of course, Zhang Wu Ji was surprised with the fact his body is able to process the Natural Energy in the air now! Before this, he would have to heavily dependent on the Qi Sensing Pills to increase the possibility of his body woven the strand of Inner Qi, but now, it entered to his body without any effort is needed . Wasn't this surprising, especially to him who unable to cultivates properly for over five months inside of this world?

Although the hint of increment in his energy is slower than expected, what was better than finding the fact your body is able to begin absorbing the Natural Energy in the air like the other cultivator does? But in his mind, one question remained .

"Did nobody noticed the existence of Natural Energy all over our surrounding?" Zhang Wu Ji was puzzled with this fact as he failed to find any related book and records related to the Natural Energy all over their surroundings . While he was puzzled with the unknown fact, another morning comes . Outside of his courtyard, footsteps of disciples rushing to the kitchen to prepare the breakfast started to become a norm for each of them . And without a complaint at all, the Kitchen Department utilized all the manpower Zhang Wu Ji distributes to them .

During this period, the group of loitering disciples outside of his courtyard completely engrossed into the art of culinary and even applied to become one of the kitchen helpers without a question about their salary . With a simple direction from Zhang Wu Ji, the bleak and dull future of the Kitchen Department suddenly rise in their number of manpower, and started to came out with some plan to cultivates their own high-quality fish products .

Some even started with their plan to open some Small Culinary Stall as competition to satisfy the competitive heart deep inside them . This way, the Kitchen Department will not only able to attract more disciples to join them, but also to become one of the important department within the Seven Star Sect .

Unknown to himself, Zhang Wu Ji's fame is now spread not only throughout the Medicine Department, Blacksmithing Department, but even the Kitchen Department is unconsciously under his control at this moment . With only the Knowledge Pagoda, Hunting Department, Art Department, Security Department, and Headmaster's Management is still not convinced to his strength, Zhang Wu Ji's position within the sect is almost as firm as the grand elders and Pagoda Elders .

Of course, this soon taken as an act of trying to affect the distribution of power within each faction, but for the meantime, nobody within the sect are willing to bring this matter up in discussion because as the day passes, the Upper South State County's Gathering is expected to be starting in another 30 days .

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji is still void of any of all this issue spreading all around the sect, and busy strengthening himself . It was lucky that the Yin Essence Pill was not an item that he gave to others often, thus it helps him in quickly completing the transformation . Being more safe than sorry, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with a Yin Essence Pill each time he activates the transformation art for two attempts . Following this sequence, Zhang Wu Ji's Martial Tyrant Body soon increase by leap and bounds, from 1% initially to 10% in this two days .

"Master Senior Ninth!" an inner disciple came to his courtyard to deliver the summon from the Headmaster . It seems that this call isn't related to any of the classes he conducted, but from the appearance of the Inner Disciple, he seems to come here in a hurry . Because the summon came directly from his master personally, Zhang Wu Ji did not waste his time to wait for one of his attendants to return from their garden and inform them about his leave .

Following the Inner Disciple, Zhang Wu Ji reaches the Reflection Pagoda in a mere ten minutes and went up the stairs to his master's personal room . When he saw his master's appearance, an ache came into his heart . In his mind, how can his master, who was a cultivator in his Inner Qi Lord that went through the Sheng Tian Process, can look this weak!

"Master!" WIthout waiting for his master to answer his call, Zhang Wu Ji went up to his master's side and grab his hand tightly . The Small Nourishment Art is activated on his master, but it provides no recovering effect at all . Afraid that his master is under the effect of poison, Zhang Wu Ji took the Crystal Surgeon Knife to check his master's health, but similar to his initial trial, his tool did not work!

"Hateful! How Hateful!!! Why would you both don't work now!" Zhang Wu Ji blamed his tool and himself for not able to do anything for his master . Staying in this world for so long, this was the first time he can't do anything at all for the sake of his master . Zhang Wu Ji wishes to ask how can he help, but it seems even talking is difficult for his master .

"Master, did anyone know about your condition?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . There wasn't a commotion at this few days before, and even if he causes trouble in the Wen Wu City, the fact it will be overlooked by the City Lord is expected . But still, who can cause such a trouble for his master? Zhang Wu Ji went through everything in his memory until a whisper entered his ears .

"Let me explain this . " a silhouette came out from the back of his master's seat, hidden thoroughly by a curtain . She was the headmistress and also the beloved wife of his master .

"Master Mother please enlighten his disciple . Please tell me what can I do for my master!" Zhang Wu Ji kneeled on the ground as he faced his master and Master Mother .

She stares at the youth for a moment before she transfers some Cultivation Qi into her husband . After receiving the supply of Cultivation Qi, his situation turns better, but his master is still too weak to talks . Still standing right behind her husband, she started to narrate everything that happened a few days ago .

It seems that during the time he was enjoying the breakfast behind the Kitchen Department's open area, his master is entertaining some guest that comes from somewhere outside of the Seven Star County . They're a total of four guests, an elder from the Upper South Merchant Corporation, the State Minister of the Left, the Jie Clan's Second Elder, and a youth that looks like he belonged to the royalties .

Their discussion was heading to a very positive path before the person from the youth added a word that angered his master . Of course, his master still maintains his calmness and did not throw his tantrum during the discussion . But his calmness was unable to subdue any longer the moment the youth mentioned that they have a prior appointment with the Jie's Clan to help build up the strength of their clan, thus the Seven Star Sect are required to step down to the ninth's spot this year, and allows the Jie Clan to take the 6th position .

When his master no longer able to calm his fury, he decided to send the four guest away without even allowing the kitchen's preparation to be served to the guest . But what was unexpected by everyone is that the youth, in fact, was a 69th Stage Inner Qi Lord cultivator, and without a warning, he executes three strikes at his master . Suffering such a sneak attack without any prior warning, he has fallen into an unconscious situation until yesterday morning .

"Master Mother, do you know the name of this youth?" Zhang Wu Ji tightened his fingers against his palm, and the pressure he extorted caused his nails to smeared by blood flowing from his own palm . This was an unforgivable act! How can the four people act as they wish right inside of the Seven Star County!

"What is the uses of knowing the youth's name if you can't even stand against the youth's sneeze?" the headmistress dismissed the question and did not bother to answer him . But no matter how she will need to let Zhang Wu Ji knows the reason his master summoned him over to the tower . Under the watchful eyes of her husband, her heart turns softer along with her tone .

"I've discussed with your master about our decision, but before I proceed with what your master wants me to speaks, let me ask you first . How can I trust you on the loyalty you show? Won't you become like one of those ingrates that left the sect the moment they obtained what they want? We've seen this too much from the moment your master took the position of Sect Leader . " his Master Mother questioned .

"Master Mother, Wu Ji never did anything without considering the name of the Seven Star Sect . From the day I entered the Sect, I've promised master that from the favor master gives me, I will return it with all my loyalty! In this word, a Fledgling will have to fly the moment they have to leave the nest . Wu Ji was the same . He will have to fly when he grows up, but before this, Wu Ji will not do anything that shame master's name, nor do something without considering my master's reputation!" Zhang Wu Ji speaks out his mind, with the same word as he promised to his master before he enrolls into the sect .

From rewriting a new version of Fist of Destruction Qi to a new Bone Strengthening Art, Improving the Blacksmithing Department and also the recent Kitchen Department, Establishing the Seven Star Apprentice Hall, assisting the Wen Wu City in defending against the attack from the bandits from Orchid Mountain, and now, restructuring the mindset of the all the slave disciples within the sect for better good .

Furthermore, all the deed that was done under his name was for the sake of strengthening his master's faction and help him to obtain a stronger position within the sect . If all this action weren't for the sake of his master, then what would that be? Based on his ability until now, It was not ridiculous to say that if Zhang Wu Ji wanted to make his own faction, it wasn't impossible to achieve!

Only looking from the wealth generated from the Apprentice Hall alone, their number of profit are reaching 1 Million Gold Coins every single day, only from selling various product and services that was achievable by the slave disciples . If in the future, even Inner Disciples were included, will their profit remain in one million gold coins daily?

"Your master wants you to create your own faction . Instead of being restricted by the rules and laws of the Sect, your faction will be built according to your own accords, and compete with the Seven Star Sect evenly for the fight to power!" the word spoken by his Master Mother was so shocking it stunned the kneeling Zhang Wu Ji .

"Master Mother, this act is indirectly usurping my master's power within the sect! If this news is made known to the people in the whole county, my master's reputation will not only be affected, I will be breaking the promises I made to master as well!" Zhang Wu Ji begged for his master and master mother to reconsider their options .

"No! We've discussed . If you're worried about your reputation, then go ahead and protect it instead and not your master, and not this Seven Star Sect!" his master mother scolded him for being immature in this situation . Do he treats his master and master mother as a fool? Will they sacrifice so much just for the sake of making something out?

"Master! Master Mother! Wu Ji did not have a single thought about his reputation, but it's all about master's reputation! How can this disciple destroys the reputation my master built for so many years?" Zhang Wu Ji bowed at his master .

"With the situation now, the Seven Star Sect and the Seven Star County is already under the watchful eyes of the outsider from the Crystalline River County and the Jie's County . If we do not unite the whole Seven Star Sect under one single banner, It will be impossible for us to counter their approach when it happens . "

"This means, even if our opponent forces were a mixture of sands, they can still easily buried the stone that already laid in this county for so long! Plus, calling ourselves as a stone is an overstatement! We're more likely to be a few pieces of gravels in front of them!" his Master Mother's word enlighten his puzzled mind, and opened his conservative way of considerating the issue .

"I am not usurping my master's faction, but instead, my faction will purge the others to combine the Seven Star into one big family . Only in this way we can fight against the incoming attack from the Crystalline River County and Jie's County!" Zhang Wu Ji finally understands the motives behind his master and master mother's word .

"Wu Ji will follow my master and master mother's instruction!" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his fist together facing the two and showing a resolute expression towards the two elder . Knowing that his task ain't going to be as easy it may become, Zhang Wu Ji decided to ask for one last question .

"May Wu Ji ask the master mother to give this faction a name?" Zhang Wu Ji speaks . Looking at this youth and his decisive mentality, they smiled . Then, his master mother answered his question with a name that was already been considered for a long time .

"Master Senior Ninth, the harvest for this time is very plentiful! We've harvested all the Golden Dandelion Flower Bulbs, Water Hawthorn Roots, Poisonous Lotus Root, and fifty bulbs of Crystal Rock Flower . As for the other productions, they were similar to before . The five of us has replanted all the seeds we've obtained from the harvest, so the next harvest is expected to be double compared to this time!" Tang Yuan reported the moment the Master Senior Ninth returned to his own courtyard .

But he did not notice the changes in his Master Senior Ninth's presence . The way he returns is much more desolate and composed as if there will be a great commotion expected to happen . Zhang Wu Ji did not delve too much into this matter with his own people, but in his mind, he was calculating for the best arrangement before he started with this purging process orchestrated by his own master and master mother .

"Ah . . . Arrange them in the Pill Making Room on my behalf . Get Hei Tie over to the Blacksmithing Department and get Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong to meet me . And also . . . Help your master to check for the status of another two cities inside our Seven Star Sect . It will be the best of there is disciples that originated from there . " Zhang Wu Ji gave his instruction to Tang Yuan to follow . As he completed, he returned to his room quietly .

"My master should have some difficulties . Hei Tie! Come here!" Tang Yuan noticed the differences at last and quickly instructed Bai Hei Tie before he heads to the Slave Disciples area to look for those people his master asked . The only differences no when he came to the Slave Disciples Area is that he's no longer a weakling like them, but an inner disciple and also the trusted attendant of Master Senior Ninth .

"Is there anyone here that came from the Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City?" Tang Yuan asked . The two name was well known to everyone growing up in the Seven Star County . With the Seven Star Sect in the middle, the Wen Wu City is the closest city from the west side, and the Wen Qing City on the far left, almost reaching the end of the Seven Star County's border . As for the Wen Yang City, they were located close to the northern border, which is one of the four routes to enter the Imperial State .

But his question did not get any reply from the slave disciples . Instead, Tang Yuan is surrounded by many other more unfortunate Slave Disciples and pestered to be introduced to the Master Senior Ninth . He was annoyed, but with the important task in hand, Tang Yuan held into his anger and continue to ask for the second time .

"Senior Brother, the Wen Qing City, and Wen Yang City is even twice larger than the Wen Wu City, how can there be a disciple that entered the Slave Disciple Ranks? This place is only for those from the villages, those that lacked cultivating resources, Martial Arts, and luck," they explained to Tang Yuan, which soon, removed his anger deep inside his heart .

What was he trying to do from his previous call? Even he himself came from this area, but he forgets about the most basic knowledge about the members inside Slave Disciple Area . How will those from the City enter their ranks? The Slave Disciples Area is where all those from villages gather!

"Brother and Sisters! Please forgive this Tang Yuan for his lack of manner by asking such a thing, but may I personally ask, is there anyone of you that willing to presents the situation in his village to Master Senior Ninth? I may not able to promise any rewards, but I dare to say, one additional word related to your village may become the reason for it to rise in the future!" Tang Yuan stated . And from his response, the reaction blew him away, when the crowd gathered together to form ten groups .

Without even needed to ask, Tang Yuan leads them back as the eldest attendant for Zhang Wu Ji and invited them to take a seat inside their garden before Tang Yuan requested for his appearance . While their thirsty throat is moistened by the high-quality tea, Tang Yuan went to request for his master's attendance . The moment Zhang Wu Ji was informed with the results of his searching, he did not feel disappointed with him, but instead, praise him for his ability to change and decides when the first option is not available .

The moment he made himself present in his own garden, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted by over a hundred slave disciples . Their numbers divided almost equally in each group and form a total of 10 groups . Each one of the group represents one of the villages, but it seems like they're void of any people from the Bai Village, Lin Village, Tian Village, and Yun Village . It seems those that he met before are in the minorities, where only one to three disciples are inside of this sect, while the others are all remained in their own village to help .

One by one, the group of the representatives representing their village came out to describe their location and also the main product that was produced from their village for the day they were established . Among the ten villages, the Jiang Village and Peng Village are situated north of the Wen Wu City, where their villages are right after one travel past the Orchid Mountain . Their main product includes Qi Essence Silkworm in both living or dead condition, the extracted Qi Essence Silk, or also the Blood Juicy Fruit .

Because the two villages vicinity is extremely close to each another, they often cooperate together for their improvement, thus the two villages can be said to be the best sample of One Healing Blood, another Healing Qi . Their cooperation allows more window for improvement, where among the ten groups of slave disciples, their quality was the best . Following next is the Yao Village and Hong Village that located at the east side of the Seven Star Sect, and also the first and second villages that Zhang Wu Ji passed through during his travel to the sect .

The Yao Village focused on their production of textiles, while the Hong Village skills lies in embroideries, As this two profession wasn't something that can be learned in a single day or with a mere manual, Zhang Wu Ji did not step too deep into their village method in producing their products, but from the way they explained their village situation, it seems that their business is a mere quality one, because all the higher quality textiles and Embroideries are collected by the merchants weekly to be delivered to the Imperial state .

Next comes the Qing Village and Lan Village, both located right outside of the Southern Bamboo Forest from below the Wen Wu City's south side, and the Seven Star Sect's Southern side . The two villages excel in their hunting ability and possess some strong martial arts, but their population is a little too low to be compared with the others . The products they refined, such as Animal Pelts and flesh or internal organs could fetch a very good price in the market, but unlucky to them, the expired date for most of their product is very short, thus they always struggle in this matter .

The Mu Village and Ye Village are similar to their name, they excel in Timber and Medicinal Farming . Their location is situated at just north of the Li Jiang Village, and only one day distance to the border's Bai Village . Lastly, is the Gang and Liao Village that focused on Pill Concoction . The final two village disciples are quieter than the others, but from their look, it seems that they do possess some ability themselves, but lack of chances and opportunities .

After some further consideration and discussion with each of them, Zhang Wu Ji started to have his own rough guidance in where he shall starts . After distributing Five Qi Sensing Pills to each of them, Zhang Wu Ji bid them farewell and also thanked them for their help in deepening his understandings regarding this county itself .

Among the thirty villages, Zhang Wu Ji already afflicted with fifteen of them, and for Li Jiang Town, it will be easy for him to get their help . As for the three cities, Zhang Wu Ji got the support from at least half of the population . If this revolt is going to work out, Zhang Wu Ji will need to obtain the support from the City Lord as well .

But with his strength, on what capability he worth the assistance of the City Lord? Zhang Wu Ji understands this fact and decides that unless he makes a choice to strengthen himself, it will be not only difficult for him to obtain the support from the City Lord, perhaps not even the Slave Disciples will be completely standing by his side .

While he was considering about this matter, Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong are here from his summon . Unknown what their master needs them for, the three of them noticed a small change in their master's usual composition, and decided to ask . "Master! Did something happened and you need the help of the three of us?" Li Yin, the most sensitive among the three of them asked .

"Great that you noticed that . Let me ask the three of you one question . " Zhang Wu Ji completed his sentence before he stands up from his seat and walks towards one of the trees that grew past his courtyard's roof . He calmed his mind before he speaks the most sensitive word he could even think about .

"My master! You're trying to . . . Revolt!" the question shocks the three of them into their core, but still, they did not retreat . Li Jing stands up and walks closer to his master, wanting to stops him from continues, but the action was a second too late! A total of eleven Inner Qi Fighters dressed in black went into the courtyard's garden, with the intention to kill!

"Assassins!" the three was shocked by their master's words, but they were more shocked by the existence of assassins within the sect! How low did a sect will need to drop before it was infiltrated by assassins belonged to the people not from their faction? Since Zhang Wu Ji has naturally belonged to the Headmaster's Faction, it was natural that nobody will place assassins surrounding his courtyard, but if this happens, won't that means the Headmaster's Faction was nothing in their eyes?

"Protect master!" Li Jing took his own sword out from the scabbard, but before they managed to take an action, Zhang Wu Ji who was always with his Jade Ruler by his side already took an action! In the term fast execution of ability, how can there be any assassins in their Inner Qi Fighter's strength competes with him?

Before the eleven assassins even managed to withdraw their weapons, numerous air blades already consumed the air and space inside the courtyard and canceled all their attacks before it was even executed . The quick reflex from their master shocked them, but what comes next, was even more so .

Without even a preparation is needed, Zhang Wu Ji executed the Twin Star Piercer and attacked eight of the eleven assassins while they handle one of the assassins each . the moment the fight is over, Zhang Wu Ji skilfully applied the air blades he released to moves the assassins in a row before it turned into sharp blades that removes all their disguise and articles of clothing, leaving each of them bare naked .

"Speak, who sent you here!" Zhang Wu Ji questioned, but at that moment, a burst of Qi came out from their body and taking away their life force as qi escapes from the body . It turned into a total of eleven dried corpses in a flash without any hint of how the person behind them took an action . This puzzled the four of them, but soon, Li Jing came closer to his master and asked the incomplete question .

The three of them looked at one another, and after an exchange of their eye contact, the three bowed before their master and said . "Master, from today onwards, everyone inside of the Blacksmithing Department is yours to command!" they replied .

"Good! For the first task now, return to the Blacksmithing Department, and rearrange all the position and also re-evaluates each single members of the Blacksmithing Department . If you found any suspicious characters, caught them and inform me, I will personally question them myself!" Zhang Wu Ji left with his order to the three of them .

-Special: When the weapon is in use during a contract, allowed the assassin to obtain complete immunity to poison . (Current Contractor: Yang Chen Kun)

"Yang Chen Kun, what a loyal Grand Elder of the Left you're . . . Golden Wolf Syndicate . . . Seems like the time for me to get overboard is here . " Zhang Wu Ji walked to a corner of his room to took out a beautiful case with a treasure stored inside . When it was opened, the treasure stored within is exactly the uneaten Converging Qi Fruit!

-Special: When the fruit is placed in a place void of light and heat until it was rotten, a drop of solid Converging Qi Essence can be extracted from the fruit .

He smiled when looking at the number of Inner Qi the piece of rotten fruit can bring after eating them, but what is much more important for him is the piece of teardrop size Converging Qi Essence inside . He did not waste his time but went straight to extract that solid pieces out before he swallowed the fruit . Although it was just a mere 90 strands of Inner Qi, a small strand is still a meal for his hungry Dantian .

But looking at the piece of Converging Qi Essence, Zhang Wu Ji smiled . He did not even have a hint of hesitation as he upgraded the treasure to +5 as he swallows it .

The moment the Converging Qi Essence entered his throat and sent down into his stomach, a surge of Fighter Qi burst out from the Converging Qi Essence and assimilates into his body, allowing him to become an Inner Qi Fighter with 141 Strands of Fighter Qi now . without too much effort needed, he can expect that his cultivation stage will be at least 3rd Stage when he participates in the battle royale .

The only thing left for him was to handle his own faction, but since it wasn't established at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji decided to order the Blacksmithing Department to stop their supply of weapons for now and started to increase the number of refined metals in their vault . Only with sufficient supply of metal can the Blacksmithing Department continue with their task, but he believed his instinct, that when his faction is established, the first to take his act to destroy Zhang Wu Ji will be the Grand Elder of the Left, Yang Chen Kun!

Leaving in secret using a reason to inspect his Apprentice Hall inside the Wen Wu City, Zhang Wu Ji departs in a hurry . He took roughly a half day to reach the Apprentice Hall and inspects his people once again before telling them the truth . But unexpected to him, the 150 Slave Disciples inside of the Apprentice Hall all pledge their loyalty to Zhang Wu Ji and will support him and his faction no matter what he does . Their demand was only a simple request of;

"Please allow more people from our village to cultivates, and grow our village further . We had enough of the ill-treatment from the sect because of our worthless strength!"

"Yes! We will pledge loyalty to Master Senior Ninth as long you can make sure that in the future, we will not be treated like before, and obtain the chances to cultivates properly too! We don't mind work like a cow, but we must worth the resources we worked for!"

"Loyalty to Master Senior Ninth! Master Senior Ninth as the next generation of Seven Star Sect's Headmaster!" the crowd inside of the Apprentice Hall completely show their supportive side at Zhang Wu Ji . With this matter is handled, Zhang Wu Ji next went to the Northern Side, to see which side will the people will stands .

"Master Senior Ninth! As long as those people that stay in the houses you built, Working as your employees in creating all the Masonry Bricks, and survived because of you, we're all standing by your side!" the residents in the Northern Side reveal their support to Zhang Wu Ji .

With the Apprentice Hall and Northern Side is taken cared and showing their complete supports on him and his WUJI Faction, Zhang Wu Ji ride the Iron Scale Bull and went through the east side to the south side because of the entrance into the City Lord's Fortress is located here .

But before he managed to reach the guard's post outside of the City Lord's Fortress, his path is disrupted by the people from the southern side . In his rough estimation, at least, if not all, 90% of the residents living in this side is outside blocking his path .

"Brothers, Sisters, Aunts, and Uncles, can this junior ask why is his path to continue ahead is obstructed? Did this junior did anything wrong to everyone here?" he asked .

The crowd gets closer to him, but Zhang Wu Ji did not withdraw his weapon as he believes that he did not cause any trouble against the residents of the Wen Wu City . He carefully inspects the way each of them moves only to noticed that he wasn't an enemy in their eyes, but it is not he was too good looking either!

"Stupid Bull, run!" Zhang Wu Ji kicked the bull's bottom, but like it was not bothered to take care of him, it moves in a very relaxed speed . The first resident that catch up pulled his hand, and instead of assaulting him, he shakes his hand in very friendly gestures . Then, more and more people gathered by his side and begin to do the same thing . Some even kneeled and thanked him for his benevolence in helping them .

"What the hell happened? Except for coming here to what that young master's butt, I did not do anything at all . " Zhang Wu Ji was confused with what happening surrounding him, until the young master of Tao Family, Tao Luo Yun arrived . The moment he shows himself before the Master Senior, he kneeled at one knee and greets him . But Zhang Wu Ji was not in the mood to guess what happened as he took his Jade Ruler and bring that young master to his side .

"Master Senior, this . . . This is all your greatness!" Tao Luo Yun quickly explains what happened to the Southern Side after he brought the books back to the Study Hall . Because his father is impatient to rebuild the Hall, he ordered the construction workers to demolish the whole building before he rebuilt it . As the Masonry Bricks that supported from the Northern Side's Factory comes, their construction begins .

But because I am impatient to share this book with others, I followed my good brother's opinion and started to teach the others about the contents of the book you gave me, this made everyone in the town, debauchee, gambler, drunkard, Muggers, and beggars are enlightened by you . Now, the whole Southern Side are treating you like our savior!" Tao Luo Yun explained .

"You fool! I call you to read that to give you a proper lesson and you end up using that to give everyone a lesson using my name! If I don't whack your butt I will feel sorry to myself!" Zhang Wu Ji raised his Jade Ruler and swing a number of air blades to whack his bottom before it was taken as a lesson to temper their attitude . Soon, a row of young males came out to had their bottom slap, which gave Zhang Wu Ji a fear .

"Who wants to whack all of your asses! Get the hell away!" he almost cried out loud . Luckily, the people from the City Lord's Management already come out to inspect the commotion that happened right outside of their City Lord's Fortress . This team of soldiers is led by one of the captains that helps during the Orchid Mountain Bandits attack, thus he recognizes him in a single glance .

"Master Senior Ninth! Are you here to meet with City Lord? Please let this humble soldier escort you into the fortress!" the captain sent a subordinate to report to the city lord quickly before he greets the Master Senior right in front of his eyes . His word also caused the crowd to be impressed because their mighty benefactor is heading into the City Lord Fortress for his high and mighty responsibilities .

"Quiet! And go back to your home, what are all of you doing here? Gathering to attack the City Lord?" the captain forced the other residents to dismiss and return to their home . Under the command from all the soldiers taking a guard at the Guard's Post, the commotion is quickly removed . This gave the two of them entered the fortress without any disturbance .

The butler immediately came with a cup of tea for the Master Senior as he waits, and as everyone knows, Zhang Wu Ji have a habit of reading, thus the butler quickly delivered a few books for Zhang Wu Ji to read while enjoying the tea and also reading the books while waiting for the City Lord to make his appearance .

"Ten minutes to finish three books that took me a week to completes! What a talent, no wonder he's the doted disciple amongst the nine of them . " the City Lord quickly come out to greets the youth . Without any restriction between the two, they begin to converse like a pair of old friends, touching the topic of Wen Wu City's health, situation, the relation with the Orchid Mountain, and anything happened in the county recently .

Meanwhile, inside a private building, an elder is venting his anger by whipping at a youth hanged upside down . Blood is flowing out from all over his body due to the whipping injuries, but the elder did not feel pitiful, instead, it roused his interest to continue whipping further . He continues to whip the youth until he's dead . With a toss, he throws away the handle of the whip and walked over to his subordinates to listen to their reports .

"Master, the eleven assassins from the Ninth's Courtyard did not return to report yesterday, I'm afraid that their safety is questionable . I hope master will . . . " the subordinate wishes to continue his report until it finishes, but the elder stopped him from continuing . Looking at the elder's action, the subordinate remained silent until the elder continues .

"It is me who killed the eleven assassins!" a silhouette appeared from one of the doors and gave the subordinate his words . His appearance is more like a witch doctor that practices witchcraft . The moment this witch doctor made his appearance, everyone within the hall keep quiet, afraid of having their lives taken away out of a whim . He was the younger brother of the Grand Elder of Left, Yang Chen Kun, named Yang Ming Kun .

Yang Ming Kun was engrossed with the practice and cultivation of much more darker cultivation skills, such as Deadly Yin Finger, Inner Qi Spike, and Fighter Qi Needle . The truth behind the death of the eleven assassins is because he activated the Fighter Qi Needle that was plated inside the heart of the assassins . As long they have the intention to speaks any secrets, their heartbeat will beat abnormally, and this is the trigger to initiates the Fighter Qi Needle . Worst of all, the Fighter Qi Needle is infective, where if one needle is activated, the others with the Fighter Qi Needle will receive the same ending .

"Brother, if the situation doesn't allow it, why not we implant all the disciples with the Inner Qi Spikes and Fighter Qi Needles? Then we don't even need to do anything for them to follow our instructions carefully . " Yang Ming Kun said to his elder brother . After all, the two of them were the leader and vice leader of the Golden Wolf Syndicate that has been secretly helping the bandits like Lan Shan Clan to flourish .

Behind the public eyes, the Golden Wolf Syndicate secretly provides routes and path for the clan to rob the travelers and merchants, at any time, those hired escorts protecting the carriage is also either bribed, purchased, or threatened . This caused the route from Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City failed to deliver any imported goods to the Wen Wu City and forced the merchants to follow the long way to travel .

Out of his carefulness, he arranged eleven assassins to hid nearby the Ninth's Courtyard if anything happened, but it seems that their arrangement has been disturbed and forced his younger brother to executes the assassins before they speak about anything important . But unexpected by them, Zhang Wu Ji possess the ability to discern and read an item's descriptions, revealing his identity earlier than he expected .

"No, this will not go according to your plan . We will need as much support as we could from the sect before we destroy Liang Tian's Faction . By then, the twentieth Imperial Prince will also uphold their promise to support my ascending into the Headmaster of the Seven Star Sect . Even the Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan will support by that time . " Yang Chen Kun explained .

"How are you going to defeat him and his wife then? Don't forget that the bitch from Beiping Family is a 63rd Stage Inner Qi Lord! You're only a 59th Stage Inner Qi Elder now!" his brother Yang Ming Kun stated, but it wasn't taken seriously by his elder brother at all .

"Do you think I have to handle her myself? As long the Upper South Merchant Corporation gave a copy of the Seven Star Ascension Manual to me, even that old man from the seventh-floor pagoda will have to listen to my words!" he happily replied his brother's statement and laughed as hard as he could . It seems that in his mind, the plan was already in progress and the conclusion will be as he expected .

"Master Senior Ninth, let us enter the main topic now . I believe that your arrival here is not because you merely feel like coming to visit me . " the City Lord finally entered their main topic on his accord . With his brain, it was impossible to not know what is the reason for Zhang Wu Ji's sudden appearance . In fact, he already considered three matters that might be one of the main topics Zhang Wu Ji will mention .

First of all, will be the elimination of the Lan Shan Clan in the Orchid Mountain, and establish a new import and export route to Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City . As for the second, it would be that he wanted to have something to do with the Southern Bamboo Forest, and third, it's related to the Seven Star Sect and the Apprentice Hall . But no matter how smart he was, he's unable to guess the main reason Zhang Wu Ji is here today .

"City Lord Yang, I wish to reform the Seven Star Sect once again . I hope you will support my faction and not maintaining your neutrality in this matter . " Zhang Wu Ji goes with the discussion on the main topic without any reservation regarding the sensitivity of his topic . But when he brings up this matter, The City Lord immediately stand up and revealed an expression of shock .

"You means, you want to overcome the three factions by yourself to reform the Seven Star Sect? But that is impossible! The Seven Star Sect's culture has been going for generations for who knows how many years now . How can it be easily reformed by the strength of a mere disciple . . . Wait . . . You're not a mere disciple . . . " the City Lord realized that his reaction was to underestimating Zhang Wu Ji's strength and capability .

"My opinion remains the same for now, although I won't reject you directly . In my opinion, the Seven Star Sect must be reformed, but at this moment, you're still too weak!" the City Lord calm himself and explained his own point of view in this matter . And worst of all, his deduction was all correct in a way . At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji's strength was too weak to creates his own faction, because, at the end of the day, their situation is depending on his number of cultivators, their strength, and their wealth .

If one possesses strength without numbers, they were nothing but a few soldiers trying to revolt . And if they were out of funding as well, it was worst . It was similar to having numbers but no strength, wealthy but not capable of protects them . This was all crucial and will be fatal if it was used by the opponent to attack them when they weren't capable enough .

In Zhang Wu Ji's position, he did not consider this as a problem . Instead, he replied the City Lord's deduction with his own to counter his opinion .

"City Lord Yang, I think as a person that updated as you, the fact the Blacksmithing Department Elder is a part of my attendants is already known by you for quite a long time . The three of them will allow me to control the whole Blacksmithing Department, and sooner or later, the Kitchen Department and Medicine Department will follow suit . As for the disciples, I believe I don't need to further explain my position in their mind . " Zhang Wu Ji explained the first part of his reply, and the fact has already taken the City Lord by surprise .

"As for the Wen Wu City, I highly believe that the Northeast section where the Apprentice Hall is built will follow suit, along with the Northern Side of the City . Most of the Western Side's resident belonged to the North, South, and East, thus they're not going to be a major disturbance of power . And I think, based on the Southern Side's reaction just now, do you think nobody will follow me?" his second part blew the City Lord away as three-quarters of his Wen Wu City are partially belonged to him now .

"Please do not forget that the Tian Village, Ren Village, and Yun Village is indebted by my actions too, thus I am confident that with a single word, I can control the people, the manpower, and economy plus raw materials from being exploited by the other factions . I might don't have too many high ranking cultivators with me now, but I am confident that with three Inner Qi Elder helping me, and also City Lord yourself, who can easily compete with me and my WUJI Faction?" Zhang Wu Ji completes his reply with the last part .

"This kid! I can't believe that as a City Lord myself, I am shameful to say that my position is completely above him! How can this be something a fifteen years old youth can think about? If he was to become the leading faction in the Seven Star Sect, based on his current performance in Northern, Southern, and Apprentice Hall, what did he lacked except strength?"

"Supporting him will bring the Wen Wu City with the highest level of prosperity!" The City Lord finalized his option, but before he replied, he decided to make things difficult .

"City lord, I already did those even before I ask you to help me . " Zhang Wu Ji replied with his prior action . Creating Apprentice Hall, defending the Orchid Mountain Bandits, Rebuild Northern Side, and re-educate Southern Side . If all this weren't enough, how about giving the Wen Wu City the privilege to repaid their debt by installments?

"Damn! I'm too old to compete with a youngster like you . . . " he laughed and landed his butt on the seat once more before he ends his action with the reply Zhang Wu Ji was waiting for .

"Thank you City Lord Yang for your support! This Zhang Wu Ji and his WUJI Faction will not disappoint you!" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his fist together as the indication of thanks and excused himself to leave the City Lord Fortress first .

"Hopefully . Because of the Lan Shan Clan, we have been living in a constant fear for too long . But now, with this kid, I think we have a chance to destroy them completely . " City Lord continued .

"Lan Shan Clan will always remain strong as long they're in Orchid Mountain . Unless we killed the Lan Hua Beast, eliminating Lan Shan Clan is impossible!" the silhouette replied in a heavy tone .

After everything related to the WUJI Faction is handled by him, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the Apprentice Hall to check on their performance and also allocates a copy of the cultivation manuals and Martial Art Manual for the members to practice during their free time . In the collection of the thousand books inside of this small library, their worth exceeds the 20,000 books he confiscated from the Tao Family's Study Hall .

In the time of two days handling some smaller matters here, Zhang Wu Ji received another increment of his Fighter Qi and reach the total of 147 strands now . With only 27 days remaining before the gathering starts, Zhang Wu Ji will need to expect at least ten days travel from the Seven Star Sect to the Heavenly Sword Sect, because based on his master's condition now, it will be impossible for him to fly the sword .

"My amount of Martial Tyrant Body is only 13%, but the amount of Natural Energy I can process is much better now . perhaps in this remaining 17 days, I can focus on achieving about 40% of the body at least, and 50% of the Martial Tyrant Body at the best . Meantime, let us just depend on the fate . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks to himself in his mind, and return to cultivates .

But not even one minute has passed, a disciple came to his room and give it a few heavy knocks . Without Tang Yuan by his side, Zhang Wu Ji can only attend to the call himself .

"The hunting team, they entered the Southern Bamboo Forest today and found a Warrior Grade Qi Vein! They protected the area for now waiting for Master Senior to go there, Please follow this junior quickly!"

"A Warrior Grade Qi Vein? This is an amazing finding! If we managed to harvest them, it will be beneficial to the people of the Apprentice Hall!" Zhang Wu Ji was delighted with the news he heard and immediately prepared his people to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest . As these findings is a great matter to himself and his people, Zhang Wu Ji put them into the first issue to handle first, before anything goes wrong .

Luckily, he read through some of the records related to the Qi Veins during his time compiling the books to be supplied to the Study Hall and also his Apprentice Hall . The Qi Veins are similar to a spring of water that was only found in place with a high concentration of Qi or Natural Energy . Their category is differentiated to many grades, starting from Fighter Grade Qi Vein that's beneficial to those non-cultivators, Warrior Grade Qi Vein for the Fighter Tier cultivators, and so on .

To harvest the concentrated Qi in the Qi Vein is nothing difficult, but proper preparation is required to reduce the losses during their harvesting moment, as the previous woven Qi can dissipate if they were to be disturbed . For each grade of Qi Vein, a different material is required . Luckily, the item that can work as the storage is Firestone that widely used in their day to day Blacksmithing tools .

Still, no matter how easy it was, the way to process them are slightly "Difficult" before they were ready to become a container for the concentrated Qi . In order to begin with, Zhang Wu Ji first needed a high amount of water to starts with . Hence, he gave the order to clear all available Fire Stones and also the available source of water . But due to the secrecy about the Warrior Grade Qi Vein has to be protected, the available disciples in the Apprentice Hall can only use the reason that they needed to craft a batch of minerals urgently, hence the need to clear their available stocks of Fire Stones and water .

As a cultivator himself, Zhang Wu Ji did become petty with himself, where through providing the Fighter Qi into the Longfeng Jade Ruler, he created a pure source of water out of thin air . Best of all, the Pure Sapphire Water's density is ten times better than normal water from the mountain and other places, thus, for each 100ml of the water he created, they were comparable to a liter from what the disciples collected from the Northern, Eastern, and North-Eastern side .

With only a hundred and forty-seven strands of Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Ji created fourteen liters of Pure Sapphire Water to be diluted with the water they gathered inside of the Water Tank used by the Blacksmithing Department . With all of the disciples gathered at this particular department, the crowd begins to cook the Fire Stones in fifteen cooking cauldrons, and continuously adding cold water into the cauldron nonstop .

This way, they can help exhaust all the flame energy within the Fire Stone, but allow them to remain their initial shape before they were used . Their combined strength allows the Apprentice Hall to prepares fifteen hundreds of the empty Fire Stone, which it was carried to the Southern Bamboo Forest in over a hundred batches . This was done under the reason of secrecy again because a large quantity of moving of Fire Stones will end up revealing the intention of their previous collection .

Following the team, Zhang Wu Ji reaches the entrance to the Southern Bamboo Forest within a few hours journey and took the privilege to protects them as they entered deeper into the forest . The previous disciple that return with the news leads them as they reach the location about an hour after entering the forest with caution . It was weird to not encountered any Wild Beast as they march forward, but this only leads to more caution as they step deeper .

"Master Senior! That's where the Warrior Grade Qi Vein is located, all we need is . . . " the disciple exhales a deep breath he holds for quite long the moment they reach . But before he completes his sentence, a few sounds of metals clashing against each another can be heard .

"This is a great haul! Who will think that by purposely sneak into the forest, we will stumble across a Warrior Grade Qi Vein? And the heaven is putting the people from Seven Star Sect as the sacrifice for our brothers, how good is his lord!" one of the attackers reveals their own identity as they were trying to fight against the disciples from the Apprentice Hall for the Warrior Grade Qi Vein .

"Everyone prepares to fight! Our enemies should be from the Orchid Mountain's Bandits!" Zhang Wu Ji gave the others his instruction as they prepare to engage with the bandits . Inside the forest obstructed by the trees and shrubs, Zhang Wu Ji's method of battle by utilizing the air blades is completely disrupted . If he insisted to fight through that way, perhaps before the enemies are defeated, he would be completely exhausted .

"Enemies backup is here! Splits up and fight in two different directions!" it seems that the leader of this bandits team is more experienced compared to the previous three Lan Shan Clan members . But based on their speech earlier, they must be treating the incident related to the imprisonment of their members as a disgrace . No wonder their behavior towards his people are much more aggressive compared to what he'd seen .

"WUJI Long Fist!" Although he did not have the air blades to use, he did not lack Martial Arts to activates their skills . With the skill from his Entry Class Physical Strengthening Compilation . Fist of Destruction Qi, and the Fighter Grade Collapsing Fist . Armed with this three mere fist fighting technique, the crowd looks at the god of fighters for the first time .

He hunts the bandits like a death god, chasing each of them as they try to escape or retaliates . With each strike carrying the strength of a 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter, his perfect attainment fight attack decimates the opponent, until only the three strongest fighters of the Orchid Mountain Bandits remain standing . Their situation now was "Wanted to escape but can't, wanted to fight but dare not" .

"Xiao Jing, Xiao Yan, let's combine our strength and break through their defense! We will return to the usual meeting point!" the strongest of the three of them, with a 5th Stage Inner Qi Fighter strength, instructed the other two to fight for an escape route, but they completely underestimate Zhang Wu Ji's ability .

He activated the Orchid Assassination Art and vanished from their sight . This sudden trick leaves everyone speechless for a split second before Zhang Wu Ji appeared in the middle of the three . "Daydreaming during a fight is the most fatal mistake one can do . Make sure you guys remember to remain calm no matter what happened . " Zhang Wu Ji's voice was heard again when the crowd finally noticed his appearance between the three bandit leaders .

"How can we remain calm with you vanishing out of sudden!" the crowd wishes they can scream the lungs out with this sentence, but following from his words, Zhang Wu Ji landed three Fighter Grade Collapsing Fist on the three of them, and throws them lying on the ground, vomiting a mouthful of blood . By handling the group of hundreds in the time less than ten minutes, Zhang Wu Ji and his team protected the Warrior Grade Qi Vein, while capturing the hundred and three bandits .

"Master Senior, what are we going to do with them?" the hunting department leader asked . According to their situation now, if they allow the group of bandits to leave or drag them back to the Wen Wu City, the secret about the Warrior Grade Qi Vein will be exposed to the public . By that time, they might attract more threats from different parties due to the preciousness of the treasure they obtained in their hand .

Maybe the patriarch of the Lan Shan Clan, Lanshan Lanyue will come personally to retrieve the harvested Warrior Grade Qi Vein from the Apprentice Hall because of the assumption it belongs to them, no matter they're the first or the last to found the Warrior Grade Qi Vein .

"I hope everyone here will maintain the secrecy of what happened here . All of you will remain here to harvest the concentrated Qi available in this vein, and I need two people to help me lead these people to a place where I can handle them . " the moment Zhang Wu Ji completed his sentence, all of them felt a hint of fear from the restrictive aura he gave to the crowd .

As for the bandits, the feeling of them will end up meeting their end came even harder into their conscience, as they struggle when the two disciples helping Zhang Wu Ji to drag them to a secluded place .

Dragging the group to somewhere deeper inside the forest, Zhang Wu Ji stops as they found a deep crater that leads downwards into an open cave where it barely can protect on from the droplets of the rain . The two disciples drag the group of bandits here and left the area before they were presented with something they wished they did not see .

With only himself and the 103 bandits remained here, Zhang Wu Ji gave them the last chance to speak everything they wish . The group of bandits know it was their end as well, thus, they begin to curse as it will soothe their nervous heart before they met their ends . Zhang Wu Ji allows them to continue with their anger for ten full minutes before he withdraws his Longfeng Jade Ruler out from in the open .

The 103 death-sentenced prisoners of his stares at the jade as they guessed it's usage, but none of them realized that this jade was the long-forgotten treasure that Zhang Wu Ji obtained earlier before he even enrolled into the Seven Star Sect as the Ninth Direct Disciple of the Sect's Headmaster . The Zhang's White Blood Jade possess the ability to any blood into strands of Inner Qi and based on the situation now, this hundred and three prisoners are the best tributes he can get .

[It would make him the most bloodthirsty killer in the world, but when he asked himself, "Which Inner Qi Elder and Inner Qi Lord did not have at least a thousand to ten thousand kills in their reputation?" the question gave his mind a salvation, as he swings the ruler with both of his eyes closed .

"Look at this idiotic Master Senior from the Seven Star Sect . . . Brother, if you want to kill all of us, you need swords, not Jade Ruler . How sharp can it be for you to chop our head? Hahaha! Idiot! Idiot!" the crowd that already on the way of losing their sanity did not put a reservation on their mouth, and spokes out without any restrictions . But that word came just a second early before the people belonged to the front was beheaded .

With a slight activation of his Inner Qi, Zhang Wu Ji spreads his strands of Inner Qi to form a net, catching the blood that flows out from the neck as they were directed into the White Blood Jade . When the cruel sight is shown to the remaining prisoners, they cried, but that was all they can do before the next swing came in and beheaded another group of prisoners . All of this finally ends when he completed four slashes and separating the 103 bandits into 206 parts .

It was an extremely cruel sight, but it was an extremely beneficial incident to the White Blood Jade too when the Jade begins to glow in red color . The blood red strands o energy formed from absorbing so many drops of blood begin to flows into his body, allowing him to assimilates the strands of Inner Qi one at a time, until they finally stopped after blessing Zhang Wu Ji with a total of thirty strands of Fighter Qi .

His sudden boost of strength was completely shocking, especially when the White Blood Jade is flashing brilliantly after refining so much blood on a single attempt . Zhang Wu Ji tried applying some strength as he executed a Fist of Destruction Qi towards the wall . The strikes destroy not only a part of the wall but also turning the soil from above him to get much more brittle as it begins to cracks .

Seeing the wall is beginning to collapse, Zhang Wu Ji robbed the cultivator cleans from any treasures before he left them inside the end of the cave . As it collapses, the soil of about three tonnes in estimation buried the 103 dried corpses thoroughly until it may become a difficulty to dug their corpses out in the future . As long the two disciples that lead the bandits here with him did not expose the secret, this incident will remain unknown .

He returned to where the Warrior Grade Qi Vein is located and started to inspects the Fire Stones that already been filled with the Concentrated Qi .

-Usage: preserve and maintain the quality of the concentrated qi to not allows them to dissipates . The quality of this Concentrated Qi can be refined into Fighter Chasing Dan, a natural treasure that allows any cultivator in their Inner Qi Fighter Stage to creates Fighter Qi ten times faster .

"Damn, the durability of the Fire Stone is not strong enough to contain the Concentrated Qi, and even just after half an hour it already loses 1 point in durability . I will have to prepare them as soon as possible the moment we returned to the Apprentice Hall but based on the light coming out from the Qi Vein, I estimate that we can fill another 600 Fire Stones before it ran empty . After that, this Qi Vein will turn back into a merely fertile soil seen all around the forest . " Zhang Wu Ji estimates the number the Qi Vein can continue to fill before it ran empty .

It was useless to leave some of the Concentrated Qi inside after they ransack their content due to the known fact that their dissipation will start the moment somebody started to rummage their contents . This is also why Zhang Wu Ji prepared slightly more Fire Stones before their trip over to the Warrior Grade Qi Vein, because the moment they touch it, it will start to dissipates .

"How many injured members among us?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned as he walks closer to one of the members from the Apprentice Hall, by using the Small Nourishment Art on the disciple, his sword injuries spanned from his shoulder-blade to elbow is healed within a few seconds with only a hint of itchiness remained .

"Reporting to Master Senior, among the seventy members here, thirteen . . . No, twelve injured members are reported . We have all of them gathered together because these twelve member's injuries are much worst . " the leader of the Hunting Department reported, while those from the Alchemist Department and Blacksmithing Department is helping each other to harvest the Concentrated Qi Stone .

He went to each of them to executes an attempt of the Small Nourishment Art and heal each of them, from grave injuries to only a scar remains, and from serious injuries back to their baby smooth skin . With no more members is injured, Zhang Wu Ji sent them back to the Apprentice Hall first while bringing a portion of the readied Concentrated Qi Stone . He will need to send a few members to collect some of the Fire Stones on their way back as well because his previous attempt might have exhausted the supply in town .

Once the harvesting of the Concentrated Qi is completed, the crowd returned to the Apprentice Hall with haste, leaving other remaining groups to spend their time collecting sufficient Firestones back to the Apprentice Hall so Zhang Wu Ji can start his Pill-Making Process . Based on the speed of the durability is deducted, Zhang Wu Ji estimates that they will only need about 28 hours to become a piece of worthless stone in the Apprentice Hall's vault .

The process to creates the pill wasn't difficult, and in fact, their process was similar to the method of concocting the Qi Sensing Pill from the Sun-Facing Fruit . All he needs is controlling the temperature and his Inner Qi while forming the pill, and strengthen their outer layer to create a protective shell that will hold all the beneficial effect of the pill inside its shell .

It was counted as a rare commodity not because of their difficulties to concoct, but the difficulties to find and harvest a Qi Vein like how Zhang Wu Ji did earlier . Perhaps if the Warrior Grade Qi Vein is found in the vicinity of Wen Qing City or Wen Yang City, there will be a bloodbath happening until the Qi Vein is completely exhausted from their Concentrated Qi . But even that will not mean the creation of the Pill is successful, because not all Pill Master has the ability to check the durability remains in the Firestone that acts as a container .

The moment he returned to the Apprentice Hall, Zhang Wu Ji holed himself inside of the Pill-Making Room by himself as he put all his attention in creating the Fighter Chasing Dan . Although the creation of this pill isn't difficult based on his ability in Pill-Making, the difficulty lies in their storage .

As a very sensitive end product, Zhang Wu Ji needed to use an only Clay-made container to hold the Fighter Chasing Dan inside . Although the completed product will not reach their expiry so fast after their completion, it was still important to have a proper container that can hold the pills without worrying about the pills and their expiry . At the end of the third day, Zhang Wu Ji completed 1,200 Fighter Chasing Dan and distributed 300 pills to the one hundred and fifty members in his apprentice hall for their future usage .

At meanwhile, during his first batch of Fighter Chasing Dan is distributed to those in their early 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter Stage, a total of 15 members advanced into the 2nd Stage from the consumption of their first pill . This little event end up allowing Zhang Wu Ji's Apprentice Hall to possess fifteen 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighters on the day he completed the task of refining the Fighter Chasing Dans, and three days later after he returned to the Seven Star Sect, their number increased into ten 3rd Stage Inner Qi Fighters, fifteen 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighters, and twenty 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighters .

As a small Apprentice Hall that suddenly rises in their strength, they become a business establishment that only the City Lord's Forces dare to disturb .

Trying his best to complete most of his unfinished task, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the Seven Star Sect as he delayed his return by three days . The moment he reaches his courtyard, he was greeted with a group of between twenty to twenty-five disciples . From the look of it, they're probably the loitering disciples that were sent to the kitchen department about two weeks back .

Now, each of them was carrying the expression of a proud disciple of the Seven Star Sect . Compared to before, none amongst them possess such a stable and firm aura from their eyes . They were thoroughly trained in this one week by working as a kitchen helper, which surprised Zhang Wu Ji for a few times because some of the food that was served to his courtyard came to form these twenty-something people .

"Master Senior Ninth! We're back from your task . " all of them greets him the moment they noticed his return . As he was already late for six days, Zhang Wu Ji can easily guess that all of them must be waiting here every day until he returned . It might be foolish from the other's point of view, but this kind of composed mindset was what he needed to further his faction's influence throughout the sect .

"Each one of you changed . I'm seeing a group of fellow disciples, and not a group of loitering trash like before, don't you agree with my words?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned them the moment he steps right before their view .

"Thanks to Master Senior Ninth's instruction, all of us went over to the Kitchen Department to accept their training to mold our character . We're too immature, demanding, lack of confidence, and void of a proper mindset before, but all of this changed now . We have an aim in our mind now, we're confident, and we understand that to be demanding, first, you need to strength to do so, and not asking without a proper foundation to support your request!" the group replied at the same time to answer his question .

"Good! Follows me into the courtyard, I will give all of you the rewards you deserve . " Zhang Wu Ji leads them into his courtyard and ordered Tang Yuan to withdraws a stack of completed manual out from his room . It seems that he already prepared everything for them, expecting that nobody will fail in his test . But if they know the fact, perhaps they will laugh at their own foolishness .

[What will they think if they know Zhang Wu Ji purposely made some extra copies for the sake of giving it to others? He's just lazy to rewrite a new book whenever he needs to give somebody a copy of the book he refined, thus, he makes about five copies for those educational books and more than fifty copies for the three main cultivation and martial arts .

After calculating their numbers, it seems that their number is exactly twenty-five disciples . When all of them collected the reward they deserved, Zhang Wu Ji gave them the reason to leave by mentioning that he was too tired from his journey to the Apprentice Hall, and wanted to get a rest until tomorrow morning . Only after all of them left Zhang Wu Ji summoned his five trusted attendants .

Since the three disciples of his already know his intention, it was time for him to speaks about it with the five of them . At this moment, except Liu Yanni that still at her 55 strands of Inner Qi, the others were all in their 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, with the exception of Zhao Xiao Hua at her early 2nd Stage, and Tang Yuan at his peak of 2nd Stage . Although the sudden burst of strength in their cultivation is closely related to two of the three Cultivating and Martial Arts manual he gave to them, but their own effort is still important .

Filled with the intention to push their strength further than expected, Zhang Wu Ji distributes a total of five Fighter Chasing Dans to each of them, with Liu Yanni received the instruction to not consume the pills before she entered the cultivation stage of 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . The moment he distributes the pill to them, nobody actually knows what is this pill, until Zhang Wu Ji describes them . Worst of all, the moment they heard about its effect and also the difficulties to get one from the public, it further enhanced their impression on this master of theirs .

Of course, Zhang Wu Ji did not mention that after giving three to each of them, he still has 1,185 pills in his Clay-Made container . After he released them back to their own room, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his own and took a good rest, with the Clay-Made container in his hand . Only after all of this matter is settled he can peacefully inspect the pills he made .

-Usage 2: Reduce the requirement to creates a strand of Inner Qi by ninety percent, allowing the consumer to enjoy the beneficial effect for one hour .

Zhang Wu Ji compared the two different quality pills in his hand but hesitates to upgrade them further . After a moment of consideration, he took another two pills out from the container and begin to upgrade them . Both successfully entered their +6 stats, but different only in the 2nd usage, where the reduction percentage is 0 . 5% higher . Then, he dares himself to upgrade them into +7, but the results end up with three piles of Ashes of Failure .

"It seems that +6 is still possible, but +7 is more difficult . " Zhang Wu Ji mood did not change as he roughly knows the possibility before starting, but with so many of the Fighter Chasing Dan, he decides to try his luck with twelve more, and this time, one of them were a success +7 pill!

-Usage 2: Reduce the requirement to creates a strand of Inner Qi by ninety-one percent, allowing the consumer to enjoy the beneficial effect for 90 minutes .

"Still not having any special abilities . . . " Zhang Wu Ji tosses the pill into his mouth and swallows it as he started to meditates . But after the increment of 27 strands of Fighter Qi, the reduce requirement effect are completely worthless to him, as his still trash Martial Body are not capable to cultivates on its own . Without letting his mind went into sadness, he went ahead with his rest .

Unknown to himself, the benefit brought by the pill enhanced his advancement smoothly as he entered the 3rd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter while sleeping . With 210 strands of Inner Qi on him, Zhang Wu Ji is now qualified to upgrade his weapon into +8 status, if he remembered about it when he wakes up from slumber .

After a thorough night of good rest, Zhang Wu Ji wakes up just a little earlier before breakfast . With only 23 more days left before the gathering starts, Zhang Wu Ji was left with another thirteen days to make sure all the preparations he needs is ready on his departure date . Knowing that today will be another busy day once more, Zhang Wu Ji dressed properly before he made his way out to the Dining Hall .

But today, one additional guest came uninvited with twenty-two different dishes that none of them ever tried before . As the Master Chef of the Kitchen Department for many years now, this was the first time they saw him personally came to a disciple's courtyard without prior appointment .

"Master Chef, what a rare occurrence to meet you here in the Ninth Disciple's Courtyard . Is there anything you need from the Master Senior Ninth?" Li Jing steps forward to greet the Master Chef that held the similar position like himself . With his brightness, Li Jing can easily deduce the reason the Master Chef is here so early in the morning, and his twenty-two Chef's specialties further strengthen his deduction on this Master Chef's arrival .

"Yes, this humble chef do have a request that requires the Master Senior Ninth's help . Did Elder Li Jing heard the existence of the [Golden Tusk Black Hog] before?" the Master Chef revealed a part of his reason to come here, and that was for this precious food material .

"Golden Tusk Black Hog, aren't their meat is one of the main ingredients of your finest dishes, the [Golden Braised Black Pork Belly]? I heard that this dishes can increase the taste bud of a cultivator, allowing them to enjoy the depth of the cuisine's taste permanently . " Li Jing expressed his point of view and words he knows when the Master Chef mentioned the living ingredient .

"Yes, that Hog is exactly one of my main ingredients to prepare the Golden Braised Black Pork Belly, but unfortunately, the effort to taking care of the Golden Tusk Black Hog is extremely difficult, which is why I pay the Master Senior a visit . " the Master Chef explained his part of difficulties, where Zhang Wu Ji unintentionally heard as he came into their sight .

"Master Chef, welcome to this junior's humble courtyard . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand together to greets the Kitchen Department head . The former then invited the Master Chef to join him and his attendants for a breakfast as they discussed the important matters as they eat . Perhaps in a different point of view, talking about business during a meal wasn't a proper manner back in his world, but in this realm, the habit of discussing business during a meal is widely practiced .

Without waiting too long, their breakfast started . Although the number of dishes was only twenty-two varieties this time, the taste brought by each dishes were ten times more delicious compared to the other dishes they tried before meeting this twenty-two dishes that only the Master Chef know how to prepares them .

"So, your meaning is the Golden Tusk Black Hog only feast at Qi Sensing Pills, and the more Qi Sensing Pills they ate, the better is the quality of the meat?" Zhang Wu Ji's eyes are shining in expectations after he heard what the Master Chef shared with him . Like a Master Chef that handles his own ingredient directly, he was one level above the others in term of his perfectionist attitude towards the ingredients .

"Yes, unfortunately, this poor man here wasn't capable to support the requirement to take care of the Golden Tusk Black Hog, this I am forced to let it go . But after considering how much the affection between Master Senior Ninth and my Kitchen Department, may I be shameless to request Master Senior Ninth to take in this Golden Tusk Black Hog on my behalf?" he clapped his hand twice as the indication to his people to bring that hog into the courtyard .

When it came into the view of everyone present, the Golden Tusk Black Hog were timid, but a glutton . It sneakily went around the dining table, uninterested with the foods that attract the attention of everyone present, but went straight to Zhang Wu Ji's side . But instead of approaching him directly, the Golden Tusk Black Hog went behind him before it sneaks to his side to sniff his waist pouch . After making sure that there was a great number of Qi Sensing Pills inside that pouch, the Golden Tusk Black Hog become much more obedient and shows its belly in order to beg for some pills .

But that little act was caught by the Iron Scale Bull as the beast quickly came into the dining hall after it noticed a different smell came from the inside . The two beasts, one a boar another a bull, is staring at each another before everyone presents decided that they might need to stop the two from fighting . When the two finally took their move forward, it disappoints everyone present as the two end up showing their belly for their portion of Qi Sensing Pills .

"I got one glutton to handle earlier, and another one now . Aii . . . " Zhang Wu Ji sighed as he looks at the two Money-Eating beasts . But when he considered the fun they two might bring to him, Zhang Wu Ji agreed .

"Master Chef, please felt at ease, I will allow my attendants to take care of the Golden Tusk Black Hog . But may I dare to ask, won't we need to slaughter the beast in order to obtain their meat?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned . But his lack of knowledge in this part made the chef laughed for a second before he returns to his strict demeanor . Still, that wasn't everything .

"Master Chef, please tell, if this is related to the Kitchen Department's improvement, this junior will not hesitate to give his all to help the department . " Zhang Wu Ji replied made him felt at ease .

"This chef dare himself to request for Master Senior's approval and help to build an Elemental Crystal Fountain and Crystal Pond so we can utilize the water source to cultivates our first product that will improve the cultivation speed of those that eat the fishes . "

"The fishes that I wanted to obtain the support from Master Senior to cultivates is the Jining Freshwater Trout! The Jining Freshwater Trout is well known for their amazingness in turning the strands of Inner Qi they formed to increase the tenderness of their flesh . Of course, this means that after consuming the cooked fish into their stomach, a portion of their Strand of Inner Qi will assimilate with the core of the cultivator to increase a part of his strength . " the Master Chef explained .

"What? A fish that can increase a small part of Inner Qi when eaten? Why didn't I read about this information before?" as a bookworm even after transmigrated into this world, Zhang Wu Ji is completely empty from any information when it was related to foods . But from what he heard from the Master Chef, it seems that even the Culinary Profession does has their own part of Profound Knowledge, but it was hidden from most of the people's view .

"Yes! And we've chosen the location that most suitable to rear and cultivates the fishes . The location will be the Tian Village! In fact, we already trained a few Inner and Outer Disciples, included the twenty-five disciples that you sent to us for a little bit of training two weeks ago . " the Master Chef explains his plan and also location he has chosen to begin the project, but as for now, all he needs is the support of this Master Senior .

First of all, were due to the monetary support Zhang Wu Ji possess, which is at least a hundred time stronger than the whole Kitchen Department after they sell all their valuable properties, ingredients, and of course, livestock and other treasure ingredients . But if that were to compared with Zhang Wu Ji's hard earn cash, how can the perishable wealth the Kitchen Department possess can compete with?

As for the second, it will be the material support Zhang Wu Ji possess . Not many people know, but the fact his attendants harvested a total of fifty bulbs of Crystal Rock Flower is one of the reasons that brings the Master Chef here . For the building of the Crystal Fountain and Crystal Pond, how can it be lacks of crystals? Even if they reinforce the sides of the Crystal Pond and built the Fountain using normal materials, the water that was to be filled and flow through the fountain until it reaches the pond will need to have a considerable amount of High-Quality Elemental Crystals . And at this moment, who possess the crystal in hand, and did not have a mean to use them for now?

"Master Senior Ninth, this chef hope master senior will give this project a chance to greets the sunlight and bring grace to the moonlight . I know, based on my words alone, the possibility of success is quite low for now, but I am sure, given the opportunity, this project will only get better in the future!" the Master Chef tried his best to convinced Zhang Wu Ji in sponsoring the project he will personally look after, but in Zhang Wu Ji's mind, he was having a different thought .

"If one fish able to give us about a fifth of Inner Qi, that's mean from eating five fish in a roll, one will get a free strand of Inner Qi without giving out any effort! What a great way to cultivates!" Zhang Wu Ji was having the best thought in his mind until the Master Chef interrupts .

"Of course! The idea is extremely good and beneficial, and perhaps with such a great product made possible from the Tian Village, their improvement will become much more significant . " Zhang Wu Ji agreed with the brilliant idea without considering too much . And standing by the side, his opinion and answer gave the youngest of the eight attendants, Liu Yanni to smiles in happiness seeing how much her master cares about the Tian Village .

"First thing first, Are we going to slaughter the Golden Tusk Black Hog when it came to the time we need the belly part?" Zhang Wu Ji repeated his first question as it wasn't answered .

"Master Senior . . . We don't slaughter the hog when it matures . We feed it with a large bowl of Qi Sensing Pill until it was stuffed to death . When the Boar is dead, we will then proceed to harvest their meat . The spawning process of the Golden Tusk Black Hog is nothing difficult, but we usually control their reproduction until the time we need to stuff the hog to death . " the Master Chef answered .

"And why do we have to control their reproduction? Won't it be better if we're able to rear more Golden Tusk Black Hog?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned .

"Master Senior Ninth . . . I'm afraid if one of the pregnant boars really give birth, I'm afraid our cost of feeding them will increase by at least fifteenfold to twentyfold . . . "

[1] . I am thankful for my dear readers to keep on reminding me in many different things and stuff I might miss in the earlier chapters . Thank you for your support and I hope you will maintain your support on my novel so I can continue this story with full motivation .

[2] . I believed some people may ask, "Why Zhang Wu Ji don't spam the pills he concocts to increase his strength?" The answer is very simple, In chapter 10, Torturing Demon, there is one sentence mentioned that "If I eat them and cultivates, it won't be a problem for me to get 2 strands immediately, but what can the six hours do for me, since the former brat can't even successfully get a single strand of Inner Qi after eating this like water for fifteen years?" Indicates that Zhang Wu Ji's current body was still a trashed body that equals to was no matter how much he pops the pill . I hope this little hint clear the confusion for a moment .

[3] . There is some question related to the weapon and why did his senior accept things like normal after realizing that the sword has hidden ability . Please do take note on Chapter 15, Yi-Jia Swords, there is a part he leaves notes to his senior brother and sisters to tell them the way to activate the hidden technique he includes in their swords . Of course, this means that except their Yi-Jia Swords, some other weapons such as their master's seven swords, and many other cultivator's weapons might have some special effect in it, only because they don't possess the ability to discern it, thus it ends up becoming unknown .

[4] . Upgrade on a certain item, such as the Longfeng Ruler, the Bronze-Grade Nourishment Art, the Eight Diagram Jade, Etc Etc? Please expect their upgrade soon but not so soon . Try to remember . . . What happened when he upgrade the Iron Ruler for the first time? POOF! (side note: yes I am sure the attendants will remain eight, like . . . Long . . . Long . . . Time?)

[5] . I agree I need an editor . (Never tried to deny that but I know my English Sucks), I do take my reader's advice as an improvement, and also tried my best to reduce my mistakes, but do take note that not everyone can afford for investment, nor easily finding an editor to help me in various kind of stuff . Comment taken, advise taken, I will try my best to improve .

[6] . This is the most important stuff . You guys love bricks? Alright, I'll make some bricks later on . But please leave Guan Qing Han alone . (HAHAHA) the story between them will get better, it was a misunderstanding for now, as Zhang Wu Ji is not informed of anything between him and her at this moment .

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 .

-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 .

-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 .

"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 .

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 .

"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 .

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;

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 .

"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;

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 .

"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 .

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 .

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!

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 .

-Information: The Qiyue Sword, Qixue Sword, and Qijie Sword are created by Qi Yuan, a Celestial Designer in Training . Armed with the force to combine three into one, the Qiyue, Qixue, and Qijie can be combined into one single form which further enhances their mobility rate .

"It seems like the quality of the blueprint is just mediocre . Not only that, the ingredient it requires exceeds the basic requirement of a proper flying sword . Although I agree with a few key ingredients, like the 60% above Low-Tier Spirit Grade Iron and Copper Ingots, why do the recipe need ten of each just for the sake of crafting this sword? Only the material itself is going to be a burden to the weapon, not to mention the passenger capacity is only 3 person . " Zhang Wu Ji did not give the Blueprint in hand a good comment, but nevertheless, this scroll is the first treasure that comes with a drawn picture for illustration purposes .

"I got the ability to creates the Blueprint, so why don't I try myself? Let me use this one as an example first . " Zhang Wu Ji prepared the longer Double Xuan Paper in his stationary shelf and unroll the paper until it matches the length of the former blueprint . He remembered a few of its key detail, and with a dab of his writing brush on the ink, Zhang Wu Ji started his imitation process .

But the moment his tip of the brush touches the surface of the paper, Zhang Wu Ji's Inner Qi is depleting in a high speed with the rate of a thousand Strands for each stroke of drawing . With roughly 222 strands of Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Ji can finish twenty-two strokes before he exhausted himself from using too much Qi in a short period of time . Although the exhausted Strand of Qi can be rejuvenated by a simple rest, the exhaustion mentally is much more difficult to bear especially from the side effect such as vomiting, headache, and disturbance in five senses .

According to his estimation, It will take him between 300 strokes to reaches the quality similar to the blueprint, and around 550 strokes if he wishes to make this a complete product . Hence, Zhang Wu Ji took the opportunity to rest in between of his progress and only managed to complete the Qiyue Sword Blueprint after spending five days . The end results were a complete satisfaction when he read its overall description .

-Information: The Qiyue Sword, Qixue Sword, and Qijie Sword are created by Qi Yuan, a Celestial Designer in Training . After being perfected by Celestial Designer In Training, Zhang Wu Ji, the Qiyue Sword is now much more agile and required less precious ingredient to craft . Unfortunately, proper changes have to be made in order to combine the Qiyue, Qixue, and Qijie Sword together .

"How about I upgrade the scroll before I follow the production method instruction recorded in the blueprint?" Zhang Wu Ji tests his luck in upgrading the scroll until it reaches the +5 Status . He wanted to made them at least until +7, but based on the number of days he needed to make a copy, it will be better to not do anything recklessly for now .

"Oh, only an additional few points in durability and the traveling speed, nothing too much in its changes I guess . . . Wait!" Zhang Wu Ji almost ends up by assuming that's the quality of this completed Blueprint, but he notices some differences in the kind of ingredient it needed .

"The ingredient it required changed! Not only it can accept any kind of Wild Beast's Core as the ingredients, the requirement of the High- Quality Crystals reduced from 10 to 3, and the total of ingots it required reduced from twenty to ten, and only high-grade products are sufficient enough to create this weapon!" Zhang Wu Ji's possibility to craft this Flying Sword changed from impossible to possible, and from difficult to easy .

"This is good! Not only I can easily craft ten to twenty of this weapon, but I can also even upgrade them so their performance is better than usual crafted products!" Zhang Wu Ji celebrates his success in completing the blueprint and also simplified their crafting process . Although the success rate of crafting this weapon is extremely low, especially due to the fact the people in this continent possess no insight in deciphering drawings, but this wasn't a problem especially to him .

He was a cheater after all, with the ability to succeed in many things, unless he modified them or not following a certain requirement practice . Otherwise, Zhang Wu Ji capability in successfully handling all the materials can reach 100% success rate easily with a smack from his hammer .

Since he possesses all the required ingredients within his Blacksmithing Room, Zhang Wu Ji did not spend much time to prepares his material, except preparing them in a way they reach the minimal requirement to fit to be used as a part of the crafting ingredients . Lifting the hammer up above his head, Zhang Wu Ji lands his first strike at the Primary metal that was to be melted together and forms an alloy similar Bronze, but stronger than Steel .

With the addition of the High-Quality Crystals used during the process to form the alloy similar to Bronze, Zhang Wu Ji understands one simple fact that he did not realize before .

"No wonder the Blacksmithing Technique and abilities has nothing related to the elemental combination within them! Now I understand the differences! The Blacksmithing process is more to using purest form of a material to be made into metal, while for the Celestial Designers, their product is more related to scientific metallurgy, consisting of a combination of over two, three, or maybe four elements to create a new material . "

"Of course, this doesn't mean that the Celestial Designer is better nor the Blacksmith is weaker . Their profession is still related to metal, only their procedures and main focus in their end results were different . " Zhang Wu Ji understands this simple fact . Being a person that came from a much more modern world previously, Zhang Wu Ji is no stranger to high-quality alloys such as Steel, Bronze, and Coloured Gold such as Rose Gold or White Gold . Living in that world, he was exposed to the fact how strong an alloy could be when it was mixed with a few different elements .

But living in this world for over half a year now, Zhang Wu Ji was exposed to another fact . Does this mean Combined Alloy is stronger? The answer was a "No" . As a blacksmith himself, Zhang Wu Ji was again exposed to the fact pure metal, such as the Iron and the gemstones . Few times in his experience, he was given the opportunity to understand how different is the durability carried by the pure metal compared to impure metals .

As his mind continues to flow in those thoughts, Zhang Wu Ji's body maintains his action and poured the content of the Bronze Alloy into a cast, which was made into the shape of a sword . Because the Alloy maintains a part of the copper's malleability, Zhang Wu Ji further his tempering on this weapon, to see at what extent can this sword get when it was completed .

About two hours later, a sword with an appearance of a rhombus Blade and a two-palms thick handle is created from the cast . With the Central Ridge is thicker than a normal broadsword, Zhang Wu Ji followed the design he personally modified to craft the Flying Sword . Only after putting another two hours of effort Zhang Wu Ji's completed the sword . Now, only one more steps are required to be completed, which is the assimilation between the six Beast Cores and the sword .

-Usage: Increases the strands of Fighter Qi by 3 strands (Applicable only to those within Fighter Stage), Assimilation process took fifteen hours to complete .

-Information: A Cultivated Core that reaches their sixth stage before it was extracted from the core of a Charcoal Hound . The Beast Core are usable in many different ways such as for aiding in cultivation, Pill Concoction, and sometimes for Crafting Purposes . Because the Beast Core is formed by the dense amount of Natural Energy, their usage remains the same no matter how they were processed .

According to the description from the blueprint, he will need to prepare a mallet made from wood to hammers the powder grounded from the Beast Core for it to seeps into the Qiyue Sword . This was the Celestial Designers technique that used to increase the possibility of the essence from Beast Core to seeps into the tool they're creating . Because the mixture alloys are nothing extremely pure (Only Pure Metal Made tool are qualified to house a spirit, and yeah that's far from this arc), this caused the quality of the weapon needed to be enhanced by a catalyst .

And in this case, the Level 6 Beast Core of Charcoal Hounds will be the best available catalyst, as a stronger catalyst may destroy the weapon, and weaker catalyst may ruin the final results . Using the Mallet, Zhang Wu Ji hammered the surface of the Flying Sword evenly without over-exerting his force to prevent himself from making an obvious dent on the Qiyue Sword .

Finally, after a few hours of effort, Zhang Wu Ji completed his first Flying Sword . Although the speed it can go is barely 60km/Hour, it was acceptably faster than a normal traveling horse can go . Most importantly, the cost of using this Flying Sword was only ten strands of Fighter Qi, which is considered a very cheap payment to activates the sword for the one-hour flying trip . Plus, it is impossible for a horse to run at full speed for one hour without rest . Else, why would it take one full day for a normal person to travel from one village to another?

-Information: A flying sword refined by Celestial Designer in Training, Zhang Wu Ji . Because the weapon is final-tempered with Sixth Level Beast Core, the Qiyue Flying Sword obtained the effect of enhancing stability and reduces of Motion Sickness during traveling .

"Not bad! Not bad at all!" Zhang Wu Ji happily praised the end product and the result as he took the Qiyue Flying Sword out from the blacksmithing room and activated the sword ordinarily . With the sword is floating in the air under his control, Zhang Wu Ji pilots the Flying Sword and fly upwards until he was between the 6th to 7th feet above the air . First time floating on the sky all by his own, Zhang Wu Ji enjoyed the feeling of a Cultivator that can fly in the sky, like the person he met when he just transmigrated into this world .

"Let me see how fast can we get to the Wen Wu City's Apprentice Hall!" Zhang Wu Ji controlled the sword as he flies through the horizon, heading straight towards the direction of the Wen Wu City . Flying without a guide nor a compass, Zhang Wu Ji first flight was a failure as he accidentally reaches the Tea House instead of the Wen Wu City .

"No!" Zhang Wu Ji cried out loud . It was a wonderful thing that he can fly, and can even craft the Flying Sword from his own effort . But he was struck by his inability to discern directions! This was always the bane to his progress, especially when he was still back in his previous world, where he will lose his way if he did not get the assistance from the Online Map .

But his return was accepted wildly by the disciples and elders of the sect, because now, except the Headmaster and Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder, Zhang Wu Ji is the third person possessing a Flying Sword! How surprising would that be, especially when the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder's Flying Sword is purchased from the Mystic Engineer Establishment for his life-saving of 300,000 Qi Sensing Pills or 300 Million Gold Coins?

As for the headmaster, it was said that he was lucky to encounter a Celestial Designer that kind enough to craft a Flying Sword for his personal usage . If the Seven Star Sect were to have their own Celestial Designer, where will they stand after the gathering? Even the top five Counties in the Upper South State does not have the privileges to ride Flying swords as they wish!

Still injured, Liang Tian's condition is barely better than before . It was lucky that his beloved wife is an avid collector of high-tier Medicinal Pills, thus, it allows her to slowly maintain her husband's health from allowing it to deteriorate . With the commotion outside spreads their way into the pagoda, Zhang Wu Ji's Master Mother questioned the loyal attendants for both factions about what happened outside .

Keeping the demeanor of an Inner Qi Lord when the attendants came in to report, the Master Mother took a cup of tea and fed it to the headmaster before she took a sip as well . The attendant that just come in immediately reported;

"Headmistress, it seems that the Master Senior Ninth just went out and come back with a Flying Sword . Because it was ridden by a Master Senior, the crowd thinks that Master Senior Ninth is either obtained that from headmaster or he crafted it himself . " the attendant reported, and the moment the two heard the report, they both spit the mouthful of tea out from their mouth because of shock .

"That brat actually crafted the Flying Sword even with the difficulties to obtain those ingredients? Where did his talent and luck come from? Even If I hunt personally inside the Southern Bamboo Forest, I doubt my results of finding the 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter Beast!" his master mother was the one with the most surprising because she wasn't confident with Zhang Wu Ji's ability .

"This brat knows that the ring I give him, is the Precious Onyx-Class Spatial Ring too?" his Master Mother remembered that during the time she gave him the ring, she did not mention anything about the information related to the ring . If this disciple actually knows how precious is the treasure, what will he do with it?

After his appearance of flying on top of a Flying Sword is discovered by the members of the sect, his courtyard's main door was banged nonstop by the disciples, all filled with the eagerness to try flying on top of the Flying Sword . Since the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder and Headmaster are impossible to accept this request, they can only thicken their face to ask from Zhang Wu Ji directly . Worst of all, even the elders are queuing up for the chances to ride on top of it .

"Fellow Disciples, In another twelve days, the Upper South Counties Gathering will begin . I hope I am given the opportunity to cultivate at peace and bring back the glory to the sect . I promise, after the gathering is over, I will give each of you a satisfactory answer on what happened today . " Zhang Wu Ji calms the crowd located outside of his courtyard . Afraid that they will spoil their once in a lifetime chances to ride on a flying sword, the crowd obediently listens to his words and left after cupping their hand to excuse themselves .

Finally got quiet and peaceful surrounding his courtyard, Zhang Wu Ji instructed Tang Yuan to bring him some breakfast in the next morning, while he rushed the crafting process for the remaining ten swords . With ten of the disciples riding their own Flying Swords, Zhang Wu Ji especially prepares one extra for his master mother as well, because it is sure that she will accompany the ten of them as they went to the Heavenly Sword Sect .

It was a county holding the fifth spot amongst the ten counties in the Upper South Stage, so how can the Seven Star Sect enter their sect without bringing a hint of jealousy into their heart? Additionally, with the existence of the Flying Sword now, their trip to the Heavenly South County is shortened to at least half, which means they only need five days of relaxing travel to reach their destination .

Two days later, ten visitors made their visit at his humble courtyard, where Tang Yuan immediately received all of them as he escorted the guest into the garden, there, Tang Yuan excused himself to notified his master, who still shelling himself inside the Blacksmithing Room to craft the swords .

With an estimated four hours for every piece of the Qiyue Flying Sword, he still needed fifty hours to completes the ten swords . Luckily, the group wasn't in a rush, thus they came slightly later, only to noticed that the youngest disciple was still in his Blacksmithing Room and not ready to leave yet .

Not knowing the ten visitors is outside in the garden, Zhang Wu Ji shouts happily the moment he completed everything he wishes to do . Placed right on top of the working table is ten Qiyue Flying Swords, which seem much similar to a pendant worn on the neck, and not a two meters width, four meters long Qiyue Flying Swords . Plus, each of them maintains their most original condition, because not Zhang Wu Ji hesitates to upgrade them, it's because he failed to upgrade them .

But that was nothing as he now understands one special trait that a Celestial Designer or item crafted from a blueprint will have . No matter how abusive is the amount of material is used to craft the item, if it's a success craft, the item is able to shrink itself until they're a hundredth times smaller . With this option is available in all the Qiyue Flying Swords he crafted, Zhang Wu Ji, can exhale a deep breath he's holding for long because this means the possibility of this treasure is stolen are reduced .

Hearing a knock on the door, Zhang Wu Ji went out to answer the person . When it was opened, Tang Yuan politely greeted his master before he shows the ten guests staying at his Courtyard's garden . Zhang Wu Ji was surprised at first, but when he noticed how terrible he looks, Zhang Wu Ji immediately bowed at the ten guests and returned to his room to clean himself before coming out in a proper appearance again .

"Junior brother Ninth, we're supposed to depart from the sect today! Just this morning, the report from the Wen Wu City said that the Jie Clan's people and Herb Valley Sect left their city this morning after enjoying a sumptuous meal . If we delay any longer, I'm afraid we will be late for the gathering on the first day of next month!" his fifth senior sister explained their situation to this ignorant junior .

Although it was a serious matter, Zhang Wu Ji did not take the explanation seriously . He walked over to the group of people and swipe his hand past the table, leaving ten pieces of the sword pendants arranged in a row . In his own hand, one more piece remains . Looking at the ten pieces of sword pendants on the table, the ten was puzzled .

"Didn't the rumor says that the sword was three meters in their blades length, two meters wide, with one meter remaining on the handle? This is completely the counterfeit of the flying sword they say . " the eldest senior brother questioned in his mind, but before any of the ten managed to speak out, Zhang Wu Ji interrupted . He sent a strand of Fighter Qi into the sword pendant, and with a throw, he tosses the pendant into the air as it activated and came back with the size of a sword people talking about .

"This! It's actually a flying sword! There are ten sword pendants here, don't tell me, in a small sect like us, we actually possess so many Flying Swords?" their master mother is the first to be surprised . Even herself, as the headmistress of a sect, cannot easily purchase a Flying Sword from the Mystic Engineering Establishment, and yet, this youngest junior disciple and also the doted disciple of her husband, easily took out ten Flying Swords in the span of seven days after she gave him the blueprint .

Unknown to what their master mother is thinking, the seventh and eighth in the first two people to try to activate the Sword Pendants, followed by the others . The moment the swords were all activated, everyone is enjoying the new experience and cool breeze came from the friction between their headings with the air resistance . With their nine Master Seniors and an unknown member from the sect is flying in the air, they caused the commotion once again .

The only difference is they're no disciples or elders gathers at his courtyard, because everyone was awaiting his answer on what happened after the gathering's match . Added with Zhang Wu Ji did give the youths a lecture, they're practically more obedient now .

"Junior brother ninth . Although we like it, this gift is too precious to those like us . " the eldest senior brother said . Although his voice stuttered a little when he speaks, he tried his best to not covet such a treasure, especially when everyone knows that this junior brother crafted his own Flying Sword earlier . Plus, with a price tag of 300 Million each, the ten sword pendants here worth 3 Billion gold coins in total .

Just with a simple product like this, Zhang Wu Ji can easily increase his faction's fund in a flick of a finger . And what will the price become when it was taken into the Upper South Merchant Corporation? Won't the price flew into 400 Million to 500 Million after bidding?

"Eldest Senior Brother, if I hesitate to give these ten swords to everyone, why do I spent my time to craft them? Please, accept this little gift your junior prepares for everyone before we made our way to the Heavenly South County . I believe that with the eleven of us flying over into their sect, it will stun their mind looking at the way we portray our wealth!" Zhang Wu Ji laughed as he mentioned the way he intends to show-off .

"Hahaha . . . Hahaha!" their Master Mother suddenly laughed hard after she heard what Zhang Wu Ji said to his eldest senior brother . The reason is that when the two was talking, she remembered something that happens about fifty years ago .

"Do you guys know what your master did last time when he's young?" their Master Mother asked . As his beloved partner, how can she not know? As this question is related to the younger time of their master, the nine of them paid an interest to listen about how they master behaved in his youth .

Looking at the nine interested faces along with her own disciple looking forward to the story, she begins to narrate the story happened about fifty years ago .

Fifty years ago, when Liang Tian is still a 20 years old youth . Being the top core disciple within the whole Seven Star Sect, he ruled over the entire disciple's faction, and taking leads in many different activities like a mass attack on the Southern Bamboo Forest, repelling the invasion from the disciples from Blood Art Sect, which is now the second strongest sect amongst the ten counties .

During the once a year gathering, which was held in the Black Iron County, Liang Tian activates all the profound martial arts he created himself to overwhelm everyone within the arena, claiming the top spot among the top disciples in the ten counties .

During that time, he's the only one among the younger generation that able to control seven different swords at his will as he destroys the other sect's top cultivation with a single attack . As the only person worth crowned as the strongest of the younger generation, that year is the worst year for the other nine sects . The Champion took controls of the first, second, and third prize, and added one more word before its over .

But fifty years later, it was unfortunate that the person once stands on the top of the youth generation among the ten counties actually fallen into such condition . No matter what, it was the proudest moment of his during his peak .

With the existence of the Qiyue Flying Sword for each of them, their departure can be postponed for one more day later . Zhang Wu Ji took a proper rest to rejuvenates himself before they depart . Riding one sword each, the eleven people traveled up into the sky as they fly across the horizon, heading towards the direction where Heavenly South County is located .

The time passed extremely fast as they attention were all at the moment to settle their mind before the competition begins . As for Zhang Wu Ji, he was busy preparing much stuff that may be useful during the competition . In this nine days of traveling, it was the best vacation he could get, as there was no cauldrons nor furnace for him to make something, nor the Xuan Paper for him to refine the manuals .

On the tenth day in their travel, Zhang Wu Ji and his fellow senior disciples reach the vicinity of the Heavenly Sword Sect and proceed to enter this soon to become a battlefield . Each riding a Flying Sword, the scene received a great response from all the visitors and the members of the Heavenly Sword Sect .

When the eleven of them descends from their flying sword and shows their identity to the elder that was in the sect to receives the incoming guest, he instantly shocked . But after having his mind out from his body for a minute, he calms himself down before he shouted at the reception staff;

"What? They're people from the Seven Star Sect? How can they possess such a wealth to ride eleven flying swords into the Heavenly Sword Sect?"

"Crazy! In so many years of the gathering, the Five-Flavour Flame Sect, Blood Art Sect, and the Black City Armored Forces is always the earliest to make their appearance because of their treasures, but how come this year it ends up taken by the Seven Star Sect instead?" the senior staffs in the reception similarly reacted in a shocking way, as this was nothing like what they prepared .

"Quickly get the disciples to adjust the seating! Moves the seats for the Seven Star Sect into the front!" one of the receptionists handling their seating immediately gave an order before he took the privilege to come forward and act as their escorts .

With so many years of handling many matters for the honored guest, how can this receptionist lack of the experience how he has to handle the people until their entrance gift arrives? Leading the group of eleven people, the receptionist offered to bring them around for a visit before heading to the main Heavenly Square for the meal banquet and also the upcoming match .

"How can the people from Seven Star Sect arrives first?" the elder bitterly smiles as thinks about what will happen later when the upper counties people arrived .

While they were paying a visit at many different places inside the Heavenly Sword Sect, Zhang Wu Ji's second brother, Zhang Wu Chou is busy handling some matters before an inner disciple went to his side and reported .

"Master Senior Zhang! We received a report from fellow disciple says the people from Seven Star Sect arrived and under the escorting of Senior Yang touring the Sect . " the inner disciple reported .

"Great . . . I guess I will have to meet with my youngest brother . . . The fate is the worst . . . Why would you make the two of us meeting with each another so I can give him a lesson?" Zhang Wu Chou complaint at the sky as he stares at the clouds, and after listening to his words, the inner disciple left, leaving only Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter in the room .

"The four of you will go to the reception and see what sect arrived . I will make my own preparations," he ordered and returned to his own dressing room to change a more suitable attire to attend this gathering .

"All guest has arrived! Reception is now closed! Everyone prepare to head towards the Heavenly Square!" the elder completed all his shouts and head back to the Heavenly Square in prepare to see through the second section of the yearly gathering .

In the Heavenly Square now, a total of 99 seats is allocated in three rows, with one additional rows of twenty-two chairs is placed right opposite of the 99 seats because that section belonged to the organizer, the Heavenly Sword Sect and some representatives from the Imperial County .

The first row contained only eleven chairs, while the second rows and third rows come in 44 chairs . When the four upper counties representative were escorted into the Heavenly Sect, they were puzzled by the arrangement of seating in the second row, as for the remaining four lower sects, they did not have a question except;

But their question was answered in the next minute when the eleven of them were escorted into the Heavenly Square and took the seat in the front most row . This arrangement did not obtain the approval from the second row, where two of the representatives from the Black City Armored Forces stands up to question the arrangement from their escort .

"Fellow cultivator, can this junior ask, is that a trend for this year to allows a weak representative to sit in the front row? Is that because you people are worried that they talk too much when the banquet starts?" one of them speaks as he reaches out to the receptionist that escorts the people to their seats earlier .

"Master Seniors from Black City Armored Forces, this servant has no idea about the arrangement," he replied . But as the replied weren't something that the two wanted to listen, they lost their temper and gave the servant a punch right on his face, making the servant skids on the floor until he bumped on Zhang Wu Ji's seat .

"Did you guys need to behave such way just merely for a seat at the first row?" Zhang Wu Ji stands up and speaks to them with a stern voice, but did not pay too much attention to them as he holds the servant back on his feet before giving him a Ten Layer Recovery Pill . The servant did not remain standing in between of the two sides and excused himself quickly .

"Call your eldest senior brother here! Where the hell is Han Gen and Han Yan! Why let this little junior come over to talk with me? Do you know who I am?" the one that punched the servant a while ago steps closer to Zhang Wu Ji as he talks . Just two steps before the youth, he awaits the reply .

"My senior brother is busy entertaining himself with other matters . If you want to talk, then talk to me . " Zhang Wu Ji replied . But before the other side replied to his words, Zhang Wu Ji added one more sentence;

"Screw you! Eat my punch!" the disciple from the Black City Armored Forces took the initiative to executes a fist, but before he can complete his action, a very swift attack came into his belly .

"Fist of Destruction Qi!" Zhang Wu Ji's simple but effective strike pushes him back for five steps before he was stabilized by his other fellow brothers . The fellow brother took a sword out and form three air blades hovering in the air .

"Air blades! Three of them! this guy must be the ninth of the Black City Armored Force's Junior Vanguards, Long Chen Yu . How amazing is that to form three air blades at will before he executed his attacks . " the disciple from the Blood Art Sect praised the person named Long Chen Yu for his skills .

Zhang Wu Ji took his Jade Ruler out as he simply swings around him . At that moment, twenty air blades with different sizes hover around them waiting for further orders . This action may seem challenging the strength of the person name Long Chen Yu but amongst the nine sect's representatives here, who possess the ability to do so?

"So what if you got twenty air blades! It's weak! Black Carapace Art!" Long Chen Yu activates his best defensive martial art as he prepares to accept the attack from Zhang Wu Ji . But unfortunately, Zhang Wu Ji disperse his air blades and walk towards his opponent and simple stab his tip of the ruler on his opponent's chest .

"So what if you physically attack me, the Black Carapace Art is three times stronger than your mere jade!" Long Chen Yu is proud at his defensive martial art until the stab does its wonder .

With the Shatter-Strike passively activates, what kind of defensive ability in the Fighter Stage can fight against him? The simple stab destroys his armor all over his body, leaving him without a simple point of defensive ability . And Zhang Wu Ji wasn't a nice person, to begin with, he swings the ruler hard and slaps Long Chen Yu until three of his teeth came out from his mouth .

"Brat! How dare you initiate to fight before the gathering competition even starts! Tell me what is your name so I can bring it up to your headmaster Liang Tian to give you a proper lesson!" the elder of the Black City Armored Forces stands up and question Zhang Wu Ji .

"Brothers, give him a lesson, we will talk to the Heavenly Sword Sect's headmaster after you give him a lesson he will not forget!" the elder ordered . five disciples stand up and step forward, but a voice that came following from their movement stops everyone from continuing .

"I will see who in the world dare to mess with the youngest brother of Zhang Wu Chou!" the strength of a 13th Stage Inner Qi Warrior spreads through the seats and creates a disturbance with his mere voice . Standing straight right on the entrance of the Heavenly Square, he steps forward imposingly with his four loyal subordinates .

"Zhang Wu Chou! That's the youngest generation and doted disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect's headmaster and former headmaster! How can this brat is his youngest brother?" the crowd stands ups as they stare at the two and caught some resemblance in their appearance .

"Zhang Wu Chou! Does this word of yours means that as long your brother is in this square, he can do anything as he wishes because you're around?" the eldest brother of the ten representatives from Black City Armored Forces asked . His question gets the support from the people from Five-Flavor Flame Sect and Blood Art Sect as they remain standing when the question is asked .

"Ah! So my words aren't strong enough to deter you guys from disturbing my brother? Should I get my eldest brother to speaks then?" Zhang Wu Chou replied to their question . Following from behind, the top people from the Heavenly Sword Sect and two more representatives from the Imperial County make their appearance .

Among the two, one carries the resemblance of the two Zhang siblings . As he steps into the Heavenly Square, he stares at all the representative present and said with a portion of his exerted strength .

"As long I am the disciple of the Southern Imperial Kingdom's State Teacher, Zhao Yun, none of you are qualified to mess with me, my brother, my youngest brother, nor our family in the Seven Star County!" Unexpectedly, the three siblings that weren't in a good relationship to start with, is assembled in this year's gathering!

"Juniors from Five-Flavor Flame Sect (and the others . . . ) greets the Southern Imperial Kingdom's State Teacher, Master Teacher Zhou Yun!" everyone within the stage kneeled in one knee as they greeted the person standing beside his eldest brother, Zhang Wu Yuan's side . From his appearance of golden lining robe with some flower design printed on its surface, this person is easily recognized because, in the whole Southern Imperial Kingdom's territory, he's the only one to possess the skill to make such a fabric .

Not only that, the state teacher also obtained a favor from making the fabrics to be exported to the remaining three kingdoms, and was the only three Master Teacher in the whole Ping An Continent to receive the Union Kingdom protection, a gift that indicates that if any of the kingdoms wish to bring harm to this Master Teacher, the other three will combine their forces to destroy that intention, be it by force, wealth, or assassination .

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji's two elder brothers went to his side before the eldest gave him a slap . This turned the situation awkward to the others, but between the three of them, Zhang Wu Yuan is the first to speaks .

"In father's letter, you burnt the Herbalist Hall, and destroys the stalls belonged to the townspeople, what is that kind of attitude that you're carrying in you! Do you know what kind of disgrace you're making to ruin the family's name?" Zhang Wu Yuan speaks with the tone as their eldest brother, but this does not mean Zhang Wu Chou escaped from his reprimanding .

"You too! Do you think that by secluding the news related to you using your position to pressure the other villagers and townspeople in this county able to hide from me? I see you like the Top disciple in this sect, so I left you with a mere grace that you're worth for it, but if I heard anything about the two of you ruining the family's name, don't blame me to get rid of all your tooth in a punch!" Zhang Wu Yuan warned his second brother next .

As the eldest of the three, Zhang Wu Yuan has been studying under his master for over seven years, right before his younger brother reaches their sixth and eighth years old . Although their relationship wasn't that good, to begin with, his mind is more developed and paying much attention in small matters .

"You . What is with the little act of flying into the sect's ground with so many Flying Swords?" he turned his attention back to Zhang Wu Ji again, having not finished with his lecture .

"We ten disciples and our master mother wish to make a grand entrance, thus we entered through the sky with . . . " he explained, but got another slap once more . The others were slightly offended with how Zhang Wu Yuan handle the matter, but under the situation they were in front of the Master Teacher, none of them dare to voice their mind out .

"This is an act of challenge . What will your master say is the fruitless action of yours end up getting the aggression from the Black City Armored Forces, or the Blood Art Sect? Are you getting tired to only be bothered by the Jie's Clan and the Merchants, and wanted to get more opponents to destroy your sect?" he said .

"Don't think that I got no idea what you're doing in the Seven Star Sect, and how you conducted yourself . But remember my word . One more time you behave like a monkey, I am going to lock you up inside the Imperial Prison . "

"As for the issue with the Upper South Merchant Corporation and the Jie's Clan, my teacher already has their solution," he said as he turned and walked towards their Master Mother .

"Headmistress Beiping Ruolan, this junior is here under the instruction of his teacher, Zhao Yun to present you with this Lotus Lord Rejuvenating Pill . This will be sufficient enough to recover the vitality of the Sect Headmaster into his prime once again . " unexpected to the headmistress herself, the youth took out a 6th Tier healing medicine that at least a thousand times more potent than her own collection as a gift for the unwell sect headmaster that he had not met before .

As a polite gesture to the youth and his master, Beiping Ruolan first returned the youth's kindness with the Sword Pendant in her hand after she got the approval from Zhang Wu Ji . Then, she turns her attention toward the Master Teacher Zhao Yun and gives him a 90 degrees bow as gratitude for the State Teacher's kindness .

The youth accepted the sword pendant . Lifting his hand up until his eye level, he inserts a strand of qi into the ring to activates the secret behind and made a box appeared out of nowhere . The moment the box is opened, it reveals another nine sword pendants kept within, which gave the indication about on thing .

"That ring just looks like the ring my master mother give me . . . " Zhang Wu Ji, the densest in the whole Heavenly Square, finally remembered that he did possess a ring similar to this . He looked at his master mother as she gave him a nod, knowing what that youth wanted to ask .

After a little of the family matters, the situation turned back to lively as before, only that the other counties dare not to mess with the Seven Star Sect no longer .

With the protection of the Heavenly Sword Sect's top Master-Disciple and the State Teacher's direct disciple, who dares to mess with Zhang Wu Ji and his Seven Star Sect?

Without waiting too long, the banquet started, over fifty different dishes is presented to each seat, and it was served by over a thousand different female servant in a different figure, feature, and graciousness . The banquet took three hours to complete before the organizer of this meeting started with his words .

"I believe that everyone here knows about the topic we're going to hold this year, so I will prevent myself from speaking about it too much . I will go directly to the rewards now . "

"This time, we put all the rewards into two different categories, the first prize for the best upper county fight and lower county fight, and the final reward for the overall winner . In this competition, weapons, pills, and treasures are allowed, so beware, be careful, and be cautious . "

"If you understand that, lead your team into the center of the square, beginning from the Lower Counties first . " the introduction was made simply because this event will only take three days to complete . And after that three days, the State Teacher will return to the Imperial Capital along with his eldest brother . Under the activation of some formation device, the middle of the Heavenly Square turned into a different scenery, where only those inside of the formation circle will notice all the differences .

Receiving their call to comes out from their seats, the five lower counties sent their ten representatives out . Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han followed the eight senior brother and sisters from behind, letting the others take the lead . But sometimes, getting too much fame is not something good depending on the situation, like now .

The other three sects were placing all their attention at the Seven Star Sect's team, while the Herb Valley Sect is ignoring the whole Battle Royale fight . Their ten participants went somewhere far to escape from the heated situation, leaving the team from Upper South Merchant Corporation, Jie's Clan and Mystic engineer Establishment targeting the Seven Star Sect .

With a firework is launched on the sky and exploded, the three teams consisting of thirty cultivators charged at the Seven Star Sect, forcing the lone team to defend themselves at the beginning of the battle! But inside Zhang Wu Ji's mind, it wasn't the stress of being attacked by three teams falling on him, but the hatred of the two factions is bothering his mind .

"Junior brother! Half of them are all 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter!" the eldest and second charge together with their juniors to reduce the possibility of their junior is taken out at the beginning of the battle . Grateful for his two senior brother's assistance, Zhang Wu Ji whispers a few words to them .

"Triple Star Wave!" the attack strikes like a tsunami, bearing the faint looking waves of Qi towards their opponent's location . As some of them weren't that brave to fight against the attack directly, some escaped, and some deflect the attack . The only unfortunate is only ten of them were deflecting, thus only this few is suffering a few cuts on their body due to the side effect [Open Wound] from his Martial Art Manual .

With twenty targets is in the middle of the air, the three of them did not hesitate to launch their Twin Star Piercer at their targets . Through aiming for the weaker foes, they took out six people in their first exchange, and retreats before the situation prevent them from doing so . Zhang Wu Ji passes Inner Qi Replenishing Pills he concocted from the ingredient harvested by his attendant to the two, and replenish some of their Inner Qi before the situation turns worst .

But unexpected by them, the remaining 24 opponents did not chase them but fought against each another . The Jie's Clan and Upper South Merchant Corporation groups their people together to give the Mystic Engineering Establishment a sneak attack, taking out five more members, leaving only one successfully escaped . With nine members remaining in both team, the eighteen people charge forward at the spot the people from Seven Star Sect stands and attacked them .

Before they managed to get twenty meters far, three disciples from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance at the eighteen and taken a pill in front of everyone . The pill they took named [Fur King Berserker Pill], a medicinal pill made from extracting the blood essence from the Golden Fur King and combined with Havoc Flower and Illusion Grass to concoct . Upon consumption, the user will have their eyes turn red due to some side effect, and their attitude will become more aggressive .

Given the increase of their physical strength and defenses by one fold, their attack will become deadlier . Under the unexpected situation, the three took the opportunity to ravage their enemies rank but soon defeated before they can take out their seventh targets . Because the two sides still possess six members each, they did not turn against each another but continue further .

The escaped member of the Mystic Engineer Establishment soon reaches the spot where the people from Seven Star Sect stand . He went on further, with both hand opened wide to indicates he have no intention to fight them . Looking at this stance, Han Gen went out to speak, and understand that instead of fighting the people from Seven Star Sect, he only wanted to take out few more members from the alliance of two sects before he lost in this Battle Royale .

But the situation did not allow them to do so, as three more opponents from the Herb Valley Sect made their appearance by having two members fighting the Seven Star Sect, and another member fighting one on one against the disciple from Mystic Engineer Establishment . From his unrefined technique, Zhang Wu Ji can easily deduce that this remaining member of the sect is very inexperienced in battle .

He successfully evades the attack, but the negligence in his steps made him received an attack worst than the initial strike . Then, placed in a situation he will soon lose, the disciple from the Mystic Engineer Establishment took a miniature weapon out from his pouch and activates it with a strand of Fighter Qi .

"That is a cannon, right? He activates them like how the Flying Sword does, this means that their establishment is major in the Celestial Designing! This means that as long I obtained the required blueprint and technique, creating such a modernized weapon is not difficult!" Zhang Wu Ji's expectation towards this Celestial Designer Profession becomes better, as he then returns to help in fighting the two opponents from the Herb Valley Sect .

Soon, the alliance of two sect reaches their location and looking at the battle between three sides . One from Mystic Engineer Establishment against one from the Herb Valley Sect, and ten of the Seven Star Sect against two from the Herb Valley Sect . Their mind suddenly came with an intention to take advantage of the situation leads them to wait, but it ends up becoming their worst decision when the four remaining members from the Herb Valley Sect came out and attack them from behind .

"Damn, their teamwork made them so difficult to handle!" few of his fellow senior brother complained when they still failed to defeat any of them .

He paid too little attention to his own fight, but more towards inspecting the other . When their situation ends up to become slightly worst, Zhang Wu Ji rushes at the opponent before he landed a Collapsing Fist on the target . That attack took the berserk disciple by surprised as he vomited, but the situation did not give him a second to react before a Jade Ruler chops on his nape, leaving him unconscious .

"Junior brother!" the guy that fighting with the member of Mystic Engineer Establishment shouted as he noticed his brother is defeated, but that gap allows the surviving member to activates another barrel of the cannon, and blast his opponent far from where they stand . The damage from the ammunition is unexpectedly heavy, and it took the Herb Valley Sect member down without compromising .

With two more members down, the Herb Valley Sect is left with five-person in their team, with the Mystic Engineer Establishment still have one person left . The Jie's Clan left with four-person as they lost two more members to the sneak attack . As for the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they still have six members remaining, Meanwhile, the Seven Star Sect still have all ten people in their team .

"Herb Valley, let's have a truce for now, or you want the Seven Star Sect to grab all the rewards in this lower counties fight . . . If you consider . . . Uurgh!" one of the members from the Upper South Merchant Corporation tried to convince their opponent to shift their attention at their mutual enemy, but before he finishes his words . A steel ball strikes his waist and brings him out from the battle .

"Friends from the Seven Star Sect, I am out of the Steel Launcher . My name is Yong Lie, the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment . If we managed to remain standing after the battle, let's have a drink on my tab!" he cupped his hand together as he finishes his speech . Then, he turned to opponents with another miniature tool, which become a spear after he activated it .

The eight of them launched the same attack on their target, and it was impossible to defend against sixteen similar strikes . At the end of this exchange, this disciple should be the one with the worst injury throughout their battle .

With only four members left in both Herb Valley Sect and Jie's Clan, their momentum is disturbed . Added with the people from the Upper South Merchant Corporation, they have a total of sixteen members in their team, compared to the Seven Star Sect and Mystic Engineer Establishment where they only got 11 members in their team .

Zhang Wu Ji looked at his opponents . After he confirmed that none of them are trusting against each another too much, he decided to have some fun in his own way . the two side continues to stares at each another, but none of them noticed that one of the opponents went missing from the Seven Star Sect .

Without leaving a single hint that he was gone from the group, Zhang Wu Ji sneaks to the side of his opponent using the Orchid Assassination Art . Only when he selected the most strategic spot Zhang Wu Ji revealed his position by speaking out loudly .

"It is unfortunate to see so many people are going to be defeated in a simple attack," he said . The sentence alerted the sixteen opponents, but it did not give them enough time to a response before the attack came into their spine, chest, belly, jaw, and waist .

"Collapsing Fist Spree!" Zhang Wu Ji punches everywhere he could, and battered all of them until they willingly surrendered . The sudden changes of a situation shocked the spectators and fellow disciples alike, and at the same time, Zhang Wu Chou's expression turns sour .

"If that kid ends up fighting against me, how many time I can receive the attack? even with my strength, I will still be defeated without a chance to counterattack!" Zhang Wu Chou speaks in his mind as he looks for the method to defeat this suddenly vanished in sight technique .

With the remaining participant, Yong Lie gives up on his fight, the Seven Star Sect's ten disciples end up as the champion of the Lower Counties Battle Royale, as all the guest are escorted back to their respective Living Quarters to have a good rest .

Soon, the sky turns dark, with stars coming up in the darkness . a group of uninvited visitors pay a visit to the Seven Star Sect's building and requested to be given the chances to meet with the ten disciples from the sect .

"Brother Yong Lie!" their eldest senior brother greets the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment . Although this meeting is unexpected, it wasn't a bad thing for the younger generation from the two lower counties to sit together for a discussion and exchange of cultivation, martial art, and common knowledge . Most importantly, unlike the others sect in the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment focused in a different profession altogether .

In their establishment, their status is governed by the hierarchy of Qualification! If one comes with enough talent, they could graduate from the establishment with amazing future prospects, but even those untalented may not be a mere worm in other counties nor kingdom! And the reason is that the disciples in the Mystic Engineer Establishment are all Celestial Designer in Training, and qualified First-Grade Celestial Designer!

Among the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment may seem to be the bottom three in the term of cultivator's strength, but in fact, their ability to battle may not lose to the Heavenly Sword Sect, if their disciples were given the chances to perform well . This was due to the reason they possess an extraordinary technological knowledge, but lack of battle experience to have them used .

Added with the lack of time and response in their tools, this ends up leaving them at the eight spots last year, which is quite a disgrace . But no matter how bad they fall, the Mystic Engineer Establishment face no worries . According to the travelers that went across their Willow Timber County, ten out of ten were surprised by the amazing technology that was used in their daily necessity .

For example, the Wen Wu City were recently introduced into the greenhouse method in medicinal herbs farming, but the practice has been used by the Willow Timber County for long within their five main cities . When the question was asked, it seems that because of the improvement of technology, the migration from villages to town and soon towards the city enhanced their growth, which is why they possess five cities but no towns or villages .

Plus, due to their advanced technology, the traveling between cities was executed by a special vehicle called as the hundred horses carriage, which was similar to the train system back in Zhang Wu Ji's former country . The only differences are instead of using steam from the burning charcoal, the Hundred Horses Carriage is activated by a complete hydraulic system that allows the power from the running horses to be transferred into the carriage for it to move .

Their sharing end up beneficial for both side, especially when the ten of them were given many kinds of funny little treasures as a souvenir to be brought back home . Receiving a special gift treasured even by Yong Lie himself, the former hand him a scroll after knowing the latter were a Celestial Designer himself .

"Brother Yong Lie, this gift is too precious to somebody like me!" Zhang Wu Ji stands up and tried to return the scroll to the former, but he rejected the gesture . Left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji exchanges the scroll with three Fighter Chasing Dan instead .

After a short period of exchange, the disciples and the elders left their Living Quarters . Before leaving, Yong Lie added one more sentence to Zhang Wu Ji;

"Brother Wu Ji, if you have the chances, come to the Willow Timber County, I am sure you will love everything you see!" he finished his word before leaving .

-Information: Yuan (Round) Tie (Steel) Hand Cannon . A single activation treasure that can be activated and fired the moment it's ready . After activation, adjusting the firing direction will be made impossible .

"This . . . " Zhang Wu Ji almost laughed at their blueprint and the required ingredient to make this crafting happened . For him, he required no effort to produce the Advance-Grade Iron Ingots . As for the Brimstone Powder, also known as sulfur, the Fur Charcoal Powder from the Charcoal Hounds, and the Salt Crystals, or better to call them saltpeter in his former world, this three-ingredient can be easily obtained from any blacksmithing room .

The fact that this three item combined together would be the formula for the gunpowder, which contains 10% of Sulphur, 20% Charcoal, and 70% Potassium Nitrate! This formula is known as the Black Powder during the medieval age period in his former world!

"I am in fact, making an ancient Hand Cannon myself . How about I made something out if this?" If it was a debate of knowledge and invention idea, perhaps nobody in this continent can match against him . With so many ideas in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji carries an intention to upgrade the design, but soon give up because the most important thing of all, he did not carry any of the Double Xuan Paper with him to this county, so where can he refine this blueprint?

Left with no option, he put aside this intention first, but not after he spent some time going to the Blacksmithing Department belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and crafted three of the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon before he returned to their Living Quarters again to inspect his next treasure .

-Information: Made from high-quality Onyx Crystals, this ring is crafted by the Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Master Long Wu himself . In total, there are 10,950 rings available, and 5,950 of them are in their Basic level . The ten treasures stored within can be spiritually connected with the user, allowing item such as food, drinks, meditation manual, and medicine to constantly injected into user's body without cost .

"Holy shit! That's a spatial ring! Master Mother actually give me something good but I only notice them now!" Zhang Wu JI is shocked by his Master Mother's generosity, but at the end, he intended to return the ring after the gathering is over, because if he were to compare everything in his body, perhaps this spatial ring will be the most expensive treasure .

"How can one possess a spatial ring if they're not willing to pay at least a billion Gold Coin to purchase it? Plus based on the written information, this Master Long Wu, a third-grade Celestial Designer, only crafted a total of 10,950 rings, and one of them is in my hand," he said in mind .

But based on the situation now, it was the time for a good rest before the next day's competition . Although his next battle wasn't going to happen until a day after tomorrow, but feeling nervous for it is normal, especially when Zhang Wu Ji is neither experience nor used to all these significant events on ongoing around him .

"Did you noticed the sudden changes in the battle today?" Zhang Wu Yuan asked his second brother . As one of the three siblings, how can he not pay attention to his youngest brother's battle? Especially when they're the closest blood relative of his and knows him for his whole life until now . And the most important question of all, how did their youngest brother with a Trash Martial Body cultivates to this level!

270 Strands of Fighter Qi! If he obtained another thirty more, Zhang Wu Ji will easily enter the 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter! And if their youngest brother with Trash Martial Body can advance into such a level, then what will become of them? Even a Violet Emperor Martial Body and Heaven Qi Martial Body will feel threatened by their brother's Trash Martial Body!

"IF you able to enter the ten finalists of the Upper Counties, go ahead and challenge Xiao Wu Ji and see what is his secret!" the oldest, Zhang Wu Yuan ordered his second brother to test their youngest brother to see what made their brother improve so drastically .

"Wu Chou understands . But big brother, what about the manual we talked about?" Zhang Wu Chou cupped his palm together as he replied his eldest brother, but then, he came out with a different question .

"Here, take this two copies . One is for you, and another is for Wu Ji . Practice them diligently because it took me great effort to borrow the book back to my residence to copy them . And it was by using my master's reputation to get this done . " Zhang Wu Yuan passes two books into Zhang Wu Chou's hand and instructed him carefully to make sure he did not waste this effort .

"Wu Chou thanked elder brother and also on behalf of his younger brother first . " Zhang Wu Chou bowed as he held the two copies of manual tightly . After talking for a little more, the two siblings returned to their own accommodation and rest for the upcoming day of heated battle .

"First of all, let this humble headmaster congratulates the Seven Star Sect to triumph against the other four sects for the top position of the Lower Counties . Following from their group results, the State Teacher and the elders agreed that the Sixth spot this year will be taken by the Willow Timber County, followed by Crystalline River County, the Herb Valley County, and at the bottom, the Jie's County!"

"Now, we're proud to presents the Seven Star Sect with the rewards sponsored by the southern Imperial Kingdom himself, under the order of his Majesty, Emperor Zhao Feng himself!" the headmaster of the Heavenly Sword Sect announced the positioning that were already decided by the elders and state teacher before he prepares to hand the rewards promised to the Seven Star Sect's representative .

And as the most senior amongst the group, their master mother went up to the stage to accept the rewards, where he beauty stunned the crowd although she was already a seventy plus years-old . Because of her depth of cultivation, her appearance is more similar to a woman in her prime age, which was the most beautiful period of her youth .

"Lady Beiping Ruolan, please convey my congratulations to Headmaster Liang Tian for his disciple's amazing feat . " the headmaster privately delivered a word to her in secret .

"With the first event is completed, this headmaster would like to invites the participants from the Upper Counties to enter the Formation Square, and prepares for the Upper Counties segment of Battle Royale!" he waved his hand to activates the formation, and like the previous match, the square turned into a different location where the participants all entered without hesitation .

At the beginning of the battle, the five sides did not make any provocative movement is afraid that they'll fall to their opponents trick, but as the battle still failed to disqualified a single disciple after an hour of running, chasing, and hiding, one of the five sects started to get into an aggressive stance .

Their formation changed out of sudden, and caught a few disciples scanning around unnoticed . But instead of fighting stealthily, they end up raising a commotion to lure everyone over to the spot .

Metal Flavor Flame strike!" the palm of the disciple burn red until it was similar to a molten metal before it slapped at the back of his opponent . The amazingly deadly attack forced the opponent to throw out a mouthful of blood as he collapsed on the ground .

Similar to what the first disciple does, the others also attacked with a force that can kills . Luckily, only three disciples were to fall under this trick, but seeing that the real battle finally starts, the crowd begin to group at the middle of the formation, where the top students of the five sects finally gathered .

With each of them were suspicious of another sect, nobody vote to combine their strength, which is also the same for Zhang Wu Chou and his four loyal subordinates, the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter . Returning the gigantic blade in his hand, the four of them wield their own weapons while being awed by the amazing performance from their strongest senior brother .

Under the supply of energy from his Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Chou controlled the four gigantic swords as he fights against the opponents from the four different sects . And out of all expectations, nobody among the four sects managed to get closer to him at all .

The Summer Sword strikes at his opponent without a hint of mercy in pure strength, while the autumn sword destroys all form of his opponents attack before they reach his position . Left with no other options, the crowd of four different sects is destroyed by Zhang Wu Chou until the top disciple from Snow Mountain Maiden Sect made her move .

"Mountain of Frigid Snow Palm!" the top disciple of the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, Han Bing Xue used her strongest skill to defeat Zhang Wu Chou's deadly attack . Her execution carries the threat of a huge mountain formed by her Fighter Qi as she slammed it down at her opponent, where it forced Zhang Wu Chou to defend the attack with all four season's sword .

"Master Senior!" the four subordinates of rushes to help, but unfortunately, the four of them were defeated without even the need to redirect their attack .

"You all!" Zhang Wu Chou's calmness is replaced by fury, as he forcefully explodes some of his Fighter Qi to create an opportunity . With both hands raised above his head, Zhang Wu Ji gathers the power from the sunlight as he whispering a few sentences from the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra .

"Burning Sun Verse!" Zhang Wu Chou executes the breathing and Qi churning technique into his body . As a cultivator with the blessing of the Heaven Qi Martial Body, Zhang Wu Chou faces no difficulties to use all the Fighter Qi in his body! The first chapter of the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra, the Burning Sun Verse allows one to increase their fighting force by twofold in a fight, with the cost of increasing the rate of exhaustion of Fighter Qi .

And when this first chapter was used by Zhang Wu Chou, it was almost like a tailormade skill for somebody without a limitation of Qi inside his body .

The sword of four season strikes at his four top opponents, as he retaliates with a one on four matching . It was exciting enough, making even the Heavenly Sword Sect's Headmaster stands up to praise his disciple for his ability to fight against four Inner Qi Warrior Cultivators .

"Long Huang! Today is the day I'm defeating you!" Zhang Wu Chou aimed his attack at the top disciple from the Black City Armored Force, but before his attack succeeded, a disturbance arrived .

"Fire Nation Long Fist!" a ranged attack came from afar, striking accurately on his waist . This disturbance allowed Long Huang to escaped from the attack, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Chou is completely unharmed from that attack . The only visible damage was a portion of his clothing is burnt, revealing not the fair skin of the youth, but instead, a very thin layer of silk .

"Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor!" every elder present in the Heavenly Square were impressed by the generosity of the Headmaster of Heavenly Sword Sect to provide his direct disciple with the Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor that worth as much as a Spatial Ring . Best of all, the armor he wears is able to withstand any attack coming from range by 90%, leaving only 10% of the damage managed to seeps inside .

"Zhang Wu Chou!" Long Huang strikes at the former, seeing he was still unscathed after such a critical battle, but before their fight is able to continue, a sneak attack came from a disciple from the Blood Art Sect . His attack strikes not on the top fighters, but one remaining participants from the Heavenly Sword Sect, leaving it with only Zhang Wu Chou alone .

"Ding!" with only ten standing participants within the stage, the fierce battle ended . Unexpectedly, the Blood Art Sect was the only with three disciples remaining, followed by Five-Flavor Flame Sect, Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, and Black City Armored Forces with two disciples each, and Heavenly Sword Sect, with only Zhang Wu Chou remaining .

Although he was the strongest fighter amongst the ten of them, it was worthless because no matter what, the first place was still taken by the Blood Art Sect, with their Heavenly Sword Sect standing at the last position once again . The sneaky results planned by the Blood Art Sect was despicable enough, inciting the fury from Zhang Wu Yuan and Zhang Wu Ji indirectly .

With his master by his side, Zhang Wu Yuan were restricted from making a fuss, but this was different from Zhang Wu Ji because nobody was by his side to control him!

"Shameless bastard!" Zhang Wu Ji charged at the three Blood Art Sect's disciples and tried to attack them . But with his strength, what kind of respect shall he get from his opponent where two of them were in their 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter and their leader at his 12th Inner Qi Warrior strength .

Among the three, one of them came forward to handle this atrocious action from Zhang Wu Ji, but nobody intended to take any action, as all of them were expecting to watch a bullying battle where a 9th Stage cultivator is fighting against a 3rd Stage cultivator . He withdraws his sword out to fight against Zhang Wu Ji's Jade Ruler, but unexpected to everyone in Heavenly Square, something incredible happened!

A blunt Jade Ruler shatters a sword the moment they clashed at each another . Worst of all, a bronze colored wheel formed with Fighter Qi appeared at Zhang Wu Ji's palm as he slaps the wheel into the cultivator's face directly!

"The third brother!" his two other senior brothers called the former as they were worried if he was injured in that attack, but Zhang Wu Ji's happiness comes a little too early . Perhaps due to his unending feat of defeating cultivators few stages above him give him this confidence, but sometimes, the truth is very difficult to bear, especially when it came back to his own face .

Zhang Wu Ji's mere 3rd Stage Cultivation strength may able to defeat those even from the 8th Stage or 9th, but that was when it was applied on enemies with shallow cultivation, which allows him to defeat them easily without putting up too much effort . Unfortunately, when it was used to fight against those in their 9th stage of Inner Qi Fighter, added with the depth of their cultivation due to the background of their sect, how can that be successful?

Although Zhang Wu Ji possesses the strength to overcome even the cultivators like Elder Yang in his 15th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, does this means those disciples in the five upper counties possess strength below him?

When fighting against those with capability like himself, how can he win against them? If he wasn't defeated in a single strike, that's already giving him too many paths to escape from shame .

"You underestimate me too much!" the third disciple from the Blood Art Sect ignites the Strand of Fighter Qi in his body and explodes it, pushing Zhang Wu Ji about ten steps backward . Although the explosion of Fighter Qi is not fatal, the disturbance it gave Zhang Wu Ji allows the opponent to charge forward and gave Zhang Wu Ji a direct hit .

"Fifth Starburst! The explosion of his sudden increment in strength shocks everyone present in the Heavenly Square, stunning even the Headmaster of the Heavenly Sword Sect, his Master Mother, Zhang Wu Yuan, and his teacher . In the eyes of every senior present in this Square, which one of them was lack of martial knowledge, especially towards Seven Star Sect's main Cultivation Manual, the Seven Star Burst Manual!

Zhang Wu Ji took a Fighter Chasing Dan +6 in his pouch, and pops it into his mouth, in that instant, he received an increase of 26 strands of Fighter Qi in his cultivation, making his overall Strands of Fighter Qi reaching 296 strands, a hint further to enter the 4th Stage!

The recovery of his Strands if Fighter Qi allows Zhang Wu Ji to executes his next attack, which the youth put all his might to activate the fourth star from the Seven Star Sword Art;

The Longfeng Jade Ruler in his hand transformed into four stars that strike at his opponent with all his might, which gave the second shock to everyone present . If a mere 3rd Stage Inner Qi Fighter can create such a threat at somebody six levels above him, what will happen if he was the one six level higher?

He will clear all the obstructions without even bothering to look at them! The attack quickly caught his opponent off guard, where one of the strikes hits him, and the remaining three strikes were blocked by the remaining two senior brothers of his opponent! They took a move and strikes at the exhausted Zhang Wu Ji to claim back some of their dignity .

But at that sudden moment, Zhang Wu Ji vanished . His second brother that trying to help end up sending his sword for naught . The attack missed but it was the starting of their nightmare! Thinking about what happened last time in the Lower Counties Battle Royale, this trick destroys all his opponent in a single breath!

"Aargh!" the two explodes their Fighter Qi by their side to removes the possibility, but it was affecting nothing but air! The real culprit that made them behave in this manner is still invisible from their sight! They scan their surroundings, only to notice that the youth is about twenty steps away from them, meditating to recover his exhausted Qi inside his body .

"Wait . . . He still keeping some trump cards . Look at his pair of eyes . " Zhao Yun whispers his words in a very calm manner, but as Zhang Wu Ji is meditating, how can he look at his pair of eyes?

Unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Ji utilized the assistance effect brought by his Body Nourishment Technique to recover himself at an amazing rate, before he pops another Complete Taixia Qi Pill! This increases his Strand of Fighter Qi by one more before Zhang Wu Ji opened his eyes and stares at his three opponents .

His plan succeeds . Zhang Wu Ji took the final pill in his stash, another Fighter Chasing Dan +6 and increased his overall cultivation strength by another 26 strands! 323 Strands in total, Zhang Wu Ji entered the 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter during a battle! Although his power did not recover like playing in a game, the increment of 26 strands of Fighter Qi is all he needed!

The spectators were looking at the heated battle entering their ending, questioning and guessing Zhang Wu Ji's next move . But this move, only one person within the whole Heavenly Square knows about it .

Three barrels of Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon is aimed towards the three incoming disciples from the Blood Art Sect . Due to the force of their momentum, their response came a half second too late! The three barrels with a round steel ball inside fired with a heavy sound, as they struck the chest of the three cultivators until they fly backward like a returned arrows .

"Celestial Designer! Zhang Wu Ji from the Seven Star Sect is a Celestial Designer!" this news shocks the crowd for the third time, leaving their jaw no longer able to close anymore . Perhaps a fist of an adult can fit inside by now . Looking at the three disciples that crying in pain, the Headmaster of the Heavenly Sword Sect stands up and announced something he came up with . . .

"The beginning of the Lower and Upper Counties are exciting enough, but I'm afraid that after such a heated battle, only one result came out! Unfortunately, the Blood Art Sect lost their chances right before the fight begins, so I am proud to announce that the Blood Art Sect are crowned as the fifth county within the Upper South State!" he announced that directly without worrying about angering any of the other spectators within the Heavenly Square .

"This old senior agreed with the decision too . What a great battle that we've seen today . Amazing fighting ability from the second brother, and what's more, even the youngest brother is extremely talented . I wonder what will be coming in tomorrow's fight . " he said .

Just like this, the second-day battle ended . Although the Blood Art Sect become the winner of the Upper Counties Battle Royal, this ends up as their defeat even before the final battle between upper and lower counties begin . By winning only the group prizes but not the main prize, this situation made everyone from the Blood Art Sect turn moody from their defeat .

"Trash! All of you are trash!" their elder slaps each of them, but it was pointless to do this anymore, as the result will not return to before their fight started .

Tonight, the Living Quarters allocated for the Seven Star Sect is much more different from yesterday . Other than the visitor from the Mystic Engineer Establishment, those from the Herb Valley Sect, Heavenly Sword Sect, also came to congratulates the youth for his amazing fight winning against the three students from the Blood Art Sect . Based on the two sect's siblings were studying, their relationship can be said as no longer awkward .

Based on their relationship at this moment, the Heavenly Sword Sect, Seven Star Sect, Mystic Engineer Establishment, and Herb Valley Sect were in a faction, while the Five-Flavor Flame Sect and Blood Art Sect are always together from the first day this two county is established . Meanwhile, The Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan is known for their cooperation to assault the Seven Star Sect . As for the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect and Black City Armored Forces, they're known to be always lonesome .

The crowd drinks like no tomorrow, because as a cultivator, the alcohol hardly able to enter their system unless they allowed it to do so . From this little exchange of friendship and different teaching in cultivation, it benefits the four sects, especially to the Mystic Engineer Establishment and Herb Valley Sect, which relies on their medicinal prowess and technology prowess .

Plus, based on Zhang Wu Ji's performance today, who wouldn't befriend him? It was already a surprise for youth like him to advance his cultivation during a fight, plus, as a Celestial Designer that can fight equally with those Martial Cultivators, who will keep their head away from bonding a friendship?

After a good night rest, they gathered once again in Heavenly Square, where the final match will be executed . Their matching is decided according to the challengers wish, which means, they can choose to fight everyone together, or fight one person by ganging on him with everyone . This arrangement may look like the organizer is taking their side with the Lower Counties, but in fact, it was a given opportunity, for them to at least to get one single win .

Rumors said, after the Seven Star Sect's headmaster previous record, there were no more unexpected results came from the battle between Lower Counties and Upper Counties;

With the arrangement of seven cultivators remaining against the ten from the Seven Star Sect, their first match is set by Han Gen challenging the top fighter from the Black City Armored Forces . But the fight did not proceed for too long before Han Gen is defeated completely without getting his chances to overcome his opponent in both Cultivation and Martial Arts .

Their defeat continues, where Han Yan challenging the top disciple from Five-Flavor Flame Sect . His defeat is inevitable too, as they continue until the fifth and sixth sister challenged the top disciple of Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, Han Bing Xue . Instead of a defeat, they conclude the battle as a draw .

Unexpectedly, Guan Qing Han steps forward before him to challenge the second disciple of the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect . Being the most precious disciple of Beiping Ruolan, Guan Qing Han fought against the second disciple on an even ground, until she finally scored a win for the Seven Star Sect and Lower Counties .

"This elder wishes to see how amazing is the brothers in their fight too . How about after one to one match, we'll have a drink together while I impart some knowledge to you both?"

"The slight request from the Master Teacher is exchangeable for a favor!" this is the most important word in his sentence . In this world, perhaps the number of people worthy for him to give a favor can be counted by their ten fingers but seeing that by themselves, this shocked the crowd .

Looking at each other, the two brothers prepared their stance, before they inspect each of their opponent's steps . Although Zhang Wu Ji's experience was incomparable against Zhang Wu Chou, his own system (or known as talent in the eye of the public) made up for his weaknesses . But the only differences between the two is Zhang Wu Chou possess a Heaven Qi Martial Body, but his brother is only a Trash Martial Body!

"Wu Ji, come at me anytime . " Zhang Wu Chou said . Feeling proud at his second brother for being so magnanimous, Zhang Wu Ji thanked his brother by giving him a slight bow . But at the next moment, he vanishes from his initial spot without leaving a hit where is his direction .

Leff without choices, Zhang Wu Chou ignites his Fighter Qi to generates a Qi explosion surrounding himself . Plus as a full-fledged Inne Qi Warrior, his explosion ability is much stronger than when an Inner Qi Fighter does it . The explosion did not disappoint him as Zhang Wu Ji's location is very quickly found .

Without leaving him with a chance to retaliates, Zhang Wu Chou aimed his four season's sword at his younger brother, trying to force him to a corner . But this may become his worst dream, where it made him almost wanted to punch this younger brother until their father can't recognize him .

Zhang Wu Ji took his Longfeng Jade Ruler out as he faces against the four gigantic six meters long sword . Their sizes are even bigger than his Qiyue Flying Sword . With their estimated weight of at least 150 kilograms, his brother is extremely amazing to control four at once .

But the only unfortunate thing is, his Longfeng Jade Ruler comes with the Shatter-Strike passive ability . Only by striking at his brother's weapon without an intention to destroys it, the weapon shatters on themselves, until the four swords become four piles of shattered metals .

This incident caused everyone to be shocked by a single hit from his Jade Ruler . If using a ruler like this can make them crush their enemies weapon, shall they soon come out with a Ruler Art Department?

Too bad . . . Fact is a fact . Without his weapon in hand, Zhang Wu Chou is literally a driver that lost his car . His lack of fist fight experience failed to control his brother's amazingly swift momentum, as he started to landed a few punches on his brother without stopping .

"WUJI Long Fist!" Zhang Wu Ji saw the opportunity, and without fail, he executed the series of 64 different movements in the WUJI Long Fist, which will have no delay in between of each strike . The attack rain onto Zhang Wu Chou like he was a punching back until he ignites his Fighter Qi once again .

That explosion blast him backward slightly, but he was satisfied when he looked at his second brother's face . The bruise appeared all over his face as if he was landed with some misfortune a while ago . Being put in such a state without a way to fight is pretty shameful, especially for a top disciple like his brother .

Zhang Wu Chou lost his temper at last, as he executed the secret skill belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect as his final attempt to defeat his brother and get back his dignity . With both palms pointing at the blue skies, all ten fingers tightened together .

Right in the middle of the sky, a circle started to open wider, making the cloud right in the middle expands like a doughnut in the sky . A flash strikes downwards, giving his brother a brand new sword right between his two palm . With a strong grip, he pulled the sword down as he pointed at Zhang Wu Ji .

"That's the Heavenly Sword Sect's secret art, [Borrowing Sword from the Heaven] . I cannot believe that the top disciple already skillful enough to execute this martial art!" one of the spectators with plenty of experience were shocked by the what he was seeing at this moment .

But no matter how amazing it is, the experienced Heavenly Sword Sect Headmaster noticed the weaknesses in the sword Zhang Wu Chou formed in between his palms . It was still not the correct time for him to completely utilize this martial art, thus, the produced sword wasn't as sturdy and sharp as expected .

And when a barely qualified Heaven Borrowed Sword came in contact with the Longfeng Jade Ruler, the Shatter-Strike activated once more, and destroys the sword once more, leaving Zhang Wu Chou with no more weapon in his hand . Still, the Headmaster decides to give both of them a proper stage to stand back by personally standing right between the two youth .

"Xiao Wu Ji, Xiao Wu Chou, Good Fight!" he placed his both palm at the two youth's shoulder to stops them from continuing the battle . As a headmaster for long, he controls the knowledge good enough for him to make this a peaceful end result of a draw . Seeing there was no rejection from the Master Teacher as well, the fight is concluded .

At the end of the third day, the Five-Flavor Flame Sect maintains their first position, while the Blood Art Sect in the second . The third belongs to the Black City Armored Forces, while the fourth and fifth belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect and Snow Mountain Maiden Sect . With the rewarding session proceeds normally without a hitch, the gathering finally lowered their curtain to give this successful event a great ending .

While most of the sect excused themselves to leave, it was different for the Seven Star Sect . After they bid their farewell on the leaving sect of Mystic Engineer Establishment and Herb Valley Sect, they remained in the Heavenly Sword Sect for some unfinished matters .

As a certified blacksmith, Pill Master, Celestial Designer, Manual Refining Master, and forth, Zhang Wu Ji is expected to craft another set of weapons as the payback to destroys his second brother's Four Season Swords . Of course, that agreement comes after he got lectured by his eldest brother for an hour long .

Maybe because he was a direct disciple for Master Teacher Zhao Yun, his eldest brother end up becoming a naggy lecturer as well, which can be seen from his day to day activities .

And as the favor of showing the master teacher a proper talented fight between two individuals, he handed the two with two different cultivation manual, and also one treasure to each person .

But unfortunately, a pair of strong arms drag him back as he was thrown into the Blacksmithing Department to prepare the weapon as soon as possible so his second brother can kick him out from their sect's vicinity .

"My second brother, you at least need to tell me what you prefer . . . " Zhang Wu Ji questioned his second brother that standing guard behind him . Like a Slave Guard, he was monitoring that youth after seeing how nonchalant is him in the work to craft him a sword .

"I am your second brother, right? Then make me four swords that special enough, and most important, it has to be light! My former four season swords are too heavy as all of them were made with Advance-Grade Iron Ingots . This weight cost me too many Strands of Fighter Qi to move, which is the main reason I did not utilize my Warrior Qi during the fight . " his brother stares at him and started to explains his preferences . Although he was stern in his manner of speech, in fact, it was just done for the sake to monitor this youngest brother's sudden improvement .

"Understood . Lightweight and durable, most importantly, they have to be sensitive with your Qi and agile right? But you said four swords . . . That's a hectic work for a youth like me, second brother . . . How about you . . . Nevermind . " Zhang Wu Ji starting of his sentences bring much delight to Zhang Wu Chou for a moment, but when he started to plead for some time off even before he started, his anger burst through the roof again .

"Tell me about the first sword?" he changed topic immediately after seeing how quick is his second brother's temper came up . Since he treated the four swords like his personal treasure, bringing up this matter are the best to get rid of his second brother's anger .

"My Spring Season Sword needed to be flexible, intuitive, and cheerful . According to my understanding to the Supreme Sword of Four Seasons, the Spring Season Sword Style should bring one and opponent both into a state of mind where it was like two is exchanging their notes with each another, bringing not only benefit to the user, it will aid opponents with mind to improve, and spoil opponent with mind to reject . " Although the explanation was simple, deep inside his words, a few keywords from the Manual his brother studies for so long is included in his sentence .

"How about the three remaining swords?" Zhang Wu Ji finishes his writing on the important traits he will have to consider in the first sword .

"The Summer Season Sword is the skill with strongest attacking power, which is the weapon I used the most during battle . I want something full with oppressing forces that allows me to overpowered all my opponents before they can act . For this sword, maybe their weight is important, but I've learned another Skill that allows me to increase the amount of force and pressure through my Fighter Qi . "

"For the third, Autumn Season Sword, it has to be Strong, Durable, and best if it comes with good Shock Absorbing power . My ability now allows me to counter and retaliates from the opposing forces, but as my physical strength is not amongst the top, I have to depend more on my weapon's personal defensive strength . Last but not least, the Winter Season Sword . This sword needs to be stealthy, swift, and deadly, it is the best if the sword was sharp until it won't allow the blood to stick on the sword when it cuts the opponent . "

"Did you get everything I requested from my sword?" Zhang Wu Chou asked . In his mind, he wasn't too confident on his brother's ability to craft the weapon he requested, but still, it was a worthy bet, because if there was a hint of chances for his youngest brother to craft this weapon for him, won't his strength increase by many folds?

"Understand . Let me go to the library to . . . Brother, wait . . . Wait!" Zhang Wu Ji did not have an intention of making a fool out of his second brother, but his temper was too fiery for him to complete his sentence before his brother took an action . At the end of their conversation, Zhang Wu Chou shows his brother personally to the Heavenly Sword Sect's Library, where over a million books are kept within for revision and guidance for breaking through . But that was after he knocks some sense into that kid's head first .

Plus, as the overlord of this Heavenly South County, the Heavenly Sword Sect have nothing but too many resources from all their Cities, Towns, and Villages every month in return of a steady assistance from the members of their sect . Of course, similar to the Seven Star County, their land is infested by some notorious bandits and beast as well, making such an assistance is important for them .

Without any manuals in his hand except a few used for battling purposes, Zhang Wu Ji is completely out of idea what he can do . Although he was a qualified Blacksmith, it doesn't means anything if he will have to put three times the effort to achieve what he does before . Burdened by this kind of pressure, Zhang Wu Ji has no choice but to refine some books inside here in order to achieve what he wanted to do .

In a blink of an eye, Zhang Wu Ji remained in the Heavenly Sword Sect for another twelve days, while his other senior brother and sisters already returned to their Seven Star Sect after three more days . Within this twelve days, his strands of Fighter Qi increased into 353 strands now, half-way reaching the 5th Stage of an Inner Qi Fighter .

While he was inside the Heavenly Sword Sect, It wasn't easy either . On the first day inside the Library, Zhang Wu Ji requested to be given a great supply of Xuan Paper for him to refine the book . Day by day, he revises them without limiting himself, and with a result of one book a day, Zhang Wu Ji ends up with a total of twelve books, they were upgraded into a final result of three amazingly high-quality books .

-Usage 1: By possessing or cultivating this manual, enable the user to use his Martial Body as the Incense of Condensation . Each hour of Meditation enables the user to store a strand of Fighter Qi into his Incense of Condensation . (Capacity: 100 Strands)

-Usage 2: By possessing or cultivating this manual, enable the user to use his Martial Body as the Incense of Element . Each hour of Meditation enables the user to store 1% of Fire Elemental Qi into his Incense of Element . (Capacity: 100%)

-Usage 1: By having this Sutra in possession, allows the user to replenish his Fighter Qi by 1 strand every minute of meditation . Each attempt only valid for the first ten minutes .

-Usage 2: By having this Sutra in possession, allows the user to replenish other's Fighter Qi by 1 strand every minute of Transference . Each attempt only allows ten strands of Fighter Qi to be replenished .

Looking at the three successful Cultivation and Profession Manual in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji left the library and headed to the Blacksmith Department . He entered the spot as he went straight to the spot left especially for the Master Senior of the sect . Because his brother is the only Master Senior of the Heavenly Sword Sect, plus he did not engross himself to the art of Blacksmithing, this spot ends up being neglected .

Following all the guidance from his new Minor Achievement Iron Process, Zhang Wu Ji went over to the Mineral Ores as he collected a few before he begins to smelt them . Relying on the Special Bonus is given by the book, Zhang Wu Ji's speed in smelting the ore into their pure ingot form shocks the spectators within the department .

"So fast! Is this the ability of Master Senior Zhang Wu Chou's youngest brother?" the spectators look at his smelting technique before he moves into the Tempering Process . by utilizing only pure strength in tempering the Iron, Zhang Wu Ji forms a various type of metal ingots before he finalized his works with two ingots of Pure Iron, Sentient Iron, Crystal Iron, and a personalized folded Iron he named it according to the name he heard before back in his former world .

But the more worthy point worth mention is the fact from all the Mineral Ores Zhang Wu Ji collected, the production of all of them into two ingots each was so accurate it scares the blacksmiths within the Department itself . In fact, if any of their blacksmiths possess such an accurate calculation ability, it could help them to reduce the wastage of preparation resources at least by half, because it removes the requirement to refine the metal for the second time .

His performance spread the news until it reaches two important people of the sect, where the first one is the Department Head of the Blacksmithing Department, and the only Master Senior, Zhang Wu Chou . The moment they received the news of what Zhang Wu Ji just did, they immediately rush to the Blacksmithing Department in a hurry and managed to caught Zhang Wu Ji's next step in working with the metal .

"Open a path!" the Department Head ordered the juniors to let the two of them walk past the crowd . As the most experienced Blacksmith in the building, he instantly noticed the Purity of the Metal Zhang Wu Ji refined .

"Low! Low . . . Low-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron!" As a cultivator that advance through his way into an Inner Qi Master, he possesses the ability to notice the existence of nature spirits . Similar to their name, the Nature Spirit is created from all corner of the world, but their existence cannot be noticed by any cultivators below 40th Stage .

The crowd remained silent as they look at how Zhang Wu Ji engrossed himself in tempering the ingot until they reach their uppermost quality Zhang Wu Ji can possibly temper them . if the crowd were shocked by the fact Zhang Wu Ji accurately smelt the Mineral Ores into eight ingots, they were stunned by his current results, with eight Low-Tier Spirit-Grade Ingots positioned nicely on top of a piece of Thick Cloth that allows the refined and smooth edges ingots to sit on them nicely without a single scratch .

"Master Senior, your brother . . . What kind of background or master he's following? To easily process eight out of eight Low-Tier Spirit-Grade ingots like there were nothing, and not even leaving the furnace to cool while he was working on the ingots . . . " the Department Head questioned Zhang Wu Chou, but how can the second child of the family know how to answer his question? Perhaps even he himself has no idea that this brat is so talented with the Blacksmithing Art!

"What do you think he will do next?" one of the fellow blacksmiths inside the room questioned the others by his side, as they begin to whisper and guess Zhang Wu Ji's next action . Soon, Zhang Wu Ji took his opportunity to meditates and recover some of his body strength, before he continued .

Two Crystal Iron is tossed into the Furnace to be melted before he turns his attention to start forming a cast for the molten metal to be poured inside . Given the fact he possessed the special trait of 25% easier to inlay the patterns into the sword while they were moldable, Zhang Wu Ji started his work on preparing the first sword .

With the metal has been cast into a form of a crystal clear sword in its six five meters length in its body and a 1-meter long handle . In fact, Zhang Wu Ji crafted the weapon in a similarity like his Qiyue Flying Sword . But the only differences lie in the main material was used, and also according to his second brother's demand, the first sword, Spring Season Sword, was to Flexible, Intuitive, and Cheerful . Following this kind of arrangement, Zhang Wu Ji has chosen the Crystal Iron as it's main material to form the first sword .

Like he was forging a weapon for himself, each strike from Zhang Wu Ji's hammer strikes accurately on the sword's appointed location, quickly forming proper edges, tip, body, and a central ridge that will help the sword's blade become even durable . Then, he returns the sword back inside the furnace to be heated once more, before Zhang Wu Ji quenches the blade using the powder from High-Quality Ice Elemental Crystals .

Through this method, Zhang Wu Ji can feel much more at ease because the heated metal might suffer from metal shrinkage from the sudden quenching process . Added with the brittleness due to the Atoms within the Crystal Iron might not able to suffer this sudden changes, a quick freezing temperature carries by the powder from High-Quality Ice Elemental Crystals are able to get rid of his worries .

With the first sword is readied on the table, Zhang Wu Ji did not feel like sharpening it until the last moment . His current action actually gave the Department Head a heart attack, especially when the Nature Spirit is fighting right above the incomplete Spring Season Sword! If a blade is yet to enter their completion phase, how can it house a spirit?

Following the similar methods, Zhang Wu Ji did not ponder around nor wasting his time, and went straight to process the second and third sword at the same time . If the former action gave the Headmaster a heart attack, this will indirectly destroy his three soul and seven spirits!

"Ignorant! How can one be so ignorant after leaving a weapon that can house a Nature Spirit aside, and waste his effort to refine the two different kinds of metal at the same time? He completely destroys all the logic that a blacksmith . . . What is happening?" the Department Head almost finishes his words but something happened and cut him off .

Zhang Wu Ji took a step closer to the opened gap of the furnace before he places both palms facing the gap and churn the energy inside of his body . Unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Ji utilized the Incense of Element's Fire Element to increase the heat within the furnace! This was the first reason for his action in taking a short meditation and rest earlier .

With the sudden increase of Pure Fire Element inside of the furnace, it increases the temperature exploding right inside of the furnace as it brings the two different material, the Pure Iron and Sentient Iron into their immediate melting point and poured into the cast one after another . While waiting for the two casted metal cooling down, Zhang Wu Ji took his opportunity to meditates once again for another ten minutes .

Unconscious of their time, this is the first time their Kitchen Department is questioning about where did all the idiotic metal workers go . For the first time in their history as a kitchen staff, there was not a single time these idiots charging at their staff fighting for food and even asking for seconds without giving the kitchen staff a nice time .

Only after going up from the dining hall into the Forging area the kitchen staff noticed that the crowd of almost 300 blacksmiths, along with the Department Head and the Master Senior is staring at a guest forging the metal . Even as a kitchen staff himself, the disciple understands how intense is the heat brought by the furnace .

But when the Department Head noticed the kitchen staff's arrival where all of them were situated, he ordered that the kitchen should change the food into quick and easy to eat food without an explanation what happened .

Angered with the Department Head's order, the kitchen staff left, but soon returned with the others to deliver different foods, such as Meat Buns, Vegetable Buns, Yin Ling Fruits, and some steamed sweet potatoes . Like usual, the group of blacksmiths gulps and swallows the food before their attention return to the forging performance .

This time, instead of leaving the two swords aside like the first sword, Zhang Wu Ji tempered them until they were durable enough to withstand the quenching of oil and water . When the evaporating sound stops, Zhang Wu Ji similarly took them and placed on top of the table, but still failed to be label as complete products .

Now, with three sword is ready and one left, Zhang Wu Ji meditates again . Only at this time, he noticed that there was food distributed, thus, some of them took a few buns and wine for him to enjoy for a moment . Without even looking at the time, night came, darkening the skies with a few stars loitering around in the skies .

Meditating, eating, meditating, Zhang Wu Ji stands up as he prepared himself to begin the processing of the fourth sword, which was his own product, the Damascus Iron . Delivering a few percentages of the Pure Fire Element into the Furnace, Zhang Wu Ji increased the burning temperature of the furnace before the Damascus Iron Ingots entered the furnace and begin to be mixed into a single entity .

Hammer after hammer, entering the furnace and out again, Zhang Wu Ji runs through this process for a total of six times before he able to form this piece of Damascus Iron into a form of a Sword . The moment Zhang Wu Ji finally completed the overall features possess similarly by the four swords, one unexpectable scene happened in the room, which only the Department Head is the only person to understands what happened!

"Great Lord! How can this happening!" the Department Head is looking at over a hundred Nature Spirits is fighting against each another for the four limited spots . Plus, when one Nature Spirit is defeated, their power did not disperse but helps the other spirits to grow stronger .

With their numbers slowly diminishing, the fight becomes fiercer, leaving almost no space for the other blacksmiths within the forge to move . Afraid of being an unfortunate soul in between of the four gigantic swords fighting against each other, the crowd disperse and went outside of the forge .

At this moment, only Zhang Wu Ji, Zhang Wu Chou, and the Department Head remained inside the forge, surrounded by the four swords striking at each another . The situation was as if four cultivators fighting against each another until they collapse .

"This is . . . Spirit Sharpening . If I am not mistaken, it should be . The symptom is completely like how the books described . When the forging of a tool entered the state which the Nature Spirit deem that it was qualified to house them, they will fight against each another, until no competitors is left amongst the Nature Spirit . " the Department Head begin to explain the situation to the two as they look at how the sword fly here and there .

Plus, although they were fighting, it was more accurate to call it like the name, Spirit Sharpening, because each time the sword touches each another, sparks of fire came out, sharpening the edge of the blade further until they were completely smooth . The blade begins to shine in luster because of the sharpening process, and as the weapon continues to be sharpened by the Nature Spirits, the ability to house and utilize the spirits will become stronger, where from the rumors, a strong Nature Spirit can form their ethereal body to fight with their master .

"It's done!" as the only person that can see the Natural Spirit, the Department Head informed the two the moment the fight enters their finale . At the end of the fight, only four Nature Spirit remains by the side of each sword . With each of them is sharpened and blessed, the Nature Spirit conducted the ritual to enters the sword, taking the oath of becoming one body with the sword itself .

As a weapon that housed a spirit, they can only be destroyed, and not allowed to move from one Sword Host to another sword host in the future if the owner decided to upgrade a weapon . But from this, the owner of the weapon is enjoying a privilege benefits as his starting point, where the sword is able to grow with the master as their master grows .

"Master Senior, quickly shot a drop of blood to each sword, this is the best moment to bond them with your blood!" the Department Head that was more experienced quickly instructed Zhang Wu Chou to not miss his most auspicious time to bond with this four swords .

He hesitates a little before looking at Zhang Wu Ji . But the latter only gave his second brother a nod, indicating that he should go ahead with the instruction mentioned by the Department head . Without further ado, he slits his wrist to allows four drops of blood gathers at his four fingertips . With a flick, he shot the four drops of blood to the four swords in order to bond them and him together .

Like it was a ceremony held by the heavens, the four drops of blood entered the sword, and become their life vein . As long their master remains alive, the sword is alive, if their master is dead, the weapon will follow . This is why they called it the [Blood Oath]!

With the drop of blood as their coloring, the four swords begin to have a blood red hue covering the ridge of the swords, before the four of them came back to his side . Of course, Zhang Wu Ji came forward to touches the weapon once to make sure he'd read through their status while he could .

-Information: Unknown . Unknown . The Spring Season is one of the four Heirloom weapon forged by Celestial Designer Zhang Wu Ji himself . Because the weapon housed the Seasonal Wind Sparrow Spirit, it allows the inheritor of Zhang's Household to utilize the weapon without the need to pay additional Fighter Qi after activation .

-Information: Unknown . The Summer Season is one of the four Heirloom weapon forged by Celestial Designer Zhang Wu Ji himself . Because the weapon housed the Fierce Ape Havoc Spirit, it allows the inheritor of Zhang's Household to activates the passive ability of [Overkill] at all opponents .

-Information: Unknown . Unknown . The Autumn Season is one of the four Heirloom weapon forged by Celestial Designer Zhang Wu Ji himself . Because the weapon housed the Devouring Sloth Spirit, it allows the inheritor of Zhang's Household to absorb all attack within Fighter Stage to 13th Warrior Stage .

-Information: Unknown . The Winter Season is one of the four Heirloom weapon forged by Celestial Designer Zhang Wu Ji himself . Because the weapon housed the Mysterious Shadow Spirit, it allows the inheritor of Zhang's Household to move without creating any sound by paying (5) Fighter Qi as he moves .

Looking at the weapons, Zhang Wu Ji wanted to try and upgrade them, only to find they were similar to all his personally crafted treasures, the UPGRADE was useless as it will not have any reaction from his effort .

"Second brother, the weapon . . . " he wanted to tell his brother about each sword and its effect, but unknown to him, the moment Zhang Wu Chou made a blood oath with the four weapons, the knowledge related to the four swords is opened to their owner without a hint of keeping it as a secret .

Controlling the four swords in a simple gesture, Zhang Wu Chou had the weapon strikes at one of the taller tree standing just outside of the Blacksmithing Department and sliced it into thin pieces of shredded wood paper . With the effect of opponent destroyed activated, Zhang Wu Chou received an increment of five strands of Fighter QI back to his body, before the sword effect [Spring Wind] is activated .

The circle of spring breeze wind carries the leaves together, forming an extremely sharp border that cleanly cut off all the leaves from the tree right beside the one he destroyed . Looking at what happened with a simple attack from him, Zhang Wu Chou face turn sinister . . .

"If I possess this set of swords before the Gathering starts . . . Won't that practically granting me with a winning streak?" Zhang Wu Chou considered this kind of possibility in his mind . But soon, he disbands this kind of mindset before it plagued his mind from overconfidence . He thought about this matter for a moment before he made a conclusion;

"Since somebody like me can get such a treasure, won't the others might have some amazing treasures in their hand as well? Perhaps even the losing team from Mystic Engineer Establishment might possess some treasures that allow them to win, it was just unfortunate their members were out from the match in the early of the Battle Royale . . . " Zhang Wu Chou habits of taking a thing over the border of importance .

Without bothering about what the others may have in his mind, Zhang Wu Chou took his younger brother away before allowing the Department Head to have the intention to do anything with his brother . In his mind, it was a very simple way of a mindset;

"Even if I despise my brother for his Trash Martial Body, It doesn't mean you can use him as you want, because, at the end of the day, he's a Zhang . And by Zhang, it means we rule over everything and not opposite . "

But this fact reveals one more fact, which is except Zhang Wu Ji himself (or perhaps because he just transmigrated), maybe the remaining heir of the family already know the truth about their family background . Else why would his eldest and second brother is taking him so seriously, after commenting about the part he did not do well .

After a slight walk, Zhang Wu Chou and his brother reach the living quarter he purposely arranged for his younger brother . The moment they entered the room, Zhang Wu Chou took out a book and hand it over to his younger brother . On the top of the book's surface is written;

"This manual is given by your eldest brother . He spent quite a lot of fortune and effort to make sure there were no mistakes in his version before he copied them and give it to the two of us . I suppose to give this to you before the third day of the gathering, but since you're so busy, I planned to do it after the gathering . "

"Who knows, you destroyed my weapon, and that end up delaying for another thirteen days . Take it and start practice . Eldest brother Wu Yuan says, this copy of Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra only have six verse inside, and it still lacks another three verse . Perhaps one of us will found the three remaining verse before we completed the collection . "

"Alright, words over . You should return to your sect soon . Won't your master kick your butt if you return late because of meeting your brother longer?" Zhang Wu Chou finished his words and leave . But deep inside of his heart, a small part of jealous and care begin to appears .

Even Zhang Wu Chou have no idea about it, but after resting for another day, Zhang Wu Ji finally prepared to leave after staying in the sect for a total of fourteen days .

Due to such a hurry, the Blacksmith Department end up failed to request for a guidance . only after they went back to the spot where he previously used to temper the four swords the group of blacksmiths noticed a book placed on the top of the anvil .

Unexpected by everyone, Zhang Wu Ji purposely left a copy of the Minor Achievement Iron Process for them to study . One by one, as they read the books, their improvement started to leap by bounds . It did not take too long for the book to later become a sect treasure that only the most precious disciple that already been with the sect for many years is allowed to learn .

(Note the above paragraph depicting the situation of betrayal . With abundant knowledge, one may betray their sect in order for simply reading this copy of an educative record and exposed the content to others . Think about this . When a copy of such a treasure is known by the other stronger sect, won't their foundation will meet with threats?)

It took him two days of travel to finding out that instead of going through the correct way, Zhang Wu Ji actually went towards the direction where the Crystalline River County is located .

"Zhang Wu Ji, you're a completely hopeless man . How can you get lost in other people's county?" he blamed himself partially, while the other part was blamed to his poor status during his former's life because he did not have the opportunity to ride in an airplane .

Zhang Wu Ji felt a little depressed at first, but after a while of traveling further, he discovered a small village where vines are their best produce . since he was already lost, it wasn't a concern for him to be delayed for few more days . Relying on the available postman, Zhang Wu Ji assigned a letter to be addressed to the Seven Star Sect, where a flying bird with the size double of a wild pigeon flaps away from the cage .

Looking at the villagers busy handling their own matters, Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of peace in his mind . By paying some gold coins in his pouch, Zhang Wu Ji rented a temporary shack for him to stay for the night while joining the family that living together with him . It was a simple dishes with nothing unusual .

But in the middle of the night, Zhang Wu Ji's rest is disturbed by the sound produced by the horse's hoof . Unexpected even to himself, the bandits that scatter all around this area came to rob the village . Unknown that are they lucky or unlucky, Zhang Wu Ji decided to remain quiet while looking at the bandits gathering the villagers to the middle of the village, while others continue to ransack the houses .

Monitoring their movement in every corner, Zhang Wu Ji noticed a total of 31 bandits . Each of them is armed with the most basic weapons but most of them came by riding on a horse . In Zhang Wu Ji's opinion, this 31 people should be quite a rich one as they can afford to send so many riders here for the sake of robbing the villages all around this border between Crystalline River County and Snow Maiden County .

The attack left some of the bandits to fall unconscious, leaving some lonesome bandit inside their house rummaging their belongings . Taking up the weapons in the unconscious bandit's hand, the villagers charged into their home in order to protect their own precious belongings . About half an hour later, the villagers came out from their respective houses .

Some have a few injuries on their body, while some have blood smeared on their clothing and face . among the ten something bandits, two has been killed, while the remaining is either injured or unconscious . When the sun came up from the east, a dozen villagers escorted the bandits over to the nearby town guards, while leaving the injured villagers to be attended by the female with good first-aid knowledge .

Zhang Wu Ji nonchalantly went close to one villager and activated the Small Nourishment Art at him . It heals his wounds and injuries, and even expels all the impurities within his body, especially on his knee, and right shoulder . Like almost instantly, the villager felt something different on his body .

His injured knees come from falling from the cliff because trying to harvest some medicinal herbs is healed, leaving him no longer a half-cripple man jumping around the village . Additionally, the right shoulder that takes too much pressure to support his weakened body is also recovered, allowing this thirty-something man in his prime stands up strong again .

"Thank you, my benefactor . " the villager knows his miraculous healing is related to this mysterious guest of his house, making him immediately kneeled before the youth and thanked him . But who was Zhang Wu Ji? He placed one of his feet just below the man that sheltered him for a night and stops him from completed the kneeling process .

"Big brother Li and Sister Li, this junior is very much accommodated by your generosity of giving me a roof to sleep for a short while . This small gesture of mine is insignificant," he said . But before he managed to go out from the house and excuse himself from bothering the family too much, Zhang Wu Ji noticed a hint of smell from a beautifully crafted Rice Wine .

"What the heck! This wine is even better than those I taste from Heavenly Sword Sect!" Zhang Wu Ji's nostril opened wider as he takes a deep breath through his nose and savors the fragrance as much he could before he regrets himself from leaving it aside .

"It is our village's Ceremonial Wine . We called the wine [Scarlet General Wine] because it was popular amongst the general when they lead their troops into war . About sixty years ago, when the Northern Imperial Kingdom still tried to capture our land, the generals of the Southern Imperial Kingdom often come to collect a few jars before leaving to the battlefield . " the one he called Big Brother Li explained .

"Big brother Li, may this junior, learn about this wine?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . Without delay, the recovered big brother Li took Zhang Wu Ji out with his wife along, as they headed to the Village Chief's house to meet face to face with the General's Wine .

"Village Chief, let me introduces you to this young friend here . " Big brother Li quickly approached the Village Chief when they reach his house . Outside of his place, a few heavily injured villagers is moaning in pain due to the earlier battle against the bandits . Some of them still continue to bleed due to the serious open wounds .

While Big brother Li is inside the house talking to the Village Chief, Zhang Wu Ji who stands outside went over to one of the villagers and activated his Small Nourishment Art to heal the target from his serious injuries . Given the recovery properties from the Strands of Inner Qi, it quickly stitched his wound together before healing the flesh and get them back together .

Moving from one person to another, those that healed by Zhang Wu Ji earlier kneeled right before their benefactor as he attending the other's need . With only 230 Strands of Inner Qi needed, it was barely three stands of Fighter Qi he needed to spent in healing them . Plus doing good to non-cultivating population is a good thing to raise his karma .

With everyone is recovered, the bowl of Scarlet General Wine is no longer needed . Before this, the Village Chief is complaining in his heart because these collection of wine were important for the generals in the Southern Imperial Kingdom as the war will starts whenever a kingdom tried to invade them . But base on the situation now, it was wasted to pour them out from the wine jar, as the fermentation seal has been taken off for consumption purposes .

"Greeting, Village Chief . This junior is Zhang Wu Ji, a Master Senior from the Seven Star Sect in Seven Star County . I am sorry to bother Village Chief even in such a situation . " Zhang Wu Ji bowed and clasp his hand together to greet the elderly . Such a manner are likable by everybody, no matter where they go .

"Welcome to this small village, Master Senior Zhang . How about trying this wine that was supposed to give to those injured people? This is the best treasure of our village I would say . " the Village Chief that already knows Zhang Wu Ji's existence invites him to have a bowl of the Scarlet General Wine . The moment he holds the earthenware bowl with both hand, a panel of description out, giving him some additional happiness .

-Usage 1: When this wine is drunk by cultivator and non-cultivator heading to their death, immediately removes their fear in accepting their ill fate . If the ill fate is escaped through their own power, increase their cultivation by one stage permanently . (increment only effective once)

-Usage 2: When this wine is drunk by cultivator before advancing their cultivation, immediately destroys the Inner Demon that might manifest from all the negativity hidden deep within the body .

"Thank you, Village Chief . " Zhang Wu Ji said his thanks before he gulps down the bowl of wine before he returned the bowl to the chief's servant, or perhaps daughter if he guessed it by a mistake . At that moment, Zhang Wu Ji felt a surge of cool sensation flowing into his body, as if they were trying to clear the negativities within his body .

As for that reason, it was because Zhang Wu Ji's cultivation of his Tyrant Martial Body is filled with intense hatred that will cause a person to goes berserk almost instantly from the starting of the cultivation! With a body of 13% progress, how can he not possess an intense amount of Inner Demon residing right inside his bones and flesh?

Blood red vapors evaporated from his body as Zhang Wu Ji quickly sits and begin his meditation . Each minute passes like an hour, as the red vapors continue to flow out from his body until he was fine . When Zhang Wu Ji stand's up, he faced the Village Chief and gave him a sincere bow .

By drinking just a bowl of the Inner Demon Slaughtering Wine, the effectiveness of the product actually get rid of all the Inner Demon in his body in that short meditation . If he did not encounter such a fortunate event, won't the completion of his proper Tyrant Martial Body be delayed for another half a year or so?

"This wine . . . I wonder can it be taught to people that aren't from this village?" Zhang Wu Ji is surprised and knows it will be stepping past the border between kindness and a request, but with such a miraculous wine, not only he can make sure he will able to achieve the Tyrant Martial Body, but it will also help in controlling the possibility of him entering the Berserk state .

"Master Senior Zhang, this elder afraid that, even if I teach you how to do it, it will be impossible . . . How about . . . Following this elder to the source of the Scarlet General Wine?" the Village Chief shows a very difficult expression . It was like he can teach, but it won't be the same thing . Plus, the sentences Zhang Wu Ji said made him felt difficult to comply because even himself are limited to enjoy such a treasured wine .

Entering the Village Chief's houses, a secret door is unraveled to the people within the room . In a pull of her clothes, the young female servant Zhang Wu Ji assumed earlier, end up taking off her outer clothing and revealed a tighter but more flexible clothing for close combat .

"This elder understands that the Master Senior is a benefactor to the village, but we wanted to make sure about one thing . . . We will need you to touch this piece of Demon Searching Rock . " the elder hesitates, but took a box with a charcoal colored rock sits inside .

"If a cultivator of a dark arts touches this piece of rock, it will scorch their hand, leaving them unable to use the dark arts forever . This is the ritual one must pass before entering with the two of us into the secret chamber . " the elder explains the usage of the rock, afraid that Zhang Wu Ji will feel offended . Although it was a norm for anyone to follow the practiced custom when they entered another place, sometimes some irresponsible cultivators always behave in a very unacceptable way especially when they were putting themselves in importance .

When he grabbed the piece of Demon Scorching Stone in hand, Zhang Wu Ji felt a sensation of a something went through his body, like passing a layer of pressurized air . It did not burn him at all but instead gave Zhang Wu Ji a very comfortable feeling . After the ritual is over, the Village Chief proceeds to open the door towards the secret chamber where they need to walk past a series of stairs before reaching the location where the wine is produced .

Using a piece of White Jade as the key, the Village Chief produced his own to operates the mechanism that locked the door together . It was made from something similar to iron, but since the size of the door is humongous, he failed to scan the door's description . Hatefully, Zhang Wu Ji followed until they met with the second door, which only the key from the lady is able to unlock the mechanism behind this door .

"Master Senior, as a guest, we're proud to say that you're the first outsider allowed to enter this secret room our village has been protecting for over two hundred years . " the Village Chief lead the way the moment he activates the button on the wall . With a simple turn following the clockwise direction, the control plate activates all the Night Glowing Pearl inside the Secret Chamber and reveals a Jar in the middle of the room .

"Its a stone vassal . but the stone carries a hint of jade in random places, which means this stone vassal is crafted directly from a piece of gigantic rock . " Zhang Wu Ji stares and inspects the jar from four sides, where it's capacity is estimated to be about 10 gallons (38liters) if the liquid inside were filled into the top .

Stepping right in front of the Stone Vassal, Zhang Wu Ji acquired the approval to touch the Stone Vassal, which allows him to look at the status related to the Stone Vassal .

-Usage 1: Converting the prepared ingredients into a drop of Inner Demon Slaughtering Concentrate . The concentrate prepared can be then diluted with water of a wine jar size (between 500ml) to be aged . The longer the liquid in the vine jar is aged, the better is the effectiveness .

-Usage 2: Through the nourishment of the ingredients, the Demon Sealing Jadestone will undergo medicinal metamorphosis . The moment the Jadestone is completely covered with a crystallized surface, it can then be refined into Demon Sealing Jade, a treasure for the disciples from Sealing Formation Sect .

Looking at the ingredients they required to ferment the wine, Zhang Wu Ji can assume that given with time, their progress in collecting the ingredients will have no issue at all . The reason is that except the Ten Layer Lotus Bulb, none of the ingredients is in Tier 1 level, which is easily grown and obtained everywhere, with the exception of the Golden Root .

Like its name, the Under-Valley Golden Root only grows in a location with strong Sunlight, but deep under the valley . Their number grows easily, but the difficulties are in threading down the valley, which is extremely difficult for a non-cultivator . This medicinal ingredient is also the culprit of for the Big Brother Li's crippling accident .

"Village Chief, may this junior ask if the Jar is given by some cultivators about two hundred years ago?" he modified his question slightly by not mentioning about this jar's real name, but it was also as the caution towards the lady with an unknown position and identify with them in the secret chamber .

"Master Senior is experienced . The three previous Village Chief does mention that two hundred years ago when the Village is still a small wine brewing village, a few cultivators do come in and said about how they wish to keep a Jar here so it can grow under the protection of the village and bring prosperity to the village . "

"Of course, it does carry that effect, as ten years later during the Four Imperial War, the generals from the Southern Imperial Kingdom all came to request for the wine to bring them the possibility of winning the war . We did profit from these events, but because the previous Village Chief said that profit earned from people's death isn't an omen of a good prosperity, we spend it to help grow the Treasured Jar instead . "

"Year by year passes, the villagers here slowly forget about this story . But still, everyone knows that the village does produce the Scarlet General Wine that famed all over the Imperial County . Why does Master Senior ask such a question?" the Village Chief ask him a question after he finishes explaining where did the treasure come .

"Oh, it's because a few years back, my master does have a guest with some cultivation speaks about such a story with my master's disciple . It was a coincidence that I was present, so I heard about the story as well . " Zhang Wu Ji created a lie out of nowhere as he noticed that the lady inside the room seems to be preparing to take an action .

"That's it . The people that came two hundred years ago is also from the Sealing Formation Sect . Xiao Meng, the people from your sect still exists . " the elder become happy when he heard Zhang Wu Ji's words . From the way he speaks, perhaps they lost contact with the sect for quite long .

"Finally, there's hope . . . There's hope . " she kneeled and speaks . When she turned around and wipe away the tears in her eyes as her tensed emotion is loosen, Zhang Wu Ji noticed three pieces of small cup coaster size plates . On each plate, the engraving was different from what he'd seen before, which attracts his attention .

"This sister, do you mind letting me have a look on the three plates at the back of your waist?" Zhang Wu Ji politely asked, but it took her by a surprise as she withdraws a short sword about 30 centimeters long and pointed at Zhang Wu Ji . The shape of the short sword is almost similar to a Tanto or a Japanese Short Sword .

On the sword, beautiful engraving is noticeable all along the blade and her handle, totaling to four circles . Without any words, she takes the first move to attack and disable this youth from fighting against her, but for Zhang Wu Ji, it was different . He was more interested in the three plates behind her, and have no intention to fight her at all .

But a fight is still a fight unless he purposely loses, it was difficult for him to not win, especially when the lady is only a 4th Stage Inner Qi Fighter . As the secret room is as wide as a living room of a normal house, Zhang Wu Ji did not hesitate to take the Longfeng Jade Ruler out .

With a simple swing, Zhang Wu Ji created over ten consecutive air blades to attack the lady, which took her by a surprise to see how many air blades her opponent can execute . She evades the attack using a very agile footwork, but before when she stops somewhere not far from the room, Zhang Wu Ji already gone from his initial spot .

"This three-piece of Formation Plate is quite a rough work, don't you think so?" Zhang Wu Ji speaks as he appeared with the three-piece of formation plate in his hand . A simple inspection is enough for him to determine the status of the lady before him .

"You thief!" the lady named Xiao Meng yelled at Zhang Wu Ji who steals her three formation plates . But Zhang Wu Ji did not take that seriously as he returned the formation plates to her . He then took out a formation plate inside of his pouch and throw it on her direction, allowing her to inspect that properly .

"This . . . " when Zhang Wu Ji's Energy Gathering Spiritual Formation Plate ended up in her hand, she was surprised by the quality of this treasure . Because each of the plates carries a signature on its back, as Zhang Wu Ji sees hers, she saw the name on the plate as well .

"Do you still intend to try my ability?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned her, but it seems that the piece of formation plate he gave her already took her attention by surprise, as she left without further words .

"Is this lack of manner, or over obsession?" Zhang Wu Ji was speechless with her quick changes in temperament but decided to leave it aside while he continues to talk with the Village Chief .

"This junior does have a request to be made to the elder . " he cupped his hand together and request to be allowed to speak it out . Being attracted to the manner this youth presented to the others, the Village Chief did not consider too long to agree with him to mention his request .

"Junior face difficulties in his cultivation that made him easily disturbed by the inner demon, but in order to complete the changeover of my physical body, this cultivation must be done or else I will face with more obstacles as I cultivate . After drinking the wine that brewed from this jar, I noticed that by drinking this wine before the beginning of cultivation, it will help in removing the inner demon haunting my mind while in my deep cultivation . "

"This junior dare himself to ask, can he be greedy enough to request for four bottles of the wine in return for any request the Village Chief might have?" Zhang Wu Ji speaks out his intention in order to obtain a mere four bottles of the Scarlet General Wine .

"If that's the case, can this elder be greedy too?" the Village Chief looks at the youth that possesses limitless possibilities that may help his village to grow .

"My wish is just to help the villagers to create a safe route that they can follow in order to harvest the Under-Valley Golden Roots . In the past many years, there are many casualties happened just for the sake to enter the valley and gather some golden roots . As long you can help us to make a way for them to easily access the Golden Roots, you may take four bottles of the Scarlet General Wine out from the Secret Chamber . " the Village Chief stated his request in exchange for the four bottles of wine .

"Rest assured, Elder . Let this junior went and discuss with the others how can we make this happen!" Zhang Wu Ji left the secret chamber as well . With haste, he quickly went to the Big Brother Li's home and ask him to participates in his task to create a way that allows the villagers to harvest the Golden Roots more easily .

"Yes, big brother . Please come with me as I need your expertise and also knowledge which location is the best to make that route!" Zhang Wu Ji replied .

"Since you insisted, then follow me . Wife, bring us the crates with pickaxes inside . " Big brother Li agrees with his request at the end and called his wife to take the crates out .

"Yeah! Since the valley is located just below the Limestone Mountain, of course, we're going to dig a tunnel circling down to the valley," he replied .

With the pickaxe in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji and his big brother Li is heading over to where the Under-Valley Golden Roots flourished . The journey to the valley is not a difficult one, but as they went deeper, the situation changed . It seems that due to the rich in chemical component's rock and the wet condition in the valley, a special kind of moss propagates all over this place .

-Usage: When this bryophytes plant is used dried, the medicinal improvement includes increasing metabolism, faster wound binding, removal of dead blood, and temporary antidote for Common-Poison . When this bryophytes plant is used fresh, reduce the possibility of leaving internal injuries .

-Special: Hornwort special ability [Cryptobiosis] is now passive . Any dried hornworts can return to usual metabolism when given the minimal amount of water .

"What the hell? Durability is 300! Is that because of its amazing Cryptobiosis ability made it become extremely durable in a different situation, weather, and atmosphere?" Zhang Wu Ji first impression was shocked by the description is shown . What was more unbelievable is that, this Shantai Muscle Hornwort are actually a life-saving plant that completely propagates all over this area on their way down to the bottom of the valley .

"I am speechless, in my humble opinion . . . The valley itself provides a grand healing medicine that can be used anytime if one faced with an accident when going down to the bottom of the valley, yet nobody actually noticed that . It was a ridiculous statement to say that the slippery moss that was to be a healing medicine, end up become the cause of their death and injuries . "

"But still, both side is lucky as nobody made a move to destroy each other . If the villagers actually intend to burn the whole valley's entrance for the sake of harvesting the Golden Roots easier, won't they become the cause of the destruction of a natural medicine?" Zhang Wu Ji speaks his opinion deep inside his mind . As he was considering the best option to proceed with their initial motives here, Zhang Wu Ji decided to make his big brother Li to understands one fact .

"Little Brother Wu Ji, what have you done!" it wasn't that painful for a man to handle, but nobody will stay calm when somebody he trusted took the decision to hurt him . Won't that went to his families and fellow villagers next if he ignores such an action?

But Zhang Wu Ji did not answer his question . Instead, he bends himself down in order to take harvest a small palm size full of the Shantai Muscle Hornwort and dab it on his wounds . Unexpected even to big brother Li himself, the Shantai Muscle Hornwort that was on his wound started to make him feel itchy, but after a short moment, the wound is gone from his body, leaving not even a single scar on it .

"This moss, how can it have such a miraculous medicinal effect?" Big brother Li cannot believe that as a veteran Golden Root harvester, he failed to notice such a treasure lies below his feet . And at the same time, he was actually stepping on such precious moss like it was a waste that propagates all over the valley, making it dangerous for harvester like them to collects the Golden Root .

"Little brother Wu Ji, how did you found out the medicinal properties inside of this plant?" Big brother Li cannot believe it, but after he'd seen such an event, he no longer can remain quiet with his surprise towards this youth .

"Big brother Li, I found out about it by coincidence, but at where I came, we have something similar too, but of course it wasn't as miraculous as this . I believe if the villagers are educated with some knowledge books related to medicinal plants such as liverwort, hornwort, and lichens, it will be easy for them to recognize this as well . But I believe these hornworts can only grow in this place or places with rich limestone minerals . " Zhang Wu Ji did have the intention to help them to increase the production of this medicinal plants, but after some consideration, it was best to not doing anything .

A normal moss or wort grows in places high in acidic substance . But form this Shantai Muscle Hornwort, they actually grow all around this limestone mountain and valley, which was rich with alkaline substance . If he purposely promotes them to grow this plants, it might take him too much time to prepares the villagers with sufficient knowledge .

"We should begin with the process to dig a tunnel that can lead the villagers down to the bottom of the valley . " big brother Li advised that they started their progress as soon as possible, but Zhang Wu Ji has a more different idea the moment he noticed the surface covering the sides of the valley .

What he was considering is something called spiral stairs, but perhaps it wasn't a practical design for the people in the villagers, nor the townsmen . This idea came out when he remembered that back in his former world, in order to increase the production of mineral ores harvesting, the miners for deep Open-Pit mining usually created the stairs leading to the top in a spiral, which allows them to descend downwards safely without any life-threatening issue like slipping on their way down, or fallen to the bottom because of weak climbing material .

As the soil surrounding him were soft and easily mold, Zhang Wu Ji, grab a lump to make an example of his idea, which is by rolling the soil clay into a mountain shape, he begins to press open the top gap, creating a hole which represents the bottom of the valley . He then begins to use a marking tool to create some stairs leading downwards, in a spiraling way .

Meanwhile, on the top where Zhang Wu Ji and others are standing, a four-pillar strong well system is practiced, in order to increase their number of harvest . The idea quickly gains the approval from his big brother Li as they started to pick the Limestone wall and created a wider open top, roughly enough for them to start building one meter wide steps .

Following this kind of building design, their workload reduced by at least twice lesser effort is needed . By the end of their first day of work, they were a third down into the bottom . After taking a night rest again, the duo went to the Limestone Mountain once again, to continue their works which already two-thirds complete .

By the end of the third day, their work is finally completed, with all the scraps from the Limestone Mountain is gathered by the side of the entrance, where Zhang Wu Ji suggested that they were to be milled into gravels of limestones, which is good enough to provide nutrients to the Shantai Muscle Hornwort and also the Golden Roots at the bottom of the valley .

With his work is completed, Zhang Wu Ji prepares to take his part of the deal before leaving . Although three days delay before going home is not too much in his mind, but returning earlier to the Sect is better than later . After he collected the wine and bid farewell to the others, Zhang Wu Ji prepares to leave the village, only to be obstructed by the young lady name Meng Ran .

"Master Senior, can you please bring me to the Seven Star Sect?" with both hand entangled just in front of her belly, the little lady speaks .

"The Seven Star County is at least nine-day distance from here . Are you sure you want to go? If you hesitate in between of your way, you're going to have difficulties to come back . " Zhang Wu Ji stated before he went ahead and agree with her request . Although her cultivation is slightly weak, it was not too far if comparing to his five weakest attendants .

At his attendant's side, Zhang Wu Ji provides them with plenty of cultivation pills and special cultivation arts that allow them to become stronger than basic cultivators, but none of them were comparable to this lady named Meng Ran who cultivates herself using her own ability to forage natural resources .

However, one more fact made Zhang Wu Ji did not reject her request straight away, which is her ability in crafting Formation Plates . Up to date, Zhang Wu Ji did not encounter anything with a relationship to the Formation Master's information and books, which almost a requirement to possess some drawings within .

Based on this fact alone, Meng Ran can be said to be a very precious treasure if she's following him, because from her indirectly, Zhang Wu Ji can learn a lot of things related to a Formation Master . But one main issue still remained if he accepted her to tag along .

According to his knowledge of her works . . . She's completely untalented . Will this bet be a winning bet or a losing one? Zhang Wu Ji has no idea about it for now but can only hope that this bet will not end up as a wasteful opportunity .

"I don't mind . As long I'm given the same opportunity to cultivates and strengthen my skills information crafting, I can become somebody useful to you . " Meng Ran said as she took a book out from her inside of her clothing . Although there was an inner garment blocking between her flesh and the book, it was still something that filled with the perfume of a female .

"Master Senior, please have a look at this book . It was given by my parents before they left me in the village . " Meng Ran handed the book to him, inviting him to take a look .

"It was an engraving practicing book . Your parent's left you something very good in your hand . You must appreciate them . " Zhang Wu Ji returned the book to Meng Ran as he added a word of appreciation . By activating his Fighter Qi into the Qiyue Flying Sword, Zhang Wu Ji throws the sword away as it expands into its full size .

"We can only stand on this sword . Are you comfortable by holding at my cloth as we travel back to the Seven Star County?" Zhang Wu Ji looks at the young lady as he questioned . But her expression already gave him the answer he wanted to hear .

Both riding on top of the sword, Zhang Wu Ji controlled the sword and begin to move . After flying for about ten minutes, Meng Ran cannot help but ask;

"Do you know the way?" the embarrassing question made the two laughed . After a little understanding, their direction is soon heading correctly as the Qiyue Flying Sword went past a few villages and towns until they cross the border of the Heavenly South County around six days later . And in this six days of travel, Zhang Wu Ji catch up in his knowledge related to the Formation Master and their tools .

Three more days after they entered the Seven Star County, Zhang Wu Ji is much more familiar with the location he's at and quickly directed the sword to fly towards the Seven Star Sect Vicinity .

But unfortunately, after being out from the sect for almost a month, the situation inside of the Seven Star Sect is no longer the same as he remembered . Before he managed to enter the vicinity of the Seven Star Sect, it was already blocked with a layer of a brilliantly lighted shield .

"What happened to the sect?" his first impression towards the sudden appearance of a shield is related to the misfortune event happened within the sect . Heading to the entrance he used to went in and out frequently, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with a group of disciples he'd never seen before .

"Present your identification plate if you wish to come in . " the group of guards replied . Questioning the legitness of how these guards behave, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws his nameplate and pressed on the shield, which it opens up to allow him and his companion to enter . But for the guards, the nameplate he took out shocks everyone .

Looking at their reaction, Zhang Wu Ji initially thought that the guards were shocked by their bravery to stops a Master Senior from entering the sect, but soon, he realized he was mistaken . The guards rang the bell located not far from the guard's building and inform the people from inside of the sect about this commotion .

The attack puzzled him at first, but after noticing a few hints that exposed the identities of the guards, Zhang Wu Ji retaliates! With the Longfeng Jade Ruler in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji executes twenty of the air blades and disable all his opponents before he went to took their sword up for an inspection .

-Special: As long the weapon is wielded by members of the Golden Wolf Syndicate, allows the user to executes their attack 50% stronger . (Current Contractor: Yang Chen Kun)

"Golden Wolf Syndicate! How come they're so daring to make their appearance in the sect! No . . . Wait . . . they're disciples as well, but at the same time, they belong to the sect, which is why the Grand Elder Yang Cheng Kun can mobilize them at any time!" Zhang Wu Ji seems to understand some fact related to this sudden change of situation .

With haste, he quickly returns to his courtyard before planning to retaliate . But the moment he reaches his courtyard, it was already been destroyed . Fire still burns from the inside of the courtyard, which caused Zhang Wu Ji to felt a little heartache for his losses . He then went to the main door and give it a push .

The door opened, revealing a destroyed farm, the garden where he used to entertain his guest, and also the buildings wheere his attendants and himself resides . The Blacksmithing room is cleared, where most of the Ingots he refined before he left is gone, leaving only a destroyed furnace with some firestones that have been ignored .

His Pill Making Room did not survive the ordeal either . The cauldron is destroyed with some ingredients is thrown on the ground, wasted . Since he did not leave too many treasures in the room, the losses in this room weren't as heavy as the Blacksmithing Room . Zhang Wu Ji next went to the Storage Vault and was surprised that it was still intact . Without any hesitation, he opened the vault and collects everything inside, including the books and also Double Xuan Paper before he left .

It was amazing that the ten item capacity is actually differentiated into type, and not amounts . Which means, the papers and books were counted as an item, and those like medicines, pills, herbs is counted as an item . This perk allows him to store most of the item left inside the vault before he left and headed to his bedroom .

He entered and noticed that even his bedsheet and blanket has been destroyed, with the Iron Ruler and the White Zircon Pure Vein Rock is missing . seeing nothing else worth taking, he left the room and noticed a piece of paper is slit in a broken gap where Tang Yuan loved to lean himself whenever he got some free time . Zhang Wu Ji took the paper out to see if that was helpful to him .

Yang Chen Kun rebelled . Jie Clan, Upper South Merchant Corporation's partners, the Upper South Mercenaries, and bandits from the Lan Shan Clan invades the sect . The headmaster and the Grand Elder of Right escaped to the Seven Star Apprentice Hall .

Do not worry . We are all there at the moment, with the help of brother Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong . We took most of the treasure we could, but the attack is too fierce . Currently, the Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City have refused to help the headmaster, as for the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder, he chose to support Yang Chen Kun to become the new sect master of the Seven Star Sect .

Wen Wu City Lord is supporting us now . If you return, come to the Apprentice Hall . We're planning for a counter-attack, but without you and the other Master Seniors, it will be difficult for us to take action for now .

"Yang Chen Kun rebelled! He actually in the same ship along with the Jie's Clan, Upper South Merchant Corporation, and the Lan Shan Clan Bandits! My master is blind to let him become the Grand Elder of the Left!"

"And what is wrong with the seven Knowledge Pagoda's Elder? Are they old and senile to not see what does all these means?" Zhang Wu Ji put aa part of the blame to the Knowledge Pagoda's elders . But how would he knows that in order to shut their mouth and getting their support, the three parties have invested much to search for the lost [Seven Star Ascension Manual] that will help all the remaining elders to successfully advance through the Sheng Tian Process?

"Zhang Wu Ji! I'll see where can you run this time!" a loud voice is transferred using the power from Fighter Qi to delivered to where he stands . charging from not too far away, the previous disciple that the Grand Elder of the Left brought back during the entrance test made his appearance!

Although the cultivator did not ride a Flying Sword to where he was, his speed was outstanding . This person is the one that similarly causing trouble on that night when Zhang Wu Ji is challenged by the Eighth Master-Disciple to fight under Headmaster Liang Tian's order .

During his fight against the Sixth Master Senior, he lost, but that was arranged earlier by the Grand Elder of the Left, Yang Chen Kun before the commotion started . It was all for the sake to let this disciple get selected by the headmaster during the end of the test . But with the addition of Zhang Wu Ji in the test, their plan eventually failed as the youth failed in getting the first spot .

This spoils the first plan arranged by Yang Chen Kun for this cultivator named Yuan Cheng . But in fact, his name is not Yuan Cheng, but Yang Chen!

He was the child Yang Chen Kun secretly conceived while he was outside plotting with the people from Lan Shan Clan! Growing up under the supervision from bandits and assassins, Yuan-Cheng was a unification of the ruthlessness and savagery in his flesh and bones . But to make sure that their plan is a success, he deliberately holds his progression on 2nd Stage of Inner Fighter to be chosen, but end up failed to get the spot as a Master Senior .

Thus, he kept a deep resentment against Zhang Wu Ji who thwart his plan repeatedly . Later when he was plotting to win the support from the Slave Disciples, Zhang Wu Ji coincidently appeared at the place to preach the disciples, ending up bringing away a bunch of excellent disciples among them to serve Zhang Wu Ji and his Apprentice Hall . Once again, he held his grudge until the moment the 3rd generations from the Lan Shan Clan decided to attack the Wen Wu City .

The attack caused a great commotion, with him secretly planned with the youngest of the Lan Shan Clan, Lan Shan Yao, to attack the important Apprentice Hall and destroys his supporting pillar . But as Yuan Cheng heard the news regarding the attack from the Lan Shan Bandits, he was kept in the dark from the victory brought by Zhang Wu Ji and his eight senior brother and sisters .

When the news regarding the Apprentice Hall and Master Senior Ninth is helping in rebuilding the Wen Wu City's Northern Side, he was thoroughly angered until he spits a mouthful of blood . At the end of the incident, Yang Chen Kun secretly brings Yuan Cheng to the Lan Shan Clan's base to ask for his forgiveness to incite such an incident . But this did not go as well as he thought when he was thrown to a pit with homosexuals bandits that laid their hand on him, giving him a trauma for a total of seven days before he returned to the Seven Star Sect, as someone that ain't normal anymore in his sexual preferences .

Still, his hatred against Zhang Wu Ji is extremely deep, making him tried to do Zhang Wu Ji once again . But this time, he was stopped by Yang Chen Kun because afraid that the youth will spoil their great plan . Of course, this was also the reason why after all this happened, Zhang Wu Ji was forced to create his own WUJI Faction to balance out the distribution of inner power in controlling the sect .

Of course, as the Headmaster's Faction remained neutral alongside with the Knowledge Pagoda's faction, only the WUJI Faction and the Grand Elder of the Left's Faction will fight for the power to control a part of the Seven Star Sect's power . But during the time they leave for the Counties Gathering, this is where everything started to go wrong .

When the Upper South Merchant Corporation Participants walk through the Wen Wu City, they were, in fact, making their stop for a purpose! That stop allows them to meet with the Grand Elder Yang Chen Kun, where he obtained the long searched manual that has been lost for a few generations .

With this book in Yang Chen Kun's hand, the Pagoda Elders went crazy, and choose to side with his faction without any other special request other than having the full control of the book . Through this major changes of power, Yang Chen Kun took his precaution measure . Using the news related to their two faction's cooperation, it leads to a threat against the Headmaster Faction and WUJI Faction .

Without the nine Master Seniors and Master Mother inside of the sect, the injured Headmaster can do nothing at all, where because nobody was expecting that Yang Chen Kun will take his opportunity to take action at such moment . With the assistance from the Lan Shan Clan Bandits, Jie's Clan's disguised experts, the Upper South Mercenaries, and his own people from the Golden Wolf Syndicate, the battle for Yang Chen Kun to usurp the power is extremely easy .

The Grand Master of the Right, Xing Yi Chen, can only do this much to protect as many people from the Pill Department, Blacksmith Department, Kitchen Department, and the remaining people from both factions as they escaped . It was a grueling fight for the escapers and the pursuers, where it did not directly lead to many death, but it destroys the reputation the Seven Star Sect has built for so long .

It was an utter disgrace, for the Overlord of the Seven Star County, to fall into such as situation just because of their internal struggle for power .

"Who are you?" Zhang Wu Ji whom completely has no idea about the other party's identity asked . Facing the threat from a 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, he felt not even a single thread of threat coming to him .

"I am Yuan Cheng, the guy that supposed to be the Master Senior instead of you! It was because of you all my plan has been ruined until now!" Yuan-Cheng answered the question while howling for anger . But his anger was something Zhang Wu Ji completely has no idea for why, as he did not know this cultivator until today .

"If I can kill you today, it will help me in the future to hold an important seat within the Seven Star Sect . " Yuan-Cheng thought as he aims to kill this youth before him .

"Kacha . . . Bang!" realizing that this attack is slightly difficult to handle it perfectly, Zhang Wu Ji decided to fight power with a stronger power . The Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon appeared from nowhere as it was ignited and fired at the incoming target with a round iron ball, which came in a size of a honey melon .

Unprepared and inexperienced with such a weird weapon, the iron ball strikes right on his face, leaving a youth charging at Zhang Wu Ji's direction as if he was a Horned Rhino is flying backward like a wild arrow . He falls on the ground after flying for a little while and still continues to roll until he hit the wall .

"Aargh . . . What mountain just came out from his little iron pipe?" Yuan-Cheng complained his painful encounter while having a total of four teeth extracted from that shot .

"Meng Ran, come up quickly, we have to leave immediately!" Zhang Wu Ji immediately activates his Qiyue Flying Sword and leave the dangerous area as hurry as he could . Luckily, Meng Ran wasn't somebody that reacted slowly from a sudden order, and quickly went up to the sword and hug Zhang Wu Ji in order to allow him to escape as fast as he can .

"Send the order to the Reflecting Pagoda, that's where they can stop him from escaping!" Yuan-Cheng ordered a subordinate to change the setting on the Seven Star Shield, which they did not alter anything previously in order to trap Zhang Wu Ji to enter the Seven Star Sect vicinity .

But no matter how fast a disciple can run, they cannot overcome the speed of a Flying Sword . Before too long, Zhang Wu Ji left the barrier using his Nameplate and heading straight to the Wen Wu City in hurry .

Half a day later, Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran reach the vicinity of the Wen Wu City, where the Apprentice Hall is established . Although he was only away for almost one month, the changes happened to the Apprentice Hall is very easy to discern .

From one tower, it became two now . The residents living nearby of the Apprentice Hall was moving to the better part in the Northern Side of the City, making a few plots of land nearby become available to purchase . With the amount of profit the Apprentice Hall is raking daily, the purchasing process of the land becomes much easier .

Given to the situation at this moment, the purchased land that has no need to be built immediately is immediately occupied, with a total of 10,000 additional people helping in many kinds of different positions . Even Elders and seniors that promoted into the Inner Qi Warrior and Inner Qi Soldier is helping to prepare the land with buildings .

"Master Senior Ninth is back! Master Senior Ninth is back!" the disciples that closest to him during his time in the hall immediately noticed his return . With drum is beaten for a few times, the news spreads throughout the Apprentice Hall, where included the Headmaster, everyone is outside receiving him on his return .

As this was her first time seeing how much respect Zhang Wu Ji got from his fellow members of Seven Star Sect, the slight negative opinion towards Zhang Wu Ji vanished and left with one of his worst weakness, Direction-Blind .

Immediately, Zhang Wu Ji went to his now recovered master and gives him a proper salutation . He was out from the sect for over a month in total, counted from the day they travel to the Heavenly Sword Sect . It took them nine days to reach the Heavenly Sect, three days of the gathering, another twelve days for him to prepare his brother's weapon, three more days in the village for the wine, and nine more days to return to the Seven Star County .

"Wu Ji came back late, hope master penalize this disciple for neglecting his duties as a Master Senior . " Zhang Wu Ji kneeled before his master . Instead of lecturing him, Liang Tian held him up from the ground, and pat his head once . With a face brimming with a smile, it was one of the most warming smiles he'd ever seen .

"I heard that you almost win your second brother in the Gathering's competition . Like usual, I am always proud of the nine of you and Little Qing Han for bringing the Seven Star Sect back to the top amongst the five Lower Counties . " Liang Tian speaks as soon as the other Master Senior made their appearance in the open space .

"Unfortunately, the inside of the Seven Star Sect is corrupted by people with greed and ill intention towards this county . Added with another seven elders that cannot differentiate the Black and White of the matters related to the sect, I wanted to ask;

"Are they worth being called as the Elders of the sect, if all they care is hiding behind their pagoda and cultivates the art that might allow them to walk past the Sheng Tian Process?" Liang Tian asked the crowd .

"Correct! If you sacrifice the future of the sect just for the sake of the lots of you walking past the Sheng Tian Process, then what is the purpose after you succeed? The foundation that has been laid by the previous headmasters and ancestors of the Seven Star Sect has been destroyed by your greed!"

"What is worthy if you sacrifice a foundation to build your own foundation? The legacy is lost . The name is smeared . The trust is gone . Only your own remains . Even if you rebuild the Seven Star Sect, is it Seven Star Sect?"

"NO! NO! NO!" all of them shouted . Especially for the elders where the Sect nurtures their foundation until now, it was a disgrace to see what had the sect became because of the internal struggle for power .

"Good . If the people in the sect wanted that piece of ancestral land so much, we'll give it to them! For I holds the Origin and the Legacy of the Seven Star Sect . If you all willing to do so, help me to rebuild the Seven Star Sect, and make it a completely new Seven Star Sect!" Liang Tian speaks . His word rang through everyone's ears and bring them in a higher reach of loyalty, where it will qualify to be called as;

This kind of reach is significant, as they carry a hint of an oath from the upper heaven . They were separated into five different categories, with each reach carries a different kind of effect .

the five different kind of Loyalty carries their own special effect, where the most well known would be the Loyalty to Parents, which carries the effectiveness of growth and the Loyalty to Master, which carries the effect of solidifying a foundation . But when they reach the effect of a Loyalty to Sect, the effect changed to a more significant effect, Cultivation Enhancement .

With everyone is blessed under the ray from the sun, the crowd soon disperse and return to their daily responsibilities . Given the production from the greenhouses all around the Wen Wu City now, the Apprentice Hall's production can be said to be oversupplied . Luckily, the oversupplied are a good impact on the economy, where with a better supply of medicinal pills, the procuring process to the ingredient in a higher level is much more easier to get .

Back to the room where it was specially arranged as Zhang Wu Ji's accommodation, it was now converted into the room for his master . With all the important members of the Seven Star Sect is inside of the room now, Liang Tian started to covers the more important topics that cannot be discussed outside in the public, as that may disturb and lower the confidence amongst their members .

Within the room is now seated with fifteen people . Liang Tian, Xing Yi Chen, the Grand Elder of Right, nine Master Seniors, the City Lord Yang-Er and Commander of Militarized Forces, Yang Yi . The remaining two people are respectively the Representatives of the 30 Villages and the representative for the 15 towns . Their name is Long Hao and Fang Feng Zheng .

According to the report on their current situation, a complete counterattack is impossible . With the assistance from the Lan Shan Clan, Knowledge Pagoda, Jie's Clan, Upper South Mercenaries, and Golden Wolf Syndicate, their opponent's strength is now too gigantic for them to overcome their progress . Perhaps Zhang Wu Ji may seem rich, but it wasn't everything at this moment, because wealth that came in the form of currency to exchange was useful in trading, but not in day to day life requirement .

Even with the Wen Wu City as their main base at this moment, they'were surrounded with Mines in the west, and three more villages further until they reach the border between Heavenly South County . Based on their land size, it wasn't a problem for them to start to plant for edible crops and grains, but their harvest may come in earliest after half a year of growing into maturity .

Plus, it wasn't confirmed at this moment which side are the Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City stands . Based on their strategic location, Wen-Qing City is surrounded by many natural resources and also 13 villages and 7 towns . their location positioned right on top after the Lan Shan Mountain gave them a strategic location because it was close to the border to enter the Imperial County, and also because the route to Wen Wu City is blocked .

As for the Wen Yang City, their location is much more situated to the border in the east, where included Zhang Wu Ji's Li Jiang Town . This city is surrounded by 14 villages, and also the remaining 8 towns . The location of the city is also near to two borders, the Crystalline River County, and the Jie's County .

Left for last, the Wen Wu City only surrounded by three villages before they reach the border between the Heavenly South County and Seven Star County . with only three villages after the mines in their east, the Wen Wu City is blocked by the northern bandits, the Seven Star Sect in their east, and the Southern Bamboo City in the south .

With the situation is not too convincing, everyone's attention is laid on Zhang Wu Ji, who always come up with something new that can be exploited . Being put in a position with such pressure, Zhang Wu Ji can't help but question everyone inside the room for a few questions .

The question once again took everyone by surprise as they begin to look for the countermeasure to answer his four questions . After a while of discussion, based on the land and the three villages, the group came up with four best answer that matches his requirement .

Six Stalks Cluster Wheat, an easily grown wheat-like product that fits to be made into flour which will then be used in noodles, bun, cakes, and other edible materials .

Fire Pattern Frog, an edible and delicious reptile that rich in flavor and delicious . With each matured Fire Pattern Frog can easily lay over a thousand eggs each time, only a few seasons is required to manage a large scale Fire Pattern Frog Farm .

The more precious Golden Tusk Black Hog is also one of the best selection due to their good quantity of edible meat . Best of all, the Golden Tusk Black Hog is very delicious .

Sweet Fleshed Oak Fruit, a fruit that grows on the tree surrounding the entrance to Southern Bamboo Forest . The fruit often left aside without any people eating them because it was common and difficult to prepare . But if they were used as sustainable ingredients to replace the shortage of vegetable variety, the fruit is much more amazing than one can think of .

The Outer skin can be made into sour peels, the sweet flesh hidden can be eaten cooked or processed into dried fruits that storable for a long time . As for the seed, they can be cracked to expose the cluster of nuts inside with the size of a soybean .

"Based on the report, we will follow up with the preparation to begin cultivating them! Select people with good experience in the three different fields to work in, and we will prevail through this difficulties!"

With a plan is finalized, the representative for the Towns and Villages returned to where they came, because from today onwards, it will be difficult for them to travel past the Seven Star Sect to Wen Wu City . After being briefed by Zhang Wu Ji and Liang Tian with their future planning and engagements, they leave the city without looking back .

Given the support from the Wen Wu City Lord, the Seven Star Apprentice Hall growth stabilized further, where after some prior arrangement, the whole area located Northeast of the Wen Wu City is given to the Seven Star Apprentice Hall with complete right to decide how the land can be exploited .

This gave the Apprentice Hall the motivation to catch up . Following with the restriction in the sector of exporting their produce, the Apprentice Hall fork out a hefty sum to purchase all the Construction Materials, which is the first generation Masonry Bricks .

Using only this material in all of their constructions, the sturdiness of the new buildings is stronger than ever . It only took about four days for them to complete the foundation of the building, with another additional ten days to construct the building to reach their size three times taller and bigger than the Tulous he had people built in the Northern Side of the city .

Furthermore, Zhang Wu Ji's Seven Star Apprentice Hall is no longer how it seems . The earlier four days is taken to rearrange the relevant departments available inside of the hall, but with the new addition of the Cooking Department and his own Celestial Designer profession, Zhang Wu Ji's expectation at the expansion of the hall is greater than before .

Sending out about 300 of his trusted fellow disciples, Zhang Wu Ji positioned a hundred of them in each village to assist them in various matters . The problem such as food preservation, farm plowing, harvesting, and hunting, each of these matters will have a few disciples to help in making things easier .

But this wasn't enough at all . Even if the current Seven Star Sect decided to give them a handicap, what can a rebelling Apprentice Hall takes to compete, especially when they only hold the privilege of three villages and one city's production? It was an attempt of a mere group of ants trying to overthrow an elephant .

Which is why Zhang Wu Ji will not fight against them in the term of capital but in the term of developments . With his upgrade system and the ability to discern the condition of an item, Zhang Wu Ji believes that if he was given the chances and time, his retaliation will bound to get the fruits of results .

In his mind, a sentence of [What can a not upgradable sect do when they were to face people with pills that works twice better, the weapon that cut deeper and harder to break? They may have the power to rule over the remaining fifteen towns, twenty-seven villages, and the two cities, but their resources are limited] always lingered whenever he tried to motivate himself .

"Master . . . " the three Li Disciples stands just before him as they greet him . Afraid that their master is having an enlightenment, the three of them remain silent for a moment before they realized it was not what they thought .

"Did I make the three of you waiting for long? It's fine to grab my attention in case I am idling and not doing anything . " Zhang Wu Ji said .

"Understood . The reason the three of us is here is related to one matter . Do master still remember that you ask us to reform and weed out the rotten apples within the Blacksmith Department?" Li Jing brought up the matter Zhang Wu Ji ordered them to get it done a month ago . From the way he speaks about this matter, it seems that the former already completed this task before the unfortunate event happened .

"Disciple Li Jing hates to say, but after we weed out all the rotten apples from the Blacksmith Department, we're only left with a mere 100 blacksmith with absolute loyalty with the department . During the siege against the headmaster faction and WUJI Faction, a large part of those that sacked by the three of us were, in fact, belonged to a syndicate called Golden Wolf Syndicate . "

"Luckily, we're prepared . Your disciple Li Jing is always keeping the secret he possesses a spatial ring in secret . We collected all the books related to the blacksmithing along with some better quality tools before the siege begins, thus, we lost only a mere amount of treasures like still in refining ingots and some weapons . Before we left, the three of us destroyed most of the mediocre quality Iron Thrusting Dirk master inherits to the department for training purposes, and also the remaining amount of Seven Leaves Sword . "

"I believe master may have some uses with this spatial ring and it's item within . We already allocate all the trusted loyal blacksmiths to be positioned near to the Blacksmith Department of the Apprentice Hall and we're ready to refine anything my master bring to us . Please go ahead and order us for any task . " Li Jing raised both of his hand with the palms facing upward, where a ring with obsidian color sits .

-Information: Made from low-quality processed obsidian crystals, this ring is crafted by a nameless First-Grade Celestial Designer . The Obsidian-Class Spatial Ring is lack of preservation ability, making the ring is only used to keep non-deteriorating materials and products, such as metal, stones, and gems .

"This is the lower-quality material, something that only worth be purchased by fellow blacksmiths and also construction bosses because of their inability to preserve the product . No wonder it gave such a good amount of Weight Limit and capacity . . . That's the catch to buy this . " Zhang Wu Ji gave the comment back to himself in mind before he inspects its content .

Zhang Wu Ji's expectation on the ingots weren't too high, but based on the quality of the material in here, it seems that most of their finely process treasure already kept within this ring . But with himself having no usage on these items for the meantime, he returned the ring to Li Jing before he added a few words .

"Familiarized with the Blacksmith and also their mineral ores delivered . I will need you to focus all your attention on training this one hundred blacksmiths into the master's of their profession . " Zhang Wu Ji finishes his words as he tosses a book into his hand, making Li Jing mouth opened wide as he read their title .

"Another extremely precious book!" Zhang Wu Ji's consistency of bringing them precious books with amazing accurate knowledge in its content was always shocking to them . Although their qualification was far more than enough for them to personally refine higher quality metals to be used as their own weapon, it was still important for them to improve their qualification as a proper blacksmith .

Amongst the three Southern States of the Southern Imperial Kingdom, the Upper South State is the closest one to the Imperial County, but their position was also the lowest among the three states . Not even needed to mention, their position among the thirteen states is also the second lowest, losing to the Border of Western State .

Less needed to say, the Border of Western State is another weak county due to their lacking resources, but they were also heavily affected by the constant battle initiated between the two kingdom, which is why their improvement is deteriorating . Or else, perhaps the Upper South State is the weakest state amongst all of them .

This is also why the only Blacksmith Pavilion existed in the Southern Part is only in the Lower Southern State, while each of the other states does possess their own Blacksmith Pavilion .

"The three of you, issue the request to the Hunting Department to collect some Pure Brimstone Crystal, Salt Crystal, and Fur Charcoal if they went into the Southern Bamboo Forest . " Zhang Wu Ji finishes his instruction to them without telling them the reason .

But the three did not question him at all and excused themselves from the room after they realized their master may have something else to taking care of . With haste, they issued the request for the three material first before returning to the Blacksmith Department and started to conduct lesson according to the few copies of Blacksmithing Manual Zhang Wu Ji trusted them with .

Meanwhile, after one party is gone, another came . This time, it was consist of the Master Chef, the Department Head from the Pill Making Department, and someone unfamiliar to him .

"Master Senior Ninth, this elder greets you (This Junior greets you) . " the three of them paid their greetings to him as they wait for his approval to start talking .

"Go ahead and speak your matter out . " Zhang Wu Ji stated . The long period of partaking with this kind of responsibilities makes him much more mature compared to the easy and hesitated him previously .

"Master Senior, the Pill Making Department wishes to leave their tradition and join along with the fellow disciples from Alchemist Department and Herbalist Department to increase their knowledge in the profession of a Pill Master . " he politely requested for the approval to join into the two departments .

"Approved . But I need you to make sure that no Pill Master is to threaten the disciples using their former position in the sect . This Apprentice Hall does not follow such a practice to motivates the competition among our own . " Zhang Wu Ji agreed but warned the elder prior before anything might happen .

"This elder understands . Please excuse me as I transfer the good news to them . The members of Pill Making Department will be so happy after they listen to this . " the Elder excused himself immediately, impatient to shares the news to the others .

"Yes, this junior did . . . But the matter should be done by now . . . Some disciples have been dispatched outside to the three villages to begin their preparation . . . " his question puzzled Zhang Wu Ji as he answers .

"Young Master Senior, have you forgotten the matter related to the Jining Freshwater Trout?" the Master Chef reminds him of his absent-minded memories related to the generous act he has done .

"Yes, I remember . Why?" Zhang Wu Ji answered . He remembers that the cultivating process is to be done at the Tian Village, which is why he did not put that matter in his account . But why would the Master Chef bring this matter up with him now?

"The Fish Cultivating did not set up in the Tian Village, but Wen Wu City's Western Side!" the Master Chef words shocked him . It was like a great discovery to him at this moment because of the need to start sourcing for food in order for the city to grow .

"It does . But that did not happen due to two reasons . First of all is due to the water source over there is a lack of required nutrients for the fish to grow properly . As for the second reason, it was because of the river that interconnected to three mountain source . This means more nutrients and space to grow the Jining Freshwater Trouts!" the Master Chef explained the sudden change of cultivating location and their reasons .

"Of course, if we were to make them into a sustainable source of meat products, the harvest will need to be done after they reproduce . This means we will not able to harvest the product meant for cultivator's improvement . "

"But I am confident with my knowledge and experience, in the time of two months later, the first batch of newborn fry started to swim in the cultivation pond will be no lesser than five hundred thousand fishes . " the Master Chef confidently explains the situation why he's confident to make this a sustainable source of meat products .

"Master Chef, if you don't mind me asking, about how many fishes are there in the pond now?" with the ability to lay ten thousand eggs during their spawning period, they will only require fifty female trouts to lay 500 thousand eggs .

"Five hundred! A hundred of them is male and four hundred of them is female . I can confirm that our first batch is going to be quite low, but on the second batch, please expect at least three million fishes to grow in that river alone . " his answer shocks Zhang Wu Ji for the second time .

"Master senior, I told you before, it was a congregation of three mountain source! Only flying across the river itself will take you almost an hour . " the Master Chef replied .

"What? Don't that means the wideness of the river from one side to another is about fifty kilometers? My god and the surprising stuff of this geographical thing in this world!" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to complain but he couldn't .

"But wait . . . I did not go through any of such a wide river when I'm going to the Heavenly South County and come back . " Zhang Wu Ji is puzzled with the geographical surrounding him once again .

"Master Senior . The route to Heavenly South County is at Southwest, and not directly to the west . . . " the Master Chef realized his puzzled expression and clarifies the matter with him before he burns himself in dismay .

"Master Chef, your word really helps me . With this soon to be stabilized source of meat product, all we need is to improve the collection rate of the Mineral Ores from the western mountain and keep on building the Wen Wu City!" Zhang Wu Ji said .

"I'm glad to help . " the Master Chef said . Without anything else to discuss, he left and return to his position to prepare the foods that will be supplied to the workers all over the Apprentice Hall's perimeters . After he left, only two people remained inside of the room now .

"Dear Master Senior, this junior's name is Zhao Yue Yi . I am sent here under an instruction for Master Senior's eldest brother, his honored Master Senior Zhang Wu Yuan . " the junior in his thirteen or fourteen years old bowed before him as he speaks .

"Master Senior Zhang Wu Yuan only left this disciple with this two scrolls and words to be repeated when this junior met you personally . I shall now repeat the word he said;

"Until the next year's Counties Gathering, the Imperial Kingdom will not approve the current headmaster as the leader of the sect . Be it Liang Tian is out or Yang Chen Kun remains . Whoever sitting inside the Reflecting Tower will be the headmaster during the gathering . "

"The two blueprints is something my master gave me as collections . If you can craft it, go ahead . Be a Celestial Designer at least to not shame our family name . If you can't, at least sell them for a hefty sum of money, that should support your cause until the next year gathering . "

"Li Jiang Town will be safe, even if the Seven Star County is wrecked . If you end up as a shameful bastard that can't even do something this simple, I will personally come and destroy your cultivation, making you a complete trash . "

Finishing his message, the junior disciple smiled awry because a few words deep inside of the message is purposely added by Zhang Wu Yuan in order to bully his youngest brother . Knowing that it will be impossible for Zhang Wu Ji to teach this junior a lesson, he confidently sent him here for this purposes .

"My brother deeply loves me, I think . " Zhang Wu Ji accepted the two blueprints and gave the junior a hundred and one pills as gratitude for his effort to made his way here .

"If there is nothing else, this junior will excuse himself from bothering Master Senior . " he excused himself and left . On his way towards the Heavenly South County, the youth rummage the pouch to check their contents .

"Ceh! Just a hundred Qi Sensing Pills . Even working for a receptionist in the Imperial County's Nan Feng City will get me 200 Pills a day . " he complained about the lack of sincerity given by the Senior Master, but soon, noticed one pill is different from the others .

"THIS! Fighter Chasing Dan! It's a Fighter Chasing Dan! How many hundred thousand gold coins can I change with this single pill that adds 20 strands of Fighter Qi into my cultivation?" like a fool, he grabbed the pill with both hands and inspects them for their authenticity .

Meanwhile, the young master senior is still considering the approach he should take in improving the strength in their side, but based on what he got at this moment, it was something to start from the scratch .

Although he got the assistance from his Master, Liang Tian, the City Lord Yang Er, and the Militarized Force's commander, Yang Yi by his side, their existence weren't something helpful in his mission .

The reason is always due to some unspeakable law, such as the Law that forbids cultivators in the higher ranks to participates in this kind of matters . Unless the base level of the disciples of soldiers reaches the Inner Qi Warrior Stage, they will not be allowed to take any action . But this also means that Zhang Wu Ji will face with a fatal weakness .

Back to his momentarily allocated bedroom, Zhang Wu Ji used his private time to went through the two blueprints given by his eldest brother, Zhang Wu Yuan . Based on the fact the two blueprints is directed to the Master Teacher as a present for his appearance in the event, Zhang Wu Ji suspects the blueprint to be extremely valuable, notably when Zhang Wu Yuan stated it can sustain them financially if sold .

-Information: Designed for the benefits of harvesting high-quality plants, the Plateau Plantation Plate is produced to be able to endure one complete stage of the plants . They're created in order to adjust the difficulties of a specific area that was challenging for any plantation to grow .

"No wonder eldest brother said the blueprint can be sold for a hefty price . With this Plateau Plantation Plate, even if the land is filled with contaminated substances or blanketed with snow all year long, the plantation can continue to grow everywhere as long it was supplied with ample amount of Fighter Qi . "

"The usability of this item is only once, but that is more than enough for the unfortunate county without a proper land to grow any vegetations . Plus, the required ingredient to craft this item is easy to obtain, making it worth the hassle to prepares the Plateau Plantation Plate to start cultivating precious medicinal materials . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks his mind as he measures the quality of this blueprint in his hand .

-Information: Designed by the well-known Master Archer, Huang Zhong Wei . The Fighter Crossbow carries 15 bolts in their magazine and comes with a Fighter Qi operated drawstring . Because the Blueprint is incomplete, the weapon carries a 70% failure rate and 60% destroy rate when used .

"Again . . . This is my second weapon blueprints . But according to the information given, this blueprint is incomplete, so how can I craft them . . . " Zhang Wu Ji is scratching his head for a moment thinking about the long period he needed to repair and refine the blueprints before he can begin with the production .

" Why did I forget about my ability to Create Blueprints! My ability says that I can [Create / Upgrade / Amend / Recycle] on the blueprints I have, so why don't I try to create one on my own?" Zhang Wu Ji remembered his own perks given by the [UPGRADE] system, and knock his head twice for being so forgetful .

"I'm always like this . . . Remembered all the other stuff inside the library, but forget that I need a toilet paper when I went to the toilet . Zhang Wu Ji . . . Zhang Wu Ji . . . When will you change and stop being so forgetful?" he scolds himself for focusing his stuff at something else, and always forget about his own needs .

"An airplane? Nope, too big of a task, not to mention the material is required is going to kill me before I'm able to craft it . " Zhang Wu Ji thought of something extremely convenient before he throws away that idea . Pondering about what he should create out of the blue, Zhang Wu Ji looks around for his inspiration .

"Tools! I need the miners to increase the output of their Mineral Ore collections but based on the numbers they're providing, it was incredibly low for a city . I should go to inspect how they mine the rocks on the mountain!" Zhang Wu Ji found his motivation to start creating a blueprint .

Without delaying further, he dresses in a proper attire before he went out in the night to the western side of the Wen Wu City . Riding the Qiyue Flying Sword, Zhang Wu Ji's traveling speed is faster than riding a horse . It only took him about an hour to reach the location where the miners are still working .

Knowing that he might scare the miners with his sudden arrival, Zhang Wu Ji purposely stop not too far from the entrance to the mine and keep his Qiyue Flying Sword away from the public eyes . With a calm demeanor, Zhang Wu Ji steps forward and greets the worker that moving the mineral ores into the Horse-Drawn Cart .

"This brother, Can you please show me with the way to the supervisor's office?" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand together as he greets the worker . Based on his attire, Zhang Wu Ji can be said to look like a young debauchee, but his manner says otherwise .

"I can bring you there, but I have to finish my task before I can leave . " the worker pointed at the mineral ores in his small trolley . It seems that he will have to finish transferring the ores into the Horse-Drawn Cart before he can leave to do something else .

He smiled and came close to the worker and started to help him to move the mineral ores . After spending about ten minutes of time together, the moving completed . Leading the way toward the inner side of the mine, the duo reaches the building made from timber and metal sheets nailed together .

"Head Miner Yang, this young master is looking for a supervisor . " the worker greets his supervisor and pointed at Zhang Wu Ji . Lack of the news related to the outside world, the Head Miner Yang is uninformed with Zhang Wu Ji's appearance .

He cupped his hand together to greet the youth, but instead of inviting the youth for a seat, he asked him directly for the reason to come here . In his mind, a young master like this youth should be busy entertaining themselves inside a brothel or restaurant, why bother to come here to get themselves dirtied by the ashes from the mining and smelling the sulfur gases?

"Greetings to Head Miner Yang . This junior is Zhang Wu Ji, the Ninth Disciple of the Headmaster of Seven Star Sect, Lord of Seven Swords Liang Tian . I am here to ask for head miner's opinion in a few questions related to the miner's equipment and also the concerning matter to mine in this Western Mountain area . " Zhang Wu Ji introduced himself .

The introduction was simple, but for a person that did not mind his manner earlier was given a shock to almost death . How can a youth like Zhang Wu Ji be a direct disciple of the Headmaster of Seven Star Sect? Plus, given with his humble and polite attitude, it was much scarier than a youth that shows all his overbearing attitude whenever he goes .

"This . . . This fellow name Yang is extremely impolite to the Master Senior, please accept this fellow's apology . " he quickly bowed and half kneeled on the ground, afraid that Zhang Wu Ji will take this kind of manner offensively .

"Head Miner Yang, please stand up, save the menial ceremonies aside . I wonder if Head Miner Yang can help this junior with his request?" Zhang Wu Ji used both hands to bring Head Miner Yang back on his feet . He repeated his question one more time to see how will the Head Miner Yang will reply .

"Master Senior, I hate to say this kind of word, but the tool of the miner has been going for over a hundred years of same design and usage, I'm afraid there is nothing much we can offer an opinion . Plus, the tools we're using for the mining process did not go through any drastic changes, I'm afraid the workers cannot get used to it to have some new equipment coming in suddenly . " the Head Miner explained the situation to him .

Because the method of the people followed here is a lower cost Open-Pit mining method, the miners scale the mountain in order to begin their mining process . Through this method, the thousand and over miners work together to be scale the mountain from one part to another, slowly taking down the whole Mineral Mountain before moving to another target .

Through this method, the requirement of having a better tool to mine under darkness and protection from poisonous fumes is removed . This method may restrict their time to start and finish mining, but it is much safer than the normal convention mining technique .

Altogether, their number of tools is only five different items . The Mining Pick, which looks like a crowbar with a longer sharper edge . Next is the Mineral Trolley, sometimes similar to the Cement Trolley in his former world, but made completely with wood and much bigger than a normal one he'd seen in his own world . The third equipment is the Horse-Drawn Cart, a bigger cart with the capacity of close to 1 . 5 tonnes .

The fourth Item is the ten water mills that were used to separates any unnecessary remains such as gravels and soils from the ore before transferring them to the Horse-Drawn Cart . Lastly, is the Breaker Tool, operated by people with a little higher cultivation level due to their weight . The Breaker is only operated when the mining ends up with having mineral ores that were too strong for their stone pick to break .

"Sure, we have over ten Stone Pick stored below the mountain, just go ahead and do what you want, be careful during the testing session because sometimes some mineral ores do not come out from the first strike . " the Head Miner Yang pointed at the mountain his miners is scaling at the moment, and let Zhang Wu Ji to personally experience the difficulties in mining for ores .

"Oh my god . . . They're using a complete trash for mining works . No wonder the number of mineral ores delivered to the city is so limited . If this kind of situation continues, won't the Wen Wu City remain as the weakest city among the three cities inside of the Seven Star County?"

Zhang Wu Ji holds five of the Stone Pick in one hand, and another tightly gripped with his right arm . Walking closer to the mineral mountain, Zhang Wu Ji took a strong leap and appeared on top of the mountain in a split moment . With a strong strike on the mountain, Zhang Wu Ji took down an estimated 1kg worth of mineral ores from it, but the durability of the Stone Pick reduced by 1 point already .

Looking at the others react as they stare at him, Zhang Wu Ji understands the reason they reacted in such a way . Although his method allows him to get a kilogram worth of mineral ores, it exhausts the Stone Pick immediately . If the miner followed the way he mines for the ores, they might instead carry over ten to twenty Stone Pick before they started to mine for the mineral ores .

Holding on the mineral ores he mined with a strong grip, Zhang Wu Ji tossed the ores one after another into the Small Trolley provided to him earlier . With perfect accuracy, Zhang Wu Ji deposited all of them back into the trolley before he continues with his earlier task .

With six Stone Pick in total, their total durability worth 39 points . Using only thirty-nine heavy strikes, Zhang Wu Ji destroyed the six Stone Pick in his hand before he ends his mining effort . By the time he left the mineral mountain, a deep hole has been scaled by his heavy attack .

"Similar to the others, it's a trash made equipment . " Zhang Wu Ji said . Without the need to inspect the Horse-Drawn Cart not far from him, Zhang Wu Ji bid farewell to the Head Miner Yang before he activated the Qiyue Flying Sword and flew away from the spot in a flash .

"What kind of people is that, Head Miner? Riding a Flying Sword to come and mine for a while before leaving with the destroyed tools and the Small Trolley?" one of the miners asked .

"This person is the Master Senior Ninth from the Seven Star Sect . You guys better behave the next time he's here for his task! Make sure you answer him politely and behave yourself when he comes!" Head Miner Yang warned the others before they caused trouble to him . It was a normal thing to do, especially towards those with cultivation . But Zhang Wu Ji is at least two ranks higher than them .

One is expected to give their respect like it was their boss when they'd seen a Cultivator, and treat them like their parent of the person is a Cultivator from a well-known family . And if they'd met with those with a position of an elder or Master Senior, they will be expected to treat the person like their ancestor instead .

"He's the person that taught the young master from Tao Family last time? No wonder that brat stops messing with us in the western side recently!"

His amazingly well-built fame is spreading all across the Miners, as they discussed his great performance while continue to mine . But at the other side, Zhang Wu Ji reaches the Wen Wu City after flying for a while . Coming back to the Apprentice Hall, he headed straight to the Blacksmith Department to have the disciples smelt the ores and metal remains he brought back before returned to his room .

"I will begin with creating a blueprint for them to follow suit . Instead of making the pickaxe personally, I will make them a proper cast for them to follow, with the method of smelting, crafting, inserting into the wood handle, and other minor matters . " Zhang Wu Ji starts .

By inserting the Strands of Qi in his body directly to the brush with some ink on it, Zhang Wu Ji gave the paper a few strokes . Each line he draws cost him some fighter Qi, but luckily, the Pickaxe Blueprint is completed without requiring him to rest for a few times before completion .

-Information: Designed by First-Grade Celestial Designer, Zhang Wu Ji, the Dual-Headed Pickaxe is crafted in order to assist the miners in increasing their Mineral Ores production rate . Capable to mine any minerals within Tier 1 without difficulties . When the durability is lacking, the Pickaxe will turn into green because of the Malachite included without, allowing the blacksmith to repair them as soon as possible .

"Good! With this blueprint in hand, It will be easier for me to prepare them to craft the tools . I will continue with the trolley by tomorrow, but for now, I will get the thing started with the Pickaxe first . " Zhang Wu Ji upgraded the Blueprint before arranging his plan as he continues with his own cultivation .

Seated in a meditating posture, Zhang Wu Ji initiates the transformation of his Tyrant Martial Body once again, and with 383 Strands of Fighter Qi now, Zhang Wu Ji can easily complete 3% of the transformation before taking a rest .

In this first night itself, Zhang Wu Ji completed 12% of the transformation, before entering his slumber and wake up a few hours later . Holding the book in hand, he inspects his current achievement on the Tyrant Martial Body .

"Based on the figure shown in the book, it should be time I drink the second bottle of Inner Demon Slaughtering Wine . " Zhang Wu Ji calculates the possibility of getting into the berserk state . To make sure thing proceeds without any mistakes, he decided to play safe by taking a bottle of the wine each time he passed the 20% limit .

Changing into an appropriate attire again, Zhang Wu Ji went to the Blacksmith Department, where he assembled all the members of the department to follow him in every process to prepares a cast for the head of the pickaxe, and also to acquire some high-quality branches from the Sweet Oak Tree .

The disciples were extremely productive . In two hours after the direction is given, they returned with lots of related materials which is necessary for Zhang Wu Ji to prepares them according to the measurement of the Pickaxe' head cast, the overall thickness, and process to prepare the head before proceeding with the other parts .

With the instructions delivered and the sample of the cast is made, Zhang Wu Ji took the chance to be the first to prepare the Dual-Headed Pickaxe . With very familiarized steps, Zhang Wu Ji began with the process of tempering the metal to a Military-Grade material before he blends them together with the Copper and Malachite Powder .

The completed alloy mixture was then poured into the cast to rest, while he resumed his work by preparing the branch of Sweet Oak Tree . Only after he done the outline of the handle Zhang Wu Ji paid his attention to the head once again .

Using a tong, Zhang Wu Ji clipped the Pickaxe head up to the anvil before he repeatedly hammers the metal until the carries a dented form, where it was compact and strong enough to endure the shock from continuously striking on the hard mineral rocks .

With the head and handle are completed, Zhang Wu Ji attached the two parts together before pouring a small amount of molten Iron into the gap to seal them completely . The final results appeared to be similar to a basic Iron Pickaxe, but it was something uncommon in this world .

The two-headed pickaxe carries a body thicker than the traditional Stone Pick, with one additional pointed tip at another side . Based on the size and structure of the handle, It was very well calculated . The comfortable grip size and bent body like an "S" character were the most noticeable trait in the tool .

Pointed at the bigger mineral ore possibly harvested from the West Mountain, Zhang Wu Ji ordered a disciple to bring it to him . Next, he selected a disciple to try the comfortability and also the conveniences by changing into this tool .

Their overall weight is reduced by a quarter, which is a lot in any mean . With a much sturdier Iron Alloy, Zhang Wu Ji not only able to reduce the possibility of breaking this Dual-Headed Pickaxe during their work but also to reduce the burden on the miner's body, especially on their arms .

Without putting too much pressure in his strike, the disciple land a hit on the mineral ore . The results were the ore is smashed into bits when the pressure came into the mineral ore . This small performance gave Zhang Wu Ji a confidence in his own creation and ordered the members of the department to immediately produce at least 10,000 Dual-Headed Pickaxes and delivers them to the West Mountain in a batch of 100 pickaxes each time .

-Information: Refined by First-Grade Celestial Designer Zhang Wu Ji, the DUal-Headed Pickaxe can give the miner's an easier life because of their high damage on mineral ores, strong durability, and lightweight . When the Pickaxe is left with 5 points in durability, the Malachite Powder within will begin to grow in green .

[Author's Note: I'm sorry this chapter comes up so late. I am meeting with a fellow friend / Editor of a magazine publisher. (Elle if I'm not mistaken) and see how he would help. He did not agree on the spot, but I hope he will consider about it. (Well, it's a free help, so the possibility is questionable.)

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"Look, the Master Senior Ninth is here again. Guess what he trying to achieve by coming here two days consecutively." the miners that noticed his arrival guessed while continuing with their own job.

After greeting the Head Miner Yang, he went to the same spot he scaled before and took out the new Dual-Headed Pickaxe to try its might. With both hands holding on the tool firmly, Zhang Wu Ji landed his first strike on the wall of rocks, and extracted at least five kilograms of mineral ores with a single strike!

The ores shatter into bits of an average of around 400 grams each, but instead of picking up the ores and throws them down to the Trolley at the bottom. Zhang Wu Ji continues with his strikes. With 35 points of durability on the pickaxe, it can stay durable for 90 strikes before the durability of the tool is exhausted and turn into green, meaning the durability of this weapon is now lower than acceptable points.

Compared to his yesterday's attempt, today Zhang Wu Ji harvested a total of 450 kilograms, which is about elevenfold to his yesterday's result. Not enough to reach a tonne in mass weight, Zhang Wu Ji collected them into his Onyx-Class Spatial Ring and prepares to leave the mines in a hurry.

"Master Senior Ninth! Please wait for a moment!" the Head Miner Yang ran and climb to the top of the mineral mountain in a hurry, afraid that Zhang Wu Ji will leave before he managed to inquire about this magical tool. The shape of the tool is not only convenient and able to disperse a portion of the vibration during the impact, but it can also turn green after using it for a while.

This is also why the Head Master Yang went forward to ask. If the production of the mines can be increased by merely changing to a tool like this, won't the City Lord approves his request to purchase these tools immediately? It was for the sake of increasing amount of mineral ores they can collect from the mountain!

"Head Miner Yang, do you have anything you need from this junior?" Zhang Wu Ji can safely assume that his reason of approach is related to the pickaxe, but he decided to ask the question anyway for the sake of giving the head miner a stage to start his words.

"This miner wanted to ask about the background of this pickaxe. I won't say I see that pickaxe before, be last time, there is a fellow blacksmith that came from the Wen Qing City purposely to collect some high-quality mineral ores, and during that time, we were presented with a pickaxe similar like yours, but it possesses a hammer and a pick if compared to yours." the head miner replied.

"Head Miner Yang, this little pickaxe here is the humble creation of mine. I am here for the sake to test the durability and usage of the tool before it obtained the approval to be mass-produced." Zhang Wu Ji lifted the pickaxe into their chest level, and loosen his grip by putting his palm facing upward. It was an indication that the head miner is allowed to inspect the tool.

This simple gesture of his attracts the attention of the other miners to come forward to have a look themselves. It was then handed to one after another, until two hundred miners later it returned to the hand of Zhang Wu Ji. Since each of the presents already took an inspection on them, it is impossible for Zhang Wu Ji to miss out the opportunity to ask for their opinion.

But all of them only replied his question with a word "Satisfied" and nothing else. It seems that similar to the Blacksmiths, the Miner's attitude is also similar, with simple replies and did not pay their effort to twist their words or trying to make them sound better. And in Zhang Wu Ji's opinion, this kind of people is the one he liked the most.

"You means, they're qualified to become the tool for your mining profession?" Zhang Wu Ji asks them one final question before he set his mind on the tool he personally designed. In his mind, an approval on your creation is also more convincing than his own decision, because, at the end of the day, his end product is what people considered using, and not what he decided.

"Master senior, as the head of all miners here and also the most experienced one among them, I dare to use my reputation as a 37 years veteran miner to say your pickaxe the best quality pickaxe I ever seen in my life. Perhaps not ten of our Stone Pick can compare with one of your Dual-Headed Pickaxe." the head miner took his bandana down and replied the youth.

"Yes! All of you, don't you agree with Old Yang's word? If we have this kind of tool in our hand, how many Horse-Drawn Cart can we deliver to the Wen Wu City every day?"

"Correct! Correct! If all of us used such a tool in our daily mining, won't the yield went over our limit? We might need to order more horses to pull our Mining Trolley instead of ourselves! Hahaha!" the crowd stating their approval of Zhang Wu Ji's creation one after another as they laughed and bringing up the matter with their horsemen.

"Head Miner Yang, I need to make sure that you know this matter first. The Apprentice Hall is in their way of mass-producing this kind of tools for the sake of increasing the yield from the Miners. With this tool soon distributed here, I hope every brother and uncles here, please support the Wen Wu City and Apprentice Hall as we grow stronger!" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand towards everyone before he faced Head Miner Yang to mention his intention.

After completing the little ceremonial exchange of words, Zhang Wu Ji left the West Mountain and returned to the Wen Wu City before it was too late in the evening. The best thing of all except his success craft in creating a tool that can complement the miner's experience is that he familiarized with the route going and returning from Wen Wu City to West Mountain.

Instead of heading straight back to his room, Zhang Wu Ji made his appearance at the Blacksmith Department to inspect them and their crafted Dual-Headed Pickaxes. It may seem like he wasn't confident with the craft from his own people, but as a perfectionist that wanted only the best batch in their first order, Zhang Wu Ji will not compromise even in a little bit of lacking.

Walking across the isle of the tool shelf they made to let the pickaxes stand properly, Zhang Wu Ji touches each of them, and took the lower quality product out from the neatly arranged isle. Only after running through a hundred of the Dual-Headed Pickaxe Zhang Wu Ji took a deep breath, and feeling much more relaxed as a part of his responsibility is completed at this moment.

It was the five amongst the eight attendants of his. At the period of time, all of them were exiled from the Seven Star Sect, Tang Yuan suggested that the five of them shall take up a hunting request issued by the Hunting Department to increase their experience in handling a different dangerous situation in the wild. And for this intention to improvement, the Southern Bamboo Forest became their best choices because the matter of handling Mountain Bandits in the Orchid Mountain is much more dangerous.

As the weakest among the eight of them, Liu Yanni is now an Inner Qi Fighter with a total of 120 Strands of Inner Qi inside her body. Following above her place is unexpectedly Bai Hei Tie, in his early 2nd stage of Inner Qi Fighter, and Zhang Ya Pin, in his mid 2nd stage of Inner Qi Fighter. Zhao Xiao Hua remains as the second among them, with her cultivation at later 2nd Stage.

The most unexpected to him is Tang Yuan, where his cultivation strength is now at the peak of 3rd Stage of Inner Qi Fighter. What is more surprising is it seems that he failed to control the way his energy grows, causing his body to release some heat a little hotter than the others. Other than that, there is a faint writing seen on his forehead, similar to a word [Yan].

"What is wrong with Tang Yuan? It is a good thing his cultivation increased by a lot, but he looks like he's poisoned. If not because he can walk and lead the others into the Southern Bamboo Forest for the past few days, I will be running an inspection on him as soon as possible." Zhang Wu Ji thought but did not make his thinking visible from the eyes of his attendants.

"Master Senior, look at what we found in the Southern Bamboo Forest!" Zhao Xiao Hua steps forward and handed over a piece of insect carapace to him to inspect, while Zhang Ya Pin and Bai Hei Tie are holding the remaining parts in the two bags on their hand. Without further ado, he took the carapace in hand, and inspect the item as he acts.

-Information: Heavily sought after for their precious carapace all over their body, the Malachite Shell Cicada is a Wild Beast all Pill Master in their peak Tier 1 Achievement wishes to capture. All the carapaces grown on the Malachite Shell Cicada is usable to concoct the Malachite Armor Pill

"This is a good treasure you guys collected. Bring them to the Alchemist Department and tell them to prepare a room with a set of Pill Making Tools inside for me. If possible, I will come over within this one or two days to concoct the Malachite Armor Pill to each of you." Zhang Wu Ji returned the piece of leg part carapace to Zhao Xiao Hua and paid his attention back to the others.

"Here, take this second Fighter Chasing Dan." Zhang Wu Ji spread open his palm as he collected five Fighter Chasing Dan +5 for them. Among the remaining pills he got, Zhang Wu Ji tried refining fifty of them to +6, but perhaps his luck was too bad, it did not happen. Left with only 1,050 Pills remaining in his ring after giving five pills to his attendants, Zhang Wu Ji felt a little heartbroken.

Base on his situation now, it was most important for him to upgrade all his item into his current limit, which is +9 at most. But not only he barely possesses any +5 item, but most of them also were not upgradable, such as his Qiyue Flying Sword, Bronze Grade Nourishment Art, Longfeng Jade Ruler, and Zhang Wu Chou's Four Season Swords.

"Go back and do whatever you guys want, since there were no more farm or anything to handle. Oh... And one more issue. Where is the Iron Scale Bull? It's been a few days I did not see that guy." Zhang Wu Ji allowed them to leave, but suddenly remembered about the missing fella that let him ride everywhere.

"Master, we have no idea as well. That day when we left, this Iron Scale Bull supposedly following us, but I think... It got lured away by some other female Iron Scale Bull." Tang Yuan hesitates a little before he answered his master's question.

"Then that's fine. Go do your own stuff. I will have something to do tomorrow." Zhang Wu Ji turned and leave the five of them to handle their own matters. With his temporary task of increasing the mining's production rate is complete, it is time for him to now consider their next arrangement, the transporting process.

His consideration lies in two parts. The main part where they delivered the item from the Mines to the Wen Wu City and the second is between the miners to the Horse-Drawn Cart's loading point. The first part is important as the delivery with larger loading capacity can sustain the Apprentice Hall usage better, but in exchange, It will leave a toll at the miners, as they have to exhaust their stamina to deliver more mineral ores into the cart.

But in the same time, if he decided to went with the second part, creating a newer version of Mineral Trolley for them, it will increase the number of mineral ores production, but the final cost in the delivery will leave the Apprentice Hall and City Hall with a great expense.

Although he was richer at this moment, it did not mean that he will have to absorb the cost without any special in return. It would be the same if he chose the first option, as that will not directly be related to the cost, but when an upgrade is made possible to those horsemen, who know where will the new design Cart will end up.

The moment of consideration delayed a few matters he should be handling, but it was no less a comfortable time for him to relax after putting himself in the importance of the others.

This was the best morning Zhang Wu Ji ever had after he's transmigrated into this world. Waking and dressed up in his Seven Star Master Senior's robe, Zhang Wu Ji went out to make an inspection at the new batch of Dual-Headed Pickaxe. When the stack of 200 pickaxes is completed, Zhang Wu Ji collected all of them and decided to make his own delivery towards the Western Mines.

Before he went out, Zhang Wu Ji borrowed a spot from a blacksmith that just finishes his hammering process on the casted pickaxe head. Using the hammer to hammer the low durability pickaxe in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji repaired it only to noticed that instead of maintaining 35/35 durability, it become 34 now.

Putting aside this bothersome issue, Zhang Wu Ji went out once again, leaving the stack of 450 kilograms worth of mineral ores for them to process it while he's away. The amount isn't too much, but for their master that casually come in and dropped half a tonne of mineral ores, it was still surprising for them.

"Oh, before I forget. Li Jing, take out all the ingots in the Obsidian-Class Spatial Ring and give it to me." Zhang Wu Ji ordered. Receiving his order to do so, Li Jing immediately retreated into the shared private room the three of them reserved and withdraws the ingots out until the ring's storage is emptied.

"Master, this is the ring you requested." Li Jing delivered the Obsidian-Class ring to him with both hands, which was received by Zhang Wu Ji as he directed the route of the Flying Sword and headed straight at where the West Mountain located.

"Half of you, stop working on the pickaxe head and shift your work into smelting and preparing the metals. Yin, Tong, you two go out and look for containers big enough to store mineral ores. As for those that continue to forge the pickaxe's head, you may slow down in your production, but maintain their quality!" Li Jing passes down the order to everyone around without explaining too much about his sudden decision.

"My fifth brother, you mean..." Li Yin tried to guess his brother's sudden order, but he caught the intention hidden behind. While the slow-witted Li Tong is still guessing about what does his brother wanted to do.

"Brother Jing, don't you worry master will lecture us again with the ruler if you change the arrangement of the workers without consulting him?" he almost said about whacking their butt with the ruler, but luckily kept it hidden inside his lips.

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji reaches the West Mountain once more along with some additional gift in hand. Twenty wooden shelves with ten Dual-Headed Pickaxes slotted in between.

The arrival of this two hundred pickaxes caught all the miners by surprise because they did not expect that with the manpower of the Apprentice Hall alone, they can mass-produce so many pickaxes in the span of one night. If they were given a week of time, won't the number of available stock of pickaxes to be distributed all over the county?

"Master Senior Ninth, I'm afraid we did not have anything valuable to be exchanged with this batch of Dual-Headed Pickaxes..." the Head Miner Yang said.

"Head Miner Yang, if this junior is expecting a return for a simple word of mouth from the miner brothers here, won't this junior look like a narrow-minded person? The batch of pickaxes here is this juniors gratitude and also sorry for making all the brothers here work hard to supply our needs for mineral ores." Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand together and gave the crowd his most earnest bow.

"Since you called us brother, then we will not be petty as well! Stay here, we will use the pickaxes you provided us to mine for a batch of mineral ores for you to bring back to the hall!" the group of miners made their statement as they took each pickaxe in their hand and start to scale the mineral mountain.

With a higher attack point, the process to extracts the mineral ore become faster. It only took them an hour to extracts ten tonnes of mineral ores to be presented to Zhang Wu Ji. Since the miners intended to present him with this amount of mineral ores, there is no reason for him to reject their good will.

By utilizing the Obsidian-Class Spatial Ring, Zhang Wu Ji collected the ten tonnes of mineral ores in a flash, before cupping his hand together and bid farewell to the others. But before he does so, Zhang Wu Ji personally speaks with Head Miner Yang for his upcoming instructions,

"Head Miner Yang, not far from the future, the people from apprentice hall will personally come to collect and pay for the mineral ores we need to use. Please allocate a spot for their conveniences."

With the matters on increasing the production of the mineral ores is handled, Zhang Wu Ji can feel at ease, at least until he handled the matter with the Basic Obsidian-Class Spatial Ring . Holding the ring with ten tonnes of mineral ores within, Zhang Wu Ji flies across a few mountains he did not pay attention to them previously and enjoy the scenery as he goes .

"Hey, is that where the Jining Freshwater Trout is cultivated?" Zhang Wu Ji notices four humongous wooden barriers is built outwards to the river but not covering the whole line completely . In fact, it was purposely built in this way to exploits the strength from the flowing water to trap the Jining Freshwater Trout on the long bamboo made barriers .

Through this way, they can put away the need to use a fishing net to catch the fishes . It may be a viable option for larger scale fisheries, but when this matter is put on his jurisdiction, the Master Chef who values his ingredients more than his life says;

"I would rather die if I will need to resort myself to use the manmade net or Inner Qi weaved nets to catch the fishes! This will heavily damage their muscles and made the fish less delicious when cooked!"

Filled with curiosity, Zhang Wu Ji redirected his heading and went to the Trout Cultivating Farm and greets the Master Chef and his other kitchen department subordinates . Taken into a tour around their farm, Zhang Wu Ji is surprised that the method they used is more likely to be applied in his previous world's modern salmon fish farming .

Although their equipment is not exactly as creative compared to his previous world, the lacking in many matters is replaced by applying their strands of Inner Qi . For example, after a few parts of training, they can weave their strands of Inner Qi into a net, which can be used to trap the fishes out from the river . The more creative version of using the strands of Inner Qi is to roll them into a shape of a harpoon, which pierced into the water without swayed by the current of the water . Most importantly, they do not injure the fishes when it hits .

It was a fun process to learn this kind of tricks that can help the people lack cultivation to survive better . The only unfortunate part is that their tricks carry no deadly forces, something that if one managed to master this kind of tricks, they can easily kill people without the need of having a high amount of cultivation strength .

After bidding farewell to the people that show him around, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the Wen Wu City . His daily trip up and down from the hall to the West Mountain become something young adolescents chasing for because, in the whole Wen Wu City, the number of people possessing a flying sword only amounted to thirteen people .

Headmaster Liang Tian, City Lord Yang Er, Commander of Militarized Force's Yang Yi, and the ten participants that went to Heavenly Sword Sect before .

Landing on the square where many people walking up and down, the movement of a group of cultivators belonged to the Martial Art Department is caught by Zhang Wu Ji when he landed . Looking at the two stretchers in their hand, something must happen .

"I overheard the bandit earlier before we attacked them . They're gathering a force in somewhere northwest in order to try to attack the city . " one of the disciples mentioned about this issue . From the way he speaks, it seems like he already mentioned it multiple times now .

"Let me tell you, we should put some men to defend that area, but not taking the opportunity to strike them! How if we're actually fallen into their trap?" the leader of the group listened to him and advised him to not act rashly by agreeing with his report and allocate some defense on that particular location .

"We have to take action! Although the northern side is where the Orchid Mountain located, the route to there still took one full day to reaches . If we can't even protect our own backyard, then how are we going to take back the Seven Star Sect in the future?"

"Yes! A step forward is a step closer to victory . With the only Inner Qi Lord in the Lan Shan Clan is restricted from breaking the Law of Cultivators, what threat are we to be afraid of?" another member of the group agreed with the first member's word, and brought his opinion up .

"Lanshan Lanyue is a bandit and not a cultivator! Do you think he will honor these Law of Cultivators?" the leader lectured the two for being rash, but deep inside, he himself wishes that he can take this opportunity as well . It was because he's a leader he will have to react accordingly .

Secretly, Zhang Wu Ji did not make his appearance before them, but he did heal the two injured members in the group, which was brought here with the stretchers he saw earlier . After remembering the name of their leader, Zhang Wu Ji left to the blacksmith room and begin to prepare something .

Noticing the two big containers made from mixed steel beside their entrance to the Blacksmith Department, Zhang Wu Ji smiled . With a wave of his hand, ten tonnes of mineral ores is deposited into the container, where it almost overfilled .

"Luckily, the department received my order to stores the materials like Brimstone Crystals, Salt Crystals, and hunt for the Charcoal Hound . " Zhang Wu Ji inspects all the usable materials within the room and soon smiles when he noticed that all the ingredient required to forge the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon is available .

Without any delay, Zhang Wu Ji quickly produces a total of fourteen Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon to be given to the team of seven members . Be it they proceed with the plan to raid the bandit's gathering spot or maintain a defensive measure, an additional weapon or two to protect themselves is an amazing life-saving treasure in a dangerous moment .

The moment the fifteenth Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon is completed, Zhang Wu Ji had his people to summon the leader of the team to him . Meeting the leader he saw earlier before he starts to works, Zhang Wu Ji smiled and produce a miniature cannon in his hand .

Once he injected the Fighter Qi into the cannon, it activated, and transformed into a proper 150cm long Cannon Barrel, with its tail ignited with flames . With a pull on the top handle, a fiery steel ball is fired out if the barrel, carrying the strength of a 90 points strong power to strikes on the wall built using normal bricks and masonry bricks .

Right in front of the leader of the group, that shot strikes right into the wall and created cracks all over the wall before it slowly shatters . The remaining of the wall were some on the feet, and nothing left .

"Master Senior, what is this weapon?" the leader politely asked as he kept his anxiety deep inside his heart . How can a weapon half the size of a horse-tail brush transformed into something a thousand times bigger and fired an ammunition that destroys the wall in a single shot?

Even himself may face difficulties to destroy the piece of wall, not to mention the weapon may break due to the sturdiness of the wall against his weapon .

"This item is called Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon . By inserting ten strands of Fighter Qi into the tool, it will activate the tool and spreads to its original size . This weapon is a one-time used weapon, and cannot be adjusted the moment it activates . How many members are in your team?" Zhang Wu Ji asked .

"Good . Here is fourteen Yuan-Tie Hand Cannons . Distributes among your members and tell them how it is used . That's all I'm calling you here for so you may leave now . " Zhang Wu Ji placed the stack of 14 miniature cannons into the leader's hand and gave him an order to leave .

"Junior Liu Xiang thanks Master Senior for his generosity . " the leader cupped his hand and bowed at Zhang Wu Ji and make his way back to his team . Looking at this situation, Zhang Wu Ji cannot wait to see what decision will they choose, and how will their results turn out after his sneaky participation in giving them the opportunity to excel .

"Earlier, sixth and seventh injuries suddenly healed without anyone noticing, and now, Master Senior turn up and gave me this secret weapon to protect ourselves . Does this means . . . " Liu Xiang is thinking about all of this happening and wrecking his mind to think about all these coincidences .

"Our luck is good!" if Zhang Wu Ji is here standing on top of his Flying Sword, no doubt that he will fall seeing how dull is this team leader . (The pot is trying to say the charcoal black here . . . )

After Liu Xiang left, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his own room . He calculates the possibility of success if he were to forge a spatial ring himself, but after considering the possibility of the material might be too hard for him to obtain, he canceled the thought .

Once again, Zhang Wu Ji concentrated his mind in transforming the Tyrant Martial Body . Only after he completed a total of four trials Zhang Wu Ji stopped and decided to take a rest .

Without anything to do now, Zhang Wu Ji is much more relaxed . Either by spending his time to do some inspection on their products and making a few trips up and down between the Wen Wu City and three villages, he did not have anything much to do .

Heading to his master's room to greet him, Zhang Wu Ji met with five of his eight senior brother and sisters . The exchanged a few words of courtesy here and continue their way to the master's room and greets him . Like usual, their master inspects their cultivation and where they should pay their attention to, except Zhang Wu Ji, who mysteriously get stronger without watching him training too much .

"This kid, I suspect he's a trash Martial Body layered with the Changliu Martial Body . Else how can his body grow stronger the moment he entered the 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter? If he really does possess the Changliu Martial Body, then his improvement will not face any difficulties until he reaches the border of Sheng Tian Process . . . " his old master speaks in his mind before he questioned them on their other progress .

"Dear master, Gen-Er went through most of the location surrounding the Wen Wu City to establish the Apprentice Physician Shop . At this moment, we have eight shops providing general physician treatment for free, but for their follow up medicine, it will cost them a small sum of money . " the oldest disciple reported .

"Good . Make sure to train some of them so they can be delivered to the three villages too . As a part of our remaining people that still put confidence on us, we need to make sure we can protect them as they contribute to us . " their master Liang Tian speaks, and paid his attention to the second and third disciple .

"Dear master, Yan-Er and Yuan-Er are confident to say, in one month at the most, the food supplies will be ready . We already caught over tens of thousands of the Fire Pattern Frog to cultivates, and Yuan-Er even found two Sun-Facing Fruit Tree growing in the wild . We had harvested them back to be cultivated as well . "

"And from the Master Chef's replies, it seems that the Jining Freshwater Trout is growing properly . We can expect a good yield from them in another month or two . But we're still looking for as much Liver of Charcoal Hound to increase the speed of their growth and quickly reaches the spawning maturity . " Han Yan continues after Li Yuan's earlier report .

"This is all Liver of Charcoal Hounds! That's so many!" Han Yan and Li Yuan mouth gasp for air as they look at the big bag filled with livers .

"Good job, you two . Ninth, your contribution to this matter is very good as well . " the headmaster praised the two of them and turned his attention at his fourth and eighth disciple .

"Dear master, Hao-Er and Ren-Er also handled the works well . Reporting to Junior brother Wu Ji, under master's order, we made a total of three hundred copies of the basic [Fist of Destruction Qi], [Physical Strengthening Compilation], [Collapsing Fist], and [Body Nourishment Technique] to be distributed to the three villages for the villagers to cultivate and strengthen their cultivation . "

"After all the delivery is done, we will then focus in copying another 400 copies to be distributed into the four sides of Wen Wu City . Later on, when the teachers from the sect are well trained, we will send them to give the villagers a guidance to improve . " the two of them completed their reports and step back, leaving only Zhang Wu Ji still standing close to their master .

"How about you, ninth?" Liang Tian looks at his youngest disciple . Although his strength was nothing comparable with eighth, his battling strength is amazingly higher than all of his disciples . This kind of differences in strength is most important when it comes to two strong cultivators competing against each another . In this world, although the Law of Cultivators stated that any direct participation shall not exceed the differences of three level, it did not mention that those in their Inner Qi Warrior cannot bully the Inner Qi Fighter .

"Dear master, Wu Ji handled the production problem with the miners by shifting the operation to forge them brand new pickaxes . As for the protection part, Wu Ji planned to craft the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon to be allocated to the leaders of the guards with Fighter-Class strength . "

"Wu Ji intends to pay a visit to the Mystic Engineer Establishment to made a request at my brother Yong Lie, may master approved disciple's selfish request?" his ending sentence puzzled the others .

"And for what reason is the visit?" Liang Tian nodded on his other reports but questioned him on his decision to leave the sect for a while . With someone as experienced as him, he can easily deduce that the travel will take 3 days to enter the Heavenly South County, before he took another route to the Mystic Engineer Establishment, taking another six days .

When he entered their Willow Timber County, it will take another five days for him to reaches their capital, the Peony Flower City . And his estimation did not include the possibility Zhang Wu Ji may get lost! It means he will be away for at least one month to complete his visit .

"Wu Ji has a question that he wishes to ask Brother Yong Lie from the Mystic Engineer Establishment, which related to the creation of a Spatial Ring, and a transportation . " Zhang Wu Ji stated his reason for this sudden visit . His choices were most accurate to select the Mystic Engineer Establishment, but when he mentioned the word transportation, Liang Tian's expression changed .

"I will talk to Wu Ji privately, the others may leave if you have nothing else to report . " Liang Tian said and look at the others as they turned around and leave after excusing themselves . Following his master, Zhang Wu Ji went close to his master who seats himself right by the side of his bed .

"The transport you mentioned . . . is known as Metal Bird . I've seen one of them when I'm younger . It was a giant flying metal bird that was powered by something known to the cultivator as Qi Weaving Stone . " Liang Tian took a piece of weird looking fluorescent crystals out from his spatial ring and handed to Zhang Wu Ji for a look .

-Information: A natural Qi Weaving stone of Fighter Qi Quality . Allows storage of Fighter Qi within to activated any mechanical equipment crafted by a Celestial Designer .

"It seems that this piece of stone can store Strands of Qi to be used later . " Zhang Wu Ji returned the stone into his master's hand as he gave his opinion regarding this Qi Weaving Stone .

"Yes . It is a small Qi Weaving Stone . Each of them cost 200,000 Qi Sensing Pills if you're purchasing them from the Upper South Merchant Corporation directly . Their cost is extremely expensive because by possessing a small Qi Weaving Stone like this, you're able to activate a Metal Bird to fly in the sky for 100 days without the need to comes down . "

"As for the Metal Bird I've said, I only encountered them twice . The first one belonged to the Southern Imperial Kingdom's Master Teacher, Zhao Yun . As for the second, they've belonged to the Mystic Engineer Establishment's Grand Hall Master, a Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Master Windchaser . " his master explains the cost required to purchase one of the stone, and also the only two people he knows they possess the Metal Bird .

"I will let somebody lead you there since you're so blind with directions . " his master laughed and said to him . The word made Zhang Wu Ji turn speechless from the leakage of his weaknesses .

"If little Meng Ran never tell me about it, I will still be blank about all of this . " he smiled and revealed the fact Meng Ran told him earlier .

"Brat, how dare you lied on the lass . Luckily I know her father, else you're in deep trouble now!" his master whispers the word to his ears to warn him for not trying to bullshit people around anymore .

Following by his side, Meng Ran is walking in a close proximity that can be said to be only practiced by couples . Keeping quiet as he walks, Zhang Wu Ji looked at her expression .

"Oh . . . " Zhang Wu Ji finally realized the person that stays beside him is actually this young lady he brings back from the Heavenly South County . No wonder there are buckets of soil and some weird looking items .

"What is those stuff outside of your room?" he asked . He might know some of them, but instead of guessing, he prefers to ask directly to know what are they used for .

"The bucket and the few pieces of stones? That's the ingredient to make the Formation Clay . Do you want to see how it was done?" she noticed that Zhang Wu Ji was asking about those thing littered outside of her door and answered him .

Heading to the same direction, the two walk until they reach the small open area outside of their room, and taking her lead, Meng Ran seated herself before the tool as she took a few stone slabs as thick as a cigarette box and insert a few strands of Inner Qi into one stone slabs to withdrew the item hidden inside .

Shuaa!" a stack of mineral ores in their powder form is taken out and forms a small mound on the ground . Repeating the same action, she continues until all eight pieces of Stone Slabs are used . Putting it aside, the stone slab that looked greyish in color turned whitish and decayed until it turns into ashes .

"It is a temporary spatial storage . The process to make them is simple, basically, you need something like stone, clay, or gemstones that you can engrave the formation inscription into it . Look, I just got a few from the Blacksmith Department, so I will make one for you . " she shares the information with Zhang Wu Ji and taking out a few more pieces of Cigarette box size stone slab out from the last piece of usable stone slab .

Taking out a very special pen that was similar to a sculpting chisel, Meng Ran begin to follow the inscription she remembered in her mind . It wasn't too hard, but the work to get one done is not easy . It seems that in this world of Ping An Continent, the usage of Inner Qi in many parts of life is an important matter, like what she's doing now .

The chisel pen works like Qi absorbing tool that sucks her Strands of Inner Qi like water as it engraves the piece of stone slab until it was filled with inscriptions circling like a mosquito repellent ring . But that was from the eyes of an public and not fellow cultivators .

-Information: The most basic and simple Spatial Product made from (1) Spatial Formation Inscription . This Spatial Stone can only be used for a simple storing tool to reduces the difficulties from moving an item from one side to another .

"I see . . . No wonder she took eight of them to collect the powder then comes back . Based on how many she got, most probably it cost her around 40 strands of Fighter Qi to craft one of them . I wonder what will be the differences if I put two sets of Spatial Formation Inscriptions into the rock? I should ask where to get those tools . " he speaks by himself in mind and considered about asking her a question .

With her finger pointing at the tools before her, she delivers the strands of Inner Qi to the formation plate in the middle between the mineral ore powder and buckets of water . The formation started to activates when it receives the supply of Inner Qi, and begin its operation .

Like a clay mixer in the air, the powder and water came together evenly and mixed to create a small amount of white and beautiful clay . Although the mineral ores contain many like of metal substance within, it wasn't an issue for the formation plate, as it continues to mix the two together until it completely formed into a ball of beautiful white clay .

It was more beautiful than the whitish Kaolin Clay and softer than the raw Mined Bone . In fact, it seems to be like a dough made from fine flour with a good amount of water to make it so soft and pearly white . But it was still yet to complete the making process .

After rolling in the air without a support for a period of time, the water substance that kept the mineral clay wet started to dry up . Following from the drying process, the clay amazingly maintained their elasticity . Moments later, like a body that releasing its excretion, four pieces of stones is spat out from the dough before it stops rolling .

Meng Ran's attention is all at the piece of clay that falls into her hand, but Zhang Wu Ji was different . He stares at the four pebbles it spat and took them for an inspection .

"Why are you playing with the waste? Come to help me, I'm teaching you how to create the Formation Clay . " Meng Ran said while paying her attention in separating the clay into four pieces . Soon, she placed them aside and picked one of them to be positioned in the clay turning wheel, where potters use them to shape their clay into pottery .

But the differences between the Formation Clay and normal clay makes them separated from one another . To shape a clay, they need to be wet, positioned in the middle of the turning wheel, and an ample amount of water . As for the Formation Clay, one needs to continuously inject Strands of Inner Qi into the clay to let them begun to take shape .

One after another, Meng Ran created four circle plates in the size of her palm and put them right in front of Zhang Wu Ji for him to inspect . Without further ado, Zhang Wu Ji started to examine them one by one but noticed that . . .

Their quality is just tolerable through his evaluation . It can be utilized as a practice piece, but not worth to be sold in the store if any of them exist .

"Their quality is tolerable . They made good practice but not considerable if it was to be used in battle . " Zhang Wu Ji gave her his honest comment . Since this Meng Ran is quite a stubborn lass, he decided to not run around the bushes with his words .

"Of course . . . Do you know how long a Formation Master has to practice with making the Formation Clay before they can make a proper Formation Plate? I barely learn for two years without teacher and resources, but if I grow up in our Meng Clan, my results will absolutely be better than this . " Meng Ran retaliates his words .

"Sure! I'll see what is so amazing about the Master Senior Ninth praised by everyone in the Apprentice Hall . We should make a bet too . What you want to bet?" Meng Ran accepted the challenge, and suggest that it should come along with a bet to make thing more interesting .

"Heavens! You're greedy . Fine . I'll make you a Qiyue Flying Sword if you win . And how if you lost?" Zhang Wu Ji make an unwilling expression to fake his laughter when hearing about the bet .

If she wanted his wealth and others, it might be difficult for him to do so . But a Qiyue Flying Sword? Zhang Wu Ji can easily forge them as he still keeps seven High-Quality Elemental Crystals in his room .

"If you win, I'll let you learn the four formation Inscriptions Engraving I possess! Even your master said this four engraving is treasure amongst the treasure!" she replied .

"Sure, but for now, you will have to give me the note on how to prepare my own set of tools . Do you have a book for revision?" Zhang Wu Ji asked again . He was blank of knowledge related to Formation, so what can he take to complete?

"Here, this book is the basic of Formation Master Training and how to prepare your stuff . I'll give it to you to practice for a while, but three days later, let us see who's formation plate and engravings are better!" she took a book out and pass it to Zhang Wu Ji before she left with the four Formation Plate .

Without uttering a word, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his room as well . Taking out a few rolls of the Double Xuan Paper and arranged them on his writing table, Zhang Wu Ji is surprised by the conciseness of the information given by the book .

Although the contents inside the book are nothing out of ordinary, this is the most difficult book for him to copy and refine their contents . The sixteen pages of manual come with eight pages of drawing, with one page to describe each of the drawings as he flips the book .

"Seems like each of the content written in the book is extremely important . I wonder how much will it changed if I tried to Knowledge Unlocking it . " without knowing will it succeed or fail, Zhang Wu Ji still went forth and refine the book and its words . Starting from the first page of drawing and notes, he draws the Formation Engraving Chisel all over again to see which part did it mistakenly designed .

Then, he moves to the words . Later on, the way engraving works, and a sample the book provides . he continued, until the part of Ingredient Mixing Plate to Formation Flag is covered . The process is simple, but the effort of making one after another is commendable, with each time he managed to found one to two mistakes .

At his tenth copy, Zhang Wu Ji is satisfied with his end result . Although the descriptions that came out from the new copy of Formation Master's Essential is not different from one another, the results that came out from following the instruction given by the content is a completely different story .

The Formation Engraving Chisel and the method to efficiently engrave and arrange the formation starting from the Spatial Formation Inscription surprised him for the first time, with the results came from the ten times Knowledge Unlocking .

After being given the blessing from ten attempts of Knowledge Unlocking, the Spatial Formation Inscription is now different from how it was done by Meng Ran . His effort allows the Spatial Formation Inscription to carries an additional twenty-one lines from the original inscription, making it much more effective compared to Meng Ran's earlier version .

With the first surprise is there, Zhang Wu Ji can't wait, and went through the content of making his Ingredient Mixing Plate, the way to prepares Formation Flag, and arranging a formation . The basic of this three was given, but it was improvised by Zhang Wu Ji . This end up making the Sample Formation Flag carries tremendous energy but lacking a formation to utilize them .

As a Master Senior, Zhang Wu Ji reserve the right to summon or direct the disciples from the department to follow and do his bidding . After summoning for two Blacksmithing Department members, Zhang Wu Ji ordered them to prepare him with a few different ingredients .

For starter, it's the grounded powder from the Mineral Ores . Following from behind, Zhang Wu Ji ordered them to bring him two additional ingredients .

With this two additional material that was initially black, Zhang Wu JI combined all of them together before he prepares three wooden buckets filled with water . Copying exactly how the Formation Master's Essential described, Zhang Wu Ji repeats all the steps that previously shown by Meng Ran when she was forming her own Formation Clay .

Only differences are his Formation Clay formed beautifully like a ball of wall plaster solution . The end product is extremely soft to touch, without any hint of impurities within . Similar to her piece of Formation Clay, it spots a few pieces of metal rocks before it completed .

Zhang Wu Ji followed the instruction written in the guidebook and start to form his own Formation Plate . At the end of the work, he obtained three Formation Plate instead of four like Meng Ran, but better .

"Instead of allowing one Inscription, I can put three inside now . I wonder if I put three Ingredient Mixing Formation Inscriptions into the plate, what will happen . Or should I make my attempt using the Spatial Formation Inscription first?" Zhang Wu Ji considered his option as he only possesses two different inscriptions at the moment .

"Let's start with the Spatial script . . . Master Senior!" Zhang Wu Ji tried to finish his words, but a shout came from the outside of the room, forcing him to make his appearance .

"Orchid Mountain Bandits! The bandits are grouping themselves together to try and attack the northwest section of the Wen Wu City! They already started to build their base at the outskirt under the help from one of the Celestial Designer they kidnapped!" the member of the hall reported .

"Celestial Designer? Kidnapped? What kind of food just entered their plate? Does this matter related to the news that I heard from Liu Xiang and his members?" Zhang Wu Ji felt that more problem started to appears . Fighting the bandits is not an issue, but the more he participates in the attack against the bandits, the more he felt there is something wrong going on .

As a group of bandits, how can they maintain their supplies of manpower, food, weapons, and cultivation resources? Even if the Lan Shan Clan possess an unimaginable amount of resources, it will not last long, especially when the Orchid Mountain is no longer in use by the traders and merchants due to the danger lurking around the mountain .

"Bring me there . " Zhang Wu Ji activated his Qiyue Flying Sword and took the member up onto the sword . After confirming their direction, Zhang Wu Ji controlled the sword and fly towards the direction .

"How long has this been going on? Why is there no reports at all?" while flying, Zhang Wu Ji questioned the disciple to know more about what happened .

"Dear Master Senior, nobody noticed this changes until a villager noticed a group of bandits is moving some materials into their base . From the look of it, they're still inside the base in my opinion . " the disciple reported his findings and tell him what happened up to date .

"This is good . Monitor them and their movement, I will go inside and see what they're doing . " Zhang Wu Ji finished his words and vanish from the disciple's sight .

Using his Orchid Assassination Art, Zhang Wu Ji sneaks into their base built right on the side of the slopes . The base they built is about 200 square meter wide, but instead of building a base upwards, they dug deep into the soil to create an underground base .

Sneakily, Zhang Wu Ji entered their base with soft steps and reaches their first underground chamber . It was connected to three tunnels, two unlit and one lit . He found nothing in the first chamber except articles of clothing and sacks of food and entered the first unlit tunnel .

Hearing a few snores at the end of the tunnel, Zhang Wu Ji assumed that it must be the living cell for the bandits . It was similar to the second tunnel, so he went straight to the only tunnel with lights .

"Holy Shit! Am I dreaming?" Zhang Wu Ji rubbed his eyes as he steps closer to the table not far from the tunnel's exit . On top of the table placed three scrolls looked similar to his blueprints!

"Damn, they do have a Celestial Designer here to help them in making the base . I am starting to question about the background of the Lan Shan Clan now . Even if the Celestial Designer was kidnapped, it will be difficult for them to force him to help in their immoral activities . I feel its easy to assume that this Celestial Designer is not kidnapped, but hired!" Zhang Wu Ji made his deduction after looking at the tidy and well-arranged room .

Based on his understanding, its impossible for them to create such a tidy room if it were to keep a prisoner inside here to help do their biddings . According to the number of tunnels and the Living Cell, Zhang Wu Ji believes that they're planning for a big plan to take the Wen Wu City .

Minutes later, a group of people walks into the Celestial Designer's Chamber . Seven of them, one dressed in a beautifully sewn robe, while the other six look like normal bandits . The one with the robe takes his seat on the chair by the side of the working table before he starts talking .

"When will your boss bring me the girls?" the Celestial Designer started his speech by asking a question . Listening to his words, Zhang Wu Ji anger rises .

"Master Su, We're still trying to request them from the Wen Qing City . Recently because there was an increasing demand of prostitutes from the Imperial County, the Wen Qing City already purchase some slaves that come from the Western County . " one of the bandits answered his question, but the answer wasn't something he likes to hear .

Taking out a miniature toy in his hand, he channels a surge of Fighter Qi to expands into a complete crossbow . Aiming at the feet of the bandit that replied his words, the Celestial Designer fired a bolt on his feet, making the bandit cries before he was shot in the shoulder, stomach, upper thigh, right chest, and then head .

The bandit is dead on the spot, without a single hint of hesitation is seen from the Celestial Designer's face when he fired the bolts . Repeatedly firing until the ten bolts in his crossbow are out, the crossbow then turns into ashes, along with the bolts on the bandit's body .

One of the five remaining bandits took out a pouch filled with the stone slabs in it . He gently put the pouch on the table and stacks them neatly in a line of ten, five stone slabs in each row .

"Of course! Here, take this pouch of Rose Radiance Pill . There will be some extras inside but make sure you continue to collect the Rose Eye Fruit for me . " the Celestial Designer drops a pouch of an estimated amount of 200 pills inside . Following after his sentence, he tosses a piece of stone slab to the bandits and pointed at the door .

"Subordinate understands . " he turned around and left . Zhang Wu Ji was closer to the exit, so he followed the bandit and see what he tried to do .

It seems that after the bandit went out from the Underground Base, he was surrounded by other bandits that have patches of red in their face . It seems that the plant bearing the Rose Eye Fruit is an extremely poisonous one . Zhang Wu Ji noticed that one of the bandits is yet to consume the pill, so he snatched it while hidden by the Orchid Assassination Art .

"Nothing special, but the Rosy Eye Tree . . . Weren't this tree the food for Stone Soil Beast?" Zhang Wu Ji search through his memories of this tree . It wasn't an edible fruit for human, but for the Stone Soil Beast, it was their most delicious delicacy . The poison within the fruit can works as the digestive liquid in their stomach, allowing them to eat more before their hibernation season comes .

Returning to the tunnel again, the Celestial Designer already finishes giving instructions to the bandits . After they left, the Celestial Designer activates a piece of miniature and toss them on the entrance and let it expands . It ends up blocking the entrance without allowing anyone to get in and out .

Pulling a rope hanging just above his Working Table, the Celestial Designer ring the calling bell and ordered those that sleeping on the two Living Cells to come forward . When all of them gathered, the Celestial Designer sent some Fighter Qi to the ceiling and opened a hidden chamber that he did not notice earlier .

Up here, materials are abundant . Ingots, Woods, Crystals, and paper . All of them were arranged in a very precise manner to allow the workers to reach the ingredient at ease .

"Alright, under the order from the Wen Qing City Lord, we will poison their river and made them suffer from losses of Qi in their body . Then, as we arranged, we will take the route from the Orchid Mountain and purposely fight with the bandits so we can enter their village with injuries . When we're in, those in the mountain will start the mechanical pump to start poisoning the river . "

"When all their villagers started to have visible symptoms of red patches on their face, we will start selling the Rose Radiance Pill with a high price . After we distribute the pill to all over the Wen Wu City, we will escape from the city and watch how the Orchid Mountain Bandits pillage the Wen Wu City until no building left unturned . " the Celestial Designer revealed their plan as he directed his people to follow the Blueprint / Recipe to create the mechanical pump .

After filling it up with the Rose Eye Fruit, the mechanical pump begin to run it's grinding process and end up with a gourd of poison . It wasn't a serious poison, to begin with, but the antidote can only be found in the Orchid Mountain, which made this poison a rare substance that cannot be easily cured .

With the gourd of poison is placed on another entry slot on the mechanical pump, two workers made their way to the lower floor, and went straight to the blockade and use a piece of stone slab to remove the blockage before leaving the underground base .

Zhang Wu Ji returned to the upper floor, and look at what they were doing . Noticing that it was nothing much but randomly scouring around for things to do, Zhang Wu Ji went down, lay his hand on the three blueprints and steals them before he returned to the upper floor and clear their shelves with materials .

Once all the stuff that will not attract their attention is stolen by him, Zhang Wu Ji left the underground base and quickly chase the two workers that left the base earlier .

He caught up with them about twenty minutes later . Noticing nothing out of ordinary, Zhang Wu Ji simply stab their heart with the Iron Thrusting Dirk in his hand and sent the two workers to their way to the King of Underworld . Putting the stone slab with the mechanical pump aside, Zhang Wu Ji rummages their body before he buried them to remove the suspicion in case anyone came here to search for the workers .

"Although it's a little waste, it was for the sake of the residents of the Wen Wu City . " Zhang Wu Ji ignites the remaining Fire Elemental Qi inside his Incense of Element storage and lit the small section grown with Rose Eye Trees into burning flames .

The fire becomes noticeable when smokes went up into the sky, but none of the bandits came to inspect what is the cause of the fire . After burning them, Zhang Wu Ji searches the bandits for any valuables before he left them there to burn . This was the most efficient way to destroy the evidence of his participation .

Returning to the City, Zhang Wu Ji immediately instructed the residents to stop drinking the water source came from this river . Additionally, Zhang Wu Ji instructed his men to reject any visitors to come through this door and stops all the resident from leaving through this entrance . Without any reason were given to the public, some of them started to make a fuss but soon silenced by a pouch of Qi Sensing Pill right on their face .

Back to the Blacksmithing Department, Zhang Wu Ji drops all the loot related to blacksmithing for them to recycle the scraps . While they're busy handling the scraps he brought, Zhang Wu Ji ordered his three disciples to deliver him some of the stone slabs .

Zhang Wu Ji idling around while waiting for their stone slabs . After noticing it will not happen so soon, he continued with his transformation into the Tyrant Martial Body . After two attempts, the task he assigned his disciples to complete is done and presented right before him .

"Master, are you . . . " Li Tong, the densest among the three approached their master and check him out . But that moment, Zhang Wu Ji opened his eyes and stares at him .

"From tomorrow onwards, The three of you will prepare the stone slabs like this to be delivered to my room . I will process them before it we kept them inside the Department Vault . How many of the Dual-Headed Pickaxes is completed?" Zhang Wu Ji gave them a simple direction before questioning them about the progress .

"Dear Master, the blacksmith's skill is getting well by day, at this moment, I dare to say among a hundred pickaxes, only one or two have a little flaw . We inspect each of them carefully so the master can feel confident about our quality control . " Li Jing answered .

"Good . I will depend on you three for this matter . If the task is too much to handle, feel free to promote one or two of the blacksmiths to be your assistants . " Zhang Wu Ji gave them the approval and his trust in their decision, but still, his instruction is not over yet . He took the Formation Engraving Chisel out in front of the three before he took a stone slab and begin to engrave the Spatial Formation Engraving into the piece of slab .

"Hmm . . . It seems that the warning restriction is gone . The weight is also become 1 . 5kg instead of 1kg . But their number of usability is not good enough . Should I try to put another engraving on it?" Zhang Wu Ji remembered that the Formation Clay he made can accept three engraving at one, which is a very good result .

After inspecting it for the first time, Zhang Wu Ji continues hi engraving process . Unfortunately . . . The stone slab is broken the next moment he completed the engraving .

"Is the stone durability is too weak, or there was a problem with the Spatial Formation Engraving? I remembered that it was a 21 lines addition version, so the effect should not be this bad . . . Wait, let me see what that guy get from his piece of Spatial Stone . " Zhang Wu Ji is puzzled with the results . Fortunately, he has a piece of Spatial Stone stolen from the Celestial Designer's worker he killed .

After checking on the Celestial Designer's version of Spatial Stone, Zhang Wu Ji noticed another six additional lines that he missed in his own Spatial Formation Inscription . By practicing them on three more pieces of stone slabs, Zhang Wu Ji is now confident in making something better .

It was a part of the missing tail and head, where it was still usable without it, better with it, and even more, if they were arranged correctly . The depth of this tiny understanding is like drawing, where each stroke brings a meaning to the drawing, but too much will spoil its meaning, and too less made the drawing insignificant .

"Good . Although their quality is still ungraded, the effect of my own version of Spatial Formation Inscription is far better than what the book describes . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he looks at his stone slab like a fool from his three disciple's sight .

"Good! This is how it should be . " Zhang Wu Ji stands up and juggles with the Spatial Stone . Under the watchful eyes of his three disciples, he injects ten strands of Inner Qi into the Spatial Stone and uses it to collects fifteen pieces of the unengraved stone slabs .

After showing that it can be used as a temporary spatial storage, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the item out from the Spatial Stone and repeated the action four more times before it disintegrates . This ability to create a Spatial Storage is out of their capability, so it made his disciples impressed by his ability to do so .

"Master! That's amazing! If we can have a hundred of this, moving from one battlefield to another can be made so simple!" Li Jing said . In fact, his words are somewhat true, because when the Meng Clan is still prospered, the members of their family earn their living by producing such a storage tool for the people in the city they establish their family root .

This was the question haunting his mind for now, at least until he sees it personally how the Celestial Designer gets his hand on the Spatial Stone .

Looking at the remaining 50 pieces of stone slabs, Zhang Wu Ji took the Formation Engraving task as the most urgent, until he returned to his room to inspect the three Blueprints . Considering that should he take a look first, Zhang Wu Ji decided to put this dishes away from his plate for now, as his plate was filled with a different thing he could hardly swallow .

An hour later, Zhang Wu Ji came out in a tired condition . Although the engraving task did not cost him too many strands of Inner Qi, the fatigue that building up in his body does . This gave him the understanding of;

"Why the people in higher level won't be obsessed by forging things they're confident with but risk it with something far better but easier to fail . "

It was all for the reason of combating Forging Fatigue . The success may yield the forger with plenty of cash, but when one become a Pill Master, Master Blacksmith, or Celestial Designer, in which way they cannot earn money easily? It may take them no effort to forge something, but it cost them more than what they got to improve themselves .

"I need to make sure that the issue with the Underground Base is not neglected . Let me put this three blueprints at a side first . I should meditate for a while to replenish my mind, and also take a bottle of the Inner Demon Slaughtering Wine . " Zhang Wu Ji put aside the other task on the table as he walks to his bed and sits in a meditating posture .

Putting all his mind in meditation, Zhang Wu Ji spent the night and two more days to increase the amount of storage of energy inside his body . with a total of 50 hours of meditation after a short period of rest, something he did not expect happened .

The three days period is over and added with the increment of Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Ji quietly advances past the 5th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . With a total strength of 401 Strands of Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Ji felt his body, strength, and stamina increased compared to a few days ago .

"I did not imagine before that meditation for three days without working felt like having three days of break . I've been taking too much into my shoulder recently . . . " he flexed his shoulder and neck before standing up to have fun with the 400 strands of Fighter Qi .

"Screw you, damn Celestial Designer! This three pieces of the blueprint is a stove, a stone mortar, and a damn water pump! Are you a construction worker!"

It took him at least ten minutes in the sour mood before he finally went out from haunted by the experience . Since it was a loot he steals from the Celestial Designer, Master Su, maybe he does have something good in his inventory that Zhang Wu Ji might get if he was forced to face the Celestial Designer in a fight .

"Wait . . . Didn't I have the recycle option? Since I have three trash blueprint in hand, I should try to use this ability to see what will I get from it!" Zhang Wu Ji took the three scrolls together in hand before he whispered the word;

Understanding the word he whispers, the [UPGRADE] system turned the three scrolls into ashes, leaving only six strands of golden threads remaining in his grip . The golden threads length is similar to a horse's tail, almost about the size of an arm of an adult .

"Golden Chart! What does that mean? But it needs 100 strands . Does those plan that I will make in the future can be recycled into the threads?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he looks at the golden threads in his hand . When he released his grip on the threads, they float in the air for a moment, and then entered Zhang Wu Ji's body without feeling anything changed in his body .

With this, Zhang Wu Ji now possesses a new motivation . Smiling while he put on a proper clothing, a knock came from the outside of his room .

"Coming!" since Zhang Wu Ji is almost done putting on a proper clothing, he came out with nothing else but a Formation Engraving Chisel . Walking side by side, the two make their way towards the Apprentice Hall's open square for their competition .

Under Meng Ran's arrangement, a plenty of materials in their powder form is prepared for this competition . Although the book they read did not specify a certain kind of material used to creates the Formation Clay, every different mix and match will result in a different kind of a Formation Clay is created .

When they reached the Open Square, the crowd surprised Zhang Wu Ji, because he did not imagine that a small competition between him and Meng Ran will attract so many spectators . Perhaps if it was not due to the possible invasion by the Orchid Mountain Bandits from the northwest, there will be more spectators watching them .

But it was a weird thing that their headmistress and Guan Qing Han is gone from the Apprentice Hall for so long without any news . Without further ado, their match begins . With the materials is already prepared on the table for them to start preparing the Formation Clay, their first step will starts from preparing their own Ingredient Mixing Plate .

As usual, Meng Ran followed her own formula to create her Formation, Clay . The only differences this time is instead of putting too much water into the clay, she increases the amount of Inner Qi injected into the clay to form a more durable but lesser yield Formation Clay .

Still, this is a competition to make a better Formation Clay, and not competing about who's formation clay yield better in business term . Repeating all familiar steps, Meng Ran came out with two pieces of Formation Plate that twice better than the one she made before .

This time, it's a shop-worthy product . If this Formation Plate is placed in the shop's shelf, maybe it will be sold out in a matter of minutes . But sadly, her opponent is not anyone else, but a cheater with a system, the notorious kind and full of good deed's Zhang Wu Ji .

The crowd was first surprised by the fact their Apprentice Hall possess a Formation Master In Training, but what's more surprising is that their Master Senior Ninth! He's a Blacksmith, Pill Master, Celestial Designer, Martial Artist, Manual Editor, and now, Formation Master!

Using his Formation Engraving Chisel, Zhang Wu Ji engraved his own improved version of Ingredient Mixing Inscription into the piece of this stone slab as big as a square foot . The engraved stone slab soon can be activated to start preparing his own mix of Formation Clay, where Zhang Wu Ji utilizes the Mineral Ore Powder, some Fur Charcoal Powder, a hint of Brimstone Powder and Firestone Powder .

His Ingredient Mixing Plate combines all the ingredients he used and form a beautiful clay as before, where he then mold them into three Formation Plate same like before .

But in term of quality, Zhang Wu Ji's formation plate is much better than her own, with three units of yield compared to her two units . What's more, Zhang Wu Ji's did not spend the amount of Inner Qi she did .

"Miss Meng Ran, shall we call this competition, a draw?" Zhang Wu Ji can imagine how deep is the impact if she was to be defeated thoroughly by a newbie that learn Formation for merely three days . Hearing his words, even Liang Tian is impressed with his disciple's magnanimity .

"A lost is lost . I admit I am not as talented as you . " Meng Ran announced her defeat to the spectators surrounding their stage . Taking out the manual left by her parents, Meng Ran delivered it to Zhang Wu Ji's hand before she quietly leaves the stage .

Although the competition is very short-lived, it's content were worth all the attention . The small part of performance grabs the attention of the people with interest in inscriptions and engravings, leading to many people approaching Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran for the reason to learn about the Formation Inscription Art .

Under his order to restricting people not from the Wen Wu City to enter the city, the bandits were having a bad time in their attempts . In estimation alone, at least over a hundred bandits were killed the moment they failed to produce any proof of documentation related to their affliction to any of the parties .

This step proof successful, especially against the bandit who failed to obtain any of the documentation no matter where they go . With the number of spies is getting lower, the people from the Seven Star Sect under Yang Chen Kun's control is getting more restless .

Few of them that weren't a member of the Bandits, Golden Wolf Syndicate, nor anyone related to the Jie's Clan and Upper South Mercenaries started to feel restless because of the situation . It seems that a few parties are related to this usurping of power, and end up causing Yang Chen Kun more problem instead of promised wealth, fame, and status .

Back to the Apprentice Hall, after so many days of teaching and practicing with the interested disciples about the Formation Art, Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran leave the disciples to take their time to practice, while he himself and Meng Ran will be on their way towards the Mystic Engineering Establishment in the Willow Timber County .

After excusing themselves, Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran fly together in a single Qiyue Flying Sword . It wasn't because they were a couple of lovebirds, but because Zhang Wu Ji is a direction-blind . If he were to be given the chances to fly through from the Wen Wu City towards west, who knows where will he end up . . . Although his destination is most probably the villages or the side entrance to Southern Bamboo Forest .

Following her accurate direction each time they needed to made a turn, Meng Ran literally become his GPS Tool that will bring him everywhere without the need to waste his time to look around . As they weren't stopping in any major villages or towns on their way, the days of travel reduced by 2 days in total, where it took only seven days for the duo to reaches the entrance into the Willow Timber County .

It took them another four days to reach the Peony Flower City, which is the place where Mystic Engineer Establishment built their base . Altogether, it took them eleven days to reach their destination, but it was all worth it . The entrance into the Peony Flower City is controlled by mechanical arms and wheels that bring the main gate open and close depending on the party of entry .

Tamed Beast as rides is a normal matter here . As in fact, The Flying Swords were a cheaper commodity for the wealthy because any of the certified First-Grade Celestial Designer can easily forge a Flying Sword . The only thing matters are their durability, because of their usage as a short utilizing shelf-live, they weren't comparable to Tamed Beast that can get stronger in the future, and will not face any difficulties in the number of uses .

One of the most common Tamed Beast one can found here is the Peony Fleeting Stallion . Categorized as the best light-weight horses in the whole Willow Timber County, this horse can run as fast as 100 km/hour without stopping for half a day .

As their flying sword getting closer to the entrance, a loud horn is heard from not far behind them . Here for the first time, Zhang Wu Ji followed the others to give way and move aside from the entrance . A few cracking sounds are heard following with the main gate is completely opened .

Like a moving locomotive train, the carriage as tall as a three-floor building came close to them in a high speed of at least 140km/hour to 160km/hour . Pulled by fifty horses from both the left and right side, this is one of their biggest mean of transport that delivers peoples and resources from one city to another .

"Hundred Horses Carriage! This is what brother Yong Lie shared with us when in the Heavenly Sword Sect! That explains why a covered path is seen on the ground!" Zhang Wu Ji knows it was nothing special for metal carriage pulled by a hundred of the Peony Fleeting Stallion, but in this world that has no electrical, steam engines, and locomotive, a specially made transport like this is amazing in his opinion .

"Good Idea, amazing arrangement, and method to ensure the traveling part went smoothly without any discomfort!" Zhang Wu Ji speaks his appraisal on their Hundred Horses Carriage out loud, allowing all the people around him to pay their attention to him for a moment .

"Brother Wu Ji!" a loud call came from inside of the Hundred Horses Carriage as a disciple with his partner, a female jump out from the windows .

"Brother Yong Lie!" Zhang Wu Ji is delighted to immediately found his acquaintance without the need of looking all around and requesting for a meeting with Yong Lie . After all, he's the Number 1 Master Senior in the Mystic Engineer Establishment, while Zhang Wu Ji is only the ninth and youngest Master Senior of the now usurp Seven Star Sect .

"Hahaha! I did not imagine I will see you so soon after the Counties Gathering! What a good day! Mu-Er, go prepare a table in the Flying Flavors Pavilion, I will have a drink and a meal with brother Wu Ji before we went to meet master!" Yong Lie ordered his partner to help him make the arrangement . Under this so-called Mu-Er's invitation, Meng Ran followed and leave the man to man have their own discussion .

Walking together with Yong Lie, Zhang Wu Ji is exempted from any entrance tax, security and identity check, and of course, restriction of stay within the Peony Flower City . With Yong Lie's nameplate in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji is allowed to walk, sleep, and even relief himself anywhere if he wishes .

Bring him to tour around the city, Yong Lie first destination is to let him have a look at the Peony Flower City's proudest invention, the Mystic Water Tower .

Because most of their water source came from the underground river, the Mystic Water Tower fully incorporate the function of a water mill along with the advance plantation irrigation system, allowing this tower to supply fresh drinkable water into the city and also 100km away from where they stand .

What's more, the practices of using Plateau Plantation Plate is already well incorporated into the lives of the people here, where each building, houses, and walk path is filled with Plateau Plantation Plate . In the hand of the guards, most of them were wielding a crossbow or some special weapon like Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon, but their sizes are smaller compared to the one he made from his version of the blueprint .

Next, Zhang Wu Ji entered the Medicine Pavilion, where the physicist, Pill Masters, and Herbalist group together to form a join establishment . Over here, over a thousand kind of medicinal herbs planted using the Plateau Plantation Plate is available, both in dried, harvested, or living form . The physician inspection cost nothing, but the medicine to cure sickness or problem is sold for a hefty price .

As for pills, the varieties wasn't over his expectation, but they can be said to be extremely complete, with almost all ungraded and Tier 1 pills is available for sale . Even the Fighter Chasing Dan, Majestic Violet Pill, Yantai Pill is also available in a small number of stocks .

Instead of purchasing the plants, Zhang Wu Ji procured the seeds . He purchases a total of 1 million gold coins worth of seed and kept them in his own Onyx-Class Spatial Ring, and followed Yong Lie as they continue their discussion until they reach their third destination, the Records Pavilion .

Unlike the Seven Star Sect, the Mystic Engineer Establishment never focus in martial arts and cultivation arts as their establishment grows . Following the similar practice like how the Tao Family's Study Hall operates, the Records Pavilion is what exists in this Peony Flower City, with a record of over five hundred thousand of books and recordings here .

Only the blueprint itself is at least fifty thousand scrolls, but the cost to purchase a copy of them is between 500,000 Gold Coins to 1 Million Gold Coins . Coming here without any paper or brush, it was impossible for him to try playing with his Knowledge Unlocking ability . He can still make a few copies, but he will have to choose only the higher quality one, and not the basic stuff .

Reaching their fourth destination, Zhang Wu Ji entered their City Forge . It was a building at least twice bigger than his own Apprentice Hall and comes with two different towers . One of them belonged to the Blacksmith Profession, and another belonged to the public members of the Celestial Designer .

Although the Mystic Engineer Establishment do possess their own forge, it was restricted to only accessible for their disciples, so it was impossible for an outsider to use them . And of course, for those blueprints related to important design such as the Mystic Water Tower, Spatial Ring, and Metal Bird, those are only can be found in the establishment .

A little further from the City Forge is where the entrance to the Mystic Engineer Establishment is erected . Their entrance looks much similar to the Main Gate of the Peony Flower City, and the wall is constructed using a special material that rejects any strands of Qi to break inside . But for now, this places is not his destination for now .

Leading him along, Yong Lie and Zhang Wu Ji soon reach the Flying Flavors Pavilion . Up to their name, before entering the pavilion itself, delicious smell from cooked dishes flew outside and caused the passerby to be engrossed with the smell of the food and attracted to go in for a meal .

Walking upstairs while ushered by the host, they were invited into the Honored Guest's room, where it was big enough to accommodate twenty to thirty adults without a problem . Looking at this arrangement, Zhang Wu Ji guessed that Yong Lie will have some other guest to join their meal, and it will most probably be his fellow junior brother and sisters .

Looking at how close is Yong Lie and the Miss Mu, Zhang Wu Ji guesses they must be a pair of lovebird as well . Or else, how can she know the way to handle brother Yong Lie's guest?

Not long after they were seated, over twenty dishes came at the same time . With the food varies from appetizers to fish, meat, vegetables, and special fruits and nuts, the four-person starts to engross themselves with the meal . Only after their meal Miss Mu clapped her hand twice, indicates the waitress to leave along with the empty plates and drinks .

By changing their tablecloth into a new one, with vase and flowers, wine and accompaniment snacks, the waitress leaves the room and let the door wide open . Following from that, seventeen disciples, ten male and seven females came inside the room and greets Zhang Wu Ji politely .

"This group of Juniors from the Mystic Engineer Establishment pay their respect to the Master Senior Zhang Wu Ji from Seven Star Sect . We heard about your great achievement many times through our Senior Yong Lie and wondering will Master Senior Zhang mind to befriend with all these juniors here . " their representative took the initiative to speak on behalf of the seventeen of them .

"Are you making fun of me? If I call your master senior Yong Lie as a brother, and he addresses me as the same, then why don't you follow suit and address me in the same way? What is wrong with the befriend you guys?"

"As long I and brother Yong Lie are brothers, then the people from Seven Star Sect and Mystic Engineer Establishment is brothers and sisters too!"

On that night itself, the group of 21 people enjoyed their drinks and snacks, all the way until time went way past midnight . As a visitor themselves, Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran can only stay in the Flying Flavors Pavilion's guest room, which part of the arrangement when they received any outside visitors .

In the next morning, only half of the disciples that came to greet him appeared, including their representative . After some menial courtesy greetings, it seems that a part of them was dispatched to other cities to help with some of the repairing works and handling their production task .

This manner of operation is much similar to how the Heavenly Sword Sect controls the tax from the cities, towns, and villages, and partially similar to how Seven Star Sect conduct their assistance . But if it was to be compared, the Willow Timber County's operation is more similar to a Franchise Scheme .

As the Headquarters itself, they established four different sub-headquarters to the other four cities to handle most of the menial works . Only the important matters will require the decision to be made from the Headquarters itself . No wonder the Willow Timber County only required five cities to resides all their population, instead of completely scattered like the Heaven South County or Seven Star County .

Their five cities consist of Peony Flower City, Chrysanthemum Flower City, Rainbow Flower City, Cherry Flower City, and Lotus Flower City . Each city holds over two million residents and more, with the exception of Peony Flower City, with 6 million residents . In total, the Willow Timber County holds 14 million residents, about three times compared to the Seven Star County .

Unfortunately, due to their high qualification and restrictions in their Celestial Designer Profession, the whole county only possess 2 Third-Grade Celestial Designers, 5 Second-Grade Celestial Designers, 100 (Half Step) Second-Grade Celestial Designer, and between 10,000 First-Grade Celestial Designer . This amount is counting the Mystic Engineer Establishment itself, without adding the unqualified Celestial Designer which amounted to 30,000 members .

With only ten thousand official members of Mystic Engineer Establishment and thirty thousand unofficial members, they're having difficulties to provide sufficient service and maintenance to the cities although it was only five . Steps to increase their efficiency and recruitment has been made, but up to date, no significant results can be seen from their method .

"Senior brother Wu Ji, let us escort you to visit the Mystic Engineer Establishment! Unfortunately, Senior brother Yong Lie has to go out this morning to the Lotus Flower City, or else he will be the one to personally bring you around . " one of them said .

The group cheerfully walk and exchange their pointers and experience until they reach the vicinity of the Mystic Engineer Establishment . Inside, the members took him to visit their own workshop first, and later to the blacksmithing and other parts, such as shops and special equipment workshops .

After visiting for a while, they took Zhang Wu Ji straight to meet the headmaster and also the one of the two Third-Grade Celestial Designer, master Windchaser .

Being allowed into the headmaster's hall, Zhang Wu Ji awaits the headmaster, while the others, included Meng Ran, left the hall after excusing themselves by speaking to the empty air . Zhang Wu Ji continues to stand in the middle of the hall waiting for the Master Windchaser to meet him .

While waiting, Zhang Wu Ji inspects the item placed nicely on the display podium . Cupping his hand on the main seat of the hall, Zhang Wu Ji steps closer to one of the item looked like a walnut in display and touches it .

-Information: crafted by Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Windchaser . The Thunderclap Seed is an explosive weapon that will strike deep into enemies ranks without leaving the enemy to remain calm .

"Good weapon!" Zhang Wu Ji praised the build if this item . With such an amazing weapon in their hand, what will the Headmaster Windchaser worry? Even if there is a revolt or attack from other counties, with a hundred of this Thunderclap Seeds alone, the Mystic Engineer Establishment can easily destroy the crowd of enemies without any worries .

-Information: crafted by Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Windchaser . The Lang Ya Whipping Blade carries the engineering of Wolf Tooth from the Sabertooth Black Wolf, Horse Whip, and extremely light Moon Silver blade body . The weapon allows a 360 degrees attack, with the whipping length of 10 meters . All opponent injured by this weapon will suffer Bleeding Effect . Effect doubled when an attack strikes more than once .

"Another great weapon! A whip, a blade, and a weapon to bleed opponents to death . What an engineering! This is the first time I've seen such good construction! The more I go, the more impressed I am!" Zhang Wu Ji smiled . This visit to the Mystic Engineer Establishment may not bear a fruit of return, but based on the sheer impression and exposure itself, Zhang Wu Ji deem that this is far more enough that expecting for a return!

Unless its a museum for people to appreciates the treasure, else, where will somebody have the chances to study the treasure one to one like this? Perhaps even his master, Liang Tian himself might have some hesitation to take his treasure and showcase them like this!

"Such a treasure exist in this world? Like . . . Seriously?" Zhang Wu Ji falls flat on his bottom the moment he finishes the description on the Designing Pill . With such a pill in hand each time he creates a blueprint, won't the requirement to exhaust himself each time he creates a blueprint? They even come with two additional strands of Golden Thread!

"Young one should try to resist the temptation to see too much thing before they got the experience to try creating them . A Celestial Designer profession may come with many perks, but too many perks corrupt a mind, and the corrupted mind is either creating something malicious or end up losing themselves in high expectations . "

"I see you're a proper Celestial Designer . Viewing the treasure and understanding them isn't easy, but if you failed at giving the reaction on the third podium, I may not coming out to see you . " an old man about his master's age came out to greet the youth . He was dressed in a complete green robe, filled with branches of willows as their robe design .

"Disciple Zhang Wu Ji, the ninth disciple of Headmaster Liang Tian from Seven Star Sect pay his respects to Master Windchaser!" Zhang Wu Ji half kneeled as he cupped his hand together to greets the headmaster .

"Stand up and less ceremony . I hate that to be honest . " the Headmaster Windchaser replied the greetings and turn his direction towards the door right behind the main seat of the hall . With a few strands of Qi into the door, it was opened like how the main gate of the city does, allowing the two to step inside .

It was a completely enclosed chamber, which is almost as wide as the outside hall . With the dim but clear light from the Night Glowing Pearl, their path is illuminated clearly as they proceeds .

The headmaster waved his hand here and there to injects a few strands of qi into unknown tools, and when all of them were activated, the spacious room is fully illuminated with tables and chairs, tools, equipment, drawing tables and so on .

"This is my workshop . I know you're Liang Tian's disciple quite early because when he was accepting you as his ninth direct disciple, I am in the sky watching . " the headmaster Windchaser revealed his existence during his examination .

"Junior wishes to know more about the Spatial Ring Blueprints and also information related to Metal Bird . " Zhang Wu Ji states his reason to make such a distance visit to their county, and it was for this two reasons .

"Ah . . . Metal Bird . . . Did you say the Spatial Ring's Blueprints too?" Headmaster Windchaser's expression changed from smiling to puzzled .

"Throughout my life, I'd accepted six disciples . You've seen Yong Lie before, but did you know where the others went?" Windchaser's expression turns sour when he thought about all these matters .

Keeping himself quiet, Zhang Wu Ji awaits the Master Windchaser to begin his story . It was essential to learn, not only on the blueprints and method to forge something, but including the experience, life, and sorrow of a master before the disciple inherits what he has . This reaction gave him another good impression on the understanding yet a calm youth, allowing him to take a seat and begin his story .

"My first disciple . I neglected him for the years I am fighting for the sake of combining the strength of the whole Willow Timber County . He was my disciple for ten years, yet learn nothing about Celestial Designer at all . At the moment I've done my lifelong dream, he left, together with the incomplete blueprint of Kong-Class Metal boat . "

"Filled with sorrow, I found my second disciple . I mold him, build his character, and treated him like a child of mine . He was the complete disciple I ever expected, but unfortunately, his greed over the impossible craft corrupts his mind, destroy his sanity, and ruin his future as a light cultivator . He left after that, and is the infamous Hall Master of Assassin Hall in the Western Imperial Kingdom . "

"My third, fourth, and fifth disciples did not have a good basic, but all of them possess a good heart . Unfortunately, none of them managed to survive past twenty, when the Beast Infestation attacked . That was the worst losses of the Willow Timber County, where three of the direct disciples of the Headmaster is dead in their sacrifice to protect others . "

"Left with only Yong Lie by my side . . . I wanted him to be ordinary, yet I cannot be that selfish to make him ordinary . This is why, instead of allowing him to learn many things, I chose to let him learn about how to become a better person . Knowledge can be gained, Character can be mold, and personality can be tempered, but spirit . . . Can only be protected!"

"Through all the good karma I have, I will give it all this sole disciple of mine so he could inherit everything I have . But I am afraid . What will happen if he ended up like his other senior brothers? A deserter, a corrupted assassin, and a sacrificial tribute?"

Windchaser speaks his mind out like pouring out all the sorrow that's been gathering for a long time . Unknown of the reason why he felt relaxed after speaking out all of this plaguing his mind for so long .

"Your master and I is a good friend when we were younger . Do you know that I am the one that made him his seven swords? And do you know that the City Forge is the handiwork of your master? If you paid attention to the wall in the upper tower, you will notice a blade of the sword stuck on one of its corners . That old fellow said this sword will end up protecting people with evil thoughts on me . "

"Foolish friend he is, but a loyal companion of mine . " Windchaser completed his word finally, and look at Zhang Wu Ji with his pair of old, but clear of evil and fatherly eyes .

"Wu Ji dares to say, As long Wu Ji is alive, Brother Yong Lie will always be my brother forever . " Zhang Wu Ji kneeled on the ground, on both knee this time to make this oath .

"I trust that it will be . . . With all this meaningless discussion is over, shall I went forward with the topic on how to craft a Spatial Ring first?" Windchaser stands up and moved his palm slowly on the table, taking out one spatial ring after another . Each of the spatial ring's built is extremely fine and precise, without a hint of difference can be seen on their surface .

"Inside each of the rings in a blueprint that worth the prices of a city . As a Celestial Designer, one need not only knowledge, preciseness, and effort, but even luck is included in the path to become a better Celestial Designer . In this ten rings, five blueprints came from my life effort in creating them, two came from my victory against the Beast Infestation, and three came from the favor of Imperial County . "

"If you have chosen the Spatial Ring Blueprint, you will keep them by your side, but if you failed, then I'm afraid, your first test to obtain the blueprint you wished is failed," Windchaser explains the test he will now conduct against Zhang Wu Ji, and decided to see how will this youth fare .

Zhang Wu Ji shows the elder his expression of anticipating the challenge . He wanted to ask one further question before getting started, but the elder added a sentence before he got his chances .

"You may touch the ring, or even inject you strands of Qi into the ring, but I will tell you honestly, they're my best creation until now, so it will be impossible for you to probe what is inside . "

"Dear Master Windchaser, this junior will take the challenge!" Zhang Wu Ji almost wanted to laugh out himself when he heard about the last sentence the elder said . He stands up and touches the first ring before he moved to another .

-Information: Crafted from Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Windchaser . This ring is one of the eleven-piece set especially crafted to store one most important treasure belonged to the user . Without any verification from the person with blood-oath, the ring will be inaccessible to outsiders . If the person tied under blood-oath died, the ring will follow and perish together .

Zhang Wu Ji did not expect that the item he's looking for came out in the first ring he inspected . But because of his curiosity, Zhang Wu Ji inspects the other spatial rings to see what precious item is kept safe inside the rings .

"!!!" Zhang Wu Ji's heart fallen the moment he looks at each of the blueprints . No wonder the elder said each of this ring contains a blueprint that worth a city itself . In fact, he was being too humble because, except the Designer Pill, Spatial Stone Producer, Aerial Spirit Pavilion, Galleon Gourd Bottle, and the Spatial Ring's blueprint is worth a city, the other five blueprints worth three to five cities each!

Zhang Wu Ji took the first ring up and allows the elder to inspect it . But without doing anything, the elder remotely took the content out from the ring and letting it fall on Zhang Wu Ji's hands . He looks at the elder before he opened the blueprint to inspect their contents .

-Information: A fine quality blueprint revised by Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Windchaser . Treasures store within the Onyx Gemstone carries the effect of preservation, allowing the item stored within to remain fresh without the worries of being corroded by the flow of time .

Unexpected to himself, after he finishes going through the method to produce the ring, there was another additional square that describes something else .

-Usage 2: Converts every 1 tonne of mineral materials, 100 Spatial Formation Inscriptions, and 100 Fighter Qi into (0 . 1 Carat) of Onyx Gemstone . Conversion takes 10 hours to completes

"This . . . They do not use normal onyx, but Spatial Onyx? No wonder the creation of a Spatial Ring and also it's price is so hefty!" Zhang Wu Ji finally realized why the Spatial Ring is not widely distributed throughout the county or kingdom . It was because the production for the gem itself cost 10 hours for 0 . 1 Carat, which means, to obtain 5 carats in total, he will need a total of 500 hundred hours to create a Spatial Onyx of 5 Carat size . It means, without spending 21 days in total, it will be impossible to forge the ring . Furthermore, one should not forget the cost of materials is 500 tonnes for the Mineral materials, 50,000 Spatial Formation Inscriptions, and 50,000 strands of Fighter Qi .

Luckily, Zhang Wu Ji's system allows him to obtain 18 strands of Fighter Qi every three days now, wherein another three days, Zhang Wu Ji will be a 6th Stage Inner Qi Fighter soon . Rolling the scroll back into how it was, Zhang Wu Ji thanked the elder for his gift .

Traveling in their highest speed of 160km/hour, Zhang Wu Ji is having his first high-speed trip over to the Lotus Flower City because he was commissioned with a special task . This was also the first time for him to operate alone for a proper mission that was issued from the Mystic Engineer Establishment .

As he looks at the direction they were heading, Zhang Wu Ji's mind return to a few hours ago when he was still in a conversation with the Headmaster Windchaser .

"I know what you're thinking, but I will be honest to you . . . You will need to perform some deeds as a Celestial Designer in order to win my approval for you to obtain the blueprints for the Metal Bird!" this sentence is what the elder said before telling him to accomplish a few tasks on behalf for the blueprints .

For his first task, he needed to travel to the Lotus Flower City to give the residents assistance in handling an uprising of Wild Beast in the forest nearby . Situated at the closest town to the north of the county, the Lotus Flower City is always under the siege of Wild Beast because the Bamboo Forest is located right on top of them .

For the Seven Star County, it was Southern Bamboo Forest, but for the Willow Timber County, it became the Northern Bamboo Forest . This forest spanned across the whole northern area from the Lotus Flower City, covering over 70km across the Lotus Flower City .

Although the Siege is something intolerable, this is also the best time for the residents to preserve their supply of fresh edible meats varies from wolves, apes, bulls, reptiles, and a few insects . All of this edible meat will be arrange and allocated differently before kept under the management of the Lotus Flower City, where the city possesses a total of six rings capable of keeping 10 tonnes of meat stay fresh until next year's Wild Beast Siege .

About 30 hours of travel, he finally reaches the Lotus Flower City . This city carries the same building style like the Peony Flower City, but only void of the Mystic Engineer Establishment in the top of their mountain . The moment he entered the city, Zhang Wu Ji's arrival is received by a group of guards positioned inside the city itself .

They introduced themselves as the Ash Wolves Chasers Team . The name of their leader is Bai Lang, an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior . The others include Bai Lu and Bai Hu, the younger brothers of the team leader, at their 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighters, Pang Hui, Lin Fan, and Mao Cai, in their 5th Stage of Inner Qi Fighters . They're a ten members team operating as one of the hunter's groups in this city .

Except for the six of them, there were four more members . Three of them were Celestial Designers in Training, while the remaining is a cook in her 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter . Their duties are related to the support, harvesting, and cooking, which is different from the six main fighting force members .

After a short introduction, Zhang Wu Ji enjoyed the first meal cooked by their only female member of the team . Only after having a stomach with good foods the team prepared themselves to enter the Northern Bamboo Forest, with their heading aimed at the nest of Ashen Fur Wolf, an 8th Stage Inner Qi Fighter Wild Beast .

The Ashen Fur Wolf is not a threat by themselves, but the wild beast loves to live together in packs . A small pack can have one to two leaders, and a bigger one may have five to six leaders . The smaller pack can have ten to twenty members, while the bigger one usually comes in between fifty to a hundred wolves .

While it was a simple mission to complete for them, it was best to be cautious about their surrounding . It is important that the team make note of all the signs that indicate the Ashen Warrior Wolf did not appear within the pack . The Ashen Warrior Wolf is not a threat alone, except its strength reaching 12th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior . But the only danger when the Ashen Warrior Wolf appears is because it can control the other Ashen Fur Wolves!

"Aooouuuuu!" a wolf cry is heard the moment they entered the Northern Bamboo Forest's outer perimeters . Due to the sensitive season at this time, most of the wild beast usually gathered in the deeper forest already started to come out from hiding .

Like a werewolf howling for the arrival of the moon, this season was their hunting season, where each year, the beast in the forest will turn ferocious in order to sate their thirst for human blood .

"Left!" one of the Celestial Designer reported the reaction from his seismic tool in hand . It was something similar to an earthquake detector, but this tool is used to detects wild beast and not human . As an important member of the team, how can somebody with low cultivation have no uses for the team?

Taking out their throwing weapons, the three members in their 5th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter chased their target . Minutes later, a soft chime from a bell is ringed, indicating that their task is completed . The small bell also indicates that the three Celestial Designers and the chef are safe to walk around now because no other targets are spotted nearby .

Moving closer to the corpse of the Ashen Fur Wolf, one Celestial Designer and the chef work together to handle the meat, pelt, and innards of the beast before they stores all the remains in a different bag . Because most of their Spatial Stone can only be used once or twice, the storing process has to be done after they collected the amount needed for the storage .

At the same time, Zhang Wu Ji made use of the White Blood Jade to absorb all the available blood when they cutting open the corpses . Moving together in a very organized manner, the group of ten members quickly reaches the first suspicious location that may turn out to be the Ashen Fur Wolf's nest .

When the seismic tool went closer to the spot, it started to vibrate without stopping . The team members that saw this reaction smiled with the edge of their lips reaching their ears . The group withdraws a different set of weapons but noticed that Zhang Wu Ji already missing from their team .

"Shit! Where did brother Wu Ji goes?" Bai Lang whispers to his teammates, but none of them have an answer that he wanted to hear . They inspect their surrounding for some tracks but soon heard a cries came from a dying Ashen Fur Wolf .

With their head raised over the dense foliage, they noticed an appearance of a male in his black long robe . Seven Stars pattern is sewn on the shoulder to indicates his identity . But this wasn't important at all by this time . What was important is, how did he get down there from such a high position?

Their question soon answered when a hovering Flying Sword is seen in mid-air, taking over the position of stepping stone before one reaches the ground . When they noticed this simple fact, five fighters join the battle, while the remaining one stays behind to protect their supporting members .

"Brother Wu Ji, this Bai Lang really need to give you a thumb's up! I did not expect that as a Celestial Designer like yourself, you actually possess such a great fighting strength!" Bai Lang praised him as soon as he came down from the uphill .

"It was nothing . I am lucky to not let them caught my attack . " Zhang Wu Ji replied humbly as he stabs at one of the Ashen Fur Wolf in the head . After leaving the dead wolf aside, Zhang Wu Ji took an agile move to hovers in the air for a half second, but that's enough for him to land two attacks on the wolves head .

Only ten minutes is needed for them to slaughter the group of thirty wolves . And this results was after putting aside the younger cubs that yet to learn how to hunt . After cleaning everything within the nest, the group took turns to went back up from the hole . This is also where Zhang Wu Ji's Qiyue Flying Sword shines because of the issue with transportation .

Their hunting trips go well for the first day before the Bai Lang make a call to end their first day of hunting . It was twice as dangerous when hunting at night if it were to be compared with hunting when daylight, which is also the reason why Bai Lang made this call .

After returning to the Lotus Flower City, the supporters prepare to do their work as usual . As the treasurer, merchant, purchaser, and stock controller of the team, the four of them are used to handle all the preparations while the fighting forces get their rest or drinks .

Pulling Zhang Wu Ji along with their childish antiques, he joined them for a drinking session before a few collapsed and have to be drag into their bed before the other remaining members left for their own . As a special guest invited by the Headmaster Windchaser, Zhang Wu Ji is given the best accommodation and luxurious treatment, with more foods, wines, and even materials or female companion if he requested .

But instead, he did not take his rest and went straight into the City Forge to request for a few materials and a spot for him to hammer the metals . Waving his hand across the airflow of the furnace, Zhang Wu Ji simply injected a few percentages of Fire Element into the fire to increase the speed of the furnace get ready .

One needs to seriously praise the management of the whole Willow Timber County, for preparing not only the processed materials but even their powder ashes or other parts that left from smelting the materials . Here, brimstone powder, salt crystals, and charcoal (mixture of Fur Charcoal, Wood Charcoal, and Coal) mixture are available to be purchased anytime .

Regretfully, it was quite expensive . But it was normal, especially when he was in the county with the highest amount of metal and mineral produce is used per annum . To begin with, Zhang Wu Ji only paid two million gold coins for the sake of purchasing some materials and renting a spot for him to work his tools, but who knows, after looking at the available blueprints in the store, he ended up spending all his wealth to purchase a copy of all available blueprints .

He ends up with 11 blueprints richer, but also fifty million gold coins poorer . Although in his ring, pouch and many parts of his body still filled with wealth, but they must be sold or purchased first before he can turn them into pure currency, either pills or coins .

Still, with all the materials in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji end up forging another five more Qiyue Flying Swords and exhausted all his level 6 Beast Cores and High-Quality Crystals . The remaining materials were used to craft two Yuan-Tie Hand Cannons before he left the City Forge and return to sleep .

Considering his option at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji went to sleep and meditates . He refilled the amount of stored energy in the Incense of Condensation and Incense of Element for eight hours, before he awake from his slumber and return to the team for their hunt once again . What's surprising for him is the next morning when he wakes up, his strands of Fighter Qi increased again, allowing him to advance into the 6th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter with 509 strands of Fighter Qi .

Unlucky for him, the hunt they conducted mainly focused on looking for the Ashen Fur Wolves, making Zhang Wu Ji failed to land his hand on any of the Level 6 Beast Core . Without the relevant material for him, it will be impossible for Zhang Wu Ji to forge more Flying Sword for the preparation to sell them .

It was not because the Level 8 Beast Core is unusable, but the differences in materials may results in a less refined weapon, not because his skills are lacking, but the harmonization between the material is important . Else, why won't the blueprint mention any enhanced version or side material he can similarly prepare?

For his second night, Zhang Wu Ji can only spend his time cultivating instead, because he no longer has anything else can be done in the City Forge . He might produce some Spatial Stone for free to the fellow members as a Formation Master, but that was nothing special, especially each city is fitted with a First-Grade Spatial Stone Producer Machine .

This machine is also one of the self-made machinery forged by the Master Windchaser himself . By providing a sufficient amount of Inner Qi into the Machine, one can activate the machine to engrave the pre-made inscription on the stone slab to turn them into a Spatial Stone without the need of a Formation Master .

When he saw this machine for the first time, Zhang Wu Ji knows that this is where his answer lies for the question about where did the Spatial Stone from Master Su come from . Luckily, he already arranged his people to pay more attention to the Orchid Bandits, making the city is safe from any threat even if he wasn't around .

Plus, with most of the building in the City already upgraded into the Masonry Bricks, their durability to withstand attack is even better . Especially the Apprentice Hall that now assembled by a minimum guess of 20,000 Masonry Bricks . a durability point of one million . . . may take more than one Inner Qi Lord to make a dent on it .

In his third day of hunting, this is where everything begins to become different . With the shortage of Ashen Fur Wolves for them to hunt, their party now changed their targets into the 7th Stage Hairless Copper Ape and the 6th Stage Fire Spitting Lizards . This two kind of Wild Beast is not their ideal targets due to their low price but at the same time, it wasn't a good choice for them to do so .

As an example, If a group of cultivators that can barely handle Fire Spitting Lizards ends up with no targets to hunt, what will their choice of selection be? If they left, the day will end as non-profitable exploration . If they continued, perhaps a few members will lose their life due to hunting something else over their qualification .

Bound under such a rule, the Ash Wolves Chaser Team can only hunt the numbers of this two Wild Beast moderately without getting overboard with their actions . But thing soon changed when the team suddenly encountered a large group of Ashen Fur Wolves! The experienced team immediately noticed what is wrong, especially when surrounding them is the wolves with blood around their jaws .

"One of the team must be met with misfortune here! We have to escape, or else, we will be put in a situation worse than death!" as the leader of the team, Bai Lang immediately makes a decisive choice to retreat completely without looking back . If someone with his amount of experience is alerted with this scene, how will it be a small matter?

"Aouuuu!!!" a cry three times louder than the first howl Zhang Wu Ji heard before ringing in their ears . A two meters tall figure that walks with its four legs steps closer to the team while drooling with anxiety . Without even the need to explain this Wild Beast's existence, everyone present in the spot here knows that;

With a heavy slam on the ground, the beast releases a strength of an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior! Winds around them distorted because of the explosion of Warrior's Qi, while the Ashen Fur Wolves started to surround the team of ten members, leaving them no spot to escape .

"I will handle the Ashen Warrior Wolf's attack! The others will support Bai Lu and Bai Hu to cut open an escape route! If the situation becomes critical, activates the Willow Crossbow!" Bai Lang shifts his weapon from a basic grade sword into a higher quality sword and defended himself with a shield on his left . Instantly transforming from a fighter to a Defender, Bai Lang charged into the attacking range of the Ashen Warrior Wolf to taunt it .

But instead of changing its attention, the Ashen Warrior Wolf howls and gave the order to attack all surviving human and initiates the fight between the Wild Beast and Humans . No longer having his part of fun using the Iron Thrusting Dirks in both hands, Zhang Wu Ji changed his weapon into the Longfeng Jade Ruler, where the twenty air blades started to come out once more to meet their opponents .

The move was a simple one, but to executes so many air blades, how long will a cultivator need to train before able to create such a scene in a battle? While it puzzled Bai Lu and Bai Hu, Bai Lang is unfazed by the surprise and warned his two younger brothers to come back into their sense . With one additional fighter in their ranks, the percentage of success to breakout from this dangerous situation become higher than their expectation .

"ROAR!" the Ashen Warrior Wolf found a weak spot in between of Bai Lang's defense and tried to land killing strike on its opponent in an attempt to not let the food run away from his mouth . Put in this situation, unless the godness of luck stands at his side, this attack will surely kill him in a single strike .

"BAM!" an Iron Ball fly through the resistance of the air as it gets close to the Ashen Warrior Wolf in the moment of half a second! With his secret weapon is used, Zhang Wu Ji protected Bai Lang from losing his life at that moment .

With a quick reflex, the front paw of the Ashen Warrior Wolf swings downward on the incoming Iron Ball, pressing it down on the ground before adding its own version or growl while staring at the despicable human .

"Alright . We're in deep shit now . " Zhang Wu Ji throws his hand cannon down on the ground and prepared to escape because the Ashen Warrior Wolf's attention is directed to him!

"Brother Wu Ji, run!" Bai Lang strikes with his sword aiming at the beast's rear legs, but before his attack connected, the Ashen Warrior Wolf already long gone from his attacking range . Charging at Zhang Wu Ji with the speed of a 140 km/hour, the Ashen Warrior Wolf need its jaw alone to tear him apart .

But using his own way to counterattack, Zhang Wu Ji injected ten strands of his Fighter Qi into the Longfeng Jade Ruler to activates the conversion ability to creates a liter of Pure Sapphire Water . Using that ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji fired them at the incoming Ashen Warrior Wolf to deter its attack .

The ten drops of water bullet carry no killing intent within, leaving the Ashen Warrior Wolf to worry not about the damage it may deal . A slight swing of the head splatters the ten water bullets, but that's the beginning of Zhang Wu Ji's little tricks!

Even a drop of Pure Sapphire Water is extremely precious in the eyes of the Wild Beast because pure water like this helps them to remove their impurities . Although the Pure Sapphire Water is only the eleventh spot among the purest water source in Qing Long Realm, it was still a commodity that rarely found in the wild .

While the Ashen Warrior Wolf is still dazed with the sweet flavor brought by the ten drops of water bullets, Zhang Wu Ji attacked! Twenty strands of Fighter Qi entered the Longfeng Jade Ruler as the activation cost to increase it's damage points from 20 to 100! Taking the advantages of the Shatter-Strike, Zhang Wu Ji intention is to let his opponent crippled from his single strike!

"Pang!" the ear-piercing sound that only happened when metal strikes each another came out from the hit . But it did not carry the results Zhang Wu Ji was aiming for . . . This is naturally cannot be done, not because he was too weak, but it was because the Ashen Warrior Wolf, is an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior!

Zhang Wu Ji may succeed in shattering his second brother's old Four Season Swords, but that was because all of them is still in their Tier 1 materials! Fighting against a Tier 2 strength beast, how can the effect of a Tier 1 weapon bring out its full effect? Instead of achieving some results, Zhang Wu Ji's action end up inciting more anger from the wolf .

Noticing that his attack is not going to bring the results he wanted, Zhang Wu Ji swings his right palm, which has a Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring slotted in his second finger . The swing delivered the five Qiyue Flying Swords to the five members close to him, along with a sentence;

Zhang Wu Ji small action wasn't too provoking, but against an Ashen Warrior Wolf that got hit on its head, anything he did is provoking . That howl it did earlier is to summon all the Ashen Fur Wolves to ignore the others and attack this target alone . Carrying all the aggro from the pack of wolves, Zhang Wu Ji utilized his Orchid Assassination Art to sneak behind a few Ashen Fur Wolves before killing them with the same smack on their skull .

"It's working on the Level 8 Ashen Fur Wolf, but not on the Level 11 Ashen Warrior Wolf . . . Is that due to the differences in cultivation tier?" his attack verified his hypothesis, but looking at the situation now, escaping is the most important thing for him now .

He withdraws his Jade Ruler back into the ring and came out with the two Iron Thrusting Dirks again . This was the best method for him to fight against their pursuit while escaping . The understanding of Long Weapon is difficult to be utilized perfectly when surrounded by trees and foliage hits his mind .

"No wonder the team is all specialized in Batons, Swords, and crossbows . It was the most efficient weapon to be used when fighting in the forest, with so many trees, bamboos, and dense foliage everywhere!" Zhang Wu Ji blamed himself for not accumulating enough experience in the battlefield, which contributes to him for making such a mistake .

"Hahaha, Air Blades . . . What are their uses if the strikes end up hitting the trees and not the targets?" Zhang Wu Ji laughed at himself for being overconfident in his ability to form twenty air blades in a single swing . It may seem like an amazing feat amongst the human cultivators, but for a pack of Wild Beast?

He's literally a flashy swordsman that waste his energy to randomly swings his swords . Worst of all, the Wild Beast possess the acute sensitiveness that allows them to evade all these attacks, rendering them to be nothing but a waste of stamina to creates them .

While escaping, Zhang Wu Ji inspects his surrounding to make sure his teammates left . He was confident that he will not face too many difficulties in handling the normal Ashen Fur Wolves, but to make sure he's capable to do it, Zhang Wu Ji need to be careful to not landed into the attacking range of the Ashen Warrior Wolf .

He smiled when he noticed the last person in the team escaped . Five Qiyue Flying Swords carries the team of ten members away from the battlefield, leaving him alone to escape whenever he wanted . But his action left the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf to take the advantages and vanished from the battlefield .

"Shit! The big wolf is gone!" the sudden disappearance shook the core of his mind . He inspects his surrounding but failed to notice anything out of ordinary . Immediately tensed up, Zhang Wu Ji positioned himself by leaning his back on a cluster of grown bamboos and placing all his attention on his front .

"Shua . . . " a print gently appeared on the rotting leaves sitting on the ground . Zhang Wu Ji activates his final Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon and fired on that spot only to found that he missed his target! The hand cannon begin to decays as he remained dazed on his fail attack, allowing the Ashen Warrior Wolf to take that window of opportunity to attack!

Zhang Wu Ji sneakily smiled . Letting go the decaying cannon in his grasp, Zhang Wu Ji lifted his right palm that burning with red hot flames circling between his palm and five fingers .

"I don't care what you do to disappeared from the battlefield, but this special trait is mine, not yours! If the Longfeng Jade Ruler cannot shatter all your bones, then I'm going to cook you instead!" as a human that used to live in a different world full of deceits, forgery, and crocodile tears, Zhang Wu Ji's tricks is a level completely way above what the sneaky Ashen Warrior Wolf can imagine!

The activated Fire Element from his Incense of Element sprays at the Ashen Warrior Wolf like a shower head spraying the water out . But the only difference is Zhang Wu Ji's Fire Element burns . It ignites all the oxygen surrounding the atmosphere to burn the target and wrapped the Ashen Warrior Wolf with fire .

As a Wild Beast, how can it not afraid of fire? The word "Ashen" in its name is because of the color of their fur, not because they're heat tolerant! Zhang Wu Ji rushes forward in order to execute one of the best chain attacks to strikes his target, and that skill is none other than the consecutive WUJI Long Fist!

Although his Tyrant Martial Body is yet to reach their transformation, the 55% changes are not something to be underestimated! Armed with the strength of the 6th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, Zhang Wu Ji send his barrage of attack at the struggling Ashen Warrior Wolf, further treating the Wild Beast as one of his punching bags!

The cry of anger soon become pitiful . Later on, it turned into sorrow, anguish, and grievous . Few more minutes later, the cries of a wolf are no longer heard .

Filled with worries, the five fighters, and one warrior came back to look for Zhang Wu Ji . Using the direction came from the cries, the team under Bai Lang's leadership went to the spot in a hurry, only to notice a human is pummelling an Ashen Warrior Wolf until its dead .

Hearing the call from his teammates, Zhang Wu Ji turned his attention up to the sky and waved at his six teammates that came back to provide him with supports . But what he did not know is because he was too busy pummelling the Ashen Warrior Wolf, he was completely covered with the blood of the wolf .

His appearance can be said as a bloody ruthless Cultivator . Even for the six members that know him for three days, his appearance gave them a fright, as if he will turn berserk at any moment and kills all of them without a bat from his eyelids .

"Brother Lang, Brother Lu, Brother Hu, the Ashen Warrior Wolf is done! We can start harvesting them now!" Zhang Wu Ji gives out his friendly characteristic once again when facing the other teammates, allowing them to feel at ease when approaching him . After a moment calm, he finally noticed how he looks at this moment and excused himself to a nearby river to clean himself from the stench of blood .

Although . . . He portrayed a friendly personality to the six members of the team, he has no control over their impression towards somebody as ruthless as he does . Zhang Wu Ji did not realize that in this world he's living, the acceptance of people with ruthless character such as him is still difficult for them to handle .

Each of them thought about the same conclusion . . . "Won't he killed all of us without a bat of his eyelids if he decided to clean all of us from betraying him in the future? He may not even feel anger nor sad when killing all of us . " Such a mindset started to plague their mind . But as the leader of the team, Bai Lang took the initiative to clear their mind from such confusion .

"Stop thinking nonsense . If brother Wu Ji was this ruthless against those friendly ones like us, where will it bring him? He's capable, but remember that in order to save me, he attracts the aggro of the Ashen Warrior Wolf . To save everyone, he passes each of you with a Flying Sword that worth 300 Million Gold Coins just for the sake of saving our butt from a dangerous situation . If we're being inconsiderate from these gestures, let us stop working as a team from now!" Bai Lang reminded them about Zhang Wu Ji's earlier sacrifice .

It was true to the bone, that without batting his eyelids, Zhang Wu Ji simply throws the treasure worth 1 . 5 billion Gold Coins for them to escape . That's a treasure worth 1 . 5 million Qi Sensing Pills . With this kind of wealth, why would he need to endanger himself to hunt for some mere wolves? Even by spamming the pills day and night is enough for him to enter the Warrior Tier without wasting too much time .

While the six of them is having their own discussion to clear their mind, the dense youth is busy cleaning himself in the middle of the river . Since he was too dense to notice what other people may think, Zhang Wu Ji ends up having his own fun diving into the river and floating back up for a breath instead . He thought;

With the dirtied clothing is disposed of, Zhang Wu Ji prepared to come up from the river to put on a fresh set of clothing . But before he able to do that, the Longfeng Jade Ruler inside his Spatial Ring vibrates nonstop until it forces its way out from the ring and thrust deep into the base of the river .

The weird reaction gave him a small suspicion on the bottom of the river, and lead him to dive deeper . Once he reaches the bottom, Zhang Wu Ji gave out another smile again, as he stares on the small piece of blue gemstone stuck in between of the rocks .

He touches the gemstone again, only to notice that it was another grain of Water Sapphire . Putting some pressure on the rocks and dug the grain of a gem out, Zhang Wu Ji put the gem in his ruler and hand closer and found out a pulling reaction between the two . When they contact with each another, they formed into one single entity again, before Zhang Wu Ji received a new description from his system .

Smiling all by himself, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the grain of Water Sapphire is now a little bigger than how it was before the assimilation process . What's more, each strand of his Fighter Qi is now worth 200 ml of the Pure Sapphire Water, which is the eleventh purest water source one can found in the wild .

"Unfortunate to myself, this world is lack of the technological advantages for me to research about the mineral components within the Pure Sapphire Water . I wonder what is the usage of this water actually . " a question came inside his mind, which can only be answered in the future .

Returning to the group after he gets rid of the stench of blood, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that the others team members already returned to the group to help in handling all the corpses . When Bai Lang saw him coming back from the river, he took the initiative to get closer to Zhang Wu Ji and returned the five Flying Swords to the youth in order to not seems to covet his treasures .

Zhang Wu Ji knows that this kind of gesture was to strengthen the bond between them, and accepted the treasure back without any other pointless words . With all the corpses is handled, they're ready to leave . But before that, Zhang Wu Ji requested the team to listen to his few suggestions .

"Brother Bai Lang, as a Celestial Designer and an official Blacksmith, I have some need of the Level 6 Beast Core . I wonder if the team willing to sell the Fire Spitting Lizard's core to Wu Ji according to the market price?" Zhang Wu Ji asked them the first question .

"Brother Wu Ji, speak no further . How can you say purchasing them at market price! All you need is ask any of us here, we're more than willing to part with any of the Beast Cores because they're no use to us!" Bai Lu is the first to answer his question, followed by the nod from the other nine members in the team .

"Alright, then we can count as the matter of Beast Core is settled . What else do you need from the Wild Beast we hunted today?" Bai Lang tried to make sure that Zhang Wu Ji did not miss out in the thing he needs . After all, the loot for each day of hunting is belonged to the team, as a contributor himself, how can Zhang Wu Ji be excluded from a portion of benefits?

"I got a blueprint from the City Forge related to the creation of [Fire Lizard's Touch] which required the volatile sack of the Fire Spitting Lizard . I wonder if the team willing to let Wu Ji tried to forge the weapon that may protect us in danger?" Zhang Wu Ji asked as he cupped his palms together .

"Brother Wu Ji, I hope your attempt bears a fruit and experience to further yourself as a Celestial Designer . Here, take this two piece of Spatial Stone, all the Volatile Sack of the beast is kept inside . " Bai Lu steps closer to him and delivered the two Spatial Stone into his hand .

Without anything else in mind, the team returned . Although their number of hunts for today is lacking compared to their previous two days, the success of bringing back a corpse of Ashen Warrior Wolf is what bring more fame to the Ash Wolves Chaser Team . With a record from two Ashen Warrior Wolf into three Ashen Warrior Wolf, the team now become the aim for all young cultivators to join them as an unofficial member .

And in fact, the Ash Wolves Chaser Team do have an additional ten members as their backup, but most of them belonged to the 2nd Stage and 3rd Stage members . As the team leader, Bai Lang's responsibility is not only to nurture his members to strengthen their team but also to make sure all of them is well fed . A team lack of strong fighting forces is a nuisance in the battlefield, and a team lack of financial support is even worst .

Added with the lacking of proper cultivation method stored in the Records Pavilion, this further increase the difficulties for them to increase the base of their strength in a short period of time . But one fact remains strong within the Willow Timber County .

They might be weak in the term of cultivation, but the County's forces are not weak in military strength . If a battalion of Yuan-Tie Hand Cannons can easily destroy the Fighter Tier forces, then the Battalion with Willow Crossbows can easily decimate any troops in their mid-Warrior Tier . If the members of Soldier Echelon in participating in the fight, won't a barrage from Thunderclap Seeds clear the battlefield in a mere few seconds of explosion?

Furthermore, with the Nature Law of Cultivators restrict those in higher position recklessly participates in a war, so where do the attacker find so many talented individuals to fight against the prowess of technology? It may happen to be a profitable war, but it wasn't an equivalent exchange .

Back to the Lotus Flower City, the team splits and continue with their own task, while Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the nearby calligraphy store to purchase a large amount of Xuan Paper for his uses . Almost clearing the store's stock available paper, Zhang Wu Ji left the store happily but made himself known as the "Clearance Specialist" because of his insisting attitude to purchase all available material he needed .

"Oh . . . Hey!" Zhang Wu Ji greets the lady before him . failed to sense her anger, Zhang Wu Ji pays no attention to how she speaks because his mind is filled with the anticipation to forging the [Fire Lizard's Touch], an incendiary tool that allows him to ignites a wall of fire to deter Fighter Tier Wild Beast from approaching .

"How can you leave me alone in the Peony Flower City? I was looking for your for three days before Brother Yong Lie came back and bring me to meet the Headmaster! Luckily I found you, or where should I go?" Meng Ran shouted at the irresponsible Zhang Wu Ji for leaving her alone back in the Peony Flower City .

"I'm sorry . . . I thought I can return to the Peony Flower City earlier, but who knows I got caught up with all these matters and delayed my return . " Zhang Wu Ji scratches his head as he bowed slightly to ask for her forgiveness . Although he did not do it on purpose, putting himself in her position, it was a judgment on the weight of this matter done awfully wrong .

With only the two of them belonged to the Seven Star County here, who else can she depend except him? This is also why she got so angry when she looked at him . But after the fire of anger started to subside, she noticed that Zhang Wu Ji is no longer a 5th Stage Inner Qi Fighter, but a 6th Stage .

"How can this be? I remembered he was only a 4th stage like me before we went back to the apprentice hall! How did he cultivate?" the question filled Meng Ran's mind . Since Zhang Wu Ji has something to do in the City Forge, he did not await her to say anything else . Afraid that he might incite her anger once more, Zhang Wu Ji pulled her along as they walk to the City Forge .

Inside, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his usual spot and prepares the furnace . With Meng Ran seated a little away from the burning heat that came from the furnace, Zhang Wu Ji walked to the reception to make a few requests . But since he has no payable currency in hand, Zhang Wu Ji pawned ten of the Fighter Chasing Dan to be exchanged for materials .

He can come back to purchase the treasure back, but 10% extra as the interest surcharge . But with almost a thousand of the pills still in his ring, Zhang Wu Ji has no intention to purchase them back . With some of the ingredients in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his forging spot and prepare himself to start forging .

As an official blacksmith, Zhang Wu Ji put more trust in the metal he smelted himself . By softening them in high temperature, Zhang Wu Ji tempers the metal to removes all the impurities in the form of slags . His method of refining the metal took the other fellow blacksmiths by surprise, especially when they noticed that the removed slags containing Sentient Iron are done in such a perfect way .

Soon, Zhang Wu Ji's two pieces of ingots combined into one piece of Pure Iron, in their much proper quality . The removed slags are melted once more in the crucible before they were poured into two smaller cast, forming two 10kg ingots that contain a high concentration of Sentient Iron and a little Crystal Iron .

The Advance-Grade Pure Iron was then melted once more in a smaller crucible before poured into smaller molds carrying the shape much similar to a flat sheet metal . As his initial ingot was a twenty kilograms ingot, Zhang Wu Ji made twenty pieces of sheet metal out from that single piece of Pure Iron .

Lucky for him, the City Forge is filled with machinery that can be operated using Inner Qi . And one of them is the Rolling Machine that can expand the sheet metal further until they molded into a thin sheet of Iron Plate that fits to be flame welded into a completely sealed can . The outer layer of this [Fire Lizard's Touch] carries the form of a Metal Can Grenade but comes with a few variations in the ingredient used .

Putting the materials together into the container, Zhang Wu Ji replaced the cover with a weight-stone that fits inside perfectly before he forcefully hammers the eight-pointed pins that will hold the Weight-Stone in place . This counted as a complete product the moment it did not explodes from all the pressure he put during the creation of this one-time use weapon .

-Information: Crafted by First-Grade Celestial Designer, Zhang Wu Ji . The Fire Lizard's Touch will explode when the volatile sack stored within the can is punctured by the Brimstone Rod . During the explosion, the user is advised to escape into the southern route because the explosion and weight stone is designed to spreads from left to top, and end at right .

"I completed the forging of this weapon . Based on the number of the volatile sack and Brimstone Rod I got from the exchange, I suppose I can craft all of them tonight . It will be useful for us when we hunt tomorrow . " Zhang Wu Ji calculates the time he required to forge each of the Fire Lizard's Touch, and estimates he can get everything done in around five to six hours .

Seated just behind him, Meng Ran started to feel bored . Since she's inside the City Forge now, why not tried to collect some of the unwanted mineral ores powder from the ground so she can use them to produce some Formation Plate? With her skill is now better after she knows where did she lack in their competition, Meng Ran is more focused on quality instead of quantity .

She loiters around and borrowed a broom from the reception staff in order to collect the mineral ores powder . With the City Forge suddenly obtained a volunteered cleaner, they were more than happy to borrow her the tool she asked . With each of them absorbed into the topic of their interest, five hours pass quickly . Zhang Wu Ji completed sixteen of the Fire Lizard's Touch, and two of the Willow Crossbow using the remaining ingredients in his hand .

As for Meng Ran, she crafted fifty Formation Plates in the span of four hours, and successfully engrave three of the plate with a formation inscription in the fifth hour . With the cost of 20 minutes is needed to complete one Formation Plate, Meng Ran will have a long time to practice he engraving skill, which is almost sixteen hours needed for her to complete all of them .

Unfortunately, her engraving skills is not that refined yet, causing the formation plate she crafted is usable, but lack of the required base quality . Luckily the cost of creating the Formation Plate is zero, or else, this will end up as an expensive profession for her to walk all by herself .

Leaving the City Forge that operates nonstop for the whole year, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his accommodation with Meng Ran following him from behind . It was only until they reach the accommodation Zhang Wu Ji noticed that, the Headmaster Windchaser only arrange for his accommodation, and not Meng Ran's because she wasn't expected to come to this city!

He tried to request another additional accommodation, but after the staff answers his request, Zhang Wu Ji knows that there is no other choice but to share his room together . They hesitate for a moment before Meng Ran took the initiative to step inside the room . It was spacious enough to accommodate the two of them, so the problem with the sleeping place is not an issue .

When Meng Ran took the liberty to sleep on the bed, Zhang Wu Ji takes the initiative to meditates in the comfortable seating in a small section that came along with a small Energy Gathering Inscriptions . While he meditates, Meng Ran tries to sleep . But her mind keeps thinking about nonsense for the earlier ten minutes before she falls into her slumber .

"Krukkkk . . . Few . . . " if this snoring feature is made known to the lady, Zhang Wu Ji's fate of getting slap is imminent . Thus, he decided to keep quiet and act stupid in case she asks .

Replenishing the small portion of Fire Element he used today through meditation, Zhang Wu Ji wakes up in the next day, only to found out that their hunting today has been canceled, because of the lack of Ashen Fur Wolves surrounding their vicinity . They can equip themselves to hunt for the level 9 Wild Beast, the Stone Bee, and their nest, but preparation such as Tier 1 Antidotes, Insect Repellent Tool, and some backup weapons is a requirement .

Listening to their explanation, Zhang Wu Ji knows what he will need to prepare as well, but for now, what can a pauper do to get some money? Pawning the Pills can be considered, but the Fighter Chasing Dan is something rarely found, so he can simply waste them for a small amount of currency .

The choices of selling the Flying Sword is taken into consideration too, but when he thought about the importance for the team to have a flight escape route, Zhang Wu Ji put aside this option as well . While he almost out of the way for him to earn some quick money, the god of fortune drops a sliver of luck on him .

"Young Master, I'm afraid we already purchase all the available Empty Formation Plate inside of the city . " a butler followed their young master as he walks quickly with a great amount of frustration . They soon went past where Zhang Wu Ji idling around .

"I don't care . Hire the producer of the Formation Plate to make more of them for my engraving practices . I am in the juncture to succeed in creating a brand new formation plate!" the young master ordered his butler to do his bidding . Based on the way he speaks, this person is a formation master, or perhaps in training to become one .

"Hold your steps!" Zhang Wu Ji approached the young master and tried to introduce himself . But to make this god of fortune felt more confidence in what he tried to sell, Zhang Wu Ji took the six formation plate he made during his first trial and in the competition to be presented for the young master's inspection .

The butler tried to shoo away Zhang Wu Ji at first, but when his young master raised his hand to stop the butler from speaking . Honestly say, even if he's a butler of a Formation Master, does this means his ability to discern good plates and bad plates on par with his young master? Luckily, he was stopped before he even managed to spoil his young master's plan .

"This brother here must be a fellow Formation Master as well . Since I am younger, let me call myself a junior then . " the young master unexpectedly possess nothing similar to the spoilt debauchee like the former Zhang Wu Ji . Furthermore, when he introduced himself as a junior for the first time, he obtained Zhang Wu Ji's goodwill even further .

"This juniors name is Meng Hao, from the Willow Timber County's Meng Branch . " but when he mentioned his name, Zhang Wu Ji stunned . What does this mean? It means he coincidently found Meng Ran's remaining family out of the blue . But what does that means as well?

Similarly, Zhang Wu Ji exchanges his greetings with Meng Hao and was invited back to his small villa . It seems that even at most, this villa only fits twenty people . How can that be the Meng Family Branch? But before Zhang Wu Ji went ahead and ask, Meng Hao already had his butler prepared the required ingredient to start making the Formation Plates .

"Brother Zhang, I can see that your Formation Plate is better than the others . Instead of cracking in the first engraving, I estimate it can suffer three times at most before it shatters . " Meng Hao praised him for his good quality Formation Plate . As a material for practice, what could be better than having a piece of formation plate that can handle over two to ten times engraving before it shattered?

"I won't take brother Zhang's skill to my own advantages . How about like this? A normal plate sold in the store cost 5 Qi Sensing Pills each, but brother Zhang's plate can handle three times the stress, so I'll make them 15 Qi Sensing Pills each . Because I'm bothering brother Zhang to come personally to make me some Formation plate, I'll make then twenty Qi Sensing Pills for each plate you made . "

"Is that fine with you, Brother Zhang?" unexpected by Zhang Wu Ji, this young master of a family was quite a generous person in both in an out . But at the same time, the rates of 5 Qi Sensing Pills per plate already shocks him, never to mention when he's paying 20 Qi Sensing Pills, or 20,000 Gold Coins to purchase each of his plates .

It was an amazing profit for him because, with each ball of Formation Clay he made, Zhang Wu Ji can create three Formation Plates . With the cost of 10 minutes each time, which was slightly faster than Meng Ran's production speed, Zhang Wu Ji can easily make 18 Formation Plates in an hour!

"No problem at all . I am free for today, so let me made as much as I could for you . But I need to ask first . I can make 18 formation plates in an hour, which means, in five hours of work, it will cost at least 1,800 Qi Sensing Pills . Are you sure its fine to pay me this much?" Zhang Wu Ji wasn't looking down on his ability to pay, but it was a hint of goodwill he can show to the other side, at least before they set the final price .

"Of course not . If brother Zhang worries that junior cannot afford it, let this junior pay in advance . " he withdraws a piece of currency plate similar to the Crystal Coin made my the Wen Wu City Lord . The only differences are the plate produced by Meng Hao carries a sign made from an Inner Qi Lord using the strands of Lord Qi .

Looking at the plate, Zhang Wu Ji felt a little disrespect towards Meng Hao, and cupped his hands together and ask for his forgiveness to bring up such a matter . But like his personality, Meng Hao pushes away that negativity between their conversation aside and continue to chat with Zhang Wu Ji .

This further obtains his approval . Without wasting time, Zhang Wu Ji took out the tools that needed to form the Formation Clay out before he requested for a piece of Formation Plate, which he will return later . Using his own improvised Ingredient Mixing Inscription, Zhang Wu Ji engraved the Formation Plate quickly before he started to mix the ingredient together .

While Zhang Wu Ji is busy handling the production of Formation Plate, Meng Hao took a seat somewhere not too far from him as he started to engrave his formation into the Formation Plate . But unfortunately, his skill is somewhere not on par, and he did not carry a good formation chisel, which further increases the difficulties for him .

About four hours later, he destroyed all the formation chisel in his hand . Feeling demotivated, Meng Hao Stands up to relax before he continued, but when he noticed Zhang Wu Ji's chisel on the ground, he picked it up to see where are the differences between his chisel and Zhang Wu Ji's chisel .

"Brother Zhang, can Meng Hao try to engrave using your chisel?" he asked for the permission before using it . As Zhang Wu Ji is too busy in preparing the Formation Clay, he gave him a nod as a reply before putting his attention back on the Ingredient Mixing Plate .

Preparing himself with another piece of formation plate, Meng Hao begins his engraving process . The formation inscription he was trying to do is called the Nutrition Gathering Plate, a plate that will gather the available natural nutrition in the air to form the Plant Nutrition Pill . Although it wasn't beneficial or harm a human when eaten, it was a great supplement, especially for plants .

For each single Nutrition Pill grounded to powder, it can nourish a piece of Plateau Plantation Plate . The nourishment it gave can reduce the time for the plant to grow by a single day . With daily nourishment, it's not impossible to harvest them in fifteen days .

"How can the blade is so sharp? I don't even need to insert too much Inner Qi to draw a line! This chisel is amazing!" moments after he tried to use the chisel, he already completely engrossed into his engraving . The process only took him forty minutes to complete, compared to his earlier attempt that made him spent an hour on a single formation plate .

Furthermore, this Nutrition Gathering Plate is able to produce three Nutrition Pills instead of one, which was a great reduction of wasted space . But the main question still remained in his mind .

"How can brother Zhang's Formation Engraving Chisel so sharp, is it because he customizes them to suit his need?" his mind is full of questions for a moment there, but when he tried to ask about the background of the chisel, Zhang Wu Ji already completed his works and walk towards him .

"Ah . That's great . Let me give you the remaining Currency Plate for your help . " Meng Hao withdraws another Currency Plate worth 1 Million Gold Coins and handed it to Zhang Wu Ji . Looking at his generosity, Zhang Wu Ji just smiled before he added a word that will make him happier .

"Seriously? Brother Zhang, you cannot be kidding about this!" Meng Hao's mood turns brighter the moment he hears Zhang Wu Ji said that he will give him the chisel because Meng Hao likes it so much .

"Of course . But I have another question to ask you, do you mind?" Zhang Wu Ji replied before he came out with a question he wanted to ask for so long .

"I've noticed that you're engraving so much Nutrition Gathering Plate, what are the plants you're trying to grow?" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to clear his curiosity related to Meng Hao's unyielding effort to engrave the plates .

"Oh, that's your question? Come here, I'll let you have a look at it . " Meng Hao took the lead and bring Zhang Wu Ji into a secret chamber that only can be open by a special key attached to his necklace .

Inside, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with an underground chamber at least filled with three hundreds pieces of Plateau Plantation Plates . Each of them has ten Sun-Facing Fruit Plant growing on them, which also means if Meng Hao can produce three hundred of the Nutrition Pills daily, his yield each month is going to be 6,000 Sun-Facing Fruits .

If they were concocted into Qi Sensing Pills . . . That's a yield of 45,000 to 48,000 Qi Sensing Pills monthly . Which means, this small villa he'd seen, is a money processing factory that generates close to fifty million revenue monthly!

"Brother Wu Ji, since our trip is going to be quite dangerous this time, we rearrange our team last night . Except the six of us with the two celestial designers, we remove the cook and another celestial designer with two hunters . Their experience is rich enough, so it should be helpful to us . " Bai Lang pointed his hand on the two new members .

Like how hunter dressed, the two, one male and one female, comes with the attire of full leather armor, a bow on their back and two small assembling crossbows . They're something custom-made in order to suits their requirement during hunting .

The main reason for the team changes is due to the matter Bai Lang explained, but also because the two hunters have more experience in handling the insects if any of them were targeted by the swarm . Plus, the Stone Bee is a very ferocious Wild Beast that needed to be handled with care .

As for their mission for this hunt, it was not because of their edible flesh, but instead, it was for their Fighter Qi Nectar Grains . Different from how the bees in his former world work, the 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter's Stone Bee doesn't create honey by collecting the nectar around their nest, but instead, each of them comes with a very special suction mouth that feeds on the Natural Energy scatters in the atmosphere .

The Natural Energy they feeds is then sewn into the Nectar Grains, and then hardened by their saliva before it was collected in the top of their nest . When the Stone Bee Larva hatched from their eggs, they will start feeding themselves with the Qi Nectar Grains until the metamorphosis into a mature Stone Bee to repeat the similar process .

If the team successfully harvested over 1KG of the Fighter Qi Nectar Grains, the profit margin will be more than hunting for four days without stop . Reason? It was because the concocted version, Bee Nectar Pill is not only a Body Cleansing Pill that filled with impurities removal effect, it is also categorized as a cosmetic pill . Even female cultivators in their peak fighter tier or early Warrior tier purchase this pill to smoothen their skin from any blemishes or wrinkles .

A hundred grams of the Fighter Qi Nectar Grains can be concocted into ten Bee Nectar Pill, and each Bee Nectar Pill worth 10,000 Gold Coins! And these prices are only for those taken for cultivating and removal of impurities inside their body! Only the experienced Pill Master possess the skill to concoct the much more advanced kind of cosmetic pills, such as the Bee Lady Pill, with 100 grams of Nectar Grain essence inside, Bee Princess Pill, with 300 grams of Nectar Grain essence inside, and Bee Queen Pill, with 500 grams of Nectar Grain essence inside!

Their pricing is set at 200 Qi Sensing Pills, 600 Qi Sensing Pills, and 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills respectively, and one needed to queue for their turn before they can obtain their order! They even said that in a county located inside of the Lower South State, they're the main producer for the cosmetic purposes Bee Nectar Pills, which delivered to the Imperial County every year to supply the demand of the medicinal and cosmetic pill!

"Is this a part of the deed I have to fulfill before I get the Metal Bird Blueprint?" Zhang Wu Ji expectation on their hunt is slightly different from what he thought . After assuming that it will work as long he helps in eliminating the Stone Bees, it will be helpful to him anyway .

After entering the forest for a period of time, they finally reach the nest belonged to the Stone Bee . Like how they were called, the nest of the insect is made from using naturally tumbled stones that were collected from the side of the river . Their nest design is almost similar to how the bee made their nest in his former world, but only after approaching them, Zhang Wu Ji understood .

He wanted to scream the moment he looks at their nest . Positioned right on top of the trees, the nest is not supported by the strength of the branches, but the tree itself . This made the bamboo in the forest the best supporting pillar to make sure the nest is positioned above all the trees, leaving the landed predators aside . Although it may seem impossible for others to attack one of the strongest Wild Beast inside of the Northern Bamboo Forest .

Taking a golden retriever as an example, this was their size for the head until the tip of their needle . And that was excluding the width of their wings . Their needle came in the length of two full palms of an adult, and most importantly, they're poisonous and will keep regrowing like a magazine of bullets that can be fired many times before running empty .

"This is a bee?" Zhang Wu Ji was shocked with the golden retriever sized Stone Bee hovering around their nest . A crack came from the dried branches betrayed their location, before twenty to twenty-five Stone Bees fired their needles at the spot where the sound came from .

"What the hell, are you sure it's a bee!" barrage of poisonous needles in their strength of a Level 9 Wild Beast strikes at where they hide . Luckily their preparation includes a gigantic shield that strong enough to withstand their attack, so nobody in the team is hurt or poisoned by the attack .

Zhang Wu Ji put his head out from the shield, but that split moment, a needle that drilled along with the main body of the insect charged at his direction . Zhang Wu Ji is surprised by their attack, but the experienced hunted already expects their next more for long, thus, pulling Zhang Wu Ji back on the ground before his head is pierced by the incoming needle that might drill through his skull .

"I . . . I almost died under an attack of a bee . . . " Zhang Wu Ji is completely shocked . If an adult dog size insect is a bee, why not call the Phoenix a chicken instead? No wonder the place the master chef cultivates the Jining Freshwater Trout is called the river, although it was supposed to be called as a sea instead .

"Alright, everyone saw how they attacked . Our main target is not to kill all the Stone Bees, but to plunder their storage with Fighter Qi Nectar Grains . Just try your best to get rid those aggressive Stone Bees and no the escaping one . " the hunter gave them a few directions to proceed before taking the lead .

As a newbie in hunting, his mind has a few questions . Noticing that the youth have a few questions in his mind, Bai Lu, the more sensitive between the three brothers approached Zhang Wu Ji to explain the reason for not eliminating the Stone Bees and their nest .

To preserve the ecosystem of the forest, sometimes, one cannot completely destroy the tribe of a Wild Beast because the results from the action might cause a different catastrophe to happen . This is also why the people living close to Northern Bamboo Forest did not completely slaughter the population of Stone Bees . As the most neutral Wild Beast residing in the forest, they're more docile and passive and only attack if somebody or beast get closer to their nest .

This is also why the residents of the Lotus Flower City supports their growth, but controls their numbers once a while through random hunting or luring other Wild Beast to attack the nest instead . Throughout the Northern Bamboo Forest, estimated four nests are exposed to the human, while maybe one to two nests remain hidden from the public eyes .

"Fire at their wings, when losing the wings will cause the Stone Bee to remain in faking death situation, using this natural instinct of the Stone Bees, we can control them from attacking us too much!" one of the hunters fired a bolt from his crossbow and pierce through the wings . Like what he said, the Stone Bee that fallen to the ground fake its death to escape from enemy pursuit .

"Without wings on their back, won't that equal to killing them?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . But looking back at him, the female hunter explained to him to make sure he understands what they're doing .

"Losing their wings, the Stone Bee will go into metamorphosis again . When they crawl out from their outer cocoon again, a new pair of wings is grown by then . This might take between one day to recover . " she said while firing on another Stone Bee that tries to fire a poison needle .

"Oh, so we won't be killing too much of them through this way, right?" Zhang Wu Ji took his Longfeng Jade Ruler and randomly swings as he approached the nest . The air blades he produces might not be strong enough for him to injure the Stone Bees flying around them, but randomly destroying their wings is still possible .

Added with the percentages of 20 air blades flying around them, the success rate is higher than a normal Willow Crossbow by multiple times . Not even ten minutes pass, Zhang Wu Ji and the team already standing by the side of the nest and prepares to climb to the top to open their storage chamber .

A few quick slashes took the cover away and exposing all the stored Nectar Grains inside . With the Spatial Stone is buried deep into the treasures, Bai Lang and the male hunter quickly starts to stores the Nectar Grains into the stone one after another, until only a quarter remained in the storing chamber .

Decided to call that a success, the team cut some bamboo leaves to cover the top that was destroyed by them before proceeds to leave the nest . But before they did, Bai Lang noticed three Fire Spitting Lizard is sneaking at the side of the nest, eating the wingless Stone Bees lying on the ground .

"Brother Hu, Sister Hu, do you think we should kill the lizards before we go? If any of them calls for their companion, this nest is going to be destroyed before midnight . " Bai Lang asked the two hunters for their suggestion . After all, the damage on this nest is done by the cultivators, which is a fact . But still, the attitude of [Kicking the Monk out after the Ceremonial Prayers is conducted] is an absolutely unforgivable behavior .

We will protect the nest for half a day . After that, anything happens to this nest will no longer be related to us . " the female hunter replied . Although her action is nothing too gentle, at least, she kicked the wingless Stone Bees closer to the nest, which will make their protection of the recovering bees easier .

"Eh?" Zhang Wu Ji noticed something unusual on the hardened shell beside him and went down to inspect it while defending against the reckless attackers .

"A treasure! Nice!" Zhang Wu Ji stored the item into his spatial ring and continue to defend against the attacking Wild Beast that tries to take advantages on the defenseless nest to increase their strength . For the Wild Beast, the core and flesh of a 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter are extremely nourishing .

"Half a day is over, let us leave!" their task is complete . As for the remaining safety for the Stone Bees, it will be up to their own fate . Under Bai Lang's leadership, the team of eleven members charged outwards and escaped as fast as they could before they were surrounded by the incoming attack from other Wild Beast .

Zhang Wu Ji knows that it will be pointless for him to stay . Hesitates and worried, he bends down when Bai Lang ordered the team to escape and activated the Small Nourishment Art on two of the hardened shell of the 9th Stage Stone Bee to increase the speed of their recovery . After he did, Zhang Wu Ji activates two Fire Lizard's Touch and fired them out on the most vulnerable direction .

The sixteen explosions caught the team by surprise as they look at the fire spreading around the nest, indirectly forming a shield of protection against the attacking wild beast . Knowing that this is the final deed Zhang Wu Ji did to protects the nest from destroyed, they kept themselves quiet and continue until they were out from the Northern Bamboo Forest .

No longer in a hurry, the eleven of them walked their way until they reach the gathering spot of the Ash Wolves Chaser Team . After examining the number of Fighter Qi Nectar Grains they collected from the hunt, it was an amazing 4KG in their hand! The participating team agreed that they will distribute the loot evenly with 300 grams each person, with the remaining 700 grams is stored in the team's treasury for their future team financial support .

Having no uses on them, Bai Lu and Bai Hu exchange the 300 grams of their portion for a weapon from Zhang Wu Ji . Taken in their consideration and generosity, Zhang Wu Ji did not reject them . After inquiring about their need in the weapon they requested, Zhang Wu Ji headed to the City Forge without delaying to quickly forge them their weapons .

The weapon requested by Bai Lu is a broadsword with an attachment of the Iron Thrusting Dirk Zhang Wu Ji used during his hunt for the first three days . As for Bai Hu, he was a brawler and not a proper fighter, so, forging a set of Iron Destroyer Gauntlets is the best weapon that suits his fighting style .

By using only Sentient Iron on Bai Lu's weapon and Pure Iron on Bai Hu's weapon, Zhang Wu Ji crafted them in no time . But because the effort he did with the two weapons is not comparable to the effort he put in making Zhang Wu Chou's Four Season Swords, the two weapons did not happen to house any spirits on the moment of their completion .

Happily, he delivered the two weapons to them in the next morning, but at the same time, the instruction from Headmaster Windchaser came from the Peony Flower City .

"Head to the Chrysanthemum Flower City and help them in reconstructing the City Wall . " the instruction is simple, and within the letter delivered by his personal assistant, two pieces of cards is included .

"Alright . . . Now he wants me to go become a temporary City Lord, and to repair the City Wall for god sake!" Zhang Wu Ji complained, but after meeting up with Meng Ran and informed her about his encounters with Meng Hao, he decided to bring her there to clarify her question before they leave .

Suddenly, a flash of golden light envelops my body . My initially lightly injured body was miraculously healed without myself knowing the reason . Of course, with my body is healed and regrows a pair of wings, I struggle to crawl out from my cocoon .

Before I managed to force open a crack on my cocoon, I was shocked by the explosion happened outside of my cocoon! It was so scary I almost excreted in my own cocoon! Luckily, it did not affect where I am, so I'm literally safe from that sudden explosion .

When I finally crawled out from the cocoon, fire is burning all around our nest . I fly up to see where did the fire encompassed, and felt relief after I know it did not disturb the safety of our nest . If it was destroyed or burnt, how can our nest continue to thrive?

Wait . Why is there so many bamboo leaves on the top? Stupid workers . I bring myself over to the stack of bamboo leaves and tried to remove them, but then, I noticed a big opening in our storage chamber! Oh, Sh*t! We've been robbed! The human just robbed us before they left!

Filled with anxiety and anger, I entered the chamber and checked our resources . Luckily, there is still enough for the larvae to feed themselves, else how are we going to continue to expand? Only the repairing works are going to cost the life of few workers before the hole is covered .

I won't be bothered by them first . The most important thing is to protect my nest . These Fire Spitting Lizards, how dare they come and surround my nest! Let me skewer them with . . . Eh! This . . . What happened to my body? My strength is now a 10th Stage Inner Qi Warrior . I advanced!

I am no longer the 9th Stage Peak Inner Qi Fighter! I am a complete rebirth of our ancestor, the Silver Carapace Bee! This is amazing! Is that because of the light that healed me earlier? I promise myself If I managed to find the person that gave me the healing lights, I will make sure to follow him as my lord!

But before I managed to settle my enemies, a similar Silver Carapace Bee like me appeared . This is impossible, how can two Silver Carapace Bee appear in this nest without a reason? Did he got healed by the light as well? Then that's great . We can plan our rebuilding of the nest immediately .

"Brother Wu Ji, are you sure this is the place you're talking about?" Meng Ran pointed at the small villa located at close to the city's wall . Because of their location, it did not seems like a property belonged to her Meng Family that was well known for their excellent skills in the Formation Profession .

"What can we get from standing outside? Let us go in to ask . " Zhang Wu Ji went forward to knock the door three times after he finished his words . Standing just right behind him, Meng Ran's mind is nervous, anxious, and filled with many different questions .

"Yes? Ah, Master Zhang, it was a good day to see you here today, let me bring you in while I inform about your arrival to the young master . " the butler recognized Zhang Wu Ji the moment he opened the door . By inviting the two guest to come in for a sit and a cup of tea, the butler excused himself to inform his young master about their arrival to this humble abode of the Meng Young Master .

Minutes later, Meng Hao appeared . He was dressed in an attire different from yesterday, but still, it carries the disposition of a rich young master that's doing very well in his family's business . In Zhang Wu Ji's personal opinion, how can somebody rich like Meng Hao has a problem with money? Money should be the last problem in his mind right now .

"Can Meng Hao ask about the reason two distinguish guest came to this villa today? If there is something my ability can help, I will do my best to provide an assistance to brother Zhang and his friend here . " Meng Hao politely asks for the reason for their visit .

Zhang Wu Ji did not speak . But after he cupped his hands together, he pointed his palm at Meng Ran to indicates that it is fine for her to initiates the conversation . As an outsider regarding this matter, it was the best for him to not participates in their discussion .

Young Master Meng Hao, my name is Meng Ran . I belonged to the Meng Clan, one of the four Pillars of the Sealing Formation Sect . Do you know anything related to this matter?" Meng Ran mentioned the information related to her background to the young master to see if he have any idea about what she tried to say .

But after he listened to her words, the butler's expression immediately turned much more serious . He waved his palm to order the servants to leave before throwing down a piece of formation plate that traps the vibration and sounds from getting out from the hall they were located before he bowed to his young master .

"Lady Meng, I want you to repeat the word again . Properly in order . " Meng Hao took a piece of Formation Plate out and hold it in his hand as he injects some Fighter Qi into the plate . Like a voice recognition plate, the machine only reacts when it listened to the special encoding inside the formation plate .

"Meng Ran, Daughter of Meng Yang and Meng Yue, the Outer Delegates of the Sealing Formation Sect's First Pillar . " she read everything out in an order . The Formation Plate that received the messages soon unlocks a record that was stored inside of the Formation Plate for quite long, and transformed into a light that can only be read once before it vanished .

[Daughter, Sealing Formation Sect is gone . We're in hiding . Be careful of the Wang Clan . They collude with the demon in order to usurp the position of the Sect Master and causing the destruction within the Sealing Formation Sect . Do not expose yourself . You're no longer a member of the Sealing Formation Sect . Unless the moon turn red, do not come to the Fenglai Peak]

After she read the messages, the wording vanished . It will be no longer accessible in the future . But after this, a question came into Meng Ran's mind . Who is Meng Hao? And why would he possess this formation plate and stays in this city seemingly doing nothing for the Meng Clan?

She wishes to know more . But before she asked, Zhang Wu Ji hold her hand to stop her from doing so . The formation plate that was used to trap the conversation and vibration from the voice expires because of exhaustion and decayed into a pile of ashes . This also means, their conversation is over .

"We will meet at Fenglai Peak when the moon turns red . For now, please remain strong . " Meng Hao politely cupped his hands together . Carrying no intention to continue the conversation, the butler escorted the two guest to leave their villa without exchanging anymore of the words .

Meng Ran was partially disappointed, and yet, partially relief because her parent's situation is made known to her from reading the piece of messages they left . In her heart, nothing beats the news related to her parent's life and death .

With the Hundred Horses Carriage ready to depart, the two of them traveled in the carriage for another one full day to reaches the Chrysanthemum Flower City . Not even reaching the proximity of the city, Zhang Wu Ji noticed a few towers of smokes burning all around the city wall .

Immediately, Zhang Wu Ji left the carriage with Meng Ran following behind him . His arrival was not received by the City Lord, which means, he's either dead, or he's incapable of handling the task of managing the whole city . Based on how the city looks at this moment, the answer is more likely the latter in his expectation .

Holding the piece of [City Lord Temporal Replacement Plate], Zhang Wu Ji barged into the City Lord Castle to look for their commanding officers . After a few discussion and listening to the book recordings, it seems that during the time the City is under the siege from the Wild Beast in the east mountain, the City Lord is struck by some illness .

This caused the city to fight without a leader . Under the participation of the four Commanding Officers from the North, South, East, and West post, they take the lead and direct four teams of troops to retaliates, but their attempt failed miserably, with one of their 12th Stage Inner Qi Warrior dead before they managed to kill over 200 of the Wild Beast .

Worst of all, the hidden human enemies suspected from the Jie Clan and Upper South Merchant Corporation also taking their part in the attack . Since the opposition of the human forces is expected, when he asked for the clarification of the attacking beast, it seems that only two kind of Wild Beast is this organized in attacking the city .

Tusked Copper Bear, an amazing guerilla fighter with skill on par with human cultivator's Animal Imitation Fist Art . Although their strength is only at the 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, their fighting skills allow them to fight against stronger human and fellow Wild Beast in their Warrior Stage . The Tusked Copper Bear is often taken as the example to describe how Over-Powered is a cultivator against his peers .

As for the second Wild Beast, it's called Firebomb Toad . This Wild Beast of an 8th Stage Inner Qi Fighter is the definition of terror . Their spit burns anything it touches, solid material such as rocks, soils, and branches scattered on the ground can be made into an exploding projectile that fired at the targets . Worst, their whole body can be exploded if they wish, carrying the life-endangering attack strong enough to kill a Warrior Tier Cultivator .

One of the four commanding officers death is connected with their attack, which not only kills the officer, it destroyed the team altogether in a barrage of an explosion . This matter hits the morale of the troops hard before they retreat into the city wall for a battle of endurance . It pitiful to say, their plan did not go as they wish when the Firebomb Toads fired the projectiles continuously to try to destroy the City Wall .

Adding salt into the wound, the people from Jie's Clan and Upper South Merchant Corporation continuously postpone the delivery and supplies using the reason they're not ready for the consignments . The corporation may need to pay a hefty fine for failure to comply with their delivery, but how much would that be?

A mere one to five million fine is not an issue for them if the Chrysanthemum Flower City falls, where the repair cost alone is estimated be between 200 Million to 500 Million Gold Coins . As a businessman, what is fine, if the profit from trying to repair the city worth a few hundred times better?"

Still, it was because the Upper South Merchant Corporation possesses the best mean of delivery and transportation, which is the lifeline of their expanding business . The quote "Business and Wealth, Treasure or not, none of them will be possible without something to deliver" is the slogan of the corporation, which states where do they stand as a corporation .

Not even having a chance to continue with his next question, a deafening explosion came from the city wall and destroyed a third of their upper foundation . With a big opening for the Firebomb Toad to aim their shots into the city, this leads to a complete game changer for the Wild Beast . Soon, a group of Wild Beast under the leadership of the Tusked Copper Bear attacked .

"Fire! Fire at will! Stop all the incoming Wild Beast from trying to climb past the city wall!" the leader of the guards on top ordered . Even he himself has to participate in this fight to not allowing any of the Wild Beast successfully enters the City .

With a population of two million residents, their number of guards ready to deploy is pathetic . With only fifty thousand troops under the leadership of four commanding officers and city lord, they're literally asking for a complete defeat before the fight even started . Armed with only the Willow Crossbow and some Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon in their hand, the troops tried their best to defend the wall, but the number of beasts quickly increased to at least twice the number compared to their first attack .

"Where are the corpses that ready to be processed located?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned the officers as he will need to prepare the troops and weapon to fight against the Beast Infestation . After he asked the question, he was surprised that none of the three officers tried to answer his question . Worst of all, even the treasurer or Granary Chief failed to answer him .

"We . . . do not keep the corpses at all . nobody went out for collection because it was too dangerous . " one of the soldiers answered his question . Although it was fine for him to hear an answer, he was turned speechless on their uselessness!

"Gathers all available troops to defend the eastern wall . Arrange a small team as the scout to monitor the situation in the northern wall and pay attention at the activities from the other county . Come back and inform me if they decided to take an action . "

"I want the City Forge to start operation without closing, and assign fifteen best soldiers to follow my lead . Start building a team that will come out to salvage the ammunition, resources, and collects the corpses of the dead Wild Beast, we will have a use on their corpses . "

After he gives out his order to those officer and department chiefs, Zhang Wu Ji waited for his team of fifteen soldiers to came before him . After they reported for duty, Zhang Wu Ji gives them an instruction to proceed with his plan and took out five Qiyue Flying Sword for them to operates before he left .

It was lucky he's too forgetful . Holding the eleven remaining Fire Lizard's Touch, Zhang Wu Ji ignites them surrounding the city wall to deter the Wild Beast from continue to scale the wall . With a Longfeng Jade Ruler in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji delivered the air blades on the mixture of weak and strong Wild Beast, injuring most and killing few .

"Wow!" the troops on top of the city wall was surprised with the fighting prowess shown by Zhang Wu Ji as he stopped the Wild Beast from continuing to attack the City Wall . Although it was not a surprise for the troops to see the activation of the Fire Lizard's Touch, it was something else when they look a how he activates and utilize them in a fight .

"What are you guys staying idle without doing anything? Assist the people and workers to move their corpses back into the City Granary so they can start processing the edible meat and usable innards and pelts!" he ordered before landing on the ground, facing the fierce stare from the Firebomb Toads .

"Croak!" one of the Firebomb Toad spits a mouthful of burning saliva on Zhang Wu Ji . But instead of coming close, Zhang Wu Ji adjusted the size of the lone air blade and directed its trajectory towards the Firebomb Toad . Burnt by its own spit, the Firebomb Toad cried in anguish as it escaped into the forest once more along with the other Firebomb Toads .

Left with only some random Lizards and apes without a leader, Zhang Wu Ji only need to take care of the Tusked Copper Bear . With a swing of a hand, Zhang Wu Ji kept the Longfeng Jade Ruler aside and step closer to the Tusked Copper Bear and see how it reacts . When it suddenly shift from all four into standing position, Zhang Wu Ji almost wanted to laugh .

"I'll see myself how good I fare against a Peak Fighter Tier Wild Beast in pure physical strength!" with his fist hammering at each another, Zhang Wu Ji charged at the Tusked Copper Bear to take it down using his fists . Through the skill from his WUJI Long Fist and Collapsing Fist Manual, Zhang Wu Ji fights against the bear in an extremely bloody battle .

The Tusked Copper Bear roared in anger when it still failed to defeat Zhang Wu Ji in a fist-fight . As a proud Wild Beast that ruled the Eastern Willow Forest's Outskirt, how can their tribe continue to put their head high if it lost to a human? Furthermore, in a fist fight?

"ROAR!" the Tusked Copper Bear howled and slammed the ground as it jumps on Zhang Wu Ji to executes a decisive attack . Likewise, Zhang Wu Ji decided executes his decisive attack as well . With the Fire Element surrounding his fist, Zhang Wu Ji uses his first to strikes to deflected the bear's attack before he landed an uppercut on its jaw .

The Tusked Copper Bear falls down unconscious . As the next leader of the pack, another Tusked Copper Bear howled and order a retreat, which all the other Wild Beast obeyed and run into the forest . Retreating as it stares on the human that defeated their leader, the remaining Tusked Copper Bears turned only when they went past the dense foliage .

"Victory! Victory!" the human troops on the wall shouts in delight for having their first successful victory against the Beast Infestation . But it wasn't over yet, as one of the leaders is still yet to be captured or defeated . Furthermore, it was unknown that if there's any other Wild Beast Leader yet to make their move and hiding inside the forest .

Under his strict leadership, Zhang Wu Ji rearranged the mess inside the city, before he ordered the residents in their workable age to contributes in preparing the bricks and building paste that will be used in repairing the City Wall .

But when a matter is done, another problem arises . The supplies that were supposed to be delivered later today is delayed once more under the reason of not having enough manpower to fight against the Beast Infestation Attack . Plus because their special mean of transport is extremely precious, they will have to obey its wish if the beast hesitates to move .

Listening to all of their argument and concerns, Zhang Wu Ji held an urge to slaughter these peoples to calm his fury . Without the supplies, how are the repairing of the Eastern City Wall begins? They're not only lack of production supplies, but even the food problem may also arise in the next one to two days .

"This city is corrupted from the top to the bottom . No wonder the problem happened for so long and yet, nothing is done . " Zhang Wu Ji talks to himself before somebody knocked the door into his room . When Zhang Wu Ji went to tend the matter, the fifteen troops under his direct instruction came to him along with the Tusked Copper Bear in a cage .

As a defeated warrior, the beast no longer gives the proud disposition from its eyes . Instead of feeling pity, Zhang Wu Ji kneeled at a knee before the beast and applied a Small Nourishment Art on the beast to heal its injury . He did not bother to study the beast after that .

"Why didn't this human killed me when he could?" this question pops up in its mind as it falls flat on Zhang Wu Ji's side to see what he tried to do . Noticing that Zhang Wu Ji was unbothered by the action of approaching, he went to his front to inspect this human .

Still not a qualified Beast Tamer in his profession, Zhang Wu Ji chemistry with the Tusked Copper Bear can be said to be friendly . Like a pup filled with curiosity, the Tusked Copper Bear approached him few times to see what will this human do, until it was boring and went to lied just by the side of this powerful human .

While in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji entered a deep thought . Something related to how can he manage the city properly without causing too much disturbance and wreckage between the relationship of this three different counties . But the main issue is that not too deep into his thought, Zhang Wu Ji's mind returned to when he sneakily plays the Real Time Strategy Game in his previous life .

"Why not . . . We have some fun with the people from other parties?" Zhang Wu Ji wakes up from his daze and stares at the Tusked Copper Bear before he smiled . In his mind, a sneaky trick pops into him, as he tries to include the bear in his little show .

Hidden under the darkness, a four-legged silhouette leap over the protective barrier belonged to the Tusked Copper Bear's nest and entered the core of their nest without alarming any of the sleeping bears . Instead of announcing its return, the Tusked Copper Bear Zhang Wu Ji defeated lightly wakes the bears that loyal to him to follow him and escape from the nest .

Among the hundred and twenty Tusked Copper Bears in the nest, only thirty-three included itself, left the nest in order to follow their new master . Moving in a pack, they quickly reach an entrance into the Chrysanthemum Flower City, which was purposely hidden by some mechanical equipment and fake foliage .

They entered the entrance of two meters wide and two meters tall, and was quickly assembled in the Secret Chamber, where it was prepared as a bunker for the important people such as the City Lord, the Department Chiefs, and some high ranking officers . But now, it becomes the base for the pack of Tusked Copper Bears .

"Ahem . " a cough belonged to a human vibrates in the chamber, and alerted all the bears in this chamber . Except for the leader still able to maintain his calmness, the others are all into their aggressive mode, with their claws and jaws are all ready to attack at any time .

"ROAR!" the leader Tusked Copper Bear came forward and stands beside the human to allow himself to be petted . This action made the younger bear cubs to not be so cautious against this human, but for the juvenile bears, it was a completely different story . They participate in the fight against the human before, which is why their conservative judgment against a human is much more different compared to the cubs .

As to handle these little kids in the pack, the human took some Qi Sensing Pills and fed them through a few flicks of his finger . After tasting the sweetness came from the human, their alertness against this person is reduced to minimal . After a few rounds of feedings through his flick of a finger, the group of juvenile cubs completely lost their composure and behaves like a child instead .

"How shameless are all of you . A few pills and you're exposed to your belly to his human . At least your leader, I, got beaten until fainted before he healed me and ordered me to follow him . How can the pack of Tusked Copper Bears grows if you're all so pampered?"

"Alright, mealtime is done . If you follow me, you guys are going to get good food every day, but if you don't listen to my words, I'm going to let you starve, alright? Come on, tell them . . . " the human turned out to be Zhang Wu Ji . As he speaks, the leader bear listened carefully as it knows that his position is going to be between his packs and the human master .

"ROAR! ROROROROAR! (Human say, you good, food good . You bad, no food)" Unknown to how the leader Tusked Copper Bear is delivering the words, the bears all stand up on their two feet and cries out loudly . It seems like a cry filled with complaints, but in fact, all of them were happy with the treatments .

Leaving the packs of Tusked Copper Bears for time being, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the City Forge to massively produce the Willow Crossbows and a sub-variation product that uses the Explosive Sack from the Firebomb Toad to creates the Fire Toad's Touch . Only after giving them a direction to follow Zhang Wu Ji left in secret to the Northern direction, in order to see if the reports from the scouting team are accurate .

About 300km outside from the City Wall, Zhang Wu Ji found the convoy belonged to the Upper South Merchant Corporation . With members of between 200 to 300 men strong, they're busy enjoying their food and drinks without a hint of having difficulties to deliver the purchased order made by the Chrysanthemum Flower City . This intention alone already stated their standing in this matter .

"Let's see . . . 275 members . 175 male and 100 females . Wait . . . Alright, total that up to 300 now . " Zhang Wu Ji made a head count to expect the accurate numbers of staff handling the delivery of this convoy . When he just finished with their overall count, a carriage pulled by two Peony Fleeting Stallion then appeared, with twenty five skimpily dressed ladies coming out and went into the embrace of the guys .

From their appearance, this twenty-five people with the twenty-five butterflies are the people in charge . Without wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji uses his Orchid Assassination Art to get closer to the party and having his first expression of a live performance of a mass orgy .

Although he did exercise a lot in his youth before coming into this world, the hormone that spreads all around this location still aroused him slightly, as he steps closer to the Carriage filled with materials . Afraid that he will end up getting locked inside of the carriage if he tried to steal something, Zhang Wu Ji is smart enough to not steal the supplies in the carriage, but outside of the carriage .

With a few mild flashes, Zhang Wu Ji steals the rope, wooden wheel, and the saddle that tied the carriage with the pulling beast together, and many mere items such as their wine jar, foods, swords, and spears . Only after all of their items went missing the people started to feel weird about it .

"Where did the wine go? What are you guys looking at? Go grab another bottle . . . Ah??? Where is my belt?" one of the loudest guys shouts when he found out the items nearby already went missing . Some of the guards stand up to look for their equipment but found nothing except the mound that previously holds their weapons together .

The situation turned into an unrest due to the missing item all around them . Even the twenty-five convoy officers lost a few items, such as their weapon, the girl's clothing, their shoes, handkerchief, and even sniff bottle that dropped on the ground . Literally, all item that can be stolen is gone from their side .

"Quick! Check the carriage and see if anything is trapped inside!" their leader exposed his identity and ordered a few members to check the carriage . The moment they go in, the gate immediately locked . Crying to be released, the leader went to the carriage and stop the mechanical engine on the base of the carriage and remove the lock .

"If there's nothing in the cage, then that means some Wild Beast is causing trouble with us, and not the people from the Chrysanthemum Flower City . Everyone get ready and move forward again . We will get a rest after six hours!" the leader instructed everyone to get ready before they started to move .

Sneakily, he took the golden bell out in the open and creates the chime that will attract the Wild Beast . After a few rings, a Wild Beast with the shape of a three meters gorilla appeared from the forest and came closer to the Convoy Leader to let him inspects the belonging tied behind the beast .

"No wonder . . . The real treasure is not on the carriage Pulled by the Peony Fleeting Stallions but on this silverback Gorilla . The strength of this beast cannot be underestimated too . . . " Zhang Wu Ji inspects the situation from afar pinpoints each of their action before he planned their next attack against them later in the sunset . But before that, he will have to handle the issue with this 15th Stage Inner Qi Warrior Tier's Silverback Gorilla .

After he left them aside, Zhang Wu Ji flew back to the city to plan for his next move . With the outside of the City, Wall is under the attack from the Wild Beast again, Zhang Wu Ji deployed two teams of troops to meet their attack in the open and retaliates .

Armed with Willow Crossbows, their rain of bolts easily killed most of the vanguards before the heavier troops arrived into the battlefield . As for the problem to handle the heavier Wild Beast, the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon's team is arranged to overcome their attack .

This was the first complete victory for the human side, after being pushed back many times until now . This results further implies the importance of having a proper commanding officer in battle . With an aim in their mind now, the human forces increased and become stronger . Along with the support that continuously came from Peony Flower City, the rebuilding of Chrysanthemum Flower City quickly reaches their completion state, right before the convoy from the Upper South Merchant Corporation .

What will they think about when the destruction of the city did not happen? According to the report from the treasurer, their order was made ten days ago, until Zhang Wu Ji was here for his fourth day . This means the delay of the delivery has been late for over a week long . With the penalty rate of 1 Million Gold Coins / daily, the Upper South Merchant Corporation is expected to pay at least 7 million when their delivery reaches the city .

But unfortunate to them, Zhang Wu Ji's intention is not as kind as this . With the group of thirty-three Tusked Copper Bears under his Foods-Command, Zhang Wu Ji took the lead to attack the convoy to serve as a distraction, while a few of them will target the convoy leader in order to steal the golden bell from him .

That attack was too organized, leaving even the convoy leader himself to feel something wrong in this attack . After noticing that he lost the golden bell in his pocket, he becomes panic, but afraid that he will lose his life if he tried to randomly look for the Silverback Gorilla that recognizes the golden bell but not the person holding it .

While he spends the time to search for the Silverback Gorilla, Zhang Wu Ji already summoned it earlier from a location about half an hour away from their initial position, and clear the backpack of the beast after he fed it with many Qi Sensing Pills .

This time, the Upper South Merchant Corporation is going to suffer a huge loss . When Zhang Wu Ji reaches the Chrysanthemum Flower City, he was greeted with the view of two hundred Convoy Escort Members that failed to complete their task . With the materials is stolen in the middle of their trip here, this trip here is a complete loss .

As the acting City Lord, Zhang Wu Ji holds the right to executes them before they request for the compensation from the Merchant Corporation . But what these people did not imagine that the culprit behind all of this is standing just before them . Looking at their pitiful appearance, Zhang Wu Ji felt like laughing out loud .

"City Lord Zhang, please give us another chance . " the leader begged on behalf of all his members to be given another chance . Nobody wanted to die for nothing, especially the order they received is only to delay the delivery to the city by few days . The occurred expenses will be completely covered by the Upper South Merchant Corporation instead .

"What is the compensation we will get if we let you go?" Zhang Wu Ji stares at the leader with a fierce expression, which left the leader to become speechless from his overbearing disposition .

"No wonder the city is able to deflect the attack from Beast Infestation without trouble and supplies from us!" the leader finally realized how foolish is his action to listen to their corporation's instruction and try to fight against his ability to lead a city . If Zhang Wu Ji decides to behead them to ease his fury, will any of them able to escape this fate?

"City Lord Zhang, please pity the two hundred members here with families and parents back home, and be merciful on all of us . Your kindness will be remembered until the day we're dead . If we can do anything on behalf of the city, please go ahead and order us to do it . " the Convoy Leader kneeled and speaks .

Leaving the situation to be handled by the people of the city, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his accommodation before he tells Meng Ran to keep the secret of his disappearance . Using the Orchid Assassination Art, he stealthily went to the chamber resides by the Tusked Copper Bears to reward them for their performance today .

Without holding back, Zhang Wu Ji flings a total of 3,300 Qi Sensing Pills out as the rewards before he moves his finger to call the leader over to his side . With a hand on the bear's head, Zhang Wu Ji makes sure his departure is made known to the leader and its tribe .

"I will return to where I came in another few more days . This means we will be separated from each another . I come from the Seven Star County, the upper part of the Bamboo Forest . Do you want to stay here or follow me back?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned the bear leader .

The bear stares at him for a moment before it went to pat the other bear cubs inside the chamber . After hesitates for a moment, the Tusked Copper Bear Leader gave Zhang Wu Ji a bow before it returned to the side of the other younger cubs .

"I approve your decision . On behalf of your tribe, I will request the City Lord and Chief Treasurer to give your people some protection . In return, protect this city and communicates with the others . Make something different, and don't be satisfied by becoming a mere Ruler of the Eastern Forest . " Zhang Wu Ji said and gave a pat on the leader's head .

"Small Nourishment Art!" Zhang Wu Ji gives his blessing to the bear leader before leaving . In the next morning, the personal attendants of Headmaster Windchaser come with the request to summon Zhang Wu Ji to return to the Peony Flower City . This means he completed the task the headmaster assigned him to do .

Riding the Hundred Horses Carriage once more, their return trip back to the Peony Flower City took him three days . And when he reaches the city, Zhang Wu Ji's arrival is welcomed by all the residents everywhere inside the city . Under the escort of the residents, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the Mystic Engineer Establishment to meet the headmaster .

This time, the headmaster's impression on him become much better, with the confidence that this youth will not disappoint him . With a wave of his hand, the headmaster delivered a scroll that twice thicker than the usual blueprints he'd seen before . As he read the title, a box of description appears .

-Information: The Iron Kong-Que (Peacock) is created by an unknown Celestial Designer in his prime after he was mesmerized by the beautiful flight appearance of a Golden Feather Peacock . Inspired by the dream to ride one, the Celestial Designer created this blueprint .

"Oh my god . . . Look at their requirement to create this Metal Bird . And it was still a First-Grade treasure . . . " Zhang Wu Ji almost turned speechless by the heavy requirement to forge this metal bird, but still, he's satisfied with the fact he obtained the blueprint in hand .

"Headmaster Windchaser, Junior Zhang Wu Ji greatly appreciate this generous gift . " Zhang Wu Ji was completely taken aback by the elder's action of giving him the blueprint, thus, he kneeled on both knees to display his highest appreciation towards the elder .

Carrying the disposition of a headmaster, Windchaser uses his Lord Qi to bring Zhang Wu Ji back on his knees before they communicate in an equal position . This form of respect is given only to those that willing to give their all to a completely random people without asking for any return . For somebody rich of the experience like Windchaser, such a person is a treasure of a sect that shall be protected at all cost .

"Master Windchaser, can this junior ask, at where can this junior found the Small Fighter Qi Weaving Stone and a large number of High-Quality Element Crystals?" Zhang Wu Ji can't help but ask about this two main ingredients and their whereabouts . As for the Iron Wood and four different kinds of Iron Metal, It wasn't a problem at all for him to produce them by himself .

Next, the blood of Wild Beast and Pure Water can be obtained through his own mean as well, leaving him with the two items as the most difficult ingredient for him to procure .

"I know where can you obtain the Fighter Qi Weaving Stones, but the number of stones you will get is depending on your personal luck . What's more, the location to get this Weaving Stone is extremely dangerous . " Master Windchaser replied .

"Master Windchaser, please share the location with this junior . I will try my best to see if I am up to the challenge . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hands together hoping the master will share with him the whereabouts of the location .

"I'm not sure are you up to the challenge . . . The location is one of the Mineral Vein belonged to the Upper South Merchant Corporation jurisdiction, the Red Mineral Vein Cave . This location is one of the lower-tier caves that produce a large amount of Ruby Gem and guarded by ten Inner Qi Warrior Cultivators . " the elder explained the situation of this location, and strongly insist that this is only his estimation, nothing more .

"So . . . All this junior need is to mess with their operation and try my best to enter their cave to look for the Qi Weaving Stone, correct? I have a good feeling this is going to be extremely fun . . . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled the moment he heard about the few keywords in the explanation .

Upper South Merchant Corporation, Red Mineral Vein Cave with Ruby Gem as their main product, and cause havoc to those that supporting Yang Chen Kun's faction .

"Brother Yong Lie, are you sure it will be fine?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned Yong Lie while following him to the border of the Willow Timber County . The moment he crosses the border, Zhang Wu Ji will enter the vicinity of the Crystalline River County, which is under the jurisdiction of the Upper South Merchant Corporation .

And at a location not too far from the border is the Red Mineral Vein Cave . Different from how the miner in Western Mountain operates, the Red Mineral Vein Cave preferred Underground Mining instead due to the populated Ruby Gem under the rock . Which is why when compared to Open-Pit Mining, their cost is somewhat higher .

When the two reaches the barricaded area with some guards patrolling, Zhang Wu Ji first impression on this Red Mineral Vein Cave is not astonishing, but despicable . The workers here are not miners but prisoners . The fact each of them has a ball of steel chained on their legs is notable, added with the supervisor is not holding drinks nor foods, but whips .

"Brother Yong Lie, are they prisoners? Like those captured bandits or murderer?" Zhang Wu Ji hates the way those people controlling the Red Mineral Vein Cave works, but if the people forced for the heavy labor is the death-sentenced prisoner or ex-bandits, then he will not feel bothered by their action . But if these people they whipped belonged to the exploited labor, Zhang Wu Ji will not forgive them .

After familiarizing himself with the surrounding of this Mountain and its cluster of smaller mountains, Zhang Wu Ji sent Yong Lie away before he proceeds with his plan . Through his Orchid Assassination Art, Zhang Wu Ji stealthily sneaks into one of the cabins surrounding the entrance of the Red Mineral Vein Cave to inspects their paperwork .

With his hand laid on this four stacks of paperwork, Zhang Wu Ji stole them before he escaped from the cabin and went to a secluded area and went through them before he found out the situation between the Red Mineral Vein Cave and the Upper South Merchant Corporation works . They were the typical Slave-Trader organization after world war 2 that promises good job and money before sending them to this kind of hell .

Written inside the Slave Miner Contract and Debt Miner Contract, this two belonged to the exploited category . They're promised with a good job, family visiting opportunity, and a lucrative amount of salary . But after signing the contract that allows themselves to be managed by the Red Mineral Mountain Corporation, their hell will starts .

As for the Death-Sentenced Miner Contract, this group was the majority of the people working in this Red Mineral Vein Cave . Most of them were ex-bandit, fugitive, rapist, murderer, and money launderer . By handling the governing law stricter, the Upper South Merchant Corporation can easily obtain additional manpower to be allocated to the mining purposes . This kind of fate is most likely to fall on each of the members that delayed the Convoy Delivery to Chrysanthemum Flower City .

After reading all the corrupted contracts and slave exploitations, Zhang Wu Ji sour mood is sweetened by the appearance of the Account Book . Although the report within is somewhat unorganized, the most basic information related to their product is still written clearly on the book, indicating the number of transactions they made along with a list of complete materials .

Rubies in a different class, Silica Powder, and Qi Weaving Stone . Although the book in his hand only has three Qi Weaving Stones found from early of the year until now, the fact they found three Qi Weaving Stones exist . This is the reason why Headmaster Windchaser recommends this location to look for the Qi Weaving Stone .

Smiling in delight, Zhang Wu Ji turned invisible once more and selected one of the cave's opening . Because the path downwards is illuminated by the Low-Quality Night Glowing Pearl, he met with no obstructions until he was between 500 to 600 meters deep underground . Already entering one of the main Mining Chamber, Zhang Wu Ji scatters his strands of Inner Qi surrounding him to find the location with strong suction power .

It wasn't until half an hour later he found an incomplete tunnel that was neglected aside . Looking at the bloodstain on the ground, maybe an accident just happened at this spot not long ago . Since the miners skipped it on purpose, this location will be the best for him to start mining . Furthermore, the underground mine is extremely noisy throughout the whole day, making Zhang Wu Ji to not worry about his attempt in mining for the Rubies .

With the Dual-Headed Pickaxe in hand, Zhang Wu Ji began to pick the wall for their hidden gems . It did not take him too long to fill all the Spatial Stones he brought . With only the Spatial Ring left, Zhang Wu Ji decided to do something different . Moving from one tunnel to another, he steals the gemstones mined by the Death-Sentenced Miners before he left the cave .

"Damn . I forget . . . With the way back to the Peony Flower City is half a day journey, how many time can I travel? But without going back to the city, it is impossible for me to refine and smelt the Rubies into usable material . " Zhang Wu Ji considered his options . His first option is to return to the Peony Flower City to smelt the rubies before returning to the Red Mineral Vein Cave . This option cost him more time, but it will be a lot safer than the second option .

The second option will be renting a temporary workshop that can store and work with the material he obtained in the Red Mineral Vein Cave . But based on how the Upper South Merchant Corporation conducted their shady business in the Crystalline River County, this option will make him extremely vulnerable . The reason is due to his undisclosed wealth and also the unlawful conduct to refine the materials without a prior work license .

Like how it was in his former world, the license that was issued to him will protect him from any unfavorable business decision, but at the same time, it also equals to admitting your wealth and submitting what you have to the corporation without voicing out their dissatisfaction . In this world, the Issued License is the permission to open slavery .

Putting the pro and cons into consideration, Zhang Wu Ji finalized his decision to return to the Peony Flower City for now . This reason for this decision is due to his own safety, and also, because of the opportunity to obtain more spatial resources in Peony Flower City is greater . By following the way he came, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the city in no time before he took a spot in the City Forge .

Unfortunately, he lacked the knowledge and manual book to promotes the improvement of his own Rubies . This means, all the ruby he smelted will have to be stored aside to be reprocessed again in the future . Although, this doesn't mean he cannot try to refine them to his best before they were placed into his side storage .

After taking the reference example available in the City Forge, Zhang Wu Ji tried to compare his product against the reference example . Unexpected even to himself, the Ruby Crystal Pillar he smelted are in their Advance-Grade, a class better than the Military-Grade .

"Ah . . . No wonder the Red Mineral Vein Cave's product is highly sought after . It was for this reason alone . Now, even myself is tempted to collect more of them to see what comes out from the Grain of Fire Ruby . " Zhang Wu Ji stares at the piece of Ruby Crystal Pillar illuminates by the flames from the furnace .

After processing the Crystal Ores in his storage, Zhang Wu Ji decided to make something out from the resource he has in mind . Deep inside him, the eagerness to try something new appeared, especially since he possessed the blueprint for Onyx-Class Spatial Ring, along with the Spatial Formation Inscription, his system, and his Blacksmithing Skills .

To begin with, Zhang Wu Ji first needed a few different materials to evaluates their differences in quality . After checking the available materials in the City Forge's Sales Board, Zhang Wu Ji fixed his mind by choosing three materials . They're respectively, the [Ironwood], the [Pure Iron], and his own [Damascus Iron] .

Set with three materials, he'd have to improvise the Spatial Formation Inscription next . After a study between his own improvised inscription with the one recorded in the blueprint, their different was a mere three additional lines . After he joined the two Spatial Formation Inscription together, Zhang Wu Ji prep himself with the inscriptions a few times before he ready to start .

With the new Formation Engraving Chisel in hand, Zhang Wu Ji started with the Ironwood first . As the three choices of material are one level above the common Stone Slabs, their sizes, weight, and engraving can be adjusted to suit the requirement of the Spatial Formation Inscription .

Here and there, Zhang Wu Ji spent the whole night to modify the Spatial Stone to suit and fits his inscription . The reason for all these difficulties is due to his improvised Spatial Formation Inscription, where it carries thirty additional lines compared to the version provided to the public . No matter anywhere he goes, with this improvised inscription alone, Zhang Wu Ji can easily obtain a status of a noble anytime he wanted .

Behind him, stands Meng Ran . Remaining quiet as Zhang Wu Ji continues to research the most balanced proportion for his own Spatial Stone, Meng Ran can't stop herself to be impressed by his devotion in completing this task . As a fellow Formation Master as well, she felt a hint of shame, not because of her talent is nowhere above Zhang Wu Ji, but her lack of dedication like him .

"Perhaps, everything he has come from his devotion towards the profession itself . If I put similar dedication in my Formation Study as he does, where will I stand after a year?" the charred line of her dedication found its spark once again, as it started to burn again . Her tired pair of eyes from the formation studies changed into a pair of fiery glare once more .

No longer wasting her time standing behind him, Meng Ran stepped to the City Forge's Sales Board to purchase some materials helpful for her improvement and returned to their shared accommodation . (And this arrangement is under Yong Lie's effort to do something for his dense brother . Which going to proof pointless, especially towards his brother with plentiful of experience in the modern virtual world)

Finally, Zhang Wu Ji achieved the results he wanted . Because of a certain quality, restriction, and Natural governing Law related to the Formation of Inscription and its effect, he can only set his mind with the Ironwood as his upgraded version of Spatial Stone . In fact, the three materials do appear as a completed craft, but, only the Ironwood version carries this notification on completion .

Zhang Wu Ji considered the option he has in his mind while inspecting this piece of treasure he made . Compared against the traditional Spatial Stone that carries the appearance of a cigarette box, the newer version of his Ironwood-made Spatial Stone comes with a smoother surface because of the durable yet easily decorated material .

In the term of size, his version is thinner, almost similar to a business card holder that can be stored inside the pocket . As it was made from Ironwood, the weight comparison was three times lighter, about 170gm compared to the 600gm Stone Slab . After all the consideration, Zhang Wu Ji mind is finally set in one name .

"System, name the treasure as [Wooden Universal Plate]" Zhang Wu Ji pronounces the word gently and waits for the system's next response . After a few minutes later, a description of the treasure came out nowhere .

-Information: Researched and crafted by First-Grade Celestial Designer, Zhang Wu Ji . This Universal Plate carries an improvised Spatial Formation Inscriptions within that allows the treasure to be kept outside of corrosion of time .

"Finally . . . Success . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled . With this treasure in his hand, he can reduce the number of back and forth from the Peony Flower City to the Red Mineral Vein Cave . Afraid he will meet with something unexpected, Zhang Wu Ji crafted a dozen of the Dual-Headed Pickaxes and six more Wooden Universal Plates to be stored inside his Onyx-Class Spatial Ring before return to his accommodation .

Taking a good rest the moment he went inside the room, Zhang Wu Ji slept for a total of ten hours before he wakes up from slumber . After putting on a clean robe, he went out from his room and was escorted to the Flying Flavors Pavilion for breakfast together with Yong Lie, Miss Mu, and Meng Ran . After the meal, Zhang Wu Ji stops Yong Lie and Miss Mu to present them with his small gift before he left with Meng Ran .

Similarly, he gave a piece of the Wooden Universal Plate for Meng Ran to replace the weighty pile of Spatial Stones . After finishing what he has to do, Zhang Wu Ji headed to the Red Mineral Vein Cave once more . The only thing is, he's here to pillage them from bringing away any of the Crystal Ores from the cave .

But out of his expectation, the security covering the Red Mineral Mountain became stricter than how it was three days ago . Corpses of the miners can be seen hung on the gallows, most probably due to the failure to collect enough crystal ores to report for their day . Among the corpses, Zhang Wu Ji recognizes half of them, which belonged to the group of Death-Sentenced Miners he stole from .

"I guess that is their standard procedure to deal with miners that failed to meet with their daily expectation . Too bad I don't know any of the people from Slave-Miner Contract and Debt-Miner Contract . Else, I can at least save you guys from staying in this hell of a hole . " Zhang Wu Ji shakes his head left to right as he entered the cave once more . Returning to his previous spot, Zhang Wu Ji dug deeper into the tunnel, and slowly increasing the depth of the pit until he was estimated 650 meters deep underground .

With fewer than ten tunnels is below 600 meters beneath the surface, the number of crystal ores left untouched by the miners is abundant . Almost in every hit from his pickaxe, between one to two geodes will appear . But up till now, Zhang Wu Ji still failed to spot any of the Qi Weaving Stone inside the mine . But that's fine as he wasn't in a rush at this moment, added with three tonnes of storage space with him, it wasn't an issue for him to stay for three days inside here .

Sadly, before his first day passed, an official member from the Upper South Merchant Corporation came to the Red Mineral Mountain without any prior notice and alerting all the miners and supervisors . Because the rule required all residents of the Crystalline River County to pay their respect to the official members from the corporation, his arrival summoned everyone within the mine .

Knowing no rules related to such a matter, Zhang Wu Ji continues with his progress in mining . The heaven was treating him extremely well when his digging exposed a part of rocks that was different from the majority of the silicate rocks . Putting on more strength to reveal the content hidden inside of the stones, he alarmed the people outside of the mines .

"Who the hell did not come out to pay their respect at me? I will personally go in and teach this miner a lesson! After that, I will make sure to cut off his four limbs to give me some amusement!" the official member steps closer to the cave's entrance, but not stepping . After waiting for a moment, he pointed at two supervisors and ordered them to come closer .

"Yes, young sir . How can these two subordinates help you?" they approached the official member and half kneeled by his side waiting for his order . Unfortunate for them, a fist with the force of a 10th Stage Inner Qi Warrior hit their face and leaving the two in injuries . Using his finger to lift one supervisor to stand up, he throws him inside the cave .

"DId the Upper South Merchant Corporation feed you guys with mud? Bring me to where the sound of picking the wall came from!" the official member continues to throw his temper against the two supervisors and even force one of them to take the lead to where Zhang Wu Ji located .

After walking for a while, the group reaches the tunnel into the descending slope where Zhang Wu Ji dig for the crystal ores while looking for the Qi Weaving Stone . Entering the tunnel, they saw Zhang Wu Ji holding a shining rock in his hand for a few seconds of inspection before he kept it into his Onyx-Class Spatial Ring .

"Finally found one of them . Eh? Why are there so many people coming here out of sudden?" the sound created by the people coming down to his tunnel has warned him after he stored the Qi Weaving Stone . But that was a split moment too late as the official member already noticed the stone he kept in his Spatial Ring!

"It's him!" the official member and Zhang Wu Ji instantly caught the other's identity when they eyes met . The official member has seen Zhang Wu Ji before during the Counties Annual Gathering, and similarly, Zhang Wu Ji also recognizes this person from the participants belonged to the Upper South Merchant Corporation .

"Zhang Wu Ji! If you leave that Qi Weaving Stone and your other treasures aside, I will consider giving you an opportunity to leave this tunnel!" the official member tried to threatened Zhang Wu Ji . Based on his position, he has the right to do so . It's just unfortunate that the person he met is not others but the notoriously dense Zhang Wu Ji .

"As if I need your permission to leave . " Zhang Wu Ji replied him straightaway with a hand cannon suddenly appeared out of thin air . Remembering the moment when people from the Blood Art Sect is shot by the Iron Ball inside and flying like an arrow, the face of the official member becomes pale . As he prepared to retreat for a few steps, Zhang Wu Ji already fired his shot!

"Boom!" The shot from Zhang Wu Ji's hand cannon blast opens a path for him to escape through another tunnel . Using his Orchid Assassination Art immediately the moment he saw the opportunity, Zhang Wu Ji escaped from them .

Even with the differences in cultivation strength, not a single person among the opposing forces has the experience in how to handle this matter . How are they going to chase somebody that vanished right in front of their eyes? The crowd stares blankly on the opened tunnel leading to elsewhere without knowing what to do .

"Chase, you idiot! What are you idling around for?" The official member from the corporation shouts at the other supervisors . But unfortunately, the moment all of them went out from Zhang Wu Ji's tunnel, a silhouette revealed himself from staying quiet earlier .

The silhouette is none other than Zhang Wu Ji himself . After leaving the people with an impression he left the tunnel, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his initial location to catch them unaware . Plus, based on the importance of producing the Crytal Ores to their corporation, they will not halt the production for too long .

This is why Zhang Wu Ji returned to his tunnel again . After idling for half an hour, the mining cave returned to their noisy environment again . Miners with their pickaxes came back and entered their own tunnel to continue their works, with one exception .

This miner came back to his tunnel only to found a giant hole going deeper for thirty to forty meters deeper . As one of the most hardworking miners among everyone here, he's the only one with the deepest tunnel . Furthermore, he's the person reported in the Account Book that found the three Qi Weaving Stones from the starting of the year .

"Why did a hole like this suddenly appeared in my tunnel?" to an experienced miner like him, a sudden appearance of a sinkhole indicates that below this spot is a giant open chamber . But its because he didn't consider the possibility of something like a cannon shot through the hole .

Assuming that continue to work here is dangerous, he left his tunnel and went somewhere else . As for Zhang Wu Ji, after making sure there's nothing else for him to be worried about, he continues with the mining progress . With the guy from Upper South Merchant Corporation is here, he knows that this might be the last opportunity for him to look for the Qi Weaving Stone .

By using the same method as before, Zhang Wu Ji no longer keeps the intention to mine silently as the people from the corporation already know he's here . Based on the number of pickaxes in hand, Zhang Wu Ji estimated that before all of the pickaxes reaches their green state (all Dual-Headed Pickaxes turn green when their durability is at 5 points), it should be enough for him to fills the spatial storage in his hand .

Furthermore, his intention here is not to collect all the materials, but only the Crystal Ores with a high concentration of rubies inside, and also to search for the Qi Weaving Stone . The ease of no longer needed to keep a low profile helps because he can start mining like a berserker swinging his blade in a circle .

All Zhang Wu Ji needed to do is to destroy the wall before he started to inspect the chunk of rocks one after another . As long any of them has a concentration of 25% ruby within, he will collect them into his Wooden Universal Plate . With the weight limit of almost 4 tonnes, it should be enough to get him busy for at least three to four days .

"Found one more!" Zhang Wu Ji noticed a suction force not too far from his direction . Immediately, he rushes over to begin with the process of unearthing the Qi Weaving Stone . This process continues for two more days, where he finally complete his quota of looking for four Qi Weaving Stone .

"Great! I can leave now!" Zhang Wu Ji checked his spatial inventory to confirm his possession of the four Qi Weaving Stones . After affirming their numbers, Zhang Wu Ji leaves the cave as soon as possible . But the thing just won't go well like everyone wishes .

The moment he exits the cave, few silver-made bells chimes loudly and revealed his hidden body from using the Orchid Assassination Art . With his existence in the Mining Caves is exposed, Zhang Wu Ji has officially entered the state of becoming a fugitive to the Upper South Merchant Corporation!

" Damn bell!" Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the Jade Ruler in his spatial ring and sends a wave of air blades to destroys the silver bells they arranged on the ground . But he did not expect that this attack ends up activating another trap!

The firing barrel of the ballista pops up from their hidden chambers . With Zhang Wu Ji as their targets, the Ballista fired . Bolt with the length of 5 feet and 20cm thick pierced through the air as it approached where Zhang Wu Ji stands .

But the master senior has no intention to remain here playing with all of them . By activating his Bronze Emperor Wheel ability, Zhang Wu Ji swings the wheel against the attacking bolt and destroys them before he tossed the Fire Lizard's Touch and Fire Toad's Touch randomly . The fire caused by the explosions disrupts the others from attacking but also stops himself from escaping .

Zhang Wu Ji monitored his opponent's activity, and with a sneak attack, he fired a continuous barrage of bolts from his Willow Crossbow to bring his opponents to the ground . Surrounded by fire around him, no Inner Qi Warrior tried to step through the flame to apprehend him .

"Surround him! I want to see how he's going to escape!" the official member of the corporation ordered . But a flying sword climbing upwards into the sky before leaving to the Willow Timber County .

"He got a flying sword? How can he be that rich!" the official member's jealousy against the senior master gets deeper . First of all, Zhang Wu Ji found a Qi Weaving Stone in the mines . And now, he left on a flying sword after destroying the trap formation plate he bought from the organization .

"I will return to the Upper South Merchant Corporation and report to the organization . " The official member planned to leave as soon as possible on his personal Peony Fleeting Stallion .

And on his way back, he noticed a group of 100 slaves is chained together walking towards the cave . If Zhang Wu Ji sees them, he will immediately recognize all of them . They're the group of Convoy Escorts that continuously delay the delivery ordered by the Chrysanthemum Flower City earlier .

When he reaches the Peony Flower City again, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight into the City Forge to work with the materials . Using two days to refine them into 10-Carats Ruby Crystal Pillars, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his room after he completed and calculated the number of the Ruby Crystal Pillars in his hand .

A total of 40 of them, included the one he refined earlier . Remembered that he saw a box used to store precious gemstones sold in the City Forge, Zhang Wu Ji bought the box to store the Ruby Crystal Pillars, and then took his rest .

In the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji received another burst of energy once again . The quota of 3 days for an increment of 18 strands of Fighter Qi carries him up to the rank of 7th Stage Inner Qi Fighter now . The increase of strength brings him happiness, but for Meng Ran who did not see Zhang Wu Ji cultivates at all, started to treat him like a freak .

"How can somebody busy like him got time to cultivates! Look at my own strength!" she complained deep inside her heart . Because she was too absorbed into studying the Formation Art, she neglected her own cultivation training and still remained at the early of 5th Stage .

Suddenly, a commotion is heard from the outside, along with people screaming for help . Coming out immediately to provide assistance to the people, Zhang Wu Ji, and Meng Ran went towards the Square to see what happened .

But when he stepped into the City Square, Zhang Wu Ji is shocked by the swarm of Stone Bees . No, it's not . Their body carries a hint of Silver linings that differentiate them from usual Stone Bees . Worst of all, the whole swarm of them are all in their peak 10th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior .

Facing this kind of opponent, how can a city easily fend themselves? No wonder the commotion and even the elders from the Mystic Engineer Establishment came to have a look .

When Zhang Wu Ji entered the square, one of the Silver Carapace Bee came closer to him, as if it's trying to pick the scent of the human . Suddenly, the Silver Carapace Bee stick itself on Zhang Wu Ji like they discovered the smell of their stolen nectar .

"What the heck with all this?" Zhang Wu Ji looks at more Silver Carapace Bees attaching themselves on his clothing . He tried to swing them away, but like he was the precious nectar belonged to the bee, none of them willing to detach themselves from him .

Then, a bigger Silver Carapace Bee crawled from the nest carried by over a hundred of the Silver Carapace Bee . Based on how it looks, this one must be the queen of this swarm of a thousand and five hundred bees . Crawling over to where Zhang Wu Ji struggles to swing aside the bees, they detach themselves when the queen came close .

With the two long antennae touching Zhang Wu Ji, the Queen Bee shoves her head onto the human's chest . Zhang Wu Ji surprises are gone the moment he remembered something . He calmed himself before asking the question .

The Silver Carapace Bee cannot speak, but based on her action, it indicates her agreement on this human's word . Weaving on the thin air, the Queen Bee sewed a piece of Nectar before covering it with her saliva to make it hardened . By placing the Nectar Grain on Zhang Wu Ji's hand, it indicates only one thing .

"How can this be! Is the Master Senior Zhang a Beast Tamer as well?" the crowd ask themselves this question . But nobody dares to ask until an elder approached the youth to make sure .

"Reporting to the elder, this junior is not a Beast Tamer for sure . I don't dare to say that the bees belonged to me . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hands together to answer the question . When the Queen Bee looked at how Zhang Wu Ji paid his respect, she made a sharp buzz to order the other bees to do the same .

In front of everyone, a thousand five hundred bees are paying their respect to the elder . It was an unforgettable sight to most of them, including the Headmaster Windchaser himself . He sighed in the heart for not fighting for this disciple before he accepted Liang Tian's offer .

After asking the youth to transfer the swarm of Silver Carapace Bees outside, the elder did not continue with his questioning . The matter was dropped just like this, but it also means that Zhang Wu Ji obtained a new strength that helps in their operation to overthrow the current corrupted Seven Star Sect .

Ordering the By assigning all of them to follow Meng Ran back to the Seven Star County, Zhang Wu Ji remained in the Peony Flower City to build the Iron Kong-Que . The reason for this is because of the supply of materials he required . Based on the situation now, it will be difficult for him to obtain all the resources he needed .

Which is why the decision to stay inside Peony Flower City comes in . Using the support from the City Forge, Zhang Wu Ji's requirement of 600 liters of Wild Beast Fresh Blood, 140 units of High-Quality Elemental Crystals, Mixture of Iron Alloy and Ironwood is gathered in two days .

What's left is the Low-Tier Spirit Grade Pure Iron, Sentient Iron, and Crystal Iron . But they did not prove to be too challenging for Zhang Wu Ji . Plus with the Grain of Water Sapphire in his weapon, Zhang Wu Ji easily created 600 liters of the Pure Sapphire Water .

In his third Day, Zhang Wu Ji starts with the making process to create the Iron Kong-Que . Based on the blueprint, this Iron Kong-Que is 20 meters long, and 36 meters wide when the wing is fully expanded . The requirement of four Qi Weaving Stones is due to the four weapons on board, along with the ability to move the Flying Ark .

The process to build the whole Iron Kong-Que is not complicated, but it was time-consuming due to the three thousand different parts needed to be made before assembling them into a gigantic Flying monster that can carry 12 people and 40 tonnes of loads . Impressively, the Flying Ark of this size only needed 400 Strands of Fighter Qi to operates, and 100 strands of Fighter Qi to maintain their flight .

Altogether, Zhang Wu Ji spent 12 days to complete the Flying Ark, which weighs around 7 tonnes in total, after the ammunition for the weapon is included . He spent one more day to fill the few Qi Weaving Stone with some of the Strands of Fighter Qi, and when they're ready, Zhang Wu Ji boards the ark under the companionship of Yong Lie and Miss Mu .

Under the amazed sight of the people in the Peony Flower City, their Ark prepares to leave . But before that happened, a group of intruders barged into the City Square to try boarding the Flying Ark .

Their number remained thirty-three heads . Running for their lives, each of them took a leap into the Flying Ark under the approval of Zhang Wu Ji . And at the same time, the appearance of this group of guest out of sudden further mark their suspicion on Zhang Wu Ji as a Beast Tamer .

That group of thirty-three uninvited guest is none others than the group of Tusked Copper Bear . Similar to how the group of Silver Carapace Bees evolved, the leader of the Tusked Copper Bear no longer have a bone Tusk, but it changed into a Silver looking Tusk instead . Behind him is the group of yet to evolve Tusked Copper Bear .

"Alright, since all of you is here, let us go back to the Seven Star Sect . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he patted on the head of the leader bear . The couple behind him soon started to cuddles with the younger bear cubs as they continue with their journey back to the sect .

By flying across the direction of the Northern Bamboo Forest, their trip will only take them four days to complete . Using the high altitude that difficult for the Wild Beast to reaches them further increase their safety in traveling through the air .

Reaching the Wen Wu City at the early if their fourth day, Zhang Wu Ji immediately landed the Iron Kong-Que right in the middle of the Apprentice Hall Open Square . His arrival is well received not only from the fellow disciples, even the headmaster himself personally come out to meet this young fellow .

Acting as a guest this time, Yong Lie and Miss Mu bowed to the headmaster to pay their respects as a junior . Holding the gift from their own master, Yong Lie kneeled before Headmaster Liang Tian to convince him to receive the present .

"Your master is too kind . Here, take this two little token as my gratitude . " Liang Tian distributed them with a Spatial Stone each . Inside the Spatial Stone was ten Qi Accumulating Pills . These pills are very beneficial to a cultivator in their Warrior Tier due to the medicinal benefits they carry is ten times better than a Qi Sensing Pill .

To become an Inner Qi Warrior, one must first successfully cross the bottleneck, which is the 10th Stage . To successfully weave a strand of Warrior Qi, one must sew a total of 1,000 strands of Fighter Qi . This is also why only the more talented one can succeed . The reason is due to the path from 10th Stage to 11th Stage, one must cultivate themselves until they possess the 1,000th strand of Fighter Qi before sewing them .

As for the difficulties, the reason is due to the fragileness of the 1,000th strands of Fighter Qi . This restriction has been plaguing the mind of the cultivator for long . With the limit of 999 strands of Qi at the peak of the tier, one can only try to advance, of failed miserably .

And to aid those in the attempt to pass that bottleneck, the Qi Accumulating Pill is their best solution, along with the Qi Bursting Pill as the boost to increase the speed of condensing the 1,000 strands of Fighter Qi into a strand of Warrior Qi .

This problem can be noticed based on the previous experience of how the cultivators in their Inner Qi Warrior Tier fights . Due to the difficulties to harness enough Inner Qi to form Fighter Qi, and later into Warrior Qi, as an Inner Qi Warrior, they can't even fight on equal ground without prior preparations!

Without a land overpopulated with Natural Energy, how can one fight like an Inner Qi Warrior? And this is the reason why, in the whole Ping An Continent, except the five Holy Land, which also known as the Imperial County, and the Central of the Ping An Continent, also known as the Ping An Peak!

"Master Senior Ninth!" Zhao Xiao Hua ran to him in a hurry . As for the others, they're carrying Tang Yuan on their shoulder . Based on how he needed to be supported as they came to pay him respect, it must be related to his previous body condition .

"En . . . What's wrong with Tang Yuan?" Zhang Wu Ji who have some suspicion on his condition, to begin with, questioned the others to find out what actually happened . Since he was away for one and a half month in total, this issue must be plaguing his attendants for quite a long time .

"Master Senior Ninth, we don't know anything either . Big brother Tang Yuan suddenly collapse without us knowing what happened . After some diagnosis from a physician, he said Brother Tang Yuan is poisoned!" Zhao Xiao Hua explained the situation to their master .

As this matter is a serious issue at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hands together to excuse himself from the square . With a grip on Tang Yuan's clothing, Zhang Wu Ji carried him into the top of the Iron Kong-Que seaters and directed the Flying Ark to went up into the sky!

While the others were jealous of Tang Yuan's first opportunity to ride on top of the Iron Kong-Que, the heart of the four remaining attendants is worried about their eldest brother's safety . With their position as Zhang Wu Ji's eight and only attendants, why do they need to worry about the opportunity?

By applying the Small Nourishment Art once on his body, Zhang Wu Ji are able to remove some suffering from his body . He did try using the Crystal Surgeon Knife after that to see if anything was collected, but it was to no avail when the knife remained clean after the cut .

As the application of a skill removed a part of his suffering, Tang Yuan is able to talk now . Instead of asking for the answer he wanted to know, Zhang Wu Ji glares at this attendant of his and waits for his explanation .

"Master Senior . . . My family name is not Tang, but Yan . I am one of the remaining bloodlines of our Yan Family, and my real name is Yantai Yuan . " he revealed the truth related to his ancestral and also his real name, but Zhang Wu Ji did not give him the reaction he was expecting .

"So? Do you think I don't know about that? Is the sign [Yan] on your forehead is not clear enough? Or why prepared so many seeds for the Yantai County's Mandrake? Or should I say it was already exposed when you bring the Malachite Shell Cicada's Carapaces?" Zhang Wu Ji mentioned all the proof that he already knows the truth of his identity of quite a period of time .

"The Yantai County's Mandrake supposed to be extinct! They're the Aphrodisiac for Wild Beast! Do you think I am a fool to not realized this simple fact?" Zhang Wu Ji brought up the first hint that exposed Tang Yuan's identity as a member of the Yan Family .

"The next thing is when you brought back the Malachite Shell Cicada's Carapace . Do you realize that the Southern Bamboo Forest that spans downwards until the end of Willow Timber County's Northern Bamboo Forest is not a good location for the Malachite Shell Cicada to spawn? This Wild Beast is a water-loving creature! Their closest nest we can try to look is either at the Crystalline River County or Jie's County!" Zhang Wu Ji revealed the next mistake Tang Yuan did .

For a Malachite Shell Cicada with its humongous body to travel from the Crystalline River County to the Seven Star County is likely impossible . The only answer to this fact is only two possibilities . One, the cicada is killed and stored for future uses . And two, heaven is making fun of them by bringing a dead Malachite Shell Cicada to the Southern Bamboo Forest .

"Do you think, I don't know that the core of the Southern and Northern Bamboo Forest used to be the land belonged to the Yantai County? If it's not the case, how can the medicinal plants and treasures grow easily here? It was all because of the leakage of treasures gathered by the Yantai County's Yan Family is harnessed by nature to return everything back to the world . " Zhang Wu Ji ends his words here .

Following from hearing everything spoken by his Master Senior, Tang Yuan or much better to be called as Yantai Yuan kneeled down and cried . What caused him to do so weren't due to his Master Senior continue to keep him by his side when his identity is exposed, but it was because Zhang Wu Ji took him to have a look at the ruins belonged to the Yantai County's Yan Family!

From the remains of the ruins, one can easily see how wealthy is the Yan Family and their Yantai County . Only counting on the collapsed Golden Doors alone reaches hundreds and the destroyed buildings made from Gold and Silver is more than fifty .

"If it wasn't because of the Yantai's County Mandrake Plant, won't the county remained wealthy until now?" Zhang Wu Ji thought . But for now, it was crucial for him to know how to solve Tang Yuan's problem .

"Dear Master Senior, as a descendant of the Yan Family, I inherit the Blood Mandrake Martial Body . This Martial Body allows me to be resistant to all poison one tier higher than my strength, and the more Mandrake Plants I've consumed, the stronger is my body . " Tang Yuan explained .

"The day before we're forced to left the Ninth Courtyard, I consumed the Blood Mandrake plant that I feed using different kinds of blood as its food source . Although the mandrake allowed my body to be stronger, I am not strong enough to prevent the addiction component carried within the Blood Mandrake . "

"Now, I am forced to either hunt for any mandrakes that I can found, or purchase the blood from the slaughtered animals to reduce this addiction . Recently, I cleared the whole Wen Wu City and the entrance to the Southern Bamboo Forest of wild mandrakes, making my addiction grow worst . " Tang Yuan explained the reason for his problem .

"No wonder the physician said that he's poisoned . With a Martial Body resistant to poison, his body is poisonous . This is why they failed to diagnose his true condition and help mend this issue . Plus, his attitude is more reserved and collected, making him hesitates to let people know about his problem . " Zhang Wu Ji thought as he made his hypothesis regarding Tang Yuan's condition .

"Yes . I can get rid of this addiction by feeding high-quality Mandrakes, such as the Yantai Mandrake or by curing the addiction with a huge amount of blood . " Tang Yuan gives the method to solve this issue, but none of them are viable at this moment .

The problem is because to obtain a large amount of blood, they will need to employ at least two to three team of cultivator to enter the Southern Bamboo Forest . As for the issue with feeding on High-Quality Mandrakes, the best so far would be the Yantai Mandrake, but for the mandrake to fully grown, he will need at least three months .

Added with the issue with space, it will be impossible for him to cultivates over a hundred mandrakes like how he did back in his own ninth courtyard . It gave him a slight headache when he considered the problem with space .

"Space? Problem? Growing the Mandrake Plant faster? Didn't I possess the blueprint for Plateau Plantation Plate? Didn't I own the formation inscription to make the Nutrition Gathering Plate? By producing them, won't I able to increase the number of yields we can get from those precious plants?" his mind reminds him once again with the item he's yet to utilize .

Getting closer to Tang Yuan, he applied two more Small Nourishment Art on him to reduce as much blood addiction he could and assigned Tang Yuan to collect the materials he needed in making the Plateau Plantation Plate . At the same time, he ordered Tang Yuan to get Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong to his room . They returned to the Apprentice Hall after Zhang Wu Ji finishes assigning Tang Yuan with his task .

An hour later after he returned to his own room, the three attendants he requested came over to pay their respect . Without too many words is needed, Zhang Wu Ji handed each of them with a Wooden Universal Plate . Their next assignment is to prepare the Ironwood in that specific guideline for him to engrave them into usable Wooden Universal Plate .

This also means the stack of stone slabs is now useless . After the three of them removed the item away, they're ordered to prepare as much of the materials to create a Formation Clay to be delivered to him . But at this moment, Li Tong smiled and came out to clarify a matter .

"Master, did you forget that one and a half month ago, you and miss Meng Ran teaches a group of students? I'm afraid that you have too much Formation Plate to inspect . Of course, you may use them if you wanted to do so,"

"What? We made many Formation Plate for usage? Bring them here! Quickly!" Zhang Wu Ji swipes his hand outwards to get them to start working, and not idling in the room for nothing .

"I should use this free time to transform my Tyrant Martial Body, it is almost time for me to take another bottle of the Inner Demon Slaughtering Wine as well . " Zhang Wu Ji sits in a meditation posture and begins his transformation process again .

With his strength on the 7th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, Zhang Wu Ji's transformation speed is increased . Only three times of rest is required for him to transform 21% of his body . But still, nothing beats the clocks that finally ticked on the end of his third calculated day .

With the number of the day he's transmigrated to this world reach 300, there are only two more months to go before this year ends . The life in this world is filled with surprises, where it gives him many kinds of different experience as he goes along with them .

By entering the 8th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, Zhang Wu Ji can be counted as one of the top cultivators of his age . The changes on a single night shocked the three disciples of his, primarily when it was just a single night he took to advance from the 7th Stage into 8th Stage .

"Master, we have the Ironwood and Formation Plate prepared . Do you still have any instruction to us?" The three of them waits for their master's next order and were directed to help Tang Yuan instead . While they were complaining about the simple task in mind, they understand the importance of each task given by their master .

By assigning four people to complete one matter, the speed of their preparation is more efficient than doing that alone . Although the first batch of Plateau Plantation Plate is created for the sake of Tang Yuan's health, they can still take this as the sample to be introduced into the Wen Wu City and the three villages under their control .

Through this kind of arrangement, Zhang Wu Ji produced a hundred Wooden Universal Plates that comes with a name on them . Each of this plate is issued to the management members of the Apprentice Hall and three more to be given to the Headmaster Liang Tian . As for his other remaining time, Zhang Wu Ji spent all of them to engraves the Nutrition Gathering Plate .

By assigning Zhao Xiao Hua, Liu Yanni, Bai Hei Tie, and Zhang Ya Pin to handle the distribution of the plate and collecting the Nutrition Pill when they're formed . As to make sure that their collection is faster than usual, Zhang Wu Ji requested Meng Ran to engraves some Energy Gathering Plate to assist him .

And at the same time, the request allows Zhang Wu Ji to noticed Meng Ran's improvement . Her skills in crafting the Formation Clay, engraving the plates become much detailed . Based on her skills now, he's confident that his version of the Formation Master's Essential Manual will help her to grow further .

After giving her the book, her first impression is a wide-open jaw, followed by a "Wow!" remark in each of the pages she flips . Leaving her alone to slowly digest the contents, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his personal room to continues with his own task . Two days later, all usable Formation Plate is engraved and distributed .

Proceeding with the making of the Plateau Plantation Plate next, it wasn't a big deal at all . By utilizing the instruction recorded in the Blueprint, all he needed is to form them into a piece of a slab that can fit ten plants or seeds inside to grow . The only surprising element is hidden inside this blueprint he holds is that their formulae and ingredient recorded inside is much better than a standard Plateau Plantation Plate .

This simple comparison is noticeable especially when he put his own Plateau Plantation Plate against the standard Plateau Plantation Plate he'd seen before in Meng Hao's Villa . Only by the effects alone, Zhang Wu Ji's Plateau Plantation Plate is much fertile compared to the standard version .

-Information: An exceptional formula that not only supports ten plants to be grown on this plate, but it also lessens the waiting time for the plant to grow by 10% . This version of Plateau Plantation Plate is the result of the research by a combined effort of ten Second-Grade Celestial Designers .

"Using this plate, I can expect the maturity of a Yantai County's Mandrake Plant in 81 days . Added with the Nutrition Pills as their fertilizer, I can shorten the wait before harvesting by half . This means, forty days!" Zhang Wu Ji calculates the number of time he required to wait before the first batch of Yantai County's Mandrake Plant can be harvested .

"We will handle Tang Yuan's condition first . And meanwhile, boosts the output of this Plateau Plantation Plate to increase our capability to mass produce more Medicinal Herbs to forge into pills . " Zhang Wu Ji designated the path the Apprentice Hall should go .

On his third day, Zhang Wu Ji paid a visit to the City Lord's Fortress for a meeting to see how has the Wen Wu City and three of the villages under their control develops . And in between of the report, a few matters pique his interest .

The first matter that was mentioned in the report is related to the Ying Village, Cai Village, and Hua Village . Under the guidance and support in both financial and manpower from the Wen Wu City, the three villages are now at the verge of reaching the qualification to be categorized as towns .

With the number of residents living in the three villages now reaching between 80,000 to 90,000 people, the time before they're qualified to become a town not too far away . Erected building under a proper Town-Planning is introduced alongside with the recruitment process to bring in more members into the apprentice hall .

A temporary establishment they named [Representative Hall] is also built and managed by members recruited from the three villages to increase the output of sales volume and production volume . The profit they made will be returned to the settlement in the manner of development .

This is how the three villages that hold roughly fifteen thousand villagers increased by quadruple in the period of two to three month . Plus with the newer processing and harvesting method, They're no longer practicing the primitive and traditional technique in their daily life .

This is true especially towards the Ying Village, or soon to be Wen Ying Town under the Wen Wu City Lord's support . From a livestock and farming village, the Apprentice Hall and Wen Wu City converted all their traditional tools into a proper technology .

By introducing the greenhouse for medicinal herb farming and planned system to grows the livestock, they supported Wen Ying Town to become the biggest supplier in their food industry . Even the Master Chef has an agreement with the townsfolk to assist him in cultivating the Jining Freshwater Trout .

As for the Cai Village, their focus shifted from textiles into Agriculture and Forestry . This allows the three villages to be self-sufficient in their fundamental needs like food, stay, and employment . Similarly, the Hua Village is focusing on Transportation of Goods and Accommodation, due to their close proximity to the Heavenly South County .

With the three Village's development progress is reported, it was the turn for the Wen Wu City and the Apprentice Hall . But before the report happened, a soldier came into the meeting room in a hurry and reported an incident that occurred ten to fifteen minutes ago .

"City Lord! The Orchid Mountain Bandits is launching a large-scale attack against the Northern Side of the city! A hundred patrolling guards are injured, and at least fifty is dead because the weird weapon that can create fire tower is used . " the soldier reported .

"Damn! They took the period of time we're reinforcing the troops in the east to attack us! Men! Come here!" the City Lord slapped the armrest of the chair into dust before he burst into anger . Summoning his trusted attendants, the City Lord prepared their retaliation .

"City Lord, let me lead the team . " Zhang Wu Ji requested . Without asking too many questions, the City Lord approved his request immediately to send Zhang Wu Ji a team of his ten elites to follow the Master Senior . The second ten of them reaches an open plaza, Zhang Wu Ji activated the Iron Kong-Que and take all of them into the controlling room .

"F . . . F . . . Flying Ark!" The Iron Kong-Que flaps its wing and ascends into the sky . With all the weapons is ready, Zhang Wu Ji is prepared for slaughter, since the bandits are asking for it!

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"Hahaha! Attack them! Blow their gate and walls with the [Rhinoceros Roar]! Make sure you aim at their walls and not on the ground!" one of the bandit leaders ordered the subordinates as they make their charge at the City Wall . From their behavior in launching an attack, they're prepared to strive for a victory .

Carrying a Spatial Stone filled with their "Rhinoceros Roar" bomb, they delivered a rain of explosives in a struggle to bring the City Wall down . Luckily, the wall is no longer build with their traditional stones, but First Generation Masonry Bricks .

With a total number of 36,000 Bricks is used to construct the whole partition of the Northern City Wall, their durability is at a whopping 1 . 8 million points . Based on the estimation of their low-quality Rhinoceros Roar with a damage point of 50 points at most, they would need at least 36,000 units of the explosive to destroy the wall .

After striking the wall for a period of time, their motivation starts to diminish . 'How many explosives they needed to destroy this wall?' the bandits tried to calculate .

Noticing that their City Wall is far from collapsing, the soldiers positioned on top of the wall begin to shot the arrows from above to reduce their number of enemies . Under the attack from the top, they retreated until they're out from the firing range, but this allows the next team of soldiers to attack .

"Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon's Team, Attack!" one of the captains ordered . In a flash, twenty over hand cannons pops up from the city wall and rain their barrage of Iron Ball at the group of bandits . Like a bowling ball getting a strike on the bowling pins, the bandits struck by the Iron Ball flies at their companion with a deadly force .

"Activates the Lightning Roarer!" the bandit leader shouted . Following from his call, a Ballista is driven into the battlefield with some special ammunition in the Firing slot . They used five Inner Qi Fighters to feed the munition until its ready to be fired . With a palm is dropped from the Bandit Leader, the munition went off .

"Krung! Krung!" two roars like lightning accompanies that munition until it crashed at the sturdy wall made of Masonry Bricks . Although it did not falter from the attack, the heart of the soldiers is thoroughly shattered . As a factionless cultivator like themselves, how would they dare themselves to fight against a weapon that can call the Lightning when fired?

"Ready the second shot!" the bandit leader ordered . Following from his command, a few bandits that dressed differently came into the battlefield to change the Firing Slot of the Ballista . Only one shot is needed to destroy half of the durability possess by this Ballista .

The moment it's prepared, the Bandit Leader approved the shot straightaway without giving the people from Wen Wu City a chances to retaliates . Similar to how the first shot is fired, Lightning roared on its flight and exploded when it hits the city wall .

"Push another Ballista over! Fire until the wall collapse!" the Bandit Leader smiled as he ordered the next shot to be fired . But his celebration of success came a little too early when a gigantic Metal Bird appeared from the sky . With both wings spread to its limit, the 36 meters wide Iron Kong-Que robbed the soul belonged to the bandits by its mere presence .

"Giant . . . Giant Metal Bird!!!" some cowardly bandits fled from the battlefield the moment they saw the Iron Kong-Que . Under that presence brought by the Flying Ark, the bandits stopped on their track . But out of their expectation, Blood Bolts is fired from the wings of the Flying Ark and pierced a part of their body .

The continuous firing of 140 bolts took them by surprise . With their identity as some Manmade Metal Bird is known by the bandits, their fear reduces . Some bandits with spears fired their spear at the Iron Kong-Que, but with a simple flap from the wings, it deflected the flying spears without any difficulties .

Looking at the bandit leader trying to reorganize his men, Zhang Wu Ji directed a Que-Piercer Javelin at him . The javelin penetrates through the air at high speed, but it was still dodged by him out of luck . While the Bandit Leader is paying his attention to the killing strike executes by the Iron Kong-Que, the reloading of the two Blood Crossbows is completed .

Once again, a continuous firing of 140 Blood Bolts strikes through a part of the bandit's body . As the bolt is produced from a special material such as Wild Beast Blood, Ironwood, and High-Quality Elemental Crystal Powder, they came with paralysis effect .

Bandits struck by the bolt will immediately lose control of a part of their body . Even worst, some may lose their lives if shot more than three times . The situation of the battlefield started to stand positive on the Wen Wu City's side . But with four to five hundred bandits is remaining, the fight is far from over .

"How dare you!" A loud voice came from afar, armed with the power of an Inner Qi Lord spreads across the air until they almost reach Zhang Wu Ji . But at that same moment, Liang Tian replied that question with his own speech .

"Behave yourself!" his recovered strength rebounds the layer of Inner Qi Lord's oppressing forces . Following from his shout, he made his appearance into the battlefield personally . Looking at the arrival of the Inner Qi Lord, the Lord of Seven Swords Liang Tian, the morale of the defending soldiers explodes .

Cries of expected victory appeared all over the City Wall, with soldiers and residents howling together . Following from Liang Tian's arrival, another explosion of Inner Qi Lord's might came from the City Lord's Fortress! And that's not all, the second explosion of Inner Qi Lord's followed from the Eastern Wall!

Yang Yi, the Commander of Militarized Forces and Yang Er, the City Lord, made their presence into the battlefield as well! If the Lan Shan Clan wanted to fight, then the people from Wen Wu City will come and fight! So what?

Three Inner Qi Lords in their 63rd Stage made their presence known to the public for the first time! And this action is done for the sake to face against the notorious Patriarch of Lan Shan Clan, Lanshan Lanyue! Since the Wen Qing City already stated where they stand in this fight for the ruling power in Seven Star County, there is no more reason for the three to not participates in the scuffle .

"Oh! Do you three think I came here without preparations? So what if I cannot fight against the three of you? I can just send a group of Inner Qi Warriors to destroy the city without putting out an effort . " Lanshan Lanyue challenged the three Inner Qi Lords .

It was as he said! If he did not participates in the battle itself, then the one that broke the Nature Law of Cultivators will be them instead! And with the support from the Wen Qing City, it is not impossible for the Orchid Mountain Bandits to have a group of Inner Qi Warrior cultivators!

"Lanshan Lanyue! Don't you dare to think that you can act as you wish! Yang Guo, Yang Qian, Yang Ling! Come out and lead the troops if the Orchid Mountain Bandits is launching their full-scale attack!" the City Lord bellowed .

"Wen Jian, Wen Dao, Wen Qiang, the three of you will join the battle as well! Follow your cousin brother and sister's lead!" Without being left behind, the Commander of Militarized Forces, Yang Yi sent his orders to his children to follow .

"Their name is a little funny, don't you think so?" Zhang Wu Ji whispers . But his soft whisper is heard by the fellow elite soldiers in his Iron Kong-Que and laughs altogether because even themselves felt that the name is a little too weird .

"Ai . . . Does this means . . . This old man has to participate in the battle as well?" Without anyone realizing his appearance, an elder in his age closing to a hundred appeared by the side of Lanshan Lanyue without anyone noticing his arrival .

"This junior pay his respect to Elder Jie Hu!" Lanshan Lanyue kneeled on top of his Flying Sword as he hovers in front of the elder . This person is one of the three strongest Inner Qi Lords belonged to the Jie's Clan, and also the City lord for their Tiger City . His strength of the 69th Stage of Inner Lord easily shows how much stronger he is compared to the four early achievement Inner Qi Lords .

Staring at the Jade in his hand, Liang Tian grit his teeth together to face this threat from the two Inner Qi Lords . He whispers gently . . . "Ruolan, How much I wish that you're here now . " He completes his sentence and keeps the Jade with a word [Beiping] engraved on it .

"All Inner Qi Warriors from the Clan! Attack your enemies and kill them!" Lanshan Lanyue gave his order to mobilized his forces . Followed with a cry of aggression, bandits with multiple kinds of weapon charged towards the City Wall .

Zhang Wu Ji smiled . He lifted his hand high above his head and made a few claps ring in front of everybody . "What is Master Senior Ninth is doing?" the soldiers and residents staying close to the City Wall questioned themselves . Even the six Inner Qi Warriors belonged to the Yang Family gives out a puzzled expression .

"Pap, pap, pap . . . " Zhang Wu Ji stops . The moment he stops, buzzing sound accompanied with roaring from bears came from behind the bandit forces, and begin to tear their ranks apart! Against the cultivators in their 12th and 13th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, the swarm of Silver Carapace Bees struck their heart and limbs with dozens of Poisonous Stings!

As for those merely in their 10th and 11th Stage, the group of Tusked Copper Bears under the leadership of the Silver Horned Bear . Incomplete corpses are thrown aside, with the still struggling cultivators is crying for help . With the participation of a swarm of bees and a pack of bears in the battle, the fight turned into a one-sided slaughter!

"A . . . A . . . Atro . . . Atrocious! How can this happened! What is wrong with all of you? Fight! Idiot! Fight!" Lanshan Lanyue bellowed as he looks at the broken rank of bandits scattering everywhere to flee with their life . It is easy for one to kill a human, but when fighting against the Wild Beast with the thirst of human flesh and blood, even two to three Inner Qi Warriors may lose to a single Silver Carapace Bee .

"He's a Beast Tamer? The Damn brat from the sect is actually a Beast Tamer as well?" Lanshan Lanyue stared at Zhang Wu Ji but failed to take action . Under the protection from three Inner Qi Lord, even with the help of Elder Jie Hu, it will not be possible .

"Stop running! Group together and fight them! What are you people doing? Attack the wings of the bees and don't meet the bears face to face! " Lanshan Lanyue instructed the bandits to follow his command, but none of them listened to his words .

Of course, that's impossible . Among the group of Inner Qi Warriors, half of them have belonged to the Wen Qing City itself . Looking at the situation now, how will the people agree to follow Lanshan Lanyue's command? It will be a miracle if they even follow his words at the beginning!

Unexpectedly, the forces of bandits soon started to regroup and counterattack . Seeing that a few Silver Carapace Bees already sacrifice themselves, Zhang Wu Ji made a few more claps to order the Wild Beast to retreats .

Compared to Lanshan Lanyue, a few claps from a mere Inner Qi Fighter is more efficient compared to an Inner Qi Lord's yelling and shouting . Only from this scene alone, Zhang Wu Ji behaves more like a cultivator compared to Lanshan Lanyue who acts like a ferocious ape .

"Why are you still standing? Attack the wall!" he shouts at the people once more . Waking up from their previous shock, the bandits gathered their forces and charged forward . But this time, they're more cautious compared to before .

Descending from the Iron Kong-Que, Zhang Wu Ji directed the Flying Ark back to the Wen Wu City out of his worry if the Flying Ark is destroyed by the Inner Qi Lord, especially the hot-tempered Lanshan Lanyue . With the Longfeng Jade Ruler in his hand, he marched forward at the bandits alone, surprising the others .

"Alone? With a ruler on that? Foolish! Foolish disciple you got there, Liang Tian!" Lanshan Lanyue laughed his lungs out from watching at the young cultivator stepping forward on the group of twenty to twenty-two Inner Qi Warriors .

With a smile on his face, Liang Tian faced Lanshan Lanyue's question strongly . Although deep inside his mind is filled with worries, the fact his disciple is creating miracles again and again unconsciously make him felt much more confident in Zhang Wu Ji's every action .

Armed with the Longfeng Jade Ruler and a smile, Zhang Wu Ji approached his enemies . The moment their distance shortened to only a few meters reach, Zhang Wu Ji activates all the secrets he'd been hiding for so long!

Every ability he's been keeping for long finally revealed . The attack from the Wheel like slash hovers and cut the opponent without giving them a chance to retaliates! With the sixth burst of the Seven Star Burst Technique, Zhang Wu Ji's destruction force increased by sixfold!

Headless corpses fall to the ground, with the head is thrown here and there . Although he was exhausted from executing all of this ability, Zhang Wu Ji beheaded his twenty-two opponents in their 10th to 13th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior with a single attack!

"Kill!" Lanshan Lanyue gathers some strands of Lord Qi in his both hands and jumps at Zhang Wu Ji to cut this threat from harming his Lan Shan Clan in the future! As a 69th Stage Inner Qi Lord in the battlefield, Jie Hu capable of stopping Lanshan Lanyue, but in his mind as well, it is good that he can borrow the knife to kill someone else!

If Zhang Wu Ji is dead, the Jie's Clan is going to be unharmed as well! So why not he rather sacrifice Lanshan Lanyue to remove this threat as soon as possible? All he needs to is compensate the Lan Shan Clan!

"Wu Ji!" Liang Tian rushed to his side as quickly as he can and ordered all seven swords to block that attack from harming his disciple! But even with the speed of a Flying Sword armed with Strands of Lord Qi failed to compete against the speed Lanshan Lanyue executes to reach Zhang Wu Ji's side!

Slightly slower than Liang Tian's reaction, the City Lord and his brother took their action . But instead of a save, they went for a kill by borrowing the reason from his aggression to get rid of the threat holding the Wen Wu City until now .

Without everyone with the same aim, Liang Tian's sword is a quarter second late . Zhang Wu Ji reaction speed is uncomparable against the speed of an Inner Qi Lord . With the two widely opened claw reaches both sides of his ears, Zhang Wu Ji's head is expected to explode like a watermelon .

But unfortunately, the blood did not come with the remainder of a crushed brain and skull . Instead, if one looked at Lanshan Lanyue's pair of hand, they're crushed to something less likely belonged to a human .

At the same time, Jie Hu's attack deflected the remaining two Inner Qi Lord's attack but failed to deflects Liang Tian's seven attacks . This left Lanshan Lanyue undefended like a sitting duck and got himself impaled in his four limbs, Chest, stomach, and private part .

"Wu Ji! Wu Ji!" Liang Tian did not pursue to see how severe is the murderer's injuries but paid his attention to look for his disciple's body . But after noticing only Lanshan Lanyue's pair of injured hand, and not anything belonging to his disciple, his heart becomes part relief, part worry .

"Jie Hu, Jie Hu . . . You're a disgrace to all the existing Inner Qi Lords in this continent . " a voice came from above them . Then, a Flying Ark with the size three times bigger than Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Kong-Que descends from the coverage of the sunlight, with a word written on the base of their ark .

"Even the Marquis of the North is here?" Jie Hu wrinkled his forehead the moment he takes a glance on the descending Flying Ark . Like what he said, the ark that saved Zhang Wu Ji from meeting his end belonged to the Northern Imperial Kingdom .

And the owner of this Flying Ark is none other than the elder brother of Beiping Ruolan, Marquis of the North, Beiping Long! Recognized as one of the ten strongest Generals of the Northern Imperial Army, This person is one of the scariest cultivators nobody wished to meet!

The reason for this impression is due to the forces following him everywhere are all in their Inner Qi Elder Strength . Worst of all, his own strength is recorded as one of the Inner Qi King, in his 77th Stage . Furthermore, this record is from ten years ago!

"Jie Hu . I suggest you return to your tiny Jie's County to strengthen your own force . Based on your ability alone, the Tiger City is still far from able to compete on even ground against the Pheonix City and Ancient Dragon City . " Beiping Long warned Jie Hu in a frank manner .

Each of the words he spoke turned into an ethereal dagger that pierced through Jie Hu's heart . And its because his word is accurately hitting on Jie Hu's weak point! As the smallest force inside the Jie's County, the Tiger City often faced with the situation they have to compromise in the distribution of resources and goods .

Although the amount they compromise is not too much, they're not small either . When such a compromising approach is practiced for too long, the visible differences between their allocation of resources become significant to a point it affects the number of cultivators they can focus on growing their strength .

Different from Seven Star Sect that only nurtures their own sect disciples, the Jie's County is filled with people that were also a member of Jie's Clan . Which means, the allocated resources are not for one to monopolize . An even distribution is a must, and a proper report is needed to make sure no monopoly of resources is practiced between the three cities .

This is why Jie Hu planned to outsource the resources that can be distributed back to his own Tiger City . With a sufficient amount of resources once more, he can start focusing in the rebuilding of his own militarized forces, and ditch the position of having to compromise with the other two cities in term of resources .

And gotten warned an outsider like Beiping Long, this is a complete slap on his face . In the term of difference in cultivation strength, he's far pale in comparison against the Inner Qi King . And if to compare their differences in military power, their differences are even worst .

How can a tiny Jie's County with only 3 million population be qualified to fight against the Marquis of the North that commands over 1 million Northern Imperial Army, and his personal troops of 4 million? Even the number of the population in the land belonged to Beiping Clan can easily drown them with a spit from each person .

"Marquis Beiping Long! As an outsider, I don't think you're qualified to muddle with us in this kind of matter!" Jie Hu hesitates to give up . He gathers all the remaining hints of bravery in his body to bring up this question .

"Jie Hu, did I say I am here to join with your little scuffle? I am here not for the sake of my brother in law nor because of my little sister . I am here because you're trying to harm a person important to my beloved goddaughter!"

"I don't see the problem for me to stop you because your action may lead my goddaughter's path in her cultivation bothered by her Inner Demon! Tell me, did I do anything wrong in this matter?" Beiping Long stated his reason to stop them from continuing, plus saving Zhang Wu Ji from harm .

"Since today is quite a good day for me to make an announcement, let me introduce my goddaughter to everyone . Xiao Qing Han, come and meet all these seniors!" following with his ending sentences, Guan Qing Han came forward to everyone to take a look on this young goddaughter of the Marquis of the North .

"Master Liang Tian, City Lord and Commander of Militarized Force, Elder Jie, Cultivator Lanshan Lanyue, this daughter of Marquis Beiping Long pay respect to every elder in this occasion . " her manner changed into the much more refined version . Perhaps it was due to the differences in their conduct, she seems changed .

"Humph! Since the Marquis of the North is here on a fortuitous celebration, this Jie Hu will bother the Marquis no longer! It will be rude for this elder to leave without leaving a gift, so, I hope Marquis Goddaughter will not despise this elder's inconsiderate gift!" the elder made an excuse for him to leave this place . But before that, he tosses a bottle with a pill stored within .

"Qing Han thanked Elder Jie Hu for blessing this Marquis Goddaughter . " she bowed at Jie Hu . After he received her reply of intention, the elder left like a flying arrow . The Flying Sword on his feet flies like no tomorrow in a hurry .

Left with Lanshan Lanyue remained staked on the ground, his fate is almost as expected . After the City Lord and Commander of Militarized Forces handled him personally, Zhang Wu Ji and the others were invited into the Flying Ark .

Possessing the width and length three times greater than Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Kong-Que, this Beiping Battle-Ark's presence is many levels above his so-called privatized Flying Ark . The moment the four of them is escorted into their main floor, they're surprised by the existence of not only seatings, even blacksmithing room, Pill-making Room, and Martial Training Room is included in their building plan .

After the surprises, the main reason for the arrival of this Flying Ark is explained to the three of them . Other than purposely delivering Beiping Ruolan back to her husband, the Marquis of the North is here for two matters .

First of all, is related to the power fighting in the Seven Star County . Under the constant begging from Beiping Ruolan, Beiping Long was forced to make his appearance known to the people for the sake of borrowing somebody else fame to build his own strength .

As for the next reason, it was made up at the last minute before Zhang Wu Ji met his end . Under the begging of his recently adopted Goddaughter, it was impossible for a godfather to reject her wish when she mentioned it . Noticing how much in the affection between the two, he failed to steel his heart to stop the two from seeing each other once more, before they separate .

With her status now, she's no longer a member of the Guan Family any longer . The arrival here this time is for the sake of bidding farewell to her family, who insist to not leaving the Seven Star County no matter what . Given the support from all her family and parents, Guan Qing Han decides to follow where her fate brought her, and renounce her status as the daughter of Guan Family .

This means the marriage agreement between the two families is nullified as well . Although it was sad for the parents of both families, this matter did not end up separating them from keep supporting each another . Added with a sudden burst of wealth into their family, the Guan Family entrusted the Zhang Family to handle their wealth, which make the Li Jiang Town prosper even more .

Based on how it looks, the procedure for the Li Jiang to transform from town into a city is soon to happen . With the number of townsfolk now reaching 800,000 high . But in exchange for this sudden boost in population to happen they absorbed the residents from five villages .

Which means, there will be 4 cities, 18 towns, and 22 villages at the beginning of next year . The changes will assure the increase of population from 4 . 8 million to 6 . 02 million in the upcoming year, meaning that the Seven Star Sect is performing excellently in handling their county .

But does this achievement still belonged to the current Seven Star Sect? At this moment, nobody dares to bring up this matter into an open discussion because of the lacking in control and responsibility shown by the sect . Furthermore, they're lack of talented personnel to handle all these days to day matters .

"Erm . . . Paying respect to the Marquis Goddaughter, how are you doing recently?" it been more than two month Zhang Wu Ji did not meet with her . Although the feeling of longing is not there for some unknown reason, he feels a little lost in his emotion . And because of their differences in status now, Zhang Wu Ji cannot help but to address her is such a way .

While those adults are holding their own discussion, the youths get together at another side to begin their own talk . With Guan Qing Han initiating the conversation, she explained about what happened during the period she wasn't around with everyone in the Apprentice Hall .

In fact, she was taken along with Beiping Ruolan to met her master's family in the Northern Imperial Kingdom . Riding the Flying Sword together, the master and disciple pair traveled across few counties before they reach the outer area of Ping An Peak .

It was here Guan Qing Han's talent in cultivation and chemistry attracts the lone general, Marquis of the North . As a fatherless cultivator, he gets very comfortable with Guan Qing Han and felt that if this girl willing to become his Goddaughter, he can nurture her to become the next potential general for the Northern Imperial Kingdom .

Although the fact she was born as a citizen of the Southern Imperial Kingdom, this doesn't mean she's tied to them at all . With the matter of her parents and clan is settled, her departure from the Southern to Northern will not raise any obstruction from any side of the Imperial family .

Out of his curiosity, Zhang Wu Ji questioned the young lady about when they were younger . Because his attitude did change drastically about ten months ago, Zhang Wu Ji acted like he lost a portion of his memories, and that's included between him and Guan Qing Han's relationship .

Sighing because of disappointment, she begins to narrate the story between the two of them . In fact, when she started to tell the story, Zhang Wu Ji felt he's the one that failed to uphold the promise, and not her . Because up until now, she did not break the promises between the two of them .

The story happened two years ago when Zhang Wu Ji and Guan Qing Han was still too young . Between the two of them, a form of marriage is settled privately between the two of them . To make sure their parents agree with that, they came out with a very sneaky plan .

The moment both of them reaches the consent age for marriage, they come out with a plan that allows their parents to wed the two of them to each another . This plan is where Deity Pavilion come in as a part of the culprits .

As the instigator for this plan, Guan Qing Han first obtains the support from some misses working inside the Deity Pavilion to provide the two with a room that they can have their best moment together . Being a woman that been ill-treated by men daily, they gave their complete support to the pair of lovebirds .

Using the reason to visit the brothel, Zhang Wu Ji went in there first . Following behind is Guan Qing Han, who use the reason for going to fulfill a prayer to escape from the House of Guan for a period of time . There, the two enjoyed their best moment of life .

Although at the end of the week, Zhang Wu Ji was carried home using a stretcher, Guan Qing Han enjoyed it . Transforming from a little lass to a complete woman, she prepared herself to get married to him the next moment when they come to propose .

But who knows! Guan Qing Han's father rejected the proposal! Taking the reason Zhang Wu Ji possess a Trash Martial Body, he felt Zhang Wu Ji not suitable for his daughter!

This is also why in return to vent his lover's anger, Zhang Wu Ji hired some thugs to burn the Botanist Hall! Unexpected to everyone, the one that planned for the burning, is actually the little lass from the Botanist Hall herself, Guan Qing Han!

And with thing escalated from bad to worst, the relationship between the two get more heated when he transmigrated here! Void of any idea between his relationship with this little lass, Zhang Wu Ji treated her like a tigress, plus at the same time, she acted like one of them!

Unfortunately, their status is different from this moment onwards . The further Guan Qing Han goes, more difficult for Zhang Wu Ji to follow, especially when he finally understand the fact, this woman is actually his woman!

"I'm leaving the Southern Imperial Kingdom soon and will become a part of the Northern Imperial Kingdom . Because of my godfather's position in the kingdom, my status will be much different compared to how it was here . " Guan Qing Han mentioned about her soon to change status .

And from the way she mentioned this issue, it indicates the fact that she will no longer mingle with Zhang Wu Ji in relation with all of these love and relationship matter .

Hesitated but forced to let go, Zhang Wu Ji left the Beiping Battle-Ark with the Wen Wu City Lord, Commander of Militarized Forces, Headmaster Liang Tian and his wife, Lady Beiping Ruolan . This departure also means that from today onwards, the gap between himself and Guan Qing Han will be distant now .

In a blink, three days passed . With the collapse of Lanshan Lanyue and the dispersal of people from the Lan Shan Clan, the Orchid Mountain has now opened their traveling route once again for the residents of Seven Star County . This means the path to villages and towns under the jurisdiction of Wen Qing City is now accessible .

And under a mutual understanding between the Wen Wu City and Apprentice Hall, the four Inner Qi Lords agreed to expand their power into the northern area of Seven Star County . Since this location has been developed independently without receiving any support from the Seven Star Sect, their opinion against the incoming power may differ from what they expected .

"Zhang Wu Ji! Are you still not coming out from that damn room?" Meng Ran shouted outside of his room . Since the departure of Guan Qing Han from Wen Wu City, he's been keeping himself inside the room for three consecutive days now .

"Is it not working?" his eight attendants asked the lady living beside their master . From the way they look at it, the shock he got this time must be quite significant for their master to hole himself inside the room for so many days .

Noticing that nothing can be done by continuing to stay here, Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong returned to the blacksmithing department . aThe remaining five of them went to collect the completed Nutrition Pill scattered all over the place on order to help speed up the growth of the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant .

Meng Ran continues to educate and train the interested disciples to study the Formation Art . With Yong Lie and Miss Mu returned to their Mystic Engineer Establishment, everyone carries on with their own responsibilities .

Inside the room where Meng Ran is shouting not long ago, A youth is busy spending all his time and energy to upgrade an item . To understand why he was doing this kind of thing without bothering to answer the call from everyone, we will have to rewind the time back to three days before this .

After returning to the Apprentice Hall, Zhang Wu Ji excused himself and returned to his room . The moment he's inside the room, Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of loss . He did not know how to describe this feeling, but it was empty for a moment .

In his mind, the anger of hating the previous Zhang Wu Ji for obtaining such a gem in his youth, and even needed to be carried back to their Zhang Manor on a stretcher shows how excited he is to have Guan Qing Han's virginity taken by him .

But in another part of him, he felt happy, for the crazy lady to get out from his life . He has been busy and tired of long, and still have to entertain her antiques which filled with aggressiveness, questions, and weird temperament changes depending on the second, minute, and hour of the day .

Still, his heart is empty . Hating such kind of emotion bothering him, Zhang Wu Ji went to his writing table and begin to fill his loss and emptiness with a serious row of rewriting and upgrading .

Perhaps it was because he's a cultivator at this moment, his photogenic memory and the amount of information he could remember clearly in his head helps him to rewrites the book one after another . At the middle of the rewriting, Zhang Wu Ji though about something ironic .

"How can I remember the content of the books but forget about what I am given with?" he laughed . He feels like he was somebody asking for granted . As a person with [UPGRADE] System in hand, how can he actually forget about upgrading the item he made?

With the Longfeng Jade Ruler in his hand, he whispered [UPGRADE] . But to his disappointment, nothing happened . The Longfeng Jade Ruler still maintained their basic stats . He tried it next on the Bronze-Grade Nourishment Art, and his Martial Tyrant Body Art, but nothing happened to all of them .

This is what filled his time the most . By exhausting himself to engrave the Ironwood plate with the improved Spatial Formation Inscription, Zhang Wu Ji quickly produces another two hundred Wooden Universal Plate . Trying to upgrade them again, he failed .

"Failed . How does this upgrade work?" Zhang Wu Ji felt there must be something wrong in between his approach in upgrading the items . Does he have a limitation, or because his strength is too weak? By making another copy of his Upper and Middle part of the Seven Star Sword Art, he tried to upgrade them .

"This one can be upgraded instead . What is the problem here?" Zhang Wu Ji upgrades them on purpose until they're failed at +6 and +7 . Looking at the two pile of ashes of Failure, Zhang Wu Ji decided to pop a few Yin Essence Pill before going to sleep .

[Congratulation! You finally succeeded in upgrading 100,000 times! As you have understood the essence in Upgrading, the lock on Tier 1 Material upgrade is now opened . ]

[Do you know that the when you reaches the limit for the first 100,000 successful upgrades you will unlock the ability to Upgrade item for that particular stage?]

[Do your best to upgrade everything you see to unlock the +10% Bonus of the tier! It wasn't much, you only need to success 10 million times on that Tier!]

"This is great . If from today onwards I can upgrade my stuff into my current limit, +13, won't that be great?" Zhang Wu Ji looked at the stack of treasures confidently without bothering about the Ashes of Failure all around him .

Including his own Longfeng Jade Ruler, Manuals, and Pills, Zhang Wu Ji destroyed almost all precious treasures in his hand to contain his excitement in upgrading them . Of course, his rate of success was too far away from calling it as confident . But the failure did not leave a burden in his mind, but instead, they become an obsession .

Then, it was a lucky thing his Grain of Sapphire did not end up as a sacrificial tribute for his failure, if not, wonder when will his mind calm down .

Again and again, he upgraded them without any hint of worries . The destruction of his wealth can be said as outrageous . At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji can be declared as broke . But then, among the Ashes of Failures he made, one managed to pass .

-Special (+10): Phase-Less Manual can be set with one when paid with Inner Qi . Rates are (5,000-Shao Yang/Shao Yin) and (25,000-Tai Yang/Tai Yin)

"The upgrade completely changed the item description and quality! Does this mean that from now onwards, all my effort will upgrade the treasure's quality drastically?" Zhang Wu Ji wishes he can immediately obtain the answer straight away instead of guessing . After all, guessing is his worst trait that should not even be mentioned .

As he suddenly went out, his attendants waiting outside was shocked by his appearance . Although he wasn't supposed to be clean in the first place, his feature filled with filthy dust and ashes aren't something great to look at . His appearance puzzled all eight attendants at that moment .

"How can Master Senior cover by so many ashes? Did he burn something inside the room?" everything thinks about the same point at that moment . As the attentive twins among the eight attendants, Zhao Xiao Hua with Liu Yanni quickly went to prepare some water for their master's bath and left the matter of cleaning the room to the others .

"Master, leave the matter of cleaning the room to us . " the recovered Tang Yuan, Bai Hei Tie, and Zhang Ya Pin went inside the room to begin their cleaning process . This left Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong outside awaiting for Zhang Wu Ji's next instruction .

"Reporting to Master, our financial situation is in a very stable condition . From the recent report, we have a total of 1 . 2 Million Qi Sensing Pills in our stash available for investment or spendings . " Li Jing reported the number of profits alone that were kept inside of the Apprentice Hall's Treasure Vault .

"Good . Use the excess money to purchase as many books as you can . I want you to collect books of every kind, range varies from profession or cultivation . Don't bother with their quality, what I want is quantity, understand?" Zhang Wu Ji gave Li Jing an instruction to follow . With a wave of his hand, he passed a Qiyue Flying Sword for the disciple to complete his task .

"Li Yin, you will visit the Miner's Villages on my behalf and procure as many raw materials you could . Like usual, quantity is more important than quality, so bring back as much as you can . " he passed another Qiyue Flying Sword at Li Yin the moment he finishes with his instruction .

"Li Tong, order the production for Xuan Paper to increase . I will have an increase in demand for the Double Xuan Papers . And also, bring all the firestones into my room . Plus, bring . . . Anyway, increase all the production in our Apprentice Hall!" he finishes his instruction and activates his own Qiyue Flying Sword to travel somewhere .

"Third brother, your luck is better than the two of us . . . " the other two teased their youngest brother before leaving the small courtyard . When the two girls took the water back, they found out that their master left the Apprentice Hall .

"As usual, he's busy until he can stay still for a short while . Tell the people from the Construction Department to build another water irrigation channel outside of our master's bedroom . Arrange them to construct a hot water bath for our master that ready anytime he wanted . " Zhao Xiao Hua instructed Liu Yanni to deliver the message .

And before the night comes, hundreds constructor came with tools and building materials to start their renovation progress . The previously two-room structure with a small garden outside quickly received their makeover into a proper Courtyard suitable for the Master Senior's accommodation .

After leaving the vicinity of the Wen Wu City, Zhang Wu Ji activates the Iron Kong-Que and fly past the Orchid Mountain . When he saw the much more bustling road filled with different caravans and wagons with several items for trade, Zhang Wu Ji know that he'd arrived at the Wen Qing City .

"So, let us see, what is so good related to the Wen Qing City which was said to be excellent in their production in Medicine, Pill, and Textile . I hope I can see lots of new stuff here and not be disappointed by the capability of the Wen Qing City Lord . " he entered the city from above the sky .

Without paying an entrance fee nor registering himself with the guards in the entrance, Zhang Wu Ji is literally an unregistered immigrant inside of this city . He explores their streets crowded with merchants and private shoppers while impressed by the quality of the item they sold .

"Not bad . If one of the Apprentice Hall's sub-office is established here, I'm sure we're going to get rich because of their purchasing power . Let's see, what kind of good pills you guys got there . . . " Zhang Wu Ji considered the move of establishing another Apprentice Hall here . He went into another store with many pills in their table for a look .

He scrolled across most of the available selections of the pills before preparing to leave . When one of the shop's attendant saw his attitude, he stopped Zhang Wu Ji from going . By surrounding the customer with a group of 1 staff and 5 guards, they suspected Zhang Wu Ji to appear here for the sake of causing them trouble .

"This friend . I am just scrolling the pills and found nothing that I fancy . Is that not allowed?" Zhang Wu Ji expressed his intention to only window shop and not looking for trouble . And this is especially important, based on his fame at this crucial period of time .

"You don't seem like somebody with knowledge of pills . Are you one of the bandits that are trying to keep a check on our valuables so you can strike us at night?" the staff tries to pull Zhang Wu Ji deeper into the hole of blame he dug intentionally .

"Oh? It seems that proficiency in pills can be discerned from a look . If in that case, you don't resemble a proper worker either . Are you one of the bandits that try to check the store's operational steps before you guys spent less time to rob at night?" Zhang Wu Ji turned the blame around and pointed back on the staff .

"How dare you accuse me! I am one of the ten staffs that work the longest inside this Qingxue Pill Pavilion! Who in this Wen Qing City do not know my identity, Tang Bo?" he announced his name and also background loudly to challenge Zhang Wu Ji .

"Who are you? Explain yourself . " Tang Bo pointed at Zhang Wu Ji's face as he questioned the background of the youth before him . The situation soon grab the attention from the public and shoppers inside of the store, making everybody staring at them .

"I am Zhang Wu Ji, Master Senior Ninth of Seven Star Sect and also the founder of Apprentice Hall in Wen Wu City," with the Apprentice Hall Founder Plate and Master Senior Ninth Plate in hand, he answered the question flawlessly .

The crowd becomes silenced when Zhang Wu Ji took the two piece of engraved plates for the staff to inspect . Furthermore, the owner of the store immediately came down from the second floor's staircase to greet the Master Senior standing before Tang Bo .

"F*ck Off!" a slap came from the owner and sent Tang Bo aside to kiss the ground . Coming closer to Zhang Wu Ji and inspect the two nameplates to confirm their authenticity, he greets the Master Senior immediately after he identified the two nameplates .

"Hehehe, Master Senior Ninth, how can you not make an announcement of your arrival? If this old man knows you're coming for a visit, I will definitely prepare a private room for you to inspect our merchandise . Would Master Senior mind give this humble store one more chance to redeem himself from all these mistakes?" the owner quickly bowed . For the sake of not leaving his store with a poor impression, he convinced Zhang Wu Ji to give his store another chance .

Instead of leaving without a word, Zhang Wu Ji decided to look further . With the relationship between the Wen Wu, Wen Qing, and Wen Yang City, it was exposed that Wen Qing City is secretly funding the Lan Shan Clan to supports the Orchid Bandits . Which means, based on this reason alone, a direct subjugation of the city without prior warning is not unacceptable .

But still, Zhang Wu Ji wanted to know more about this matter to prevent bloodshed . It might be necessary for them to reclaim the ownership of Wen Qing City, but not through a battle between themselves as the residents of Seven Star County .

"Master Senior, please take a look at all these High-Quality Pills, we spent many efforts to procure the best quality medicinal plants to concoct them . " the owner opened the private table he used to store his own medicinal pills and wind the mechanical wheel to deploy the table into a taller inspection counter .

"The effort to forge these pills must be unimaginable . " Zhang Wu Ji praised the owner of the Qingxue Pill Pavilion for his collection of eight different type of pills . Each of them is stored in a proper Jade Box along with an extremely precious piece of textile believed to preserve and enhance the medicinal properties of the pill further .

"Good pills . Although not all of them is at their best quality, their standard exceeds most of their competitors if I compared this collection against the others . " Zhang Wu Ji praised the owner of Qingxue Pill Pavilion for obtaining these precious pills in his list of sellable items .

"Master Senior, please ask . If this old man can answer your questions, I will make sure to help as much as I can . " the owner answered his question, but in that moment of speech, Zhang Wu Ji noticed some discomfort in between of his reply . He caught the appearance of three suspicious individuals soon and waited for them .

"Master Senior Zhang?" one of the three individuals tried to confirm his identity once more . The remaining two individuals blocked the exit from the two windows, afraid that Zhang Wu Ji may escape .

"Yes, I am . Since you know my name, why bother to block the routes for me to escape? If I really wanted to get out from here, I'm afraid with the three of you, it is impossible to stop me," Zhang Wu Ji questioned them as he answered the question . As he finishes his words, he raised his hand casually and pressed his hand on the owner's shoulder .

"Owner, I will come back to purchase the pill from you . Do you mind answering my question first?" Zhang Wu Ji calmly said as he gave out a smile . Ignoring the three cautious individuals, Zhang Wu Ji stares straight on the Owner of Qingxue Pill Pavilion and wait for his reply .

"Do you know about the Golden Wolf Syndicate existence?" Zhang Wu Ji starts to read his question out . When the Owner of Qingxue Pill Pavilion heard his question, sweat in the size of a bead flows down from his forehead . His palm turns wet, and his heart becomes much more nervous .

"I . . . I . . . Know about them . . . Master Senior, please expect no answer from this old man as he still has two wives, six kids, and hundred and thirty-two attendants to feed . This old man is ashamed of his inability to answer the question . . . " the owner of Qingxue Pavilion kneeled and lowered his head .

"That's fine . The owner, please do not feel too bad about it . I wonder can these three brothers relay my word to the Golden Wolf Syndicate? Tell them, the Wen Wu City will soon swallow the Wen Qing City, and if the members of the Golden Wolf Syndicate aren't willing to surrender, then please expect blood to flow . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he speaks the word he wanted them to hear .

Taking a few steps closer to the one taking guard on the staircase, Zhang Wu Ji delivered a palm attack on the mysterious individual, causing him to dodge the attack immediately . But in that instant, Zhang Wu Ji vanished from their sight and escaped .

"Capture him!" loud bellows echoes through the staircase into the lower floor, where another three mysterious individuals quickly tried to search for the Master Senior . But one side charging into the Qingxue Pill Pavilion and another hurrying down the staircase, both side caught nothing related to Zhang Wu Ji .

"Where did he goes? Did you three caught anything?" the person that talked with Zhang Wu Ji earlier lost his temper and started to shout at the other five individuals . As none of them managed to capture the target, they're forced to return empty-handed . What they did not realize is tailing them behind is the Master Senior Ninth they're looking for .

After making a few turns around the maze-like paths, Zhang Wu Ji and the others reach a study twin door that was guarded by six guards at both left and right of the door . Paying his attention to how they open the door, Zhang Wu Ji deduces that no traps are hidden around the doors, which means it is safe for him to go inside while in stealth mode .

As he maintained his stealth status, Zhang Wu Ji hiddenly steals the weapon of the guards to cause a small disturbance . Seeing all the weaponry are made by the Golden Wolf Syndicate, Zhang Wu Ji's suspicion on their overall strength is much more different from how they look is accurately on the point .

"Hey, where are your weapons! You, You, all of you!" the one that seems to be the leader of the guards lectured the others for not having their weapons in their waist, but when all of them pointed at him as well, their face turned dark .

"Where did all our weapon go?" everybody is asking the same question at this moment . With six guards remained outside, the others went through the gate, unknown that a stealthy silhouette followed them and entered the vicinity .

"Not bad at all . . . " Zhang Wu Ji explored the outer courtyard surrounding the core building . As there was another twin door blocking his entrance from the inner courtyard, he was left with no choices but explore what he can for now . Luckily, Zhang Wu Ji did not waste his upgrade on the Wooden Universal Plate in hand, else it will be pointless for him to sneak inside this building .

Robbing most of the precious stuff as he goes, Zhang Wu Ji clears their building one after another, leaving them with only empty chairs and tables without a single useful item within . After covering the whole outer courtyard with his solo robbery, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the entrance for Inner Courtyard, and wait for people to come and report about the treasure vanished mysteriously .

But out of his expectation, nobody came forward . He did not imagine that after so many belonging is stolen, nobody actually turns up to report the incidents . What's more, during his robbing spree, Zhang Wu Ji did not meet with any precious materials, where it only means one thing . . .

The outer courtyard and inner courtyard is differentiated . The people he met earlier might be people from inner courtyard because none of the precious item he stole worth too much . Plus, he did not find any storage vaults, blacksmithing room, pill making hall, and other professions building, which means that this outer area is probably for members not directly related with their operation .

Before he decided to call this infiltration off, the door into the inner courtyard is opened from inside . Unexpected to him, the one walking out from inside is exactly the person that talked to him moments ago! But where are the others?

"Since the opportunity gave me the chances to get in, why shouldn't I follow their invitation and went in for a look?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled and quickly enter through the gap . The mysterious individual felt a mild breeze of wind brushed his side, but without seeing anything around him, he ignored it and left .

"Oh gosh! I love my decision to come in here! Seems like my Wooden Universal Plate is going to have a difficult time taking in all of these treasures!" Zhang Wu Ji smiled . It was like a pile of gold thrown aside in the open waiting for him to rob!

Well, I have done one chapter again . Unfortunately, I'm afraid I have to let everyone know that the 24 chaps mass release for 3rd December is going to be canceled . In exchange for that, I am going to do my best to release more chapters in a week as compensation .

"Come in . . . " he stored the materials into his Wooden Universal Plate until they're full before starting with another plate . He keeps most of them away before he decided to went inside one of the buildings to rob them further until he cleaned their coffers .

"Since they're so well funded, I should do good for the public and clear all of them for my own good karma . " Zhang Wu Ji praised them for having so many treasures stored in the open area . What kind of good stuff can he expect inside their workshop?

With the mindset in his head, Zhang Wu Ji started to rummage the room . From the way it looks, he assumes this building is used as the medicinal storage room . With a swipe of his Wooden Universal Plate on the hundred boxes shelf, Zhang Wu Ji stored it without worrying about the capacity it can holds .

After cleaning the medicinal storage room, he took another exit from a different side and entered a building supposed to be their Pill-Making Workshop . Here, he was greeted with the existence of three Pill-Master in their peak Tier 1 Qualification . Each of them has their back facing each another, busy concocting medicinal pills with the ingredient they collected from the previous building .

On the side of their worktable is a few Spatial Stones for them to collect and store their raw and end results products . With the strength of only 11th Stage Inner Qi Warriors, they're not a threat to Zhang Wu Ji at all . After he felt that cautious against them is not necessary, Zhang Wu Ji steps closer to one of them and steals some of his belongings .

Felt something is missing from his table, the Pill Master stand up and bellowed . His exploding temper caused him to blame the other two Pill Masters for taking his required item for Pill Making . Of course, the two puzzled Pill Masters retaliates . Being blamed for something they did not do, the three of them fight through their harsh words .

Taking the advantages when they're fighting against each another, Zhang Wu Ji cleaned their tables including the cauldron they're using . Minutes after he left, their argument finally ends . When they turned around and found out that all their belongings and items vanished from where it was, their first reaction is not solving the problem but argues again .

Since nobody is looking for the culprit, Zhang Wu Ji left the building as soon as possible and entered another building . From the earlier Medicine Storage Room and Pill Making Room, he went inside the Blacksmithing Room next . Once again, he swiped everything clean before moving to another room .

Unknown how long did the Golden Wolf Syndicate use to accumulate such wealth, Zhang Wu Ji only took half an hour to clear most of them . Left with the main building is unexplored, Zhang Wu Ji decided to make an ending with his actions .

Through the New Firestone Upgrade Technique, Zhang Wu Ji created multiple Flame Rocks that can be ignited and throw them to the most brittle point to bring the building on fire . In a short period of time, Zhang Wu Ji brings the whole inner courtyard into burning flames .

The flames forced the members of the Golden Wolf Syndicate to come out from their resting spot to get rid of the fire, but as it was an accident caused by something of a higher-quality like Flame Rock, the attempt to eliminate the flames is very challenging .

"What happened here! Get away, let me use my Ice Elemental Crystal to remove the flames!" amongst the people running around, one of them speaks loudly to get the others away from him . With a bluish transparent crystal on his palm, the member tried to deliver the Inner Qi infused with the cold aura to get rid of the flames .

But as he sends his palm forth, Zhang Wu Ji sneakily touches the crystal on his hand before it vanished from the member's palm . Without that crystal, his Inner Qi becomes the catalyst like adding oil into flames and forces it to burn hotter .

"Get the f*ck off! Are you helping to get rid the flames or helping it to burn stronger? If you repeat all these acts, don't blame me to dispose of you!" another member of the syndicate yelled on the fellow before turning his attention to help controls the flame .

Using his Inner Qi to form a vacuum space, the member tried to eliminate the flames by getting rid of the oxygen surrounding the burning hot buildings . Through his method, a portion of the fire burning through the first building is put out . This successful attempt builds his confidence, but the next moment, Zhang Wu Ji sneakily place a Flame Rock inside his clothing the moment he ignited the flame .

"Aargh! Help me! I'm on fire!" the member rolled on the ground and cried for help . With the few other members putting their attention on him, Zhang Wu Ji took the opportunity to escape from the Inner Courtyard when the door is opened from the outside .

He escaped . With the fire is burning inside the Inner Courtyard, nobody has time to spend idle on guard . The well is gathered by many members struggling to fill their bucket with water, and some of them forced their Inner Qi to stop the fire from spreading . Without a single person standing on guard, Zhang Wu Ji went outside of their neighborhood and summoned the Iron Kong-Que .

This time, it was a great haul . The number of riches he has stolen from this stealth mission might reach 600,000 Qi Sensing Pills, about half of the reserve funds of his Apprentice Hall . With a sudden increase in his wealth, how can Zhang Wu Ji feel hesitates when spending them? He went through each village and towns and purchased all of their raw materials before leaving .

Returning to the Wen Wu City, Zhang Wu Ji was only greeted with six of his eight attendants, because Li Jing and Li Yin are outside handling his task . It was a rare occasion for them to enjoy dinner together, especially this time, there were two additional guests during their meal .

After the dinner, the others bring Zhang Wu Ji to inspect their temporary changes on the building itself . From the initial two room small courtyard, they modified it to be able to hold twenty rooms in this courtyard three times bigger than before .

The new building plan also includes a Blacksmithing Room, Pill Making Room, Formation Room, Study Room, Meeting Hall, Treasure Vault, Weapon Vault, and four different gardens for the owner to receive a different guest in different circumstances . Furthermore, the building plan comes with a hot water bath and a private kitchen for the sake of not abusing the founder of this Apprentice Hall .

Satisfied with the design, Zhang Wu Ji handed between ten thousand Qi Sensing Pills to be distributed to the construction members . With Headmaster Liang Tian requesting for a speech with their master, everyone left the master and disciple duo for their own agenda .

"Xiao Wu Ji, do you think your master is useless?" Liang Tian asked when the two of them is seated at the side of an incomplete building wall . Under the assistance from the moonlight, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that his master's face seems older than how he looks .

"Master . . . In Wu Ji's mind, Master is a father to the nine of us . The lesson you taught, the attention you give, the example you have seen each time we handle something on our own strength, and secretly helping us from behind is enough to make you worth becoming our master . " Zhang Wu Ji replied . He took Liang Tian's hand and gave his palm a massage .

Earlier, when everyone is enjoying their meal, Zhang Wu Ji noticed his master's shivering palm as he tried to grab the food through his pair of chopsticks . Discerning that his master has something hidden from all of them, Zhang Wu Ji stands up during their meal and personally serve the food to his master throughout the meal .

From the view of Meng Ran and the attendants, this action equals the loyalty and dutiful towards his master . But between the master and disciple, this means much more than that . It may look normal for a master to cover his disciple's weaknesses, but when on another way around, it was something rarely happen .

"Do you know why instead of giving the nine of you with cultivation manuals and martial arts, I choose to give everyone something different?" Liang Tian asked his second question .

"Because my master knows when is the correct time each of us qualified to learn about all of those . If master thinks we're not ready, it will be pointless to deliver the martial arts that may ruin our body, and cultivation art that may attract life-threatening danger to us . " Zhang Wu Ji answered his master once again with the correct answer .

It was like a breeze of comforting wind went through the depth of his heart, calming the regretful and worried heart of an elder towards his beloved disciples . Now, instead of worries, he questioned himself .

"Does this means, all of them is ready to accept the inheritance I prepared to them?" he considered his answer about this once more . The last time he asked himself this question is before Zhang Wu Ji is accepted as one of his disciples . During that time, the question he asked received a harsh rejection from the deep inside his heart . But this time, it was different .

"Xiao Wu Ji, go summon all your senior brother and sisters here . Tell them, from this moment, I will teach the nine of you my entire life's cultivation and martial technique . " Liang Tian seems enlightened . The puzzled mind haunts his mind previously is cleared, leaving the Lord of Seven Swords with a brand new mindset filled with expectation and not fear!

"Wu Ji understood!" Zhang Wu Ji clasped his together and left the courtyard immediately . Using his Qiyue Flying Sword, Zhang Wu Ji collected his first senior brother Han Geng and second senior brother Han Yan . With both of them already possessed a Qiyue Flying Sword earlier, they separate and look for the others before returning to the courtyard .

The nine of them kneeled before their master and kowtowed to him as a sign of respect . With his activation of Lord's Qi, Liang Tian covered the ten of them in a space only Inner Qi Lord possess the might to eavesdrop their conversation .

"Do you blame your master for not providing all of you with heaven-defying martial arts, earth-shaking cultivation skills, and rightful wealth?" he questioned everyone presents .

"We don't! All of us know what master had done behind us in secret for the sake of our personal growth! Not even once in our mind, we suspect master for not cultivating us properly!" all of them answered his question in a decisive demeanor . It seems that all of them were prepared for what will come today .

"Good . . . I, Liang Tian, may not be a sample Sect Leader, nor a well known Inner Qi Lord . But I am not ashamed to tell the world that, this Liang Tian, managed to bring up nine disciples that represents everything I've got!" he stares at the sky as he speaks . . .

"I've hesitated long enough . . . In fact, your master prepared everyone with a copy of three Manuals I've kept in my hand for so long . Each time I wanted distributes to the nine of you, somethings keep holding me from doing so . From the moment I took Xiao Gen and Xiao Yan as my first two disciples, my worries start . "

"First of all, is because of my archenemies . The nine of you must remember what I'm telling you now . Forty years ago, the Seven Star County chose me as their representative to participates in the annual States Tournament . Because each state contained ten counties in their control, the competition is always held in a 10 members team tournament . "

"During that time, I know your master mother, Beiping Ruolan . For the sake of me winning the tournament, she did something that made the two of us regrets until today . She . . . stolen the sword art manual from the Roaring Thunder Sect and Northern Frost Sect . "

"The Roaring Thunder Sect sword art excels in control, and the Northern Frost Sect sword art focused in the attack . Added with the sword art from Beiping Family, Seven Star Sect, and my own profound sword arts, I created the first manual I'm going to let each of you inherits it . " Liang Tian completed the first part of his speech . With a wave of his hand, he sent the first book to each of them .

-Ability Acquired (1): By studying the method and formation arrangement recorded inside the manual, it allows the user to obtain the ability to control the flight trajectory, attacking strength, and protection circle of swords related weaponry .

-Ability Acquired (2): The manual allowed storage of Sword Qi in the desired weapons for it to obtain the ability of flight . The quantity of Sword Qi depends on the weaponry's quality and user's cultivation depth . Current Sword Qi conversion rate (200 Warrior Qi = 1 Sword Qi)

Limitation: The Manual's content is [incomplete/Unrefined] . Due to this restriction, only 17% of the overall strength can be used when this manual is utilized by (ZWJ) .

"By mastering the Formation of Seven Swords, you will be able to execute ability like mine . Although they aren't suitable to be cultivated by those below Inner Qi Warrior, according to how it goes, I can expect all of you to be an Inner Qi Warrior before the end of the year . "

"Still, I will need all of you to promise me . Do not fight against anyone from the Roaring Thunder Sect and Northern Frost Sect . Although the Formation of Seven Swords able to bring me fame as the Lord of Seven Swords, it won't work the same to the nine of you . "

"In term of Profound Sword Art, the Roaring Thunder Sect and Northern Frost Sect are the best in the Northern Imperial Kingdom . Unless there's no choice, do not fight against them . . . " Liang Tian finishes his warning before he moved into the second manual .

"As for the second manual, it is something I obtained from killing one of the fugitives wanted by the Southern Imperial Kingdom . When I beheaded him, I found out a piece of animal skin with a profound martial art written on it . After I copied the content into a book, I practiced them for thirty years . " Liang Tian waved his hand to deliver them the second manual .

-Ability Acquired: The content within this manual allows the user to executes three styles of Southern Mountain Palm by paying Warrior Qi before execution .

"The second manual, Southern Mountain Palm Art is something I've refined for a period of time for it to reach the current profound stage . In my own suspicion, this martial art supposed to come from one of the top three sects in the Lower Southern State . "

"Because this martial art comes from the fugitive, I assume that it might be his signature move, which is why I hesitated to let the nine of you inherit this martial art . Do not use this skill too frequently, especially if you're in the Lower Southern State's vicinity . " Liang Tian completed the description of his second manual and moved to the third .

"As for the third manual, it was initially a Warrior Tier Cultivation Technique . Due to this Manual's flexibility to compliment and absorb different stage cultivation manuals into its own usage, this manual has accompanied me from when I am an Inner Qi Warrior until now . " he finished his first row of speech and sent the last and remaining Manual to all of them .

-Ability Acquired (1): Through the complimenting ability of the Seven-Tiered Star Pagoda's Sutra, allows seven different tiered manuals to combines into one single manual for Qi Branching Tier Cultivation .

-Ability Acquired (2): Combined Manuals allowed simultaneous tier cultivation to be executed at the same time . Allows the user to infuse and delete manual as he wished .

-Limitation: Cultivation Method is restricted to Seven Manuals only . Cultivation Tier is limited to Tier 8 and below . Cultivation Technique is restricted to one of a kind for each tier, no copy or enhanced version is allowed .

"What? I got this book on my own and not related to others . Are you guys thinking that your master is a troublemaker during his youth?" Liang Tian bellowed at the nine of them for looking and waiting for him to share another troublesome matter caused during his youth .

I guess, this chapter is what gives all of you the answer, why Liang Tian did not hand down his inheritance to all of them even after the story progressed for almost 280 days from the moment Zhang Wu Ji enrolled as a student for the sect .

I understand that most of my readers questioned, why the master is so useless, but please let me remind everyone once more . Many stories start with an OP headmaster, without worries, bothers, and fear . But that is not the same to mine .

Liang Tian portrays the typical always filled with headache headmaster due to many reasons . This took the example from our real-life situation where even though you're the head of an establishment, it doesn't mean you're in control .

I made him struggle with the imbalance of power by adding the Knowledge Pagoda's seven elders . Through this, I made him unable to exploit his right as a headmaster, which limits his reach in many areas . And to strengthen his background, Beiping Ruolan comes in as the protector behind Liang Tian's faction .

Of course, you may treat the departments as the board of directors that freely change their sides based on the benefits they could get . The Wen Qing City's cooperation with the Lanshan Clan is like business competitors, with the Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan as the oriole that stalks them from behind .

"Tell me, what happened actually!" the owner of the Golden Wolf Syndicate, also the appointed city lord, Cao Ming, questioned the subordinates kneeling before him . He was infuriated by the fact everything was stolen from the Inner Courtyard to Outer Courtyard vicinity .

Worst of all, the treasures that were arranged in the open to make them look less obvious suffered consequence when the thieves completely cleared every accessible structure . At this time, only the Core Tower, where the precious item such as Qi Accumulating Pills, Spatial Stones, Qi Weaving Stones, and others is stored, remained safe from the thieves plundering .

With a total amount of 600,000 to 650,000 Qi Sensing Pills this time, their losses in outrageous . As a greedy corrupt official managing the Wen Qing City's financial, this losses is too painful for him to accept! Along with the cauldrons, books, firestones, and medicinal herbs, all raw material is plundered by the group of thieves that not even a single member of the syndicate caught their existence .

But even in his wildest dream, he will never expect that this robbery is not done by a group, but it was the effort of Zhang Wu Ji alone! Will he end up with a heart attack if he knows the truth about how he lost half of his hard earned corrupted fortune?

"City Lord . . . The representatives from Upper South Merchant Corporation came . " his assistant came forward and reported this incident to his lord . When the news about the representative is made known to Cao Ming, his facial expression becomes better .

"My Money Shaking Tree is here! I wonder what did he bring me this time! You and you, quickly go to the four brothels and bring me five prostitutes from each establishment . Tell them if they do not comply, wait for the Militarized Forces to enforce their duties!" Cao Ming pointed at two of his subordinates and gave them instruction .

"As for the two of you, quickly go purchase some Universal Health Pills for the representatives! Bring back the chefs from Heavenly Flavors Pavilion and Five Spice Pavilion to prepare a feast . " his efficiency is unbelievably amazing . In a short period of time, he arranged most of his subordinates to prepare everything for the enjoyment of the representatives .

When all of them is ready, he returned with plenty of gifts to be presented to the representatives . For him, these people are the one that brings him with the wealth he can never imagine, and for them, the City Lord, Cao Ming, is nothing more than the best pimp in the Wen Qing City .

Since the business will be conducted no matter what happened, it was pointless to behave like a proper gentleman . Their meeting starts with a grand feast accompanied by dancers especially hired to entertain the guests . Given the fact they're literally allowed to do anything they wish, none of them controlled their mortal lust .

The group of dancers is the first to be ravaged by the beast in human skin, with a few corpses lying on the entrance due to their perseverance to not allowing the guests to violate their virginity . After the starters are done, three claps are heard .

In the next moment, twenty prostitutes from the Wen Qing City's top four brothels came inside the room to start serving them . By popping a few Universal Health Pills into their body, their Ancestral Inheritance Roots is aroused once more to begin defiling the beauties sent into the hall like a group of lambs waiting for slaughter .

At the end of the banquet, three dancers dead, with thirty-seven of them defiled . Amongst the twenty prostitutes, nineteen received mental trauma from ravaged by the ten honored guest . The last one failed to bear their brutality and died on the spot .

"I say . . . City Lord . . . Each time I'm here for the sake of doing business, I am always welcomed warmly by you with all of this hospitality . " one of the ten representatives initiates a conversation with the City Lord to praise him for the top-notch service .

"Representative Wan's word is too much for this humble lord to accept . As long everyone is rejuvenated with all of these little gestures, this humble lord can be said as doing the right thing at the right time . . . " Cao Ming smiled as he replied to the first sentences .

"With these kinds of hospitality and gestures, how can the ten of us be mean to you! People! Bring in the merchandise we took here this time!" another representative joined their conversations and ordered his subordinates to bring out all the treasures into the middle of the hall .

"Krang! Krang . . . " the pile of treasures hidden inside the stacks of higher quality Spatial Stone is withdrawn and arranged nicely . Here, at least treasures worth over 400 Million in gold coins is taken out for Cao Ming to inspect .

"City Lord, based on our relationship, I will not twist around with my words . As long you can make sure that the Upper South Merchant Corporation can establish a foundation here to increase the flow of our business, we will not be stingy with our yearly gift before the starting of every year . "

"As a City Lord that loved his people so much, you won't reject our generous offer, right?" Representative Wan speaks his request . The way he started the word is humble, but the sharpness of the sword in his words still aches the people listening to his words .

"Ah . . . Representative Wan . . . This surname Cao have to obtain approval from the Seven Star Sect before he can make such a decision . Hope representative Wan understand the crucial importance of this matter . . . " Cao Ming bends his standing posture slightly to indicates how sorry he felt regarding this matter .

This reply made Representative Wan's expression to turn sour . The way his mood changed is recognized by the other fellow representatives, where they soon step forward to start retrieving the treasures presented in the middle of the hall .

"Representative Wan, what is this means?" Cao Ming questioned . His emotion becomes nervous as he looked at the treasures slowly decreasing at every flowing second . Staring at Representative Wan and his fellow colleague, Cao Ming mind swayed .

How can he not be? The treasure worth 400 Million Gold Coins decreased until only 150 Million left . One minute later, everything returned into the hand of the representative . They shared their Spatial Ring for a moment to stack all the treasures in one and handed the ring to Representative Wan .

"City Lord, what do you think this surname Wan is? They're collecting the treasure for the sake of my lord . Do you know the price of this Onyx-Class Spatial Ring? In the Crystal Auction City, the price for this ring starts from 300 Million Gold Coins, but they usually sold around 450 Million to 500 Million at the end of the bidding . "

"I'm sure you're interested in this treasure right? What is better than having a wearable ring that able to store so much treasure wherever you go?" Representative Wan presents the ring along with 400 million gold coins worth of treasures inside .

"Hahaha! Representative Wan, you made me nervous for a while there . Deal! I will make sure the Headmaster of Seven Star Sect agrees with the participation of Upper South Merchant Corporation to establish a new foundation in the Wen Qing City!"

"Do Representative Wan have a location for the starting of foundation in mind? If not, this City Lord can introduce you a few locations . " Cao Ming approached Representative Wan and collected the ring in his hand .

"This surname Wan do have a location in mind . Would the City Lord be generous to present the piece of land belonged to your Golden Wolf Syndicate?" Representative Wan smiled as he looked at Cao Ming .

"Now now . . . This kind of waiting is suffering . " Zhang Wu Ji stares at the black gemstone that starts to form in the air . After putting all the ingredients and Spatial Formation Inscriptions and Fighter Qi into the Formation Plate, he activates the plate for it to start the conversion .

But, he thinks differently compared to the people originated from this world . With his UPGRADE System, Zhang Wu Ji already able to shorten the process from ten hours into one hour is all its required . Next, he did not place all his hope on one single Formation Plate, but instead, he activates seven plates at one time .

With the conversion of 0 . 1 Carat of Spatial Onyx Gem in every hour, Zhang Wu Ji needs to activate this seven plates for a total of 50 times for them to reach the requirement of 5 Carat Spatial Onyx Gem . In total, he'll need a total of fifty hours for them to complete, which is over two days worth of time .

While waiting for the preparation of the Spatial Onyx Gem to complete, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with the other activities he might have in mind . First of all, he will have to process all the material he stolen from the Golden Wolf Syndicate .

With all materials is processed into their best quality, Zhang Wu Ji now can either choose to proceed with the rewriting of his Cultivation and Martial Manuals or forging pill and equipment . He gave both of them consideration and finally decided on working with the Manual Rewriting first .

After such a long period of having no improvement in his martial arts, Zhang Wu Ji is now carrying a new intention to improve them and created something new . Similar to his Bronze-Grade Nourishment Art, it was a duality Attack and Healing ability that's unexpected by any other cultivators .

He's daydreaming . In his mind, a Martial Art that can overwhelm all his opponents below Inner Qi Warrior's strength, and the Cultivation Art that can strengthen a cultivator from his weakest strength into the top of Inner Qi Fighter in less than a year as he does .

"Master, we brought back everything you instructed . " Li Jing and Li Yin reported outside of him private building . Before waiting for his next instruction, Li Yin already entered the Forging Room to arrange the materials neatly in case his master wanted to start forging for something .

As for Li Jing, all the books inside the six Wooden Universal Plates is for his master's direct reading . This means, instead of going into anywhere, it shall go to his master's hand directly . When Zhang Wu Ji came out from his room, he was satisfied with their excellent performance in completing his task .

Their gift for completing his task? The Qiyue Flying Sword . It was a gift worth 300 Million Gold Coins . And like it was nothing, Zhang Wu Ji allowed them to keep it for their personal use . If Yang Chen Kun knows about it, he may throw out not only blood but his internal organs out of anger .

Back to his room once more, Zhang Wu Ji tried his best to resist the attraction brought by the number of raw materials recently brought back from Li Yin . Their existence is now waiting for him to process, it was a great difficulty for him to not went to them .

With all his writing material is prepared, Zhang Wu Ji started his effort is made many copies of the improvised manual before he considered fusing them together to form something new . This effort he made brings him many answers in things he wanted to know .

It was in his first few efforts to fusing that brings him the understanding that no matter how many time he fused the same manual, the results come out from them is based on the law of four phenomena . Based on the way he stacked them separately, Zhang Wu Ji found the results that came out from the fusion followed a certain kind of Law .

The Spring Phase represents Growth and Rebirth, allowing manual resulted from this phase to carries the ability such as recovery, physical enhancement, increase in birth rate, and other similar effects .

Next comes the Summer Phase, which represents Adulthood and Emotion, birthing the effect such as Increases in Quality, the grown ability but paired with heightened cost, the ability to control the inner demon, and so forth .

On the Autumn Phase, abilities such as equal exchange, storage, condensation, and harvest appeared . This is due to the Fall Season represents the meaning of Balance and Preparations .

Winter Phase came last, representing Frailness and Hibernation . The effect from this phase bring forth abilities such as life extension, sacrifice, or exchanges for the sake of final struggling .

This four different Seasonal Phase able to bring out a different effect of the Manual resulted from the Fusion . And of course, this means that through following the order of Tai Yang, Shao Yin, Tai Yin, and Shao Yang, he can expect how the results appear .

In the next eighteen days, Zhang Wu Ji ignored the fact of his advancement into the 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter and the fact he now controlled 887 strands of Fighter Qi . Although the moment for him to enter the 10th stage of Inner Qi Fighter is not too far, it wasn't something too much to be concerned either .

Like how he sees from the way Inner Qi Warriors like his second brother and other top disciples from the Upper Five Counties fight, the usage of Warrior Qi during their battle is limited! The reason for this is because for every strand of Warrior Qi they use is an expensive wastage of 1,000 strands of Fighter Qi .

And only in a difficult battle one use their precious strands of Warrior Qi to fight . This is also the reason why his brother still battles using Tier-1 equipment and why even in a crucial period, the Warrior Stage cultivators only blasted their Warrior Qi and not attacking using them .

Worst of all, The moment one entered the Inner Qi Warrior Stage, it means that they are no longer blessed with the protection of Nature Law of Cultivators . The vanished protection means that from this moment onwards, the Nature Law of Cultivator is applied to them, and they will start suffering the backlash if they dishonored a few important matters .

The complete entry into 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior is similar to the beginning of a proper path of cultivation . Unless one meditates to recover the exhausted Strands of Inner Qi, the strands of Qi within their body will not recover . And by suffering this symptom, it was the proof of one as a Warrior, and also one that started his path to Sheng Tian Process .

"No wonder when my master is injured, and he was struggling with the lack of Inner Qi within his body . If he cannot cultivate at all, how can the Inner Qi needed in his body is replenished?" Zhang Wu Ji finally understood . Based on the miracle is Small Nourishment Art can recover, it was too insignificant at all to help his master .

According to how he calculates the figure, the little amount of healing he's able to apply on his master is merely a speck of dust in the atmosphere . They exist, but they worth nothing when it was given to somebody four tiers stronger than his own .

"Luckily my effort did not disappoint me . . . " Zhang Wu Ji touches the first book placed just on the starting point on his left . He went through the description of appeared in his sight immediately to see what comes out from his eighteen days of seclusion upgrading . . .

-Ability Acquired (1): During meditation and chanting, increase the number of Natural Energy attracted to the Compassionate Zone by 60% . The Zone increase the multiplication opportunity of Natural Energy by 200%, allowing faster evolution and multiplication as long the Compassionate Zone is successively activated .

-Ability Acquired (2): During the activation of Compassionate Zone, the Nature Energy exist within the zone are twice as effective compared to the outside . Nature Energy cultivated inside the zone perimeters may have 0 . 2% possibility to be sentient .

-Special (+0): When the Natural Energy within the zone is assimilated by the user, Increase a bonus counter that will reward the user with (1) Full Recovery activation . Full Recovery only works on User alone .

-Special (+10): Compassionate Zone is now can be activated separately for one hour in a targetted location . Upon completion, (1) drop of Natural Spring is created . (Take note: Natural Spring is volatile and can explode when made contact with water . Explosion capable of destroying Spatial Zone)

"Not bad . . . Not bad . . . Too bad the special effect is only activable by me through the upgrade system . With the other cultivator not possessing the ability to discern the Natural Energy by their unenhanced eyes, it is a waste to distribute this manual to my attendants . " Zhang Wu Ji kept the first book inside his Onyx-Class Spatial Ring .

Although the Wooden Universal Plate works similar to the Spatial Ring, it was unable to carry the effect outside of the Spatial Realm, unlike the Onyx-Class Spatial Ring that works similarly to the cultivator holding the item indirectly .

Next, he moved his hand over to the second book from the left . When the Description Box pops out, he gives out a smile . It was something familiar to him back in the Earth . Back there, it was a fictional creation which was adapted into plenty chapters in movie and dramas .

"Again! Can't you guys let me take my sweet time for a moment here!" Zhang Wu Ji complained deep within his heart, forgetting that he was in seclusion for eighteen days already .

I'm so sorry for the late update! Real life business with some distractions . Plus, the chaps are progressing nicely with some upgrade, so of course, I will need to research something for the story!

"What happened? Can't you guys wait until I finish my seclusion training before disturbing me in the middle?" Zhang Wu Ji collected the ten treasured manuals inside his Onyx-Class Spatial Ring before he came out from his room .

"Master Senior Ninth! We wanted to wait as well, but your seclusion took eighteen days! We have no choice but to disturb you in the middle of your seclusion training . " the disciple from his Apprentice Hall stated . Afraid of being penalized due to his bold action, he kneeled before the Master Senior .

"Alright . Tell me what happened . " Zhang Wu Ji steps outside from his door and proceeds towards the direction where the Main Hall of his Apprentice Hall is located . Following him from behind, the disciple started to explain to him what happened in this eighteen days .

"No wonder . . . " Zhang Wu Ji scratched his head and continued with their way once more . In the way, he was briefed with what happened during these few days of seclusion Training . Being the one that received this news last, Zhang Wu Ji feels like he cannot smile at all .

On the third day of his seclusion, news related to the Upper South Merchant Corporation is establishing their branch in Wen Qing City is made known to every village, town, and cities inside this Seven Star County . Being the overlord of this county, Seven Star Sect not only did not stop the expansion but instead, supported them .

This news angered Liang Tian thoroughly, but there was nothing he can do at this moment . As the expansion branch is in construction, they started to grab the attention of many investors, merchants, and also visitors from the Imperial County . With such a disturbance suddenly appeared in the Wen Qing City, this hampers their initial intention to subjugate the city .

With the Wen Qing City being so crowded with visitors and business prospects, the subjugating action will not proceed as they wish . If they decided to continue with the initial plan, not only it may decrease the confidence of people towards the Apprentice Hall but allowing the possibility of allowing the current Seven Star Sect to have a reason to subjugate them instead .

Their control over emotion and rationality impressed Zhang Wu Ji, but it was only until the tenth day of his seclusion . News related to the incoming convoy belonged to the Jie's County merchants are coming through Wen Qing City . Although this act is something easily seethrough by the experienced businessman, it was still a good act to purchase the confidence of their customers .

With all these arrangements, it affects the business that was conducted in Wen Wu City . Because the news was spread everywhere through their wealthy manner of advertising, merchants coming passed the Heavenly South County went straight to Wen Qing City instead of where the Apprentice Hall is located .

Suffering from all these losses of revenue, Liang Tian and few management members went out to salvage this matter . As an honored Inner Qi Lord, the well known Lord of Seven Swords, he pays a visit personally to the Wen Qing City to see what kind of act they're planning ahead to destroy the Apprentice Hall .

Meanwhile, eight of the nine master seniors is out from the Wen Wu City to support their neighborhood village and towns to obtain their trust . By doing all these, they successfully convert a portion of the victim from the Upper South Merchant Corporation's advertisement and continue to support the Apprentice Hall .

But this did not last long . Unknown from where and what is their background, bandits strike when their defense is at the lowest point . Two of the villages that were recently visited by the Master Seniors is slaughtered by an unknown force of bandits . Forced by these kinds of threat, the people started to lost their trust towards their Apprentice Hall .

Worst of all, when all of these incidents happened, the person representing the Upper South Merchant Corporation Branch in Wen Qing City is busy with his time attending Liang Tian! This completely cut off the relationship between the corporation with this bandit attack matters!

And at this morning, before the disciple dares himself to disturb Zhang Wu Ji from his seclusion, the news related to two of the nine Master Senior came . The fifth and Sixth Master Senior, Liu Su Mei and Lin Mao Dan, was captured by the bandit forces operating around the Orchid Mountain!

His fury attracts the attention of the Silver Carapace Bees, where after a series of bee's buzzing sound, a large number of Silver Carapace Bees charged out from their safe haven in the Northeastern Forest and gathered before Zhang Wu Ji .

How all these Silver Carapace Bees shows loyalty at their master is so outrageous . Not even a word is needed from him before they gather just before him waiting for his next order . In front of everyone, Zhang Wu Ji calmly pets one of the bees before moving to another .

"Listen to my order . Find my two senior sister's current location and rescue them immediately . Capture the capturer and bring them back to me for questioning . Do all of you understand?" Zhang Wu Ji ordered . Under the watchful eyes of the members and visitors of Apprentice Hall, the Silver Carapace Bees nodded, but then fly around the square without a motive in them .

"Yes . . . If Master Senior is even a Beast Tamer, how impressive is that? He's already an astonishing Blacksmith, Pill-Master, Formation-Master, Celestial Designer, and Herbalist . If he's even a Beast Tamer now, that means his talent is the top amongst the youth in Seven Star County .

With the Silver Carapace Bees loitering in the square, everyone felt they overestimated the ability of this Master Senior . But as they loosen up themselves, the buzzing sound came from the Northeastern Forest once more, with the Silver Carapace Queen coming out to pay her respect .

This face slapping moment came to them too fast . How can the Queen Bee arrive at this moment? At this moment, their curiosity is answered . Zhang Wu Ji might be confused but, the crowd isn't . He's a Beast Tamer, no matter how they look at it .

Series of buzzing sound came from the Queen Bee as she presented the tributes to her master . Over 400 kg of Fighter Qi Nectar Grains was given to the Master Senior for his personal investment, which caused jealousy to people surrounding him .

What is Fighter Qi Nectar Grains? They're the main ingredient for Bee Nectar Pills, a treasured commodity that can easily hook each of them with a random lady even by gifting an inferior quality Bee Nectar Pill! With the amount of 400kg of them in his hand, won't that equals to 800 of the highest quality 500gm Bee Nectar Pills?

That's an 800,000 Qi Sensing Pills worth of tributes, about 800 million in gold coins! And what is the 500gm Bee Nectar Pill? The pills are sold in auction and not shops! 800 million gold coins are just the base price of this commodity!

With how wealthy is the founder of this establishment, won't everyone wishes to share a piece of the pie? When they were planning with the method to approach the Master Senior, Zhang Wu Ji gave the order to the Queen Bee once more before she releases a series of buzzing sound .

The moment this order came in, the group thousand Silver Carapace Bees charged outwards from the Apprentice Hall and started their patrolling across the forest and plains surrounding the Orchid Mountain, Wen Wu City, Southern Bamboo Forest, and the vicinity of Wen Qing City .

Using these 10th and 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior Wild Beast, the confidence of finding his two senior sisters is almost expected . With the dangerous bees is gone, the visitor approached Zhang Wu Ji with the intention to strike a deal between them and him .

Few presented him with some gifts, but most came forward with the expectation to create a good impression inside this Master Senior's mind . It did not take him too long to entertain them, but when his remaining six senior brothers came back, everyone retreated to allow the Master Seniors to meet .

"Junior Brother Ninth, it is great that you're out from the seclusion . Do you know what happened?" Han Gen tap Zhang Wu Ji's shoulder . The others were surrounding them as they started to talk . Looking at his seventh and eighth senior brothers, he knows that not only the fifth and sixth is under attack .

All of them were attacked except Zhang Wu Ji as he was protected in their main establishment . When they shared the belongings and item taken from the bandit forces for inspection, Zhang Wu Ji took his part in the examination and found out two main parties related to this attack .

"Is there no choice but to slaughter them until they're no longer a threat? Should I learn from how the movies and dramas proceed back in my previous life? Remove the Roots Cutting the Grasses?" Zhang Wu Ji felt he must steel his heart from being too compassionate .

He pondered . While the other is still searching for some clue . Moments later, Zhang Wu Ji's way of looking at the others changed . He turned . . . Ruthless . As he absorbed all the weapon inside his Wooden Universal Plate, Zhang Wu Ji talks .

"Senior Brothers . . . Is there any group of people from Jie's Clan coming in recently?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned them . Being secluded from the world for eighteen days seriously took him by surprise . If their answer on this question is a yes, that means the culprit is most likely them .

"How did you know? Recently the Jie's Clan is getting pretty disturbing with their three cities fighting with each another for the resources . A large group or around 1,500 people came to see refuge in our county, where most of the towns accepted them . " Fourth Senior Brother Cheng Hao answered .

"Senior brothers, Wu Ji say sorry first . The reason will be explained later, but for now, please take a few of these Tusked Copper Bears with you and apprehend as much of the refugees from the Jie's County and bring them back here . " Zhang Wu Ji started his instruction .

"You may keep the females inside a confined chamber, but make sure all the men are restrained . I want this matter to be done as soon as possible in seven days . I will try to save fifth and sixth senior sisters from the bandit's hand . " Zhang Wu Ji completed his instruction to them and activated the Iron Kong-Que .

With only the Silver Horn Bear following him, Zhang Wu Ji departed to somewhere unknown to everyone . While the two of them is flying on the Iron Kong-Que, Zhang Wu Ji took the weapon out again for his last inspection .

-Item Description: This sword is designed especially for soldiers from the Jie's Clan Tiger City . Manufactured in Ma Hua Town of Seven Star County because the Jie's Clan has expanded their Establishment in this town .

"Hehehe . . . How irony is this . . . I am trying to build this county to make my father and my master proud, but before that happened, the townsfolk instead betraying the sect for their own good . If this is the case, then I suppose I'll have to cut off all these tumors from the Seven Star County . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled . He waved his hand once more to take out one book from the ten new manuals and went through the contents .

-Ability Acquired: Upon the payment of 500 strands of Fighter Qi, allows the user to change his appearance as he wished . The character can be stored inside the Manual for repeating use .

-Limitation: Appearance usable for 6 hours before a new application is required . Appearance can be exposed by opposing forces with cultivation strength seven stage above the user . Appearance cannot be altered to the opposite sex .

As he finished reading through the manual and their description, Zhang Wu Ji's appearance is now changed into a different youth in his 16 to 17th in age, but with the same cultivation strength .

"This young master! From how you look, you must be here for some good weapons . Please take a look at our merchandise! Everything is brand new and specially manufactured, I can assure you the price is very reasonable . " one of the peddlers introduced his wares when he saw Qian Long walk past his stall .

His appearance carries the display of a wealthy young master, especially with a Warrior Tier Wild Beast as his pet . Except for professional Beast Tamer, only those from wealthy families possess the strength to tame, grow and allow these level of Wild Beast to follow its master .

"Such an average weapon, how dare you bring it out to show this young master? Get lost!" Qian Long's act is on the top level . As the former body of a debauchee that troubled the whole Li Jiang Town, how can he not know how did the previous Zhang Wu Ji act? By borrowing this kind of persona, he can reveal all the grudge he held deep inside by giving all these people a lesson .

Instead of dismissing the peddler using his words, Qian Long sent him back and crashed his booth with a kick . The action is outrageous, but he did hold back . If a person with low cultivation smashed on a stall filled with weaponry, won't he end up seriously injured?

The peddler stands up and starts keeping his wares before trying to escape from this young master's pursuit, but who knows that his movement skills are this amazing to appeared before him in a flash . Qian Long took the sword in his basket and played with it for a moment .

Put in such a situation, the peddler shivers . The threat he received from this youth that can kill him in a flash almost made him urinated in the middle of the street . For the sake of preserving his worthless life, the peddler started to talk .

"Young . . . Young Master, this lowly peddler know his mistakes . I will not lie about my merchandise any longer . Please let me go . . . " the peddler kneeled in front of Qian Ling and begged . The weapon in his basket drops down on the street as he kowtowed at Qian Long .

"If I bought the weapon from you and went to hunting, and get injured because of this lousy weapon, what will happen? I will get wounded, but uncle peddler, you, as the seller, don't you think that my men will come to give you a proper lesson for selling me this trash? If my bear felt unhappy, won't he come to maul you to death?"

"I'm doing good for you, uncle peddler . . . " Qian Long hold the peddler to stand up . Instead of picking up the weapon, the peddler kicked them away instead . His mind is filled with anger after hearing all the words mentioned by Qian Long .

But in fact, his expression is overreacted . As a cultivator with this weaponry, how can they say its trash? Unless one forcefully fight with Silver Tier weapon using these Iron tier, then the story will be different . Although Qian Long's word is logic, it was a twisted logic .

"Uncle peddler, this weaponry you're selling comes from the Jie's Forging Factory, am I correct?" Qian Long begins his trick to start digging for pieces of information . By using these kinds of small trick, he's confident to con the peddler easily to make him expose most of the information related to the Jie's Clan and their Forging Factory .

"Hai . . . Young Master, you have no idea about this because you're a visitor, but most of the item is monopolized by the Jie's Forging Factory . All we can do is purchase them from the Jie's Forging Factory before selling them as a third party to the consumer . " another peddler with his stall just beside the stall he destroyed earlier join their conversation .

"Oh, Uncle Peddler (2), can you share about this matter with this youth? If I found out that the people from Jie's Clan tried to make the life of the townsfolk here difficult, I, Qian Long, will not forgive them!" he cups his hand together after standing up facing the other peddler . And by stating his righteousness loudly, he's trying to gain a good impression from the public in this town .

"How dare you come here to mess with us!" two middle-aged people approached the three of them and warned them . It was a quick and decisive action to destroy the intention to retaliates by quickly putting off the fire . As the approached Qian Long and standing one step before the youth, this member of the Jie's Forging Factory stares at him with the intention to suppressing him .

"Guess I'll have to use my other book to give this two a lesson?" Zhang Wu Ji's mind entered the Onyx-Class Spatial Ring to take a peek on his eight other manuals . Although only two seconds have passed, he already finishes selecting what he will use .

-Ability Acquired (1): The Educating Stance . This stance allowed the user to execute three different Long Mu Education stance by applying a different quantity of Fighter Qi to activates them . [Stance 1: Mother's Slap (70) | Stance 2: Mother's Kick (140) | Mother's Punch (210)]

-Ability Acquired (2): The Blessing Stance . By activating this stance, it allows the user to add healing properties into his Fighter Qi . This ability allows the user to heal injuries / recover Blood Lost/ and Curing Poison by 0 . 5% through every strand of Fighter Qi .

-Limitation: The application on healing is limited to people below the user's level . The application limit is based on the user's number of Fighter Qi available . Completely exhaustion of Fighter Qi will result in Dragon Hibernation .

"What are you thinking? Do you think by keeping quiet we will not teach you a lesson?" one of the two members from Jie's Forging Factory shouted right before Qian Long's face . But he did not expect the youth to retaliate without warning .

"A slap will do, I think . . . " Qian Long used the first stance, Mother's Slap, on the one shouting at him and sent him ten steps away . Struggling to crawl from that pitiful position to a seating posture, the member cried . His tears are falling down out of his control .

"Hey, Hey . . . What are you? Why are you crying for heaven's sake?" the other member shouted at the crying guy, but another slap from Qian Long hit him directly on his temple . When this guy went up, he was crying as well .

"Damn! To think I let this two crybabies threatened me every day in my business! This old man should just kick him directly when he was showing me his attitude!" another peddler from not too far stomp his feet on the ground out of anger .

"Oooh . . . Sheets . . . How . . . How . . . Come I'm crying . . . Hu . . . Hu . . . So much . . . " the struggling to try to complete his sentence is a challenging feat . By looking at how the two is struggling, Qian Long almost failed to control his laughter .

The duo struggled for a while before they escaped . Having no intention to bother with the two any longer, Qian Long ignore them . He turned his attention at the group of peddlers around him and advised them to retaliates . This kind of complete monopoly of resources and forcing people to went through them is over the limit one can accept .

But his intention did not stop at just advising them . By secretly making the peddlers and workers that busy working day to day for the sake of a family meal into an alliance, his group is getting stronger . It only took him three days to convince everyone to stop supporting the Jie's Forging Factory .

The complete three days of idling and gathering supporters period allow Zhang Wu Ji to finally entered the 10th Stage, becoming a half-step Inner Qi Warrior . For him now, this is the moment of truth . The moment his Fighter Qi inside reaching 1,000 strands, he will have to spend all his effort to try to weave a strand of Warrior Qi .

This will be the challenge for him to see if he's qualified to become a complete Inner Qi Warrior . Still, with this increase of his strength, he continues with his persona as Qian decided to went inside the Jie's Forging Factory to cause destruction .

"Halt! Where is your trading token that allows you to go in?" the guards standing there stopped Qian Long from continuing further . To reply to the two guards, Qian Long delivered a series of Collapsing Fist on them to keep them silenced throughout his ordeal .

Each time he encountered a member of the Factory, he will send them into dreamland to dream for a while before waking up with many surprises . As there are no skillful cultivators taking guard across the Factory, Qian Long's intention is quickly completed . He locked all the employees of the factory into a side of the building before cleaning their factory and leave the building in flames .

Looking at the burning tongue of fire is trying to bring down the building, many people rejoice . They know, although the collapse of this business doesn't mean that their life will start to get better, at least there is no longer an establishment like the factory that controls everything in their daily life .

While the people in the Jie's Forging Factory is struggling to escape, Zhang Wu Ji continues to utilize the fame he built for Qian Long to start setting many orders for the town and elected a new townsman as the mayor . By this way, he completely crippled the continuous supply of weaponry and medicine for the bandits .

But, his task did not stop here . By forcing most of the people working inside the factory to a secluded location, Zhang Wu Ji slaughtered all of them without exception . The bloody sight was cleaned by his White Blood Jade where it provides him with another 60 strands of Inner Qi . Only after clearing all these variable matters he returned to his real identity and left the location .

Not long after, the news about Ma Hua Town's newly appointed Mayor and also the collapse of the Jie's Forging Factory in a single night shock everyone resides inside this county . With an establishment like Jie's Forging Factory to be eliminated in a single night, what can't the attacker do?

While the whole county's resident kept mentioning this matter wherever they go, the Wen Wu City and Apprentice Hall accepted them differently .

It was like a norm for them now, especially with their Master Senior Ninth is gone from the Apprentice Hall . Inside the heart of every member inside this Apprentice Hall, they believe that except their Master Senior, nobody has the time and effort to do all this .

With the issue related to the Jie's Forging Factory is solved, Zhang Wu Ji crippled one of the limbs supporting his enemies of the county . With only three more supporting factions waiting for him to eliminate, Zhang Wu Ji is having difficulties to decide his next target .

"Aargh! Never in my mind ever consider that I will have a headache to choose who to eliminate next!" Zhang Wu Ji complained, but as his Iron Kong-Que is soaring through the skies, another Iron Kong-Que is coming from the opposite direction!

Oh my TAICHI! Let's see, three among the ten manuals is exposed, with seven to go . Among them, one has a word start with "Nine" but what is the other six?

And for those that missed out about this fact, did you noticed that he's fighting with his fist too much lately? I hope nobody forgets that he destroys his ruler when playing upgrade .

"Stop right there!" ten soldiers came out from the Iron Kong-Que and surrounded Zhang Wu Ji's flying tool . All of them is equipped with a Silver Colored Armor with a peacock feather on their tip, which indicates their status as the guards of Royal Family .

"State your identity and speaks your reason for presence!" one of the soldier in his 19th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior questioned Zhang Wu Ji with his spear pointed at him . His attitude is imposing, but from his strength alone, Zhang Wu Ji knows .

"You're the outsiders coming into the Seven Star Sect . Don't you recognize the black robe with seven stars on my sleeves?" even if he's not an official ruling this Seven Star County, it doesn't mean that the royal guards have the right to question him in such manner!

(No matter what, I am one of the Master Senior of Seven Star Sect! Meeting the sect headmaster's direct disciple is meeting the headmaster himself!)

Zhang Wu Ji retaliates through his words . This atrocious manner from Zhang Wu JI angered the Royal Guard's captain, but if he as the strongest among them still failed to force this person to yield, then how will the others have the ability to do so?

And making this matter worst, the opposing side is riding an Iron Kong-Que like them . Based on his status alone, he's nowhere lower than any of the Royal Army Commanders . Yet, he dares to question the youth by pointing his spear at him with an intention to kill .

"Ming Qiang . . . Retreats . " a soothing voice seems to belong to a lady came out from the Iron Kong-Que they ride . But when the owner of this sound came out, it was a man . A feminine looking man in a set of red colored clothing .

"This young brother, I am sorry for my guard's rude behavior when talking to you . Please forgive him as our identity is a little too sensitive to be stopped by another party . May I have your name please?" the feminine looking man politely greets Zhang Wu Ji and ask to forgive his soldiers from that rude manner .

"I am Zhang Wu Ji . Ninth Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect . " he introduces himself after being asked in such way . At least, it was a return of respect because no matter how feminine he looked, a person under the protection of a group of Inner Qi Warrior's Royal Guards is nothing ordinary in his status .

"I see, I see . . . This prince name is Zhao Ying, I am the ninth prince of the Southern Imperial Kingdom . " he introduces his status nonchalantly without any indifferences in his way of speaking . But as he pronounces his words, the aura belonged to a royalty came out to pressurized everyone surrounding him .

"Brother Zhang, less ceremonial gestures . Can this prince know where did you get the Iron Kong-Que from?" although he was a prince, Zhao Ying did not display the disposition belonged to somebody from the royalty . After the introduction, his aura returned to the friendly nature .

"Answering to Ninth Prince, Wu Ji forge this Iron Kong-Que himself . Of course, the design regarding how to produce this Flying Ark comes from the Mystic Engineer Establishment's Headmaster, his honored Celestial Designer Windchaser himself . " Zhang Wu Ji answered .

"Amazing! Amazing! Wait . . . I just noticed that you say your name is Zhang Wu Ji? The Trash Martial Body senior brother Zhang Wu Yuan always mentioned?" he was praising Zhang Wu Ji's skill for a moment before he caught his name correctly .

"If there is no other Zhang Wu Yuan by the side of Master Teacher Zhao Yun then, the Trash Martial Body's youngest brother will be me, Zhang Wu Ji," he cleared the puzzled mind of the ninth prince with his words . As for the guards, the word he's Zhang Wu Yuan's youngest brother allows them to feel at ease .

"No wonder . Now I know why senior Brother Zhang Wu Yuan always mention about you after he comes back from the Counties Gathering . Why is brother Zhang here? Are you in the middle of an errand?" the ninth prince questioned him in a friendly manner after he felt closer with this youth .

"Answering the prince, Wu Ji just return from handling some Sect related matter . I am on the way back to the Wen Wu City's Apprentice Hall . I wonder if the ninth prince is interested in a visit?" Zhang Wu Ji admires the way Zhao Ying bring himself in front of him .

Different from what he expects from a royalty, Zhao Ying's disposition is warm and friendly, unconsciously bringing others to trust this person without further question . As a reply to his friendly gesture, Zhang Wu Ji assumes that this ninth prince is someone worth to befriend .

"A visit to the Apprentice Hall? That's interesting . Interesting! Ming Qiang! Do this prince have some time to allocate for this visit?" Zhao Ying asked his guard's leader for an answer . His face is filled with anticipation, but deep inside his mind, what he was expecting is to see how good is Zhang Wu Ji .

As a prince, how can he possess no wild intention to obtain the seat of the emperor? With the position of Crown Prince is empty at this moment, the fight for this seat turn critical amongst the prince and princess . And his appearance in this county? What else except headhunting for experts to support him?

"My prince, we do have extra time for a short visit before we reach the Herb Valley Sect . Would you like to redirect the Iron Kong-Que to follow this Young Master Zhang?" Ming Qiang addressed Zhang Wu Ji in a proper title after he knows his identity as a relative of their Master Senior Zhang Wu Yuan .

"Of course! We will accept Brother Zhang's invitation and head to Wen Wu City . I wanted to see how amazing is their City wall that will not collapse after bombarded by so many Rhinoceros Roar by the bandits! I also wanted to see how amazing is the Apprentice Hall . " Zhao Ying added .

"Of course! Captain Ming Qiang, please follow this surname Zhang . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand against the ninth prince and Royal Guard's Captain before redirected his Iron Kong-Que to move . In secret, he touches the Iron Kong-Que and whispered . . .

With the Iron Kong-Que is upgraded into +5 now, the maximum speed of his ride is now 250km/hour compared to the previous 200km/hour, Zhang Wu Ji traveling speed is slightly faster than the ninth prince . After a while, he left them by a distance, but by intentionally stopped in the middle of their route, Zhang Wu Ji creates more curiosity for the ninth prince .

When they arrived at the Apprentice Hall, both Iron Kong-Que landed right in Apprentice Hall's open square . The supposedly impressing sight is taken lightly by the members in the Apprentice Hall . This scene causes the ninth prince questions himself . . .

"Why nobody is impressed by the Iron Kong-Que? It was normal for them to see one, but it is two now!" his curiosity almost burst outside his mind, but Ming Qiang advised the prince to not act recklessly . Controlling his excitement, Zhao Ying came down from his Iron Kong-Que along with eleven guards .

"Amazing . . . This is amazing! Even the ground in Southern Imperial Capital will crack when the Iron Kong-Que landed . How can their ground layered with those bricks remain intact from two Iron Kong-Ques touchdown?" he looked at the flooring that still in one piece .

"Ninth Prince, please forgive this Wu Ji's master and senior brothers for not paying their respect . Everyone is currently in a mission to secure our Seven Star County's and position now . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand together again to as for ninth prince's forgiveness .

"Excused . Brother Zhang, please lead the way and let me look around the building . Even the design is amazingly unique!" the ninth prince did not linger in that conversation and quickly requested to be given a tour around this Apprentice Hall .

The problem is, how can this neglecting Master Senior know where is where? Luckily, Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong presented themselves before Zhang Wu Ji . Using their expertise, he ordered them to bring everyone for a tour .

After two hours walking, resting, and visiting around the whole Apprentice Hall, they completed their mission to bring the group around . With their task is completed, the group is now standing outside of the Personal Residence of the Master Senior Ninth .

The three looked at their master for his next instruction, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Ji allows them to dismiss before handling them with seven pieces of Wooden Universal Plate . After the three left, the Ninth prince brings up the main topic in his mind .

"Of course, ninth prince . Please follow Wu Ji to his enclosed chamber for important discussion . " he leads the Ninth prince to follow him into a smaller but better-decorated hall for his private discussion with the Master Senior .

"I won't twist with my words . I am outside the Imperial County for one mission . This is related to my future position within the Imperial Kingdom . " Zhao Ying brought up the issue that has been plaguing his mind for long .

"Ninth prince, please go ahead . If Wu Ji can help, I will do my best to assist you in your ordeal to obtain the position you desire . " Zhang Wu Ji replied with an understanding note . As a person that came from a different world, how can he not realized that when it comes to the Imperial Family, the issue will be likely related to the throne?

And from how the Ninth prince is acting, his hunger for the crown position is nothing lesser than how he looks . Or else, why would an honored prince come out from his Imperial County for an insignificant visit across the different state and counties?

"At first, I am putting not much hope in this Seven Star County because of the internal struggle for highest power . But from what I've seen today, it seems that the rumor is fake . " the ninth prince brought up about this matter first to remove the misunderstanding between him and Zhang Wu Ji .

From his impression alone, how can he not catch the fact Zhang Wu Ji is the one and only founder that establish this Apprentice Hall and bring them up until where they stand today? He wasn't an ignorant prince that did not research the background of every potential power in this county .

He knows that the three villages closest to the Wen Wu City are in their way to enter the Town Qualification . Added with the fact Wen Wu City and Apprentice Hall recently destroy the Lan Shan Clan and Orchid Mountain to retrieve the route to Wen Qing City and Imperial County, this further solidifies his position in this county .

"If we succeed, You will be the second in charge when I sit on the throne of the emperor, but if we failed, not only you and me, everyone will be destroyed by the winning crown prince . " Zhao Ying's expression becomes serious the moment he brought up this matter .

"Answering to my prince, Wu Ji have no right to decide, unless Ninth Prince willing to support Wu Ji to control the whole Seven Star County as a small gesture of recruitment?" Zhang Wu Ji did not lose himself in the offer given by the ninth prince .

But instead, he asked the prince to give some effort if he wishes to recruit Zhang Wu Ji and his Apprentice Hall to sacrifice themselves for the sake of Ninth Prince, Zhao Ying's Cause!

While the two is having their serious conversation, the disciples that busy cleaning the two Iron Kong-Que is asking questions among themselves .

A bear is still sleeping by the side of the grassland where the Iron Kong-Que is parked a few hours earlier . He was left alone in this place because his master forgets to bring him back!

Alright, the story is getting closer to the closing of first arc . What will happen in the next few chaps? Guess the way the three limbs are destroyed before Yang Chen Kun?

"What do you suggest from this? And how do I know that after this gesture of mine you will support me whole-heartedly?" Zhao Ying narrowed his eyes against Zhang Wu Ji as he speaks his suspicion in this matter . It was normal in the subject of trust between two people, especially when they only know each other for a single day .

"My prince, Wu Ji have no suggestion on how he can convince a person to trust him, but may I be daring enough to mention about this? Do my prince think that without your support, I will fail in my plan to control the whole Seven Star County?" Zhang Wu Ji did not try to convince Zhao Ying, but instead, asking him another question .

This is because Zhang Wu Ji doesn't need the Ninth Prince's support to achieve what he wanted to do! The only thing he's suggesting something like this is to speed up the process instead of wasting more time to plan his steps! Zhao Ying's approach to him wasn't a significant factor he has to consider!

"Wu Ji afraid that I will have to mention this matter as well . I never agreed to become your subordinate in the first place . Even if the cooperation between us started, it should be a partnership and not complete authority . I believe, with my ability in establishing this Apprentice Hall, my word is convincing enough for my prince to understand . " he added .

Zhang Wu Ji's next sentence forced Zhao Ying to accept the fact he wasn't too influential to disrupt anything at this moment . In fact, Zhang Wu Ji's current position is far more influential than Zhao Ying from many different points of view .

Furthermore, the Ninth Prince is only an Inner Qi Warrior in his 18th Stage, where compared to his eight other royal brother and sisters, most of them are either in their Inner Qi Master Stage, with his two eldest Royal Brothers in their Inner Qi Lord Stage .

And if this cooperation between the two of them began, will the faction supporting his second royal brother, also the culprit that injured his master before the Counties Gathering stopped them from threatening their lord? Worst of all, this second royal brother of Zhao Ying is the biggest supporter of all the action behind Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan!

Zhao Ying knows this fact . After considering it, he decided to share this news with Zhang Wu Ji to explain his initial impression towards the Seven Star County . After he shared the information with Zhang Wu Ji, the master senior did not react as he expected .

"So . . . The culprit is actually Second Prince of the Kingdom . . . This makes everything easier to manage . If that's the case, I will temporarily agree to cooperate . All I ask in the future is only two request . "

"First of all, if we managed to get the position of the Crown Prince, I want to handle the second prince privately . " Zhang Wu Ji stated his first request for his cooperation with the Ninth Prince .

"Granted . Having people to handle these loose end like family members is better than doing personally . " Zhao Ying agreed with the first request without the need of consideration .

"As for the second request . I want to swallow the whole Southern State myself . Seven Star Sect will be the main sect for the southern state, with us being the person in charge to manage the smaller establishments . And at that time, let's agree with the yearly tributes at that time . " he completed the detail of his second request .

"Granted as well . This request is similar to most of the people recruited by my other royal brother and sisters . In this southern State, the second, ninth, and eleventh royal princes are focusing on strengthening our support here . "

"I believe that based on my eleventh brother's background and Fourth Royal Concubine, he will receive the full support from all counties in the Middle Southern State . I'm sure my second royal brother will focus on this Upper Southern State because of the close proximity to the Imperial County . "

"Great . As for now, let me grant you with my Prince Token to assist you in your approach . With that token in your hand, I believe most of the faction will retreat . " Zhao Ying mentioned the benefits of holding that piece of Ninth Prince Token .

"Then I will bother my prince no longer . Please Expect the Seven Star County to bear the flag of the ninth prince before the end of this year!" Zhang Wu Ji said .

It was only a simple nap! How can his master go missing without him noticing? Even the gigantic Iron bird vanishes, leaving him alone in this Ma Hua City .

"The home is on the Southwestern of this continent, as long I follow that direction, I will reach home! Master, I'm coming back to look for you!" the Silver Horn Bear charged into the forest according to its sense of direction in hope to reach home earlier .

"Why did that big group of human is surrounding the two female humans? The two female humans look familiar? Her hand, her hair, she's lady cooked meat! And she! She's the one with fish! They are masters! What you all want to do? Don't spoil my food source!"

Armed with the intention to protect his food source, Xiao Xiong charged into the group of bandits and attacked them . Although the group of bandits is armed, it does not mean they're ready to fight against a Warrior Tier Wild Beast like Silver Horn Bear .

"ROAR!!!" the loud roar pierced the ears of everyone including a few Silver Carapace Bees from afar . But none of them realized that the meaning behind that roar .

Far from where the fight starts, Zhang Wu Ji decided to put a few hours of his time to do something else . Inside his workshop is another stack of nicely cut wood plates that ready for him to engrave them into the Wooden Universal Plate .

"Master Senior! Master Senior!" it was calm during his effort to engrave the plates . But after fifty pieces of them are completed, a shout came into his workshop like a routine . The usual member with the loud voice came again with his report .

"The Silver Carapace Bee Queen is crying . Some of the members with Beast Taming Background says it was a cry to call for her master . Which is why I come and report it as urgent matter!" the member reported everything happened in the square .

"Quickly, let's go to the square!" without wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji rushed to the square to see what happened . But the moment he arrived, the bees came to his side to support their master's flight and took their master outside from the Apprentice Hall .

Zhang Wu Ji knows that the bees must have found his senior sisters and quickly left a word to the others to tell the other Master Seniors to relax . As for himself, he will be headed to that place to see what can he do . Although the group of Silver Carapace Bees is strong enough to handle the situation, he must attend this matter personally to see if his suspicion is correct .

Flying for almost two hours, they reach the forest where the group of bandits is hiding . But he did not expect that their location is very close to the Ma Hua Town! He just went past this location earlier through his Iron Kong-Que!

What's more surprising is that the Silver Horn Bear is here! How come the bear is earlier than him to come here? "Didn't this guy stays inside the Iron Kong-Que and sleeping?" Zhang Wu Ji whispered inside his mind as they started to land .

"Well . . . It's good you're here . . . Hahaha . . . " Zhang Wu Ji finally remembered that after the bear replied him through its action and language . He did forget to bring this guy back with him when he left . But at the same time, he smiled as this mistake bring them together in saving his fifth and sixth senior sisters .

"Fifth senior sister, sixth senior sister, do they do anything on you?" Zhang Wu Ji transferred some Inner Qi into them to recover their body . As it was enhanced by the Long Mu's Blessing Stance, they help in speeding up their recovery from all exhaustion .

Among the nine of them, only, the fifth, sixth, eighth, and Zhang Wu Ji himself yet to enter the 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior strength . This is also why his healing ability still works . Else, he will have to apply the Nourishment Art instead .

"Yes! The bandits are planning to have master killed inside the Wen Qing City! The Jie's Clan, Upper South Mercenary, and Golden Wolf Syndicate are always ready to lure our master into Wen Qing City so Yang Chen Kun can kill him!" Liu Su Mei said .

"What? Then we have to get there as soon as possible! At this moment, the nine of us are not by his side, so Master is like a sitting duck under the watchful eyes of the other Inner Qi Lord inside the Wen Qing City!" Zhang Wu Ji felt the seriousness of this matter, but he did not have his Iron Kong-Que with him!

"Hahaha! No wonder Elder Jie Hu requested me to make sure I stay here and wait for the bigger fish to come here! It was like he said, you're a target worth killing my time!" laughter came from above and pierced their ears . When this mysterious person descended from above them, it reveals a middle-aged man in his forties with two swords on his back .

He was dressed in a thick vest in black color . Six pieces of Spatial Stone is hanged around his waist, with his feature of a bald man with a sword scar .

"Bald Eagle! You're the assassins wanted in three different counties! I recognize you from the twin Eagle Talon Sword on your back!" As the more knowledgeable among the three of them, Liu Su Mei immediately identified their opponent .

"Hahaha, no wonder they say I'm good looking . Even such a beautiful lady from Seven Star Sect know my name . No worries, when I'm done with your junior brother, I will make sure to feed both of you full with a rigorous session of sex . " Bald Eagle added as he looks at the two sisters with his pair of lustful eyes .

"Rascal!" Liu Su Mei covered her body and pulled her junior sister behind her . But Zhang Wu Ji did not have the same attitude as his senior sisters . He purposely flashed the Onyx-Class Spatial Ring in his hand to cause the jealousy from Bald Eagle and prepare to make his move .

"Finally . . . Some worthy opponent for me to play all out with him . " Zhang Wu Ji looks at Bald Eagle and withdraws a lousy sword he robbed from the Jie's Forging Factory . The sword wasn't threatening, but the user is .

Its midnight here, my sleeping time . I hope you guys enjoy the story so far because in the next chapter, one more book is gonna comes in! What is this Air Wolves technique in his arsenal?

It seems like my position in the Power Ranking is not continue Climbing, I wonder will we have the chance to enter top 100 this week . Wednesday is here guys, and your forth chap is here . Shall we try hit three bonus chap this week?

"What is wrong with this kid! What the hell with that seven wolves!" the sudden appearance of the seven Fighter Qi formed wolves caused him to be cautious on Zhang Wu Ji . Especially each of them seems to possess their own sentience by looking at how they idle around the youth's side .

"Fifth senior sister, Sixth senior sister, please go to where our master is located . If you follow the way to the Apprentice Hall, most probably other senior brothers are on their way here . " This scene also shocked his two sisters, but their shock did not last long . Zhang Wu Ji immediately sent them away under the protection of the Silver Carapace Bees .

"Junior brother ninth! Be careful! We will wait for you at Wen Qing City!" the two left under the forceful flight of the Silver Carapace Bees and the Queen Bee . Left with himself and the Silver Horn Bear, Zhang Wu Ji slapped Xiao Xiong's buttock and sent the bear aside .

"What? You want to face me with your insignificant 10th Stage cultivation strength? Aren't you underestimating me too much? No matter what, I am a 17th Stage Inner Qi Warrior! Do you think I am some random weak cultivator like those depending on pills to get their rank higher?"

"Nevermind, I've been looking for suitable prey to practice my Eagle Talon Sword Art for quite a long time . As a master senior, you're a perfect candidate for me to treat you with my five Eagle Talon Stance!" Bald Eagle felt pissed when the youth underestimate his strength . As he finishes his words, he wields the two swords on his back and starts channeling a part of his Fighter Qi into the sword .

(Heh . . . Still using Fighter Qi to fight . This means he's either lack of resources or lack of Warrior Qi in his Dantian . It might be difficult to win, but it won't be easy for him to defeat me either . . . )

"Do you think I will wait for you to come close? Go! Fighter Qi Blade Wolves!" Zhang Wu Ji narrowed his eyebrows as he stares at Bald Eagle . With a swing of his sword, Zhang Wu Ji sent the seven wolves made from his air blades to attack Bald Eagle!

Each of them is alive! They attacked but did not lose themselves in their own ferocity . By surrounding Bald Eagle in six different directions, six wolves launch their attack at the same time . Placed in this situation, Bald Eagle has to retaliate!

"Fierce Eagle Slash!" with his both hand opened wide, he swings both swords in a circling movement . By borrowing the force from his action, Bald Eagle's twin swords struck the six wolves . But his expectation on the positive results did not happen .

The moment the wolves is injured, their ethereal body dispersed . At the end this first exchange, Bald Eagle is puzzled with many questions on why would this happen . But when he looked at his opponent, he finally realized the reason behind his opponent's earlier action!

But he did not pay attention to the seventh wolf! Sneaking from behind to catch this opponent unaware, the moment Bald Eagle stares on its creator is the best chance to launch a sneak attack! With a bite on his neck, Bald Eagle struggled!

Unfortunately, Bald Eagle is still a top-class Inner Qi Warrior Cultivator! The bite from a Fighter Qi formed wolf is not capable of delivering a grave injury . Finally caught the wolf that struggles on his neck, Bald Eagle threw a heavy punch on the wolf as it vanished from substantial damage .

-Ability Acquired (1): Using a large amount of Air Blades (900) formed by the user, it creates an Armament Wolf that carries two different effects . [Effect 1: If the Armament Wolf is destroyed by the opponent using his internal qi, weakened the opponent by 1 . 11% | Effect 2: If the Armament Wolf able to land an attack at the opponent, weakened the opponent by 2 . 22%] Armament Wolf have no number limit .

-Ability Acquired (2): By possessing this Technique Book in hand, allow the user to creates 150 Air Blades with the conversion rate of 1 strand of Fighter Qi .

While Bald Eagle is busy complaining about the small trick Zhang Wu Ji used to attack him, Zhang Wu Ji is enjoyed with the 7% weakening effect applied on his opponent . From the way how he carries himself closer to Zhang Wu Ji, the weakening effect is visible exhaust Bald Eagle a little .

"Kid, if you think that these small tricks can let you defeat me, keep on dreaming!" Bald Eagle lunge at Zhang Wu Ji with a jerk of his leg . With his weapon positioned like a scissor, it seems like he wanted to cut his target into two .

"Eagle Talon Cut!" he shouted the name of his skill out of confidence, but when the target vanished from his sight without a hint of where he goes, Bald Eagle stunned . The attack he launches with full confidence actually missed . Furthermore, he has no idea where Zhang Wu Ji went!

{Let me see what you got in the Spatial Stone . . . Huh? This all trash! How can this guy become criminal with these kinds of stupid rubbish!)

"Kid! Where the hell you run? Are you afraid of facing this . . . Aargh!" Bald Eagle is trying to lure his opponent out from hiding, but when he noticed that the six Spatial Stone hanged on his waist is gone, he almost wanted to cry .

"My Spatial Stone! You damn kid, return my stuff and come out let this uncle kill you! If you don't, don't blame this uncle for . . . Aargh! Damn!" before Bald Eagle managed to finish his word, a slap came from nowhere to give him a lesson .

"Damn you, kid! Come out! Come out now!" Bald Eagle throws his tantrum by swinging his twin swords everywhere he can reach, but it made contact with nothing but air surrounding him . As he started to get tired, he noticed something was off .

"Did that kid get away? I was too careless with his sudden disappearance! Damn!" Bald Eagle immediately rushed towards one direction . And to Zhang Wu Ji's expectation, he did become a big help for him to know the way to Wen Qing City!

(This fool . . . How can he not think about the possibility of me possessing a martial art that allows me to erase my existence from his eyes! But that's fine, I can sneak attack him!)

"I have to go now! Damn! Aargh!" Bald Eagle rushed . But before he stepped inside the circle of trees, a sword struck right on his temple until his groin . Under the assistance from his invisibility, Zhang Wu Ji delivered a slash at the unaware opponent with the intention to cut this man into two!

But unfortunately, Zhang Wu Ji and his weapon are still on their first tier quality! The weapon lack of sharpness and durability failed to deliver a fatal wound at Bald Eagle, and it even exposed the whereabouts of Zhang Wu Ji stands .

"There you are! Eagle Talon Claws!" the two pointed tip of the sword struck Zhang Wu Ji like the claw of an eagle caught its prey . The attack leaves Zhang Wu Ji coughing out a few mouthfuls of blood, but before his wound takes a toll on him, Zhang Wu Ji applied two times of the Small Nourishment Art on his injury to heal them .

At the same, he pops a Fighter Chasing Dan to recover his Internal Qi and take a guard against Bald Eagle's next attack . But that criminal is too confident with his strength, and choose to check his wound instead of quickly kill his opponent .

This allowed Zhang Wu Ji to recover himself . But the incident a while ago left him in anger . The low-quality sword in his hand is so ineffective it cannot hurt an Inner Qi Warrior at all! What can he do against this fighter with this many ranks above him?

"I can only continue to fight and depend on the Armament Wolf to weaken him further! That's the only way I can follow now!" Zhang Wu Ji retreated . He widened the gap between them and started to summon the Armament Wolves again to attack his opponent .

"Kid, give up! Let this uncle kill you without any pain! Or maybe a little? Hahaha!" Bald Eagle's confidence skyrocketed up into the sky . Putting away his weapon as he gets closer, he prepared his hand to clawed Zhang Wu Ji when he's in the reach .

"Armament Wolves, Attack!" the time restriction only allows him to summon eight of them . By sending all of the Armament Wolves at his opponent, Zhang Wu Ji vanished from his sight once more . The only differences at this moment Bald Eagle is no longer the one worries about where is his opponent .

"Go die!" Bald Eagle's hands formed into a shape similar to an eagle's claw and start to attack the incoming Armament Wolves . What he did not know that as he continues to fight recklessly like this, his overall strength will be weakened by at least 15% at the end of this round of exchange .

Zhang Wu Ji prepared with himself to fight against his opponent directly the moment he finished fighting the eight Armament Wolves . When the last wolf finally falls, both of them know what their opponent intended to do, and immediately launched their deadliest attack to overcome their opponents!

"Mother's Kick and Mother's Punch!" Zhang Wu Ji executed the best move in his opinion to take this opponent by surprise! The longer reach of his leg hit his opponent first before his right claw connected to Zhang Wu Ji's shoulder and dislocate his joint .

But before his left claw reaches Zhang Wu Ji, the latter's punch smashed on his opponent face and sent him down to the ground . With the effect of crying is activated, tears fall down from Bald Eagle's eye as his attack is canceled .

"Aargh . . . Boohoo . . . Why am I crying . . . Boohoo . . . Please stop . . . No . . . " he cried and started to crawl on the ground to further the gap between him and the master senior . After trying to control but it was unsuccessful, Bald Eagle's expression become furiously crying .

"Damn you! Boohoo . . . Are you a dark cultivator . . . Else how . . . Boohoo . . . you can do something like this to my body . . . Boohoo . . . " It was difficult to catch what he wanted to say as he cries and talks . Looking at his opponent sorry condition, Zhang Wu Ji felt the struggle . . .

"Kill you!" Bald Eagle strikes again using his previous technique . But the moment Zhang Wu Ji finish relocating his left shoulder, Zhang Wu Ji sent his opponent of by activating the Incense of Condensation and Elements and delivered another Collapsing Fist at his opponent!

The attack finally went past his Inner Qi Warrior's defense and dealt a severe injury on Bald Eagle . While still affected by the crying side effect, Bald Eagle rolled on the ground with his two broken arms .

"Spare me! Spare me!!!" Bald Eagle tried to request for his life to be spared, but a slap enhanced by the Incense of Element was delivered on his face and send him into a severe concussion . Blood flows from his seven orifices as he cries, but it was for naught because by using his own weapon against him, Zhang Wu Ji pierced the first Eagle Talon Sword on his throat, before sending another sword into his heart .

The notorious Bald Eagle with his deadly Eagle Claw Stance is finally killed by a Half-Step Inner Qi Warrior, through his secretive tricks . Fire Element flames burn the body into ashes along with the trashes he carries with him .

Based on his understanding at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji felt that it was pointless for him to be too worried about everything going on around him . After seeing the corpse turned into ashes, Zhang Wu Ji took his Qiyue Flying Sword and went towards Wen Qing City .

"Lord Liang Tian, why not stay for the night? Let me send some staff to inform your disciples so they can come to pick you up tomorrow?" the person accompanying Liang Tian on having a game of chess and conversation offered him an accommodation for the night .

"Hahaha, Branch Master Jing Feng, this old man will not bother you any longer . All I hope is the understanding of the Upper South Merchant Corporation in not participating in this inner struggle of ruling power inside our Seven Star County . "

"In return of your cooperation, I am very willing to say that our Apprentice Hall will be the exceptional partner for the Upper South Merchant Corporation . I believe Branch Master Jing Feng will consider this beneficial relationship between us . " Liang Tian continues to persuade his opponent in the chess game to consider his proposal .

"Lord Liang Tian, this surname Jing really unable to make any decision on behalf of the branch now . But I do have a suggestion for Lord Liang Tian to consider . I wonder if Lord Liang Tian interested to listen to my humble proposal?" the Branch Master replied .

"The Upper South Merchant Corporation is indeed looking forward in conducting our business here to for the sake of improving our financial stability, but I do carry another task of coming here . And that task is related to conveying a message to Lord Liang Tian . " Jing Feng started to speak .

"Oh? A message directed to me?" his word confused Liang Tian, but after seeing no action for this few days, his alertness toward this message remain at highest .

"From this moment onwards, The Wen Qing City, Wen Yang City, and Seven Star Sect will send all their forces to subdue Wen Wu City . Under the direct order of Second Prince, We suspect the Wen Wu City is carrying the intention to rebel against the Southern Imperial Kingdom!"

"Lord Liang Tian, to maintain your reputation, I hope you will remain here until we handle this suspicion by subduing Wen Wu City and clarify this matter!" unexpectedly, the Branch Master Jing Feng's duty in delaying their discussion for so many days is for the sake of this arrangement!

"Jing Feng! You dare to restrain me inside this place?" Liang Tian smashed the chess table they're playing to express his anger, but in return of his action, Jing Feng answered his act with both hands cupped together and slightly bowed .

"Lord Liang Tian, please do not force this humble one to report to the Second Prince!" Jing Feng purposely behaves in such a way to force Liang Tian to stay still while they attack the Wen Wu City . Perhaps, if he dares to take a step out from this guest hall, all the Inner Qi Lords in this city will take action to suppress him under the reason of Liang Tian and Apprentice Hall is intending to rebel .

Liang Tian can only grit his teeth and express his dissatisfaction throw his expression! How will he not know the person attacked him before the Counties Gathering is exactly the Second Prince, Zhao Feng Yi personally? Only from the attack itself, Southern Imperial Fist Stance already revealed his identity on that time .

"Tell me, Jing Feng! How long has the Second Prince co-operated with your Upper South Merchant Corporation? Didn't the corporation always place the importance of monetary profit first in their policy? How can you suddenly shifted to support one of the royal members for the sake of the Crown Prince position?" Liang Tian questioned the Branch Master .

"Lord Liang Tian . . . Your thinking is too shallow . Second Prince is always the owner of Upper South Merchant Corporation . It was established for the sake of helping him take over the throne when the emperor decided to surrender the throne to his successor . " Jing Feng shared the information that only higher status members like himself know .

"Hahaha . . . Never in my life ever thought before that the Second Royal Concubine already planned this earlier before she even gives birth to the second prince . I guess that the Second Royal Concubine is already a member of Upper South Merchant Corporation the moment she's born!" Liang Tian did not guess about this possibility before .

Who would have guessed that among the Empress and five Royal Concubines, the second is born a member of Upper South Merchant Corporation? No wonder, on the subject of treasures alone, not even a single sect in the Upper Southern State able to win against them .

"Open the door! For what reason are you keeping my master is your imprisonment! Release him right away or face our wrath!" a sentence came from outside of the hall . It was so familiar to Liang Tian that he immediately guessed the identity of the person .

"Gen-Er . . . " he whispered . As he was imprisoned inside here, who can bring him out except the second prince or his disciples? But all of them is away from his side for this few days . In his mind, he was puzzled by their sudden appearance .

"How will the child know I need them now? Did they found out about this trick earlier and come to save me?" Liang Tian considered the possibility that leads them to his side, but never in his imagination that it was all because of Zhang Wu Ji's accidental doing .

If that child did not go into seclusion for so many days, won't he end up getting into their distraction too? If that child did not go to the Ma Hua Town to settle the Jie's Forging Factory, then how will his Silver Horn Bear found Liu Su Mei and Lin Mao Dan?

If that child did not save them and let the two shared the news with their fellow brother and sisters, how will they know that their master needed them now? If that child did not destroy the Bandits and Jie's Forging Factory, won't their opponent progress is escalated to another level by now?

Without a proper aim in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji actually destroyed his enemies weaponry support and manpower, leaving the opponent with a lack of weapon and number of people to follow their main force . Although their people are well equipped, they must pass one main hurdle before entering the Wen Wu City .

"Let our master out from your unethical imprisonment! Or else, we will treat this reason as the Upper South Merchant Corporation tactics to weaken our power in Seven Star County!" Han Yan added .

"Under the Kingdom Law, the unapproved participation of another sect/establishment/or clan into counties not of their origin will be treated as an intention of treason, and the act will be treated as an act of aggression!" Cheng Hao continued .

"Branch Master . . . " a few subordinates of the newly built establishment came inside to see Jing Feng's decision . After waiting for the Branch Master for a while, he finally agreed to release Liang Tian .

The master and disciples quickly met with each another, but out of haste, they left the city almost instantly by riding on top of the Iron Kong-Que . But the issue is, only eight of them is there, with the exemption of Zhang Wu Ji . Due to the rush to quickly return to their Apprentice Hall to expect their enemies attack, nobody questioned about his disappearance .

"Where the hell is this place? Didn't I follow the route to Wen Qing City?" it was either by luck or accident, Zhang Wu Ji arrived at the location Wen Qing City positioned their Militarized Forces . With the addition of Upper South Mercenary in their ranks, their numbers reach between 14,000 to 16,000 soldiers, with 95% of them in their early Inner Qi Warrior Stage and a few Inner Qi Soldiers .

"Seems like all of them is preparing to march somewhere . . . And based on my understanding, there is no war in our county except the hostile exchange between Apprentice Hall and Seven Star Sect . This means they're my enemies . " Zhang Wu Ji quickly deduces his opinion towards the military camp before him .

But instead of worrying, he gives out a smile filled with a hint of danger, deceit, and death . Putting himself into invisibility again, Zhang Wu Ji entered their military camp and started to do what he's best at . And what was that?

It was ironic enough for him as a cultivator to steal his opponent's supplies sneakily, but what was there to be discussed about his ethics? They're his enemies to begin with! Inside the camp filled with so many soldiers, there were so many things for him to steal .

It was a lucky thing for him to engrave quite a few numbers of Wooden Universal Plates earlier, where it allows him to keep everything without worries . But for the soldiers, it was an unlucky situation when Zhang Wu Ji withdraw a Manual from his spatial ring .

-Ability Acquired (1): Day Poison Mist . The ability of Day Poison Mist includes weakening/ vein blockage/ Qi dispersing . This poison can be afflicted through breathing and meditation . [Application Cost: 5 Fighter Qi | Antidote Cost: 25 Fighter Qi] Symptom activates at the strongest point during daylight .

-Ability Acquired (2): Night Poison Mist . The ability of Night Poison Mist includes bleeding/ confusion/ Inner Demon Claw . This poison is afflicted through breathing only . [Application Cost: 15 Fighter Qi | Antidote Cost: 45 Fighter Qi] Symptom activates only at nighttime .

-Limitation: Poison inflicted by the user can be cured by using higher quality or amount of Internal Qi . Poison is only applicable at the target once . Any further application will bring no results .

-Special (+5): By paying twice of the required Fighter Qi, the user can forge a mythical Day Poison Dan or Night Poison Dan ten times more potent . The forged Dan is used for Life-Saving and not Poisoning .

-Special (+10): By applying both poisons on user personally, increase the bed performance of user by 150% . Poison applied on the user are not life-threatening .

"It seems unethical for me to sneakily poison them, but for the sake of Apprentice Hall and our faction able to reclaim this piece of land, this kind of tactic has to be done!" deep inside his mind, Zhang Wu Ji hesitates . Although they're his opponents, he assumes that the effect of using poison between their fight is somewhat unethical .

The Day Poison Mist is spread carefully to assure every single man positioned in this camp is poisoned . The process took the whole night for him to get it done before the sun started to rise in the morning . He monitored them carefully and smiled .

Every soldier is claiming that they have a few pain here and there, plus some of them seem annoyed from the meditation due to the blockage in their veins . Although these problems are not severe, they still need to spend some money to purchase the pills to get rid of these ailments .

They started to equip themselves with soldier equipment and armor . In between of their action, a group of soldier noticed that their weaponry is gone from their storage camp . This commotion caused a few of their commanding officer to come out and resolve this trouble .

"What is happening in our camp?" when more and more of this problem happened everywhere inside of their camp, the commanding officers started to question themselves . Didn't this symptom is similar to the incident that left their City Lord's Golden Wolf Syndicate burnt and robbed?

"Group everyone together! Quickly!" one of their commanding officers gave an order to ignore the problem and quickly gathered in their camp's open square . When Zhang Wu Ji caught this officer's command, he smiled . Standing up from his hiding spot, Zhang Wu Ji started to clean their unguarded belongings .

They gathered, received their orders to take note of their surroundings, but the moment the sun is at their highest spot to indicated that the afternoon is here, the effect if the Day Poison Mist is at their most lethal moment! Immediately, without a way to stop it from happening, the Inner Qi inside their body started to disperse!

"My Inner Qi! Why did it start to disperse from my body! No! I cannot control their flow either! The flow of my vein is blocked! I can't stop the Inner Qi in my body from flowing out!"

"Yeah! We drink our own boiled water and eat our own food that was tested with animals before eaten . How can we trust you that we're poisoned?"

"You! Who are you, come down here and let this uncle give you a lesson! What? You're only a Half-Step Inner Qi Warrior! Guys! He's a weakling!"

The crowd of soldiers is shouting nonstop against Zhang Wu Ji on top of the flagpole . Although most of them were suffering from the Dispersal of their Internal Qi, it did not disturb them in the term of spouting more nonsense and looking for more trouble .

But compared to their Commanding Officers, each of them are looking at Zhang Wu Ji with different thinking in their mind . Few wanted to capture him to search for the medicine, while a few are interested in the technique he used to sneak here unaware by everyone .

Of course, among them, one belonged to the experienced military officer and considered something different from their greedy mindset . He took the liberty to look all around him and noticed that there is some missing tents, weaponry, and even the cauldron to boil water is gone from the ground .

'This person is not simple! Can my strength of a 14th Stage Inner Qi Warrior capture him? If we're all poisoned as he said, won't that means we're halfway to the underworld by now?' he whispered to himself while trying to decide his next move .

"You! Come down here now!" one of the commanding officers make his move to try to apprehend Zhang Wu Ji, but in a flash, Zhang Wu Ji vanished from everyone's sight once again . With his attack only hitting the air at where Zhang Wu Ji just stands earlier, the commanding officer bellowed in anger .

"Search for that kid! We have to force him to surrender the antidotes! If this problem disturbs our progress in attacking the Wen Wu City, then our masters will give us a traumatized lesson!" he said before searching around through his eyes to look for a hint related to Zhang Wu Ji .

"The two of you! What are you waiting for? Search for that kid!" he shouted at the two highest position officers similar to his strength . But his shouting went into deaf ears as they were unbothered by his words . Instead, the two of them ordered their men to get them a chair to seat their butt .

"Jing Yong Kang! Hu Meng Ming! Don't think that your Upper South Mercenary and Jie's Clan can protect you from the Second Prince's penalty if we failed in this mission!" he shouts at the two and warns them for disobeying his order .

"Yuan Ji, don't bother to take the second prince to order the two of us . You have to remember that if anything goes wrong, your Wen Qing City will be the first to face his wrath . " the one from Upper South Mercenary, Jing Yong Kang replied to him .

Although there were some Internal Qi is dispersing from his body, it wasn't too much for somebody like him, an Inner Qi Soldier, to worry about . The amount of Inner Qi that was dispersing was similar to between 20 to 30 strands of Fighter Qi every minute, which is something insignificant for him .

As an Inner Qi Soldier, Every strand of his Soldier Qi worth 1000 strands of Warrior Qi . Which means he possesses over a few million strands of Fighter Qi for him to slowly let it disperse . Instead of urgently looking for his target, the two prefer to wait for their opponent to grow impatient instead .

It was easier to hunt for an impatient target, especially for somebody with the ability like Zhang Wu Ji that can vanish from their sight without a hint of his whereabouts . It wasn't an issue to ignite their Soldier Qi to expose their target that possibly hiding nearby but they care about the total cost they have to bear .

The losses of a pile of Fighter Qi is something insignificant . But if they were forced to use their precious strand of Soldier Qi to force this opponent out, it will be too expensive for them to do so . Their search continues, but nobody noticed that while they're busy searching for their target, the target is actually following them behind to keep robbing their belongings .

Now, even rags and blankets or pillow stone is stolen . Almost every tent they went past will be emptied . This continues until they're finally noticed the changes in a tent filled with weaponry . The missing weaponry inside this tent made Zhang Wu Ji's movement visible to them through the number of weapon racks vanished .

"Weapon Tent!" one of the patrolling scouts shouted . But in return of his report, it wasn't a sign of gratitude, but the attack from three Inner Qi Soldiers . Zhang Wu Ji immediately escaped from the tent by cutting open a hole from its top, but the few soldiers inside the tent were killed by that strike for no reason at all .

"They're very unfortunate . . . " Zhang Wu Ji clicked his tongue and landed on top of a tent . Standing right before the three commanding officers, the first question they asked is about the real identity of the youth . And before Zhang Wu Ji can answer the question, he was surrounded with a large number of soldiers .

"Why should I be bothered with your question? All of you will slowly die the moment I flick my finger . If you don't believe me, try to see how bad is the Dispersal of Qi now compared to earlier . . . " Zhang Wu Ji did not bother with their question and asked every soldier to check on their own condition .

When each of them noticed that the previous losses of 20 to 30 strands of Fighter Qi become 120 strands now, they panic . If this continues, an hour will drain away 7,200 strands of Fighter Qi from them . And that is equivalent to seven strands of usable Warrior Qi . With this kind of losses happened on their physical body, how can they not be nervous?

"You people are just plain stupid . By threatening me with my life, do you think I will give you the antidote? I got no antidote in my hand . If you want, I will have to concoct them through my own Inner Qi and blood . But I think . . . saving you guys will waste my time because everyone should be a dead man when I'm done with the first pill . "

"Instead of giving you guys some medicine, how about I return everything belonged to your camp?" Zhang Wu Ji completed his words, and with an action of opening his hand wide, it releases a large stack of treasures that were not life-saving, but life-threatening .

"Run! It's the Rhinoceros Roar!" as a soldier well equipped with the tool, how can they not know the identity of this item? The moment all these canisters touches the ground, an explosion happened . It shocks even the Inner Qi Soldiers standing not too far from them .

"Crazy bastard! By exploding that amount of Rhinoceros Roar with himself in the middle, won't that action equals to seeking death himself? Quickly go in and search his dead body for an antidote!" Yuan Ji, the one represents the Wen Qing City's Militarized Forces ordered .

Without wasting time, his men went inside the explosion zone . But after searching for a while for naught, they reported their results of no corpses is inside that explosion zone and its core . After more soldier went in for the search, they conclude that the instigator should be left just before the explosion happens .

Unbothered with the number of equipment remained inside their camp, they equipped themselves as much as they could before started their march towards the Wen Wu City . Their total of troops still remained at 16,000 strong, but in term of preparation, it was too pathetic .

After the soldiers left, Zhang Wu Ji appeared in the vicinity once more to clear their camp . After taking everything usable and might be usable, he flew away by riding on top of his Qiyue Flying Sword . At this moment, only the remains of a large number of people stay in this location is left .

Marching for the whole time until the moon came up to replace the sun, the troops of 16,000 soldiers make their first stop somewhere far from the main road to access the Orchid Mountain . With the loss of Lan Shan Clan now, the Orchid Mountain route is no longer a safe zone .

The guards temporary gathered for their distribution of meals, and due to the night time, the Day Poison Mist is no longer capable to put a toll on their body . With the dinner completed, the soldiers returned to their allocated camp to start their meditation .

In preparation for the war that will start two days later, they have to be fully prepared . A small difference in their reserve of Warrior Qi will determine the results of the war, especially when the allocated equipment for them end up stolen by their enemy .

Unless properly equipped, nobody is willing to participate in a fight . Although according to the report given by their scouts few days earlier about the Celestial Designed weapons in their opponent's arsenal, they were nothing threatening to their current forces .

But the nothing threatening estimation is compared during the period they're all fully equipped with many war-used pieces of equipment . If it was to be re-evaluated once more, perhaps their answer this time will be significantly different .

Even as an Inner Qi Warrior, who dare to face against a ballista or Yuan-Tie Cannon that possess damage between 90 points of damage . For a Warrior Tier Cultivator with defensive ability over 150 points naturally without wearing any pieces of equipment, receiving the first shot is not a big deal, but how about two to three at the same moment?

There might be an invincible spear that can pierce all shield, but the possibility of having an invincible shield that can block all spear is very rare . At least until not, there is no such thing as an armor that will not break .

But what they did not think about is that even at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji is still staying with them . It wasn't too visible to his opponent, but as long he saw the chances to steal from his enemy, he will not miss the opportunity .

Of course, by following them along their way, he can make sure he can return to the Wen Wu City without getting lost again . With their opponent that came under the leading from Wen Qing City Lord, Upper South Mercenary, and Jie's Clan is handled by his hidden act, he's confident with the others to defend against the attack came from the Seven Star Sect .

Two days later, the 16,000 soldiers finally reach the wall that keeps the City safe from outside attack . But the difference is, not half of them is equipped with battle provision and equipment . Of course, it was due to the sneak and steal operation conducted by Zhang Wu Ji himself throughout their journey .

At this moment, except the commanding officers and a few lucky soldiers, 99 . 9% of their troops are here without a weapon, armor, siege tools, and not even a single craft that helps in scaling the wall . Their appearance is taken as a note by the guards from the city wall as "War Clowns" due to their immature presentation .

Worst of all, they're all lack of Internal Qi supply due to the Day Poison Mist inflicted by Zhang Wu Ji on the night before their march . Since it was daytime at this moment, each soldier is suffering the Dispersal of Qi as they stand straight before the city wall .

"People inside the City Wall, open your gate and surrender without a fight! We're here on behalf of Second Prince to inspect and evaluates your loyalty towards the great Southern Imperial Kingdom!" Yuan Ji warned those standing on top of the city wall .

"Aren't that guy the one disturb us when we're leaving the camp? How can he stands inside of the City Defense Tower?" the soldiers started to whisper to each another while their commanding officers are scratching their head to solve this matter .

"Those that not from our Wen Wu City . I suggest you surrender before we teach you a lesson of not messing with Wen Wu City by coming to attack us without any preparations . Do you think the people from Wen Wu City is so weak that you can attack us without any armed preparations?" the next word came from Zhang Wu Ji left all of them sweating .

Each soldier wishes they have a bigger mouth as they shout the unfair treatment placed on them . But what can they do when the robber, instigator, and poisonous tactician is standing just before them and bringing injustice on them?

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"Men! If the opposing forces still not willing to surrender in five minutes, prepare to fire all weaponry on the target! Leave no survivors standing at the end of our barrage!" Zhang Wu Ji gives his people instruction to follow as he stares at his enemies .

"Master Senior, four minutes remaining!" the soldier standing beside him reported . With his palm is lowered for the first time, the first bell rang . Through the vibration of the chime, it incites fear and indecisive within the enemy ranks .

"Three minutes!" once again, the soldier reported . Even though it was his second speech, his existence creates fear amongst the enemy troops . Instead of feeling afraid of Zhang Wu Ji, they fear this soldier for repeatedly sending them closer to their death .

"One minute left!" this time, Zhang Wu Ji raised his palm above his head . With the sign came in, soldiers gathered all over the City Wall with the Yuan-Tie Cannon activated and ready for action . With over 200 cannons aiming at the enemy troops, it instills fear into their mind .

Twenty cannons might only kill a small part of them, but two hundred? It was enough to turn them from standing human into a pile of minced meat . While they still hesitate to give up, a word from the soldier break their mindset and all their intention .

"We surrender . . . " the final moment destroyed all their intention to resist . But the reply is deafened by the sound of firing cannon . Two hundred shots are fired at the pile of human flesh as it started to tear them apart from one limb to another .

Blood splattered . Pitiful howl is heard . But Zhang Wu Ji did not allow all these wretched displays to dampen his intention in slaughtering all of them . In his mind, he already decides for the slaughter the moment his count went past two minutes .

They were lucky to have three Soldier Tier Commanding Officers protecting them . But how much can three-person do against a barrage of two hundred cannons? They deflected a few, but when the rain of iron ball smashed through their defense and started to pound the soldiers into a pile of human meat, the confidence in their own power begins to falter .

How can they know that inside the mind of their opponent's commanding officer, they're already sentenced to death? Their fight started to become weaker as they declined from 16,000 soldiers into 8,000 left . That was a casualty of half of their members at the beginning of the battle .

As an experienced battalion of soldiers, how can this happen? It was not only the worst preparation in this battle they ever participate in, but it is also the worst battle they ever participate . This is a tribute . A blood and flesh tribute that was offered to the enemies!

The first barrage left them with 8,000 soldiers . Among them, 2,000 is injured, leaving them with nothing but around 6,000 men still able to give their opponent a fight . Believing on their own ability as a Soldier Tier cultivator, they lead the others to attack the City Wall .

Unfortunately, their opponent did not do the same . Zhang Wu Ji expects to finish this battle without having a single casualty from his side, which is why instead of sending soldiers out into the battlefield, he instructed them to fire his Fire Lizard Touch instead .

The weapon caused a wall of fire burning before the city wall . With a flame wall blocking them from marching forward, it will extremely unbeneficial for them who possesses only strength but not weaponry, crafted tools, and other usable treasures!

"Get the f*ck off from here . " the moment that commanding officer from Jie's Clan tried to send forth his attack, the other two kicked him away for being a complete idiot . By using Fire Elemental Martial Art against the wall of flames, won't that end up helping the wall instead?

Including Zhang Wu Ji himself, everyone labeled the commanding an idiot that couldn't see the importance of a matter . But that commotion soon cleared when Zhang Wu Ji noticed something flying to him from the eastern side of Wen Wu City .

"Iron Kong-Que . . . And there's another five Qiyue Flying Swords . It must be Master, Senior brother and sisters, and also Miss Meng Ran . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as their appearance in this side of the city means that the enemy forces attacking from the eastern side is completely decimated .

"What is the continuous explosion earlier? Miss Meng, please control the Iron Kong-Que to fly faster to the northern side! I'm worried about the troop's defensive capability!" Liang Tian requested . Although he was an Inner Qi Lord, without an appearance of any other Inner Qi Lord within the battlefield, he's not allowed to make his appearance personally without any escorts .

And because of this matter, Liang Tian is not only forced to not made his attendance in this battle known by the enemies, he's also banned from flying personally into the battlefield as his appearance will disrupt the results of this battle .

But when they arrived at the Northern Gate, everything was out of his expectation . With Zhang Wu Ji as the leader of this battle, he completely decimated his enemies through the ability as a proper commander, tactician, and also fighter .

With a large number of troops died under the Fire Lizard's Touch, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the next barrage of fifty Yuan-Tie Cannons on the soldiers that still capable of giving out a fight . After he cleared the battlefield from a large number of enemies, Zhang Wu Ji sent out a few Soldier-Tier cultivators that were trained by the city lord to capture the three commanding officers .

After the three of them is subdued, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the Bell-Keeper to ring the bell continuously to announce their victory in this battle . When his achievement of not having zero casualties in this battle, Zhang Wu Ji's name once again echoed throughout the all human settlements within the Seven Star County, and even reach the Heavenly South County .

When this news spread until the soon to become Li Jiang City, the Patriarch of the Zhang Family was the first one to be excited with this news . Of course, as his personal servant before Zhang Wu Ji went to the Seven Star Sect, Zhang Da Zui and Zhang Da Yang share a part of the excitement .

"Third Young Master too amazing! When he left the town to enroll in Seven Star Sect, he's already an astonishing youth, with this news now, who dare to question our Zhang Family position within the Li Jiang City?" as usual, Zhang Da Zui with his big mouth is the first to talk .

"Da Zui, don't speak too much about this matter . No matter what, the Li Jiang City will be handled by one of the appointed mayors, the families will only be their supporters!" Zhang Qing Feng warned Zhang Da Zui from speaking too much .

"Da Zui understand . Master, do we need to get ready for three young master's return on the first day of the Continent New Year? I believe Da Niu, Da Gou, Da Yan, and Da Tou waited for their master to return for too long by now . " Zhang Da Zui added . As he speaks, he pointed at the four other servants that used to serve Zhang Wu Yuan and Zhang Wu Chou before they went to the Imperial Capital and Heavenly Sword Sect .

"Based on what Wu Yuan says, Wu Ji might not come back if he cannot handle the matter between the Seven Star Sect before end up the year is here . Prepare everything for the three of them anyway, let us have some faith in Wu Ji's ability . " Zhang Qing Feng said .

Who actually knows that in his mind, Zhang Qing Feng wanted to laugh out as hard as he could . When he says to have faith in Zhang Wu Ji's ability, it was out of good faith . But as a father, how can he not know about his child's ability to cause havoc?

"He's too used to sacrifice a cow to kill a cockroach . I just hope at the end of the day, this brat did not exhaust the whole treasure coffer of the Seven Star Sect to let his master retook the power to rule over this land once again . " Zhang Qing Feng shakes his head as he thought about his child's ability .

"Zhang Wu Ji! Zhang Wu Ji! Zhang Wu Ji!" the people within the Wen Wu City is cheering for his name as he returns to the Apprentice Hall by walking . In the term of popularity, perhaps not even the City Lord, his Master can compete with him .

Only by his appearance alone, Zhang Wu Ji greatly motivates the youngster to repeat everything he's done in this year . Youth that will reach fifteen years old at the early of next year are all looking up at him as an example, while those younger on started to focus on many different topics that related to the profession he's excellent in .

While the celebration is ongoing, the situation in Wen Qing City is not that positive . The moment the report of their complete defeat before entering the Wen Wu City, the Upper South Merchant Corporation immediately vanished from the city within that night .

Under the gaze of the residents, the City Lord made his escape as well . In their mind, this complete defeat will come back to haunt him and destroy everything he obtained until now . Instead of letting his fate judged in this situation, why not he make a run for it as a criminal instead?

With their main hope to handle the city is gone, the Wen Qing City collapsed . Every thug roaming inside the city tried to get their hand of their last robbery before escaping the Wen Qing City . Within that night, the Wen Qi City's crime rate increase by tenfold .

All criminals started to cause havoc in this city and tried to ruin it . Thugs, Muggers, and Rapist are all around the city hunting for people, money, and treasures . But before they could continue it for too long, the support came from the still organized military force and started to kill the criminals before they can proceed further .

But when the criminals are cleared, the soldiers turned into one instead! Being better organized, they robbed the houses with food supplies, treasures, and shops that stored a different kind of groceries, medicine, and cultivation pills . Under their hand, the wealth of the Wen Qing City is robbed clean before the soldiers left the city unguarded .

Looking from afar, Yang Yi and his people charged into the city! By occupying them at this crucial moment, the resistance is the weakest! With Liang Tian and the three other elders is sent to handle the escaped soldiers and City Lord, the Commander of Militarized Forces from Wen Wu City only need to occupy this city and run them like how it was before!

To replace a large number of casualties and the lack of population, Wen Wu City Lord ordered the remaining village located near the Wen Qing City to migrate here with the promise of excellent treatment, job prospect, and a better life .

Following behind their footstep, Zhang Wu Ji's Apprentice Hall came into the city next, with a large number of supplies that were brought here through the conveniences of Wooden Universal Plate and also Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Kong-Que .

Nine days later, the Apprentice Hall Second Branch that was established under the help of the people and resident finally completed . But the only differences are instead of taking a small area like the Apprentice Hall Headquarters, the Second Branch covers a quarter of the Wen Qing City's constructed area .

"Is this a branch or Headquarters? How can the size this branch covers took over so many plots s of land?" Zhang Wu Ji controlled the Iron Kong-Que as he inspects the buildings that have been demolished to be rebuilt again .

At this moment, he toured around the Second Branch to check the amount of land his Second Branch owned . Moments later, he returned to the Second Branch Main Hall to calculate the total landmass .

"Holy shit! My Second Branch is four times bigger than my current headquarters with the total land of 800 acres! It can fit four forbidden palaces without issue with space!" Zhang Wu Ji's eye opened wide as he estimates the amount of profit he can get from completely exploiting this land .

At last, Wen-Qing City is in hand . Guess . . . How many chapters will it took before MC get his Tyrant Body, Control Seven Star Sect, and return to enjoy his Ping An Continent New Year?

"Master Senior! The construction for the Apprentice Hall Second Branch is finally completed! Please attend the opening ceremony that will commence tomorrow!" one of the people expert in handling the arrangement came forward to report the status and also to make sure their founder attend the opening ceremony .

Next, another person came forward to report the current status in every department . Similar to their Headquarter, they selected seven most beneficial departments to be invested in this particular city according to the allocation of natural resources available .

And as expected by Zhang Wu Ji himself, their arrangement in utilizing all the resources results in the Construction Department erecting six Specialized Gulou for the sake of plantation alone . With the existence of Plateau Plantation Plate is incorporated in their daily life, the improvement in the field of Agriculture exceeds his expectation .

Within their agriculture planning, the Second Branch can easily expect 200,000 Qi Sensing Pills to be produced monthly, especially when Formation Master Department is one of the established department within this city .

As there were some remaining students belonged to the Celestial Designer profession here, Zhang Wu Ji allowed the Teacher and their students to be enrolled into the Apprentice Hall as a guest teacher . Of course, this means that from this moment onwards, Zhang Wu Ji's Apprentice Hall will slowly start to produce some Celestial Designer too .

By arranging a messenger to deliver a message to the Mystic Engineer Establishment, Zhang Wu Ji send them a request for some qualified first-Grade and Second-Grade Celestial Designer to come in as a guest teacher to improve the quality of students his Apprentice Hall can produce .

Of course, after the Construction Department, Medicine, Pill, and Herbalist Department, Formation-Master Department, and Celestial Designer Department, there is three more waiting to report their completion of the task before tomorrow's opening ceremony .

"The Forging Department is prepared . We're ready to bring out the newest series of Seven Leaves Sword into the market along with the Dual-Headed Pickaxes for mining purposes . At this moment, the department is working in their 100% capacity from the day we're transferred here . " the representative of the Forging Department reported .

"Our Textile Department is doing very well too . Thanks to the high-quality materials we procured from the forest and some supplies from the Medicine, Pill, and Herbalist Department, we managed to produce a few rolls of Fine Textile for tomorrow's opening ceremony . " another representative from Textile Department reported .

"Although our Food, Lodging, and Material Escorting Department are yet to open for business, I can assure Master Senior that our members in the department are all ready for tomorrow . Please be confident at our ability to handle all this matter with utmost attention . " last but not least, the final department representative reported .

With all the hearing is done, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his specialized courtyard created with the intention to provide their founder with everything . This is most suitable for him, especially after robbing so many usable materials from different factions .

But after he processed all the materials into their usable form, Zhang Wu Ji smiled with satisfaction . After putting himself in so many matters not long ago, he missed the experience he can get from smelting the materials, forming them into ingots, increasing their quality, and forge something .

With his spatial inventory is lacked a weapon specially made for him, Zhang Wu Ji decided to forge something that can replace his Longfeng Jade Ruler until he found a better ingredient for his Tier-2 Weapon . Pondering with many different choices, Zhang Wu Ji decided to forge multiple weapons to see which one suit him the most .

-Ability Acquired (1): When used and practiced by the user and blacksmith apprentice it allowed them to have the possibility to forge High-Tier Spirit-Grade Metal in every 1st-Tier . [Possibility of Success: 65% Others | 100% user]

-Ability Acquired (2): Allowed the user to produce 1st-Tier item 50% faster than others . The Compendium lesson includes [Ninety-Nine Hammering Stance], [Nine Layer Fighter Flame], and [Seven Stage Forge-Master Art]

-Limitation: The knowledge recorded within the compendium only able to reach 99% Purity . The remaining 1% is locked by the Nature Cultivator Law . Only the books copied by the user carried the 2nd ability and the three Origin Tier Blacksmithing Art .

-Special (+10): By paying 100,000 kilograms worth of 99% Purity 1st-Tier Ingot as tributes, UPGRADE System will convert them into a 1kg ingot of 1st-Tier Heavenly Iron .

Zhang Wu Ji was turned speechless once more, although this was the second time he was rendered speechless . The rate of exchange can be said to be outrageously expensive, where the only quality this book willing to accept is the 99% Purity ingots .

To start with, a 40% High-Grade Iron Ingots cost 100,000 Gold Coins for a Pure Iron, 200,000 Gold Coins for a Sentient Iron, and 500,000 Gold Coins for a Crystal Iron . But this rate changed drastically in Low-Tier Spirit Grade due to the difficulties to obtain such quality products .

Starting with the price of 500,000 Gold Coins for a Pure Iron, 1 Million Gold Coins for a Sentient Iron, and 2 . 5 Million Gold Coins for a Crystal Iron, their price become unbelievably expensive . And the reason for this is not because of the lack of supply, but because they're lack of skillful blacksmiths .

In this Metal and Crystal Forging profession, Blacksmith Grading is done differently . A Blacksmith is qualified as long they're able to smelt and forge a weapon from the lowest Basic-Grade Metal . From here, they required to possess the ability to obtain their next raise of qualification .

If going through the proper procedure, one will obtain his first promotion as a 1st-Tier Advance Blacksmith the moment he's able to craft and forge out something from the Advance to High-Grade purity metal . Through this qualification and the benefits, the Blacksmith can use them to improve himself before challenging the promotion .

After the promotion into 1st-Tier Advance Blacksmith, one will have to qualify themselves past 1st-Tier Early Spirit Blacksmith, Advance Spirit Blacksmith, and Peak Spirit Blacksmith before qualified for the 2nd-Tier Advance Blacksmith option .

With each promotion they obtained, it increases their fame in this Ping An Continent as a master Blacksmith . In every tier, three different Major Materials exist to endure the cultivator's destructive force, starting from Pure Iron, Sentient Iron, and Crystal Iron in the 1st-Tier .

In the 2nd-Tier, Silver was chosen by this world to withstand the destructive force caused by the power of an Inner Qi Warrior cultivator . They were differentiated into Tomb Silver, Moon Silver, and Fool Silver according to their different properties .

For the conversion to obtain a single ingot of the 1st-Tier Heavenly Iron, which was a mythical 1st-tier metal, their exchange rate is a little over the limit he can accept! A total of a hundred thousand kilograms of 99% High-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron to be exchanged into a kilogram not only will kill him in his process, but he might also become the mortal enemy for the whole county due to his expenses!

"A hundred thousand kilograms . . . With the weight of each piece of 99% Purity Ingots I smelted, it weighs 20 kilograms . This means I need 5,000 ingots to convert them into a Heavenly Iron . Still, I wonder what is so wondrous about this Heavenly Iron because they're not even recorded in any of the manuals related to Iron products . "

"And, from all these stuff I robbed from them, it was actually made from lousy military-Grade Iron, and it was so impure that I need to waste my time to process them once again . Still, even with their quantities I only managed to collect 300 kilograms of High-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron . . . " Zhang Wu Ji complained .

His complaint is actually accurately hit the painful part of the suffering side every blacksmith faced . In this Realm, the Natural Law is different from how it was in his previous world . When the fact related to smeltable jade, it shocked him for the first time .

But as his research and capability on blacksmithing increases, he noticed that no matter how precise is the amount of one kind of iron within the ingot he smelted, even a 40% Purity ingot he made will contain impurities . And this impurities is not something his UPGRADE System can detect them in a precise manner .

Of course, this does not mean that the UPGRADE System is lacking, but it was due the measurement of the amount of Purity inside the ingot caused it . As the composition of Pure Iron is denser on a 99% High-Tier Spirit-Grade Ingot, their size is smaller than the 40% High-Grade Ingot with too many impurities inside .

This is also why he complained during his smelting progress . With only 10% of Purity inside their weapon, it was 10 parts into one parts conversion . After a night of work, the originally 3,000 Kilograms of Iron products only yield him 300 Kilograms of 99% High-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron .

But he cannot complain too much either . It was out of his own need that he required so much High-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron to be exchanged into a piece of Heavenly Iron . According to his situation now, what he needs is not keeping the material all to himself, but to strengthen the name of his apprentice hall!

Because it may cause his some loose ends of he pushes out the 99% High-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron, Zhang Wu Jo purposely lowered the quality of his ingots to Low-Tier Spirit-Grade to attract more buyers to visit the establishment . In his mind, pushing out wares in their 60% and below purity is a great way to increase the fame of his Apprentice Hall .

At the end of the night, Zhang Wu Ji did not get himself a rest . Although the forging time is shortened by 50%, it was still a great effort for him to roll out five High-Tier Spirit-Grade weapons for sale in the opening a few hours later . But luckily, he did the impossible .

A sword, a spear, a twin-dagger, a staff, and a halberd . After the ceremony to start the business ended, the five weapons of the highest-quality within the whole Forging Department caused the department to become the busiest one for their first day of business .

But that wasn't all . After what happened in the Forging Department, the Medicine, Pill, and Herbalist Department came up next . Solely by preparing a few sets of ingredient for their founder to concoct a few pills, their move gained the confidence from the spectators and customers to purchase their products .

As for the three sets of ingredients, Zhang Wu Ji forged a set of Yin Essence Pill, Complete Taixia Qi Pill, and Ten Layered Recovery Pills for them to be sold to the most generous buyer . After their first day of business, Zhang Wu Ji finally understands what means good business .

Every department is crowded with customers, where because of a lack of attendants, they almost escalate to demolishing the department due to dissatisfaction . But luckily, the name 'Apprentice Hall' stopped them from acting recklessly .

Because there is not a single person dare to offend the founder of this Apprentice Hall . As one of the most prominent figures with fame above his own master, Zhang Wu Ji is not a simple person for them to try and mess with .

In this three days of sales, Zhang Wu Ji accumulated six hundred million Gold Coins . By leaving half of them to be invested back to improve the Wen Qing City and the second branch, Zhang Wu Ji left the Wen Qing City together with Meng Ran by his side .

He doesn't want to lose his direction on his way towards Wen Yang City . Only by controlling this city can the Apprentice Hall begin their conquest and eliminate the useless grass and weed growing inside of the Seven Star Sect .

And it was due to this reason, Zhang Wu Ji cannot spend his time lost in his direction any longer . Before the end of this year, he must reclaim the Seven Star Sect and their land before he can control the whole Seven Star County to do his bidding!

As usual, I will once again beg everyone to leave me a few reviews to push my spot higher . As from last week, the increment of collection (Readers) increase out of sudden by loads, reaching 3,200 readers again . In return of all these support, this week is going to be 7 promised chapters once again, with a few bonus target as we go, how does everyone think about this?

"Everyone, look at my merchandise today, everything is high-quality materials from the Crystalline River County!" one of the peddlers shouts to market his wares into the ears of people walking along the street . Unconsciously, his call attracts Zhang Wu Ji to take a look .

"Mister, did you say all these products came from the Crystalline River County? Which city to be exact?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned him as he touches the raw material packed on top of his stall . Among the item, three items managed to get Zhang Wu Ji interested .

The first item is the Early-Grade 10 Carats Sapphire Crystal Pillar, the second item is a stack of five Qi Accumulating Pill, and a weapon made of precious Tomb Silver .

It was worth calling them High-Quality Material because of how they're made . What's more, each product is stamped with a special engraving that indicates where and from what corporation .

"Tier 2? Does that mean this corporation holds the qualification to process both 1st-Tier and 2nd-Tier products? That means his corporation qualification is above my Apprentice Hall!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised with the fact all three treasures is stamped with the same engravings .

"Hehehe, I suddenly found a good idea to threaten the Upper South Merchant Corporation . . . " Zhang Wu Ji secretly laughed as he looks at the merchandise . From the outsider's view, they felt Zhang Wu Ji must have some mental illness .

"Wu Ji . . . " Meng Ran nudge Zhang Wu Ji to wakes him up . The moment she knows this guy is not daydreaming but scheming, she quickly pulled him away from where they stand . But unexpectedly, the Master Senior disagree to leave his spot .

"Mister, if our Seven Star County able to produce these kinds of material for your business, will you agree to cooperate with them?" Zhang Wu Ji nicely asks the peddler to see what he think about it . Listening to his question, the peddler considered the option for a moment .

"Well . . . I will cooperate with them . Of course, the better the county does, the better is my business here . Why won't I support my own county to get better?" the peddler speaks his mind out loud . From his manner when speaking, Zhang Wu Ji caught the next issue .

"Mister . . . Is there anything you wanted to add? Feel free to tell me . " Zhang Wu Ji secretly took his Master Senior Plate out into his view and let the peddler know the motive for his question . When the plate and the name engraved on it came into his sight, the peddler immediately tries to kneel before Zhang Wu Ji .

"Mister! Please leave the ceremonial greetings aside . May Wu Ji ask about the issue bothering your mind? Please feel free to tell me, I am here to know what the people think about the county, and could we work things out from here . "

With his words, the peddler relaxed and started to share the mistreatment he received in the Golden Carapace City . Due to the short of supply for such material in his business, the peddler was given no choice but to suffer for their high export tax . Although the price offered for their treasure is considerably low, the lowered price is heightened at the end purchase due to their export tax .

Worst, as a person that come outside to resupply his business, most of the peddlers are subject to irregular prices on the product, lousy customer services, and always short of supply forcing them to raise the price again and again when they came back to conduct their business .

Listening to his words, Zhang Wu Ji nodded in understanding before he convinced the peddler to tell everyone around that the Apprentice Hall will be here soon as well to help regulate the prices and supplies . When his exchange of words with the peddler is over, Zhang Wu Ji left to their second main street .

"Aren't that mister trader! What happened to him?" Zhang Wu Ji remembered that from the day they're out from the Seven Star Sect, this merchant has stopped visiting him . Based on his impression regarding this merchant, he will not despise Zhang Wu Ji for his status, because this trader held his own profession highly .

"Mister Trader! Do you remember me? I'm Master Senior Ninth!" Zhang Wu Ji made his way towards the peddler kneeling on the ground . When he caught the fact his peddler's both legs are gone, Zhang Wu Ji's felt a corner of his heart is cracked .

"Ah, Master Senior Ninth . . . This trash has no right to talk with you, please ignore me . . . " the moment this peddler recognize the person before him, he quickly denies knowing Zhang Wu Ji and kept all his wares into his bag before trying to crawl away .

"Small Nourishment Art! Long Mu's Blessing Stance!" Zhang Wu Ji quickly applied some treatment on the peddler to ease his pain, while trying to recover his ability to walk . But when the bandages went off from the healing, Zhang Wu Ji finally know what happened on this peddler!

"Meng Ran . . . Get me a room and please let mister stay there . . . " Zhang Wu Ji instructed Meng Ran to prepare him something, while he stands up and faces all the people looking at him . Right in front of everybody, Zhang Wu Ji swings his hand and hold a stack of Qi Sensing Pill in his hand .

"All news related to this peddler worth 10 Qi Sensing Pills . All major news deserve 100 Qi Sensing Pills . If you can bring me to the person that cause this to him, 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills!" Zhang Wu Ji packed the Qi Sensing Pills in a pouch and waited .

After spending a total of 2,000 Qi Sensing Pills, Zhang Wu Ji left . He entered the Inn located not too far from the second Main Street . Entering the room where the peddler and Meng Ran is staying, he took a seat beside Meng Ran while still having his two hands in the shape of a fist .

"He got kidnapped, crippled, and thrown to the street . His stall is confiscated by the City Lord, and he got ordered to pay the fine before getting back his stall . "

"I will take care of him . When everything is done, come to the grassland two kilometers outside . . . No . . . Wait . . . Come back to the Inn when we're ready to go . " she took the responsibility to take care of the peddler while leaving Zhang Wu Ji to do whatever he wanted .

At first, she has the intention to wait for him outside of Wen Yang City, but when she remembered his sense of direction, she dropped her plan immediately .

"Waiting in the Inn is the best because there's a name . Hell, I even worried that he will look for the Inn at the other Main Business Street . " Meng Ran is slightly speechless at this Master Senior .

That night, only Meng Ran remained inside their rented room, with nobody caught the silhouette of Zhang Wu Ji left the Inn . Even the guard standing outside to prevent worst case scenario failed to notice the Master Senior has disappeared .

"Pavilion Master, Vice Pavilion Master, subordinate have some matters to report . " one of the guards working for his pavilion as a listener outside of their base came back .

"Go on . " the Pavilion Master ordered . While he was busy getting entertained with two female companions, the Vice Pavilion Master is busy engulfing himself with the food placed on top of his eating table .

"This subordinate heard about a mysterious person purchasing information related to the merchant we robbed his stall and crippling him . All I get from asking the people around is this person is very young, dressed in a black robe, and walks around the city with a female attendant . "

The subordinate reported . But looking at the two people in charge of the Crystalline Pavilion, they seem unbothered with the news at all . Instead, the Pavilion Master become more aroused with the two female companions as he started to have fun with his [Dragon Claw] . . .

"Pavilion Master . . . Vice Pavilion Master . . . " the subordinate wishes to get their response, but instead of an answer, the two waved their hand to sent him away from their room . Following from the subordinates exit, another row of dishes went inside the room .

"The two of them underestimate this mysterious person too much . What will they think when they know this person's name have a [WU JI] inside? If it's Master Senior Zhang Wu Ji, then our establishment is F*cked!" the subordinates continue to complain as he walked past two corridors . But when he reaches the third corridor leading to the Residential area, a silhouette appeared behind him .

"Tok!!! Thup . . . " Zhang Wu Ji appeared behind him with a swing on his neck . This attack leaves the subordinate unconscious when Zhang Wu Ji takes everything off from him . After leaving this naked man behind some hidden corner, he went deeper into the building .

Wherever he goes, Zhang Wu Ji will at least sent two to three members into unconscious state as he steals everything from them . By leaving each of them naked when he's done with them, Zhang Wu Ji does the same to all male members and left them with clothing for female members .

After clearing most of the members below Inner Qi Fighter Level, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with the Inner Qi Warrior members . Although there was between 600 members in their establishment, only 50 of them belonged to Inner Qi Warrior Cultivation, and three more in their Inner Qi Soldier Cultivation .

"Intruder!" one of the members failed to fall down from a knock, but luckily before his voice transferred outside of the room, Zhang Wu Ji sent him into his own fairytale . After cleaning the room from any treasures, Zhang Wu Ji finally reaches their blacksmithing department .

But when he inspected the room, it was actually an empty shell that used to fake their production! None of the tools within this department is used before! If that is the case, then where did their supply came from? Carrying the urge to unravel this mystery, Zhang Wu Ji went deeper until he reaches a very well protected building .

"Iron Door . . . Eleven guards, and formation flags . . . This must be their secret storage . . . " Zhang Wu Ji finally found their Vault . But it wasn't easy for him to enter . From the Formation Flags scattered all around the vault and did not activates when the guards walking around means they're coded to recognize this eleven guards but not the intruders .

If he recklessly breaks their formation, it might alarm his enemies . Based on his situation here alone without support, it's very unsafe for him to fight against the three Inner Qi Soldiers alone . He remained near the vault until out of sudden, a bell alarmed everyone inside of this Crystalline Pavilion .

A few Formation Flag is activated in every entrance and locking everyone either inside or outside of their buildings . With only a few top management members possess the ability to went inside and outside of the formation flag, they started to run a check from one building to another .

"Heh . . . They caught my appearance inside their pavilion . Luckily I'm outside, or else, I will be stuck inside the building like a sitting duck . " Zhang Wu Ji felt a sense of relief as he looked at the management members going in and out one building after another .

And a few of them is throwing their tantrum when they a large number of their members is stark naked inside the building because everything belonged to them is all stolen .

"Quickly change the formation coding to all the members! The thieves have stolen a lot of our entrance tag into the vault!" the Vice Pavilion Master scolded the naked members . With his finger pointing at one of the management members, he instructed them to change the coding for their members to enter the vault .

"Damn! I got the entrance key into the vault at the beginning of my robbery!" Zhang Wu Ji knocked his head for missing the hint in his starting of his mission .

Alright . Everyone get ready your popcorns because Bandit Zhang is on his robbery operation once again! This time, it's Upper South Merchant Corporation's turn!

With the number of votes is at 138 stones at this moment, the first 200 stones promised Chapter is going to be fulfilled soon . Ah, the life of a self-made busy author .

"He's going into the Vault? Then this is my chances to get inside and start robbing them!" Zhang Wu Ji sneaks along with the management member and follows him inside the Vault . Inside here, he stealthily smiled as he looks at the member busy handling the process to change the coding to enter the Vault .

As the process to engrave a new stack of keys to access the vault is ongoing, Zhang Wu Ji took his time to sweep their storage clean . He praised the people handling the tidiness of this Vault deep inside his heart, but at the same time, he thanked them for arranging the item in such a detail manner for him to loot them clean .

What else is better than having the naming tag in every stack of Spatial Stone, Boxes, and Medicinal Jar? Without having trouble to transfer them into his own Wooden Universal Plate, Zhang Wu Ji speed up his robbery process when he noticed that the new sets of keys are almost ready .

He steals about 90% of their precious treasures the moment the Management Member unlock the door once again to go outside . Worrying that he might lose the opportunity to escape, Zhang Wu Ji followed him out from the vault and quickly head straight towards the outer area of the Crystalline Pavilion .

When the Defensive Formation is finally deactivated, Zhang Wu Ji exits their vicinity with the treasures inside of his inventory . But he failed to notice that among the wealth inside his Wooden Universal Plates, one of them contains a hint of Remaining Qi inside .

When the treasure left the Crystalline Pavilion, the Vice Pavilion Master immediately noticed . Smiling in his heart, the Vice Pavilion Master randomly came out with an excuse and left the Crystalline Pavilion in a hurry . As he was a Vice Pavilion Master, nobody dares to question him for going out .

"I wonder how this thief steals the item from the Vault without alarming the others, but no matter how, I must thank you for helping me do most of the difficult work! With your action here, I can blame you as the scapegoat while I keep all the treasure you stolen!" the Vice Pavilion Master followed the remnant of his Soldier Qi and chased the thief .

Although Zhang Wu Ji is pleased with the result, it did not make him lowered his caution . Based on how good is their collection of treasures and the way they protect them, they might possess some underhand technique that allowed them to track the thief .

Which is why he purposely took a long way out from the city and waited there for a while . And the moment the Vice Pavilion Master appeared from the City Wall, Zhang Wu Ji immediately felt an achievement for being cautious on his situation .

"They do have some underhand technique that let them track me! In the future, I must be more careful whenever I tried to rob my victims!" what he worried about gives him an insight in his robbery operation . From how it looks, Zhang Wu Ji becomes more interested in robbing his enemies before killing them instead of eliminating his enemy immediately .

"I know you're around . Come out! I will give you an offer that makes you feel cooperating with me is better than stealing the treasure!" the Vice Pavilion Master speaks . But his manner as he speaks betrayed every single word he said .

"This guy . . . I wonder if all the people are senseless in this world . Even if you want to lure me out from hiding, at least try to act less aggressive?" Zhang Wu Ji observed his action as he sneaks below some dense foliage . Looking at how the Vice Pavilion Master behaves, Zhang Wu Ji continued to keep him in the watch .

"Are you not coming out? Don't make me take my offer and forced to kill you!" the Vice Pavilion Master warned . But after waiting for a period of time without an answer, he withdrew his weapon out from a Spatial Stone and attacked at the spot where the remaining of his Qi is the most concentrated .

"It moves again?" the moment he started to sense his Soldier Qi again, the Vice Pavilion Master immediately give him a chase once more . But the further he chases, the weaker is his sense on the escaping Soldier Qi . Thirty minutes later, the hint of Soldier Qi disappeared .

"How can the Soldier Qi I left inside there emptied so fast? That's ten Strands of Soldier Qi inside!" the Vice Pavilion Master is shocked by the amount of Inner Qi it cost for him to track the treasure . But what he did not know is the expenses of Inner Qi is multiplied by a hundredfold due to special circumstances .

First of all, the item is stored in a spatial stone before they're stored in his Wooden Universal Plate . This caused the expenses to allow tracking to be done increases by fiftyfold . And because of the activation of his stealth mode, this forced the multiplication to increase to a hundredfold for it to track .

Still, being able to track Zhang Wu Ji for about forty minutes with his ten Strands of Soldier Qi is counted as quite good . With the hint is gone from his sense, the Vice Pavilion Master is doomed to suffer from disappointment .

Not only he failed to chase the culprit behind this robbery, he even loses his touch with his ten strands of Soldier Qi hidden inside of the treasure . Worst of all, by leaving the premise without a solid reason, it is impossible for the others to feel suspicious of him when he went back .

"Eh? He stopped chasing?" Zhang Wu Ji stopped not too far from the Vice Pavilion Master and returned to see what is wrong with him . When he noticed the sorry expression from his face, Zhang Wu Ji felt like adding some additional salt into his wound .

As he followed the Vice Pavilion Master back to the Crystalline Pavillion, Zhang Wu Ji secretly releases the Night Poison Mist to let him suffer at night . Before they reach the entrance to the Crystalline Pavilion, Zhang Wu Ji separates himself and follow his own way back to the Inn .

"Eh? Why I can't get the Inn we stayed?" Zhang Wu Ji randomly walks around and look for the Inn that he did not try to remember the name . As he randomly walks, Meng Ran appeared from his back and twisted his ear as she pulled him back into the room .

"How can you get lost inside the city? There's name on the damn entrance of the Inn!" Meng Ran scolded him for being too ignorant when it comes to his sense of direction . Honestly, even herself felt that this man cannot be saved when it comes to this weakness .

At that night, the two left with the crippled peddler using the Iron Kong-Que . Using the path across the Seven Star Sect, Zhang Wu Ji went ahead to do it on purpose to see how did the Seven Star Sect do at this moment . Of course, he will purposely go through the entrance area and not near the Knowledge Pagoda .

"Still the same?" Zhang Wu Ji noticed that there aren't too much changed in their building sense . Including his old courtyard, everything is repaired and assigned to those significant figures in Yang Chen Kun's Faction . After he considered demolishing the whole sect and rebuild them in a new manner .

"The previous design of the Seven Star Sect is a complete failure when it comes to my own impression . If my master allows it, we will demolish the whole sect including the foundation . I guess to fit my demand for our expansion, we will have to expand until we control the core location in the middle of this Seven Star County . "

"This is an enormous expansion project . To get that done, We will need to start storing at least enough supply to build ten Second Branch . " In his opinion, the city like Wen Qing City that holds around 3,500 acres of land is too small to be called as a proper city .

When it was to be compared with the place he came from, the capital in the country itself cover at least four million acres . With his rough estimated guess, the current Seven Star Sect are about 10,000 acres wide, about the size of the Wen Wu, Wen Qing, and Wen Yang City put together .

But when it comes to the total land of the Seven Star County that holds 1 million acres in size, they only utilized less than 3% of their available land . This is why Zhang Wu Ji felt that they're underutilizing the land they own in their county .

"Unless my master stopped me from proposing the changes, we will expand the Seven Star Sect to ten times bigger than now to fit the future disciples, and also develop the four cities to cover over 100,000 Acres like their Seven Star Sect . " Zhang Wu Ji calculates the possibility they can expand in the future .

When he reaches the vicinity of the Apprentice Hall Main Headquarter, Zhang Wu Ji left the Iron Kong-Que to Meng Ran's control as he returned to the Herbalist Department and requested for a private room for him to treat the peddler .

The final three day's period is here, and this was his final supplement of Fighter Qi! At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji's total Fighter Qi is 1,000 Strands of Fighter Qi! The explosion strength that hides inside his body is all exposed into the open, where 1,000 strands of Fighter Qi is waiting for his next move .

"Oh shit! I'm at the breaking attempt without myself knowing about what to do!" Zhang Wu Ji started to hate himself . Without sufficient knowledge to attempt the breakthrough, how can he succeed?

Randomly trying, he started his attempt to sew a thousand strands of Fighter Qi into a strand of Warrior Qi . It was like trying to knit all the strand in one try to create a strand of Qi that was a thousand time stronger and durable .

Unfortunately, without sufficient experience and knowledge on what to do, Zhang Wu Ji's first attempt failed . His trial to weave a thousand strands together into one suspended, where the backlash immediately took him out of consciousness .

"Plop . . . " a loud sound of somebody falling down to the ground shook the heart of all physicist inside of their consultation room . In haste, they quickly requested Li Jing to come over and check their master teacher's situation .

"This is the remnants of shattered Fighter Qi! Master Senior is suffering a backlash from failure to advance!" when the curtain is pulled open, Li Jing is shocked by his collapsed master and also the shattered Fighter Qi remaining in the air .

"Physicist! Quickly order the Pill Masters to concoct some Mind Easing Pill! Put aside all their current works if they're too busy . Tell them at this Mind Easing Pill matter comes first!" Li Jing quickly orders the others to move Zhang Wu Ji and the crippled peddler into Zhang Wu Ji's private courtyard .

By leaving Zhang Wu Ji under the care of Zhao Xiao Hua and Liu Yanni, Li Jing and the others took over their master's responsibility while allowing their master to rest . But while they're busy with all these matters, Zhang Wu Ji is inside an unknown space .

Inside this space, he's standing right before a dried tree with on hundred branches . Looking at the hundred limbs of the tree, Zhang Wu Ji noticed ten of them is started to have leaves growing on it, with the remaining ninety is still dried like they're going to break from a little pressure .

"Ten strands of True Qi is lingering in this ten growing branches to promotes the branch's growth!" Looking at the whole tree, Zhang Wu Ji immediately caught the hint that only himself qualified to know about it!

"If the path from a non-cultivator into a cultivator required 100 Stands of Inner Qi, does this means to enter a tier Higher than Qi Branching Tier will need a cultivator to possess 100 strands of True Qi?" Zhang Wu Ji received the enlightenment .

"Master!" the eight of them called him the moment Zhang Wu Ji wakes up from his slumber . But instead of asking for a reason they gathered beside him, Zhang Wu Ji places more importance at the condition of the peddler .

But at the same time, the peddler made his way to the side of Zhang Wu Ji's bed using two crutches . Looking at how he moves, Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of sorry to this merchant . Did his ability to save a person from this tragic life is not enough for him to support this man to walk again?

"Master Senior, please do not put everything deep inside your heart . My misfortune did not happen because of you . It was my own greediness that produced the disaster that ruins my life . " while Zhang Wu Ji is blaming on himself, the peddler came forward to soothe his heart .

"Mister, no matter what, mister is somebody that treated Wu Ji with respect . It was an honor for me to do so much for you . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to his words . In his mind, this merchant has brought him many wondrous treasures .

Although he stills pays for the merchandise, Zhang Wu Ji treated this man as a benefactor that provides him with the resources vital for him to stands at this position today . Furthermore, the merchant did not fail to surprise him with his merchandise each time .

"Master Senior, with this words, this peddler can die without regrets . But may I be daring to ask Master Senior to consider something that might be interesting for you?" the peddler was made to smile from hearing his words . And before he forgets about it, he requested Zhang Wu Ji to hear him out .

"Mister, please go ahead and let this junior know about it . " Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand at Tang Yuan . As the most understanding one in the bunch, Tang Yuan immediately understand his master's order .

"Get mister a chair . " that's what Tang Yuan received from the way he looks and how he moved his hand . Immediately, Tang Yuan returned to a taller chair that allows the mister to sits at the same height like Zhang Wu Ji . In a way, this allowed the mister to retain some pride as an elder to the Master Senior .

"This peddler knows a location that might be a tomb belonged to a deceased Inner Qi King . Because the existence of an Inner Qi King is rare in this Upper Southern State, I am betting that except myself, nobody found this tomb yet . " he shared . But as soon as he finishes the opening, his expression turned sour .

"I'm fine . The reason I am a little disappointed is that the map and a treasure similar to a key is snatched by the people from the Crystalline Pavilion! This is also why I am fallen to such a state . " the peddler shared the reason for his misfortune to everyone here .

"Map? Key . . . Don't tell me . . . " Zhang Wu Ji eyeball almost pop out from his eye socket when he heard about the treasure that might be hidden inside of his Wooden Universal Plates . Without further ado, he took the plates out and emptied them before everybody present .

"Wow! Master, where did the treasure comes from? If I guessed correctly, they worth at least 500 to 600 Million Gold Coins!" Li Jing is the most experience inside of this room after the peddler, where he immediately made a rough guess the moment he the stack of treasures that took out a quarter of the space inside the room .

"This elder, the worth 835 Million Gold Coins . If Master Senior willing to process some of the metal, they might reach the value of 850 Million Gold Coins . " the peddler immediately gives out the exact value of the treasures before them .

"Hahaha, Master Peddler estimation is more accurate than this elder . Only with this fact alone, it worth my utmost respect . " Li Jing cupped his hands together and bowed at the peddler . But after that, all their attention is paid on the two treasure in the Senior Master's hand .

"Aren't that the key and the map! Master Senior, tell this peddler . . . Did you clean the Vault belonged to the Crystalline Pavilion?" the peddler gives out his rough guess . With his word came out, the view of everyone present in the room is focused on Zhang Wu Ji .

"You can take that as a yes . " Zhang Wu Ji replied with a smile on his face . After that, it was replaced with a facial expression full of satisfaction .

"Ah, no wonder . This made our work easier now . But we will need to went through another obstacle next . " the peddler smiled in satisfaction . With a yes as the answer, how happy is him to hear about the news Crystalline Pavilion's Vault is emptied by the culprit sitting in front of him .

In fact, the treasure that carries the ten strands of Soldier Qi inside is the key in his hand . This treasure is the reason why the Vice Pavilion Master able to catch up with where he escaped . While the two treasures in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji took the liberty to read their description .

-Special: This map is personally drawn by Merchant Feng Ming . Unless it was deciphered by the UPGRADE System, only Merchant Feng Ming understands the content .

-Usage: Acting as the authentication of an entrance ticket into the tomb . The key can be only used once a year, and there is only twenty keys is made throughout the time King Jiang Nan He waits for his death .

"King Jiang Nan He . His name is a little too meaningful, don't you think?" Zhang Wu Ji speaks in his mind as if he was conversing with the UPGRADE System .

"Master Senior, if you wish, this peddler can decipher my map for you . All I hope if the exploration is a success then can Master Senior allow this peddler to feast his eyes with the treasures you took from the tomb?" the peddler only hopes he can see what is inside the tomb .

"I can decipher it myself, mister . No worries . Based on how it was drawn, I guess the location is most likely somewhere between the Seven Star County and Crystalline River County . " Zhang Wu Ji simply replied to the peddler with the answer given by his UPGRADE System .

"Master Senior, how amazing is your talent to deciphered my map in one look . Even the Crystalline Pavilion Master keep bothering me because they failed to decipher this map . " the peddler praised Zhang Wu Ji for his talent . But except Lady Meng Ran and Liang Tian, who knows that this talented youth is actually a direction blind!

"Is there anything can this peddler do? I can try to work as a cashier if its fine with you . " the peddler wishes that he wasn't treated like a cripple and stated his intention in becoming a part of the Apprentice Hall's member .

"Of course, mister . Li Jing! Is there a good position that our mister can do here? Pick him a good one that comes with some people capable of helping him in those menial tasks!" Zhang Wu Ji answered the peddler before turning to Li Jing for his suggestion .

"Dear master . Based on Mister's skill in accurately calculating the worth of treasures you brought back from the Crystalline Pavilion, Li Jing suggest that we appoint him as our Vault Elder!" Li Jing immediately found a suitable position that most likely fancied by the peddler .

And at the same time, won't the existence of a Vault Elder like him can control the majority of the income and expenses, bookkeeping and allocation, and most importantly, the number of profit they can expect from a proper master merchant .

"Ah? Vault Elder? This position is a little too sensitive for somebody new like me, how about . . . " the peddler immediately rejected such an important position as he was unconfident with himself . It was due to his status as a cripple and also because he's yet to be an influential member that received the respect from others .

"Mister, that position is yours . Although trust and support from others may seem necessary for that position, I'm confident that you will overcome all these insignificant thoughts from the others . Please accept the post as our Apprentice Hall's Vault Elder . " Zhang Wu Ji said with his look filled with confidence in his every word .

"Hah . . . This Vault Elder Feng Ming greets Master Senior and fellow attendants here . " he reluctantly accepted the position Zhang Wu Ji throws at him . After some arrangement, the new Vault Elder Feng Ming is taken to his new quarter with a male and female servant to attend to his daily needs and mobility .

"Master, do you have any instruction to each of us?" Tang Yuan asked as he was the eldest brother among the eight of them, but Zhang Wu Ji went straight to a different topic instead .

"How can you still caught me with this Willow Impression Plate is activated?" Meng Ran appeared right at the entrance of his door, intending to try and see how sensitive is the Master Senior against his surrounding and the changes .

Actually, Zhang Wu Ji did not notice that, but with the Natural Energy evading where she stands, it naturally formed a human figure space as they ignore that spot . And with her keep moving around, the body figure revealed into a female about her size, which made him guessed it's her .

"Let us return to the relevant discussion . Li Jing, Li Yin, Li Tong . Come Forth to my side . " Zhang Wu Ji gets everyone to pay attention to every word with the three elder standing right in front of him .

"This is my new edition of Blacksmithing Technique, the [1st-Tier Blacksmithing Compendium] that record most of the Smelting and Forging technique for the whole 1st-Tier Ironwork Knowledge . As my three disciples, this is what the three of you entitled to get . " he handed each of them with a book between 500 pages thick . Inside each of the books is numerous way of Blacksmithing and Smelting Technique .

But the most valuable part is the three Compendium Art that was included inside, which increase their ability in Smelting, Firing, and Forging . With the existence of the three techniques in this compendium, the possibility for them to easily obtain the qualification of a 1st-Tier Peak Spirit Blacksmith is higher than others .

"Tang Yuan, Zhao Xiao Hua, Bai Hei Tie, Zhang Ya Pin, Liu Yanni, come forward . " after the three of them retreated, Zhang Wu Ji called for the others next to come forth for their rewards . In this period of time, most of his responsibility is taken cared by the five of them, where it earned all of them some compensation from their master .

When Zhang Wu Ji looks at the five of them, their cultivation is expectedly faster than most of the other people in their Inner Qi Fighter Tier . As the strongest again between the five of them, Tang Yuan is now at 8th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter, with Zhao Xiao Hua, Bai Hei Tie, Zhang Ya Pin at their 6th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter . As for Liu Yanni, her cultivation remained at 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter after such a long period of refinement .

"Aren't you coming along for your part of Cultivation Technique?" Zhang Wu Ji stares at Meng Ran that stands not too far from him . When she heard his remark, something came into her mind .

"What? Even I got a part of this? What could he give me for me to push my 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter cultivation forward?" she narrowed her eyes but still stepping forward to the group of five .

Alright! My dear readers, please forgive me to plot against all of you . It seems like his advancement is going to be delayed until he rummages the tomb . What do you think he will get there?

And as a fulfillment to a few of my dear readers, here comes your expectation for Tomb Exploration! But what will happen as the key in his hand is the nineteenth key? Look forward to your next chapter, where ZWJ is going to do what he's best!

"Each of you, remember that this Cultivation Art is something I refined for everyone to overcome the obstacle at the peak of Inner Qi Fighter Tier . With this Cultivation Art, you no longer required to search for other Cultivation Art because they will compliment everything you learned so far . "

"As this Cultivation Art will carry you from the beginning of Inner Qi Fighter until the path of Half-Step Inner Qi Soldier, you must keep this a secret from everyone . By the time you reached 20th Stage of Inner Qi Soldier, I will provide a new Cultivation Art at that time," Zhang Wu Ji completes his words and take a deep breath .

"Master, what is this Cultivation Art called?" Tang Yuan asked Zhang Wu Ji . As the eldest brother of the eight of them, he's the only one that qualified to ask Zhang Wu Ji .

"Hu-Jia Inner Art, I refined this Cultivation Art according to a few aspects and concern related to the [Loyalty to Parents] inside . This is the reason it was named as Family Protection Art!" Zhang Wu Ji explained the name of this Cultivation Art to the six of them .

"Hu-Jia Art . . . Family Protection Art . . . No wonder master say it was a Cultivation Art he refined to compliment us . . . " Zhao Xiao Hua and Liu Yanni immediately caught the reason for its existence . It was for the sake of the family! This is why it exists!

"What's wrong with the manual? Take it . It belongs to you . " looking at them trembling while holding the Cultivation Art Manuals, Zhang Wu Ji smiled . But there's one more person yet to reach her hand for the book . She's Meng Ran .

"Are you sure I'm qualified to possess a copy of this Cultivation Art Manual?" Meng Ran questioned him once more to make sure he will not regret in future for providing her the Manual .

"If it's not for you, why would I make six copies? Do you think I need one?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he answers . Actually, none of them know that inside his Spatial Ring, there's an even better version of Hu-Jia Inner Art . With the blessing from the System, what can't he creates if he has enough time, material, and experience?

-Ability Acquired (1): When Cultivating according to the content, this Hu-Jia Inner Art allows a cultivator to weave his Inner Qi 75% faster . The speed of absorption and assimilation of Natural Energy also increased by 50% .

-Ability Acquired (2): Cultivator that uses this Cultivation Art is more likely to obtain the Heaven's Enlightenment each step in his cultivation advancement . Natural Energy is more likely to evolve when accompanying the cultivator in his meditation .

-Ability Acquired (4): When Hu-Jie Inner Art is used in a group fight, compliment the user with an increase of 1% Overall Performance (Multiplies) with the number of total users . (Limit to 100% Increment)

-Special (+0): The Manual increases the quality of Natural Energy by 50% when absorbed . When Meditation, the Natural Energy is more likely to swarm nearby the user .

-Special (+10): Allows the user to have better trust and relationship with people cultivating with this Hu-Jia Inner Art . The increment of Overall Performance is 2% and limit to 200% .

-Special (Permanent): The longer the First Copy of Manual exist in this realm, the better the Hu-Jia Inner Art will become . (Increase by 5% Every Ping An New Year)

"Fine, I'll take it . But I will return this favor by making up for you . " Meng Ran took the Manual and embarrassedly left the room in a hurry . With only nine of them remained, Zhang Wu Ji thinks it should be the time for him to tell them something .

"Except Li Yin and Li Tong, the six of you will make a trip to the Wen Yang City . I want you to collect information and persuade the City Lord to give up a part of the land for our Apprentice Hall . I will not question how you guys fulfill this task, but I have a few targets that the six of you must achieve before I went there . "

"The first is weaken the influences of the Crystalline Pavilion within the Wen Yang City . I want them to close the business before my arrival . " Zhang Wu Ji decisively stated what he's expecting to happen on the Crystalline Pavilion before he made his way there .

"Next, check the City Lord and the way he acts as a City Lord . Chop off this person's head if you found out any proof that he's selling the County to another faction . " Zhang Wu Ji moved his hand and drew a line across his neck when he speaks .

"Lastly, I don't mind about the money at all . Bring all the excess funding available from the Wen Wu City and Wen Qing City and go purchase everything you could from the Corporation scattered outside of the Golden Carapace City . "

"What you need to get is how big is their corporation, the differences of their merchandise, and where did the source is found . " Zhang Wu Ji completed his sentence, but that sentence caused an uproar amongst his eight attendants .

"Master, are you planning to do something I guess you're going to do?" Tang Yuan asked . In his mind, the scene Zhang Wu Ji took out everything in the stack of Wooden Universal Plates came out once again .

"Yes . Does that means you know what I want to achieve by sending the six of you there?" Zhang Wu Ji answered before he asks the next question .

"Great, depart now and make sure you collected the excess fund from the two cities before you go there . And Li Tong, take this few Wooden Universal Plates and keep the treasure in front of us . Tell Vault Elder Feng Ming to sell everything with the highest profit but make sure we did not overcharge our own Hall members . "

"Li Yin, you remain here . " Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand and ordered the seven to leave . With only the two of them inside his room, Zhang Wu Ji started talking once more .

"I have one mission, and I want you to use your smartness in getting this mission done . But in return, you will be cut off from all your brother and sisters until this mission is over . If this mission is a success, our plan to subdue the whole Seven Star County will be completed before the end of the year . " Zhang Wu Ji started to explain the danger of this mission .

"Master . Please go ahead . " Li Yin steeled his mind and heart to accept this mission . Soon, the master and disciple started to talk until the time past midnight .

At the next morning, there's no longer a person name Li Yin inside the Apprentice Hall . All his task were taken by Li Tong without any explanation . The members of the Apprentice Hall questioned his disappearance, but nothing was discussed .

While at the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji went to Meng Ran's room and knocked on her door . From the amount of Natural Energy that flying through the door into her room, she must be meditating using the Hu-Jia Inner Art .

"What happened?" she came out after she put on some proper clothing . But because it was knotted clumsily, it revealed a small part of her inner garment as she opened the door . When Zhang Wu Ji looks at a small patch of her unprotected cleavages, Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of urge!

"Shhruppss . " he almost drooled from that little surprises, but it looks like Meng Ran did not catch him and his perverted behavior . The latter continued to loosen her hair slightly while waiting for Zhang Wu Ji to start talking .

"Miss Meng Ran, can Wu Ji requested for your time to accompany me into the Inner Qi King's Tomb?" Zhang Wu Ji brought the question up, where it shocked her for a moment .

The inheritance that he might gain is expected to be bountiful, but what she couldn't understand that why Zhang Wu Ji did not ask for Tang Yuan or his Seventh and Eighth Senior Brother to accompany him? She was an outsider, to begin with!

"Wh . . . Why . . . Why me? Don't you have other choices to choose from?" she replied . But when Zhang Wu Ji heard her, he clicked his tongue and shook his head left and right .

"Miss Meng Ran, the reason I choose you is that I believe your skills in handling formation is the best in the whole Apprentice Hall . In the term of fighting and handling problem, I'm the best, but when it comes to . . . You know?" Zhang Wu Ji embarrassedly scratch his head to let her know his meaning .

"Ah . . . Direction Blind . . . Pff!" she laughed the moment she caught the reason why Zhang Wu Ji selected her to accompany him . As a person with Direction Disorder, how can he get to the correct way if he got no guide at all!

"Hmm . . . I'll accompany you then . But I won't get myself busy, deal?" she folds her hand just between her chest as she talks . Unconsciously pushing up he perky body a little .

"Sure! Sure! Shall we make our way two days later?" Zhang Wu Ji blushed and turned his head around and agree to her request . Next, he quickly runs back to his room and relaxes and prepares for the next two days .

In between of this two days, Zhang Wu Ji tried to engrave more Wooden Universal Plates and also practicing his Tyrant Martial Body that he has forgotten for so long due to his busy schedule .

Zhang Wu Ji went to the square to meet with Meng Ran who holds the Iron Kong-Que in her hand . His appearance is like he falls into a heap of trash, with a dark circle on his lower eyes . What nobody knows is because Zhang Wu Ji's concentration is disturbed by what he sees earlier, making him unable to rest, work, engrave, and cultivates!

Luckily, Meng Ran is the person in charge of controlling the Iron Kong-Que, which allows her to drive their way until they fly past Wen Yang City and heading to the Inner Qi King's Tomb . As for Zhang Wu Ji, the existence of Meng Ran by his side calm his mind a little before he continued with his training with his Tyrant Martial Body .

About four more days later, they fly past the Wen Yang City and reaches a location which was quite isolated from the public eyes . But the building that carries the impression of a Human Swordsman when one looking on the top betrayed its secret .

"This is the tomb!" Meng Ran said with one of her hand holding the map . But when she looked at Zhang Wu Ji whos seated on the back, she was caught with surprise as she stares at Zhang Wu Ji's Fighter Qi!

"What is wrong with this threatening strands of Fighter Qi? The usual strands of Fighter Qi are strong, but they weren't as intimidating as his Fighter Qi . Plus, even if you can control the way your Fighter Qi move outside of your body, how can you form a word with it?"

And at this moment, every influential figure that lived in this Ping An Continent received a shock in their mind, with the Eastern Imperial Kingdom's Retired Emperor, responding with a smile on his face .

"Finally, one of our Zhang Imperial Clan members activated his Royal Bloodline! Men! Inspect and report to me the current situation of all Zhang Clan in this continent! Find me the one that activated his Royal Bloodline!"

The moment they hover past the Tomb of Inner Qi King, a flash of light blinded their sight . When they managed to open their eyes again, the two of them and their Iron Kong-Que is already captured into an underground chamber .

For them, it was not a weird thing to happen considering the strength of the owner of this tomb . But when Zhang Wu Ji took the key out from his Spatial Ring, their description changed .

-Usage: The Key has activated the moment user enter the tomb . The user can insert 100 strands of Fighter Qi to activate the unlock function on all access doors . To leave the Tomb, the User must destroy the key by paying 1,000 Strands of Fighter Qi .

Up to his suspicion, his quick inspection allowed him to discover a total of fourteen footsteps belonged to different people walking around here . The number fourteen tells him that including himself, eight keyholders appeared here before them, and everyone most probably come in a different time .

His reason for such impression is because the Natural Energy gathered around them is quite dense . It indicates that no fight happened here at least for the last 24 hours . Furthermore, the ground is void of any trash that came from food, relief, and even pills or dust that appeared from sharpening their weapon .

But the Master Senior is too absorbed in his own inspection and did not notice the hint of Meng Ran trying to question him about something . The two gently take their steps to the walking passage to get rid of their footsteps .

But before they entered Walking Passage, Zhang Wu Ji heard a sound of pebbles hitting the wall . At this instant, his hand pushes Meng Ran to stay closer to the wall, unaware that his palm is touching at somewhere else! The action caused Meng Ran to become speechless at that moment .

To make thing worst, Zhang Wu Ji continues to grab her chest as he peeked into the Walking Passage . After a while, Zhang Wu Ji presumes it was safe and turned his attention to Meng Ran standing close behind him . As he gets ready to speak, Zhang Wu Ji noticed his hand is grabbing something else .

"Breast?" he was speechless with his perverted hand that attacked his respected companion . Looking at how Meng Ran's face blushed, he knows that he caused a grave mistake! Based on his experience in handling a woman, his next expectation is going to get slapped!

"Pok . " Instead of slapping Zhang Wu Ji with her 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter Strength, Meng Ran knocked his head once and pointed at the entrance . From this attitude alone, Zhang Wu Ji knows that Meng Ran is not as aggressive as the previous Guan Qing Han .

Who knows how many slaps will Guan Qing Han sent to his face for such a small mistake . But she was gone . Still, thinking about how lucky is the previous brat to eat her first time, he got jealous of his former's heaven-defying luck .

The two of them entered the Walking Passage, and by utilizing his stealth technique, Zhang Wu Ji went forward to check on the trap and safety, but not without a string on his leg . This is prepared for the sake of pulling the Master Senior back if he went somewhere and failed to come back .

This decision is made according to her understanding of Zhang Wu Ji's Direction Blind Symptom . Even by following the breadcrumbs he can still get the wrong way, tying a part of him with a string is the best idea she can think of for now .

Suddenly, a pull came from where Zhang Wu Ji is located . Noticing that his pull is consistent, it means that he found something, and it was safe to come over immediately . When she reaches where Zhang Wu Ji stands, she looked at him injecting some Fighter Qi into the key and turned the key inside the keyhole .

"Krak . . . " the door is unlocked . This sight shocked Meng Ran because the previous people might come across this door too, why did they not open the door? Meng Ran questioned herself . But before she can start, Zhang Wu Ji pulled her hand as they went inside the room .

But under the illumination like the Walking Passage, this room is filled with some high-quality Night-Glowing Pearl attached on every corner of the ceiling . The room looked like a storeroom for plenty of undegradable material due to the room's design and how the shelves are constructed .

This tomb belonged to an Inner Qi King! Will treasures stored inside here worth lesser than a piece of Advance-Grade Pure Iron? Without further ado, the duo quickly split their works and begin collecting the treasures that were covered with an inch thick of dust .

At first, Zhang Wu Ji collection speed is almost two times faster than Meng Ran . It was due to his experience as a thief cleaning the treasure vaults of his enemy, but the moment he caught the quality of the treasure, he quickly wore out of interest .

As Meng Ran is not an experienced merchant, she got no insight against the treasure she's so excited to collect . But for Zhang Wu Ji, it was a disappointment when his UPGRADE System description pop up .

Most of them are treasures in their 2nd-Tier Quality, which wasn't extremely helpful for him at all because based on his Apprentice Hall's ability, they can collect what he got here in a single day of shopping .

Still, a toad's leg is still meat . With a few attempts of refining, this stack of trash will worth some good price once again . But as they cleared the room from treasures, the voice from two different people flowed inside the room . Looking at Meng Ran, Zhang Wu Ji shows her a quiet hand sign .

The two slotted their set of the key into the keyhole but failed to unlock the door . After struggling for a minute or two, the two started to speaks again loudly . From how they speak, this two are completely idiot in the term of Tomb Exploration .

Only after they left Zhang Wu Ji tried to unlock the door again . But like how he opened it earlier, he will have to pay a hundred strands of Fighter Qi to activate the key . Believing that none of them will be that generous to spend so many Fighter Qi to open a door, Zhang Wu Ji is confident with his gain in this tomb .

After he opened the door, Zhang Wu Ji went out with his leg with a string like usual . As soon as he confirmed that the Walking Passage is clear, Zhang Wu Ji pulled gently to get Meng Ran out from the room . To make thing clear to them but not others, Meng Ran purposely scribble some engravings on the door .

Sneakily, the two cleared five rooms under their quiet and careful headings . And in between of this five rooms, the caught a total of four different teams trying to open the doors randomly . But from the way they speak, none of them succeed in getting the door open .

At their sixth room, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that this room has been looted! Except for some low-quality pills and those out of medicinal value pills, nothing usable is left inside this room . At this instant, Zhang Wu Ji can assume that at least one team possess the knowledge on how to open the door .

On his seventh and eighth door, it was untouched again . But things changed on the ninth door . Zhang Wu Ji caught the team that learned the way to use the key . Looking at how they entered the room and started to rummage the item in a very professional way, Zhang Wu Ji knows what they are .

"Mountain Bandits!" after having Meng Ran followed into the room slowly, Zhang Wu Ji stealthily sneaks into the room and waited for Meng Ran to shut the door . At the same time, he checked their attitude to decide whether to kill them or spare them .

"I think the door is locked now . Look at that body . . . I think the size of her breast is bigger than the one you **** before we came in here . " the other guy immediately destroyed the forgiveness Zhang Wu Ji considered to give them .

"Girl, how about you undress and walk to this brother . . . Aargh!" the first guy tried to finish his sentence, but a smack from a piece of extremely hard Pure Iron Ingot smashed his two peaches dangling on his crotch . At that moment, his cry alarmed everyone exploring the outer tomb!

"My eggs! My eggs are smashed . " the guy keeps crying, while the second guy swung his sword around him to expect some sneak attack . But when Meng Ran simple undoes one of the buttons on her robe, the second guy pointed his sword on Meng Ran .

"Bitch! You better not trying to come out with some tricks!" he warned Meng Ran, but at the same time, carrying the expectation to see more button is undone . But that short window of opportunity gave Zhang Wu Ji the chances to land a killing strike .

The Collapsing Fist came from his blind spot and sent him down on the ground . But what was more shocking is the fact Zhang Wu Ji's Collapsing Fist sent his opponent's head to explode . The scene shocked the first guy until he cried, but with a simple palm strike, Zhang Wu Ji sent him to see his maker too .

But inside the room, their situation is different . While Zhang Wu Ji is inspecting the bag from this two Mountain Bandits, Meng Ran continued to pack the item into the Wooden Universal Plate in her hand . Their cooperation is very smooth, and in an instant, the room is cleared from any treasure .

"The door is opened!" the four fought for their opportunity to enter the room, unknown of the danger coming from behind them . Using her top speed after the four fighters charged inside the room, Meng Ran successfully exit the room under their watchful eyes .

Two of them is the fastest among the four and tried to capture the female hiding inside this room, but what they did not expect is the door is closing without anyone controlling it!

"Pang!" their claw and palm hit the door the moment it was shut tightly . It seems that among the twenty keyholders, Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran just handled the threat from four of them . With only thirty more opponents to go, they walked past the Outer Tomb and entered the Walking Passage to the Inner Tomb .

And not even ten minutes after they entered the Inner Tomb, the fight between four cultivators in the open area of this Inner Tomb already begin . Two of them wearing clothing with the character of [Xue/Blood], and the remaining two are dressed like a businessman .

Without bothering to guess, they're the people from Blood Art Sect and Upper South Merchant Corporation! Looking at the fight between the four, Zhang Wu Ji felt that it's the opportunity for him to collect the treasure first, but when he took a step forward, the Wooden Universal Plate on Meng Ran's hand falls on the ground by accident!

"Come out! Don't blame this young master if I end up killing you!" the four of them stopped fighting and approached them cautiously . Threatened by four of them, Meng Ran shivered because her fighting strength can be said to be the lowest when compared with everyone .

But then, Zhang Wu Ji grabbed her hand to calm her down before pointing at another direction . With his finger counting from three until one, Meng Ran escaped to a different direction when Zhang Wu Ji releases his grip . And at the same time, he came forward to his four opponent's sight .

"Disciples from Seven Star Sect? Hahaha! The heaven is standing by my side as well!" one of the cultivators from the Blood Art Sect laughed as he speaks his mind . With a finger pointed at Zhang Wu Ji, he added another sentence .

"I promised to my elder brother before, that if I see any Seven Star Sect disciples in my sight, I will kill them to avenge for his shame!" the cultivator from Blood Art Sect become aggressive and steps closer to Zhang Wu Ji . But before he continues, he turned his attention to the two people from Upper South Merchant Corporation .

"F*ck off!" the Blood Art Sect disciple shouts at the two members of Upper South Merchant Corporation . Without any objection, the two of them left the confusing situation to the three of them to settle, but at the same time, nobody noticed Meng Ran silently sneaks away while they're fighting with glares .

"Brat, you should feel lucky to be killed by my hand! Remember my name, Xu Lang!" the moment he completed his sentences, Xu Lang charged with his claw covered in a red mist . Standing behind Xu Lang is his companion, also a male in his sixteenth years of age .

"Xu Lang? Never heard your name before . " Zhang Wu Ji took an Iron staff out from his Spatial Ring and clashed with Xu Lang . The rebound of their attack separates them from each another . But the moment Xu Lang rubbed his fingers before returning to his claw form, Zhang Wu Ji knows that his staff is enough to hurt his opponent .

"What should I be afraid of . . . At most, his strength is the same as me, 10th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior . As a Half-Step Inner Qi Warrior, how can he fight against me?" Zhang Wu Ji smirks and randomly swung his weapon to bring them some surprises .

"Armament Wolf! Rise!" Zhang Wu Ji is anxious to see what the two of them possess . As the second strongest sect and county inside Upper Southern State, he expects them to carry a pocket full of treasures! Without further ado, he sent the first six Armament Wolves to attack Xu Lang .

"Do you think I will be afraid of these small tricks? Bloodbath Claws!" Xu Lang strikes on the Armament Wolves one by one as they approach, but Zhang Wu Ji did not stop himself from keep summoning more Armament Wolves . After Xu Lang is done with the six wolves, there was another pack of twenty-four Armament Wolves waiting to strike .

"Damn, I need to make one or two more manual to support my creation of Air Blades . " Zhang Wu Ji complained about the cost for him to summon each Armament Wolf . According to the manual's description, each strand of Fighter Qi he spent creates 300 Air Blades . And for every 900 Air blades or 3 strands of Fighter Qi, he summoned one Armament Wolf .

But to summon the thirty wolves inside the battlefield now, Zhang Wu Ji spent 90 strands of his Fighter Qi for this simple moves . Luckily, in return of this expenses, he's able to weaken his opponent strength by 30% in total .

"It was a good exchange . I should complain less because when I entered the 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, I will have to start collecting 2nd-tier Martial and Cultivation Arts . " Zhang Wu Ji stopped himself from keep complaining . And with a point of his finger, the remaining 24 wolves strike at his two opponents to try deal as much damage as they could .

Although they're summoned with his Air Blades, they're capable of delivering fear and pain to his opponents . Still, it was worth using this move . As their strength is not comparable to Bald Eagle that fought with Zhang Wu Ji before, the Armament Wolves is doing much better than he expected .

"Slaughtering Slash!" Xu Lang shaped his palm like a sword and cut the last Armament Wolf into two before it vanished . But this move alone weakened his two opponents for about 20% of their overall strength . WIthout wasting more if his time, Zhang Wu Ji charged at his opponent in stealth mode .

"He vanished! Quickly search! Aargh!" the two quickly went into defensive mode . Although their fighting experience is incomparable to Bald Eagle, the quick decision-making ability covers their weaknesses perfectly . . . Until one end of the staff landed on Xu Lang's upper skull .

"Pang!" the vibration from that hit still heard after a few seconds . And as Zhang Wu Ji moved to his next opponent, Xu Lang already has fallen unconscious from one strike . Now, only the sixteenth years old guy is his opponent .

"Aargh! Blood . . . Aargh!" he wished Xu Lang did not cause all of this earlier . But there was no medicine for regrets . With a Collapsing Fist came to his face, Zhang Wu Ji easily took his life and cleaned everything worth a coin on his body .

Then, he stepped forward to Xu Lang and pulled the former up from the ground . Looking at the unconscious opponent, Zhang Wu Ji delivered a few slaps on his face to wake him up . The moment Xu Lang returned to his consciousness, he sent a punch on Zhang Wu Ji, but end up having his arm dislocated in a flash .

Next, he tried on another arm and both legs . In the end, all his limbs are dislocated from the sockets . Zhang Wu Ji then throws him on the ground and cleaned all his belonging as well . After considering for a while, he sent a palm strike on his temple to end his life straight away .

"I wonder how strong I am in this world now . . . " Zhang Wu Ji put his attention on his right fist that crushed the lives out of his opponent effortlessly . While he pondered at his current strength, Meng Ran appeared from behind and looked at the two naked corpses .

"Let's go . I noticed two different teams is coming over here . " Meng Ran grabbed his hand and pulled him away from the open area . Inside this Inner Tomb Area, it was divided into nine Walking Passage that connected to nine different Hall of treasures .

Similar to the outer tomb, the Inner Tomb's door can be opened using the key, but each room inside the Inner Tomb is armed with multiple traps and sometimes one or two diversions before they reach the treasure room .

Luckily, as a Formation Master, the traps are similar to a child's game . By deactivating the trap before they entered the room, the duo explored two different room before heading to the third one . It was a waste of time because the two previous room has been emptied .

When they reach the third room, the two of them once again met with the two disciples from Upper South Merchant Corporation . Without the need to announce each other's arrival, the two sides know that their fight is inevitable because of the relationship between the two counties .

"What are the two of you waiting for? Either fight or surrender, that's all you need to think about . " Zhang Wu Ji warned them straightaway when he sees their look filled with confusion . Since the two of them failed to get the best way to handle this matter, Zhang Wu Ji might as well let them choose .

"Even if our two counties are at an unfriendly relationship, it doesn't mean you can kill the two of us and take it as nothing happened . " one of the two started to reason with Zhang Wu Ji in his overbearing attitude . Worst of all, he was unaware of the identity of this Master Senior standing before him!

If it was somebody else amongst the nine Master Seniors of the sect, they might choose to put the matter aside as their action may worsen the situation between their two counties and putting the organizations behind them into a challenging circumstance .

But, the Master Senior before them is the highest figure with almost complete authority in two of the three cities within Seven Star County! Based on his background alone, what consideration he has to give to the two members from the Upper South Merchant Corporation?

Even if he slaughters them and parade them in three different cities, the Upper South Merchant Corporation will have no comment against their death! And the reason is too easy to guess .

Unless they're top-ranked Master Seniors, why would the Upper South Merchant Corporation come forth to claim for the compensation? Their life worth not even a single coin at this moment!

"Can we know your name before we made the wrong decision that may cost our lives?" another person was smarter and has plenty of experience in dealing with this matter . By asking for their opponent's identity in exchange for their decision, this may look like asking for a fight, but in fact, they're the only correct answer in this situation!

And by looking at the nameplate, the first member felt weak on his legs and drop down on his knees . In his mind, he shivers in fear because of the identity of this person he just shouted at! This person was the one that known to be the strongest disciple in the Lower Counties Category!

"Master . . . Master Senior . . . Hahaha . . . I'm too reckless and lack of insight . Please . . . Please forgive this impudent junior!" he immediately kowtowed at Zhang Wu Ji to obtain his pity . Looking at how sorry is the guy that threatened him earlier, Zhang Wu Ji felt it was a good thing to hold some power within his name .

Like how it was in his previous life, A Director is the top of an establishment, followed by a General Manager, his assistant, and forth . The only thing he did not imagine before is that this world is about the same .

The only exception is that they can cultivate, their periodic table of elements is different, their knowledge in science and technology is little, but not worst, and most importantly, the Ping An Continent is just a small part in this realm, and it wasn't entirely explored .

"Leave everything you robbed here and give me the key . " Zhang Wu Ji ordered the two of them to leave everything here along with the key . But in secret, he releases a hint of mist from his hand as it was spread to the two to breath in .

Listening to the order, the two dare not to challenge his choice . Without an option to choose, the two withdraws all the treasure in their pocket and the Spatial Stones . After everything was taken out, Zhang Wu Ji ordered them to inject their Fighter Qi into the key before destroying it .

At first, they hesitated . But after the threat from Zhang Wu Ji again, they destroy the key without hesitation and get deported from the tomb instantly . After collecting all the treasures, Meng Ran cannot hold her curiosity and asked Zhang Wu Ji .

"Brother Wu Ji, why did you let them go? Don't you worry about they retaliate and gather people to attack out Seven Star County without any proper reason?" Meng Ran questioned him . In her opinion, letting the two cubs return to their nest is a bad choice .

"Maybe, but you misunderstood me . " Zhang Wu Ji holds Meng Ran's hand out of sudden without an explanation . But in fact, he was actually removing the poison she might breathe into her body . Only after that Zhang Wu Ji continued .

"First of all, the two of them is poisoned . Without my antidote, it will be impossible to cure . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks his first reason for allowing the two of them to leave . This caused Meng Ran to question the reason Zhang Wu Ji hold her hand a while ago .

"The second reason is their background . Don't you think to die on the outside is better than dying secretly inside the tomb? I want people to make up some rumors anyway . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled and continued with the second reason .

"Last reason is that I want them to make a move first . " Zhang Wu Ji collected the Wooden Universal Plate from her hand and started to move deeper into the room . With two more teams is destroyed, he has only twenty-six more opponents to handle .

"Wait . . . Why do you intend to lure the people from Upper South Merchant Corporation to take action?" Meng Ran cannot understand his reason no matter how she thinks about it .

"If the tiger doesn't come out from the nest, am I going to wait for it and do nothing? I don't like to wait, so I'll have to entice them to come out from their nest . "

"Hehehe . . . " Zhang Wu Ji keeps laughing on his way deeper into this Treasure Room . But the moment they entered this room, there's a total of three corpses and one surviving cultivator leaning on a corner of the room . From the way he looks, Zhang Wu Ji estimates that he will lose his life as well, due to the arrow stabbed in his left chest .

"One problem not yet left, another comes . How good . " the cultivator on the corner struggles to lift his sword to point at Zhang Wu Ji and Meng Ran, but instead of being bothered by his threat, Zhang Wu Ji step closer to the three corpses and rummage their belongings .

"Heh . . . Five-flavor Flame Sect and Black City Armored Forces . This tomb exploration turned out to become quite interesting . . . " Zhang Wu Ji started to feel something is fishy in this tomb exploration topic . Although he believes that Vault Elder Feng Ming will not carry an ill intention towards him, but . . .

What happened is too suspicious! For a tomb that was located in between the border of Seven Star County and Crystalline River County, how can those from Upper Counties appear at the same time? To begin with, why would the Tomb Master made twenty keys to be distributed outside of the tomb?

"There must be some missing part of inheritance when I steal this key and map from the Crystalline Pavilion!" Zhang Wu Ji started to catch the hint of conspiracy that's been brewing even before he was born! How long has this conspiracy begun?

"Two bandits . . . Two Factionless cultivators . . . Blood Art Sect, Upper South Merchant Corporation, Black City Armor Forces, Five-Flavor Flame Sect, and myself . . . Five factions are here! With the number of teams I've seen, Eleven Keys is still yet to make their appearance!"

"You, state your last words because, in another minute, you will leave this world to meet your maker!" Zhang Wu Ji stepped forward to the corner where this person belonged to the Black City Armored Forces breathing the last few breaths of his life .

"Who . . . Who are you?" he questioned Zhang Wu Ji . In his thought, he doubted the credibility of this person . But instead of answering his question, Zhang Wu Ji took his nameplate and placed it right before his sight .

"Zhang . . . You're that Zhang Wu Ji . . . Hahaha, what an unusual Master Senior Ninth . You're just like what my senior brothers say . " he laughed as he gets rid of his doubt .

"Black City, Sector 5, Chen Li Yin . Tell her I can't return anymore . Bring her this nameplate and tell her that I'm sorry to leave earlier . " the cultivator let go of the sword and took a nameplate out to pass to Zhang Wu Ji's hand .

"I'm listening to your dying wish . I'm not a messenger . If that's all in your mind, I'm not gonna help you . " Zhang Wu Ji crouches right in front of the cultivator as he rejected the request .

"You! Ahem, ahem . . . " the rejection caused him to cough two mouthfuls of blood . But before he breathes his last, Zhang Wu Ji grabbed his wrist .

"Long Mu Blessing Stance!" Zhang Wu Ji injected a few strands of his healing properties Fighter Qi to heal the cultivator before he's completely gone . Without too much effort, Zhang Wu Ji forced a dying person to come back for another few more breaths .

"You got ten more breaths . Still not going to tell me your last words?" Zhang Wu Ji continued to grab his wrist while his person still here with him .

"I . . . I want to revenge for my junior brother! I want to slaughter the person that sell us this key! I want to go back to meet my mother!" finally, he said everything Zhang Wu Ji wanted to hear, except the two last words .

"Good . Close your eyes . " Zhang Wu Ji started to heal his condition to bring him back from the death's doorstep . While at the same time, he was laughing inside his heart because of how easy it was to persuade this guy to become a servant of his .

When it comes to the servant, their position is even lower than his disciples and attendants! At least, the eight attendants are not expected to do any minor works like what they used to do, but as a servant, his duty includes dying for his master as cannon fodder!

While Zhang Wu Ji is healing this servant, Meng Ran is covering her mouth in shock due to these doubtful events . First of all, she was shocked by Zhang Wu Ji's ability to heal a person with a critical injury, and how easy for him to get a servant .

"Was I looking at this Model Master Senior when he was making a fool out of somebody going to die? And making that person as his servant on top of this?"

"You, Zhang Wu Ji, is really despicable . . . " Meng Ran narrowed her eyebrows and stares at the Master Senior . Unfortunately, after so many things happened, she's yet to understand the conspiracy and matters related to them at this moment .

"Humph! I''m going to collect the treasures! You should keep making fun of your servant!" she angrily bellowed and left the two . As he was still busy healing this servant into his healthy condition, Zhang Wu Ji did not bother to split his attention .

How can people like Meng Ran and his servant that lacks Drama-Watching Experience know what is actually happen at this moment? Will his action of healing the servant as a physician helps? It may be yes or no, but the loyalty and submission to him won't be higher than now .

And next, is that she's completely blank! How can not any of them see the brewing conspiracy that brings all of them into this Inner Qi King's Tomb? Even himself without the need of using the UPGRADE System too much knows that everything happened until now is orchestrated by somebody with the intention to weaken their forces .

After they collected all the treasures, Meng Ran took the lead to bring the three of them out from their current Hall to a different one . But after a quick look, they noticed that the remaining halls have been emptied . It only means that in their path forward, there must be more cultivator gathers .

"Dear master, your servant's name is Chen Ming . " he introduces his name and his background next . Seems like although the Chen Family is wealthy, the talent of their younger generation is too weak, forcing Chen Ming to come out for all these dangers .

Finally, everyone arrived at the Tomb's Core Area . Here, there are no longer any rooms nor Walking Passage for them to move around . In the middle of this core area is an open space like an arena for people to battle against each another .

The moment the three of them went inside the hall, all the remaining people are waiting here . Like how Zhang Wu Ji counted, the holders for eleven keys remained, although the number of the total surviving cultivator is no longer 24 but 25 .

When everyone stepped forward, they noticed that the Altar started to drop something from above . The moment it falls into the middle of the arena, the formation that covered it vanished and allows people to come in to fight for the treasure .

Of course, With Chen Ming and Meng Ran is his people, Zhang Wu Ji reserve the right to enter the arena as he like . Like everyone else, he charged into the ring for a good fight . But when he reaches the middle area, only four people remained . The others did not proceed because the treasure did not emit too much power .

"Hmm, all of them considered this item as trash, but nobody actually knows that with my UPGRADE System, anything is a treasure to me!" Zhang Wu Ji pushes his cultivation to the top as he gets ready to fight with his three other opponents .

From the way they're clothed, Zhang Wu Ji assumed that two belonged to Factionless Cultivators and the remaining guy came from Herb Valley Sect . With the existence of Herb Valley Sect, this eliminates them as a part of the culprit .

the three of them spreads their attack to make sure they strike two opponents at the same time, but Zhang Wu Ji wasn't too bothered with their intention .

"Physical fight? Come to get a taste of my Tyrant Martial Body then!" Zhang Wu Ji raised his Leg and clashed with his three targets without using any Martial Art at all! And with pure body strength, he throws the other three far from where he stands before he put his hand to grab the Spear-Looking Treasure .

"Pssh!" a hint of burn appeared on the back of his palm as he tried to touch the treasure . It seems he will need to kick the three of them out from the ring to obtain the right to take the weapon . Without waiting for their action, Zhang Wu Ji sped and stopped before the cultivator from Herb Valley Sect and kicked the latter out from the ring .

It was out of kindness he did not try to spoil the relationship between them, but the power extorted by the Tyrant Martial Body is too strong because the cultivator is stamped on the wall without a gap to move due to the ridiculous amount of strength .

"What the . . . I will have to be very obedient to not get a punch or a kick in the future for any mistakes . " Chen Ming looked at his master's ridiculous strength that breaks other's martial art and stamp people on the wall attack .

"No! I surrender, I Surrender!" another guy quickly escapes from the fight, but like there was a wall behind him, he cannot retreat! Moments later, Zhang Wu Ji's kick came and stamped him on the wall once more before sending the final guy to the same fate .

As the winner of this fight, Zhang Wu Ji grabbed the spear and returned to where his companion stands . While he took the time to inspect the spear in his hand, another weapon falls from the altar . This time, it was a beautiful golden sword .

"3rd-Tier Weapon!" the crowd become restless except Zhang Wu Ji . Instead, he's irritated when he tried to fight again, but the barrier disallows him to enter the ring . Without him participating in this round, the others relaxed .

OOF! A new chapter is here . I just burn all my overnight juices and pop a few Ferrero Rocher and kinder bueno to increase my Author Qi so I can continue writing .

"Halt! States your reason to visit our Office!" two guards stopped a middle-aged man from entering their establishment . While the guards pointing their spears on the visitor, a small piece of formation plate is activated to report the situation to their upper management .

Not even five minutes passed, a group of higher ranks members came out from their building and gathers before the visitor . Stepping closer to the visitor, the leader of this establishment strike a conversation with this person .

"My name is Yin Li . I'm a 1st-tier Peak Spirit Blacksmith! Who is the higher position member here?" this mysterious visitor introduces himself before asking for a person with proper ranks to speak with him .

"Master Blacksmith Yin Li, Bu Wen here is the highest rank members here . I wonder if you got something you need my help?" Jing Bu Wen put his palm together and went closer to Yin Li as he replies .

"I'm in need of a place to sleep . Because I'm a blacksmith, I cannot sleep without the sound of Hammering, Smelting, and Sharpening of a tool, thus, I choose your establishment to rest my mind!" Yin Li took out one of the 89% Purity Pure Iron Ingot and placed it on top of Jing Bu Wen's hand .

"Don't bother me and continue your works . If I failed to hear a single sound from your Forging Hall, don't blame me for destroying your whole establishment for my insomnia!" Yin Li finished his sentence before he releases his strength of 53rd Stage Inner Qi Elder .

"High! High! High-Tier Spirit-Grade Pure Iron! It's a top quality processed material!" the head of this establishment keeps the Ingot into his Spatial Stone and quickly followed Yin Li into their establishment . After some arrangement, Yin Li is staying right inside of their Forging Hall's Attic, with a few pieces of furniture decorated there for his convenience .

"Master Yin Li, please let us know if you have any question . Bu Wen will try his best to answer you . " Jing Bu Wen left once he finishes talking . But before he shuts the door, the mysterious blacksmith stopped him .

"The quality of your establishment's metal is too bad . Two years is all you need to spoil this business and become a pauper . " Yin Li said before forcing the door to shut with his Elder Qi .

"My establishment's product is not up to par? Impossible!" Jing Bu Wen returned to the three main halls to begin his inspection . Three days later, he kneeled before the door with a sorry attitude begging Yin Li's help .

"They will come and kneels before your room the moment they know their product quality is getting worst . Three days, at most . " this is what Zhang Wu Ji said .

"Three days . . . and they're here . . . Master, Master . . . How amazing are you to be able to guess all of this?" Yin Li took off his hood and clock to prepare himself for the next challenge and revealed his real identity when he's alone inside the room .

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji is still inside the tomb waiting for his next chances . It seems that except the two people from Herb Valley Sect and two from Jie's Clan, everyone else belonged to the Factionless Cultivators .

This means, only people from Heavenly Sword Sect, Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, Mystic Engineer Establishment did not turn up inside this tomb . But unless he obtained one more weapon, it will be not enough to prove that this conspiracy is instigated by people from Heavenly Sword Sect .

When the golden sword is taken by one of the cultivators, the next treasure dropped . This time, it was a box of Violet Majestic Pills . Zhang Wu Ji tried to enter the ring once more but failed when the barrier stopped him from access .

"Fine . Seems like I cannot enter the fight for two rounds at least . " Zhang Wu Ji gives up on fighting for the third treasure . Although the Violet Majestic Pills is very attractive, nothing beats his intention to search for the culprit behind all of this tomb exploration .

"Wait, why is there twenty-six people inside of this Core Area?" the one additional person appearing inside of this Core Area was not the reason that shocks him, but the fact no one noticed him except Zhang Wu Ji is the main reason!

Using his memory, Zhang Wu Ji quickly discerns and replace everyone with the image inside of his mind, and spotted the one that seems familiar to him . Did he know this person?

But while he was thinking, the third treasure is taken by the Herb Valley Sect before the fourth treasure came down . It was a crate of High-Quality Tomb Silver Ingots! Zhang Wu Ji tried to enter the ring again, and this time, it was a successful attempt!

It was both Lucky and Unfortunate at the same time . The lucky part is due to there's no opponent dare to fight with him for the crate of Tomb Silver Ingots . And for the unfortunate part, he's restricted from the next two treasures .

As he prepared to leave, Zhang Wu Ji throw one of the Tomb Silver Ingots at the person to see how he reacts . But instead of looking at that person acted, another pair of hand came forward and received the Tomb Silver Ingot instead .

"He's not a human . . . Spirit?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled and checked the treasure inside of the crate . Like how it was in his first weapon, each of the metal ingots is stamped with the mark of Heavenly Sword Sect . This further confirmed him that the culprit is most likely them .

On the seventh treasure, Zhang Wu Ji once again claims his ownership on a weapon like a twin sword . After making sure that the item is mostly built by the Heavenly Sword Sect, he now can place this matter aside and look through the identity of this familiar person .

"Miss Meng Ran . . . Can you disable the formation that separates all of us inside of this Core Area?" Zhang Wu Ji whispered beside her ears with a request . Although his skill is better than her in Formation Making, his lack of knowledge in most of the common subjects .

"Good, try to mess with it so I can take advantages on this situation . " Zhang Wu Ji ends his sentence and pays attention to the ninth treasure . But what he spotted is the familiar individual is staring at him and Meng Ran!

"Finally caught your attention!" Zhang Wu Ji secretly hinted the person to move closer to his side . And like what he expected, the mysterious person that nobody noticed his presence went past the barrier and approached Zhang Wu Ji .

"HOW DARE YOU DESTROY MY FORMATION ARRAY! STOP THIS GIRL NOW!" the vibration went inside his ears and caused him a headache from listening to him .

"Miss Meng Ran . . . " Zhang Wu Ji called her . When the spirit saw Zhang Wu Ji is listening to his demand, he smiled, but in the next moment, he becomes even angrier because of his one word!

"I SAY STOPPPP!!!" the spirit turned into a knight in black with a sword and attacked Zhang Wu Ji . The sword came forth and almost cut Zhang Wu Ji, but the moment it touches him, the sword shatters out of his control .

"HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN! WHO ARE YOU?" the spirit bellowed . But with a simple move of a palm to the spirit's chest, Zhang Wu Ji executed the stance contained inside his 1st-Tier Blacksmithing Compendium!

This was the ability to smelt everything! With this stance alone, Put aside Metal and Crystals, even Spirits and Cultivator's Bones is not an exception .

With the strength of this Spirit, it is impossible for it to possess the power to resist his Nine Layer Fighter Flame! When it was executed, the spirit cried in pain! As a spirit without a case, how can it counter the power from an ability that can smelt spirits?

"STOPPP!!! PLEASE STOP!!!" the spirit begged for help . Only when the Nine Layer Fighter Flame vanishes the Spirit dare to stand up from kneeling on the ground .

"They're planning to kill potential disciples from other sects to increase their strength . Although this tomb is made by me, all I did is following their order!" finally, the Inner Qi King, Jiang Nan He lowered his tone when speaking with Zhang Wu Ji .

But at this moment, the tenth treasure dropped from the altar, where everyone is waiting for Zhang Wu Ji's next action . When he saw the crate full of formation plates, Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand to let them have a fight .

"Continue . What is the name of their leader? What did they plan for everyone after we done with all these tests?" Zhang Wu Ji continues with his chatter with Jiang Nan He .

It was a shocking discovery, especially when he noticed the motives hidden behind this small tomb exploration event . But what was most important is how can the Heavenly Sword Sect order an Inner Qi King to do what they asked?

Jiang Nan He is, in fact, a king . But his clan was overthrown and forced to leave their land . After they escaped from the capital is was taken in by the people from Heavenly Sword Sect, his life changed . They present him with a tomb that can protect him from danger and forced him to create twenty keys that allow people from the sect to come in when needed .

But what he did not know is instead of being protected, he becomes the lure instead! With the Southern Imperial Kingdom still reorganizing themselves after they got the throne, nobody bothers to check the validity of the previous king is living inside of a tomb .

Still, the news managed to attract some younger elites from other sects to come and try their luck to capture the exiled king, and from that moment onwards, this plan has been going on for quite long until today .

Before this, none of the keys is destroyed because they were treated as a treasure, where it allows them to be used again and again . As for the treasures, they're something that's been gathered from when this starts until now .

But because all of this is planned by Heavenly Sword Sect themselves, they're forced to fill the tomb with treasures to attract tomb explorers from a different county to participates and killed inside . In this way, they can increase the number of treasures inside their vault, at the same time, they're able to reduce the number of talented disciples nurtured in all other sects .

"No wonder the quality of their treasure is too low . It was all gathered from the dead disciples they killed . With the restriction of only those below 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior can come in, it will be difficult for them to leave with the treasures . "

"And while the treasures that can reveal their motives is removed, they leave the treasures that less important to lure more people to try their luck . Or else, how can a tomb still hold some treasures from this amount of exploration?" Zhang Wu Ji narrowed his eyebrows in anger .

"From my experience for so long, after eleven treasures are taken, the people under Heavenly Sword Sect's command will come from the Formation Array's Gate and start killing everyone . "

"Eleventh Treasure?" Zhang Wu Ji shifted his view on the Arena and looked at the cultivator pulling the last treasure that will activate the gates .

Here it comes! New chapter! And yes, once again, all hardest to swallow truths, unexpected deceit, unforgivable treatments, is inside this chapter . And if you think this is the last, please don't . Because it won't .

"Who are these people?" two of the cultivators from Herb Valley Sect give questioned loudly to see if anyone amongst them carry an answer for his question . But with more intruders coming through from the Formation Array's Gate, nobody has the leisure to answer his question .

To make thing worst, the intruders are all in their 12th and 13th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior with the lowest three in their 12th Stage . In this 10 seconds, over 15 intruders come through the gate to attack them .

"Master, Chen Ming will take the initiative to attack them, please find a way to escape . " Chen Ming tightened his grip on his sword as he talks .

"Take care of miss Meng Ran while I'm fighting the intruders . Try to monitor my movement, each time I spread my hand wide, you both will lie flat on the ground until my attack is over . " the wrist part of his clothing is rolled up to his elbows as he speaks .

As he walks to his enemies, an Iron Staff appeared from nowhere and landed in Zhang Wu Ji's grip . While the more experienced intruders are capable of guessing the treasure worn on his fingers, they failed to gauge how strong is their opponent .

His swung his Iron Staff like a crazy fighter, but for an unknown reason, wolves started to appear throughout the Arena with the consciousness ready to bite a target at any time . Although intruders are still coming in, none of them dares to take a step forward nor fight .

"Attack, Armament Wolves . " his whispers are too soft for the enemies to hear, but it was different with the wolves . With a roar, the Armament Wolves strike at the targets without any mercy . But luckily, the intruders are all well-trained warriors to handle different situation .

The pack of wolves vanishes just in two minutes, but at least half of the intruders is bitten or attacked few times, causing the reduction of strength between 5% to 10% . With his initial objective is done, the Iron Staff vanished from his hand .

"Kill him first!" one of the intruders instructed the others to follow, but not even their first step the target disappeared from everyone's eyesight .

"Impossible! Where did he go? Quickly search . . . Prick . . . " the noisiest intruder inside of the Arena got his head smashed into a pulp before he managed to complete his sentence . With the blood splattered at the intruders, their mental state started to question themselves .

"Will I managed to get back safe and sound?" each of them was thinking something similar, but the question is quickly answered with the heads of their companion flattened . Soon, the Arena becomes a ring that soaked with blood from the dead cultivators .

But when the situation for the intruders become critical, a savior came through from the Formation Array's Gate! The moment this opponent stepped inside the Arena, he delivers a punch straight on the murderer of his brothers .

Unfortunately, his attack was a second late . The moment he killed the last intruder from the first batch, Zhang Wu Ji raises his arm to block that attack, but still, it caused him to retreat for over ten steps and suffered fractures on his left arm .

"Long Mu Blessing Stance . " Zhang Wu Ji forces the Fighter Qi that came out from his body and went to his arms to recover his injuries . But that moment was taken to his opponent's advantages as he charged forward with a fist that carries the pressure similar to a mountain .

"What Martial Body is that?" facing the attack like a mountain charging at him, Zhang Wu Ji activates the Incense of Condensation and battle against this opponent with his pure strength . Unfortunately, his direct clash against a proper cultivator in his 15th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior is fated to lose .

He was thrown to the edge of the Arena, where it was blocked by the Barrier restricting them from leaving the Core Area . The moment tried to stands up, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that even the bones in his right arm are fractured .

"You have a graded Martial Body!" Zhang Wu Ji knows the fact from his system, but to hide his next action, he feints his ignorance towards this matter and suspects his opponent with a yell . And in return of his act, the opponent explained the amazingness of his body without any caution .

"Like what I always say, the people in this continent is a little stupid . " Zhang Wu Ji felt tiring to act ignorant as he forced himself to listen to his opponent's explanation .

"You're going to die for sure! I possessed the Mortal Martial Body, Earth Shattering Martial Body! As long my attack is strengthened by my Qi, it will carry an amazing bone-crushing effect!" his opponent said .

"Wait, what is wrong with all these choice?" Zhang Wu Ji wishes the UPGRADE System is willing to explain something to him . For now, all he can is randomly choose one of them to battle this person .

Although he understands their meaning, it doesn't mean he knows how to decide . But as the situation forced him to make a choice, Zhang Wu Ji selected the selection to destroy .

At that moment, what happened destroyed the mind of everyone out of fear and tyrannical disposition . Even Meng Ran and Chen Ming, who was supporting him, was threatened to near death situation . Still, nothing beats the experience standing before the Tyrant Martial Body .

Before this Intruder stands Zhang Wu Ji, but the tyrannical disposition his body gave out were similar to a having a million meter's long Violet Serpent with five colored waves staring on him . A mere breath was all it needs to turn the little Earth Golem turned into ashes .

That was how easy for his Tyrant Martial Body to destroy his opponent's future . From this moment onwards, there will be no more Earth Shattering Martial Body will ever appear in this realm . And without this Mortal Martial Body with him, his opponent is no different from a cripple .

A hand is casually lifted over his head, but the moment he lowered his hand, an Iron Staff appeared and destroyed his skull, sending him to meet his maker in a hurry .

At first, Zhang Wu Ji was hesitated to behave too tyrannical against the others in this Arena, especially when he assumed that everyone deserves the treasure they worked hard to collects . But looking at the twenty-something cultivators are all loitering on the ground like a cripple, it becomes pointless for him to leave them with the treasures .

"Everyone, I'm sorry . " Zhang Wu Ji approached his two companions and executed the Long Mu Blessing Stance on them to let them recover from the mental trauma . But when they returned to sanity, both suggested that everyone here shall be killed .

"Brother Wu Ji, I don't know what happened just now, but if that's your Martial Body's impression, you will have to kill every eyewitness, and that will include both of us if you wish!" Meng Ran's word shocks him as she speaks with a strict tone .

"Yes, Master . If you wish to protect the identity of your Martial Body, you may kill this Chen Ming as well . " as a servant, Chen Ming kneeled by his side and waits for his end .

"Hold on! What is wrong with the two of you?" their word confused him as they were trying to get rid of all eyewitnesses, and even including themselves .

"Brother Wu Ji, your Martial Body is something that no emperor in this Ping An Continent will allow . If you're exposed to the public, I dare to say even the four kingdoms emperors will personally come to behead you . " Meng Ran holds his hand as she explained the importance of this matter .

"I know . But you both will be excluded . No more negotiations . " Zhang Wu Ji understands their meaning and agrees to keep it as a secret . But none of them noticed a side of an ear went out from the Formation Array's Gate!

"This is big news! This is big news! If I tell this to Sect Master and maybe even the emperor, they will reward me with the riches of this world!" a short dwarf-like male fall on the ground as he smiled . At this moment, he quickly returns to their Main Hall to report this matter and the death of all the disciples .

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji and his companion finally assembled all the treasures . But before leaving, Zhang Wu Ji stopped them both for a moment and went to a corner where the spirit the other two cannot see and strike a conversation with him .

"I want, but there's no Spirit Container for me to resides in . Within minutes, I will be reduced to a hint of smoke . " the Spirit replied . Seeing the Spirit willing to leave, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws a piece of Pure Iron Ingot with 99% purity .

"WOAH! High-Tier Spirit-Grade container! If I stay inside here for some time, my Spiritual Cultivation can be increased as well! You, You sure I can stay inside this container?" the Spirit ask for his permission again .

"Of course . Get in . We're leaving this tomb now . " Zhang Wu Ji nodded at the spirit and allowed it to assimilate and make the Pure Iron Ingot his home . With an unknown power, the Ingot float at the air until the assimilation completes . When it was in Zhang Wu Ji's hand once more, the description of this Ingot changed .

-Usage 1: Because the Iron Ingot is now assimilated by Book Spirit, this assimilation allows the Ingot to become highly moldable through Warrior Qi .

-Usage 2: Increase the book's effectiveness by 100% when used to contain Warrior Tier Cultivation or Martial Arts . Once engraved the Jiangnan Ingot will lose the moldable function . The status will be changed when complete .

"Not bad . . . You're quite useful for a piece of an Ingot . " Zhang Wu Ji praised the Ingot in his hand and returned the treasure into his Spatial Ring before he left through the same Formation Array's Gate the two will follow .

"Wasn't this the Mountain where Heavenly Sword Sect is located?" the question inside his mind is answered the moment he appeared here, and not somewhere else! When he thinks about the number of people they might have killed for their treasures, Zhang Wu Ji's temper exploded!

Inside this enemy's nest, he has to lay low and escape before they're caught . Without considering too much, Zhang Wu Ji took his Qiyue Flying Sword out to support the three of them to leave . And just ten minutes after their departure, a group of students in their Inner Qi Warrior strength came forward and entered the gate .

Although they only found the corpses of everyone inside, there's no hint of the three people he reported! The disciples pondered for a while and decided to shut this gate to remove the proof that will link others to their sect .

This means while the dwarf-like disciple holds the information related to Zhang Wu Ji and his Tyrant Martial Body, Zhang Wu Ji himself holds the proof that the Heavenly Sword Sect is the culprit of this conspiracy . Both sides possess the information that can ruin the other, but that was not the time for now .

Flying back from the Heavenly South County, Zhang Wu Ji next destination is the Wen Wu City, but when he returned, he was shocked to find out that there's not even a single member of his Apprentice Hall!

"Where is everyone go?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned himself, but before he can think about the answer, a firework exploded not far from Wen Wu City . But the pattern from the explosions forms a row of words in the sky .

Alright guys, we're close to the end of 1st Arc . With Tyrant Martial Body is in the story, the tomb exploration and conspiracy is exposed, he will soon be in danger, I only left three to four surprises for all of you!

"Seven Heaven Sect?" Zhang Wu Ji was puzzled by the word coming out from the fireworks . But at the same time, his Nameplate shines like it was activated by some treasure .

Not long after, a cultivator in his peak Inner Qi Warrior strength came forward to him with his tamed Flying Beast and escorted him back to the core area of the Seven Star Sect . Worst of all, his question was all unanswered by them as they followed him back to the sect .

"Brother Wu Ji . . . " Meng Ran is nervous with all the unknown visitors, but since they did not come to them with an ill manner, she did not know what they want with all of them . But when they reach the Sect's Core Area, almost all of their question is answered .

"How can the seven elders have fallen into such condition?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned himself and lands together with his companion beside Liang Tian . When he came forth to his master's side, Liang Tian is giving a bow to this youth in his seventeenth or eighteenth .

"Dear enforcer, this is my ninth disciple, Zhang Wu Ji . " Liang Tian introduced him to the youth standing before him . When Zhang Wu Ji clasped his hands together, an elder appeared from an incredible speed before all of them .

"Headmaster Liang . Although I know that the Seven Star Sect is not doing good lately due to some incompetent leadership, you have to remember that the Seven Star Sect is representing the Seven Heaven Sect in this Upper Southern State . "

"Luckily, the head of the sect did not blame you on this matter, but how can such a power-usurping event start? Don't you feel shame to disgrace the name of Seven Star Sect and the Seven Heaven Sect' good name?" the youth continues .

"Not bad of reaching the half-step of Inner Qi Warrior in not even a year of cultivation . Are you sure, you don't possess a Martial Body?" his hand went forth to Zhang Wu Ji's face and touched the latter . This action pretty much offended Zhang Wu Ji's fiery temper, but the problem is his Early Soldier Tier cultivation strength completely pressurized Zhang Wu Ji from making his move!

"Subordinate Liang Tian here!" he immediately kneeled before the Enforcer . But this scene stunned the other disciples and elders . Nobody knows what to do until the Enforcer added another sentence .

"Headmaster has kneeled, why the others not?" that sentence alone pressurized everyone included the seven pagoda elders, the members from apprentice hall, and the delegates that work for the Seven Star Sect . Even Zhang Wu Ji is forced to kneel before this Enforcer and the elder .

"Elder, Enforcer Wu will start now . " the Enforcer reported to the elder not far from him and obtained his nodding . In the next moment, the Enforcer took out a treasured scroll in golden color for his announcement .

"But! Because Liang Tian is able to repent for his incompetence by taking the Seven Star Sect up to the top of the Lower Counties Ranking, the Seventh Heaven decided to forgive Liang Tian and his failure . "

"By right, this shall be over, but the incompetence becomes weaknesses that were exploited by the traitorous Yang Chen Kun, to usurp the position of the Head of Sect! Not only that, the seven muddle-headed elders actually close one eye from everything that happened!"

"Although this did not ruin the foundation of the sect as it was handled with care, the punishment will not be lenient! Written and approved by the First to Seventh Heaven, the eight of them will have their cultivation crippled!"

"No! No! Wait, Enforcer, please give us a . . . Aargh!" the eight of them beg for the forgiveness, but with a simple swing from the Elder, his 69th Stage of Inner Qi Lord cultivation penetrated through their Dantian and broke their cultivation .

With a simple swing of a hand, the elder destroyed the cultivation of the eight of them . Without the nourishment of Qi, their feature becomes ten years older and weaker . Few minutes is all it takes to turn eight of them into half dehydrated corpses .

"As for the person that was caught selling the land and resources owned by the sect to the outsiders, Yang Chen Kun, your fate is to be tortured inside the Nest of Blood Torturer Ants . Your sentence will start on our way back to the Seven Heaven Sect . "

"As for your incompetence, the Seventh Heaven all proposed you're to be killed but based on your success in taking is such a disciple, the sect decided to let you free from punishment for the final time . But escaping the sentence of death doesn't mean you're free!"

"The Seventh Heaven judge you guilty! And to be delivered with 3 lashings from the Heaven Serpent's Tail once every three months beginning from the starting of the year!" the enforcer stated before handling over a whip to the elder .

From how it looks, this elder's arrival to their Seven Star Sect is for the sake of delivering the punishment to his master once every three weeks .

"Other than that, the Seventh Heaven is very interested in the existence of the Top disciple during the Lower Counties Ranking . Zhang Wu Ji, under the invitation of Seven Heaven Sect, you're to be invited to the Seven Heaven Sect located in the Seven Heaven Holy Mountain for a tour . "

"Additionally, if you, in any case, refused the invitation, please take note that the leniency of three lashings was given under the pretext you agreed to the invitation . " the Enforcer finishes his report before the scroll is kept and tied . It was then handed over to Liang Tian before the Enforcer steps closer to Zhang Wu Ji .

"My name is Wu Jing, Second Heaven Mountain's 3rd Strongest Disciple . When you're here, I will let you know much more about the sect, and also how you can reduce the sentence your master will suffer for every three months . "

"Other than that, you will also know that in our place, items below 1st-Tier is complete trash . Our currency starts with Qi Accumulating Pill, where each of them worth 1,000 Qi Sensing Pills . Here, you will be able to learn and cultivates until you're a Peak Inner Qi Soldier . "

"End one the Ping An Continent's First month, I will be waiting for you at Wen Yang City . Oh, one more thing . We only invited you, not others . For that little girly there, leave her . Inside the sect, you will notice that there's over a thousand of them in every Heaven Mountain . "

"And let me tell you, if you're lucky, who knows you might able to thaw our Seventh Heaven Mountain's Ice Princess, Bai Xue Xue? But before that, you'll have to reach 40th Stage Inner Qi Master first . " Wu Jing shared the benefits he'll get when he comes to their Seven Heaven Sect .

With a whistle sound, a gigantic flying serpent at least 100 meters long came out from the forest and lifted all the other people from the Seven Heaven Sect and prepared to leave .

"This token is Emissary Token . With this token in hand, it means you control the right to rule any lower establishment related to the Seven Heaven Sect . It will also act as the proof of your invitation, so don't lose it . "

Very soon, news transferred by mouth, written documents, changes of rules and regulation throughout the whole county allows everyone within this county to know that the current leadership of this county has changed .

The third owner that possess the Iron Kong-Que in the whole Southern Imperial Kingdom (It was rare due to the difficulty to forge it . Due to the flexibility like a peacock flying in the air, they're more precious than a usual Flying Sword or Ship)

But, for the starter, the Seven Star Sect is no longer the name of the ruler of this county . Although the name of the county remained as Seven Star County, the Seven Star Sect is now completely razed to be rebuilt into a new establishment that garners more support from the residents of this county .

After some calculation was arranged, the expansion of this new establishment is now about four times bigger than the Disney World Theme Park in Florida, USA .

This Seven Star Master Hall acts as the central establishment that connects the Wen Qing City on its north, Wen Yang City on its West, Li Jiang City on the Southwest, and Wen Wu City on the Southeast . And at the same time, it replaced the Wen Wu City's main branch as the Base of their Operation .

And with the quick subjugation in the Wen Yang City without the need of a fight . Under the cooperation of the City Lord, they easily force the business parties from the Crystalline River County to return to their own land to conduct their businesses .

By enforcing the new rules written by the Seven Star Master Hall, a million copies of this new sets of rules and regulation to be followed distributes to every corner of this county . But most of them are related to the growth and profit of the Seven Star County .

Without knowing how fast is the time flows, Zhang Wu Ji was too busy in handling the crucial day to day matter related to the Seven Star Martial Hall . Before he knows how long the time passed, Tang Yuan came forth to the Founder's Pagoda to report something .

As a person that understands his master too much, Tang Yuan gently open the door to the basement and went inside to take a look at his master . When he reaches the bottom, Tang Yuan smiled when he noticed that his master is playing with the fire from the furnace filled with ignited Flame Rocks .

"Master, I know that your progress in developing your cultivation is essential, but today is the last day of Ping An Continent Year . I'm afraid that old master Zhang already sent you multiple letters to ask you to return to the Li Jiang City's Zhang Family .

"Understand . Inform Lady Meng Ran to prepare the Iron Kong-Que, I will be in the Master Hall Main Square in an hour . And . . . the seven of you will follow me too, make sure everyone is prepared . " this was the first time he celebrates the new year in this world .

And to reward all of his attendants and Meng Ran's help in handling a few matters in his Seven Star Master Hall, Zhang Wu Ji considered bringing her home as well, to let her have a feeling of the family celebrating an event together .

With half of the treasure inside the Founder's Pagoda is taken and stored in his spatial ring, Zhang Wu Ji walked out from his Pagoda under the surveillance of passerby and greetings until he reaches the Main Square . After the nine of them took their seats in the Iron Kong-Que, Meng Ran proceeds with the control and direct the Iron Kong-Que to depart .

"Guys, our master is not going to leave Miss Meng Ran like this when they're in the Zhang Family right?" Zhang Ya Pin asked . Listening to his question, the two girls and Tang Yuan sighed . Especially Tang Yuan, how can he have no idea about his master?

Alright! This is the third last chapter before the end of this Volume 1 Arc . I am thankful to all of my readers that support me from the beginning of September until now . It was a great experience, and do not worry, Second Arc won't take too long to come out .

As a notice to my readers, My friend and editor (Vladarius) are helping me in editing a few of my earlier chapters . They will be edited and proofread in the future .

"Master! Master! First young master is home!" the first attendant came running into the hall to report the return of their eldest young master, but following from his shout, it seems another young master has returned home as well .

"Third Young Master is home!!!" but before Zhang Qing Feng managed to say anything, Zhang Da Yang came inside the Family Main Hall to announce his third young master's return . Riding on an Iron Kong-Que, how can anyone miss his arrival?

Three of them came back at the same time . Following behind is a group of subordinates, especially Zhang Wu Yuan groups which are about 200 people, with most of them in Inner Qi Warrior strength, and a few in their Inner Qi Soldier strength .

As for his second brother, Zhang Wu Chou, he returned with not four, but eight attendants this time . Furthermore, standing by his side is a lady with a beauty not losing to Meng Ran or Guan Qing Han . Judging on how she's a step behind his brother, Zhang Wu Ji assumed she's more to a love interest and not a mere friend .

Meanwhile, he's the highest profile among the three of them . Coming back with priceless treasure that only two of the master in this Southern Imperial Kingdom possess . The moment he came down with his seven attendants and also a female friend, all of them entered the main entrance under the gaze of everyone gathered outside the Zhang Family main gate .

Walking past the garden with ponds and different variety of pets, the three siblings with their attendants enter the Main Hall and kneels on both knees towards their lord father .

After obtaining the majority of the votes from everyone in the Li Jiang City, Zhang Qing Feng is now the City Lord of the Li Jiang City . Although this city is recently promoted from their town status, their improvement is three times faster than the other three well in developing cities .

"I know that Lord father has the habit of breeding specialty fishes, so Wu Yuan purposely went through the Western Imperial County to purchase a few delicate fishes for your new year gift . " Zhang Wu Yuan clapped his hand for his subordinates to remove the red cloth covering the aquarium in their hand .

"Ah . . . my good son Wu Yuan . . . Stone Scaled Goby, Rainbow Scaled River Bream, Liliang Mudbass, and Xilin River King . Good collection! A very great collection indeed!" Zhang Qing Feng laughed as he inspected the fishes . After he enjoyed them, he flicked his finger to have his personal servant to sent the fishes into their appropriate pond .

As a fish lover, how can he bear seeing the fishes struggled in the small aquarium? Thus, his action is very understandable . Next, he moves to his second child, Zhang Wu Chou .

"Still, Chou-Er wishes father to break through the Elder Tier Cultivation soon, and also celebrates for an additional member of our family . " Zhang Wu Chou completed his greetings with a big surprise to all of them . The moment he finishes, Zhang Wu Chou hold her hand firmly .

One of his attendants came forward to bring her a low chair for kneeling, but how can the experienced Zhang Qing Feng don't know what his second child's word means? Before she kneeled, a surge of Master Qi came forth to stop her action .

"Hahaha! What City Lord! Call me father! Call me father!" Zhang Qing Feng's face is filled with anticipation . In his mind, he was thinking about when will the two starts to get a companion . Additionally, this incident caused him to holds greater expectation on Zhang Wu Ji because he came back with three ladies!

"How long? Are she one of the disciples in the Heavenly Sword Sect?" Zhang Qing Feng quickly questioned his second child to expect when did everything starts .

"After the Counties Gathering Competition . Ling Long is not a disciple of any sect nor corporation in this Upper Southern State, but she's from one of the General's Household . " Zhang Wu Chou introduces her background .

"General Household . . . Yang . . . You mean, she's the younger generation from the Southern general . . . General Nan Yang's daughter?" As a resident of the Southern Imperial Kingdom, how can one lack of knowledge regarding the hero of the South?

The general's name is Yang Nan . His name carries the meaning of the Male of Yang's Clan, but because of his fame during the four kingdoms War, his popularity caused the three other generals to change his name to Nan Yang instead . The "Nan" that means male become [South/Nan] . And by putting it in this way, his name changed .

"Hahaha, this is good news! It seems that I will have to make a visit to the Yang's General Household for a visit on my mischevious second child's good cause! This is great! Wu Yuan, Wu Ji, you two should learn from Wu Chou!"

Next, it was Zhang Wu Ji's turn, but before he managed to think about what he wanted to say, some uninvited visitors came forth with a loud laugh .

"Hahaha! Why way until later? Since it's the new year, I hope City Lord Zhang is not feeling bothered by this general's arrival!" multiple heavy steps came from the outside until they entered the Main Hall of the Zhang Family .

For a small family like Zhangs, how can any of the servants resist the tyrannical disposition possess by a general with over ten million lives slaughtered by his two hands? The moment he arrived, all of the servant trembles in fear as he walks like a hundred tonnes mammoth into the Main Hall .

"General Nan Yang! This surname Zhang is not here to personally greet you on your arrival, I am guilty . . . " Zhang Qing Feng quickly stands up and greet the general . Like their father, the three children turned to face the General as well and greets him .

"Ling Long . How dare you come to meet in-laws alone? That's a disgrace to our Yang House . In-law, please accept this insignificant gift from the Yang House!" with a flick of a thumb, the armored officer following him produced a golden box from the spatial ring .

When the box is opened before the City Lord, he was presented with a box filled with high-quality Blood Essence Pinecones . As the best body strengthening treasure, this 4th-tier treasure can easily push Zhang Qing Feng's cultivation and help him to advance through the Master Tier!

"General Nan Yang, this gift is too expensive . . . Please forgive Qing Feng to not able to bring out any of the treasures worth this gift to be presented to general . " Zhang Qing Feng feels regretful . Although he possesses the wealth of the whole city, it was still too little to be compared with the box of 100 Blood Essence Pinecones .

"In-Law! I am here to greet you! Let us not bother with the gifts! What is most important is how your brat and my treasure going to live together! I believe as their elders, we have to pummel some of the enlightenment as a parent into their mind!" General Nan Yang walks closer to his daughter and pinches her cheek .

In a hurry, Zhang Qing Feng ordered the servant to prepare another chair by his side for the general . The moment the two of them seated once again, it was Zhang Wu Ji's turn to say his greetings . But the issue is, how to greet the two of them?

And at the same time, General Nan Yang is filled with expectation on him . As a general of the Southern Imperial Kingdom, how can he lack information that stated the cooperation between the Ninth Prince Zhao Ying and Zhang Wu Ji?

"Wu Ji wish Lord Father healthy as the time past . As the Ruler of this Seven Star County, Wu Ji hopes Lord father can expect the day this piece of land become more than just a 1st-tier resources county . "

"And to General Yang, Wu Ji hope general can carry more grandchildren as time goes, and remained healthy and undefeated as the God of War for the Southern Imperial Kingdom!"

His greet expanded to the two elders, where both of them smiled from hearing his words . But when the next surprises came out, the smile turned into shock by looking at the treasure he takes out .

One has to know, Zhang Wu Yuan, the eldest of the three, only managed to give his father two low-quality flying swords to the family . And even that already cost him over 600 Million Gold Coins in expenses .

First of all, is the Wooden Universal Plates he brought out from the first chest . During the period of his idle time, Zhang Wu Ji engraves over two thousand of the Wooden Universal Plates that was to be distributed into various department's usage .

As for his family alone, Zhang Wu Ji carried five hundred of them, nicely arranged in a beautiful engraving box that only those with Blood Mark can open them . By taking out the first plate from the side most, Zhang Wu Ji took out ten boxes of different treasures stacked inside .

Taking out the second piece of Wooden Universal Plate, it was filled with stack and stacks of Qi Sensing Pill, Yin Essence Pill, and many different 1st-Tier pills that's beneficial to everyone in between Fighter to Warrior Stage .

Next, metals, resources, seeds, and plenty of different treasures are all stored inside here . When they were calculated, the total amount of all this treasure is not losing to the total worth of the 100 Blood Essence Pinecones!

"How can this youth be this rich? The total amount of the treasure he took out worth a few years of the tributes of the entire Upper Southern State!" General Nan Yang is shocked by the amount of gift he brings back to his father .

Only the four hundred Flying Swords alone is worth 120 million Qi Sensing Pills . With another 6 million Qi Sensing Pills for the Spatial Rings, over 500 Million Qi Sensing Pills for the entire pills, metals, and treasures, and about 75 million Qi Sensing Pills worth for the Wooden Universal Plates alone, their total is a whopping 731 million worth of Qi Sensing Pills!

This total alone, if it was taken to the Seven Heaven Holy Mountain, it worth at least 731,000 Qi Accumulating Pills! How much can he buy with this amount of wealth? Although it wasn't comparable to the wealth the General possessed, it is still a humongous amount for a 1st-tier county to produce .

After all the shock of wealth is over, everyone proceeds to a specially arranged table for the family to enjoy the view on the sky as their banquet began . Food is continuously delivered to the table where they continue to enjoy while waiting for the time to come .

But as a person without any special status, Meng Ran failed to be seated along with Zhang Wu Ji, but together with the other attendant grade followers .

Soon, beautiful seven colored clouds appeared on the night sky and illuminating the entire sky as they slowly fall like shining stars to the land and vanishes .

"Oh my God! What the hell is the Giant Natural Energy swimming in the sky is doing!" Zhang Wu Ji with his ability to discern the Natural Energy allowed him to look at the cluster of dragon shape natural energy swimming in the seven colored clouds and releases the brilliant blessing to the continent .

The brilliant stars fall and vanish as they touch the ground . With only one exception floating in the middle of their table . Floating above the table without anyone knowing what it will do, the brilliant star went closer to Zhang Wu Ji .

With a touch, it assimilated into his body, and on that instant, all the Fighter QI inside his body burst out and lead him once again, into the advancement trial to become an Inner Qi Warrior!

Right before so many higher tier cultivators, Zhang Wu Ji is forced to start his Advancement process! A thousand strands of Fighter Qi floats around him waiting for the Weaving Trial, where it will decide the quality of the woven Warrior Qi .

But except himself, nobody surrounding him noticed the differences . His trial is different from all his past attempts, where a thousand strands of Fighter Qi is floating without any support from his Dantian .

This time, every strand of the Fighter Qi is covered with a glue-like substance created by the Natural Energy, where it allowed him to arrange them into a group of 100 strands of Fighter Qi Threads .

And unknown of where is the such an impression came into his mind, Zhang Wu Ji remembered a braiding technique that strengthened the durability of powered cables . The braiding technique is nothing new in his world, where it was used in different industries according to their needs .

They're many different usages in braiding, which can also be called as [Harness] for their incredible flexibility . But at this moment, what was going through Zhang Wu Ji's mind is not how durable it will be nor how flexible it will become .

For a half-quarter of the cultivators above Warrior Tier here, all of them weaved their first stand of Warrior Qi through the easiest method, known as Basic Pattern of Uniform Pattern . The two of them are different, but similar in their own way .

But right before everybody, Zhang Wu Ji tried to do something different once again . And when the word "Different" is used on Zhang Wu Ji, it means an entirely different meaning .

In braiding, they start from 3 strands up to five or six, differentiated into a spiraling braid or a flat braid . But Zhang Wu Ji's once again overcome everything they know and followed with his own ten-strand spiral braid .

Although it was the first time, it was also the most efficient attempt among all of his countless failures . The ten long Fighter Qi Threads is woven into a sturdy braided thread before returning into his Dantian . The assimilation process soon began, with the Natural Energy started to come inside his and fill his expanded Dantian .

The assimilation equals to expansion on the energy storable inside his Dantian . With this expansion comes a cleansing process that removes the impurities contained inside his body . Added with the Tyrant Martial Body, the effectiveness of this Cleaning Process increased by tenfold .

This force Zhang Wu Ji to removes all the impurities, such as the residue from over-consumption of pills before he entered the path of a 1st Stage Inner Qi Fighter, and also the leftover from low-quality foods that eaten every day .

With his advancement is completed, Zhang Wu Ji immediately went to cleanse his body covered with filth before he appeared in front of the guest once again . His height increased by 6cm, turning him into a youth of 1 . 76 meters in height .

"Third brother . . . " the two elder brothers of his came forth to see how much has he changed, but Zhang Qing Feng's reaction is very abnormal . He took a piece of Identification Plaque out from his pocket and pointed at the youngest child .

"Purple?" Zhang Qing Feng shocked . He pointed the plaque next on his eldest and second child, but both of them appeared blue . Based on his understanding, the Identification Plaque also works as a Martial Body Scale .

The color starts from white as a Non-cultivable body into green color, which given to the talented individuals as a Mortal Martial Body . Next comes King Martial Body, bearing the Yellow color to Emperor Martial Body, with a blue color .

Still, what does the purple color means? Does this mean his kid possessed a Saint Tier body now? Won't this means, his gene is so excellent that all three of his children are Emperor Martial Body and Saint Martial Body?

And what they did not know is that the Eastern Imperial Kingdom has dispatched hundreds of personnel to start searching for people with Zhang as their surname for an inspection to search for the person that activated their Royal Bloodline!

"Eldest Brother, Second Brother, I'm fine . It was amazing . . . Now I know why they say that by entering into the 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, one will be counted as a part of the real cultivator . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to his two brothers .

"Good . But remember, from this moment onwards, your Inner Qi will only recover from meditation and medication . Do not recklessly fight like how it was because a quarter of all Inner Qi Warrior died before they reach their 12th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior . "

"Here, take this . . . " Zhang Wu Yuan distributed two pills, one for each of his younger brothers as their life-threatening precaution . They're known as Wailing Dan, a potent medication that not only recovers all Warrior Qi the cultivator possesses, but also increase the efficiency of their Warrior Qi by 50% .

Although their medicinal properties work wondrously, the Wailing Dan is, in fact, a Forbidden Pill . The medicinal properties worked only for half an hour before the user is bitten by the Inner Demon . Luckily, a meditation before the medicine strength is gone reduces the possibility by 10% .

The seven colored clouds soon vanish to indicates that they're in the first day of this Ping An Year again . Gong is beaten throughout the city to announce the beginning of the year, where all of the businesses are closed for their first and only rest before starting their business on the second day .

On the fifth day, Zhang Wu Yuan returned to his master's side to continue with his daily responsibility . Similar to his eldest brother, Zhang Wu Ji has to return to the Seven Star Master Hall as well to handle the handover of operation to people in charge before he enters the Seven Heaven Sect .

As for Zhang Wu Chou and Yang Ling Long, the two stayed in the Li Jiang City until the fifteenth of the month before headed to the Yang's Household .

On the sixteenth day, Zhang Wu Ji rides the slightly modified Qiyue Flying Sword with the identity of Qian Long and visits the Golden Carapace City's outer zone, where the former continues with his arrangement . After staying here for such a long time, Yin Li finally completes his persuasion to advice Jing Bu Wen to quit his businesses and focus on his profession .

This persuasion maybe only means one less corporation working along with the others in their Golden Carapace City . But for the newly reformed Seven Star County, the complete move over of all the staff from this corporation to Seven Star County equals to an increment of 5,000 miners, 1,200 blacksmiths, and over 15,000 increase of population .

He considered about the pro and cons for their action . And after the discussion, Zhang Wu Ji agreed with the moving quota of 1 complete Corporation yearly, with a maximum of two corporations in one year . With his mission is ended, Li Yin is allowed to return to the Seven Star County, while monitoring the performances and attitude of the people migrated under him .

Five days before the end of the first month, Zhang Wu Ji meets up with Meng Ran . The latter expected his arrival but did not think that it was this today . Of course, under her guidance, they went to a location void of people and wild beast .

"Yes, I am not allowed to bring anyone with me, which means that my eight attendants, my senior brother or sisters, and you are not allowed to follow me to the Seven Heaven Sect," he answered her next question .

"Of course! My family, sect, master, and everyone is here along with you . I will come back no matter what . " he took a proper stare at the lady sitting beside him .

"I'll wait for you . . . " as she tried to complete this sentence, a gust of wind blew past where they seated and covered her soft and gentle voice . Because Zhang Wu Ji did not get her word completely, he asked her with a single word .

"I say I'll wait for you with the others!" her face blushed as she replied to him . Following from that reply, she turned her view to a different angle . The two of them remained silent for a while until the sky is dark . Although the ground is illuminated by the glow from the stars, the darkness still caused him to fail at looking on her feature .

"Can you stay with me?" the word finally came out from her lips . After listening to her question, Zhang Wu Ji falls silent for a while . But before he replies, she added the remaining word into her sentence .

"Of . . . Of course! The stars . . . Looking at the stars make me think about what is there after the Qi Branching Tier . Does breaking through that limit allows us to fly, or will we become an immortal . . . I wanted to know . " Zhang Wu Ji stammered as he replies to her request . But when the topic went to something else, his stammering gone .

"Haha . . . " her cheeks turned red from the moment Zhang Wu Ji agreed . But seeing how Zhang Wu Ji hungers to the world beyond their Ping An Continent made her considered about her own cultivation as well . While Zhang Wu Ji is already the 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior, she's still standing at the early of 9th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter .

"Thank you . . . I'm tired sitting . Can you let me use your arm as my headrest?" she dares herself to request more from him . When the request came into his ears, Zhang Wu Ji did not reply to her verbally, but through his action .

He extended his arm across her as she leans backward . With her head is on his arm, Zhang Wu Ji and she leaned down on the patch of grasses and enjoyed their time together by counting the stars and having some small talks in between .

"Hey! I wanna look at them too!" standing on the bottom to support Tang Yuan,, Bai Hei Tie raised his voice to request for his turn to look . But he forgets that they're on a covert mission to sneakily look at how their master does .

"Shuuhhh!" a piece of pebble came to where the give is hiding and warned them to stay away . While the group is rolling down from the mountain in a hurry, they failed to look at Meng Ran's smiling face as she continues to rest on his arm .

Both of them went to freshen themselves from the dust carries by the wind, and when Zhang Wu Ji is done with himself, he returned to the Main Hall for a meeting with the others for the last two times before he departs to the Seven Heaven Sect .

"Sect Master! The miners from all over the county came forward to reports their findings! It seems that something happened to our land!" Li Jing reported the moment Zhang Wu Ji seated on the Sect Master's chair .

"Summon them in and let me see what is wrong . " Zhang Wu Ji approved their visit . Following from his approval, a total of four miners came forth to report to him about their new findings .

"We (Miners) from the four cities came forth today to report about the new materials available in our county . " they greet him immediately when entered .

"This miner from Wen Qing City found an underground Tomb that believed to contain a large amount of Tomb Silver . " the first miner reported .

"This miner from Wen Yang City found a location that was illuminated yesterday, and when we went there to pick on the rocks, we found a large amount of Moon Silver too!" the second miner reported .

"This miner from Wen Wu City wanted to report that we found a large amount of Fool Silver from the Mountain west of Wen Wu City . We believe that the number of this resources will not be lesser than the Iron resources before . " the third miner reported .

"Dear Sect Master . . . This miner and his colleague mined at an abandoned cave south from the city and spotted a vein of Water Sapphire!" when the fourth reported, Zhang Wu Ji jaw dropped .

Hello readers . First and foremost, please forgive me for my failure to deliver the final two promised chapter for Sunday . I hope everyone understands that 3rd December is your beloved author's 32nd birthday .

This week quota will be another 7 chapters again + 2 Chap that I missed on Sunday . Please forgive me for delaying the update for Monday and Tuesday because I deserve a break? Just two days, and I will continue updating until Sunday .

"How can our county suddenly came out with so many discoveries on different raw materials out of sudden?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned the changes happened on the Seven Star County, but the more he thinks about it, the more he cannot believe it .

"Except the falling stars during the first Seven Colored Clouds, there's nothing else came on that day . . . Does this mean, the falling stars is a blessing in disguise?" Zhang Wu Ji can only force himself to believe his hypothesis in this matter .

As a person that obtained a part of the blessing, this is the only answer for the sudden discoveries in many different resources in this county . But at the same time, this incident makes him reconsidered his hypothesis .

"How do the blessing know what the county needs? Was it so coincidence that heaven showered them with 2nd-Tier resources when they need it to grow?" Zhang Wu Ji gives this topic a thought but soon dismissed them as it was pointless to think about it now .

"I will be going to the Seven Heaven Sect soon . . . Won't all of this Silver Resources left unattended because I'm not here?" Zhang Wu Ji's worries came in but soon disintegrated because he found the answer very quickly .

"I have to be confident on their capability . Taking the 1st-Tier Blacksmithing Compendium as their fundamental foundation, their understanding towards 2nd-Tier Silver Metal will not be as difficult as one thinks . " Zhang Wu Ji is confident that the manual he created is much better than solely improving the skills in 1st-Tier resources alone .

"Li Jing, Li Yin, Li Tong, and Vault Elder Feng Ming, I'll leave the Seven Star Master Hall to your hand . Master, I hope you can support them if they needed any help . " Zhang Wu Ji addressed his words to his three disciples before politely speak to his master .

"Miners, please follow the Vault Elder to our Master Hall's Office to collect the compensation fee for making you come here in a rush to report the findings . If there's anything you need, feel free to inform Master Feng Ming and see what Master Hall can do for you . "

As he will depart from the Seven Star Master Hall the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji uses his remaining time here to talk with the others . Although the separation is difficult to bear, everyone knows that based on their Sect Leader's talent, restricting him in the county will hinder his growth .

In the next morning, under the eyes of every member of the Seven Star Master Hall, Zhang Wu Ji left the sect and headed to the Wen Yang City . It takes him two days in total to reach the city, where the people from the Seven Heaven Sect is waiting .

"You're here . Congratulation on entering the 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, but we have to go . The trip back to the Middle Southern Sect is one month journey away by riding on the Silver Wolf Tender . Although the trip back to the sect isn't completely safe, we're not in danger either . "

"The reason is due to the agreement between the ten sects in the Middle Southern State along with the leader of the Strong Beast and the Alliance of Bandits . " Wu Jing explained the distance and danger to this new disciple before they depart .

According to this agreement, as long the travelers in the Middle Southern State travels in Flying Ark made by Silver Wolf Gate, Soaring Gate, and Celestial Gate . They're the three and only sect that mainly focused on technologies, Tools, and Formation Equipment .

Inside this Middle Southern State, the rules are different . The ten counties are differentiated into four different categories, including the counties dominated by the bandit and Strong Beast . They're known as the One Religion, Two Sects, Three Gates, and Four Strongholds .

The four strongholds consisted of Tie Ying Forest, Xue Hou Valley, Xuan Wu Bandits Fortress, and Mystical Taming Peak . The earlier two are ruled by two peak stage Lesser Demon Beast, and the latter two are under the control of Mountain Bandits .

As for the three gates, which obtained a safe travel agreement for everyone using their Flying Arks, was mentioned earlier . After the three gates, it was the turn of Two Sects .

Although the two of them are both Sect Grade Category, the Flame Burial Sect left the Seven Heaven Sect far behind when it comes to the number of sect Inner Members and Outer Delegates . One of the reason can be seen from the differences of Five-Flavor Flame Sect in their top Upper County in Rank, and the Seven Star Master Hall in their top Lower County .

The word [Top] is the same, but the differences in their quality differ by a large gap . And for the last in the list, is unexpectedly the Blood Messenger Religion . This Blood Messenger Religion is also the superpower supporting the Blood Art Sect from behind .

Their travel quickly went past the Crystalline River County, before entering the vicinity of Five-Flame County and Jie's County before they left the borders separating the Upper South State and Middle South State .

And the reason for such a name is caused by the dense population of Wild Beast to Lesser Demon Beast is here . Unless one travel from the sky like how they do or possessing an ability comparable to an Inner Qi Lord, they're suggested to not travel across the Cultivator's Burial Ground that seems like a desert .

It took them ten days traveling without a stop to fly across three counties into where the Cultivator's Burial Ground is located . After ten more days, they left the desert and entered a part of the land slightly different from how their Upper South State fares .

"No wonder all ten counties did not hesitate to produce more medicinal herbs and crops . If one decided to plant the plants over here, the period of their harvest might take twice the time to grow a mere Sun Facing Fruit Tree . " Zhang Wu Ji looked at the land categorized as Middle Southern State .

The soil carries a hint similar to copper powder which lack of vitality . Except for a specific variety of Ironwood Tree, Dragon Beard Grass, and Evil Eye Plant, the land is rarely grown and covered by greens wherever they went .

In this land vegetation started to give up on occupying, human establishment and buildings flourished . Only a few minutes pass from the time they went inside this state, and they were already inspected by countless disciple from the Celestial Gate .

Although they're riding a Silver Wolf Tender, it did not mean that they're free to traverse through the airspace controlled by the ten counties . This rule is even stricter because the three entrances into the Middle Southern State belonged to the Three Gates .

"This brother from Celestial Gate, I am Wu Ji, Disciple from Second Heaven Mountain . Please allows us to went through this way please . " Wu Jing approached the guard's leader with his Nameplate in hand . From the way he speaks, he was too humble .

"Oh, Third Seat of Second Heaven Mountain, Wu Jing . . . Did you forget about the rules stated to collect a passing fee from every cultivator above Inner Qi Fighters? I believe that even yourself may remember about doubling the rate if one rides in Flying Tools?" the Guard's Leader mocked Wu Jing .

"Brothers from Celestial Gate, please not makes thing difficult to me and my companion inside of the Tender . I will pay you forty Qi Accumulating Pills for the passing fee, thanks . " Wu Jing took a Spatial Stone out and transferred forty pills before handling the stone over .

"Wu Jing, Wu Jing . . . Did you forget about the tax as well? With thousands of us here stopping you, don't you think a Qi Accumulating Pill per person is a good offer?" unexpectedly, the Guard's Leader did not carry the intention to let their Tender leave .

"Trash!" Zhang Wu Ji's temper explodes the moment he heard the words, but before he can take a step further, multiple strands of Elder's Qi came from the Elder and stopped him from moving .

"Youth . . . Middle South is not as peaceful as the Upper South . Here, we tolerate and act when the fruit of cause is ripe enough for us to take action . Always remember that inside the Middle South, behind every person is a superpower protecting him . "

"We can act similar to him when he came to the Seven Heaven Sect, but while we're at the land belonged to the Celestial Gate, we tolerate!" the elder whispers came into his ears . Moments later, Zhang Wu Ji calms himself down from rashnesses .

Once again, Wu Jing transferred a thousand an one hundred Qi Accumulating Pills into another stack of ten Spatial Stone . Looking at the amount of wealth got cheated away by few words, Zhang Wu Ji and the others feel miserable .

Luckily, the Guard's Leader no longer continues to mock them . A path is opened by the people flying on top of a Low-Quality Flying Sword, where the Tender Wu Jing controlled quickly went away from this despicable place .

After flying for a distance, Wu Jing allowed a subordinate to handle piloting and returned into the cabin . Here, he started a discussion with the elder . Although Zhang Wu Ji is here inside the cabin, Wu Jing did not make up a reason to send him away .

"Jing-Er, put aside the anger . This wasn't your fault!" before he started, the elder reminds him . From the way the elder speaks, it seems that Wu Jing assumes that he did something wrong to cause the people from Celestial Gate to be so offended .

"Your younger brother Wu Ming is known for his fiery temper and rashness . If it's not because of your status as the Junior Enforcer of the Seven Heaven Sect, won't those guards take action?" the elder continues . From how he speaks, it's easy for him to see what happened .

Wu Jing's brother is Wu Ming, the seventh seat in Second Heaven Mountain . He's known for his explosive temper, righteous and loyal . Unfortunately, all these positive traits are exploited by his enemies to lead him into a trap .

In a banquet not too long ago, Wu Ming was harassed by two ladies . They disturbed him from the moment this banquet started until it ends, and that opportunity was taken by two disciples from Celestial Gate to add oil into the burning fire .

This caused Wu Ming to lost his temper and attacked the two disciples . The attack wasn't something they expect, but how can the two in their 15th stage Inner Qi Warrior fight against the seventh top disciple of Second Heaven Mountian?

The power of 20th Stage Half Step Inner Qi Soldier crushes them into two lumps of meat pulp . And this is why the Celestial Gate is so offended . The death of this two incites the anger from the Celestial Gate's Ninth Forge, causing a group of them coming out to disturb everyone that comes from their Seven Heaven Sect .

Finally, thirty days of travel is completed, where the Silver Wolf Tender they riding reaches the vicinity of Seven Heaven Sect . The scene shocks him to his core the moment he takes a view on the surrounding .

It was an amazingly tall Gate Arch that reaches at least a thousand meters high, with mountains on both sides . Because there's Formation Array enveloping the whole Seven Heaven Sect, they're required to enter the Formation Array through their four available gates .

Once entered, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with the view of Seven Mountains surrounding a massive forest in the center . Each mountain is assumed to be around 13,000 meters height from sea level, crowded with at least five million resident in each peak .

And amongst the seven mountain peak, one towered the others with a Spiralling Tower going upward until it was at least 20,000 meters up to the sky .

"Disciple! Come forward for your disciple pouch!" an elder shouts at the Main Hall filled with many disciples . Within the disciple's pouch are four essential items . A name token made from special material known as Mountain Ore, an impure silver sword with the word "Seven Star Ceremonial Sword" on the blade's body, a stack of 10 Qi Accumulating Pills, and a piece of Memorial Formation Plate .

The Mountain Ore is known for their recording properties, durable, and magical . By using this material to create the disciple's Name Token, it allows one to apply a function within according to their needs . As an example, the Name Token is made with the ability to store Heaven Points, Record owner's Identity, and protection to the disciples in a crucial situation .

Next is the Seven Star Ceremonial Sword, a durable weapon that was provided to the disciple to be utilized in a fight . Seven Star Ceremonial Sword possess a unique feature that helps the cultivator to calm his mind when used .

As for the last item, it was the key to access his own room . Within every Mountain inside this Seven Heaven Sect, every member enrolled as a disciple of the sect will receive a complimentary residence . The residence comes in the form of a Rectangular building with a room and a workshop and the back of the room .

Depending on their needs, the workshop can be fitted according to their wishes, where Zhang Wu Ji choose for the Blacksmithing Workshop instead of Pill Workshop, Botanist Workshop, Formation Workshop, or any other specialized profession workshops .

The reason is through the Blacksmithing Workshop, he can process both Celestial Designer's product and Metalwares out from one workshop . After collecting all the necessary equipment, the tour to visit all available departments in this First Heaven Mountain is conducted .

After the tour, they're briefed with the daily activities they can do to obtain more resources . One of the main contributions the disciples can do for their respective Heaven's Mountain is to support them to progress . The completed task is usually paid with Qi Accumulating Pills, except a few missions that reward differently .

But these missions are only the appetizer for the disciples that recently enrolled into the Seven Heaven Sect . The main reason for them to complete these missions are to destroy their pride as talented individuals, where they're treated like precious treasures .

And by completing low-ranked missions to ascend, the sect trained them in both mentally and physically . After going through this tempering, the matured disciples are allowed to choose a higher ranked mission to obtain Heaven Points .

The Heaven Points is the most valuable currency within this Seven Heaven Sect, where it can be traded into multiple selections of precious treasures to develop their cultivation strength before ascending to the next mountain .

Every month, a disciple competition is organized within each Heaven Mountain to select the two strongest disciples to ascend the Heaven Mountain . And to obtain the chances to advance, one will have to win ten consecutive rounds, with the ten opponents in the cultivation not lesser or exceed 3 stage .

This means that only the best prodigy among the group of prodigies can obtain this chance, where it was strictly depending on cultivation, effort, motivation, and luck . And with this competition is organized every end of the month, the battle to advance is too fierce .

Still, the ascension opportunity comes with great benefits . In the First Heaven Mountain, the disciples are restricted to the right to accept Mortal Earth-Grade Mission and cultivating Mortal Earth-Grade Arts . But this changed when they advance into the Second Heaven Mountain, where Wu Jing and his brother, Wu Ming is .

After one entered the cultivation tier as an Inner Qi Warrior, they will be introduced to the real world of the Qi Branching Tier mystery . Four different categories will be added to determine the quality of the item, starting from Mortal Earth and the better Mortal Heaven as the Low Category .

"If all of you understand what everyone has to do, you're allowed to return to your own residence . Go ahead and do what you like, but always remember that as a disciple in the First Heaven Mountain, you're restricted to conduct everything within this mountain . "

"Dismiss!" the elder completed his introduction speech and allowed the other to do what they want . Like the others, Zhang Wu Ji first headed to his own room for an inspection . Different from when he was still inside the Seven Star County, life here dependent on his own strength and effort .

Within the room is a very simple Forging Workshop with high-quality equipment, but none of them is better compared to those he used when inside Seven Star County .

With a simple swipe of his hand, he gathered all the equipment in a corner before leaving a few pieces of furniture to decorate the spaces . A Spatial Stone is used to hold all the stuff away and thrown under the table . After a short while of rest, Zhang Wu Ji left his residence and entered the Material Hall, where the disciples came to trade off their excess materials .

Inside here, at least more than six thousand disciples opened their stall here to sell the item inside their inventory . As it was a higher rank state, the usage of Spatial Stone and high-grade Spatial Stone is normal . Some wealthier disciple even possesses the Onyx-Class Spatial Ring, something treated as an expensive commodity inside Upper South State .

"This junior brother, are you here to buy some materials? Support this senior brother's store a little bit!" one of the disciples from a quieter area tried to sell something to him . Since he'snot too familiar with this place yet, Zhang Wu Ji decided to lay low .

Taking himself to the stall, he started to check the merchandise this disciple available for purchase . But unfortunately, most of the treasure he selling belonged to the 1st-tier, where it soon bored him as he continues to run through the merchandise in this stall .

"Senior brother, it seems that there's nothing up to this junior's taste . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hands together and excused himself . When the disciple noticed that Zhang Wu Ji is trying to leave, he quickly approached him to see what he's looking .

"This senior brother, Wu Ji enrolled into the First Heaven Mountain today . My motive is not buying ready-made materials but raw materials for Blacksmithing . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to his question . When he heard what this junior said, the disciple quickly brings him to a seller located at a corner far from the others .

"Junior brother, This girl is Liu Xin Xin . I believe she has everything you're asking for because her family is one of the most well-known Miner Family with a special bloodline . " the disciple introduces Zhang Wu Ji to a lady sitting in a corner .

Liu Xin Xin is a lady in 1 . 9 meters height, seemingly busty but more to the muscular type . Her look is not too bad when it was compared to Guan Qing Han or Meng Ran, but her figure betrays her completely in personality wise .

"Junior brother, what are you looking for? Tell this elder sister straightaway!" the heroic and straightforward attitude burst out from her as she talks to Zhang Wu Ji and the disciple .

"Zheng Kai, thank you for bringing me a customer, I'll treat you the Lighting Boars Skewer later at night!" she waved her hand towards the disciple name Zheng Kai . After he left, she had her view looking directly at the youth .

"Senior sister, can junior ask for the price on this stack of low-quality Silver ores?" Zhang Wu Ji asked Liu Xin Xin for the price she set on the stack of Silver Ores .

"Hmm? Is this junior an expect blacksmith?" she questioned herself because, from her experience inside here for one whole year, she's yet to see a blacksmith with a scholar looking face like Zhang Wu Ji . Worst of all, this youth doesn't look like somebody skillful in blacksmithing at all!

"Hmm . . . Since this is your first purchase, how about one Qi Accumulating Pill for a Low-Grade Spatial Stone's full?" she suggested a considerable cost to the youth . If this youth agrees to purchase more than one spatial stone worth, it will reach the target for her today's sale .

"Junior is looking for some Smelting Furnace, Anvil, and hammers . I hope Senior Sister sells these things too . " Zhang Wu Ji continues their conversation by mentioning the name of a few tools .

"This junior brother, elder sister does have some tools for sale, but their cost is higher because it was a product that cost me time to craft them," she answered his question by taking out five pieces of Low-Grade Spatial Stone .

Inside each of them is a set of tools made from Silver-Iron Mix . Although their purity is not up to par, the durability of these tools is far better than what the First Heaven Mountain residence provided . And at the same time, Liu Xin Xin questioned herself .

"How can a blacksmith not possess his own set of tools? Did my expectation on him is wrong?" but before she got her answer, Zhang Wu Ji agreed to purchase the five sets of Blacksmithing Tools and five Low-Grade Spatial Stone worth of Silver Ores .

"Each set of tools is 1 Qi Accumulating Pill, five pills for all of them . As for the Silver Ores, the total is five pills as well . Altogether will be 10 Qi Accumulating Pills, junior brother . " Liu Xin Xin calculates the total amount of his purchase and quickly prepared the materials from her side pouch .

"Senior Sister, can junior ask about the best thing to be smelted from this stack of silver?" he quickly asks for tips from Liu Xin Xin to know what was the best thing he can craft if he wanted to earn some pills .

"My best advice is to smelt them into Silver Ingots . The First Heaven's Forge is lack of Silver in this few days, so selling them the Silver Ingots is the best way to earn some pills . If I'm not mistaken, they're paying the price of one Qi Accumulating Pill for two Basic-Grade Silver Ingots or one Qi Accumulating Pill for each Military-Grade . "

"Junior, I must tell you this because you came from another state . Ingots we created must comply with the size requirement of 10 kilograms each . The better the Purity, the higher is their selling price . I will suggest you purchase a Casting Mold to make sure you meet the minimal requirement of Silver Ingot . "

Liu Xin Xin took a Casting Mold out from her Spatial Stone and let the youth to inspect them . But the moment Zhang Wu Ji told her he got no money left inside his pocket, she laughed . That instant, she throws the mold into his hand .

The moment he's back to the residence he quickly upgraded the tools inside the Spatial Stone and selected the one with the best Special Ability . One by one, they're destroyed before reaching +10 . At the end of the Trial, only a shaping hammer, Furnace, and Anvil remained . As for the Casting Mold, he left it at +5 as he only has one of them for now .

Hey! We're at Volume 2's starting . It's a new beginning again, but sit tight, we're going to be blasting weapons, forging pills, smacking assholes, and of course, Scale the tower .

For the next two days, Zhang Wu Ji is busy handling the smelting process to extract the silver within Mineral Ore . The process is not challenging due to the low melting point of the silver, but additional effort is needed to remove the unused silica .

Luckily, the effect from his 1st-Tier Blacksmithing Compendium is carried forward for him to utilize them on smelting the 2nd-TIer materials . Although the influence wasn't as notable compared to when he extracted the 1st-Tier materials, it was still a great help .

And by using the Blacksmithing Hammer on the end product, Zhang Wu Ji process the material using a two-time melting process before pouring them into their respective 10 kilograms Casting Mold . Luckily, the step to separates the Silver Material to their individual class isn't required .

Due to the silver in each category possess a different preferable mine, the mineral ores he bought from Liu Xin Xin all contained Fool Silver, the weakest kind of silver among the three . This kind of surface silver can be easily found throughout the whole county .

But this did not cause the price to crumble . This is due to the lack of concentration inside the harvested Mineral Ores . And from all these difficulties, it forced the establishment to prefer purchasing them instead .

By relying on the effect given by the Blacksmithing Compendium, Zhang Wu Ji take his own time to see how good is his smelting capability without having the necessary knowledge manual . At the end of his second day, the five Spatial Stone amount of mineral ores is all processed into Fool Silver Ingots .

-Note: Fool Silver will not react with poison, making it unsuitable for poison testing . Fool Silver's durability will be reduced by 50% when crafted into a tool .

"Not bad at all, considering that actual silver in my former realm is very malleable . Still, no wonder they call this a Fool Silver . It was because of their unusual characteristics on disability to react with poison and the decreasing durability during crafting . "

Luckily, as an Inner Qi Warrior, one will learn the trick to apply their Warrior Qi into the weapon to reduce the destructive forces applied to their tools . This allows the Fool Silver to become more durable against any damages . Furthermore, the Silver material is extremely comfortable with the existence of Warrior Qi, making it a suitable tool for those in Warrior Tier and above .

"Without the assistance from manuals with 2nd-Tier quality, it will be quite difficult for me to increase their Purity further . Looks like without the UPGRADE System, I'm barely a qualified profession master at all . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he thinks about all his weaknesses .

To begin with, he's an empty book without any knowledge is written within . With a total of 423 days living as Zhang Wu Ji in this realm, he suffered many difficulties, although most of them failed to bring him down from where he stands now .

But still, when it comes to profound knowledge regarding the Continent, Cultivation, and Profession, he was still hovering in between the surface, and yet to went further . For him, increasing the amount of knowledge he absorbs from reading is essential, but the essential he needs come with the cost of QI Accumulating Pill .

Unlike the 1st-Tier book that treated like trash inside this state, the 2nd-Tier book is actually categorized as precious treasures that one will need to pay a minimal charge to take a look . Of course, copying the same manual is allowed, but some Manuals comes with additional profoundness inside of the book they wrote, where it will make no sense to those that copied the notes but not the profoundness .

Within the 500 kilograms of Mineral Ore, Zhang Wu Ji yield a total of 150 kilograms of Fool Silver Ingot in their 13% Purity . With fifteen Ingots in hand, it's worth a total of 15 Qi Accumulating Pills when he traded them to the people from Material Hall .

On the fourth day morning, Zhang Wu Ji paid a visit to the Material Hall and exchanged the ingots for fifteen Qi Accumulating Pills . With the pill in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji returned to Liu Xin Xin for few stacks of raw material . Although it wasn't weird to have a disciple coming here to purchase the raw materials, his next purchase is what puzzled Liu Xin Xin .

"Five sets of tools again? Did he break all of them through his lack of experience in handling them? This cannot be . . . Or else, how much can he earn from such a high cost of production?"

"Picking up the proper skills to process the ore and not recklessly preparing them is essential! I understand that you managed to refine fifteen ingots in their Military-Grade, but the cost of destroying five sets of tools is unheard before!"

"Wastage is the bane to a blacksmith in his path to success!" she said in a strict tone . Although it means additional profit to her effort, Liu Xin Xin isn't the kind of person that will covet small profit and ruining the others . In this discussed topic, she's someone with a proper morality and pride toward herself .

"Senior sister, Wu Ji doesn't mean it that way . I am trying to choose for a set of proper tool that fits all my requirement . I hope my action did not leave a poor impression to senior sister . " Zhang Wu Ji bowed at the lady to express himself .

"Senior sister, Wu Ji is actually looking for some Tomb Silver . . . " since she already mentioned the offer, Zhang Wu Ji see no reason to reject her . But when he stated the Tomb Silver, Liu Xin Xin's expression changed to a dissatisfaction .

"Why Tomb Silver!" she shouted at Zhang Wu Ji loudly . The shout shocks the others shopping far from them, and made everyone turn their vision to where the two facing each another .

"That brat! How can he mention the forbidden word in front of Sister Liu!" Zheng Kai almost fainted after hearing that shout . If Liu Xin Xin came to his stall to reprimand him, what can he do? No matter what, she's still a cultivator in the 14th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior!

"Senior sister, please forgive junior for speaking something he shouldn't . Please accept this junior's apology . " Zhang Wu Ji noticed her fury and quickly apologized for his mistake . And at this moment, he's did not know her well enough to understand the reason for her anger .

"Weakling like you should stop dreaming about Tomb Silver! What is so great about the treasure that will kill you the moment you're dealing with them?" she releases her anger using Zhang Wu Ji as the target . Without himself knowing, Zhang Wu Ji was there at the correct moment .

"Stupid! Idiot! Foolish! You say you will become the best blacksmith, while I am the best Smelting Producer . But you deceived my trust! You left me behind alone!" everything that kept within her heart is vent out at Zhang Wu Ji . Unconsciously, he becomes the replacement of the person she's blaming .

"Hoo . . . You left me . . . I'm all alone . . . " unexpected by everyone, the most heroic lady in this First Heaven Mountain can vent such a torturing experience that's been plaguing her heart for so long . After ten minutes of throwing a tantrum on the youth, she eventually relaxed .

"Tomb Silver is not something so easily obtained . Or else, they won't be the best in Silver Category . " unconscious to even herself, she actually felt calmer than how it was . Of course, it comes with a little bit of embarrassment due to her earlier face expression when throwing a tantrum .

"Is there an issue that's been bothering Senior Sister? Can Wu Ji help?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . It may be dangerous to get the Tomb Silver, but he's not somebody without a background as well .

"The Tomb Silver's Mineral Ore can be mined in the Kings Graveyard . I will not put too much hope in getting the Mineral Ores because this area is swarming with Puppets infused with Negative Warrior Qi . " Liu Xin Xin answered his question in a detailed manner, but she's yet to finish .

"Each of the Puppet Warrior strength is between 13th Stage to 19th Stage, just a little further to 20th Stage Inner Qi Soldier . As for the Tomb Silver's Mineral Ore, you don't need to search for them," she explained the situation to him accurately .

"The Tomb Silver comes in the form of graveyard's tombstone . All you need is to smash them into shattered bits and collect them," she answered him with a simple but accurate method .

"Anyway, take these stuff and go . I'm closing my stall earlier today . " Liu Xin Xin tossed the Spatial Stone at him and opened her palm wide and waits for her payment . After the transaction is complete, the two went on their own way, where Liu Xin Xin is heading to the Top Ten Disciple Residence and Zhang Wu Ji to his personal residence .

On the third day morning again, Zhang Wu Ji appeared in the Material Hall as usual, and this time, he exchanged a total of 33 Fool Silver Ingots with the staff before he returned to Liu Xin Xin's stall . But this time, instead of purchasing for some new tools, he exchanged twenty of the Accumulating Pills with twenty Spatial Stones full of Mineral Ores .

And before he left, Zhang Wu Ji returned the Casting Mold to her, stating that he got his own now . Although it wasn't something to be bothered, a puzzled expression came from Liu Xin Xin's face .

"How can he spend the same three days to refine ten Spatial Stone full of Mineral Ores? It was a tonne full! One Tonne!" Liu Xin Xin cannot believe the speed Zhang Wu Ji refined them, but if she knows that Zhang Wu Ji actually converted 5 of the 99% High-Tier Spirit-Grade Pure Iron into Casting Mold, her jaw will drop to the ground in an instant .

Luckily, this youth has no idea that the 99% Purity Iron can fetch a hefty price in the Material Hall's market due to their rarity . This is because, within the whole Middle South State, there's only a total of five 2nd-Tier Early Blacksmiths possess the skill to smelt such a metal!

Three days again passed, and it was his tenth day inside this Seven Heaven Sect . This morning, Zhang Wu Ji went to the Material Hall again to exchange seventy Fool Silver Ingots for pills . But the differences this time is that instead of being paid with seventy Qi Accumulating Pills, they pay him a hundred and forty pills for the seventy Advance-Grade Ingots!

"Ten days is what it took for him to smelt Advance-Grade Fool Silver? Is this still called talents?" the spectators near to the counter declared . And in no time, this kind of news is spreading throughout the First Heaven Mountain, making everyone questioned about his identity .

"This brat . . . Ten days . . . He can't lay low with his strength at all huh?" Wu Jing smirks as he continues with his game of chess with the Elder .

If everything goes well, we will have another chapter or two by the next day . It is a sad thing to see that we dropped in ranking, but worry not, writing is an effort, not competition .

And, we're gonna have a long blacksmithing session here, so don't worry about too many kinds of the pie is in his plate this time . In future I dunno . Did you notice that he did not cultivate at all?

"So, what are you planning to do next? Buy forty Spatial Stone worth of Mineral Ores and refine 140 Ingots to sell after three days?" Liu Xin Xin initiates the conversation first when Zhang Wu Ji reaches her stall . Before he replied to her words, he noticed a few changes in the merchandise she's selling .

"Senior sister, there are a few new merchandises available for sale today!" Zhang Wu Ji mentioned it before her without any hidden intention, but it was misunderstood by Liu Xin Xin as a word of care . She stuttered for a second but retaliates soon .

"Do you think I got no other customers except you? There are many people buying stuff from me on a daily basis so put away your puppy eyes that try to ask for discounts . " she scolds him for looking down on her business, but from the way she speaks, she did not mean what she said .

"Senior sister, Wu Ji is only getting twenty Spatial Stone full of Mineral Ores today . I have to spend a hundred pills to enter the First Heaven's Library to choose a manual to be borrowed out . " Zhang Wu Ji explained why he's only exchanging twenty pills today .

"You're going to the First Heaven's Library? Make sure you know what you want before going in and search randomly . Tell the elder what Manual you're looking for, and he will give you the number to which bookshelf with the books you're searching for . "

"Remember that you only have an hour time to select one of the books to be taken out from the library for a week, so make sure you prepare the paper and ink for copying purposes . " out of care, she advised this junior to prepare the material before entering the First Mountain Library .

"Wu Ji understands . Senior sister, for all the advice you give me, please accept this Iron Alloy Dual-Headed Pickaxe as my gratitude . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the pickaxe from his Spatial Ring and passes the tool with both hands . By looking on how he delivered this gift, Liu Xin Xin accepted it as a return of respect .

"Heavens! How can this pickaxe possess this kind of quality? I heard the others says that he arrive from some small county in Upper South State?" after the youth left her stall, it was quiet for a few hours before she decided to call it a day . But when she inspected the pickaxe in her pouch, it surprised her .

Although it was still an Iron product, the method of preparations and the amount of mixture was measured precisely . With such a harmonized balance is applied in preparing the Pickaxe's Head itself, how can this mining tool be useless against the Mineral Ores located on the stone mountain not far from their First Heaven Mountain?

And while she's completely immersed herself inside of the pickaxe, Zhang Wu Ji arrived at the entrance to this well-known location inside their First Heaven Mountain .

The building itself is built using a combination of simple bricks, clay, and of course, Ironwood . Of course, it was about the size of an international football field building built in a single story height . Walking closer through climbing the stairs, Zhang Wu Ji reaches the entrance of this library .

"Dear elder, Junior Zhang Wu Ji wish to borrow a book to improve himself . " Zhang Wu Ji caught the whereabouts of this elder meditates and turned his eyesight at him . His reply comes with a polite bow toward the elder, allowing Zhang Wu Ji to obtain a little preference from this elder .

"Best if they come with information in Blacksmithing and some supporting skills . " Zhang Wu Ji replied the elder with the type of books he's searching in this visit . The elder too considered every single word the youth said and immediately comes out with a suggestion .

"Profession Hall, bookshelf number thirty-three, second row from the top, the fifth to eighth book will be suitable for your request . " the elder speaks out the few books he suggested to the youth to let him not wasting too many time to search blindly .

"One hundred Qi Accumulating Pills will be charged for one entry . It will be your own luck in finding a suitable book for borrowing . One hour time limit . If you're not out after one hour, you will be banned from entering the library for a month . " the elder ended his word . Without further ado, Zhang Wu Ji paid a hundred pills for his entry and bowed to the elder before he left .

"Proper attitude but lack of cultivation . I hope my suggestion works . . . Next!" the elder praised the youth based on his first impression and called for the next disciple that wished to enter the First Mountain's Library .

Inside here, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with three different entrances leading to a different Hall . The left passage pointed to the Cultivation Hall, the right to Profession Hall, and the middle is for Martial Hall . It seems that their arrangement is based on the content of the books .

Turning right, Zhang Wu Ji entered the Profession Hall and headed to the Bookshelf number thirty-three . On the second row of the books, Zhang Wu Ji checked the four books suggested by the elder to him .

But unlike the others inside the Hall as well, Zhang Wu Ji scanned through the book by his touch instead of taking one book after another and roughly going through the book carefully . Of course, the others have no idea about his UPGRADE System, to begin with .

"Look at that fella . Randomly touches the book and walk away . Did he take the Profession Hall's library as a fun place to visit? The entrance fee alone is 100 Qi Accumulating Pills!" many other disciples of the sect complained in their mind, but leave him alone as they too only have one hour to comprehend the book before deciding on which one to be taken out from the library .

And from the four books, Zhang Wu Ji understands the meaning the elder trying to tell him . But instead of reading the content like the others, Zhang Wu JI deciphered them within one minute, where he still has fifty-nine minutes to look around inside the Profession Hall .

This explanation alone tells him everything the elder wanted to say . Because his cultivation is extremely week at this moment, he should put more effort into increasing cultivation first . Although seeing a cultivator in their 1 strand of Warrior Qi is nothing rare in the elder's daily life, a complete void of improvement status is so far the first one .

Even an idiot will cultivate and increases his Fighter Qi for a strand or two, but this youth is exactly at 1,000 strands of Fighter Qi, or 1 Warrior Qi in his tenth day within this sect! This means that he's completely stopped from cultivating at all!

For the others, meditating and absorbing the Natural Energy surrounding them whenever they got the chance is a norm in their daily life . But for Zhang Wu Ji, a person with an increment every three days because of his system, meditation and absorbing Natural Energy is something he was not used to .

But this reminder from the Elder finally hit the weak spot of this youth, who completely forget about the two most important facts related to him because he was too busy playing with the money making game! Nobody will say a thing if he's in Seven Star Master Hall, but unfortunately, he's inside somewhere else!

This place is the Seven Heaven Sect, a member of the Two Sect Category and also the representative of the Middle South State! Here, cultivation is necessary!

And by getting too busy with his hobby in playing with metal and pills, Zhang Wu Ji neglect the first fact, his now important Tyrant Martial Body, where it now enables him to cultivate like a normal cultivator, but with a Saint Class Martial Body .

Only by his Tyrant Martial Body alone, weaving the Natural Energy into strands of Inner Qi should be a very casual matter for him! As for the second matter, it was related to why his inheritance from his master, the Seven Tiered Star Pagoda Art did not work as it say!

He should obtain one strand of Warrior Qi in every five-day duration, which means around 14 strands of Warrior Qi become there's a total of seventy days has passed from the first day of Ping An Continent New Year!

"I am indeed neglecting my cultivation from the day I breakthrough . From the moment it says that in Warrior Tier onwards, One will have to keep the total Inner, Fighter, and Warrior Qi inside him completely filled because we no longer blessed with the Natural Law of Cultivation . "

"Maybe this is why the UPGRADE System no longer gives me automatic increment for so many days . . . " Zhang Wu Ji finally caught the mistake he's been doing from the moment he advanced into the 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior .

Of course, this will not change his intention to borrow a book related to Blacksmithing . After searching for a while, Zhang Wu Ji decided in one of the books and took the slip out from the book so the elder can produce a copy of the book from his Spatial Ring . This is why the elder is meditating outside of the First Heaven's Library with a total of seven Spatial Ring, but instead of Onyx-gem, they're similar to Amber .

"This book?" the elder showed a puzzled expression when Zhang Wu Ji took the slip to borrow something different from what he suggested . This gave the elder an entirely new impression on this youth because of the book he has chosen to rent .

-Limitation: Ability (2) are restricted to five application . Further application increases the possibility of the user suffering Silver Curse by 11%

-Special: Accessories produced by the Silver Processing Art can improve the impression of the opposite gender towards user by 5% (Effect only applicable once)

"Silver Processing Art . Looks like this brat possesses the ability to consider things properly . " the elder praised Zhang Wu Ji's proper mindset that will not fall from some word by others, and also decisive with what he planned before taking action .

As an elder, the ability to see through these sorts of mental status is essential . A student that follows his suggestion blindly may hint the elder about their weakness in lack of thought . A student that followed his word but failed to notice the hint suggest a person lacked comprehension .

If one actually chose to change to somewhere else after understanding his meaning behind the suggestion, it means their heart can be easily swayed . But Zhang Wu Ji's action wasn't correct either .

His action in not choosing the manual suggested by the elder but something else that related to the suggestion equal to challenging the Elder . This result also means that Zhang Wu Ji carries a stubborn mindset during his selection of a book to rent .

With the new book in hand, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his own residence again . On his thirteenth day inside the First Heaven Mountain, Zhang Wu Ji once again made his appearance inside the Material Hall .

This time, instead of exchanging seventy Fool Silver Ingots, he only withdraws five of them . But the five of them worth four Qi Accumulating Pills each because all of them are in their 32% Purity .

"Senior sister, Wu Ji would like to exchange for twenty Spatial Stone full of Mineral Ores again . " Zhang Wu Ji came forth and started to talk with Liu Xin Xin . The latter was shocked by his performance but was taken back to her physical body from his call .

"Junior brother . . . Congratulations on crafting five High-Grade Fool Silver Ingots . I take back my word before this, where during our first meeting, I am suspecting you to be an imposter instead of a blacksmith . " Liu Xin Xin congratulates him first before continuing with her words .

"Senior sister, that's fine . But can Wu Ji have the twenty Spatial Stones of Mineral Ores? I am in a little rush today because I need to further my study on the book I rented out . " Zhang Wu Ji shared his situation with Liu Xin Xin so that the latter will not blame him in hurrying to leave .

"Ah! So you found a book on that day? What book did you get?" Liu Xin Xin knows about his visit to the First Heaven Library, but she wasn't informed by anyone about the book the youth before him borrowed . Since he was here in front of her stall, why not ask?

Especially when this youth is here with five High-Grade Fool Silver Ingots this time . As a fellow Blacksmith, but somebody that step more to the path of a Harvesting Blacksmith, Liu Xin Xin is curious with the book that can increase the results in this three days .

"Senior sister, the book Wu Ji rented is a book named [Silver Processing Art] . This book contained many required information to guide my blacksmithing skills to be better in handling silver, which is a big help considering my days within the sect is just thirteen days . "

"I will be away for a few days from tomorrow to collect the materials, so keep them first . Pay me back when you're done with the smelting process six days later . " Liu Xin Xin told him her reason to let him have twice of the Mineral Ores he ordered .

Thinking about this, Zhang Wu Ji has bought quite a large amount of Raw Materials from her . With her business is running daily at all time, it is normal for her to take a few days off to restock . Furthermore, Liu Xin Xin comes from a family with a unique bloodline .

"Wu Ji understands . Do senior sister know when you will be coming back?" afraid that he will miss his supply of Raw Materials, Zhang Wu Ji try to catch up with her return date .

"I will come back after three days . My destination is Liu's Foundry and Mansion . " unexpectedly, she answered his question and telling him where she's going .

"Oh! I heard from others that senior sister is from the Liu's family and one of their top 10 younger generations studying in Seven Heaven Sect . No wonder senior sister is doing so well in the First Heaven . " Zhang Wu Ji heard one or two things about her .

Within this First Heaven Mountain, the city of its mountain peak is capable of holding the capacity of 10 Million residents if they wish, without including the First Heaven Mountain's Sect area . With this size of a city, its impossible to not have a few doing well families and clans .

And among them is the Liu Family, or also well known as the Liu Foundry and Mansion . The reason for this slight publicity is due to their particular heritage known as [Earthern Vein Martial Body] .

As for the Earthern Vein Martial Body, their specialty is to have great affection with the land . This is why half of the Liu Family focused on the art of Blacksmithing, and the remaining half focused on the art of Medicine and Pills .

Similar to the others, Liu Xin Xin's Earthern Vein Martial Body is very sensitive with the existence of minerals, allowing her to sense them from afar and lessen her burden in mining them . But in exchange for this ability, she too will suffer from the unwillingness of the mineral if it was refined by her .

This is also the reason Liu Xin Xin's improvement in this part stagnated for one year . Added with the disappointment of her's when her lover is gone from mining for the Tomb Silver, everything completely crushed her into this situation now .

After the success in venting her anger, her mindset completely changed again . And at the same time, it gave her an insight into how can she improve herself differently from the others . Especially when they're already a complete cultivator in Warrior Tier now .

One of the most important reasons for a person to be called complete cultivator, Blacksmith, Alchemist, or Array Master is due to the fact they can start to convert their Warrior Qi into something else with the capability of productivity .

And the best example, one can take the Formation of Seven Sword Manual as a reference, where he will obtain the ability to convert his Warrior Qi into strands of Sword Qi to control the sword . For somebody with a family full of similar people with inheritance, how will there be nobody went through her experience?

After their discussion is over, Zhang Wu Ji left after wishing Liu Xin Xin a safe trip go and return . But when he returned to his room, five different voice greets him . He closed his door and went straight into the Blacksmithing Workshop .

Inside the residence, not even a single shadow is seen . This brought up the question about what happened earlier . But looking at Zhang Wu Ji's face of indifference, it is more likely he knows what is going on .

With a flick of his finger, a separate Compassionate Zone is activated in the middle of the residence, blessing it surrounding with a zone three times better for the Natural Energy to breed and evolve inside here . In the blink of an eye, at least the Natural Energy enough for one to replenish 300 - 400 strands of Fighter Qi is here floating and looking for their significant other .

And without any warning, five shadows appeared out of nowhere and started to absorbs the Natural Energy to replenish their own . After most of the Natural Energy within the Compassionate Zone is consumed the five shadows now look more ethereal .

"Good . Are we good enough to continue working today? I got forty Spatial Stones full of Mineral Ores . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks with the five ethereal figures about work and how many Spatial Stones is in his hand .

"Master! You're treating the five of us too well!" the five ethereal figures flies all over the Blacksmithing Room out of happiness, and soon returned to his side and checked their contents .

That day, when Zhang Wu Ji employed his technique to craft five of the Casting Molds from his stack of 99% Iron Ingot . The success craft attracts a group of spirits to appears within his room for the sake of fighting for the five spots .

Although it was just a Casting Mold, the 99% High-Tier Spirit-Grade quality means a spirit living within are allowed to grow together with their master . To benefit their master in blacksmithing, they combined their spiritual ability together, and provide Zhang Wu Ji with five Casting Mold carrying the same status .

-Usage (3): Ingots formed by the Five-Servant Sentient Mold can increase the cultivation of the Spirit . The stronger the spirit, the better it can withstand the effect of wear and tear .

-Limitation: Five Spirit is joint together to form one entity means the strengthening of this treasure is five times more difficult . Before this treasure grown into perfection, the user is expected to suffer from the lacking of ability .

"All five of you is going to have something good . After today, I will stop from blacksmithing for a while and try to complete a few missions . During that time, the five of you will follow me and travel around the world . Are you all fine with this?" Zhang Wu Ji asked all of them for their opinion because, at this moment, he's no longer alone . And not to forget, there's another spirit still inside his spatial ring .

Jiang Nan He inside the 99% Pure Iron Ingot, and the five of them residing within the Casting Mold . If the others know about him possessing six High-Tier Spirit, with all of them inside thing that not relevant to a cultivator, it might cause them to turn crazy .

How many cultivators wishes to own a spiritual weapon or equipment? Some even paid or kills for it . But here and now, Zhang Wu Ji actually use five of them to strengthen his Casting Mold, and another one as a luck amulet inside his pocket .

WIthout wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji started with his smelting work . It wasn't a problem for him to completely smelt the forty Spatial Stone worth of Mineral Ores but to not making himself stand out from the others, he chooses to waste some of his time when handling the materials .

Two days later, Zhang Wu Ji completed all the mineral ores in his hand and went to the Material Hall once again . This time, Liu Xin Xin is not around, and it allows him to purchase some mineral ores from the others . Although Liu Xin Xin may not be bothered with him doing business with the others, it is still preferable to only trade with one to two suppliers .

The reason is due to the quality of Mineral Ores Liu Xin Xin sold . In a casual estimation, Liu Xin Xin's quality of Mineral Ores allows a blacksmith to form between two to three Ingots of 10kg, which was quite a good yield . But for the others sellers, their result always varies from one another .

Most importantly, their price is 50% higher than Liu Xin Xin's offer to a regular like him . Furthermore, their sales are limited to two Spatial Stones minimum, with a price of 3 Qi Accumulating Pills . This alone not only restrict Zhang Wu Ji from buying the odd amount he needed but also paying more for the material he needs .

"Junior brother, are you sure you want to purchase from them?" Zheng Kai approached Zhang Wu Ji when he sees the chances to do so . If he did such an action when under the look of the others, he might be treated as an enemy for the traders that trying to make a living .

"Yes . Is there anything important you need me to pay attention?" Zhang Wu Ji already withdraws a total of sixty Qi Accumulating Pills to be paid for his purchase of forty Spatial Stones worth of Mineral Ores . Before this, he sold another batch of 70 Advance-Grade Fool Silver Ingots to the Hall for his pay of 140 Qi Accumulating Pills .

For the remaining Ingots, Zhang Wu Ji decided to keep them in his inventory until he needs it in the future . With 160 Qi Accumulating Pills in hand, it wasn't a problem at all to purchase forty Spatial Stones worth of Mineral Ores for sixty pills .

"Junior brother, the two sellers you purchase the Mineral Ores from is the main competitors of senior sister Liu Xin Xin . If you order from senior sister again when she returned, I'm afraid the two of them will not take this easily . You have to know that the two of them is the Eighth and Ninth spot of the First Heaven Mountain's Ten Strongest Disciples!"

"Oh, they're both in the top ten list?" Zhang Wu Ji only revealed an expression of [No wonder . . . ] when he listened to Zheng Kai's word . But at this moment, a shout came to the two .

"Zheng Kai! F*ck Off from him and return to your damn stall!" one of the two, Ninth Spot Ma You Yuan, came forth and warned Zheng Kai to roll away from his client .

If my reader is asking about why the Five-Servant Casting Mold is not upgraded, that is because this treasure is unique-grade . More explanation will come in the future of course, and I will try my best to make this Arc better than the first .

I am sorry for the lateness of update in this week . My birthday just over but my parents are here, which means another busy week, and perhaps months because they got no return ticket bought . I will try update as much as I could, but if I failed to do so, please expect them to be fulfilled in the upcoming week .

"Father, Xin-er pay her respect to lord father . " Liu Xin Xin kneeled on both knee before an Inner Qi Lord sitting in the owner seat within the Great Hall and paid her respect .

"Good daughter . You seem . . . Different . . . Did something happened?" as an Inner Qi Lord, his sense is at least ten times better than those in their Inner Qi Warrior Tier . When his sense of Lord Qi probes his daughter, he noticed that her cultivation is no longer stagnant at 14th Stage, but advanced into 15th Stage now!

"Lord father, Xin-er met with some unexpected fortune inside the sect and managed to walk a step further in her cultivation . And at the same time, Xin-er have a gift to lord father . " Liu Xin Xin withdraws the Iron Alloy Dual Headed Pickaxe from her Spatial Stone . A servant of her father approached the lady for the treasure and returned to his master's side .

"What a good quality pickaxe! Although this might be lacking when applied to 2nd-Tier material like Fool Silver Vein, against the scattered Fool Silver in the common mineral ores is good enough!" Liu Xin Xin's father, Liu Xuan gives his comment regarding this pickaxe .

"Good daughter, where did you get this pickaxe from? Unfortunately, to properly remake this pickaxe we will need to hire a few Celestial Designers to dismantle the pickaxe to study it . Do you know who is the maker of this special pickaxe?" Liu Xuan asks his daughter with a very gentle father to daughter tone .

"Xin-er dare not to confirm this, but I do know the person that give this pickaxe to me as a present . " Liu Xin Xin replied to her father's question accurately without missing anything in between .

"I see . . . As I know, within this whole Seven Heaven Sect, only the Liu Family and Cheng Family possess the ability to understand the land and its resources . If we're able to bring this young friend to our side, it will promote the growth of our clan, but if he's not, I don't want to see the Cheng Family get him as well . . . "

"Do you understand father's meaning, my good daughter?" Liu Xuan explained his intention carefully to make sure his daughter understand what he wanted to say . With everyone's attention is focused on Liu Xin Xin's answer, the pressure is placed on her shoulder .

"If I convinced junior brother to come with me, it means by any means, he will become a tool to our Liu Family . But if I failed to persuade him, I will have to make sure that the Cheng's will not be able to get him to their side . What should I do . . . "

"Junior brother, what should this senior sister do?" unconsciously, she becomes very dependent on him because he's the one that removes the inner demon plaguing her mindset for so long .

"I am thinking that if he's considering visiting our Liu's Foundry, I can personally bring him over to our Liu's Anvil Hall to take a look at our heritage skill, Vein Listener Art . That time, you can come along as well . " knowing his daughter's personality, Liu Xuan put another lure to bring his daughter to her decision .

"Vein Listener Art? That's our Heritage Skill to enhance the ability to sense the treasured vein better! Lord father actually allowed the two of us to learn this Heritage Skill?" Liu Xin Xin is caught into his trick and accepted the offer to bring Zhang Wu Ji back .

"Lord father, Xin-er will try her best to invite this individual back to the Liu's Foundry and Mansion . " Liu Xin Xin agreed to the task without other consideration .

"Good . . . Good . . . You should quickly go to meet your mother and share with her about your recovery . She has been suffering from lack of appetite because of you . " Liu Xuan changed their discussion topic to catch the attention of Liu Xin Xin again, and as he expected, the daughter immediately excuses herself so she can go to her mother's side .

"Patriarch, please forgive Liu Tsung for his words, but I cannot hold myself from asking, why Patriarch use the Vein Listener Art as the exchange to obtain the blueprint of this pickaxe? Liu Tsung believes that with the effort of three Celestial Designer, the dismantling and studying process will not face any difficulties . "

"Plus, our Vein Listener Art is a precious Heritage Skills that only those in elders rank above can learn . " one of the three elders questioned their patriarch for his recklessness .

"Third Elder, I understand your concern . Your patriarch is also gambling for his decision, but the main reason for my sudden changes of opinion is due to this pickaxe's effectiveness!" Liu Xuan holds the pickaxe up above his head and stares at the treasure .

"Bring me some Mineral Rock that was used to test our Mining Pick's quality!" the patriarch summoned his men to complete his order, wherein a short five minutes, two bulky servants came inside the hall with a Spatial Stone in their hand .

When it was activated, three 1-meter high Mineral Rock placed before the patriarch . Following from this, Liu Xuan steps closer to the three Mineral Rocks with the Pickaxe infused with his Qi . His first strike hits the first Mineral Rock with a small amount of 1st-tier mineral metal and destroys the Mineral Rock into pebbles .

With the same force as before, he strikes at the second Mineral Rock with his composition of 1st-tier mineral metal and still sent the rock into a pile of pebbles . When it gets to the 2nd-tier mineral Rock, only a small amount of shattered ores is removed from the Mineral Rock .

"This pickaxe is useful to all 1st-tier Mining, but when it comes to 2nd-tier, the results are not that good . Still, the efficiency is better than our own high-quality mining pick . Do you think that my decision is too rash, the third elder?" Liu Xuan successfully convinced the three elders by demonstrating the capability of this pickaxe .

"Hopefully this kid Xin-er mentioned holds the ability to create this pickaxes . This way, we can monopoly the production of Fool Silver around the first and second Heaven Mountain and approach in either Moon Silver or Tomb Silver Mining . " the first elder started to carry an expectation on Zhang Wu Ji .

"Dog of Liu Xin Xin, what are you trying to do with my customer? Get the hell away from this junior brother!" Ma You Yuan bellowed . He approached Zheng Kai and tried to kick the latter, but the latter was too fast in his escape technique and vanished from Zhang Wu Ji's side .

"Sixty Qi Accumulating Pills, junior brother . I'm sure you will come back after you know our quality of Mineral Ores is better than that bitch Liu Xin Xin's . " Ma You Yuan exchanged hand with Zhang Wu Ji for the sixty pills and left without bothering to talk with the latter .

After a little more window shopping, Zhang Wu Ji left the Mineral Hall . But the moment he steps outside, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with the view Zheng Kai is getting pummeled by a disciple with two others holding him up . Looking at them is two other disciples, where he recognized one of them .

"Stop!" Zhang Wu Ji steps forward to stops them from bullying Zheng Kai . Looking at the former comes closer to between Zheng Kai and them, Ma You Yuan whispers something to the disciple standing beside him .

"Senior brother, take one of this Breath Returning Pill . " Zhang Wu Ji feeds Zheng Kai with a 2nd-tier pill that heals physical wounds and stands in front of the bullies .

"So, you're the generous buyer . How about permanently order the Mineral Ores from our Cheng Family? I can give you a good 10% discount . If you want, we can try to make it from 20 Spatial Stones on your first order . " the person standing beside Ma You Yuan says .

"Not interested . " Zhang Wu Ji uses one of his arms to support the injured Zheng Kai and trying to take the latter away from this bullying . Without considering, he flatly rejected the offer from this surname Cheng . The reply takes the one with surname Cheng to his boiling point immediately .

"Everything I, Cheng Hao Ran offered, will not take no as an answer!" without further ado, he took a sword out from his Spatial Stone and attacked the junior . Because of his battle steps, Cheng Hao Ran's speed is too fast for those weaker juniors to follow!

"Aii, why do I always caught in trouble whenever I tried to help somebody? Seems like there is nothing in common between five of them with me . . . " Zhang Wu Ji sigh . This was like his fifteenth day inside of the sect, and he already gets into trouble .

"Senior brother Zheng Kai mentioned that they're the eighth and ninth spot, I guess that Cheng Hao Ran is the eighth strongest disciple in First Heaven Mountain then . . . " Zhang Wu Ji looks at the attacker with the sword and prepares himself to retaliates .

"Rising Dragon Sword!" Cheng Hao Ran slashed downwards using his sword . And when the situation becomes unrepairable, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the Blacksmithing Hammer from his spatial ring and clash with the Seven Star Ceremonial Sword .

"PANG!" the clash destroyed the Blacksmithing Hammer! Although it was shattered into scattered gravels, it at least protected the master from an attack . But what Cheng Hao Ran did not know is Zhang Wu Ji did not use the hammer without a purpose!

He was well prepared! The impact sent the Hammer into its death and caused the already impure Seven Star Ceremonial Sword into its demise . On the next attack, Zhang Wu Ji took his side weapon, an Iron Staff, into his fight .

Under the eyes of everybody spectating the show, Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Staff sent the Seven Star Ceremonial Sword from one piece into two . This sight surprised all the spectators, with some spitting out the food in their mouth from the shock .

With the sword is broken, the incident caused Cheng Hao Ran, Ma You Yuan, and the three nameless disciples to escape immediately . In the mind of each of them, they were afraid of his deadly Iron Staff .

"If the Iron Staff is so strong that it can destroy a Silver Sword, what will happen if he uses that to attack us?" this is what caused all of them to run .

The attack that wasn't meant to attract the others and build his fame actually carry him to somewhat popular . Added with his face that not ugly to begin with, the name Zhang Wu Ji started to spread until it reaches the Second Heaven Mountain .

"Reporting to Senior Brother Wu Jing, it seems like Zhang Wu Ji is very popular in First Heaven Mountain at this moment . " one of the regular disciples came into Wu Jing's High-Quality Residence and reported .

"Hahaha! Like Wu Ming, a mighty flame is difficult to be hidden with a thin layer of Xuan Paper! Wu Jing, you can stop telling that kid to keep a low profile . " the elder laughed .

"From the moment Heaven King land his eye on this youth, we all know that he will take him as a disciple for sure . Don't forget that even your brother, Wu Ming, is facing this challenge . The only unfortunate matter is Wu Ming cause some big trouble to the sect now . " the elder continued with their conversation .

"That brat is going to get a good lesson from me when he's back . I can't wait to see what he's going to get from the Mysterious Legacy Realm Challenge!" Wu Jing slapped the table beside him into ashes to vent his anger .

"That brat? Mysterious Legacy Realm Challenge is quite a good area for those in between Middle Warrior Tier to Half Step Soldier Tier . I'm sure he will be back with some good treasure . " Elder Wu continues .

A gigantic Jade-made Kong-Que is hovering just above the High-Quality Residence . For the sake of letting his elder brother and uncle know about the existence of this treasure, he purposely holds himself from keeping this treasure away .

"Damn brat! How many time I tell you that no personal flying tool is allowed within the Seven Heaven Sect! Only top ten disciples of each mountain are allowed to do so with Flying Swords!" Wu Jing yelled at the person sitting on the neck of the Jade Kong-Que .

"Coming!" Wu Ming deactivates the Flying Tool and lands on the ground . With a big smile on his face, Wu Ming quickly went to his brother's side . Unfortunately, his good results and the Jade Kong-Que failed to convince his brother and calm his anger, where it leaves him crying in pain .

"You! Don't think I don't know about the thing you did inside of the spatial realm . Who ordered you to kick the five disciples from the Celestial Gate into the abyss and send them back to our world?" Wu Jing put more pressure into his fingers and pinches his brother harder .

"Aww! Aww! Brother, softer, softer . . . " Wu Ming retaliates with cries of pain, where it finally succeeds in getting Wu Jing to stop torturing him . Following that, the three went inside of the residence where Wu Jing started to share his haul from this challenge .

Altogether, Wu Ming collected six inheritance treasure from the Mysterious Legacy Realm Challenge and taking the top spot as the number one winner in this challenge . And of course, the Jade Kong-Que comes from the treasure trove as well .

As for the remaining five treasures, it was a Mortal Heaven Grade Weapon in its 2nd-Tier, a necklace made from Moon Silver, which boosts the recovery ability of an Inner Qi Warrior, one Cultivation Art Manual, and two Martial Art Manuals .

"Very good, very good . . . I think that in another fifteen days, the two of you will go into the Third Heaven Mountain for sure . Cultivates yourself well, and I will get ready to see you both in the next mountain . " their uncle completes what he wanted to say, and left the residence .

"Big brother, I feel like going to challenge another . . . Aww!!! Pain!" with their uncle is gone, Wu Ming wanted to go try something else . But before he managed to finish his sentence, the finger came close to his face again .

"Uncle says, MEDITATE!" Wu Jing pulled his younger brother back into the meditation room and locked Wu Ming inside . In return, he went back to his room opposite Wu Ming .

Although his name is spreading almost everywhere, Zhang Wu Ji was not a bit bothered by them . Instead, he gives all his attention in his work to refine the Ingots correctly so they can fetch a better price . But for now, his best results were the stack of eleven 38% Purity Fool Silver Ingots .

As for the others, they were all sold to the Material Hall to exchange for more Qi Accumulating Pills, where Zhang Wu Ji decided to swap them for the opportunity to borrow another book .

The total of 280 Qi Accumulating Pills is enough for him to take two of them, but he did not go ahead with this suggestion because of a few reasons that restrict him from abusing his ability .

The first reason is due to his limited number of Qi Accumulating Pills within his pocket, and the second reason is due to the restriction in his cultivation . The Knowledge Unlocking process cost him a strand of Warrior Qi for every word he tried to unlock, where Zhang Wu Ji wasn't dared to try .

Luckily, his memorizing ability is better compared to many people . By remembering the techniques taught inside of the Silver Processing Art, it will not be a problem for him to return the book, although it means he will lose the useful ability inside the book .

"Disciple Wu Ji pay his respect to the elder and also for the sake of returning the book . " Zhang Wu Ji bowed at the elder with both hands holding the book he extends to the elder . Like before, his manner obtained a good impression for the elder .

"Good . Had you learn and remember all the valuable insight inside of this book?" the elder rarely pay attention to the disciples borrowing the books, but this time is an exception . The way this disciple behaves managed to obtains his approval .

"Answering to the elder, disciple did learn about the insight recorded and personally executes them in his practice . Hopefully, the elder will give this disciple a little guidance from appraising this Fool Silver Ingot . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws one of the eleven 38% Purity ingots for the elder's inspection .

The High-Grade Fool Silver attracted the elder's interest . From the second he received the metal, he infused a large amount of Qi into the Fool Silver Ingot to begin his appraisal .

"Hmm . . . Good . The technique is applied to refine this Fool Silver Ingot is very uniform and stable . The impurities inside are removed by 38% which is an excellent result considering its a High-Grade Fool Silver Ingot . Good product!" the elder came out with his evaluation on this piece of High-Grade Silver Ingot .

"As an elder, accepting a gift from a disciple is very unethical in the eyes of the others . How about this elder exchange them with a suggestion instead?" the elder caress his long beard as he speaks about the issue related to his ethics .

"With your ability in comprehension, I suggest that you focus on cultivating the Qingyang Fortress Body . This Cultivating Technique not only focused on body strengthening but also to build a proper foundation before entering the Soldier Tier . "

"Of course, a body strengthening cultivating technique is very hard to advance, unless he's trying to become a punching bag for the sect . To counter these difficulties, I will provide you with a supporting Cultivating Manual I obtained in my younger time exploration . " the elder withdraws a manual from his side Spatial Ring .

"This is the Inner Scorching Vein Art . It was a proper Body Tempering Technique of Huo Clan . The main reason to cultivates with this Inner Scorching Vein Art is to increase the stress your Martial Body can accept . The stronger a Martial Body, the easier it is to refine the Qingyang Fortress Body . " the elder extends his hand with the manual .

"Wu Ji thanked the elder for his kind suggestion . Please rest assure that this youth will do his best in cultivating this body tempering art!" Zhang Wu Ji accepted the Scorching Vein Art, but he cannot help himself to ask .

"Here you go, dear elder . " Zhang Wu Ji handed a hundred of the Qi Accumulating Pills to the elder and obtained the second copy of Manual . After he returned to his residence, Zhang Wu Ji took the two manual out from his Spatial Ring for inspection .

-Ability Acquired (1): By cultivating the Body Tempering Art, the user can increase the defensive point of his body by (1) for every 10,000 points worth of 2nd-Tier Natural Energy converted .

-Ability Acquired (2): Every (100) point of defense worth 1% of the Qingyang Fortress Body . Different percentage of completion grants the user with different bonuses .

-> 100% (User body is indestructible by any mean against an opponent one large tier . Indestructible does not mean Invincible . Cautious advised)

-Special (+0): Side assistance worth tripled . Any damage user received from fighting or training worth 100 points of 2nd-Tier Natural Energy .

-Ability Acquired (1): By putting the user's vein with a special kind of Scorching Flame, gradually expand the Martial Vein the user possess to increase his success rate when advancing through Martial Soldier Stage .

-Ability Acquired (2): Scorching Flame conversion (10 seconds = 1 Warrior Qi) The tormenting process contribute to user cultivating with Body Strengthening Art by 100 Points every minute .

-Special (+0): Scorching Flame can be used in a fight . The results will end up as both user and opponent will struggle with torment according to the amount of Warrior Qi converted .

"Oh my god . . . This two Cultivating manual is designed solely for me!" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to jump when he finished reading the description of the two Cultivating Manuals . With the two complimenting each another as long he continues to cultivate both of them, it was a perfect match .

Without further ado, he started to cultivate according to the steps written inside of the first manual . Like other cultivators, Zhang Wu Ji began to absorb and refine the Natural Energy into usable strands of Inner Qi .

The Natural Energy conversion varies from one to another depending on their quality and growth . For cultivators without the UPGRADE System, Natural Energy possess no grading at all . And in exchange for this ignorance is why many cultivators focusing on Body Tempering failed miserably .

The Natural Energy Value varies in their different stages, depending on what kind of Natural Energy surrounding the cultivator . When one reaches the Fighter Tier, he's able to absorb the 1st-Tier Natural Energy . It is similar to Warrior Tier in absorbing 2nd-Tier Natural Energy, which worth even more .

In 1st-Tier, the most basic start required one to absorb 100 points worth of Natural Energy and forms a strand of Inner Qi . And the 10,000 Points worth is similar to a strand of Fighter Qi .

But in 2nd-tier, this means 100 points worth of 2nd-Tier Natural Energy is worth 1 strand of Fighter Qi . This means that to obtain a single point of defense in his Qingyang Fortress Body, he will need to assimilate a strand of Warrior Qi worth of 2nd-tier Natural Energy .

And, how easy can that be, when the issue with the quality of Natural energy around him not even worth 10 points in its 2nd-tier requirement? This is also why cultivators rarely utilize their Warrior Qi in a fight . It was because of all these difficulties .

"Body Tempering Technique huh? Let's start this with the support given by my Compassionate Meditation Manual . . . Compassionate Zone!" Zhang Wu Ji activated the special zone right in the middle of his residence and started to look at how many of the Natural Energy is gathering inside .

"Alright, time to start cultivating . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks to himself . By reading the repetitive chants from the Compassionate Meditation Manual, Zhang Wu Ji bring the results much further as he started to refine them!

And for those that wanted to ask, why don't he upgrade the book first? My answer is, those 2nd-tier books will cost 1 strand of Warrior Qi to upgrade . If he falls [PLOP] inside his room, I seriously don't know what to do .

The reason his cultivation is too weak! He can't rewrite, nor upgrade any 2nd-Tier stuff at all now! Don't forget that from Warrior Tier onwards, everyone lost their auto-refill Strand of Qi capability . They will have to meditate and reform it through time .

Of course, A pill can complete the job . You just need to pay for it . And yeah, Qi Accumulating Pills = Compassionate Zone if anyone asked . Qi Sensing Pills allow you to sense the Natural Energy and Qi Accumulating Pills let you gather all of them together . What will be the next stage pill?

"Damn! what happened to the Natural Energy surrounding the mountain?" a few cultivators complained when they noticed the Natural Energy surrounding them begun to get weaker .

Close to an hour later, only a small hint of Natural Energy left, with most of going to somewhere unknown to everybody . But within one of the residence, the cultivator has busily monopolized all the Natural Energy for his own .

One hour has passed . With the ability inside the book is activated, Zhang Wu Ji's Spatial Ring is one drop of Natural Spring richer . The moment his Compassionate Zone vanishes, Zhang Wu Ji quickly reactivate it so the Natural Energy stays .

With the total worth of Natural Energy inside his zone reaches 25,000 Points, It was temporary sufficient for him to convert them into two points of defense . The reason he takes this measure is caused by one of the Natural Energy in its 3rd-Tier hovering inside of his zone .

This Natural Energy is the lucky one to obtain the 0 . 02% possibility to become sentient . At its current intelligence, the Natural Energy is more of a glutton instead of a Natural Energy . With its shape like a small horn beetle, the flying Natural Energy keep capturing the 3rd-tier Natural Energy to be eaten .

This is the nature of life, which is the same to Natural Energy . Inside of this Compassionate Zone, the chances of multiplication is increased by 200% better . With this distinctive effect is implemented, the number of growth in Natural Energy boost like the mushroom growing after the rainfall .

As the user of UPGRADE System, Zhang Wu Ji is witnessing a life event on how the Natural Energy without a gender multiplies . They're like a dandelion flower, where two different Natural Energy combined into one . The moment their maturity reaches its limit, this entity explodes and reveals hundreds to thousand of Natural Energy to repeat the same life cycle again .

The first conversion left the Natural Energy inside of the Compassionate Zone only 5,000 points worth remains . By continuing with this process once again, Zhang Wu Ji took his time to rejuvenate them once again, until they're back to how it was before .

This process continues for about six to seven repetitive until Zhang Wu Ji is tired from all the concentration and decided to rest . With the Compassionate Zone is over, he collects the last Natural Spring and returns to his bed .

As the master falls into slumber, the six Spirit flew into their living room and started to battle against the 3rd-Tier Natural Energy . Without a solid body on their own, their battle cannot be spectated by anyone else except Zhang Wu Ji .

The six Spirit and one Natural Energy fought like sparring with each another until when morning came, all of them behave like nothing happen with the 3rd-Tier Natural Energy went is gone .

"Aw . . . That glutton Natural Energy is gone from my residence . " Zhang Wu Ji feels slightly disappointed . After some cleaning and preparation, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the Material Hall once again only to see none of the people he knows open their stalls today .

"Well, I guess I'll pay a visit to the Mission Hall today . " Zhang Wu Ji swings both of his hands behind on his back as he went towards another building . The trip wasn't too difficult given the number of the signboards pointing at the Mission Hall .

Inside here, his recent found fame grant him a safe passage straight into the Mission Hall Counter . Here, Zhang Wu Ji approached a female receptionist to be given a brief explanation on how to look, choose, proceed, and complete the mission .

Based on his right, Zhang Wu Ji supposedly only qualified to participate in Mortal Earth Mission, which is the lowest rank of them within the whole Seven Heaven Sect . Plus, there's a total of ten different levels differentiated by their number of stars .

"If you want to accept a mission, just collect the mission plate and come back to register your name . The term of each task is printed on the Mission Plate, so make sure you choose the correct one unless you''re confident you can complete them . " the receptionist explained .

"Understand . What is the limit of the mission I can take?" Zhang Wu Ji asked . But he did not know that his question puzzled the receptionist when she heard him .

"You're allowed to accept any mission offered within the Mission Hall . Don't you know that you're partially recognized as the Number eight of the Ten Strongest Disciple within the First Heaven Mountain?" the receptionist said .

"Yes . May disciple Zhang Wu Ji excuse this receptionist to attend other's needs?" the receptionist excused herself before Zhang Wu Ji reacts to her words .

After knowing what he has to do in here, Zhang Wu Ji went closer to the Mission Board to have a look on the mission available for him to accept . The task is arranged in a manner the further one goes from the Receptionist, the more difficult the mission will be .

Reward: 10 Qi Accumulating Pills for each head . 50 Qi Accumulating Pills of any proof of order from other faction . 100 Qi Accumulating Pills as the reward if all bandits are slaughtered .

Zhang Wu Ji went through most of the Mission but found nothing that caught his interest . Without any intention of taking any mission available on the Mission Board, Zhang Wu Ji decided to leave the Mission Hall until an announcement came from the female receptionist .

"Under the instruction of the Grand Elder of the First Heaven Mountain, the Mission Hall is offering 1 Qi Accumulating Pills for every head of Yin Poison Skeleton . This mission does not have any time limit, but it will be taken out from the Urgent Mission Board when their number is controlled . "

"Anyone interested may join directly by going to hunt for the Yin Poison Skeleton . Please make sure that before participating, all disciples are advised to prepare some Sunlight Flower Pill to avoid being poisoned by the Yin Essence Weakening Mist . "

"For those that don't know too much about the Yin Poison Skeleton, please listen carefully to my explanation regarding them . " the female receptionist started to explain the thing that they should pay attention when fighting against a Yin Poison Skeleton, and what can be obtained from the corpse .

And out of all expectations, the frame of the Yin Poison Skeleton is actually a mild type of Body Tempering Powder after they're grounded . But due to the number of disciples focused on Body Strengthening Cultivation is extremely limited, the Body Tempering Treasure end up being thrown .

Worst of all, even after grounded, the powder from the Yin Poison Skeleton's Frame has to be filtered to remove the excessive poison that seeps into the bones . The end results is a roughly 500 grams powder solution that can be mixed into the bath suitable for Body Tempering Process .

"Of course not . Although each head of the Yin Poison Skeleton worth 1 Qi Accumulating Pills, the Sunlight Flower Pill alone cost 7 Qi Accumulating Pills each . Plus, because of the poisonous mist it releases wherever they went, hunting them using a short ranged weapon is very risky . "

"Plus the Yin Poison Skeleton spawning place is very close to the King's Graveyard . Who knows if one or two Puppet Warrior choose to come out and have fun? We will end up getting slaughtered before getting a chance to use that Sunlight Flower Pill . "

Looking at the disciples gathering together and complains, the female receptionist is speechless . But she did not notice that among all this commotion, one disciple went out after hearing everything she said earlier .

"If I'm not wrong, the Low-Quality Body Tempering Powder I can get from them worth between 1 to 2 Qi Accumulating Pills . With the opportunity to get paid, collecting training materials, improve my fighting experience, and traveling, why won't this mission be perfect for me?" Zhang Wu Ji thought as he returned to his residence .

With a shape in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji went ahead with his own opinion and crafted two different weapons that may support him efficiently in counter against the poisonous mist .

The first weapon comes in the shape of a 1 . 5 meters long glaive with an additional 0 . 3 meters blade attachment . It was somewhat a hybrid between a Guandao and a spear, where it was just long enough to apply some pressure and strong enough to cut his target .

But the main differences o his blade is instead of thin and sharp, Zhang Wu Ji made it into an Ingot-thick blade . His main idea comes from a sledgehammer, but after thinking about the weight, he considered using it as a long weapon instead .

With the first weapon is ready, the second one is unexpectedly . . . a set of 100 Throwing Stakes . Each of them comes with a diameter of 2x2 cm square, with a length of 10cm . This is his life-saving weapon in case he was surrounded by a good number of Yin Poison Skeleton .

After taking between four to five hours to make his preparation, Zhang Wu Ji went out from the inside entrance that leads him into the King's Graveyard outer section .

"Skeletons!" Zhang Wu Ji made his move towards the group of five Yin Poison Skeletons gathered not far from the Forest Entrance . With the glaive about 1 . 8 meters long, Zhang Wu Ji crushed his opponents but treating the glaive like a longer sledgehammer .

"Krikk!" one of the Yin Poison Skeleton managed to escape from the killing strike and sent its claws towards Zhang Wu Ji's waist . But luckily, the youth is rather nimble . He moved his body slightly to evade from the attack, and by executing the Nine Layer Fighter Flame, Zhang Wu Ji send his opponent into flames!

But he failed to consider the amount of volatile substance flows within the body of the Yin Poison Skeleton, and due to the extreme Yang technique, it engulfs the skeleton in flames . After looking at the Yin Poison Skeleton running up and down as it was on fire, the whole frame collapsed on the ground void of any remaining life .

"Oh shit . I cannot use the Nine Layer Fighter Flames because it will destroy the head as well! I need the damn head to exchange for the pill!" Zhang Wu Ji noticed his wrongdoing and feeling regretful for his mistakes . But when he touches the remain of the fire on the ground, Zhang Wu Ji smiled .

"Hahaha! By burning the hell out of them can directly refine the Body Tempering Powder into its usable form!" Zhang Wu Ji quickly collects the remaining corpses of the Yin Poison Skeleton, unknown of a spectator hiding from him .

"Ahem . . . " a cough echoes from outside of Wu Jing's Residence . When the two inside of the room heard it, they quickly get ready to receive this guest .

"Brother, let me out . You don't want me to ruin everything right?" Wu Ming said . Without further ado, he drags his brother along to where the guest awaits and both bow on the guest in respect .

"Ming-Er, a very excellent performance in the Mysterious Legacy Realm Challenge . If your master is not wrong, there's a Jade Kong-Que included within the inheritance?" Heaven King praised the youth before stating the reason he's here .

"Dear master, Wu Ming did not get . . . Aww!" Wu Ming wanted to say he did not get the Jade Kong-Que but Wu Jing is thinking differently . Before he finishes, a slap came from his back .

"Good . Good . " the Heaven King kept the Jade Piece in his Spatial Ring . In return for the Jade Kong-Que, he handed Wu Ming with a Jade Bottle .

"Inside the Jade bottle is the Silver Essence Liquid . I suppose that none of you two need my explanation on what this liquid can do?" the Heaven King toss the bottle to the youth and left as if he's in a hurry .

"He just took my Jade Kong-Que . . . " Wu Ming feels like crying for the loss of his Flying Tool, but he did not know that the Silver Essence Liquid in his hand worth at least three Jade Kong-Que .

"Hmm . . . my total collection is now better than the old geezer Flame King . " the Heaven King is appreciating his collection of twelve Flying Kong-Que in his treasured Glass Chest .

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Obsidian, Sapphire, Ruby, Jade, Stone, Marble, Clay, Bone, and Glass . The only exception in his collection is the Iron Kong-Que in Zhang Wu Ji's hand .

"I'm coming to wreck all of you!!!" Zhang Wu Ji delivered himself into the mouth of hell . The further he goes, the more concentrated is their numbers . Without knowing that somebody is monitoring him from behind, Zhang Wu Ji keeps no secret as he slaughters the Yin Poison Skeleton .

The pure strength performance gives Liu Xin Xin a shock . As a fellow Body Tempering Cultivator, unless she was given the chances to land a deadly strike, it is almost impossible for her to repeat Zhang Wu Ji's prowess in dismembering the skeletons .

"OORAH!" Zhang Wu Ji swings his baton glaive at the opponent and separates the head from the body . After keeping the skull into a Spatial Stone, he pushes the headless bone frame together into a pile, and burn them through his Nine Layer Fighter Flame .

In a short seven to ten minutes, the burning bones finally disintegrated into powder where Zhang Wu Ji then portions them into bottles . His efficiency in Hunting, Killing and Processing them is top notch when it was compared with the others .

"With this strength, how can he not take the top 3 spots inside First Heaven Mountain? Even with my 15th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior is not capable of executing this kind of strength . What kind of life did he experience from where he came?" Liu Xin Xin begins to question herself .

But before her question is answered, Zhang Wu Ji charged into a different location once again and spotted another group of seven Yin Poison Skeletons . With her following from behind, Zhang Wu Ji can expect no attackers will sneak attack him from his back, but he did not know about it .

While one is eager to protect him hiddenly, the protected are too dull to notice the differences . With this whole Outer Area of the King's Graveyard, how can there be no Yin Poison Skeleton spawned from this Burial Ground?

At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji already successfully hunted over a hundred of the Yin Poison Skeletons without getting poisoned . Because his surrounding is beginning to suffer from the shortage of Yin Poison Skeleton, Zhang Wu Ji decided to went deeper .

"Idiot! That's the Inner Area of King's Graveyard! Don't tell me he's here for the Tomb Silver?" Liu Xin Xin yelled at him inside her mind, but at the end, she followed him into the King's Graveyard Inner Area .

Inside here, the numbers of Yin Poison Skeleton once again increases . While he was hunting happily, Liu Xin Xin is worrying from behind, and occasionally attacked the incoming Yin Poison Skeleton that heading to where Zhang Wu Ji is fighting .

"Nice! Another fifty Skulls of the damn skeleton is inside my Spatial Stone . If I can hunt over two to three hundred of them, won't my profit matched all my effort in Blacksmithing a few days back?" Zhang Wu Ji speaks out his mind loudly, unaware of a listener behind him .

"Idiot! With such a strong fighting strength, how can your Blacksmithing Profession outmatch your current results? Even myself cannot fight against you on equal ground!" Liu Xin Xin complained about his words, but remain occupied with the Yin Poison Skeleton .

"Oh, Graveyards! I wonder can I get some Tomb Silver from refining them . " in between of his fight, Zhang Wu Ji noticed a stack of four or five tombstones not far from where he fights . Without delaying himself from going for an inspection, he increases his ferocity against the skeletons .

"RAAA!!!" Zhang Wu Ji partially ignites the Tyrant Martial Body's strength to oppress the opposing Yin Poison Skeletons . When his ability is activated, even Liu Xin Xin, somebody not far from where he fights, felt a part of her bloodline power is restricted .

"What is happening? Why did my Bloodline shivers in fear when that idiot shouts?" Liu Xin Xin was at least half weaker due to the sudden oppressive forces that cover the whole area .

While at Zhang Wu Ji's side, the remaining six Yin Poison Skeletons no longer moves . Each of them had their skull removed from the body, and stacked together at not too far from the battling spot . As for Zhang Wu Ji, he steps closer to the row of four Tombstones and inspects it .

"That's the Tomb Silver . Good Job, myself, good job . " Zhang Wu Ji praised himself for guessing correctly . Without further ado, he begins his mission to collect the shattered Tombstones . As all of them is a nameless piece of Mineral Slab, Zhang Wu Ji felt nothing wrong with him destroying them .

"Xi Xi Xi!" Suddenly, a laughing sound came from not far . When the owner of the voice revealed itself, the scene of a corpse-made puppet came into his eyes . Worst of all, surrounding the flesh puppet is a dense mist of Negative Warrior Qi .

"Puppet Warrior?" Zhang Wu Ji shifts his gaze to the monster, only to see that it vanishes from that spot and charging forward at where he stands . Luckily, his awareness and response are at the top compared to many cultivators in the same strength .

"QIANG!" a pair of claws strikes at Zhang Wu Ji . Luckily, his response allowed him to deflect the attack and force the Puppet Warrior backward until it was five steps away . But following from that move, the Puppet Warrior retracts the nail back and charge forward with a pair of fists .

"Zhang Wu Ji, be careful with the attack! Puppet Warrior possess strength two times stronger than ordinary human cultivator!" her sudden warning and arrival shocks Zhang Wu Ji for a moment . Luckily, her advice is taken into his consideration .

"Collapsing Fist!" Zhang Wu Ji sent forth his two fists against the Puppet Warrior, where both of them retreats by ten steps due to the fierce exchange . As the spectator between this fight, Liu Xin Xin was shocked by the results .

"How can an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior fight against a 14th Stage Puppet Warrior? The disparity in raw strength alone will force even 15th and 16th Stage Inner Qi Warrior to retreats from this clash . " Liu Xin Xin's jaw is no longer closeable .

"Xi Xi!" the black mist starts to converge on both of the puppet's hand, where it was preparing for a killing move . When all of the Negative Warrior Qi finally condensed and seeps inside the claws, the Puppet Warrior attacks!

"Seems like its time for me to fight seriously as well . . . Tyrant Martial Body!" Zhang Wu Ji felt it was time for him to get serious . By activating his Tyrant Martial Body's ability, Zhang Wu Ji is able to oppress all his opponents without trouble .

And due to the non-existent Martial Body from the Puppet Warrior and the Mortal-Grade Earthern Vein Martial Body from Liu Xin Xin is not in the Emperor or Saint-Grade, they were not capable of resisting the oppression force .

The oppressing force spreads outwards by 100 meters, just close enough for him to immobilize his opponents . Within that split second, Zhang Wu Ji attacked the Puppet Warrior without mercy and completely destroys it before the puppet managed to retort .

With the fight is over, Zhang Wu Ji deactivates the oppressing force and keeps the puppet inside one of the Spatial Stone . Looking at Liu Xin Xin that came close to him, Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hands together on her .

"Your action is very reckless . The Puppet Warrior is extremely dangerous, especially why they're using the Yin Poison Claw . a thin cut is enough to inflict you with a lethal dosage of Yin Essence Slaughtering Mist . " Liu Xin Xin explained the reason she says he's reckless .

Like what she said, the danger while fighting without sufficient preparation is similar to seeking for his own death . Although the Yin Essence Weakening Mist is something that can be cured with a single Sunlight Flower Pill, it was different when the poison inflicted is the deadly Yin Essence Slaughtering Mist .

Once poisoned, the cultivator will first suffer from extreme loss of Inner Qi within the body . With the situation turning worst every minute, the cultivator's body will become stiff due to the lack of Inner Qi and blood . In between eleven to thirteen minutes is the most a cultivator in their Inner Qi Warrior cultivation can struggle before succumbing to death .

After listening obediently at Liu Xin Xin for five to ten minutes, she finally rests her anger aside seeing how sorry is the junior standing before her . They discussed their motive to come into the forest, and when Liu Xin Xin knows about the quest, she leads Zhang Wu Ji quickly back to where she fights to collect the Yin Poison Skeleton's head .

It was for the sake of collecting some Tomb Silver back to test her skill in blacksmithing, and also to check the amount of profit she can get from moving from selling good-quality Mineral Ores for Fool Silver to Tomb Silver .

With an intention to help her, Zhang Wu Ji suggested that they continue to hunt for the Tomb Silver's Mineral Slab together . But about two hours later, the two quickly retreats without any intention to fight against the Puppet Warrior that chasing them from behind .

Because it was an intense chase, the duo took a few corners to confuse the Puppet Warrior, but after a few minutes of running, even Zhang Wu Ji himself is lost!

"Where did she go???" Zhang Wu Ji continues to run with the Puppet Warrior chasing him from behind . He looks around for her signs, but the issue is instead of running outwards, he's running inwards!

TADA! Here comes ZWJ with his typical antiques again! I hope the story is going good so far . If my readers do have some suggestion and correction, please let me know .

"Xi Xi Xi!" the closer the Puppet Warrior get to him, the happier it sounds . But for Zhang Wu Ji, this kind of sound annoys him . Out of tricks, Zhang Wu Ji can only stop from running the puppet and prepare to fight .

"Tyrant Martial . . . Eh?" he was supposed to activate him Oppression Power, but it seems that his body is similar to a battery that runs out of juice . Although this did not prove to become a disturbance, it means he lost the ability to use the three abilities provided by the Tyrant Martial Body .

"This is not a good thing . Let us get back to the sect after I get rid of this fella . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws a few Silver Throwing Stakes out from his Spatial Ring and ready for a good fight .

Following his footsteps from behind, Liu Xin Xin finally caught to where he stops . She was in a hurry, not because she's under pursuit but because she detected a hint of Zhang Wu Ji's weaknesses .

By looking at how his footsteps go, she's a hundred thousand percent confirm, that, this youth with amazing battle power, talents, and mysteriousness, is actually a Direction Blind! Put him in the street of a city and expect him to find where they wait for him might be challenging enough!

Worst of all, what's hurried her is not due to his safety because based on how strong is his fighting strength, he will not be in danger from the Puppet Warrior . But the main issue is, he's moving deeper into the King's Graveyard, where even the top disciples for those in Third Heaven Mountain dare not to challenge .

"Zhang Wu Ji, you better not die because I want to get a chance to read the Vein Listener Art no matter what . With this opportunity, not only myself but even, you will have the possibility to climb up from where we're now . "

For Liu Xin Xin, Zhang Wu Ji is her only chance to obtain the opportunity to read this Heritage Skill . Because of the restriction that allows only the Patriarch and Three elders to learn, the number of Liu Family members that know this art can be counted by fingers .

But the scene before her is not Zhang Wu Ji got torn apart by the attacking Puppet Warriors, but two puppets nailed at the wall . Both of them were headless, and the youth with a Seven Heaven Sect Robe is struggling to take out the Silver Stakes stuck on the wall .

"Silver Stakes, corpses . . . Are you a Demon Hunter?" this was the first thing that came into her mind . But as a fellow disciple of the sect and a Blacksmith, she knows that using Fool Silver inside this place are better than Moon Silver or Tomb Silver .

The reason is that Moon Silver Reacts to poison, making it unable to become a weapon resistant to Yin Poison Skeleton or Puppet Warrior with poisonous mist surrounding them . As for the Tomb Silver, this material produces a strong Element of Death, making it unsuitable to be used on undead monsters .

This is because the Tomb Silver is produced from places with thick Negative Qi, with a prerequisite of the Qi is comparable to a Warrior Qi in base strength . As for the Negative Qi, they're created from the condensation of human's negative thoughts .

Like Natural Energy and Spirits . The Negative Qi is created by the condensation of emotion a cultivator release throughout their life . Although it was not an accurate hypothesis, it was believed that their source mainly comes from many known situations related to human's action .

"I'm sorry I went another way . Shall we leave this place?" Zhang Wu Ji acts as he's not that bad in directions, and suggested that they left after he collected the two corpses and his Silver Stakes . Unfortunately, only seven is retrievable from the ten Silver Flying Stakes he has thrown .

"You can stop acting now . I know you're a direction blind from the moment I see how you walk . " Liu Xin Xin revealed what she knows from chasing his footsteps .

"Sorry . . . " Zhang Wu Ji laughed but knowing he was caught in the act, it was pointless for him to deny the fact . Plus, he believes Liu Xin Xin will not threaten him for something insignificant like Direction Challenged .

"I know you want to deny it, but it's pointless because your situation is the worst among all the people I know . Don't forget that I'm from a family excels in mining and medicinal harvesting . Do you think we don't have such people in our family?"

"Still, how can a person rush and selects the most dangerous direction wherever he turned? If this is a talent, then your's in the most talented one I've seen so far!" Liu Xin Xin's words come with both praise and prejudice .

"That's Cave Exploring Threads . As long you randomly scatter them along your way into the cave, you will hardly get lost as the threads have a tendency to be attracted to their head . "

"No matter you're exploring and mining, you go in one way, you went out the same way . If you scattered them all around, won't that be the same as exploring the location for the second time with more time wasted?"

In fact, the way she explains it was too accurate it literally turns into a sword that pierced his heart . Like what she said, if Zhang Wu Ji scatters the threads wherever he goes without control, then how long would that takes for him to come back to the entrance?

"Alright . We should go . I don't want to be surrounded by another group of Yin Poison Skeletons and Puppet Warriors . " Liu Xin Xin said before she leads him out from the King's Graveyard .

About an hour or more, the two came out from the King's Graveyard and returned to the sect . Inside the Mission Hall, Liu Xin Xin presented a total of 35 skulls and obtained 35 Qi Accumulating Pills to her pocket . But the results are too mediocre compared to Zhang Wu Ji's .

"Two hundred and fifteen Skulls!" the female receptionist announced his results as it was a requirement, but that announcement shocks everyone within the Mission Hall .

"215? Are you serious???" the announcement grabs the attention of the others as they rushed to the counter to see who did this . And when they noticed it was the youth this morning, they were speechless .

"Erm . . . Here you go, two hundred and fifteen Qi Accumulating Pills . And because your results are satisfactory, the Mission Hall decides to reward you with two Heaven Points . " the female receptionist said .

And with her hand extended out for something, Zhang Wu Ji is questioned by her action . After waiting for nothing in one minute, the female receptionist bellowed .

"Oh! That's what you want for putting your hand out this long?" the just realized Zhang Wu Ji quickly took his Name Token out to her for a tap . And now, on the back of his token is two teardrops on his token . This means he got two Heaven Points .

"What can I do with this points?" Zhang Wu Ji did not limit his foolishness and continue to ask . Why bother to search for the answer if somebody can answer him? But his ignorance took the female receptionist into flames .

"What are you waiting? Come in . " Liu Xin Xin invited him into her residence . He was against it at first, but after he noticed the existence of two more female servants and they're not alone in the house, he finally agreed to come in .

One has to say, the residence they allocate to the ten best students in the First Heaven Mountain is magnificent . Inside was not a simple residence but cultivating heaven .

First of all, as per request by Liu Xin Xin, her residence is equipped with a Blacksmithing and a Medicine Workshops . Other than that, there's an Energy Gathering Plate outfitted in every corner of the room to increase the cultivating speed of the disciple during his/her meditation .

But the best of all is the Mortal Flame supply that available for uses at any time . This privilege is only given to the top 10 residence, which effectively helps the profession with a prerequisite of Flame sources, such as Blacksmithing and Pill Concoction .

"Of course, to begin with . . . " she started to share with him about things that he needs to know . And this brief explanation helps him in many ways, especially one of the most important uses of the points .

To make the explanation easier to understand, the differences between the Qi Accumulating Pills and the Heaven Points is like paper currency and solid gold back in his other world .

Cash can be bought and traded easily without a hitch, but there's a limitation on what you can get . In a more easier term, it's like comparing what First Heaven Mountain have against the Seventh Heaven Moutain . Their contrast may not be too much, but it exists .

As for the Heaven Points, he can treat them as an exchange currency, something worth similar to solid gold . It can also be taken as a membership point that allows the owner of the points exchange for something of an equivalent value .

By knowing about the availability of this choice, Zhang Wu Ji finally understands why Wu Jing says that he can help his master to reduce his penalty . The leniency was actually exchangeable by paying them with hard-earned Heaven Points!

But still, deep inside each individual, who can sacrifice ten difficult to obtain points for the sake of pleading for leniency to an individual for once?

Looking at the number of selection that can be exchanged with the points he got, he can easily assume that each Heaven Point worth at least 1,000 to 1,500 Qi Accumulating Pills or more!

"Wu Ji thanks senior sister for the explanation, but can Wu Ji know about the way to obtain the points?" Zhang Wu Ji suddenly came up with his next question and take Liu Xin Xin by surprise .

"Did you hear what I say? The points are precious! Your question makes it sound like it was pickable by the roadside like Crystal Cabbage!" Liu Xin Xin feels like yelling at this youth .

Hey, first and foremost, I'm sorry that this chapter comes up so late . A short-circuit happened, and my wife Ipad, our kettle, electric stove, and microwave are all sacrificed on that accident . As for now, only my phone and laptop endured this calamity .

I think some people might want to ask, what is in for him with the introduction for the Mortal Flame, Heaven Points, and many more? It will be for my story-building . Expect thing to be more . . . Calculative in the future .

I can't promise that I will not introduce a new profession, making more things to him, but yeah, I'm trying seriously hard (and I hope everyone can notice) to make this chap more detailed, less rush, but more to how he slowly build himself up as a proper cultivator .

Listening to him, Liu Xin Xin feels like she's on the verge of erupting . She exhaled a deep breath that she's been holding for too long, and begin to answer his question .

"The Heaven Point can only be obtained by completing a difficult mission or bet against a fellow disciple in a fair competition . The Heaven Point can also be used as a form of appreciation to a disciple . "

"Of course, this also means that the Heaven Point available for distribution of reward is limited . You must remember that the Heaven Points works on both Disciples and Elders, and this is why it was considered precious . "

"In an example, you managed to get 2 Heaven Points from the Mission Hall because your results are too outstanding . But this means that the Mission Hall's Quota of this year's reward deducted by two points . "

"Each department are only allocated with a few hundred worths of Heaven Points to be rewarded to excellent disciples . The better they perform, the better their department is treated as well . " Liu Xin Xin explained how the Heaven Point System works inside the sect .

"I see . . . If I go hunt for another group of Yin Poison Skeletons, do you think that the Mission Hall will reward me with two more points?" he asked without considering enough .

"You may get, or you won't . Don't you think that after you get some Heaven Points for that result, others won't follow in your footsteps? In my opinion, the Outer Area of the King's Graveyard must be crowded with disciples now . " Liu Xin Xin answered .

"Oh . . . How can I get the points now . . . " the difficulties to get more points is bothering him . And as the person sitting just beside him, Liu Xin Xin caught his troubled mind .

"Your master? I'm still questioned with something . Do you mind sharing with me about the place you comes from?" Liu Xin Xin asked . After knowing that his intention to get more points is to plea for a session of leniency for his master, her opinion against him is much better .

"Of course!" he replied . After this exchange, Liu Xin Xin understands more about Zhang Wu Ji's background and also all he has gone through until now to be taken as a disciple of the Seven Heaven Sect .

But the most surprising stuff about him is that he's currently the owner and so-called Hall Master of the Seven Star Master Hall . Won't this status alone means he's at least a rank or two above her and her Liu Family?

"Father's insight is so much better than me to be able to see through some of his potential with a simple Pickaxe . It will be good for me to have a better relationship with him as it will be beneficial to me as well . " Liu Xin Xin thought .

"Then Wu Ji will rely on senior sister's help . Please accept this High-Grade Fool Silver Ingot as a gift for now . " Zhang Wu Ji took one of the Silver Ingots in his hand and presented them to her .

"High-Grade Silver Ingot! His skill is already at this level?" the existence of this piece of metal surprised her . How many have past from the day she saw him for the first time?

"To forge a High-Grade metal in sixteen days . . . " she feels an urge to laugh at herself and her pitiful talents . If it's her, won't she get all the attention from her family?

"If there's nothing else, please forgive Wu Ji to excuse himself first . I'll see you at the Material Market two days later . " Zhang Wu Ji said and left the residence .

"Mortal Flame source to be used at any time . The treatment is pretty good to a disciple in First Heaven Mountain . I wonder if I managed to get into the Seventh Heaven Mountain, what kind of resources will be provided . " Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of jealousy brewing in his mind .

"Should I challenge one of the top ten and get their residence?" Zhang Wu Ji considered his option . But soon, the idea is thrown aside when he's inside his residence .

"New residence or not, that's fine with me . Time for more practice . " Zhang Wu Ji calmed himself and started to continue with his cultivation . With about two hundred sets of the Low-Quality Body Tempering Powder, it is enough for him to force his body to form (100) Defensive Points .

He did not waste his time and started his Body Tempering Process along with the activation of the Compassionate Zone . At the beginning of the usage of Body Tempering Powder, it was a torturing process .

Each part of the Body Tempering Powder caused the water to become a solution worst than Sulfuric Acid that will melt his skin and flesh . Of course, this is what a cultivator felt when they soaked themselves in this volatile ingredient .

But in fact, it wasn't that destructive towards the cultivator's body . The torturing process happened because of the existence of Inner Qi, where it becomes a catalyst for the ingredient to becoming volatile and destructive .

Two days later, after all the torturing process, Zhang Wu Ji's physical body looks like they went through a layer of the hammering process, and quenched with Natural Energy to increase its durability .

Adding up with his previous conversion results, the effort of his two days are equals to (200) Defensive Points, where it was equivalent to 2% achievement of his Qingyang Fortress Body .

If only 2% worth of Achievement made him look like now, how amazing will that be if he successfully cultivates it into a complete Qingyang Fortress Body? And the best of all about all this training is the number of Fighter Qi inside his body is now different from how it was .

Although it was just a mere 4 strands of Warrior Qi, at the end of the day, Warrior Qi is still Warrior Qi, not something that a Fighter Qi can compete with . Even a thousand strand of Fighter Qi is in used to fight against a strand of Warrior Qi, they weren't an equal at all .

Still, the path for him to enter the 12th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior is too far from him . Without the ability to harness Natural Energy like those still in Fighter Tier, no matter how many Manuals in his hand is pointless .

But instead of turning into despair, it becomes a hope to Zhang Wu Ji . It is because he's now able to cultivate . Although the previous increment without putting too many efforts is very helpful, the exchange for this shortcut turned into his weaknesses in building a proper foundation .

The next day, he headed into the Material Hall as usual . Entering the Material Hall, the first person to greets at him is Zheng Kai . After he exchanged a few words with this senior, Zhang Wu Ji went past Cheng Hao Ran and Ma You Yuan's stall until he reaches Liu Xin Xin's spot .

"I've asked around the staff and elders . It seems that the best way to earn the Heaven Point is either to contribute in the preparation of Master Mo's Warrior-Tier Crossbows, Hunting for the Molten Flame Lions, and helping Master Jiang Lei to refine a Metal Puppet . " Liu Xin Xin speaks .

"I'll take all three . Senior sister, thank you for helping me in all these matters . " Zhang Wu Ji stated that he will accept all of them without hesitation .

"First, the Warrior-Tier Crossbows . Your task is to create their limbs, barrels, mechanical parts, and many other essential parts . All of them is for military use, which means it has to be made precisely! You have to be a Celestial Designer to take this task!" she said .

"Fine! The second Mission, hunting for Molten Flame Lions . They're the 15th Stage Inner Qi Warrior Wild Beast! How strong . . . oh . . . " she stopped in between of her question after thinking about Zhang Wu Ji's fighting strength against the monsters in the King's Graveyard .

"Anyway, third Mission . Do you know what is Metal Puppet?" she asked . After considering that Zhang Wu Ji does possess the ability to complete the two previous Missions, she turned into the third one .

"Piang . . . Aargh! My legs!" the answer stunned the people around them, and even one of the disciple dropped the treasure in his hand to the seller's leg .

"A Metal Puppet is a Sentient Mobile Forge . They can replace the needs of its owner according to the situation, and of course, in battle as well . " Liu Xin Xin starts explaining .

"The process to forge a Metal Puppet requires one to possess not only resources but skills and creativity . Unlike Spirit-Grade tool that houses a spirit, the Metal Puppet refines them into a Metal Soul . As the owner grows, the Metal Soul grows as well . "

"What Master Jiang Lei wanted to forge is a Metal Puppet with good refining ability that can help him in preparing high-quality materials . If you think that you can do it, then go ahead and try . " Liu Xin Xin is inexperienced about the matter with Metal Puppet and can only give him simple instructions .

"Ah! I forget about his direction challenged situation! The Molten Flame Lion resides in Maze Forest outside of Seven Heaven Sect . Won't he get lost in there forever if he got nobody to direct him?" she remembered something .

"Disciple Zhang Wu Ji, please make sure you start with Master Jiang Lei's Mission first . This one is more urgent than the other two missions . " the female receptionist informed him about the arrangement of urgency .

"Understood . " Zhang Wu Ji answers and left to the Weapon Hall, where one can purchase, order, craft, and request for an armament . The moment he entered, he was greeted with a few male staff inside of the Hall and was escorted into an underground forge to wait .

Inside here, he saw a Skeletal Frame made from a different mixture of silver metal supported by a tool stand . Out of curiosity, he went forward and started to inspect the item .

"What?" Zhang Wu Ji was shocked by how his system evaluates this piece of trash . Without wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji went over to a different table used to tighten the drawing plan and inspect the blueprint .

"Anyone knows the identity of the disciple inside of Master Jiang Lei's Personal Forge?" one of the staffs inside the Weapon Hall questioned his colleagues about the mysterious disciple that went inside .

"I'm the one that put him inside the room . If I'm not wrong, his name is Zhang Wu Ji . " the one that leads Zhang Wu Ji into the room replied to the question .

"Guys, shall we start betting about how long can he last inside of the Forge? I remembered that Brother Yan wins the last bet, so I wanted to win back the lost this time . Who's with me?" the one leads Zhang Wu Ji into the room followed with the conversation .

"Kid! Repeat what you say without missing a word!" Master Jiang Lei steps into the Forge and stares at Zhang Wu Ji with his fiery eyes . In term of physical features, Master Jiang Lei is more or less similar to a dwarf with a height between 1 . 4 to 1 . 5 meters tall .

"With this incomplete blueprint, even if you put ten more years it will still fail!" Zhang Wu Ji repeated what he said earlier . The action not only turned the Master face into Scarlet Red, but his strength of an early Inner Qi Lord is also bursting out from his pores .

"Master Jiang Lei . This youth is a Celestial Designer as well . Based on my experience, this is an Incomplete version of Metal Puppet Blueprint! And to be more accurate, it's a stolen Incomplete Blueprint!" Zhang Wu Ji voices out his claim .

"Woosh!" with a simple swing of his hand, Master Jiang Lei shut the door behind him and steps closer to Zhang Wu Ji . From how his face turns from Scarlet Red into a healthier skin color again, Zhang Wu Ji can confidently assume that this master is somebody looks reckless from the outside, but calm inside .

"This junior has no relationship with the Puppet School . My answer is only an estimation because of a few remarkable details . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand and bows to the Master of the Weapon Hall .

Given the chances to prove himself, Zhang Wu Ji pointed at the right bottommost corner, where the ink of the blueprint is fading . Following from his first point, Zhang Wu Ji led the pair of eyes into two blurry drawn lines that shape the skeleton frame of the Metal Puppet .

"Master Jiang Lei, please forgive this junior to raise his voice . . . Why does the heart require Tomb Silver to be used? The Tomb Silver is an ingredient filled with the Element of Death! Death is used as a heart, what can be worst than this?" Zhang Wu Ji raised his voice towards the master .

"AHHH!!!" Master Jiang Lei screamed in horror! His stubbornness that been motivating each step of his action is the one contributes him to overlook the most common knowledge about the Tomb Silver!

"I'm a failure as a blacksmith . How can I overlook this matter!" Master Jiang Lei yelled at himself . But after a moment of venting his mind, his expression turned into the usual calm dwarf human .

"Junior . That's a great help . But do you have any experience in assembling a Metal Puppet?" Master Jiang Lei appreciates his part of knowledge, but still, his task is related to Refine the Metal Puppet .

"Honest . Knowledge and experience can be learned, but honesty comes from the heart . I can tolerate people with no experience, but not people without honesty . " Master Jiang Lei speaks out what is inside his mind .

"And, congratulation . How about becoming one of my assistants? As long you have this status, you will be given complete support on forging anything to sell . " Master Jiang Lei immediately gives him an offer to become his assistant .

"Junior thank Master Jiang for his offer, but for now, junior's only motivation is to earn enough Heaven Points to be exchanged into a Leniency Favor . " unexpected to Master Jiang Lei, Zhang Wu Ji actually rejected his offer to become one of the assistants .

"I can let you borrow the Heaven Point if you want . . . " Master Jiang Lei did not give up his effort to obtain Zhang Wu Ji's help . But at the end of the day, it was still rejected .

"Since we know about the problem with the heart, how about we craft the parts to assemble them together?" Master Jiang Lei suggested that they started the process immediately . And Zhang Wu Ji's reply satisfies him when he said that he will handle a few of the smaller parts .

As each Blacksmith has their own method of preparation, nobody bothered with the other's workload . Although the Metal Puppet alone possesses two thousand three hundred Smaller Parts and four hundred fifteen Main Parts, the former parts are much easier to craft .

About two hours later, the quietness of the other corner inside his forge puzzled Master Jiang Lei . He questioned himself at first if he's too confident with the youth's skills . But when he turned around to have a peek, he was totally overwhelmed .

Without a sound of cutting, shaping, and hammering, the youth completely three-quarter of the Smaller Parts required to assemble the Metal Puppet .

"How did he complete everything so fast?" the results shock him because from where he peeks, every piece of the Smaller Parts is very well sanded into their peak condition . Perhaps not even a lubricant is needed to assemble all of the parts into the Skeleton Frame .

"Almost done? That's two thousand three hundred parts . How can it be done so quickly like he was accustomed to the creating process of the parts? There are at least sixty different shapes, each of them come with two to five differences in diameter, numbers, and sizes . " the master is puzzled by the reply .

Without further ado, he stopped his work and came close to the youth's side . Here, he was greeted with a pile of Blacksmithing Sand, a very durable Casting Sand suitable to be created into molds . Not only that, he was surprised by the fact Zhang Wu Ji completed all the required casting, and was wasting his time in sanding and smoothen the edges of all his parts .

"Why did I not think about casting! Although it was a difficult job, it was not as difficult as beating the metal into the desired shape . " Master Jiang Lei caught his lack of consideration on his choice of preparation method .

He was not entirely wrong in his decision, but Zhang Wu Ji wasn't entirely correct . His method of process guaranteed perfection in all his works, but Zhang Wu Ji's approach reduced the time needed to prepare the two thousand and three hundred parts .

"Master Jiang, do you need junior's help?" Zhang Wu Ji offered his assistance . In the short period of the Master Jiang's inspection, he completed all two thousand and three hundred parts flawlessly .

"How about you help me handle the parts needed for the heart of the Metal Puppet?" Master Jiang Lei happily delegates about eighty pieces of the Main Parts to the youth .

"Master Jiang, oh, Master Jiang . . . The more you let me work with this Metal Puppet, the easier it was for me to recreate it again as long I got enough material . " Zhang Wu Ji thinks as he accepted the task to handle the heart .

Without fail, Zhang Wu Ji followed the instruction to craft the eighty pieces of Main Parts which nicely assembled into the Casing for the Metal Soul . Of course, this means that the metal parts required to craft the parts have to be in their Low-Tier Spirit-Grade quality .

And luckily, this challenge failed to disturb Zhang Wu Ji due to the existence of Mortal Flame within the Forge . Using this Mortal Flame that can increase the amount of Purity in the Fool Silver he used to form into the parts .

Looking at how the youth able to complete the challenge he arranged, Master Jiang Lei can only sigh because this equals to him losing the opportunity to keep this youth by his side .

But the most surprising thing is when the Casing for the Metal Soul is completed, and unexpected Spirit Sharpening happened! The Heart floats in the middle of the air as the spirit clashed against each another to choose the final victor for the Metal Puppet!

And most importantly, the Casing for the Metal Soul is not an empty Heart with a Spirit inside but loaded with stacks of twenty Small Fighter Qi Weaving Stones . Because each stone carries the capacity of storing 10,000 strands of Fighter Qi, which equals to 10 strands of Warrior Qi . Twenty stones mean that they're capable of storing two hundred strands of Warrior Qi inside of this Heart .

"This Master Jiang Lei is too wealthy . Only from the amount of ingredient required to refine this Metal Puppet is about 50,000 Qi Accumulating Pills . " Zhang Wu Ji is partially jealous at his amount of wealth . Luckily, the cost of failure is not included in his calculation .

With the first day used to prepare the parts, the assembling comes in their second day . On the night before, Master Jiang easily infuse some of his Qi into the Small Fighter Qi Weaving Stones . As a cultivator in his Lord Tier and ascend past the Sheng Xian Process, a mere two hundred strands of Warrior Qi is nothing to him .

At the beginning of their assembling, Zhang Wu Ji repeatedly suggests a few different arrangements on their steps to ensure no parts missed in the assembling .

This also means that except the eighty pieces of Main Part used to assemble the heart before today, The remaining Three hundred and thirty-five Main Parts and two thousand three hundred Small Parts are all destined to be put together here .

Starting from the Foot first, they assemble the parts all the way until the Heart . By putting on the heart and the body together, this is the first time the Metal Puppet reacts . As a person that failed for numerous occasions, this situation brings Master Jiang into tears .

"It is moving . This must the sign that say's it's a success . Look at how beautiful it reacts . " Master Jiang is so happy with the three-quarter complete results .

With a new motivation in him, Master Jiang Lei's spirit is in his peak as he assembled the remaining parts to complete this Metal Puppet . At the moment the last piece is attached to the Frame, the Metal Puppet happily moves .

"That's the Metal Deterioration Symptom!" the experienced Master Jiang immediately caught the root of this problem . But no matter how experience is him, he will have to take action to stop this symptom from destroying the Metal Puppet's physical body!

"Not good! This is the Metal Deterioration Symptom! We have to keep feeding it with High-Grade Metal to maintain the resistance against the Symptom!" Master Jiang Lei is very experienced with this world's common symptoms and its knowledge, giving him the opportunity to plan the best solution method .

"Youth! I will continuously supply the . . . What is this speed?" Master Jiang Lei is prepared to rely on Zhang Wu Ji to group the other blacksmiths to help in preparing the High-Grade Ingots to be fed into the Metal Puppet . But as he shifted his gaze to the youth, something else stopped him .

Zhang Wu Ji no longer kept his skill hidden . Strands of Fighter Qi entered the Mechanical Tool to begin grounding the Mineral Ores into Powder Form before they're taken into the crucible to be smelted into Molten Silver .

But on another side of his hand, the Nine Layer Fighter Flame is activated to raise the temperature of the Forging Furnace . Although the temperature is limited on 1,050 Degree Celsius because overfired will results in tarnishing the Metal Ingot, the distribution of flame inside is controlled very well .

What Master Jiang Lei did not expect is the accuracy of this youth in filling the Casting Mold with the powdered form of the Fool Silver . Although this feat can be completed with experience, how old is the youth before this Master?

Even by learning blacksmithing when he was inside his mother's womb, it will be impossible for him to know about Blacksmithing at all! Worst, even Master Jiang Lei need two processing to refine an Ingot in their High-Grade quality .

"Master Jiang, here!" Zhang Wu Ji delivered six High-Grade Fool Ingots, with the Mechanical Tool yet to stop running . The Six Ingots quality satisfy his demand, where it went into the Metal Puppet's body and start assimilating with it to reduce the side effect .

"Good job there, youth!" Master Jiang Lei delivered his praise to motivates the youth to keep up with the great work . After a few batches of High-Grade Silver Ingots, the situation is finally controlled .

The Metal Puppet no longer deteriorates . After this situation is controlled, the outer layer started to recover like a layer of paint is applied . Very soon, the Metal Puppet recovers to how it looks before the final piece is assembled .

"Success! It was a success! The Metal Puppet is finally a finished product!" the happiness of seeing the completion of this product caused the Master to the state of tearing .

When Zhang Wu Ji considered about all of this, Master Jiang Lei is indeed unyielding in his battle to accomplish something remarkable in his lifetime . Although a Metal Puppet may seem unworthy to be called as an achievement, who can say that to an elder like him?

"Good job kid . You fulfilled my lifetime wish to produce this Metal Puppet . Thank you . . . " Unexpected to himself, Master Jiang Lei personally bowed down at Zhang Wu Ji to show him his respect .

"Master Jiang, this junior is not worthy of such respect!" Zhang Wu Ji steps forward and dares himself to touch the Master and holds him up from his posture . His action completely won himself an approval .

"Youth . From today onwards, the Weapon Hall will open their door forever to you at any time of your visit . Any purchase of your will be given a 50% discount and a complete privilege to sell your merchandise in our Weapon Hall . "

"Come, follow this elder out to the reception to process something . " Master Jiang Lei leads Zhang Wu Ji behind him as he steps outside of his personal Forge .

The moment Master Jiang Lei comes out first, their bet is completed halfway . Because it was only their second day, the one that leads him into the forge at the first place smile widely and waits for his winning rewards .

When Zhang Wu Ji came out next, he already prepared to extend his hand out to Brother Yan and prepare to accept his winning bids . But when the silhouette of a walking metal frame appeared after Zhang Wu Ji, he was utterly dumbfounded .

"How long did the Master tried assembling the Metal Puppet? Even all of them was included in the experiment and failed . But with this youth, only two days is all they need to complete the assembling?" everybody thinks about the same question inside their mind .

"Metal Puppet! It's a completed one!" the visitors if the Weapon Hall was shocked by the existence of this figure . The Metal Puppet possess the appearance similar to Zhang Wu Ji's height, and weights around 600 Kilograms .

As the blueprint design is a very unrefined, the end results lack of the smoothness in its appearance . But luckily, all of these did not end up reducing its usefulness as a Mechanical Puppet .

"Congratulations to Master Jiang Lei on your success in refining the Metal Puppet!" everyone within the Weapon Hall half-kneeled to congratulates the Hall Master in his success .

"Is this the power and authority of a Hall Master?" Zhang Wu Ji was amazed by the impression he received as he stands just two steps behind Master Jiang Lei .

"Disciples and staffs . Using the opportunity of everyone presents, I would like to express my thanks to this little junior, Zhang Wu Ji . Without his experience in both Celestial Designing and Blacksmithing, I am afraid I will still fail in this attempt . "

"From this moment onwards, Little Junior Zhang will become a guest of our Weapon Hall and receives our utmost attention to promotes his talent in Blacksmithing . "

"Everyone, I hope that you will treat Little Junior Zhang with care on behalf of this Master because he's too occupied with his own matters . " Master Jiang Lei announced his intention to shelter Zhang Wu Ji under his umbrella of power and expect them to spread this news all over the First Heaven Mountain .

After the announcement, Master Jiang Lei stands just before the reception counter and instructs the receptionist to start writing down every word he speaks .

"The Heaven and Earth opened their eyes . Under their blessings, Jiang Lei is shown with a path to overcome his struggles for this six years . Today, with the completion of the Metal Puppet, this Hall Master of First Heaven Mountain's Weapon Hall presents Zhang Wu Ji, a junior, with eight Heaven Points!"

"Why am I not that talented to complete the Metal Puppets! Eight Heaven Points is enough for me to exchange for a peak Mortal Earth Martial Arts!"

Before their eyes is a talented individual, one that rumored to defeat Cheng Hao Ran without putting too much effort, one that slaughters two hundred plus Yin Poison Skeletons, and now, he's also the one that sheltered by the Umbrella of power from Master Jiang Lei .

"Who can defeat him? He's protected by the second strongest cultivator within the First Heaven Mountain!" everyone thought about the dim future under the power Zhang Wu Ji controlled .

Receiving his eight Heaven Points, Zhang Wu Ji's Name Token now comes with ten water droplets at its surface . Without wasting his time, Zhang Wu Ji excused himself from the Weapon Hall and heads to the First Heaven Mountain's Heaven Building to exchange them for leniency .

"Junior, are you sure you will spend ten Heaven Points for one session of Leniency?" the person registering the exchange for him questioned him for the last time .

"This junior's decision is set . Please make sure the leniency is pleaded for junior's Master, Liang Tian of the Seven Star County . " Zhang Wu Ji stated the person to receive this leniency .

"Hmm, it seems that they can be instructed soon . The person in the duty of handling this penalty is Elder Wu from Third Heaven Mountain . You're lucky that he's inside the sect now . " the register shared .

"Filial . Polite . Calm . Humph . . . Not bad as a disciple . Now I wanted him even more . " the register praised the youth as he inserts his King Qi into a piece of a token .

"Hm? What is wrong with Heaven King? Giving me order out of sudden?" Elder Wu in his third Heaven Mountain's Residence said as he took a token out from his waist-belt .

"Should I send this brat to the Celestial Maze Realm or Mystic Vein Realm to temper himself?" Heaven King considered his option in helping the youth without exposing his identity .

"One day of rest and let us complete the two remaining Mission . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks to himself and rests after he applies a layer of Compassionate Zone .

In the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to a building belonged to one of the elders and was briefed with the number of parts he has to prepare for the head Celestial Designer inside the building .

And given his experience with the UPGRADE System, all of these tasks failed to give him any difficulties . From taking up the position to prepares only the left and right limbs, he slowly moves forward to the position of Assembling Staff .

Under his sharp eyes that can discern the quality of the build (Because of UPGRADE System), Zhang Wu Ji maintains the quality of all assembled weapon at their top quality .

As a part of the Seven Heaven Sect, they carry an obligation to prepare Warring Weapons to support the Kingdom in repelling the outside forces from controlling their land belonged to the Middle South State .

And as a part of the Middle South State, the Seven Heaven Sect is tasked with the preparation of Medicinal Pills and Master Mo's Warrior-Tier Crossbows .

With Master Mo's Warrior-Tier Crossbows is completed far more than their expected targets, the Elder presented two Heaven Points to Zhang Wu Ji before he left on his fifth day .

Unfortunately, during the period he was out of touch from people in the outside world, his third mission was taken by the other disciples because of some sudden changes .

With only five days remaining before the end of the month, Zhang Wu Ji decided to put his effort into cultivation and challenged the Disciple Competition .

The effort last long for three days, but on the fourth day, a knock came from his door with a message brought by the people handling the First Heaven Mountain's operation .

"Disciple Zhang Wu Ji . You're assigned by the First Heaven Mountain to represents the sect to participates in the Mystic Vein Realm Challenge . There will be seniors preparing to transport you to the location so please get ready . " the senior explained the situation to him .

Hohoho, Metal Puppet part is done, so what is wrong with this Mystic Vein Realm? If he goes to the realm, won't he miss the Disciple Competition?

"Junior brother, I will start to brief you with the information you'll need to know about the Mystic Vein Realm . " one of his two escorts, who is also his senior started to talk .

"As somebody is not originated from the Middle South State, you have to know that inside our state, many kinds of Independent Spatial Realm exist . In fact, they were too many of them in our Middle Southern State, so, an agreement is made between the ten superpowers . "

"Bountiful amount of Treasure, an inheritance from an Inner Qi Lord known as Golden Lord, and the possibility of obtaining the Mystic Vein Heart, the core of this Mystic Vein Realm . This is what we knew from the mouth of the others . "

"The realm has opened for two times in the past twenty years, and this is the third time the door into this realm opened to choose a successor . In the two previous opening, the Seven Heaven Sect failed in getting a good result . "

"The previous winner of the challenge belonged to the monsters from the Xue Hou Valley . " his explanation went smoothly until the word Xue Hou Valley came up .

"Senior brother, aren't the Xue Hou Valley belonged to the monster faction, how can they actually win the Mystic Vein Realm Challenge?" Zhang Wu Ji is lack of this states knowledge and came out with many ignorant questions .

"Junior brother, who say monsters are stupid? The Xue Hou Valley and Tie Ying Forest is the best example that Monsters is smart enough to compete against the human . If now, who is the one representing the two superpowers from striking an agreement with us?"

The senior brother explains and clarifies his question . Although ignorance is unforgivable once a while, for a talented individual like Zhang Wu Ji, it was something can be put aside .

"It's fine . Just put in all your effort to win the challenge this time is fine . I will start speaking about the important things now, pay attention . " the senior said .

"Inside this Mystic Vein Realm, pay attention to the members of Three Gates . Under some inexplainable source, we believe that the Three Gates is secretly cooperating with the people from the West to reduces the influence of our Two Sects . "

"The Flame Burial Sect is standing at our side, but at the same time, make sure that you monitor everything the Three Gates do personally to reduce the possibility of we're being betrayed . " the senior explains the importance of his participation this time .

"Who do you think you're? First Seat Yan Yi Ge? The other participants are all at their 13th to 14th Stage Inner Qi Warrior!" the senior warns him to not overestimating his own strength .

"Make sure you get rid of the people from the Three Gates . That will reduce the problem we're going to face . And also, remember this . " the senior partially agrees with Zhang Wu Ji's suggestion . But before his sentence ends, he makes sure Zhang Wu Ji remember what he's going to say .

"Seven Heaven Sects value our disciples . Unless it was some immoral conduct, feel confident with all your action . You're not at the stage to worry about your deeds because you're too insignificant to do so!"

"I guess I'll do something on behalf of Senior Brother Wu Jing . . . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he thinks about all his soon to happen actions to retaliate against the Celestial Gate for what they did earlier .

"Senior brother, Junior brother, we reached the entrance to the Mystic Vein Realm!" the driver of the Silver Wolf Tender informed the two sitting in the cabin .

"Oh, is that the Save me Ming De ten years ago? I remember that we from the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress is having fun in toying with him . " another senior added .

Listening to the comments of the others, the senior name Ming De feels shame to appears before the people waiting for the Mystic Vein Realm to open .

"Tsk . . . I wonder what junior willing to follow a loser like that . Boy if you want to change faction, you can come to us from Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress . I believe that your faction owns no brothel at all because you're so righteous!" the senior from Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress added .

"Tsk . . . Tsk . . . Tsk . . . Even Beast Master Ironwing enjoyed the companion of ten Iron Eagles . . . Human is pitiful . . . " the Senior Strong Beast added .

"Hahaha! Senior Master Ironwing, I wonder how many little Ironwings had you give birth to?" another pair of participant and senior came to the entrance .

"Hao Ting, We will see how amazing is the Flame Burial Sect this time . " the Strong Beast Master Ironwing stares at the new arrival with a pair of eyes with hatred .

"It's because of ten years ago, Master Ironwing got all his feathers burnt by Master Hao Ting from Flame Burial Sect . When he came out of the Realm . . . Pftt . . . He's not an eagle, but a half roasted pigeon!" the senior of Mystical Taming Peak answered .

"Wuunng!" the entrance gives a reaction when all ten factions arrived . Violet flash came from the inside and covered their eyes with blinking lights .

When they shifted their gaze to the one remaining disciples, Zhang Wu Ji, he was taking thing slowly and walk into the entrance under the gazes of the ten seniors .

"Wow! No wonder they called this an independent realm . " Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the detail of every piece of rock, cave plants, and water . They were all here for a reason to perfecting this Mystic Vein Realm .

Without an aim in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji checked his surrounding . Natural spot, void of human touches . Not even a hint of garbage littered, meaning that he's the first visitor to come here .

"Oh, I found something nice, to begin with . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled . With the information given by the UPGRADE System, he started his first quest by not searching for the door into the treasury but the key to enter the treasury .

"Should I start to guess how many people are actually smart enough to notice that the key is made from this Mystic Violet Grass?" Zhang Wu Ji happily picks as many grasses he can while searching for the Mystic Violet Treasure Room .

What he did not know is that every participant is transported into a different Mystic Treasure Room . Their first layer of the trial is to pass through several doors that linked to the Central Treasure Chamber for their first reward .

When he found the suspicious entrance colored in purple, Zhang Wu Ji decides that the amount of Mystic Violet Grass he collected is enough, and allows them to form into ten keys, and a bottle of Luminescent Material .

"Am I the first one to reach here? That's easy . . . Hehehe!" Zhang Wu Ji tried to steps into the caged chamber, but before he did, a layer of defensive barrier blocks the entrance to the cage chamber .

"Shit, Now I am restricted from entering the treasure chamber . What to do . . . " Zhang Wu Ji is confused with the suddenly activated barrier that stopped him from entering and leaving .

Without wasting time, he started to touch all over him and expect his UPGRADE System to reveal some hints, but when he felt an invisible hole that fits for liquids to drips inside, Zhang Wu Ji smiled .

"I am damn lucky to have a bottle of the Luminescent Material!" he immediately poured the material into the hole . Slowly, the material flows into the ground and deactivates the barrier .

Without any obstacle, Zhang Wu Ji started to utilize all the Wooden Universal Plate in his hand and begin to clear the treasure chamber holding at least a million worth of Qi Accumulating Pills .

"Damn disciple from Seven Heaven Sect! Put down the treasures!" the one from Celestial Gate shouts at him and attempt to enter the cage chamber .

"Tong!" his rashness turn into a disaster when he knocked the Barrier Wall head first . Landing with his buttock first, the disciple from Celestial Gate moan in pain .

The situation did not last long as the remaining doors opened . Eight juniors from their respective Faction came through the door only to found out that the Central Treasure Chamber is robbed clean!

On the next trial, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted with the view of a chamber without a path to retreat or move forward . The only thing that was left within this chamber is a table with two items .

A Stone Pick and a cosmetic box that made their existence inside of this chamber questionable . Without further ado, Zhang Wu Ji touches the two items to see what tricks are hidden behind their presence .

"I wonder who is the one stated that the Golden Lord is the master of this Mystic Vein Realm . . . " Zhang Wu Ji was suspicious of the fact explained by some mysterious individual to the public .

First of all is the fact regarding this realm and the number of the times it was opened . Using his UPGRADE System, Zhang Wu Ji randomly inspects some more precious materials only to find the truth that none of them belonged to the person name Golden Lord .

But at the same time, this wasn't some conspiracy planned by those from older Heavenly Sword Sect . In fact, the Golden Lord do exist . He is most probably the person that related to the owner of this Mystic Vein Realm .

Although this secret was discovered by Zhang Wu Ji because of the UPGRADE System, part of this is still deciphered by himself, based on the number of Emotional, Skeptical, Deceitful Recordings of Dramas .

If he was born and grown in this Realm as one of its original population, the possibility of him taking in the information like the others is expected . Unfortunately, he wasn't, which make him much calmer in handling this matter .

-Usage: By continuously inserting the Inner Qi into this Stone Pick, it allows the pic to slowing detach the Mystic Vein source holding this Realm together . (1 Inner Qi = 1 Minutes of effect)

"I did not see a single Natural Energy loitering inside this realm! This means the Qi they spent for the sake of fighting, chasing, competing with equals will not be able to replenish no matter how they meditate!"

"No . . . I overthink this matter . . . As a cultivator in Warrior Stage, how can they possess no means to replenish their Inner Qi . . . I have to consider something else to defeat all of them . " perhaps it was because of the restriction of space and attraction to disturbs him, Zhang Wu Ji actually considered his option .

"I've wasted too much time in this spot . Based on how I understand this, I'm sure the other nine will choose the Stone Pick instead of the Cosmetic Box . Although it was a loss to not taking the fastest way, it is the best choice when the matter of lacking in Natural Energy taken into consideration . "

"But now that I know about the Golden Lord and his scheme, I will not help him to steal the Realm Core! Jade Lord, you've suffered too much for all of these unfortunate incidents . "

"Although the two of us did not meet before, nor comes from the same generation, I am not as despicable as the others . If you choose me to inherits your legacy, go ahead, but even if you did not, that's fine . "

"I will protect your realm from what the Golden Lord wants . " Zhang Wu Ji put his hand on the Cosmetic Box and select this treasure . Without any other consideration, he took his Baton Glaive and destroyed the Stone Pick to express his dissatisfaction .

After that, he starts to collect the soil with his bare hand . Under the effect of the Jade Lord Essential Brick Maker, all matters within this Mystic Vein Realm will be converted into a pile of clay that can be mold with efforts .

This is what inheritance is about! It was a step not to use the inheritor to repeat his legacy, but continues his legacy! A repeat is nothing but a lone impression of reminiscence, but a continuation is what Inheritance means .

"What does this repeating action signify?" Zhang Wu Ji's effort to follow his heart and direction caused him to consider the meaning of his action . Although it was a simple act of scooping the matters into the Cosmetic Box, covers and wait for its completion, placing the Realm Essential Brick into the ground and repeat, Zhang Wu Ji keep thinking about something hidden behind all of this .

In the middle of his negativity, Zhang Wu Ji wakes up . He caught back how first is his mindset at the first moment he's inside of this Chamber .

As he turns his sight to behind him, Zhang Wu Ji found out about his effort . The used to be a small chamber actually turned into a big space that can compete with the size of his former Courtyard back in Seven Star Sect .

"Did I do all of this alone? It feels just for a short while, but I am actually complaining about it after I've done so much . . . Was this what . . . "

"Wait! I understand! What the Jade Lord wants his successor to understands that either success or fail, his wish is to temper our mind, and not giving us meaningless trial!" Zhang Wu Ji feels enlightened . The once used to be a selfish mind understands things better .

"Those that picked the Golden Lord's Path may seem to have it easy, but in exchange for the shortcut they took, it means that they lost the choice to experience the trial as I do . "

"Crack . . . " the moment he understands the meaning of this trial, the wall started to crack . Past the wall is the next Caged Chamber where compared to the previous one, it was neat, detailed, and gives out the feeling of well prepared .

"This is Jade Lord's true inheritance . What he intends to give is not wealth, treasure, or neither power . What he wanted his inheritor to inherits is his virtue!" Zhang Wu Ji finally understands . And for the additional bonuses, Zhang Wu Ji's selection of the Cosmetic Box allows him to enter the Cage Chamber without resistance .

The title of the books is [Jade Lord] and [Eternal Jade Statement], a very precious treasure that describes the Jade Lord before his death . Three chests where it's content carries the meaning of Humble within . Four scrolls, each of them shared the might and profoundness of what was drawn .

"This Jade Lord is undoubtedly humble . Even the way he stores the treasures within the chest is proper . " I guess that this must be the first trial he arranges for his inheritor . " Zhang Wu Ji looked at method this Jade Lord use to arrange his trial .

First of all, a Cosmetic Box that comes out to remind his inheritor about how beautiful life look but how much effort it was to make it happen . By tempering them in this way, the Jade Lord not only able to borrow outsider strength to stabilize his realm but increase the fondness between himself and the inheritor .

Why did Golden Lord possess the ability to adjust the trial in Jade Lord's Mystic Vein Realm and hold the ability to modify and add additional tests?

"What's wrong with them?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned himself about their progress but proceeds to the next level . What he did not ever imagine is that the inheritance trial is actually split into two different paths .

For those that select the Stone Pick, the enlightenment they received will allow them to open another inheritance, while the one that chooses the Cosmetic Box will be brought into a different heritage .

For those that entered this realm before this, they're mainly attracted to the Golden Lord Inheritance due to the straightforwardness of his trial . But in this Opening, one unexpected dark horse came out differently and entered another Inheritance Instead .

As for the others, they're lead to another Cage Chamber that allowed them to fight on the equal ground for the ownership of the treasures . What none of the nine considered is the lacking of Natural Energy here within the realm .

In his third trial, Zhang Wu Ji is sent to a smaller chamber this time, with an anvil on his right and a Flowing Drain with metal blocks similar to iron, but not as hard as what he thought . While on his Left, is an unfinished house where it's roof and interior is done, but void of walls except a single piece of brick .

"It seems like my mission this time is no longer forming bricks, but building a house . This Jade Lord's trial is somewhat profound, although the manner of how it was conducted seems menial . " Zhang Wu Ji utilizes the clipper took to grab the Metal Block and placed it on the Anvil before hammering .

While he's hammering the Metal Block on the Anvil, two light flashed from their Cage Chamber from Golden Lord's Inheritance transferred into a different room where they were separated once more .

The chamber they're within existed for one single purpose, to destroy the foundation housing of the Mystic Vein Realm that pulled the Golden Lord and Jade Lord's Inheritance together .

What they will need to do inside this chamber is to continuously craft Vein Cleaving Claydoll to splits the connection between the Vein connecting this foundation and the house . But even in their wildest dream, they failed to notice that this stage of the Trial is an indirect conflict between the two inheritance!

"Hey! What is those Claydoll trying to do?" Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the Baton Glaive to creates himself an army of Armament Wolves and attacked the Vein Cleaving Claydoll from the two chambers . But as time pass, the number of Claydoll started to increase, while himself has gotten tired .

"No . . . The Claydoll seems to be made from living human . Their creation of each varies from where they came, which strongly explains the fact they're handmade .

"Realm Core, please recover my strength by 500 Fighter Qi!" Zhang Wu Ji requested . And as a person that already obtained the approval from Jade Lord and his Inheritance, the Realm Core sent a Jade Beetle crawling to his side and transfers the amount of Fighter Qi he asked .

With the sudden increment of Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Ji immediately establishes his army of Armament Wolves that will take the responsibility to guard the House without a wall on its four sides .

The continuous challenge motivates him to went further than what he expects . Armed with such intention, Zhang Wu Ji earlier action that cost him time to maintain his quality turned into a rushed work that cost him the storage of Fighter Qi .

One after another, the Metal Blocks is transferred to complete one of the sides . He continues with the momentum while maintaining his guard on the number of Armament Wolves, but suddenly tremors came from where the Vein Cleaving Claydoll cames .

"The nine of them is seriously a threat! How can two of them already considered the option to send in something stronger to increase their speed of demolishing!"

Coming from the spot is three meters tall Claydoll with arms of a fork . The two gigantic monster strikes as it was already armed with weaponry and immediately crushes Zhang Wu Ji's army of Armament Wolves!

"Aouuu!" the Armament Wolves cries for their master's assistance . Under the attack of this grades, their numbers are expected to fall desperately unless Zhang Wu Ji came out with something else .

"Nine Meters Travelling Fist!" out of choice, Zhang Wu Ji is forced to executes the skills within the ninth manual which he spent a period of effort and Fighter Qi to create through the Rumors of Four Phases .

Like its name, the Nine Meters Travelling Fist is not a single strike, but a flawless attack that covers the distance of nine meters in subjugating his opponents .

This skill went through friends and only attack foes . It was a simple one fist stance, but following behind that stance is an intent that controls the life and death of all targets in the Nine Meters Distance .

And this stance alone controls the enemies before him without trouble, where his attack immediately shatters their core an left the Claydoll remained as a pile of broken Clayware .

"Hateful! How dare a mere inheritance stops me, the great Fighter Falcon, from taking this Inheritance with me!" the junior under the Beast Master Ironwing howled as he keeps his momentum in sending more Vein Cleaving Claydoll into the Room .

"The others must be trying hard to overcome this Trial, I cannot lose . " the disciple from Flame Burial Sect is trying her best to overcome this challenge as well .

In the side of the Inheritance belonged to the Golden Lord, only seven of the participants remained . They were respectively the disciple from Blood Messenger Religion, Flame Burial Sect, Celestial Gate, Soaring Gate, Tie Ying Forest, Xue Hou Valley, and Mystical Taming Peak .

Unexpected to Zhang Wu Ji himself, the disciple from Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress and Silver Wolf Gate is the earliest two to be kicked out from the Mystic Vein Realm during their competition to see who's qualified to keep the treasure .

At the end of the battle, both Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress and Silver Wolf Gate is kicked out from the Realm for underestimating their opponent too much .

Still, the worst of all is that they lost not only the treasures the brought themselves, but they were also forced to return completely empty-handed because of their weaknesses . As for their belongings, its ownership has changed from the two to the disciple from Blood Messenger Religion .

With the Gigantic Claydoll is destroyed and no threat can be seen, Zhang Wu Ji returned to handle the tempering of the Metal Blocks until they reach the suitable stage to be put into the wall as a part of its foundation .

For those without an UPGRADE System, this is impossible to be achieved by the power of one person . As a side fact, this trial is created for the sake of increasing the possibility of cooperation in between the Inheritance Trial .

Similar to how Golden Lord's Trial is related to everyone cooperating together to destroy the House connecting the two Inheritance together but not knowing the others that fight with them, while the Trial from Jade Lord paid attention in cooperation .

As a cultivator blessed with the UPGRADE System, Zhang Wu Ji can ignore the fact of properly inspecting the Metal Blocks he tempered because no matter how unbothered he is on them, their quality will reach the requirement anyway!

While the others still try their best to attack the Foundation House, Zhang Wu Ji already completed what he had to do . The four sides of the wall are now complete and cover the interior for additional privacy .

What he did not expect is instead of a somewhere hidden around the corner of the chamber, the door into the next trial actually appeared from inside of the Foundation House .

Stepping into the house and accessing the door, Zhang Wu Ji vanished from the spot together with the house . As for the others at this moment, the Clay to form the doll hardened and cracked . Following that, the wall splitting each of them into different rooms shatters and reveals a large chamber with five doors in the middle .

"What happened inside of the realm, why did you came out first?" the senior of the Silver Wolf Gate questioned his junior for the reason of coming out earliest .

"Reply to senior, junior apologies for his weakness of being defeated first inside of the Mystic Vein Realm . " the junior from Silver Wolf Gate apologized to his senior by becoming the first one to be kicked out .

"Nevermind . . . There's over hundred of Realm for us to find for a suitable inheritance so pay attention into your cultivation and not these worthless challenges . " the senior calmed his junior, but those words he mentioned contains several bones inside that picking on the others .

Master Sky Wolf, only those that failed to eat the grapes will say the grape is sour . Never in my expectation that the great Second-Grade Celestial Designer like Master Sky Wolf will say something so shallow . " Ming De took the opportunity to add salt to the injury .

"Ming De! Out of the previous two opening, you and I participate in the first opening and end up without anything in our hand . On the second opening, your disciple from Seven Heaven Sect only managed to bring out two thousand Qi Accumulating Pill worth of treasures, while my disciples brought not only a Mortal Heaven Weapon but also ten thousand Qi Accumulating Pill of Treasures out . "

"What do you mean by I am the one saying the grape is sour? If it's not because of the Seven Heaven Sect's position, the Silver Wolf Gate already overcome your status long ago!" Master Sky Wolf warns him to take care of his speech .

Ming De keeps quiet as he stares at Master Sky Wolf, but the flickered lights of the next participants shock everyone there, especially the senior from the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress .

"What happened? Why did our Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress end up taking the second last spot?" the Bandit Leader, Master Ring Saber questioned the youth .

"It's the bitch from Flame Burial Sect, she . . . " the young bandit tries to finish his answer but before he's able to a 1 . 3-meter long saber hack his head off .

"Trash! To know that you actually let a useless bitch kick you out . . . " Master Ring Saber executed the youth and left using his Silver Wolf Tender .

But not even a minute pass from Master Ring Saber enters the Tender, cries from pitiful women raped by a beast started to deafen the whole area as it left .

"How many stages before I reach the Inheritance for the Jade Lord?" Zhang Wu Ji cannot help but question his next trial . Before his eyes are no longer a small chamber, but a piece of land looks like Garden of Herbs .

The Sun-Facing Fruit, Wound Healing Grass, Ten Layer Healing Lotus, Blood Grapes, all of them grown here like it was their own private pasture, but unfortunately, none amongst them contains a hint of Natural Energy within that worthy to be made into pills .

The first Trial he passed is the test of Deduction, where it will evaluate how well the participants do in examining the item required to open the locked doors .

Additionally, the test is given in two stages . Upon going through all the Locked Doors, the participant will have to use the second item formed by the same ingredient .

On the second Trial, Zhang Wu Ji is given two choices . To follow the enlightenment of Jade Lord or Golden Lord . One allows the participant to understands the Trial of Effort, another understands the Trial of Force . Although there were no success or failure in this Trial, both will be transferred into their respective selection of choice .

And on their Third Trial, Zhang Wu Ji is given the effort to understand the Trial of Protection, while the others on the Trial of Destruction . Both lead to their final and respective Trial, which is the Trial of Heart .

As for the others, they're transferred to their own Final Trial by Golden Lord, the Trial of Sin, where they will be given the opportunity to pocket the treasure and fought against others for the ownership .

"Well, I guess I got no choice but to help the plant to grow . " Zhang Wu Ji steps closer to the plants on the edges . With both hands is opened wide, Zhang Wu Ji activated the Long- Mu Blessing Stance to increase their recovery and rate of absorption .

Only a short period is used before he turned the Garden of Herbs into something worthy to a cultivator . The plants started to carry some hint of Inner Qi within them and growing stronger .

At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji already reaches the stage to pass the Trial of Compassion, but he wasn't a person that will leave his effort incomplete . The Long-Mu Blessing Stance continues to pour into every inch of the garden until the Inner Qi every plant carry starts to reacts to the blessing .

Mist filled with Fighter Qi swimming within started to envelopes the whole Garden, turning it into a scene where the only land filled with extreme dense Fighter Qi can form .

Within this mist is a Body Cleansing Effect, where it will help cultivator within to removes the impurity from their body . Ailments such as Crippling, Birth Defects, Disease, Poison, Demon Bite, and others can be recovered here depending on how long they remained inside .

"The plant was nourished until the Qi within them overflowed and created the mist . I should bath in this mist and calm my mind before I proceed to the next Trial . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled and meditates .

Under the cover from the mist, Zhang Wu Ji meditates . The impurities within his body due to overconsumption of pills and the Fighter Chasing Dan slowly removed is he breath . After the Immortal Descending Mist is gone, Zhang Wu Ji opened his eyes .

The amount of Warrior Qi within his body is no longer six strands of Warrior Qi, but a whopping total of 56 strands of Warrior Qi instead . It was the reward mentioned by the description earlier when he touches the Sun-Facing Fruit .

Surprisingly, the Garden of Herbs is no longer exist . Surrounding him is an empty chamber with nothing except a smaller mound beside him, where a Mental Cultivation Manual rest .

What is the "Good Thing" he mentioned? I am sorry to all my readers . I'm not good enough . The story started to get better (I hope that's what all my reader thinks) as it goes, but my skills in writing are limited .

While everyone is waiting, I am trying my best to complete the chapters, but their content started to plague me as I worry it will be the same storyline as the earlier Arc .

I hope my reader understands this and can continue to support me, even if my writing is a little slower now (Because the story cannot go like how the first arc was, including the improvement, skills, and of course, enemies and treasures)

While Zhang Wu Ji is having fun on his newly obtained Manual, two more participants were thrown outside of the Mystic Vein Realm . The two were respectively the one from Celestial Gate and Mystic Taming Peak .

"Senior, your disciple is useless . I failed to overcome them and end up getting thrown out from the Mystic Vein Challenge . " the one from Celestial Gate bows to his senior with an apology .

"That's fine . Having some experience is better than nothing . The reward is just a bonus . We shall return to the Celestial Gate and report to your master . " the senior waved his hand and took out a beautiful Celestial Dragon Tender .

"Celestial Dragon Tender!" the crowd was stunned . Looking at this treasure, everyone finally understood the reason this senior did not reprimand his junior at all .

The Celestial Dragon Tender alone cost between 50,000 to 75,000 Qi Accumulating Pills . Due to this price alone, it was counted as one of the Luxurious Flying Carriage within this Middle South State .

It was not because others can't manufacture a Flying Treasure, but because the others will be attacked if their Flying Treasure did not come from the Three Gates! With this reason is considered, nobody willing to manufacture a Flying Treasure that will be attacked limitlessly!

With the departure of the people from Celestial Gate, the Silver Wolf Gate, and Mystic Taming Peak left the Realm Entrance as well . At this moment, only six factions of superpower remained .

His proudness attitude is despised by the others, but no one says anything now because they're still six disciples inside the Mystic Vein Realm .

"Nice Manual, from this moment onwards, I won't be lost ever again!" Zhang Wu Ji kissed the book out of his happiness and decided to keep this for now as each upgrade on 2nd-Tier Treasures cost 1 Strand of Warrior Qi on each attempt .

-Usage (1): Increase the user's Affinity with Earth for 15% . The increased affinity will help in basic sensitivity towards natural treasures grown all over the user .

-Usage (2): Allows the user to possess Natural Energy Sonar, an ability to map distance of 10 meters away from the user . Temporary Image can be projected to the user, but the accuracy varies on situation and amount of Natural Energy available .

-Usage (3): Ability allows the user to listen to Natural Treasures . Affinity with living beings such as Trees, Plants, and Natural Vein is increased by 15% .

-Restriction: The usage (3) will result in counter impact if the user decided to refine Natural Treasures . Impact Transferred is 55% . Effect increased by 5% daily if the user did not stop in between the refining process .

-Special (Limited): When Vein Listener Art Manual is planted within the ground, increase the speed of growth and maturity for Natural Treasures by 100% . Effect Valid as long the book did not rot .

"With the Natural Energy Sonar, I will no longer be lost at any places!" Zhang Wu Ji announced the new ability that allows him to find the way from entrance and exits .

He took a glance at the exit no far from where he was and decides that it was time for him to continue the Trial that will give him the Jade Lord's Inheritance .

Through his stable yet firm steps, Zhang Wu Ji walked past the pitch black passageway onto a humbly fitted room with a very significant Jadestone Mat right in the middle .

Although the furniture passed through the Corrosion of Time, none of them seems to get fragile . Right on top of the Jadestone Mat is a corpse .

"That's Jade Lord?" Zhang Wu Ji stunned . Out of all his expectation, the Jade Lord is actually a female cultivator . Although her corpse has gone through the corrosion of time, it was still a complete one .

When the scanned the Jade Lord Article inside Zhang Wu Ji's Spatial Ring, a mechanism is activated . Candle made from the Moon Boar Elder's Fat and Firetail Elder Horse lights the darkened room to give him a proper view .

"Junior Zhang Wu Ji pay his respect to Jade Lord . " although she's dead for at least a century to two, she's still the person he selected to inherits her will .

"Wait . . . Even skeletons and puppets existed, why am I afraid of a spirit?" Zhang Wu Ji caught his cowardice expression and quickly return to how he was .

"So many years of looking at the people coming in, and none of them actually chose me . I guess the name [Jade Lord] is no longer something praised by everyone within the Ping Lei Continent . " the Jade Lord's spirit started to speaks .

"Wait . . . Ping An Continent? Where is Ping An Continent? How can my Mystic Vein Realm went to a different continent?" the spirit of Jade Lord stunned with the fact she heard, and questions herself frantically .

"Say, good child . . . Are you here for my inheritance? Do you know about me?" Jade Lord smiled at the youth and questions him for one last time before she decides .

"Yes, Jade Lord . Junior is here because of senior's inheritance . But . . . I don't know who senior is, to begin with . " Zhang Wu Ji answered the question honestly without a hint of lies .

"Ahahaha! Ahahaha! My inheritor is just like myself, Ignorant, Honest, and lack of precaution . Tell me, did you get lost easily too?" the way Zhang Wu Ji answer her question bring her to heavy laughter .

"Inside the King's Graveyard . I was running away from the Puppet Warrior, and the further I go, the deeper I am inside the King's Zone . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to her .

"Yup! Or else why would I need Golden Lord to help me?" her answer made Zhang Wu Ji understands the reason Golden Lord can meddle with her Mystic Vein Realm .

"Yes . To has a person model the Mystic Vein Realm for me, I allowed Golden Lord to put his inheritance here with me . " Jade Lord answered his question without hiding anything from him .

If it was somebody else, who's willing to allow someone else to meddle with the creation of her Personal Realm? And to share it out with him instead!

"Anyway, we should get to the Inheritance Topic . If you agree to inherit my will, You will bear the title Jade Inheritor in your name, and fulfill my wish to refine a Qian's Jade," she added .

Knowing that it was the time to follow the ceremonial steps, Zhang Wu Ji kneeled on the ground completely . With three kowtows towards the Jade Lord, Zhang Wu Ji answered .

"Junior Zhang Wu Ji will do his best to fulfill the wish of Jade Lord, and refine a Qian's Jade to complete her dying wish . I will make an oath with heaven as my witness . "

After his oath, a flash of light pierced the forehead of both Jade Lord and Zhang Wu Ji to connects their fate together . As long he managed to fulfill the dying wish of Jade Lord, it will not be a problem for him to inherits her inheritance .

"Great . As starters, let me provide you with two Inheritance Skills . " once the Ceremonial Oath completes, the Corpse sitting on the Jadestone Mat turned into ashes . What was left behind from her disappearance is the Jadestone Mat that's now without an owner .

"The first inheritance is this Mat made of a precious piece of jade . Its name is [Baixue Jade Mat] . It was the only treasure that will allow you to cultivate the following inheritance, Pure Jadeskin Inheritance . " the voice echoed inside his mind, telling him what to do next .

"Put a drop of your blood essence on the Baixue Jade Mat and infuse your Warrior Qi with it . From this moment onwards, you will be the only owner of this Baixue Jade Mat until you die . " Jade Lord teaches him what to do, and what to prepare in his mind .

Without any comment in mind, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with the step by step to make this Baixue Jade Mat become a Bounded Treasure that only himself can use . The procedural steps are simple, but the description is not .

-Usage (1): When used in meditation, increases the speed of improving the Pure Jadeskin Inheritance by 0 . 02% . Meditation through the Baixue Jade Mat increases user's recovery rate by 100,000 Strands of Inner Qi every minute .

-Usage (2): During Meditation, additional Jade Material (High-Grade, Di's Jade and above) can be assimilated to enhance the improvement . The used jade can be reform into Baixue Sharpener, which can be used as high-quality BORAX .

-Usage (3): By paying 3,000 Strands of Qi, allows the user to activates Baixue Realm Barrier that can defend (1) attack from one Tier above the Qi paid . Ability reduces the durability of the mat by (100) points .

-Limitation: Unless User able to obtain complete inheritance of Jade Lord / Mastery over Pure Jadeskin Inheritance of 100%, the mat will not be open to upgrade or repair .

-Special (Unique): Anyone that made contact with this Baixue Jade Mat will have 5% of their total strength restricted . Effect Valid for two targets only . The effect will be effective forever as long target is within 10 kilometers range .

"Don't be . . . This is the second Inheritance . I hope you can use them to do good, and not evil . I will be resting within your mind until you fulfill the oath you made to me . By then, I will let you inherit the two remaining inheritance from me . "

"Oh, and for a side task . Destroy the Golden Lord and his inheritance . In exchange for this task, I will teach you how to assimilates with the Realm Core and use it to create your own Personal Realm . " the Jade Lord finished her words before his mind turns silent .

But the silence went undisturbed as Zhang Wu Ji is processing the knowledge in his mind . Only after the second days passed his eyes opened . Although he was inside this Mystic Vein Realm for three days, the benefit he received is humongous .

How to control the Realm Core, how to enter the Golden Lord's Inheritance and destroys his Inheritor, and most importantly, how to cultivates the Pure Jadeskin Inheritance . But one trouble remains before he completes his task .

"Aargh! The Pure Jadeskin Inheritance is a unique skill! I cannot use it like the others because there is no Manual in my hand at all!" Zhang Wu Ji cried out loudly .

Please take note that in the Baixue Jade Mat's 3rd usage, I wish to clarify that it has no restriction in the type of Qi used . Any 3,000 Strands of Qi is usable to activates the Baixue Realm Barrier .

If one injected 3,000 Strands of Inner Qi, then it can block one attack from a Fighter Tier Cultivator . If it was 3,000 Strands of Warrior Qi instead, then it will be strong enough to defend against a Soldier Tier's attack .

"Xue Xue wishes to speak with Master . " a cold and beautiful lady appeared before a broken hut and made her request . After her speech, she kneeled before the beautiful Marble Stone surrounding the Broken Hut .

There were only seven pieces of Marble Stones available around the broken hut, each was there with a number engraved on its top . The one that used by Bai Xue Xue carries the number "7" on its surface .

"My lovely eldest disciple, what do you need from your master?" Heaven King appears . The moment he started to talk, the appearance of the Broken Hut changed .

It was no longer a hut that will come down from additional pressure, but a beautiful House made by Illusion Oak Tree . This kind of breed is something elder in their Lord Rank use to disguise their belongings, such as records, houses, treasures, and even the Wooden Stool they use for meditation .

"Xue Xue wish master allows her to participates in the upcoming Ice Legacy Realm Inheritance . " Bai Xue Xue tried to obtain the approval to enter this inheritance .

"Ai . . . How many time master tell you . The Ice Legacy Realm Inheritance is extremely dangerous . Listen to your master, Participates in the Shallow Sea Realm Inheritance first, and you can participate in the Ice Legacy Realm Inheritance ten years later . " Heaven King explained .

"You sure about what you say?" Bai Xue Xue lost her temper . One will not imagine that based on how cold is her expression, she's actually pretty hot-tempered .

"Dear daughter . . . Please understand your King Father's worries . . . " Heaven King's tone becomes very mild and gentle when this young lady lost her temper .

"Let me go . " Bai Xue Xue shows an ugly expression to the Heaven King . As the Sect's Patriarch is not letting her to leave, she struggles to take a piece of Jade Plaque out .

"Ai . . . My dear wife, how can you craft something like that to our beloved daughter? Now she's using that thing to threaten me . You should at least make something similar for me too . . . " Heaven King took a piece of Jade Plaque and complaints .

"Second Disciple Yang Qing greets eldest senior sister . Is there anything senior sister Bai need?" Yang Qing replied and stopped practicing with his Silver Spear . When he turned to face Bai Xue Xue, it reveals a youth in his eighteenth to nineteenth years old, with the strength closing to 33rd Stage of Inner Qi Soldier .

"Second Junior Brother . I want you to follow me into the Ice Legacy Realm Inheritance . Are you willing to help me?" Bai Xue Xue did not keep her intention secret .

Only by having another disciple with strength similar to her can boost her confidence when challenging the Ice Legacy Realm Inheritance . Plus, Yang Qing is a genius in both Cultivation and Celestial Designing .

"Eldest senior sister, junior remember that master says . . . " Yang Qing wanted to tell her about the Sect Patriarch's disagreement but looking at her expression, he stopped .

"Hehehe, second junior brother understands . I shall prepare the required tools and treasures to allow us to obtain the best results in this challenge . " Yang Qing agreed .

"Senior sister . . . You're dragging me to hell with you . . . How can you completely ignore the existence of Blood-Freezing Palm's inheritor, Yelu Yin Yuan from the Blood Messenger Religion? Even with third brother Tang Jiang Shan's help, we can only fight into a draw . . . " Yang Qing feels like crying in his heart .

When she returned to her own residence, Bai Xue Xue went into her secret practicing cave immediately and started to refine her martial arts once again .

"Empress of Ice Ruling the Heaven!" an attack of ice envelops the whole Practicing Caves, with the strength of at least 37th to the 38th stage of Inner Qi Soldier Strength is executed .

"XIU! XIU! XIU!" three flashes went through the Mystic Vein Realm Entrance and revealed three deported disciples . They were respectively disciples from Tie Ying Forest, Soaring Gate, and unexpected to everyone, the disciple from Flame Burial Sect .

"Hahaha! It seems that only our Xue Hou Valley, Blood Messenger Religion, and Seven Heaven Sect disciple remains!" the Strong Beast from Xue Hou Valley, also the last inheritor ten years ago, comments .

Each of the disciple's facial expression is dim, but at least, their senior is not the same as the animal bandit senior . After they explained to everyone about the reason they were disqualified, it was due to the final Trial and not the fighting between each another .

But none of them know that the two remaining disciples awaiting for the Golden Lord's Inheritance are going to come back empty handed . While the two is waiting for the Golden Lord's Inheritance to come down to them, something happened .

Without feeling bothered, Zhang Wu Ji throws three drops of the Natural Springs at the Golden Lord's Statue with the intention to demolish the whole thing .

"Brat from Seven Heaven Sect, go die . . . " the disciple from Xue Hou Valley threatened the youth, but before he even approaches Zhang Wu Ji, a bloody palm hit his ribcage and drove him to a half-dead situation .

"Bast*rd from Blood Messenger Religion, the Xue Hou Valley will not forgive you!" the disciple cried in pain as he looks at the Blood Messenger Religion's disciple charged at Zhang Wu Ji .

At the moment his attack connected, the disciple was thrown away at least a hundred meters from Zhang Wu Ji . The experience from hitting Zhang Wu Ji feels like slapping on an Iron Wall .

Zhang Wu Ji charged at the disciple from Blood Messenger Religion and took the opportunity to continue his attack . With the (200) points of defense converted earlier, Zhang Wu Ji is almost resistance to any self-injury .

"Get off!" the disciple shouts as he tried his best to defend against Zhang Wu Ji's attack . How can mere blows from an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior put him into such a depressed position?

But the truth has spoken . The strongest disciple in this Mystic Vein Realm Challenge is pummeled by the weakest among the ten of them until he's in this state .

"Come and help me! Don't you want the inheritance?" the disciple howled at the other person in the Inheritance Chamber . Although he was asking for help, his attitude is similar to ordering the person instead .

"F*ck You! I wish you die in the hand of an 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior . I will tell everyone that the strongest disciple among the ten of us is defeated by the weakest of us . " the disciple from Xue Hou Valley cursed at him .

"I will slaughter all the beast from Xue Hou Valley!" the disciple from Blood Messenger Religion claims as he activates the protection treasure .

"Oh . . . That blood armor is formed of blood? If that's the case, should I have fun with you while strengthening my body?" the armor surprised Zhang Wu Ji at first, but without a hint of fear in his eyes, Zhang Wu Ji stepped closer to him .

"Let's start with 10 strands of Warrior Qi first . " Zhang Wu Ji activates the Scorching Vein Art on both himself and his opponent and causes the two of them to fall into flames .

"Aargh! How dare you try to die together with me! I will not fall, I am destined to become the strongest cultivator in twenty years!" the disciple cry as he struggles with Zhang Wu Ji to see who can last, but at the sixth minute, he fell .

"Even a Vein strengthening art can kill someone . No wonder they say that cultivating is a path filled with treasures and deaths . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled and collected everything from the dead disciple from Blood Messenger Religion before he came forward to the disciple from Xue Hou Valley .

"No . . . I'll destroy the entrance key, please let me go," the disciple beg for his life and destroyed his key that will transfer him back to the entrance .

"Although I got no life and death hatred with you, I am sorry that I must fulfill my promise with Jade Lord . " Zhang Wu Ji stares at the statue for the last time before he throws few more Natural Springs on the figure .

With the piece of Grain of Water Sapphire, Zhang Wu Ji activated the water creation ability to ignites the Natural Springs . The explosion destroys the Inheritance Chamber, and completely detach the Golden Lord from the Mystic Vein Realm .

His next step is to approach the Realm Core and withdraws the core from this space, and destroys it . This way, Zhang Wu Ji can complete the whole inheritance process, and return to the Ping An Continent with all the rewards .

The closer he gets to the Realm Core, the louder the voice speaking within his mind . When he finally entered a cave chamber with a beautiful looking crystal rested on the ground, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that strength and ability do not rely on size, but how deep it's hidden .

The Realm Core before him is a simple piece of Jade, with a hint of blood essence within . This core is refined by the Jade Lord with all her might before it gains the sentience that allows it to become a Realm's Core .

Zhang Wu Ji extends his hand to the core and removes it from where it rest . And with the Realm Core is gone from where it should be, the Mystic Vein Realm started to disintegrate .

He kept the Realm Core inside his spatial ring and waited . With the tower of light flashed through his body, Zhang Wu Ji returned to where he came .

The moment he opened his eyes, Zhang Wu Ji saw the three remaining seniors at the entrance, but the situation was not a positive one . The senior from Xue Hou Valley is busy healing his junior from the injury, but the tension between the Seven Heaven Sect and Blood Messenger Religion is different .

"Ming De! I will make sure your Seven Heaven Sect will answer for the death of our Blood Messenger Religion's top disciple!" the senior of the disciple Zhang Wu Ji killed threatened Ming De .

"Hahaha! Who doesn't know that inside of the Realm Challenges, life and death is determined by themselves? Don't you dare to place all the blame on my junior!" the senior retaliates .

"I will see how long can you laugh . The Seven Heaven Sect shall await for our Middle South State's religion for a purge!" the Blood Messenger Religion's senior left after he threatened both of them .

"Haih . . . Junior . . . This senior wish you luck in overcome this obstacle . " the senior from Xue Hou Valley said . Because of Zhang Wu Ji action of allowing his junior to leave the Mystic Vein Realm with his life, he expressed his gratitude .

"Your action obtains my praise, so please accept this senior's gift . I hope you're blessed with luck all the time . " the senior extend his hand to Zhang Wu Ji with a gift .

"Disciple thanks senior for his generosity . . . What?" Zhang Wu Ji holds the treasure with gratitude, but when the description came up, he cannot control his emotion and shouts .

WOW! The difficulties in getting a chapter up are killing me . But I am glad to say, the Mystic Vein Realm part is finally ended . Guess what Obsidian Heavenly Beast is all about?

Please look forward to the next part of the story, because he just caused an enmity with the strongest superpower in this Middle South State, the Blood Messenger Religion!

"Senior, this gift is too precious! Junior did not do a thing that worth given with this Obsidian Heavenly Beast's Backbone!" Zhang Wu Ji extended his hand back to the senior from Xue Hou Valley .

"Not bad . Only a glance is all you need to recognize this treasure of our Xue Hou Valley . Take it . I heard about your ability when you're fighting against the bast*rd from the Blood Messenger Religion . With this Obsidian Heavenly Beast's Backbone, I may have the chances to witness some changes . " the senior replied .

"Hahaha, for the Wild and Strong Beast like us, an Obsidian Heavenly Beast's Backbone can both gift us with blessings or curse . Assimilation with this treasure is extremely difficult, with only a 25% success rate . "

"Instead of being used by my lack of talent junior, why not we extend our friendship and use this gift to strengthen the relationship between the Seven Heaven Sect and Xue Hou Valley's younger generation?" the senior speaks his intention of bringing out such an expensive gift .

"Then junior Zhang Wu Ji will accept this gift . But in exchange, please let me give something back as an exchange of goodwill!" Zhang Wu Ji accepted the gift and kept the treasure inside his spatial ring .

"I am Gumu Wuwo from the Battling Apes Tribe . Brother Wu Ji, nice to meet you!" the junior beast with a physical form of an ape introduces itself .

After their exchange of gift and conversation, the Mystic Vein Realm Challenge finally ends . Riding on the Silver Wolf Tender, they returned to their sect for the sake to report about this great achievement .

"Junior Zhang, did you managed to get the Inheritance?" Ming De questioned the youth as they're excused from controlling the Silver Wolf Tender .

"Senior Ming De, junior Wu Ji did receive the inheritance from the Mystic Vein Realm . It will no longer open because the Jade Lord already chose me as her inheritor . I will continue her legacy from this moment onwards . " Zhang Wu Ji replied .

"Good Job! But what is this Jade Lord is all about? I thought the owner of this Mystic Vein Realm name is Golden Lord?" of course, Ming De knows a few details about the Mystic Vein Realm . After questioning the youth for a while, he finally understands everything .

"No wonder . . . It was a good thing that you managed to inherit her legacy . Make sure that you did not let the Jade Lord down . Furthermore, it was a good thing that you teach those from Blood Messenger Religion . " Ming De nodded and brought up a different topic .

"Is there an issue between our sect with the Blood Messenger Religion?" Zhang Wu Ji asks for more information about the relationship of the ten superpowers inside this Middle South State .

"The relationship between the ten of us are similar to having nine daggers aiming at our throat . This is also why the Xue Hou Valley' senior tried to get his junior, the Gumu Wuwo from Battling Ape Tribe to befriend you . " Ming De replied .

"Senior's meaning is . . . If there's any clash between the superpowers, the younger generation like myself and Gumu Wuwo will not need to fight against each another?" Zhang Wu Ji confirmed his suspicion .

"Yes . Each generation will only fight against each another . Of course, there will be an exception . And those will be the four Strongholds . You must take note that position and power did not come with the benefits alone, but disaster too . "

"Who dares to attack our tender?" Ming De charged outside of the Silver Wolf Tender to look at the enemies . But when it was revealed to be a group of cultivators in their red robes, Ming De's heart falls .

"All of you from Blood Messenger Religion! How dare you try to attack people from the Seven Heaven Sect? I will make sure to report all of these actions to the sect!" Ming De taunted the enemies .

"Let the youth come with us to be cleansed . If you retaliate, don't blame the Blood Messenger Religion to remove this tumor from destroying our Middle South State!" one of the people in red robes taunt back against Ming De .

"Bast*rd from the Blood Messenger Religion! If you dare to take another step forward, don't blame me sending all of you to your maker earlier!" Ming De withdraws a sword and channels his strength out to threaten the others .

"Hahaha . . . You cannot make a move, Guidance Master Ming De . All of us are in 15th to the 16th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, and you're at 47th Stage of Inner Qi Master . "

"The differences of 30 stages will cause the Natural Law of Cultivator to arise if you dare to make a move!" the red robe cultivator speaks . As he points on the sky, a circle of cloud started to form, indicating that what he said is true .

"Junior, Quickly run!" Ming De shouts at Zhang Wu Ji so he can escape . But his warning was not taken in by Zhang Wu Ji . Instead, the youth came out from the Silver Wolf Tender to face his enemies .

"If all of you are rushing to your death, then I'll help you to go there earlier . " Zhang Wu Ji announced his intention to fight with them . With his both of his palm holding on some hidden weapon, Zhang Wu Ji narrowed his eyes as he looks at his enemies .

"Hahaha! An 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior want to fight with thirty of us at our 15th and 16th Stage Inner Qi Warrior strength? Youth, we can kill you without any effort at all, put aside the Warrior Qi . " all the red robes cultivator laughed .

"Then shall we try?" Zhang Wu Ji tossed ten drops of Natural Springs at his enemies before he activated the Grain of Water Sapphire for its best effect .

"BOOMMMMMM!!!!!!" the clusters of explosion blasted everyone and blinded both parties . When Ming De's sight finally returned to normal, the thirty opponents were left with between ten to eleven, with the others all turned into a pile of burnt meats .

"Youth! How dare you . . . Uhuk . " the leader taunts at Zhang Wu Ji but following from his first attack, a Flying Silver Stake came forth and nailed his corpse on the ground .

"Leader! NO!" the others were surprised by the sudden attack, but before they can react, all remaining survivor is nailed on the ground, dead .

"What is that? Dao of Assassination? Dao of Projectiles? Dao of Weaponry? How can a mere 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior possess this kind of fighting ability?" Ming De was surprised by his performance .

Even himself, at Zhang Wu Ji's age, is just a normal cultivator that has to depend on a powerful senior to groom him . When he was younger, did he ever overcome such a threat?

Without waiting for the Ming De's approval, Zhang Wu Ji went down and started to grab all his victory loots . Few Spatial Stones is collected, but when he rummages the leader's corpse, a mark was imprinted on his body .

"Junior, quickly come back! That's the Mark of Blood Impaler!" Ming De rushes to where Zhang Wu Ji is still questioning about the appearance of the mark on his body .

"PIU!" a three meter long Silver Bolt struck at where Zhang Wu Ji stands . Luckily, Ming De reaches where he was, and deflected the first attack .

"Leave! We must return to the Seven Heaven Sect and requested one of the elders to help to remove the Mark of Blood Impaler!" Ming De pulled Zhang Wu Ji and returned into their Silver Wolf Tender .

Three days later, they finally reach the entrance of the sect and went past the Defensive Array . At the same time, one of the Blood Impaler Bolt tried to went through the Defensive Array but unsuccessful .

"Damn! This feeling is like targetted by a Homing Missile . If I can play with something like this must be nice . " Zhang Wu Ji did feel a little threatened, but his urge to possess some ability like this is much more .

"Humph! How dare the trash Lan Yiyun place a mark on our First Heaven Mountain's best disciple! I will teach him a good lesson next time in our Blacksmithing Master's Meeting!" Master Jiang Lei harumph .

"As the inheritor of Mystic Vein Realm's Jade Lord, how can you remain at that building? The First Heaven has approved my request, and from this moment onwards, you're the First Heaven Mountain's First Seat!" Master Jiang Lei answered .

"Wait? I did not do anything, how can I become the first seat? Master Jiang Lei, this will not do good on my cultivation, please retract your order . " Zhang Wu Ji bowed . If he climbs up to the top spot without personally fighting for it, then who will respect him?

"Fool, one against thirty 15th to 16th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior and killing the disciple from Blood Messenger Religion, if it was not because of the Sect Rules, we already place you on the third mountain . " Master Jiang Lei added .

After the Mark of Blood Impaler was removed, Zhang Wu Ji was given a briefing on his rights as the 1st Seat in First Heaven Mountain . The content was about the same, except being the first seats means that he can take five manuals out instead of one, free of charge .

The Mission Hall also promises a double the rewards for every mission he selected to complete . As for the Material Hall, Zhang Wu Ji will enjoy the benefits of Sect Storage and 50% discount on all material he purchased .

"A first seat actually carries so many benefits . I should take the chances now to increase my cultivation first . And at the same time, it's time for me to start my preparation with master's Formation of Seven Swords Manual . " Zhang Wu Ji considered his path of cultivation .

"Let us refine the Obsidian Heavenly Beast's Backbone before I pay attention to my cultivation . Because my Cultivation Strength is limited, I put a stop on my UPGRADE System and Knowledge Unlocking for too long . I have to start paying more attention to this issue . " Zhang Wu Ji took a sit on the Baixue Jade Mat and took the bone in hand .

"Put aside the specialty, After refining this treasure its equal to increasing 1,000 Points in my Qingyang Fortress Body . The total achievement of 1,200 Points will allow my body to ignore 10% of the damage . This means, my defensive ability is going to get a critical boost!" Zhang Wu Ji smiled .

"What treasure did the disciple get in the First Heaven Mountain?" the disciples from the second and third Heaven Mountain is surprised by the sudden appearance of this shadowing .

For the next ten days, Zhang Wu Ji struggles hard to consolidates his cultivation . From the previous 56 strands of Warrior Qi, he's now at 96 Strands, not too far from breaking through the gap between the 11th and 12th stage of Inner Qi Warrior .

But, the most amazing feat is that his Qingyang Fortress Body is no longer at 1,200 Points worth, but 1,800 Points after the ten days of cultivating . Although it was still a gap between his current achievement to 2,600 Points, his accomplishment in Qingyang Fortress Body can be said to be the mightiest even when comparing with those in Second Heaven Mountain .

Furthermore, Zhang Wu Ji possesses the Pure Jadeskin Inheritance, the world defying Cultivation Art that grants Jade Lord her title . The Pure Jadeskin Inheritance originally named as [Milky Jade Transformation], a 6th-Tier Immortal Earth Grade Art .

Through cultivation, the Pure Jadeskin Inheritance grants Zhang Wu Ji with resistance towards poison, Internal Injuries, increase health benefits, and also the achievement of [One With Jade], a state where he will be completely immune to all Curse-Based Attack .

Through his Compassionate Zone, Zhang Wu Ji managed to increase the amount of usable Natural Springs once again, which will become a necessity to overcome the threat came from an outside force .

When he came out on the eleventh day morning, he realized that the treatment towards him become very noticeable . As the first Seat in the First Heaven Mountain, everyone started to greet him as Senior Brother Zhang instead of a "junior" title .

He chose to visit the First Heaven Library before anything else . First of all was the reason he's already keeping the Qingyang Fortress Body's Manual with him for almost one whole month . As for the second matter, it was to borrow a few more books .

"Junior Zhang Wu Ji pays his respect to Elder . " once again, he bowed before the elder when he arrived outside of the library . Although everyone is fighting for the opportunity to give him the frontmost spot, Zhang Wu Ji rejected .

He silently went at the end of the queue and waited for his turn . Only after waiting for 40 minutes it's his turn at last . And the first thing he did is a bow and greet .

"So, what can this elder do for you today?" the elder praised him before returns to their main topic . As usual, he must inform the elder his main reason to come here before allowed for entry .

"Junior Zhang Wu Ji is here to extend his borrowing period of this Qingyang Fortress Body Manual and also to rent four more information books related to Celestial Designer and Blacksmithing Craft . " Zhang Wu Ji extends a book in his hands towards the elder .

With a strand of Lord Qi into the book, it was renewed . He can keep this book for another month, As for the book he's looking this time, the elder directed him to three different shelves to look for one he considers suitable or attractive .

His next target is the Material Hall . Inside here, Zhang Wu Ji greets Zheng Kai as usual, with the title of Junior like how it was before going to the Material Hall's counter and requested for a few ingredients .

Because he's already a Qi Accumulating Pills Millionaire, there's no point for him to return to how it was before and slowly process the materials to their usable state before he begins his craft .

But, except the elder from the First Heaven Library, nobody knows what book was taken by him . Zhang Wu Ji's purchase is mainly filled with gemstones of all kind of quality, and also weirdly, a cage of living Fighter Qi Eater Bugs .

Although they're sentient, the Fighter Qi Eater Bugs is a kind of mild appetite bug that often found around plants with good medicinal and Qi value, which suitable to be concocted into pills with different functionality .

Still, this is the knowledge deciphered by the people of Ping An Continent . To be exact, people of the Middle South State . After borrowing four different books, his understanding in connection to Celestial Designers and Puppets is wider if compared .

And in between the four rented books, one touched particularly in the research of creating a new source of a Small Fighter Qi Weaving Stone . Although this resource is not unusually rare in this state, they're still not widely traded like a Wound Mending Pills .

-Usage (1): Allows the user to side produce a replacement Fighter Qi Weaving Stone . Created Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stone able to fill one-fourth of a natural created Fighter Qi Weaving Stone .

"It's quite a good recipe . Although the downside of this research is that the Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stone cannot be reused for the second time, the required ingredient to create one of them did not cost too much . " Zhang Wu Ji said .

As the Fighter Qi Eater Bug natural habitat is to eat plants with dense Natural Energy within to grow, they're usually cultivated by the Botanist for the sake of strengthening the effect of a Medicinal Plant before it was slaughtered for its essence .

The price of a young, uncultivated Fighter Qi Eater Bug cost 10 Qi Accumulating Pills to purchase, as for some specific one, their value varies according to the price of the medicinal plant and quality, where some Fighter Qi Eater Bug might cost thousand to ten of thousand Qi Accumulating Pills .

But except the researcher of this Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stone Record, nobody actually considered the option of feeding the Fighter Qi Eater Bug with the Fighter Qi Weaving Stone instead . More importantly, the Fighter Qi Weaving Stone's price is not low .

Still, the crucial part in this record is not feeding the bug with Fighter Qi Weaving Stone, but with powdered Gemstones of any kind instead . This alone reduces the cost of production by at least a hundred times .

Furthermore, it was unknown to Zhang Wu Ji himself if the created Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stone can be upgraded by providing better material or not .

It did not take him a lot of time to prepare all the bugs . As there are attendants provided to help him in different daily matters, Zhang Wu Ji ordered one of them to help him for the first time .

The order is to purchase as much Fighter Qi Eater Bugs while he's busy cultivating and crafting the resources purchased earlier . To make sure that they can help him in plenty of different matters, Zhang Wu Ji allows them to meditates for two hours daily outside of his Private Workshop .

It's because the Compassionate Zone covers a large part of his Residence, and that includes his workshop and the outer area . It wasn't an issue for him to let them enjoy the dense Natural Energy available, as it was only using two activations of the Compassionate Meditation Manual .

Plus, it will benefit him if their strength is better than now . As a fellow 11th Stage Inner Qi Warrior, their fighting strength is a little too pitiful when compared .

He can easily fight against thirty opponents five small stages above him, but the others weren't the same . Although all of them that were taken as a disciple of the Seven Heaven Sect possessed the ability to overcome opponent two stages or three stages above them, this ability is nullified when they came here .

In this sect, how many can fight against their opponent three to five small stage higher than them? Everyone is an elite, to begin with! If somebody with this ability exist, won't they be taken as a core disciple of an elder or Mountain Lord directly?

While his attendants are running his errands, Zhang Wu Ji is busy cultivating himself and also studying the three remaining books . The three Record is respectively:

The three of them weren't linked with each another, but at the same time, they complement each another in a way its possible . What comes out from this combination is something known as . . .

"You must be joking . . . Why do you need so many resources for that single UPGRADE?" Zhang Wu Ji shouts inside of the Workshop . The cost it requires is too much, but what does that new ability mean?

Once the countdown finished, Zhang Wu Ji felt a surge of drowsiness envelops his whole body and bringing him to slumber . All he can do is leaving them with a note he will go into seclusion until he advances into the 12th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior .

About a while later, Zhang Wu Ji noticed that he's no longer lying on his sleeping bed, but it was a patch of greeneries . The short purplish grasses covered everywhere he can see until Zhang Wu Ji noticed a river from far far away .

"What is this place?" Zhang Wu Ji noticed that he can still think, speaks, activates his Inner Qi around . Even his Spatial Ring and Wooden Universal Plate are usable .

He was confused . After he calmed his mind, Zhang Wu Ji decided to take a walk around this place to search for his answer . It was until an hour later something appeared within this space along with him .

A silhouette of light walked to his side . Although it was formed of blinding light, Zhang Wu Ji's ability to perceive the image of even Natural Energy allowed him to look at the silhouette differently .

It was a girl, dressed in a robe of pure white covering all of her sensitive parts . What's more, she's about 13 to 14 of age, where most of her parts still yet to develop maturely .

"Then, you! Who are you?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the sound inside of his head . If this girl did not move her lips as the sound enter his head, then who she is?

"Oh, you're my UPGRADE System? You actually look so cute! Hahaha! Now I won't be so confused when using the system anymore!" Zhang Wu Ji was so happy with her appearance inside his system .

As a person who hated to guess about everything, what was more frustrating than having a System where it won't tell him what to do, and he cannot share with the others about this ability?

[The maintenance of the System Realm is 100,000 Qi Accumulating Pills a month . And the fees to regularly feeds me is between 5,000 Upgrades of 2nd-Tier Treasures to 10,000 monthly]

"What the hell did you mean by 100,000 Qi Accumulating Pills and feeding you regularly!" Zhang Wu Ji's heart dropped . How can he maintain something with this amount of expenses?

"Wuwu . . . How can you robbed all my wealth for the sake of your own maintenance . . . . " Zhang Wu Ji wishes that he can cry out loud . About 90% of his wealth is all digested by Sheng .

"Oh! I forget about that . You should tell me earlier . . . Don't you remember that I hate playing [Guess What is that?] game?" Zhang Wu Ji narrowed his eyes when he looks at Sheng .

"It's fine . Tell me what ability I got from this Upgrade . Everything including why you want me to provides 100,000 Qi Accumulating Pills and your 5,000 2nd-Tier upgrade request . " Zhang Wu Ji put his hand on his waist and wait for her explanation .

"This is amazing! I never thought about obtaining such an Ability from the UPGRADE System . " Zhang Wu Ji pats Sheng's head out because of his good mood, and it was accepted by the spirit happily .

The reason for his sudden happiness is because of the Ability gave to him this time is a something that allows him to control multiple targets . Still, what can this skill command?

The ability allows Zhang Wu Ji to manufacture or creates his intent or control others . In this Realm itself, this Intent is explainable as a source of energy . Almost similar to how the Negative Qi works, the created Intent through this ability allows Zhang Wu Ji to progress in many different paths .

First thought is he can continuously use the Intent Creation to build his own army of Puppets, because, in this realm itself, Puppets not only came from the source of Negative Qi, they're a part of the life to a cultivator .

For example, the Metal Puppet that Master Jiang Lei struggle hard to forge . It was called as Metal Puppet due to its usability in the sector related to Mining, Forging, Smelting, and of course, Crafting .

Servant Puppet, Pill Puppet, Designer Puppet, Formation Puppet, and even worst, Dual Cultivation Puppet that becomes a Forbidden Treasure . Of course, this fact wasn't banned completely because both Light and Darkness Path contains Cultivation Arts related to Dual Cultivation Path .

There is no such thing as Ultimate Evil or Ultimate Good . In this Wheel of Life, everything contributes to the creation of Life, Karma, Fate, Future, and Past . This is also why there are fights, but there is no complete slaughter of one side .

The reason is that if one side falls, the winner will soon take the spot of the fallen . This Natural Law of Cultivation will not change, no matter how many millennia it takes . Such happen because there's no difference between Light and Darkness, only differences exist, is the objection between the two .

"Will it be possible for me to recreate a Physical Body for my Legacy too?" Zhang Wu Ji thought about it for a moment and decided to ask . If he's able to recreate an empty shell for the Jade Lord to descend on it like how Nature Spirit does, won't that be a good thing?

"PIANG!" Zhang Wu Ji falls on his head first . The cost that enough for him to purchase an entire Seven Star County shocked him . And the worst part is that this cost is not a one-time payment, but an installment as long she's a part of the Puppets .

[Master, you just ignore the fact you possess this System Realm . This realm itself can cover a few parts of your required expenses, but of course, it's very very difficult to achieve]

"Alright! So what if that's a target very far from my ability now . When I get stronger until I become an Inner Qi Soldier or Master, it will become easier!" Zhang Wu Ji thinks positively and motivates himself once more .

[The cost of maintenance grows more as you exploit the land . Please make sure you're financial and treasure capable before overexploiting . And also you must remember that the initial cost of 100,000 Qi Accumulating Pills of maintaining this System Realm increases as you get stronger]

" . . . " Zhang Wu Ji feels sick from all the bomb she dropped . But he has no choice and continues to do better . A personal Realm comparable to Jade Lord's Mystic Vein Realm is something not everyone can possess!

"Sheng . . . Tell me about one matter . " Zhang Wu Ji's impression suddenly turns serious it threated her to think that her lies were spotted .

"Xiii . . . 1,000 Pills each puppet monthly . . . That's quite expensive . . . " Zhang Wu Ji was speechless . With this kind of expenses, unless he plants the pill directly and grows pills, it is impossible for him to afford the upkeeping cost .

"Sheng! I want you to begins with the Intent Creation . Make me ten Intents that specialized with Plantation while I return to the world and start collecting plant seeds that can help with cultivation!" Zhang Wu Ji is set on what he should start .

"Ancestor Jade Lord, please trust Wu Ji, I will make sure the day you're able to obtain a body of your own comes earlier!" Zhang Wu Ji turned to his side and bowed . It seems that he noticed the existence of the Jade Lord from the start .

"What? Energy Conversion?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by her words but soon realized that except himself, Sheng and the Spirit of Jade Lord, there's only purplish grasses in this realm .

"I will quickly prepare the Formation Plates to provide a large amount of Natural Energy into this realm . As for the other arrangement, please help me to handle everything . " Zhang Wu Ji went forward to hug the Loli .

After Sheng finished her words, a mark with the word "Sheng" appears on his inner palm . To activate the spatial transfer technique, all he needs is to insert a sufficient amount of Fighter Qi into the "Sheng" Mark .

Seating on a meditating posture again, Zhang Wu Ji tried to cultivate before he went outside . It was not a problem if he faints for one day or two, but if he still remained as an 11th Stage, won't this become something people will talk about?

"How come my strength raise by so much from a sleep?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by his strength of 170 Strands of Warrior Qi, a middle accomplishment in 12th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior . If he cultivates for a little longer, perhaps entering 13th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior is not far from him .

"This is great! I can begin my plan in preparing the System Realm!" Zhang Wu Ji went out of his room and noticed that his three attendants are busy handling the prepared Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stones .

Two attendants greet him . The last person repeated what the other did after he completed the work delaying him earlier . After that, Zhang Wu Ji walks closer to one of the chests and saw fifteen Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stones .

He needs at least 80 pieces of the Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stones to activates each Servant Puppet, which is similar to the capacity of Master Jiang Lei's Metal Puppet .

"Continue what you're doing . I need one of you to purchase a different kind of seeds for me . Make sure that all of them are related to Pill Cultivation . Try to get every kind available in the market . " Zhang Wu Ji speaks his next task for one of them to handle .

The three considered the task and the only that greets him last came forward with the Qi Accumulating Pills prepared for the purchase . After he left, Zhang Wu Ji questioned the others about the length of his seclusion, and it was shocking to hear that only five days have passed .

But after he considers the option, Zhang Wu Ji decided to stay in the First Heaven Mountain for one more month, at least until he completed what he needed before heading up to the next mountain .

It wasn't because he's too confident that he will win the competition, but because even the top ten disciples from Second Heaven Mountain may have difficulties to defeat him and his defense .

[2nd-Tier Skeletal Rebirth Root, the one and only Ingredient that allows him to forge the upgraded version of Violet Calming Pill, which known as Spiritual Rebirth Pill]

What are that Mutated Seeds and why it surprised the cheater? Tell me in the comment if you want more robbing or more pill forging . Either way, it's just which one first and which one later .

"Mutated Seed? What kind of plant will come out from this seed?" Zhang Wu Ji took the seed out for an inspection but noticed that except some similar description like the Sun-Facing Fruit Tree's Seed, there's nothing else is included .

"I should return to the System Realm . Without a Puppet supporting me now, everything has to be done by my own two hands . " Zhang Wu Ji returned to his residence and activated the Mark of Sheng .

"I will supply the Natural Energy now . " Zhang Wu Ji activates the Compassionate Zone inside of the Realm so the Natural Energy here can start to grow .

Although the condition of their growth is not too much of a difference compared to Outside, he has to remember that the outer world belonged to the realm . The Realm form by the Law of Nature received continuously supply of Natural Energy, but his own System Realm is different .

It's the same even to the previous Mystic Vein Realm, where everything was dependent on the Realm Core . As for Zhang Wu Ji, he's dependent on Sheng's condition .

This is why Sheng mentioned the upkeeping cost earlier . Only with enough nourishment can she maintain the environment of the System Realm . Without this upkeeping cost, she will turn into how the Mystic Vein Realm was before .

An empty shell with many remains of inheritance, but lack of Natural Energy within . Without the force of life from the Natural Energy, a realm can be named as a dead realm .

While the Compassionate Zone is working its miraculous wonder, Zhang Wu Ji selected a plot of the land to start planting the seeds . As long the Realm Core, Sheng, willing to help, Zhang Wu Ji can expect river, soil, fertilizer, and even living beings to assimilate with this environment .

[Master, if you can collect some of the Lime Soil available from the King's Graveyard outer area, that will help the seeds you planted to grow better]

[Sheng suggest that master consider the arrangement of 5 Energy Gathering Plates and 2 Nourishment Plates surrounding this area so I can start collecting the Nourishment Pill whenever they're ready]

[Master should start gathering sufficient numbers of Formation Plates before adding additional seeds into the System Realm to not overtake the current production of Natural Energy here]

She provided him with a few suggestions to enhance the speed of the System Realm's growth . More importantly, she's planning to help him in taking care of the plants .

"It's fine . I will continue to maintain the supply of Compassionate Zone to increase the number of Natural Energy inside the System Realm . As for the Formation Plates and the Lime Soil, I will arrange for somebody to help me with that . " Zhang Wu Ji replied before he returned to his residence .

"Gan Su, Tong Hao, Hu Shi Min . Come inside the workshop for a moment . " Zhang Wu Ji ordered . Minutes later, the three attendants are waiting for his next instruction .

"Can the three of you manage to explore the Outer Area of the King's Graveyard?" Zhang Wu Ji asked them directly without twisting his words . This is important because a slight overconfident may cost their life for a mere collection of Lime Soil .

"Yes, First Senior . We're confident to stay there for between two to three hours before we're exhausted . " Hu Shi Min, the strongest among the three replied .

"That's great . I will need the three of you to collect as much of the Lime Soil for me . I will give each of you with five of this Wooden Universal Plate . Fill each of them before you come back . "

"As for your rewards, let's make it five Qi Accumulating Pills and a Wooden Universal Plate per person . " Zhang Wu Ji knows that they will have to follow his order anyway, but by giving out some rewards as well, this made the task worth even more .

Although the Yin Poison Skeleton is dangerous, with some experience and a good team, defeating the Yin Poison Skeleton is not a difficult task . Furthermore, what Zhang Wu Ji wants is the Lime Soil, or likely known as the bone ashes scattered around the Outer Area .

"We will go and return as soon as possible!" the three of them happily collects the fifteen Wooden Universal Plates and prepares to go out . Never did they expect that out of concern, he stuffed three High-Grade Fool Silver Weapon inside the Wooden Universal Plate as their life-saving surprise .

The three did not meet with any danger in their attempt to collect the Lime Soil, but when the amount of soil inside the Wooden Universal Plate is different, they finally noticed the care hidden behind their First Senior Brother .

"One High-Quality Weapon, one proper Spatial Plate, five Qi Accumulating Pills . . . Our First Senior Brother is treating the three of us too nice . . . "

The three of them were crying in their heart from the kindness shown by Zhang Wu Ji . Other than promising themselves that they will do everything he asked, they pledge their loyalty to him as well .

When they return, Zhang Wu Ji only gave them a smile before he collected the fifteen Wooden Universal Plates . Of course, he gave one to each of them before he returned to his own room .

Back in his realm, Zhang Wu Ji emptied the Wooden Universal Plates on the patch of grass for Sheng's handling and left the Realm so he can pay attention in engraving the Nourishment Plate and also the Energy Gathering Plate .

As they weren't anything difficult for him now, Zhang Wu Ji's speed in the engraving process is twice faster than any 2nd-Tier Formation Array Masters . If any of them noticed the time taken to complete an Energy Gathering Plate, they might immediately kneel before him and beg to become a disciple of his .

Even the System Spirit can only describe his talent is all of this writing, blacksmithing, and processing is monstrous . She's the one that knows the truth about what the system gives to Zhang Wu Ji, but!

Sheng estimates his speed . Right on the sixty minutes mark, Zhang Wu Ji transferred in a hundred and eighty Formation plates . 130 of them is Energy Gathering Plates, with the remaining is Nourishment Plates .

Together, they equal to twenty-five sets of the arrangement requested by Sheng before he left . As for the five additional Energy Gathering Plates, it was there to help in giving birth to more Natural Energy within the System Realm .

Resting on the Baixue Jade Mat again until the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji visits the Material Hall once more for the sake of clearing their available stock of Empty Formation Plate .

At this moment, he's become the hoarder . There are no shopkeepers that like somebody like him . But with his position as the First Seat of First Heaven Mountain, nobody dares to upset him!

Worst of all, he's kept hidden from their dissatisfaction! How can a kind senior like him that did not use his position to threaten others caught in this difficult situation?

"Zhang Wu Ji! Come here and pay respect to your senior from Second Heaven Mountain!" a disciple came to the vicinity of the First Heaven Mountain and raised his voice outside of the Material Hall .

"Who's calling me?" Zhang Wu Ji knows nobody from Second Heaven Mountain and decides to ignore him . Least that he knows that this person is the elder brother of Chen Hao Ran, named Chen You Ran .

Although he wasn't any seeded disciples in the Second Heaven Mountain, Cheng You Ran is still known as the second rows standing behind the top ten disciples .

Most importantly, Cheng You Ran is a cultivator that follows the path in Dao of Formation . Although his physical strength is questionable, his ability in Formation is unmatched even against those from Third Heaven Mountain .

"Brat name Zhang Wu Ji! Come out and pay respect to your senior!" Cheng You Ran shouts for the second time . But it was ignored by Zhang Wu Ji as he continues with his shopping .

"The brat Zhang Wu Ji is not me . I'm the First Seat, Zhang Wu Ji, of First Heaven Mountain," he added a proper title to himself as he continues walking around, leaving the receptionist stunned .

After all the shopping is done, Zhang Wu Ji left the Material Hall . But the moment his eye met with Cheng You Ran, Zhang Wu Ji feel unbothered and ignore greeting him .

"Gravity Formation Array! Stop him for me!" four strands of Warrior Qi is released from a swing of his hand as the Formation Array activated . This Gravity Formation Array is a middle-rank formation that can restrict all opponents from pursuit or escape .

"Oh? The setup is quite meticulous . Unfortunately, it's a waste of money . I'll preferably use the hundred Qi Accumulating Pills for something better . " Zhang Wu Ji praised his formation arrangement, where it brings him to a smile, but when he added the meaning of waste at the end of his sentence, it angered Cheng You Ran .

"I'm Rich! For what should I be bothered!" Cheng You Ran added, but that slight disturbance in his emotion gave Zhang Wu Ji the opportunity to take action .

His Qingyang Fortress Body defensive ability spreads out! Although it was a mere 1,800 points of defense, this number is twice as much as he required to ignore the Gravity Formation Array!

"Impossible! How can a formation meticulously made from my effort broken so easily!" Cheng You Ran feels crying in his heart when his formation failed . Worst of all, because there's nothing to trap inside of the Array, the effect ends up damaging itself and destroys the four plates!

"Any other toys? If you don't, I will return because I got no time to be bothered with your game . " Zhang Wu Ji asked . When he got no reply from him, he turned around and left .

"QIANG!" the sword rushed forward under the handling of Cheng You Ran . Feeling the intent of killing vibrates in the air, the elders of the First Heaven Mountain all came out to see what happened .

"TING!" the tip of the sword was blocked by a pure human flesh, which was unimaginably strong . Worst of all, when his clothing fails to cover a portion of his chest, it reveals a hint of skin brighter than the girl's rosy pink, and smoother than an infant's skin .

"Aargh! How can he got such a good looking skin! I'm jealous!" the girls bellowed out of anger, while the elders opened their eye wide as they look at the youth .

"Qingyang Fortress Body . I did not expect that his achievement is already at the first Damage Ignoring Stage . " the elder from First Heaven Library answered as he was the one with the best familiarity with the youth .

"That kid cultivated in Qingyang Fortress Body? No wonder his physical strength is better than the others . " Master Jiang Lei join their conversation out of interest .

"Is that kid the one you recommended to me, junior brother Jiang?" the strongest of the elders, First Heaven Elder questioned Master Jiang Lei .

"Yes, senior brother Tian . That's the kid I say can help our First Heaven Mountain to grow better . " Master Jiang Lei did not try to keep the information aside and answered honestly .

"And since the kid you strongly suggest is bullying his disciple now, your boy is going to suffer endless challenges from those in Second Heaven Mountain . " First Heaven Elder added .

"Oh shit!!! That means this kid got pulled into my issue!" Master Jiang Lei remembered his own trouble . And when it ends up becoming their trouble, things are going to be difficult .

Who can resist the part of the story where MC disturb a bee's nest? Guys . . . War Incoming, and based on the title, guess what is going to happen?

"Senior brother! You have to help me with this! That kid cannot get into trouble not until he's in the Third Heaven Mountain!" Master Jiang Lei requested that the First Heaven Elder take action .

"It's too late . Look at there . " First Heaven Elder pointed his hand on the Second Heaven Mountain's direction . An army of ten Silver-beaked Eagles approached the First Heaven Mountain at a great pace .

"We can only hope that the kid is not vicious enough to send his opponent into a medical situation for months . " First Heaven Elder prayed through his words that Zhang Wu Ji wasn't that cruel .

"Nine Meter Traveling Fist!" Zhang Wu Ji executes the only attack that can control the situation of a battle at a crucial time like this . Without a hint of keeping back his anger, Zhang Wu Ji pummeled Cheng You Ran until he's unrecognizable by his father and mother .

"Expect the worst happen to our First Heaven Mountain . . . " the First Heaven Elder sighed as he thinks about the worst situation could happen . Beside him, Master Jiang Lei's expression is unusually sour .

At the same time, Cheng You Ran was thrown back when the ten Silver-Beaked Eagles descend from the sky . Each of the younger generation senior seated on top belonged to the 10th spot to 20th spot . Cheng You Ran is unexpectedly the 19th spot of the top disciples in Second Heaven Mountain .

"Brat, how dare you injured seniors from Second Heaven Mountain . If we do not teach you a proper lesson, it will be difficult to report to our Second Heaven Elder!" the tenth-seeded disciple shouted on top of the eagle as the nine others descend from their eagles .

"Mere skills . Nine Layer Fighter Flames!" Zhang Wu Ji ignites the skills used to increase the flames of a furnace along with the Incense of Element . The heat he produced is surprisingly capable of defending himself against the freezing coldness .

"Not bad . Cursing Eye Body!" another disciple's eyes flashed like a ghost and applied a curse on Zhang Wu Ji, but his Pure Jadeskin Inheritance blocked the bloodline completely!

"Get lost, let me test him . Lightning Mortal Body!" shots of lightning bolt came from this disciple and struck Zhang Wu Ji, numbing his body slightly .

"This is difficult to handle . . . " Zhang Wu Ji thought . In his mind, the choice of using the Oppressing Force from his Tyrant Martial Body starts to appear .

"If this kid started to get weaker, go in and help him . I will ask the troublesome Elder Mu to let this issue past . " the First Heaven Elder instructed Master Jiang Lei .

"TYRANT OPPRESSION!" Zhang Wu Ji decides . The moment his oppressing force came out, nine of the disciples from Second Heaven Mountain including the others nearby suffered from the mental and physical destructive force!

"NOW!" First Heaven Elder shouts, but the differences of his action are not stopping them from bullying Zhang Wu Ji, but to stop Zhang Wu Ji from bullying them!

"Kid, stop here! All of you, back off to your mountain!" Master Jiang Lei used his Lord Qi to control the situation . With an outside force is employed to stops the fight, both sides end up in a stalemate, without a proper winner between them .

But this will not end well with Zhang Wu Ji, especially when the First Seat of First Heaven Mountain is bullying the second row of seeded disciples from Second Heaven Mountain . This is no longer a fight to determine whos stronger, but an action of shaming the people from Second Heaven Mountain!

"Zhang Wu Ji! You follow me to my enforcement Room!" Wu Jing appeared . His strength of peak stage Inner Qi Warrior completely controls all the juniors before him .

The former is the direct disciple of Fifth Heaven Mountain's Elder Wu, and also the one and only person to possess the Emperor-Grade Martial Body, Heaven Sun Martial Body .

"Junior understood . " Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand against Master Jiang Lei, Wu Jing, and the other elders hiding on top of the roof before following Wu Jing away .

"Do you know what you did? Challenging the second row of Seeded Disciples and defeating them with your bloodline?" Wu Jing scolded Zhang Wu Ji for his atrocity of fighting against so many people at once .

"Ai . . . It was my fault too . I should brief you about what should and what shouldn't when you're inside the sect . " Wu Jing blamed himself from not telling the junior about what should be concerned .

Still, it was something that no people will worry about because perhaps in the span of one year to a decade, the possibility of such issue appeared is rare than spotting an albino liger .

"Junior brother Zhang, what you did is not wrong, but that's not a correct decision either . Do you know why did I describe the way you handle the matter as trouble?" Wu Jing calmed himself before he starts his lecture .

"The start of this matter is because you emptied the shelf for Empty Formation Plates . Don't you know that this action is a behavior of challenging the production capability of the Formation Hall?" Wu Jing started .

"Wait! Senior brother Wu Jing, don't tell me because of my need for Empty Formation Plates is the reason this issue arise?" Zhang Wu Ji cannot believe what he just heard . Not even in his wildest dream that this will be the cause of the fight earlier .

"Junior brother . The action of clearing everything available within the Material Hall is an action of a challenge . How about you try to think about this matter with my explanation . "

"By clearing the merchandise from the Material Hall, its equal to stopping others from acquiring the materials . Although money is essential, the business is even more . "

"What do you think will happen from your excessive shopping? You're happy about purchasing what you want, but the others feeling is different . To satisfy one of your happiness, you caused inconvenience to more than ten to hundreds of people . " Wu Jing said .

The situation Wu Jing describe pretty much explain how did his action of big spending cause problem to different parties . As there's no oversupply of stock is available, the way he shops becomes disturbing .

"The second issue is how you take their challenge . I understand the urge of completely subdue your opponents but is that a good choice of action? Think about this . . . "

"If your case of completely shaming the whole second row of Seeded Disciples from Second Heaven Mountain is brought up to my residence, what will happen?" Wu Jing asked Zhang Wu Ji to considered the option he got .

"Based on how good is your performance today, most likely the top five will be sent to teach you a lesson . After that, your position of First Seat will be taken away from you, before we force you to compensate for shaming them . "

"And after the payment, you're expected to fork out the money as this matter forced the five of us to come out personally . Think about this . . . If you remained healthy, that's fine . But how if you're either crippled, injured, or worst, no longer a cultivator?"

The solution spoken by Wu Jing is most likely to happen if Zhang Wu Ji holds no exceptional background . Although he's the FIrst Seat of the First Heaven Mountain, this is just a starting point of the Seven Heaven Sect .

This time, he's lucky because the First Seat of Second Heaven Mountain is Wu Jing and not someone else . Added with the protection given by Master Jiang Lei, he's more likely to get a fine instead of a crippling lesson .

"Junior brother Zhang, from this moment onwards, the Second Heaven Mountain is expecting you to repay the cost of their recovery . In total, there are ten disciples you injured in both physically and mentally . Hence the penalizing cost will be 10,000 Qi Accumulating Pills a person . "

"You're expected to clear this debt in one year . Any intention of exiting the Sect will require permission granted from at least the First and Second Seat before you're allowed to proceed . " Wu Jing read the penalty out loudly .

"This brat . . . Two months and he already got so many money to spend!" Wu Jing wanted to cry . As a weaker disciple in the Formation Array Profession, Wu Jing can barely earn over 100,000 Qi Accumulating Pills monthly . But this youth before him fork out the money without an effort .

"You may leave . I hope you pay attention to my teaching!" Wu Jing let him leave as he already turned speechless by the youth . After Zhang Wu Ji left his residence, Wu Jing summoned the others .

"The four of you should stop finding trouble with him . " Wu Jing directed his message to the four other top seaters in Second Heaven Mountain .

"Hahaha, even the Righteous Enforcer, Wu Jing of the First Seat have to give him a face? What background this kid got?" the fifth seat made his remark .

"Long Yun, if you don't want to listen to my warning, then feel free to go and disturb him . But I'll tell you first If he wins the fight against you, beware of the possibility of losing your fifth seat to him . " Wu Jing warned him .

"Hahaha, I'm yet to find anyone that capable of destroying my Dragon Chess Scale Body . " Long Yun made his remark before leaving the first residence . With the fifth is gone, the remaining three left after excusing themselves politely .

"Liu Xin Xin, I heard that that kid is one of your acquaintance?" Long Yun stands outside of the Second Heaven Mountain's residence area and speaks with one of the juniors of his .

"I did not imagine that even spending money will offend the others . Guess I can only outsource whatever I need . " Zhang Wu Ji sighed the moment he's inside his First Seat Residence .

He has three workshops in this single residence, but according to his situation, Zhang Wu Ji cannot fully utilize them at all . After he considers his option for a while, Zhang Wu Ji confidently decides for his next best option .

"Weapon hardly broke except fighting something way above their level . It's not a good business prospect for me . I should focus on making something else . "

"Good . As for now, I'll spend some of my leftover pills to purchase some available ingredients first . " Zhang Wu Ji said . With only between 12 to 13,000 Qi Accumulating Pills is left, his only available option is to focus in a different business .

To prevent the others from taking his inconsiderate action as an offense, Zhang Wu Ji decided to visit the Material Hall two days later . Most of his time is used to cultivates and increasing the amount of Natural Energy within the System Realm .

At this moment, the Medicinal Plant Cultivating Farm occupied a small part of his System Realm . Between fifty to sixty Blood Lotus is growing properly to their maturity, which can be forged into the Blood Nourishing Pill .

Depending on the quality of his Blood Lotus, a Basic-Quality can yield between two to five pills based on the Pill Master's Pill Forging capability . Better experience equals to better yield, but they will not go through the limit of five pellets .

The better their quality, the higher is their success rate . Of course, its also mean that better quality yields a higher amount of pellets produced . An Advance-Quality can produce 7 to 9 pills, Fine-Quality around 9 to 11, Peak-Quality around 11 to 13, and the best but unknown Treasured-Quality are estimated to yields around 15 to 20 pills .

But most importantly is the pill they successfully produced . The reason that makes the 2nd-tier Medicinal Pill priced higher is due to the differences in Medicinal Quality .

They categorized to Basic/Advance/Fine/Peak/Treasured Pills, with the price tag of 10/20/30/40/50 Qi Accumulating Pills each pellet . The reason Treasured-Quality pill is priced at 50 Qi Accumulating Pills each was caused by their rarity .

As a pill in their Treasured-Quality, will they be sold in a walk-in Medicinal Pavilion scattered throughout the continent? Unless one willing to pay at least a thousand to ten thousand Qi Accumulating Pills for them though Auction Hall, the chances of seeing one of them are more difficult than forcing a cow to climb a tree!

"Yes . Tomorrow morning I will head to the Material Hall and purchase between fifty to a hundred Basic-Quality Blood Lotus for practice . Furthermore, I'll need a Pill Cauldron . " Zhang Wu Ji said .

[She said, to make sure you're prepared for different pills forging, try to ready yourself with three Pill Cauldron . Make sure they're made from gemstones, best with Jade, Ruby, and Onyx]

"Wait! Why do I need three cauldrons! That's too many!" Zhang Wu Ji complained . If he's preparing three cauldrons to be used separately, how many preparation efforts does he needs?

[The Sun-Facing Fruit Tree and Warrior Qi Chrysanthemum Flower needs Caldron with Fire Attributes to enhance their success rate, while the Blood Lotus can preserve their healing attributes better if forged using a Jade Cauldron]

[As for the Skeletal Rebirth Root, they're sensitive to extreme heat, which makes the Onyx Cauldron suitable because of their extreme Heat retention ability]

[Of course, there's many more about the knowledge of pills . The three cauldrons she asks you to prepare is the minimal requirement, as a 2nd-Tier or 3rd-Tier Spirit Pill Master usually travels around with five or more]

The simple teaching opened his mind about the depth of Pill Forging . If it was still based on how he was before, Zhang Wu Ji is completely mischevious about the detailed knowledge in Pill Forging .

[And master . I know you already forget about this but within the Spatial Ring is a treasured print known as Seven Dragon Seven Pheonix Treasuring Print . One of your cauldrons can be forged together with this treasure to increase their abilities]

"Understand . Tell my master that her inheritor will not neglect the studies related to Pill Forging . I will go to prepare the cauldrons before I rashly start with the forging process . " Zhang Wu Ji replied and vanished from the System Realm .

Outside the realm, Zhang Wu Ji visits the Material Hall as he planned . But instead of purchasing for some Blood Lotus, Zhang Wu Ji ordered for the supplies of mineral gems instead .

This time, he acted differently . No longer clearing their stocks of a certain amount, Zhang Wu Ji gave the fellow disciples a chance to do business . What he was doing before this wasn't wrong, but it seemed as unethical .

Still, it was a lucky thing for him that the amount of Mineral Gem is still available after he purchased all of them earlier . He finally understands how inconvenient it will be if he continues what he did before this .

"Senior Staff, can Disciple Wu Ji made an order for certain treasures?" Zhang Wu Ji decided that making an order is better than purchasing everything . At least, this step he took can provides him with whatever he needed at a faster pace .

It was similar to where he came . Unless you purchase products directly from the producer, the possibility to accumulate the quantity needed usually end up in a failure .

"A large number of Formation Plates . Please make sure its nothing less than a thousand . I can wait for a few deliveries if required . " Zhang Wu Ji's request is quite considerate .

"The request can be fulfilled in between three to four days . As for the price of every two plates is 1 Qi Accumulating Pills, a thousand plates equal to 500 Pills . Would you like to make a payment first?" the Senior Staff calculates the cost and waits for his answer .

"I'll pay for four orders . Please let the Formation Hall know that I say thanks for their hard work . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws two thousand pills as a payment and left the Material Hall under the eyes of disciples inside .

"First Senior Zhang, we have a letter especially directed to you . " one of the disciples running for the duty of mail delivery came closer to him with a letter addressed to him . After Zhang Wu Ji rewards the disciple with two Qi Accumulating Pills, the disciple left .

With the blessing from the heaven, Feng Ming proudly reports to Hall Master that our Seven Star County's performance is at 50% of the total earning we made last year .

Li Jing is undergoing the Sheng Tian Process and attempt to break through the gap between 60th and 61st Stage of Inner Qi Lord . As for Li Yin and Li Tong, their cultivation just entered the 54th Stage of Inner Qi Elder .

The Seven Star Master Hall is planning for our own Auction Hall, but without too much confidence it will go well, we're still in the planning stage .

Under the guidance of Lady Meng Ran, two disciples from the Formation Department is capable of engraving the Wooden Universal Plate . But they'll need more training before they can create a proper Spatial Plate we need .

As for the five younger attendants, their cultivation continues to grow as time past . The eldest, Tang Yuan, is already on the verge of trying to enter the 10th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior now .

Hopefully, Hall Master can return to collect the profits we allocated separately for you . We heard that the currency used in Middle South State is QI Accumulating Pill, where it worth a thousand of the Qi Sensing Pills we use here . As I write this letter, we allocated 5,000 Qi Accumulating Pills worth of wealth for your needs .

At the end of this letter, Feng Ming hopes Hall Master will forgive our neglect on master's beloved pets . We tried our best to search everywhere, but except a new Silver Carapace Bee Queen and the Silver Horned Bear, we lost the whereabouts of the previous Silver Carapace Queen!

"I'm only here for two months, and that damn Queen Bee can go missing . I really can't guess about where the Queen Bee go . " Zhang Wu Ji sighed at the end of the letter and returned to his own residence .

By going missing from the view of the others for another six days, Zhang Wu Ji finally completed the preparation for his Pill Forging, with three beautiful Cauldrons placed on top of the working table .

One of the carries a beautiful creamy green color from the jade, while the second cauldron's appearance is likely on flames at all time . As for the third and last cauldron he forged, the surface is pitch black with a hint of coldness in its core .

"Finally the three cauldrons is completed! We can start the Pill Forging by using the Jade Cauldron first!" Zhang Wu Ji said as he appeared inside of the System Realm .

Trying hard to cross the Cultivator's Burial Ground, a group of Silver Carapace Bees trying their best to fly across this location until they get in touch with their master .

Under the leadership of the Silver Carapace Queen, the group of fifty elites Silver Carapace Bees fought their way through this location . Before this, their number is between four hundred to four fifty,

Unfortunately, due to the difficulties to cross the counties and this border separating the two States apart, their number decrease until only fifty of them left .

But the fifty of them are the elites . Fifty completely unmatched elites that capable of replacing ten of the dead Silver Carapace Bees . After struggling for fifty days in total, they finally crossed the Cultivator's Burial Ground and entered the land belonged to the Celestial Gate .

Under the watchful eyes of so many traveling cultivators in the area, the fifty Silver Carapace Bees with their Queen struggles their way until they reach the defensive array belonged to the land of Seven Heaven Sect .

In total, they took seventy days to reach this location their master located . With only six Silver Carapace Bee Elites remained with their Queen, they flew across the mountain and finally reach the vicinity of First Heaven Mountain .

Under the attack of so many cultivators, their number decrease to only two Elites and the Queen left until they stopped outside of the First Seat of the First Heaven Mountain .

"First Senior! There's three Wild Beast entered your residence vicinity . Please allow us to remove them from your residence!" the disciples gathered outside of his residence but dare not to attack .

The moment Zhang Wu Ji was crushed with the shock, Sheng was laughing deep inside . How fun it is to see how her master, the person that controls the system got played by her .

Without proper practice, how can he waste the properly grown Medicinal Herbs within the System Realm? If Sheng allowed him to proceed with this atrocity, she's unqualified to become the System Spirit .

To make thing worst, the Medicinal Herbs for Pill Forging is not cheap! A Basic-Quality Blood Lotus cost 20 Qi Accumulating Pills per Lotus Bulb, while the Advance-Quality cost 100 Pills . For the Fine and Peak-Quality medicine, they're priced at 200 and 300 Pills .

"I'll go purchase a dozen of Basic-Quality Fresh Medicine to practice . " Zhang Wu Ji defeatedly says before he ready to leave the System Realm .

"Yes? You need something again?" Zhang Wu Ji almost cleared his collection of Qi Accumulating Pills inside his pocket . His current situation is similar to how he was once again working hard for the pills .

[If you can, bring a few Wild Beast back . The best choice would be the insect base Wild Beast like the Silver Carapace Bees as they can help me to balance the realm's Natural Energy]

"Understood . I'll see if I can get the chances to return to the Seven Star County and bring them here . " Zhang Wu Ji replied to her words . It wasn't an issue for the outsider to come in, but the importance of secrecy has to be practiced due to his weaknesses in cultivation strength .

Without further speech, he left the System Realm and prepared to visit the Material Hall once more, only to listen to loud shouts from the people outside .

"First Senior! There's three Wild Beast entered your residence vicinity . Please allow us to remove them from your residence!" the disciples gathered outside of his residence but dare not to attack .

"Why the hell are you guys here?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the sudden appearance of the two Silver Carapace Bees and the Bee Queen . He was still bothered with Sheng's request earlier, but since the bees are here, won't that get rid of a part of his worries?

"First Senior, is the bees belonged to you?" the second seat questioned him . As the disciple staying closest to his residence, he held the right to ask his neighbor about his external affairs .

"Yes, junior brother Pan Feng . The three bees here belonged to me before I came into the Seven Heaven Sect . I seek an apology from everyone disturbed by their sudden appearance, and I will personally explain the details with First Heaven later . "

"In the meantime, please excuse me as there are many issues for me to take care for now . " Zhang Wu Ji finished his words and returned to his residence . Within, Zhang Wu Ji activates the Mark of Sheng to transfers the two elites and a queen inside his System Realm .

Sheng complained . Being a spirit that doesn't belong to any categories available within this Realm, her knowledge related to Heaven is better than the others .

The only unfortunate thing is her memories and ability is restricted by magical energy . Unless Zhang Wu Ji successfully attains the qualification to unlock the knowledge, it will be locked from use forever .

"Sheng, look! The bees are here!" Zhang Wu Ji pointed at the three flying bees strolling around the area . After a while of randomly looking around, the Queen Bee decides on a few locations suitable for her to start a new nest once more .

Being a Wild Beast in her Warrior Qualification, the life force of Silver Carapace Queen is strong enough for her to live for two hundred years without worries . If she obtains the luck good enough to push her above Warrior Tier, it will lengthen her life force to another three hundred years further .

And as a matured Silver Carapace Queen, her future offsprings will no longer retain their previous Stone Bee form after metamorphosis, but Silver Carapace Bee form . This fact alone means that from this moment onwards, Zhang Wu Ji's Army of Bees is no longer the Peak Fighter stage Stone Bees, but Early Warrior Stage Silver Carapace Bees .

Through this force alone, how many people will have the ability to fight against him? Even an elephant may fall under the hand of an army of ants, not to mention that Zhang Wu Ji's army is born and grows from Warrior Stage Strength .

Sheng said . Her hands open wide and start modifying the soil within the realm . The modification soon created a cliff not too far from where Zhang Wu Ji plants the Medicinal Herbs . With the environment become much more suitable for the Silver Carapace Queen to start, they started their Nest Creating Process .

Her word is harsh, but it comes with the intention of reminding him about what to do . Most importantly, her master is a forgetful person to start with .

"I'll go to prepare myself with the concoction practice now . " Zhang Wu Ji left the realm . As long the Energy Gathering Plates remain active it will continuously supply the space with Natural Energy .

And in return for this effort, the realm will start to provide him with properly cultivated plants, and soon, the Nectar Grain will start their production too . Because the future offsprings are likely to be Silver Carapace Bees, he can expect a Warrior Qi Nectar Grain instead of a Fighter Quality Nectar Grains .

What is the most sought-after medicine except Cultivation Advancing Pills? It wasn't Life-Saving Pills or Calming Pills, but Cosmetic Pills! What can the Warrior Qi Nectar Grain concocted into?

It's Silver Lady Pill, Silver Princes Pill, and Silver Queen Pill, with their concentration of Nectar Grain of 100, 300, and 500 grams! The demand for this kind of pill exceeds the demand of Cultivation Advancing Pills at any period of the year!

An hour later, Zhang Wu Ji returned to the System Realm after he purchased a total of 120 bulbs of Blood Lotus . All of them are at their Basic-Quality, which cost him a total of 2,400 Qi Accumulating Pills to purchase .

After he prepares the ingredient and trims their excess, Zhang Wu Ji fired his cauldron through the supply of Mortal Flame, which is suitable for him in a pill concoction .

Furthermore, his Pill Forging Practice this time required him to use the Jade Cauldron to preserve their Heaving Attributes . Without wasting more time, he directed the flames to the bottom of the Jade Cauldron to start his Furnace Firing Step .

Although Jade Lord can simple brief him with steps to forge the Blood Nourishing Pill, she choose to remain quiet so her inheritor can grow with his own effort . This simple steps can help in building himself a proper Pill Forging Foundation .

-Usage (2): For every healing attributes Medicinal Herbs forged in this cauldron, increase the Medicinal Burst value by 0 . 5 points (Each Medicinal Burst doubles the Pill's effectiveness, 100 points required for one activation)

-Special (+5): 5% Possibility of increasing the quality of Medicinal Herbs to another tier . (Chances restricted to only one kind of Pill is forged . Mix Forging is not applicable)

An explosion ruined his appearance with the slags from the medicine hits him everywhere . The failure is caused by his lack of experience, but also due to the final firing process starts before thoroughly removes the impurities .

With his first failure as a lesson, Zhang Wu Ji continued with his second attempt . By following the correct step by step guide, Zhang Wu Ji managed to reaches the part he removes the impurities and refines its healing properties .

Unfortunately, his second attempt is a failure again because too much time is taken in the two steps . His negligence in maintaining the Mortal Flame, removal, and enhancement did not meet the requirement where it ends up as a hardened useless concoction .

In his third time, he paid much more of his attention in making sure he meets the requirement in that step . Too bad, his shifted attention cost him the third Blood Lotus Bulb to be wasted in the extraction part .

A three consecutive failure destroys his overall confidence . Zhang Wu Ji then entered the System Realm to calm his mind before he continues . The moment his view is covered with grasses, a plot of Medicinal Plants, and the three busy bees, Zhang Wu Ji smiled .

"I actually feel dejected because of three consecutive failure . If I look at how difficult it is for the Silver Carapace Bees to build their nest, how long did the Medicinal Herbs takes to grow, my failure is nothing comparable to them . "

[A plant can choose to grow in many different paths, some mature as they consolidate their root foundation, but some mature by assimilating with the Natural Energy and woven strands of Inner Qi]

As the one sharing the vision and experience with him, Sheng knows what he's thinking after the failure . And to motivates him again, it wasn't correct by helping him to complete the challenge but teaching him how to complete the challenge .

Zhang Wu Ji wasn't a fool to start with . He quickly understands what Sheng wanted to tell him . Leaving the System Realm with haste, Zhang Wu Ji returned for his fourth attempt .

Zhang Wu Ji tried to follow his intuition this time . Although it was still a failure, at least, he reaches the final stage of firing the cauldron . The heat he used was too weak, forcing the pill to crack before they retain their shape .

Sorry everyone, A little meeting here and there forced me to delay my chapter slightly . I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter because from the next chapter, things gonna speed up a little .

Zhang Wu Ji put his hand inside and withdraws the four pills from his Jade Medicinal Cauldron . Filled with an expectation, he starts with the description from the successful Blood Nourishing Pill .

-Healing Rate: 75 Points worth of Life Source in the gap of 5 seconds . The pill can be used continuously with a window of 10 minutes in time . Maximum 10 Pills daily .

-Impurities Rate: 7 . 7 Points, Once Impurity reaches 100 Points, decrease the effectiveness of the pill by 50% . If impurity reaches 200 Points, the pill will no longer carry any effect at all .

-Special: Recovery rate of open wounds close 50% faster . Reduce the possibility of User suffering Lack of air due to serious bleeding . A temporary replacement of 200ml of Fake Blood Essence will be created to support the user's body function .

"Not bad . The amount of Life Source recovered is 5 points higher compared to the one sold in the store . Although it wasn't good enough to be rated as better pills than the shops, It's still good to see three identical pellets . " Zhang Wu Ji praised his own works .

"This Sheng . . . Something fishy between the two . I'll have to make sure to see what they're playing . " Zhang Wu Ji sighed . He continued with the inspection of the fourth pill next .

-Special: Increases the cultivation rate by 10% after consumption . Effective for two hours . Impurities are removable during meditation and resting .

"Bloodline strengthening Pill! I can try feeding this to the Silver Carapace Queen so she can get stronger . Hopefully, I can keep refining these kinds of a pill as I continue . Zhang Wu Ji thinks about it and continues with his sixth

Luckily, he did not speak what he thinks about the Mutated Blood Pill loudly . If it was heard by Sheng and Jade Lord, or both will lecture him for making that wish .

In a Pill Forging Practice, who wish to fail consequently for the sake of making a few Mutated Blood Pill? Although it was something beneficial to the Wild Beast Pets, it's still wrong ethically!

Still, heaven deserves the praise for making things difficult to Zhang Wu Ji . After spending a whole three days to forge all the Medicinal Herbs he purchased, Zhang Wu Ji only received two additional Mutated Blood Pills .

Amongst the 120 bulbs of Blood Lotus, twenty of them wasted through failure . As for the remaining, half were refined below the acceptable standard .

The fifty below standard failure provided him with thirty standard Blood Nourishing Pill, with ninety pills below the standard . Luckily, the fifty successful attempt yields him 200 standard Blood Nourishing Pills .

In total, Zhang Wu Ji's Pill Forging yields him 230 Pills worth 2,300 Qi Accumulating Pills . It was almost a 100% profit if he did not fail the ninety below standard pills . But, the base price put on the store is not the offer he will get .

Instead, as a new supplier of such a mediocre pill, he was only offered with 6 Qi Accumulating Pills each, where it was only sold for 1,380 Qi Accumulating Pills . His position as the First Seat inside this First Heaven Mountain helps too, or else he'll get 5 Qi Accumulating Pills rate for each .

At the end of his Pill Forging trial, it was a loss of 1,020 Qi Accumulating Pills . But the experience he received worth much more due to the difficulties of a Pill Master .

Similar to the profession of a Blacksmith, a Pill Master can be categorized as an Early, Advance, or Peak Spirit Pill Master, with the lowest qualification, starts from 1st-Tier .

"First Junior Zhang, are you going to purchase more Blood Lotus today?" as it was already three days later, their supply of Blood Lotus is not full again .

"I'll take fifty of them this time . " Zhang Wu Ji did not reject the offer but purchase lesser this time due to the restriction of money . With this one thousand Qi Accumulating Pills is spent, Zhang Wu Ji only left with five hundred pills remaining .

The moment he's inside his residence once more, Zhang Wu Ji entered his System Realm and was greeted by Sheng . Under her instruction, the two Elites helped with the process of harvesting the Blood Lotus from their plants .

By waiting for another half a month, he can harvest them for the second round . Because most of the 2nd-Tier Medicinal Plants onwards possess the ability to keep growing, this fact reduces the waiting time needed for the next batch .

Zhang Wu Ji checked their quality . As expected, the hundred Blood Lotus grew within his System Realm are all in their Advance-Quality . This is due to the source of nutrient he gives to the plant and promotes their growth .

Compared to his own grown Blood Lotus, the one outside is grown under challenging environment along with different kinds of fertilizer, pills, and force to enhance their speed of growth .

It is similar to his former realm where a poisonous substance, volatile ingredients, and unknown growth agent was added into plants and livestock to enhance their growth .

Although he did follow what the others do to their stocks, Zhang Wu Ji is more ethical in his method, and only use a proper addition to enhance their growth . For example, Nutrition Pill that was formed by Nutrition Plate through the conversion of Natural Energy .

"If I forge all of them into Pills, I'm sure it will bring me at least 10,000 Qi Accumulating Pill if I success all of them!" Zhang Wu Ji announced the results before he even started .

Sheng added . The word destroyed Zhang Wu Ji's confidence, but he knows that Sheng meant well in her harsh words . Only by preparing his mind properly can he forge the pills successfully .

Most importantly, the process of refining higher quality pills is not an easy matter . Although the impurity within the Medicinal Herb is lesser than the basic version, the increases of their amount of essence are what made the forging difficult .

Furthermore, a Basic-Quality Blood Lotus may have between two to five seeds within, but an Advance-Quality Blood Lotus easily has over ten seeds within the bulb . Only through experience can a Pill Master prepares them perfectly .

"I'm leaving . Eh?" Zhang Wu Ji was preparing to leave, but the Silver Carapace Queen came closer with a gentle screech . Because the nest is a quarter complete, she's capable of spawning eggs now . With the two Elites taking care of the eggs, she can come out for a while to meet her master .

With an acute sense of precious treasure, the Silver Carapace Queen nudged her master's hand with a Spatial Ring slotted on his finger . Gently, she tries her best to make sure her master knows her intention .

"Spatial Ring . . . Ah! You want that's Mutated Blood Pill? Here, take this but make sure you cultivate properly to removes the impurities building up inside your body . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the Mutated Blood Pill and fed it to the Silver Carapace Queen .

After her meal, she returned to the nest and instructed the two Elites to bring something out to their master . It was a piece of gum-like texture block . The surface was rough, but from how much Warrior Qi it releases in the form of fragrant mist, Zhang Wu Ji can easily guess the identity without reaching to UPGRADE System .

"Tell your queen that I will make sure to appreciate the Warrior Qi Nectar Grain . " Zhang Wu Ji kept the piece of Nectar Grain before he pats the head of both Elites .

Zhang Wu Ji applied a hint of his healing ability to the two Silver Carapace Bees before he left . With their energy suddenly healed and old injuries recovered, the two Elites performances are 50% better than before!

As an eyewitness to this incident, what happened shocked both Jade Lord and Sheng . Although she knows what happened earlier to the Silver Carapace Queen before she evolved, it was still something shocking to see the changes on the two Silver Carapace Bees .

What happened to both Silver Horned Bear and Silver Carapace Queen can be said as a lucky streak, a change due to their potential . But when this happened to both of the bees as well, it is no longer due to potential, but her master's miraculous ability!

"It seems that my experience in Forging Basic-Quality Pills does not overlap when I'm forging Advance-Quality Pills . " Zhang Wu Ji can only sourly smiled when his tenth Advance-Quality Blood Lotus turned into a hardened piece of slag .

Still, the Jade Medicinal Cauldron can be said to be remarkably durable . Even himself will be injured by the edge of these pointed slags, but the Jade Medicinal Cauldron still retains its beautiful surface within the cauldron .

"I guess I'll take some time walking around . " after another consecutive of failure, he decided to take a walk outside and calm his mind . This is also the first time he gave himself a chance to visit all over the First Heaven Mountain .

Since all resident and disciples are living together in this enormous city, he's allowed to conduct any business as long it's within the approval of his status . But this restriction is applied only to the disciples of the Seven Heaven Sect .

As for the residents, they're allowed to enjoy all privilege given by the Seven Heaven Sect to their population . Through this kind of Macro Management Method, the Seven Heaven Sect can control the way their county progress, without worries of betrayal and bribery .

Although he's partially worried about his chances of lost inside the city, Zhang Wu Ji still confidently walked around because surrounding him is disciples, residents, and even elders of the First Heaven Mountain .

Liu Xin Xin, Zheng Kai, and the person that bring him to Master Jiang Lei previously . The three of them seems to be on their way inside the Heavenly Flavor Pagoda .

Looking at the three of them, Liu Xin Xin must be one of the top members of the faction with Zheng Kai following her as her assistant . Otherwise, it impossible for him to attend based on his skills, strength, and ability .

"Unfortunately, Wu Ji lately focused on Pill Forging . I'm afraid I am here solely for the entertainment of food and wine . " Zhang Wu Ji answered Liu Xin Xin's question .

"What? Impossible! Your skills in blacksmithing and smelting are top notch, it should be impossible for you to not receiving an invitation!" Liu Xin Xin made her claim . And at the same time, two more disciples came from the pagoda .

Aii . . . Our MC maintained his ability . Even walking around and randomly visits a shop for a meal can bring him to somewhere special . What will happen in the next chapter, and what did Liu Xin Xin have to do with the Blacksmithing Faction?

"Junior Cai, why didn't First Seat of First Heaven Mountain did not get the invitation? You'll have to tell the others to explain this matter to me!" Liu Xin Xin revealed her angered look .

"Senior sister Liu, please do not get angry . Please come in first, it's not a good thing for the outsiders to see this scene . . . " the disciple name Cai quickly leads them into the Private Third Floor .

The pagoda was a five floored tall building . On every floor is a special team of chefs, waitresses, and managers that highly efficient and capable of handling the needs of different customers .

For starters, they're usually escorted to the Ground Floor, where the number of tables exceeds two hundred . They're packed, but because of how delicious is the food prepared by this restaurant, nobody complained .

As for the disciples of the sect, they immediately qualified to enter the Second Floor, where the number of tables, decoration, and even waitresses is all well trained to handle the needs of their special guest . Of course, the meals are even better, with most of them can help in enhancing the cultivation and body .

The third floor is especially reserve for Elders, Hall Elders, and private function . Unless it was attended by an elder class figure, this floor is usually close to public and disciples .

But today, one-eighth of the third floor is opened for the Blacksmithing Faction's meeting . Of course, as the Blacksmithing Faction is under the jurisdiction of Master Jiang Lei himself, this allows them to book this room easily without too much hassle .

"Junior brother Ye, Junior brother Tian, please explain about the reason Junior brother Zhang is not invited to this Banquet . " Liu Xin Xin immediately questions the Faction Leader and Faction Vice Leader .

"Senior sister Liu! Please allow Ye Yunyi to answer you . " a two meters tall figure step forward and stands before them . He's Ye Yunyi, First Heaven Mountain's third seat .

"Go ahead!" Liu Xin Xin gets ready to sit right on the spot they stand . Being her most efficient assistant, Zheng Kai vanished the moment Ye Yunyi speaks and came back with a chair .

"You can do that? Cool!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised at how arrogant is Liu Xin Xin . But what he does not understand is, why did she call the others Junior?

"Really? No wonder everyone is her junior now . " as a First Seat, he actually doesn't know about her promotion into the Second Heaven Mountain .

First Senior Zhang is in his seclusion . As we speak now, I think the member that went to his residence should be on his way back now . " Ye Yunyi answered .

"Understood . Junior brother Ye, it's my mistake to be so impolite, please feel free to ask for a favor as long I can do it for the Blacksmithing Faction . " Liu Xin Xin said .

As the misunderstanding is now clarified, Zhang Wu Ji takes the opportunity to enjoy the free meal instead . There were more than fifty kinds of dishes served throughout the banquet, and Zhang Wu Ji enjoyed all of them before he regrets .

"First Senior Zhang . Since everyone is here at the moment, how about you guide us with some experiences in your blacksmithing?" Ye Yunyi came up with a suggestion .

"Junior brother Ye, you're praising me too much . My skills in Blacksmithing may not better than everyone here . " Zhang Wu Ji knows that this is how their faction tried to headhunt new members . And to make sure that he's what everyone says, a test must be done .

"If that's the case . . . How about this First Seat shares his insignificant technique in shaping an Iron Ore?" Zhang Wu Ji offered, but the moment Iron Ore came up, the others has a tendency to laugh .

"Iron Ore? Then, Iron Ore, it is! Prepare the material for First Senior to start!" Ye Yunyi waved his hand . The order quickly processed with a good number of mineral ore with Iron vein inside .

"Brother Zhang, do you need us to . . . " Ye Yunyi offered to provide him with some essential tools, but Zhang Wu Ji stopped him from finishing his word with a wave of his hand .

Furnace, Anvil, Iron Casting Mold, and some other tools . To make it even better, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws a small stack of Flame Rock and not Firestones . Everyone present knows that Flame Rock is inexpensive but rare .

This is due to the fire Element Vein covering this Middle South State is monopolized by the Flame Burial Sect . As the main competitor of the Two Sect Category, the Flame Burial Sect survive depends on the Mortal Flame they controlled .

Furthermore, one of the Flame Burial Sect's main product is an extremely rich of Fire Element Blazing Fire Fragment . This treasure is known to be the best fire source above the Mortal Flame, which is said to be the best to refine the 3rd-Tier Gold Metal .

"How many stacks of Flame Rock he possesses?" the audience stares at the Wooden Universal Plate he took out . Unknown if its accident or on purpose, Zhang Wu Ji took out almost twenty stacks of the Flame Rock before he stored all of them back into his Wooden Universal Plate and leaving one outside .

"Nine Layer Fighter Flame!" under the watchful eyes of the audience, he suddenly ignites the Fighter Qi and delivered a hint of Flame energy into the Furnace . Almost instantly, the Furnace was fired to the required heat to smelts Mineral Ores .

Once again, Zhang Wu Ji shocked them with his powerful Physical Body . Using his palm like a Pestle, Zhang Wu Ji breaks the Mineral Ores into powder form before he stuffs them into the Crucible without a set amount .

"That's too reckless . Even my experience doesn't allow me to fill the crucible with the amount of an entire Ingot Full . " the Faction Vice Leader Tian Wen Jing comments .

"SHH!!!" Liu Xin Xin warned them to remain quiet . As a member of Liu's Foundry and Mansion, how can her experience in this profession be weaker than the others especially Tian Wen Jing? She can even feel the confidence in Zhang Wu Ji as he works .

Confidently, Zhang Wu Ji fired the furnace until it was perfect in his opinion before he starts pouring the Molten metal into their Casting Mold . He poured a different amount of Molten metal in three different Casting Mold, and when all three crucible's content was transferred into the Casting Mold, he fired them for the last time .

When the firing was done, Zhang Wu Ji immediately removes the Iron Ingot from the Casting Mold before he quenches them to removes the excessive heat .

The results from his one-time process are three 99% Purity Iron Ingots, Pure, Sentient, and Crystal . Each ingot started to attract the spirits to lingers around them until the Spirit Sharpening started!

"Spirit Sharpening! How can three pieces if Iron Ingot causes the phenomena?" the top echelon members of the Blacksmithing Faction questioned the fact .

But everything happening before them is the truth . Three 99% Purity Ingot is fighting with each another for the sake of the Housing . Only when everything is over the situation calmed .

"Weapon Hall's Assistant Elder, please accept this gift on behalf of the Blacksmithing Faction . " Zhang Wu Ji extended his hand with the gift to the elder .

This is his meeting, ceremonial, and leaving gifts . Except using the Ingot as an exchange for a Heavenly Iron, he does not have any requirement that required the Iron Ingot at all .

"Junior Wu Ji is staying here for too long . I have to return to my residence to continue my practice in Pill Forging . " Zhang Wu Ji replied as he cupped his hand together .

Without waiting for their reply, he left the Private Room . He left the building in a hurry but still caught by Liu Xin Xin because of their differences in cultivation .

"What are you thinking? How can you push aside the invitation into the Blacksmithing Faction?" Liu Xin Xin cannot believe that this guy actually turns the invitation down before they offered him one!

"Junior Wu Ji still doesn't know what profession he wishes to put more effort, I'm sorry that I caused Senior sister Liu to be disappointed with me . " Zhang Wu Ji bowed slightly towards her as he apologizes .

"Great . My family like the Pickaxe so much they want me to invite you back to either share or produces some of this tool . Either way, you'll be rewarded with the same gift my family planned to give you . " Liu Xin Xin started to speak .

"Thank you for the gift, but Wu Ji might not be interested in it . As for the Pickaxe's blueprint, I wonder can the Liu Family help me to collect a few rarer Medicinal Plant's seeds?" Zhang Wu Ji rejected her invitation to go back to her family, but he's interested in doing business with her .

"Medicinal Plants? Our Liu Mansion plants nine kinds of plants for Pill Forging and Botanist Business, you might be interested . " Liu Xin Xin found out that this guy was a complete idiot! How can he not ask about the content of the gift before rejecting her!

"Are you sure you don't want the gift? it's a precious Heritage Skill of my family!" she tried to stir his interest from rejecting her again .

"Oh? Heritage Skill? What is that for?" Zhang Wu Ji was interested in it the moment she mentions the word Heritage . But the next word shocks him so much .

"Our family called it [Vein Listener Art] . Once you comprehend the information recorded in this book, your affinity with the Continent will grow better . It will also allow you to feel the treasure surrounding you . " Liu Xin Xin introduces the perk of learning this Art .

Oh . . . Not interested . I prefer that the Liu Family provides me with a good number of Medicinal Plant's Seeds instead . Let me know when your family agrees . " Zhang Wu Ji stated his uninterested opinion about the Heritage Skills and left .

"You! Tell me why did you look down on my family's Heritage Skill!" Liu Xin Xin is angered . If he wasn't willing to come back with her, how can she get access to the Vein Listener Art?

"Of course! That skill enhances our affinity with the continent and earth, it will be a great use to us as a cultivator . . . HUH!" Liu Xin Xin describes the importance of the Vein Listener Art but Zhang Wu Ji interrupted her .

"That's our family Heritage Skills! How can you possess a copy!" Liu Xin Xin heart races . As a family member of the Liu, how can she not know how the book in her family's Library looks like? The one in her family Library have a red colored cover, but Zhang Wu Ji's version comes with a Green Jade-Colored Cover .

OUCH! I'm sorry that there's a cringy boy-girl scene here, but don't you think that ZWJ takes these things too nonchalantly? He should at least understand the fact that he's a male, she's a female, and they both not married!

"Not good . Where did the road lead me?" Zhang Wu Ji terrible direction senses finally successful in leading him to somewhere else again . At this moment, he's reaching the location where he can enter the Outer Area of the King's Graveyard, but luckily, there are guards by the entrance .

"Oh, I'm not, I am taking a walk to relax my mind . " Zhang Wu Ji returned their greetings and swayed to another direction, where it leads him to somewhere else .

"Hey! A bridge! where will it takes me to?" Zhang Wu Ji steps into a well-built bridge that can support the pressure from thousand tonnes of weights . Unknown to him, this way actually leads him to the Second Heaven Mountain .

Along his way, Zhang Wu Ji walks past few dozens of disciples and businessman . While he knows nobody, a portion of the people knows who he is . Only when he reaches the entrance to the Second Heaven Mountain Zhang Wu Ji noticed the Arched Gate at the end of the other side .

"I'm at Second Heaven Mountain . " Zhang Wu Ji finally knows where he went . But before he can react, ten guards already came forth with their strength between 16th to 17th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior and attacked Zhang Wu Ji .

"Back off!" the guards warned him . But attack came along with their words, which annoyed Zhang Wu Ji and his mild temperament . He stood there without moving a step, and instead, channels all his energy to defend the attack .

"TANG TANG TANG!" the first three attacks failed to break through his 2,200 points worth of defense . At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji can be named as the strongest Body-Tempering Cultivator of the First Heaven Mountain .

"Nine Meter Travelling Fist!" Zhang Wu Ji's attack covered every corner nine meters from him . Without a hint of where his attack came from, the seven guards are all pummeled into a piece of bruised flesh . They retreated, with the three guards behind them providing a cover .

But at this time, Zhang Wu Ji flicked a drop of Natural Spring in the middle about fifteen steps from the guards . With a different finger, Zhang Wu Ji flicked a drop of water and caused a massive explosion .

The audience was silent, with each of them anticipating another fight to start . And at that moment, two pillars of light flashed . Following this scene is two Scaled Serpents soaring to the top of the sky .

"HONG!" the two Scaled Serpents charged at him from the air with the strength of 18th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior, the two Wild Beast attacked furiously to protect their territories from invasion .

"Tyrant Martial Body!" Zhang Wu Ji opened his eyes wider as he activates his bloodline strength . In a flash without taking any action, Zhang Wu Ji's oppressing force destroys the two Wild Beast with a hint of Dragon True Race Bloodline .

The noise came from all over the place . Without taking a single step forward, Zhang Wu Ji destroyed both ten guards challenge and Second Stage Mountain Formation .

But he did not know, that due to this Mountain Formation, the two Scaled Serpent are indestructible . Their only weaknesses are the soul, where it was enslaved by him with a glance .

"That kid's Martial Body is that strong?" even Heaven King was surprised by his sudden changes . Without taking a single step forward, Zhang Wu Ji defeated the two layer of defenses with a fist stance, a drop of volatile essence, and a glance .

"Is this what they call nature of life?" Heaven King smiled as he continues to come out with a trick that will make Zhang Wu Ji gives him his Iron Kong-Que .

The moment he defeated and enslaved the two Scaled Serpents, it meant he's qualified to become a member of the Second Heaven Mountain . But as a winner of the Second Stage Mountain Formation, Zhang Wu Ji was no longer placed inside the first row of Seeded Disciples!

"Wah! That's a good perk!" Zhang Wu Ji laughed in his heart as he read the new line of words . Following from that, he was directed to the Second Heaven Elder's office to be briefed with the requirement and duties of a Head Disciple .

"What? From this moment I must challenge the Mountain Formation to raise my rank?" Zhang Wu Ji almost fainted as he heard about this requirement .

As a top disciple, he'll have to be challenged like one . Except for winning the Mountain Formation Challenge, it will be impossible for him to promotes into the next mountain .

"I'm the head disciple now?" Zhang Wu Ji is still puzzled with what had happened . In the time of two days, his belonging was moved from the First Heaven Mountain into the Second Heaven Mountain .

As the Head Disciple's position is different from the others, the Second Mountain Elder arranged him to be given a private residence on the higher grounds with a total of fifteen rooms and six workshops .

He even has his own Immersion Pond, a well-engraved Formation Array Pond that absorbs the Natural Energy within the ground to be condensed inside of the pond . By cultivating inside this Immersion Pond, his cultivation is expected to be three times faster .

Furthermore, the fifteen rooms residence is not allocated to the servants, because they have their own accommodation inside a side tower of five floors tall .

After all the headache briefing is over, Zhang Wu Ji returned to his new home . By entering seclusion immediately, Zhang Wu Ji immerses himself with cultivation, Pill Forging, and Blacksmithing without wasting his time .

As for anything else like purchasing for the Raw Materials for his profession, it was now sent personally to him instead of requiring him to pay a visit . A Head Disciple has his perks, and one of them are related to the right of borrowing books without limit .

He cultivates without stopping in between for half a month before he came out for a breath of fresh air . On the starting of his fourth week inside the Seven Heaven Sect, Zhang Wu Ji received his first guest .

Liu Xin Xin appeared waiting for him in the Residence's Main Hall, where she can't wait to see the Residence Owner . As Zhang Wu Ji is already a Head Disciple, his clothing is slightly different from the others .

"Junior Liu Xin Xin greets Head Disciple Zhang Wu Ji . " as a junior now, Liu Xin Xin has to greet him whenever she sees the latter . This is the most basic requirement of a disciple within the sect .

At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji is no longer a cultivator of 12th Stage, but 13th Stage with a cultivation strength of 255 Strands of Warrior Qi . His Qingyang Fortress Body is now at 2,800 defense point, a little above the requirement to resist 15% of any knockback effect .

Unless his opponent is excelled in Physical Strength, it will be challenging to move Zhang Wu Ji from where he stands . But the best effect from this achievement is, of course, the incomparable Physical Strength that maybe not even the ten seeded disciples from Third Heaven Mountain can match .

"How is the Liu's Foundry and Mansion's decision?" Zhang Wu Ji cannot help but felt curious about the choice her family will make . Although Zhang Wu Ji already expressed his unwillingness to visit their family, he did not reject their request to provide them with a copy of the blueprint for the Iron Alloy Dual-Headed Pickaxe .

"After some discussion with the upper echelons of the Liu's Family, my father, the patriarch, agrees to exchange the blueprint with 200,000 Qi Accumulating Pills, a hundred of seeds for three different kinds of Medicinal Plants, fifty records of Cultivation, Martial Art, or profession Manuals . " Liu Xin Xin stated her family's offer to purchase the Iron Alloy Dual-Headed Pickaxe's blueprint .

Trying hard to hide his emotion, Zhang Wu Ji calmly agreed with her family's offer . As a bonus, Zhang Wu Ji tosses the Wooden Universal Plate with the blueprint of the Pickaxe inside and waits for his portion of the wealth .

"Head Disciple Zhang, please check the content within this Spatial Ring . " Liu Xin Xin extends her hand out for him to access inside the ring, but Zhang Wu Ji kept the Spatial Ring without prior checking .

"It's fine . As for the Vein Listener Art, I hope you can keep it as a secret . " Zhang Wu Ji took a Manual out from his Spatial Ring and placed it on the table . After giving her a smile, he left and returned to his room where the Immersion Pool is located .

The moment he entered, the scene where Sheng is devouring the Qi Accumulating Pills shocked him . The reason Zhang Wu Ji did not bother to check its content is that the moment he touches the Spatial Ring, everything within its content will start to pour into his System Realm .

After devouring the hundred thousand Qi Accumulating Pills, the System Realm is now clouded with a dense mist of Natural Energy again . Although it was only half a day has gone, the symptom that happened once the realm is started to lose Natural Energy quickly withers .

Instead of answering her verbally, Zhang Wu Ji nodded his head as an acknowledgment . He then turned his attention to the Silver Carapace Bees, wherein the space of fifteen days, their number increases from two elites into two hundred Silver Carapace Bees in their Warrior-Tier Strength!

At this moment, Zhang Wu Ji's total production of Warrior Qi Nectar Grain is between twenty blocks or roughly 2 kilograms every month . It wasn't a lot but based on the amount of Natural Energy within this realm, it was considered a good result .

Unless he's capable of increasing the amount of Natural Energy within this System Realm twofold, it will be difficult for him to support the numbers of Silver Carapace Bees within his System Realm .

After Zhang Wu Ji is done with his prior inspection, he turned to Sheng again for his next batch of 100 Advance-Grade Blood Lotus, 100 Sun-Facing Fruit with their seeds taken out, and a weird fruit grown by the Mutated Seed .

In that earlier half a month of seclusion, Zhang Wu Ji did many, but gain too few . The hundred Advance-Quality Blood Lotus were wasted in his Pill Forging, and out of luck, he can only focus on preparing the Metal Ingots and sell them for his fund .

Left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji can only wait for his next supply of Medicinal Herbs getting ready while he focuses on his cultivation . The additional materials such as his Flying Silver Stakes a produced en mass to fit Sheng's requirement of 9,951 times of upgrade .

Still, it was a slow process because based on what she said, every 1,000 strands of Warrior Qi spent on upgrading the Treasure, she obtained a strand of Warrior Qi . And at the same time, it was a disturbance because she only got between 200 Strands of Fighter Qi, 3 strands of Warrior Qi, and between two thousand to a little bit more Inner Qi to be used .

Based on his cultivation strength of a 13th Stage Inner Qi Warrior, he can reach the limitation of +18 cap, but of course, this is all depending on his luck at the end of the day .

How much has he spent earlier before he conquered the whole Seven Star County? The amount may not exceed his current wealth, but the situation is similar .

Still, nothing beat him in the term of self-sustaining . The fifteen days before this was used to not only consolidating his System Realm and the numbers of Silver Carapace Bees but also including the taming process to handle the two Scaled Serpents .

Although the two possess a hint of bloodline from the Dragon True Race, it was, in fact, less than a drop of blood within an ocean . Unless they met with some unexplainable luck, the possibility of them reaching Half-Step Soldier Stage is low .

They're known as Obsidian Serpent Warrior . Born at between 11th to 12th Stage, they usually grow into adulthood in the period of four to five years, depending on how quick they grow . They got two evolution, where each has their own specialty .

Obsidian Swift Serpent Warrior, a quick assassin Mature Serpent, or Obsidian Mother Serpent, well-known for their top defensive ability above himself amongst the Warrior Tier . The only bad parts about their Maturity Evolution are one is too fragile, another is too slow .

But what was good about taking care two of the Obsidian Serpent Warrior is the Scales of Pure Obsidian they're shedding once every month . The scales came from them is comparable to the Obsidian Crystal's Quality one can mine from the Mineral Veins scattered around the continent .

"I guess I'll take some time to concoct the Sun-Facing Fruits first . " Zhang Wu Ji took a red colored fiery cauldron from his Spatial Ring . From its appearance, this piece of Pill Refining Treasure is created with great effort .

The outer layer of the Red Pill Cauldron is engraved with beautiful engravings, where it was following the way Jade Lord instructed . As for the thickness of this cauldron, its three times thicker than the Jade and Onyx Cauldron .

-Usage (2): For every Cultivating attributes Medicinal Herbs forged in this cauldron, increase the Success value by 0 . 1 points (The Success Value will return to 0 . 0 Points when the flame is extinguished)

-Special (+5): When used as the mixer cauldron, allow an upgrade of Pill with a tribute of 100 Qi Sensing Pill . (Capable of turning Qi Sensing Pills into Qi Accumulating Pills . Each upgrade cost 1 Durability)

"That's good . If I use this cauldron to forge all the available Sun-Facing Fruit into proper Qi Sensing Pills, I can then upgrade them into Qi Accumulating Pills . " Zhang Wu Ji knows about it earlier as he was the master that crafted this cauldron .

Without further ado, he prepared the cauldron . As the Ruby Blasting Cauldron's requirement of heat is too strong, Zhang Wu Ji has no other choices but to use Mortal Flames provided by the Seven Heaven Sect .

With the cauldron is ready, he prepares the Sun-Facing Fruit in the form of two fruits every set . With the prerequisite requirement is completed, he started the Pill Forging process .

What was worrying is not about his skills in forging the Qi Sensing Pills, but the Ruby Blasting Cauldron itself . As it was a demanding cauldron to start with, Zhang Wu Ji's procedure in handling the Sun-Facing Fruit has to speed up by 20% for the sake of not burning his ingredient .

Of course, they're no correct or wrong steps here . The moment a Pill Master comprehended the essential mastery of the Pill he's forging, they're capable of crafting the Pill without following any steps .

Soon, he completes the forging process of the fifty sets of the ingredient . Each Sun-Facing Fruit can be forged into ten pills, and a hundred of them means he added a total of Ten Thousand Qi Sensing Pills .

It took him one minute for the cauldron to upgrade the hundred Qi Sensing Pills into a Qi Accumulating Pills . Ten minutes later, Zhang Wu Ji completed his easiest pill forging assignment . He took a five minutes rest and continues with the second assignment, forging the Blood Nourishing Pill .

Half a month ago, Zhang Wu Ji failed in his ninety attempts, and succeed ten times . In total, it was a 10% success chance . But the ten success attempts yield him no fruit of labor, as all of them were graded as under qualifying pills .

But that is when his cultivation is weaker . Now, he's a 13th Stage Inner Qi Warrior with only 45 strands more to 14th stage . With better cultivation strength, the possibility of success in Forging Pills will be increased as well .

"Alright, a very great start!" Zhang Wu Ji confidently separates the seeds within the Blood Lotus and extract the heart from the seed . As the first Blood Lotus only have enough extracts for 7 pills, Zhang Wu Ji only work with seven seeds and not more .

The forging process this time is more efficient than before due to his excessive amount of Warrior Qi inside his body . This allows him to maintain the supply of Qi as he works with the essence and Heart from the seed .

Soon, the firing process starts . Except the first and second steps are slightly different, the others are the same as usual . The firing process ends with a successful attempt, where seven Blood Nourishing Pill group together at the bottom of the cauldron .

-Healing Rate: 125 Points worth of Life Source in the gap of 5 seconds . The pill can be used continuously with a window of 8 minutes in time . Maximum 20 Pills daily .

-Impurities Rate: 5 . 7 Points, Once Impurity reaches 100 Points, decrease the effectiveness of the pill by 50% . If impurity reaches 300 Points, the pill will no longer carry any effect at all .

-Special: Recovery rate of open wounds close 60% faster . Reduce the possibility of User suffering Lack of air due to serious bleeding . A temporary replacement of 300ml of Fake Blood Essence will be created to support the user's body function .

"The status is almost the same except a little different here and there . . . But of course, seven successful pills worth about 105 Qi Accumulating Pills . Luckily, the Blood Lotus is self-grown, not purchased . Or else, my total profit will be only roughly 5 Qi Accumulating Pills . "

"Doesn't this means that unless I created a proper name for myself in the profession of a Pill Master, or planting my own Medicinal Herb Farm, it will be difficult to earn money in this profession?" Zhang Wu Ji's concern is related to the value of money he'd earn from the effort .

But he failed to understand that what he was doing now is counted as the bottommost of the 2nd-Tier Pill Forging . While Sheng is yet to remind him about the roof-shattering prices for the Warrior Marching Pill and Spiritual Rebirth Pill, this guy already started to think about how difficult it is to earn more money .

"Guess I'll plant more Sun-Facing Fruit Tree so I can forge hundred thousands of the Qi Sensing Pills . " Zhang Wu Ji sighed . Soon, he continued with the Forging Process and came out with 70 success and 30 failures attempt . In total, he earned 500 Advance Blood Nourishing Pill, where it will worth about 7,500 Qi Accumulating Pills at least .

"I'm leaving . I thought I'll let you know about it . " Liu Xin Xin tells him about her leaving his Private Residence . Because her residence is located at the bottom of the hill, she'll have to walk for a twenty minutes distance before reaching home .

"Do we need to be engaged before you move to my guest room? There's a total of fifteen rooms here, you can choose any of them and stay here to cultivates . " Zhang Wu Ji added .

"Based on how dull he's in a relationship, how can it possible that he knows something about the do and don'ts between a male and a female . . . I'll let you go this time," she expresses in her heart .

"Fine, I'll move to your residence and take one of the Guest Room . But you'll have to walk me back to collect my belongings before I live here . " Liu Xin Xin said .

While they're on their way, Liu Xin Xin exchanged what she understands about the Vein Listener Art and see how Zhang Wu Ji comprehends the content of the Art .

But with UPGRADE System, Zhang Wu Ji's comprehension is a 100% accurate, where it made his share of explanation matches accurately and straight to its point .

This kind of godly comprehension surpass what she understands and pull her further to learn the Vein Listener Art . But while the two of them conversed as they walk, a person hiding behind the shadow, stalking the two of them and what they're doing .

"Zhang Wu Ji! How dare you tried to land your hand on the woman I like!" the silhouette stares at the two of them like a pair of adultery partners .

"Ah!" a female suddenly lost her concentration in the middle of the fight . But given the talent of hers and the depth of her Martial Art comprehension, she escaped from the terrible situation easily .

"Northern Conqueror Palm!" a palm made from Warrior Qi descends from above and press the attacker down flat on the ground . Although the differences between them are 5 stages, it did not stops her from overpowering her opponent .

"Zhang Wu Ji, you better not associate with some sneaky fox and slutty hares back there, or I'll cut your root personally . " Guan Qing Han speaks as she done her Green Jade Armor and ride on top of a Flying Serpent .

The duo reaches the smaller residence belonged to Liu Xin Xin . While he waits outside of her home, the scandals from strangers grow worst as time past .

Furthermore, the image between them going back to Zhang Wu Ji's Private Residence further sealed their fate together . While the two is carrying with their own matters, the gossip outside spread until it reaches the Liu's Foundry and Mansion .

"Xin-er actually get associated with the youth that created the Pickaxe's Blueprint? Moving into the same house??? How dare this girl completely forget about the restriction between unmarried youths!"

"Patriarch, please place your anger aside . Maybe this is a good chance for our Liu Family to grow bigger . He's the Second Heaven Mountain's Head Disciple after all . "

"Patriarch, We just send three kinds of different Medicinal Seeds to him too, I worried that the youth grows too fast using the three Medicinal Plants as his foundation . "

"The first kind of seeds belonged to the Luhan Essence Tree, which is the ingredient to concoct Lujin Pill . The second kind of seeds is the Caijia Three-leaves Plant, to be forged into Three Essence Pill . "

"What is the last seed!" the Patriarch yelled at the elder . He wasn't as angered as now, but after he heard about the first two kinds of plants given to Zhang Wu Ji is the Warrior Qi Recovery medicine and Body refining medicine, he's completely speechless .

"Dear patriarch, the last kind of seeds belonged to the Ling Wood Tree . " the last kind of seeds completed his anger-meter . At this moment, the Patriarch's explodes .

"Patriarch! The Ling Wood Tree can only grow in a spot condensed with Natural Energy . Even ourselves has to arrange fifty Energy Gathering Plate to make sure that the tree can grow . Based on these difficulties, how can a youth easily plant the tree without risk?" the first elder replied .

"Yes! Patriarch . Please think about this . The Luhan Essence Tree and Caijia Three-Leaves Plant can only grow at places without Yang Energy . Even our Liu Family need to construct a proper building made from Lime Soil to maintain the Yin Energy within . "

"Plus, that youth is a man, he's filled with Yang Energy all over his body . . . How can he grows the plant where even we need a female botanist to take care of the plants?" the second patriarch added .

After he listened to their explanations, the patriarch is no longer as angered as before . He sits on his chair again and thinks about the way he can separate the couple .

"Head Disciple Zhang monopolized the Second Heaven Mountain! The first step of his is taking ownership of Liu Xin Xin, the woman Long Yun of the Fifth Seat in Second Heaven Mountain fancied!"

The Private Residence remains quiet . Because she was given the opportunity to study the Vein Listener Art her family treated as their Heritage Skills, Liu Xin Xin cultivates in seclusion .

As for Zhang Wu Ji, he's inside the System Realm last night to plant the three hundred seeds and wait for their maturity . With the UPGRADE System, what kind of requirement he cannot fulfill in the term of cultivating medicinal plants?

Sheng purposely adjusted the land to suit the requirement of the three kinds of seeds, where it completely get rid of the restriction of a person with Yang Energy approached the plants .

Furthermore, even if he doesn't manage them, the two hundred plus Silver Carapace Bees and the two Obsidian Serpent Warriors can complete the job on behalf of him .

First of all, its because the two kinds of Wild Beast are a cold-blooded beast to start with . What sort of Yang Energy contained inside their body?

"150% success possibility . . . That's over the success rate of a normal calculation . " he was puzzled by the fact of the Mutated Fruit . But left with no choice but to try, Zhang Wu Ji started his Forging Process using a regular cauldron provided when he moved in .

The procedure did not take too much time, but the fumes that came out from his concoction is potent enough to be called as an Airbourne poison . It was a terrible mixture of smell from Rotten Egg, Rotten Corpses, and the sulfur mixed together .

But like what the description says, the concoction does not require him to do anything at all . Once the process of maintaining the heat until the solution no longer releases the disgusting fumes is complete, this indicates the completion of the concocting process .

Even in his wildest dream, Zhang Wu Ji will not think that this piece of pitch black fruit can be refined into a small jade bottle of liquid, brilliantly glows in the dark .

The moment this essence is filled inside the Jade Bottle, a description appears to show him the true identity of this magical bottle of glowing substance .

-Usage (1): By mixing the liquid into a ratio of a bathtub full of water, it creates an Extreme Body Tempering Environment to the user to obtain a hint of the Devouring Body .

-Usage (2): When cultivating within the mixture, enhance the strength of the user's physical body and Blood Strength . Additional Devouring Body Tempering Liquid is required if the improvement is faded .

-Warning: Extreme pain is expected when using this treasure to activates the Extreme Body Tempering Environment . Caution when using the treasure is advised . Unless suitable, the user is not advised to using over 5ml each time in the earlier stage . Cultivation may rupture and destroyed if not handled with care .

-Special (Unique): Because the Devouring Body Tempering Liquid is refined from the Mutated Sun-Devouring Plant, it allows the user to has an additional affinity with the Mythical Light-Devouring Beast, Taotie .

Although the gain from using this treasure is enormous, it comes along with extreme risk . Perhaps it seems likely to be a 50/50 percentage bet, Zhang Wu Ji's personal opinion is different .

This is because, in the eyes of his, there's no such thing as a perfect 50/50 percentage comes from this treasure . But still, Zhang Wu Ji will not give up before he tried . With the intention of trying this liquid first, he instructed his attendants to prepare him with a bathtub of hot water .

After he waited for about ten minutes, the bathtub is ready for him to soak his tired body . But before he did, Zhang Wu Ji handed a total of 500 Advance-Quality Blood Nourishing Pills . This sheer amount wasn't too much, but as it came from the hand of Zhang Wu Ji, it became an issue .

It's because the number of Advance-Quality Pill of this kind are not just rare, but even their main ingredient, the Blood Lotus, is hardly available in the Material Hall of all seven mountains .

With a sudden five hundred pills in its Advance-Quality, the attendants can only think about two possibilities . First, their Head Disciple found these pills when he obtains the Inheritance from the Mystic Vein Realm .

And as his attendants, they did not question too much . All they need to do is to make sure they did not disappoint their Head Disciple . Furthermore, it was the Second Heaven that's paying them, not Zhang Wu Ji .

With the Jade Bottle is taken out, Zhang Wu Ji was fascinated as he stares at the glowing Jade Bottle, and even more when a small drip of assumably between 0 . 5ml entered the tub of hot water .

Using his bare hand, Zhang Wu Ji tried to touch the glowing liquid and check if the description may appear . But it was futile, and his recklessness brings him a slight pain from the Extreme Body Tempering Environment created by the tiny drip .

"Aargh! This is crazy! How can I soak my body inside this solution if my finger alone is hurt like hell!" Zhang Wu Ji complained . Luckily, the pain is gone after a minute or two .

As he was left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji took a teacup and scooped a cup of the Glowing Liquid up from the bathtub . With a touch, the description shocks him .

-Special (Unique): By soaking in this solution, allow the user to endure a slight amount of Devouring Force from the Mythical Light-Devouring Beast, Taotie

"I must be crazy to soak in this water for six hours . . . If that single drip is equaled to 60%, won't the 5ml limit equals to 300% concentration?" Zhang Wu Ji complained . He finally realized the reason for his extreme pain when in contact with the solution .

"300% concentration, 300% of pain . I will have to suffer pain exceed what a pregnant woman has to suffer . . . Should I get in or I shouldn't?" this is the first time he hesitates .

And while this Head Disciple is questioning his existence inside his bathroom, a battle is proceeding at a location five days away from the Seven Heaven Sect .

"Bai Xue Xue, you're not going to be my opponent!" a youth in his twenties is fighting seriously against the number one Head Disciple of the Seven Heaven Mountain .

Standing with a spear in his hand, Yang Qing is preparing to take action in case any of the people from Blood Messenger Religion join the fight .

"Yelu Yin Yuan! I did not expect to see that shameless . The Ice Legacy Inheritance that should be mine was snatched by you through that despicable treasure!" Bai Xue Xue shouted at the youth .

"Maiden Bai, you cannot blame me for being incompetent . After all, we're all competitors in the battle for the inheritance . Don't you think to have an additional treasure to ensure my victory is a part of my strength too?" Yelu Yin Yuan replied .

From how he presented himself, this youth seems to be cultivating in an extreme yin element cultivation, which can be seen from his feminine action and scarlet red clothing made from expensive silk .

But from the differences of strength alone, he's one stage above Bai Xue Xue . By acting casually with his power of a Half-Step Inner Qi Master, Yelu Yin Yuan do possess the ability to challenge Bai Xue Xue's words!

"Trash! I'll see when you're going to castrate yourself for the sake of learning the forbidden chapter of your Blood-Freezing Palm . " Bai Xue Xue throws her curse at the youth before she left .

But Yang Qing is not as fast as her, and only move after two seconds went past . And this two seconds allowed Yelu Yin Yuan to say something to Yang Qing's ears .

"Tell your beloved Maiden Bai that I will make sure to obtain her virginity with my own hand . She shall remain unmarried until then . . . Hahaha . . . "

At first, I have the intention to explain a few matters in the recent chapters but after I considered about it for a little, let's do it later . As for now, please enjoy the short part related to the Mutated Seed!

Facing with terrible defeat, the two can only leave the Entrance to Ice Legacy Inheritance Realm after the whole ordeal is over . As the strongest superpower in the Middle South State, Blood Messenger Religion once again stand above the other nine superpowers .

While the Head Disciple and First Seat of Seventh Heaven Mountain return to the sect and ready to meet with Heaven King's wrath, there is a youth in Second Heaven crying mother and father due to the pain he's suffering now .

After his heart is steeled, Zhang Wu Ji steps into the bathtub filled with 60% strength of the Extreme Body Tempering Environment . The moment his leg dips into the water, it wasn't as bad as he thought . But when the water reaches his waist, everything changed .

Pain surge all over his lower body, leaving him in a cramp . Worst of all, he's in this terrible tub of glowing water that can kill him without effort!

"No! Sheng! Sheng!" Zhang Wu Ji cried in pain as he continues to soak himself inside of the water . Although the pain reduces a little after a while, a stronger surge of pain will come out of sudden, making the water look like a sadistic bathtub or glowing water .

With the Devouring Body Tempering Liquid is no longer available in that bathtub of water, the color of the water changed . It was black, muddy, and stinks .

Looking at such a bathtub of waste was excreted from his body in that six hours, Zhang Wu Ji finally agrees that the Devouring Body Tempering Liquid actually works . The only differences are that the pain is too much to bear .

"I'll leave it for next time . " Zhang Wu Ji stored the bathtub inside one of the useless Spatial Stone he got from purchasing materials, and groom himself properly before leaving .

"Head Disciple, I've come back with 8,000 Qi Accumulating Pills from the sales of the Advance Blood Nourishing Pill . " one of his attendants that followed him from the First Heaven Mountain extends his hand with a Spatial Stone full of pills .

"Head Disciple, the two of us completed the task of preparing the Fighter Qi Eater Bugs . All of them are ready to be used if needed . " the other two disciples extended a chest filled with at least 200 of the Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stones .

"Good job, the three of you . I'll give each of you a hundred Qi Accumulating Pills, go and cultivates until I need you again . " Zhang Wu Ji received the treasures and gave each of them a hundred of the Qi Accumulating Pills .

"I'll go out and find him after one hour . Based on how he always lost his way, I'll just go to the entrance to King's Graveyard and wait . " Liu Xin Xin sighed and left to prepare herself .

Without knowing where to go, Zhang Wu Ji selected a random direction to continue his way . What he did not expect is instead of going to places like Formation Hall, Material Hall, Weapon Hall, Mission Hall, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the place he did not intend to visit at all .

"Junior Zhang Wu Ji greets elder . " unknown of where the elder is hiding, Zhang Wu Ji applied the Natural Energy Sonar to map his surrounding and finally spotted the elder .

"Good child . Are you here to pay a visit to the Second Heaven Library? Although you're a Head Disciple and has no limitation on the books you can borrow, you still need my approval before you can take it . " the elder said .

"Answering to elder's question, the junior is not here for the books, but for the elder . " Zhang Wu Ji did not raise after the bow, but instead, he replied the elder's question .

"This junior recently took the position of Head Disciple but yet to introduces himself to the elders of the Second Heaven Mountain . I'm at fault, elder . Please accept this junior's apology for paying his respect so late . " Zhang Wu Ji said .

"Apology accepted . But this elder needs your help in something . If successful in completing the task, I'll owe you a favor . " the elder replied .

"This elder wanted to have a pet for long, but as I am not a proper beast tamer, safely capture the beast I want is almost impossible . " the elder started to share about what he wants .

"At that time, I noticed that there is a Wild Beast known as Silver-Coin Panther . The forte of this beast is the ability and not strength . Which is why I ask if you can help me?" the elder finished his words .

[You stupid! The Silver-Coin Panther is the fastest Wild Beast within the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress! So what if the Wild Beast is weak? There are too many bandits there!]

"Great . " the elder finished his word . In a split second, the spot he stands is now silent without a hint of wind and grasses blown here and there . He soon left the library, following another path to somewhere else .

At last, he successfully found his way to the main road leading to many different Halls arranged at a straight line . The road is very congested with disciples, traders, suppliers, merchants, and such .

"The main road is quite busy . How nice to see the situation like how it was back in my former world!" Zhang Wu Ji enjoyed the scene before him . It was lively, full of life, and most importantly, there's ROADSIGN everywhere!!!

As most of his concern can be settled in the Material Hall, Zhang Wu Ji choose this place as the first location of his visit . Except the size is slightly bigger than the First Heaven Mountain's branch, everything is similar .

"Welcome to the . . . Head Disciple!" the Material Hall attendants greet everyone as usual until she recognizes the identity of the client . When she discerned his identity, she cannot help but increased her voice louder from the shock .

"Can you direct me to the Material Selection Counter?" Zhang Wu Ji requested . Although it was easy to find, having a person leading him to where it was is better than randomly searching .

Plus, he was slightly annoyed with the attention he got from the others . If the people approaching him comes with goodwill, he will gladly accept them and return them with an action or treasure of same value .

But what came to him is the request to befriend him for the sake of benefits, asking for free gifts, and of course, introducing themselves like a money-hoarding thug so he will share them some of his wealth .

"Thank you . " Zhang Wu Ji placed ten Qi Accumulating Pills on the palm of the Hall Attendant to lead him here without other disturbance . Carrying with his almighty senior bearing, Zhang Wu Ji turned his attention to the materials placed by the side .

With himself alone inside this private area, Zhang Wu Ji checked the prices of the merchandise . At the same time, he spotted the Basic-Quality version of the Warrior-Qi Chrysanthemum Flower and Rebirth Skeletal Root .

"200 Qi Accumulating Pills for a single Basic-Quality Warrior Qi Chrysanthemum Flower? 500 Qi Accumulating Pills for a Basic Warrior Marching Pill?"

"What is wrong with the price?" Zhang Wu Ji cannot believe what he had seen . If he supplies the Advance-Quality Rebirth Skeletal Root and Warrior Qi Chrysanthemum Flower to them, how much can he earn in a month?

Sheng knows him for too long, from the first day they came into this world . Through Zhang Wu Ji's eyes and expression, she can easily guess what this guy is going to do .

[Buy metals! What are you doing by buying the Blood Lotus? We can harvest another batch in fourteen days! The other harvest is coming out too!]

Sheng knows that he will forget about the chest filled with Partial Fighter Qi Weaving Stones . As the System Realm's growth stability is the most important topic now, purchasing enough metal ingredients to forge the Servant Puppets has to be sped up .

"I'm sorry, Senior Staff, please change my order to Fool Silver Ingots . How much do you have and what is the limit that I can buy?" Zhang Wu Ji changed his purchase and checked with the staff to see what can he get with the small amount of money he got .

The two discussed the pricing and number of available stocks within the Material Hall . After the purchase, Zhang Wu Ji is 5,000 Qi Accumulating Pills poorer . But with the amount of Metal purchase, it is more than enough to prepare three Servant Puppets .

With a guide taking the lead back to their home, Zhang Wu Ji remained quiet in case his words may cause the hot-tempered Liu Xin Xin to explode . At this moment, playing safe is just as important as not making a wrong move .

"How come it's so easy for her to guide but so difficult for me to find?" Zhang Wu Ji cannot imagine how bad is his sense of direction . With a simple four intersection to turn, he can return to his Private Residence in a short span of fifteen minutes!

"I won't bother to look for you next time . You either try to remember your way home or spend your time to walk around . " Liu Xin Xin stated that this will be the only time she came out to find him .

"I did not ask you to come right?" Zhang Wu Ji wanted to reply to her words, but he decided to not . After she left, he headed to his Blacksmithing Workshop on another side from where the Immersion Pool is located .

While he's on his way to the workshop, Zhang Wu Ji smiled . When he's on his way home, Zhang Wu Ji purposely nailed a few of his Silver Flying Stakes on the trees nearby so he can get his way in the future .

Inside, Zhang Wu Ji prepared the fire, assembles the tools and machinery, and get himself ready to accomplish something else once again . With his photogenic memory and amazing processing ability, it is impossible for him to forget the blueprint he'd seen before .

"The Puppet Design is similar to the one assembled by Master Jiang Lei, but because his request on the puppet is more to Blacksmithing Assistance, this caused the design to change slightly to suit his needs . "

"As for me, I need the servant to be completely self-efficient . The best way to do this is to assemble them not by Silver, but Iron . Only through using Iron Metal I can assure the quality of the Servant Puppet I'd create . "

"But, my Servant Puppet will not be an Iron-base Puppet but alloyed . This might compromise them in term of purity, but nevertheless, I am aiming for self-sustaining ability, so the purity level isn't bothering for now . " Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the number of 99% Purity High-Tier Spirit-Grade Iron Ingots in their different categories and shapes them into the required parts .

As it was no longer his first attempt in preparing for this, his movement is smooth and organized, which is similar to a master of Puppet Manufacturing . But most importantly, the design and approach took by Zhang Wu Ji took him a step further .

His design took things further with the Silver Inlaying, where it may compromise in the thickness to compensate for the lightness, he covers this by inlaying the silver .

In total, the number of parts is two times more than the total Master Jiang Lei's Metal Puppet required, but his Servant Puppet is better than the Metal Puppet in everything .

When the preparation of the parts is complete, the Spirits started to flow into the Workshop for the sake of the thousand rooms available here . Unfortunately, it wasn't the time for a Spirit Sharpening yet . Zhang Wu Ji transferred all the parts capable of housing a spirit into the System Realm, where Sheng can completely block off any spirits from invading the realm .

"HUUUU!!!" the spirits lingering inside of his workshop loitered while looking at Zhang Wu Ji relaxed expression in assembling the Silver Parts . The moment it was complete, Zhang Wu Ji entered his System Realm with the entire Inlaying Frame .

"Sheng, what I'm aiming is not for the parts to be housed by a spirit, but to selfishly reserve the whole Servant Puppet for one single Spirit . " Zhang Wu Ji looked at Sheng as he replied to her .

"Then? We'll see where is that limit . If the Spirit cannot control the whole housing, I'll refine the spirit so it can do what I wish then . " Zhang Wu Ji confidently replied, and pay all of his attention in assembling the Outer Frame .

Once it was complete, there's no longer a choice . An unhoused High-Tier Spirit-Grade will only grow bigger as they were assembled into one . The moment the Formation Engraving is completed on the Body, limbs, and head, Zhang Wu Ji landed his final touch .

The engraving allows Zhang Wu Ji to complete the assembling and activation ritual to create a bond between him and the first servant puppet . He took the complete Servant Puppet back into his workshop again, and this time, the spirits no longer maintained their calmness .

Immediately, the fight for the right to reside in this gigantic housing begins . The Servant Puppet was lifted up from the ground due to the Spirit Sharpening . Because this housing is different from what they used to fight with, the fight last longer .

Through Spirit Sharpening, Zhang Wu Ji can see clearly on the part he missed . Although it will not bother the Servant Puppet in any way, a better craft is always highly sought after .

Every minute past is an opportunity for the spirits . Their number grows, and this caused the fight to turn from exciting to dangerous . The moment one hour reaches, only three spirits remained . The others are either scared, taunted, or threatened .

On the second hour, everything finally over . The one and only spirit went inside the Servant Puppet and started the assimilation procedure . But when the Servant Puppet begins to give out a reaction, Zhang Wu Ji made an unexpected approach!

The engraving tool came into his palm with a shake of his hand . Accurate and decisive, Zhang Wu Ji added an extra word just beside the [Servant] engraving .

A Servant Engraving allows the spirit to act without restriction, and if the user's depth in Cultivation, the servant may betray him . But with the Loyal Servant Engraving, this entirely restricts the Spirit from having any mindset outside of what it was ordered!

[If a spirit inside a treasure like a weapon, it increased their strength, sharpness, and even grant it an ability . But if a Spirit resides inside a complete housing like human anatomy, what will happen?]

[And to the worst scenario, the owner will be enslaved instead and used to recreate a new Empty Spiritual Body . As most of those that capable to turn into spirits is cultivators in their Grandmaster Tier and above, such ability is not impossible!]

"Master! Why did you treat me like this!" the spirit residing within the Servant Puppet cries sadly from the treatment he received before he started to serve this master .

"May I be called as how I am when I'm still alive?" the spirit already three-quarter completed in his assimilation with the Servant Puppet . A quarter more to go and he will lose all his freedom and speech .

-Usage (1): Zhan Yu is capable of conducting all required action through teaching and guidance . The limitation does not exist due to Xiang Zhan Yu's soul were at 68th Stage Inner Qi Lord before he succumbs to death .

-Usage (2): Through precise order, Zhan Yu is capable of operating independently . If in case the user is separated from Zhan Yu, immediately activate the Servant Eye Function to monitor the Servant Puppet's action .

"Xiu!" the Servant Puppet successfully entered the System Realm . As there are so many things to be taught, the two of them spent about six to seven days to complete this induction process .

One week later, Zhan Yu is behaving like a younger kid, full of enthusiasm to do everything he knows . Added with its cheerful mindsets like a young kid, the positive energy it brought completely brings up the atmosphere between Sheng, the plants, Zhan Yu and the Wild Beast .

While he left the managing matters to those living inside his System Realm, Zhang Wu Ji put much more effort into refining his body through the Devouring Body Tempering Liquid . The ordeal did not go as smoothly as expected, but most of the unsmooth situation is caused by extreme pain .

In this one week, Zhang Wu Ji solidifies his cultivation further until it temporary stopped at 340 Strands of Warrior Qi . With this amount of Warrior Qi, Zhang Wu Ji is now a 14th Stage Inner Qi Warrior .

"Another Mutated Sun-Swallowing Fruit matured . The hundred Advance-Quality Blood Lotus also harvested from their Lotus Root . " Zhang Wu Ji calculates the amount of harvested ingredient done by Zhan Yu . With the addition of a Servant Puppet, Zhang Wu Ji's responsibility in the System Realm reduced to a minimal amount of task .

His responsibility from today onwards is left with only collecting a sufficient amount of formation plates, and tries to collect more seeds to increase the number of Natural Energy created and gathered inside the System Realm .

Confidently, Zhang Wu Ji left his residence to the Pill Hall first to sell the stack of 600 Advance Blood Nourishing Pills . In total, they paid him with a total of 9,600 Qi Accumulating Pills which was used in the Material Hall to purchase a few items .

"I'll meditate for a while before entering the System Realm . " Zhang Wu Ji shuts his eyes and starts to meditate . What he did not expect is today, something different happened outside of his control .

Like an antlion's death trap, a kilometer of distance surrounding his position as the center started to suffer from Natural Energy Deficiency . With him as the core of this scene, all Natural Energy were devoured by him like a hungry devouring beast!

"Come here . " A gigantic beast, between four meters in height and seven meters length from its horn to tail, chased a group of escaping residents that running for their life .

"Run! Leave this place when you can!" a cultivator in his peak cultivation tried his best to delay this outcome . In his hand is a piece of Beautifully engraved Sapphire Plate that allows long-range communication .

"Yes! Please leave all of us! You're the hope of the Marquis Tian's successor!" more residents turned around to fight . In their hand, weapons comparable to Immortal Earth Grade and Immortal Heaven Grade is seen .

"Puny Ants! Devouring Domain!" an independent domain encompasses the entire area . Those residents with a small portion of fighting strength are all digested from cultivation strength, flesh, bones, spirits, and soul .

Nothing remained after refined by the Devourer Domain . The incident happened right before the Saint Tian Yuan as if the Millenial Beast is sparing him on purpose .

"Tao Demon! Even in my reincarnation, I will make sure to slaughter you and your offsprings! I made my promise to heaven!" Tian Yuan made his oath and attacked .

"Younger brother Yuan, don't be rash! Wait for us!" a voice came from the Sapphire Plate, but the owner completely lost his mind . With a mind clouded with anger, Saint Tian Yuan attacked the Tao Demon .

"Get lost! I have no time to be bothered with a crybaby . " the Tao Demon send an attack to the saint and throw him away a thousand kilometers away .

"Devouring Domain!" another hundred kilometers wide domain activated and refined everything until nothing left except a barren ground . After the first wide area Devouring Domain ended, the Tao Demon started to cultivate .

"That's everything I get?" the Tao Demon wakes up after finish refining the energy he devoured . With its strength above the limit of Qi Branching Tier, the Tao Demon took a step to another location .

"The Tao Demon refined the entire Hou Yuan Continent . We have to chase the Millenial Beast before he destroys the fifteen continents of Tian Sea . " the leader of this group of hundred saints said .

"Tao Demon is here! Tian Yuan, you're a traitor!" the leader shouts at the younger saint not far from him . But that shout obtained no reply in return . A black entity crawled out from Tian Yuan's body and revealed itself to be a smaller self of the Tao Demon .

"Hehehe . . . Foolish human . " the smaller self melted into a puddle of black ink and spreads across the continent . In an instant, darkness covered the entire Hou Yuan Continent and plants of gluttony started to appear .

"Tao Demon is here!" the leader of the saints pointed their weapon at the direction darkness come . Unfortunately, they're swallowed by darkness before they made a move .

"Devouring Domain . " the power of wickedness refined them until not a bone left . By ignoring the pledge and beg, the Tao Demon turns them into a part of his strength .

Even the Immortal Earth and Heaven rank weapon are no exception in front of the hunger . In the first day, Hou Yuan Continent was devoured . One hundred and eight Inner Qi Saints were refined . Only fourteen continents remained in the Tian Sea .

At the end of the first week, Cluster of continents inside Tian Sea no longer exist . Through an unknown ability, the Tao Demon traveled to Cai Sea, where twenty-two continents and six Dynasty resides .

On the second week, Cai Sea vanished from the map . Six dynasties and five hundred fifteen Inner Qi Saint faded like a forgotten memory . When the appearance of Tao Demon completes its first month, Six Sea is devoured, close to ten thousand of Inner Qi Saints becomes his fertilizer, dynasties crumbles, humanity slaughtered .

Forced to act, the Heaven no longer contains their wrath . A realm is opened not far from the Tao Demon and soldiers in weapon and armor exceeds what one can found in this realm .

"Hahaha, Heaven Soldier is here! Devouring Domain!" Tao Demon was so happy with the food served to his mouth . It's domain spreads across a hundred kilometers wide, but it was for naught .

"Heaven's Arrow!" an arrow is nocked on the string where the soldier pulled and aim at the Tao Demon . When this arrow was fired, a spatial crack appeared, the sun burns, the moon purifies, and the Heaven acts!

"Tao Demon . You should be proud of yourself . No living beings ever in this Lowest Realm worth receiving the second shot made by the Heaven Arrow . " the soldier speaks .

In fact, he was nothing but a mere cultivator in his 1st Stage of Yuan Qi Fighter . But this mere fact alone made him the strongest cultivator this entire Lowest Realm ever seen .

"ZUP!" the Tao Demon is purified . With not even a single drop of its life essence left . Under the force of spatial, sun, moon, and heaven, Tao Demon fate is destroyed to not even a speck of memory left .

"This soldier wished to report that the Tao Demon is purified . " the soldier kneeled in the middle of the sky and reported to the portal to the other realm .

Heaven has opened its eyes to bring fortune to humanity . The darkness in the skies brought prosperity to the Lowest Realm, supplying them with treasures, resources, and inheritance .

As for the Six Seas devoured by the Tao Demon, more fortune came to them . A total of eighteen seas formed from the six, with clusters of close to a thousand of variously sized continents floating in its respective area .

"What is happening?" the people affected by the sudden Natural Energy Deficiency met with disturbance and stopped cultivating . Luckily, the incident only happened for three seconds before the suction force vanished .

"It's comfortable . " Zhang Wu Ji smiled and opened his eyes . It was only a short moment of meditation, but the Warrior Qi within his body increases by thirty strands .

But outside of his Private Residence is a great disturbance . The land itself suffers from the lack of Natural Energy . Restaurants with foods rich in Inner Qi turned into a rotten waste in that three seconds .

Luckily, the Energy Gathering Plate assembled around the Second Heaven Mountain maintains their durability and continuously gathering Natural Energy to recovers the land once more .

Although it was a sudden situation, it lasts only for three short seconds . Without any further damages, the worries on this matter are put aside for other important affairs .

Like this, the life of everyone continues until Zhang Wu Ji received a summon to the Second Heaven . As it was important, Zhang Wu Ji went to the Second Heaven's building immediately .

"Zhang Wu Ji, as the head disciple of the Second Heaven Mountain, are you willing to take part in the Southern Imperial Kingdom's war?" the Second Mountain Elder asked .

Although to register and be a part of the Imperial Military Troops is an honor, the risk of a cultivator to die in the battlefield increased to at least a hundred times more dangerous .

And in the War between Imperial Kingdoms, The Natural Law does not apply too strictly in the battlefield . As long the strength of the soldier is between 10th Stage Half-Step Inner Qi Warrior to 50th Stage Half-Step Inner Qi Elder, they're all recruitable into the Imperial Military Troops .

And within this battlefield of 10th stage to 50th stage, Slaughter is allowed! As long there's no Inner Qi Elder is within the battlefield, they're allowed to slaughter all participants on the battlefield!

"Serving the Imperial Kingdom is an honor . Zhang Wu Ji willing to be a member of the Imperial Military Troops!" Zhang Wu Ji replied with excitement can be seen on his face .

"Good . The carriage of Southern Imperial Military Troops will come to take the participants two hours later . You can go back and prepare for the incoming battle . "

"Although it wasn't auspicious to say this, you should leave a will or word to people you care about before participating in the Imperial War . The surviving chances are marked at the nine death one return ratio, and of course, we hope that you'll become the one that returns . "

"Go and make everyone proud . Your Zhang Family, The Seven Heaven Sect, and the Southern Imperial Kingdom . " the Second Mountain Elder added before he waved his hand to indicates that Zhang Wu Ji may leave .

He returned to the Private Residence immediately to hand his attendants some pills, making a simple copy of Vein Listener Art to Liu Xin Xin and leave a letter to Master Jiang Lei if anything ill happened to him .

And after waiting for three hours, a gigantic ship about twenty to thirty times bigger than their Silver Wolf Tender appeared . On the bottom of the Ark, a logo is drawn there with two words .

Shouts came from below as all the recruited disciples from first to the seventh mountain flew upwards to board the ship . The moment everyone boarded the ship, it flew toward the east .

"Zhang Tian Lei? Who is that?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned himself, unknown that this person is his long uncontacted uncle from the same Zhang Lineage .

Oops . I think my story become unexpected . If his uncle knows that his little nephew is inside this fight against their ancestor side, will he get a big slap?

"Soldiers! Come and get your induction process before we let you roam inside of the battlefield . " the Battalion Commander said before everyone gathered before him in a bigger room within the Flying Ark .

"First of all, Everyone here shall obtain your own Southern Yang Soldier Plate . Keep this plate as the second most important thing after your life because this treasure will be the only thing to verify what you did in the war . "

The Battalion Commander's word makes everyone inspecting the piece of Soldier Plate in their hand . It was made from a similar product like the Mountain Ore, and this plate is issued by the Imperial Forces .

"Based on the points given by your results, the merits from what you did will determine your position within the Army . Higher ranks equal to better treatment and rewards, but of course, it wasn't that easy to get . "

"Everyone here will be assigned into the 9th Rank Platoon Soldier . With a hundred Merit Points you will get a raise in ranks . Those that reach the 1st Rank Platoon Soldier is known as Platoon Commander, where you will restart again as a 9th Rank Platoon Commander again . "

"There is a 9 ranking Hierarchy, so do your best to at least earn the position of a 7th Rank Captain before you post back to your sect . And you'll have to remember that the rank you obtained will remain until you either dead, demoted, or moved . "

"As for the points, its based on how the Soldier Plate recognize them . All you need is to kill as much as you could . " the Battalion Commander explained to them as much he could before he has to dispatch them into the battlefield .

"As long the Soldier Plate is in your hand, you will have no problem to recognize fellow soldiers and enemies . I'll see each of you in General Yang's Camp!"

At the bottom of their feet, a circle of Formation Array flashed and transferred them into the battlefield . When all of them opened their eyes, everywhere surrounding them is a battlefield!

Army spreads all over the places without a proper leader in command, but the color of yellow and red determined their status . Like their situation now, the density and reach of their Yellow colored pillar wider than the others .

"ATTACK!" one of the disciples from Third Heaven Mountain charged and left the yellow pillar formed by all of them . But before he managed to step outside further than ten steps, a total if fifty-five arrows turned him into a corpse similar to a porcupine .

"Disperse! Everyone is on their own!" another group of disciples from Third Heaven Mountain charged from their position and fought as they enter farther into the battlefield .

"You should look for your own glory, not helping mine . Go ahead with your planning . " Zhang Wu Ji replied the disciple and left the Yellow Pillar . He took the same approach like disciple that turned into a porcupine, but when the same attack happened, the results are different .

Zhang Wu Ji's Qingyang Fortress Body is impenetrable by their worthless arrows! The moment he catches wind of their exact location, Zhang Wu Ji took his Baton Glaive out and attack with speed like flying arrows .

The moment this war begins, every great potential candidate charged into the battlefield to create a name on their own . With the battlefield is filled with 9th Rank Platoon Soldiers trying to make their name, this is the best battlefield for one to ascend from a snake into a dragon!

Furthermore, this is robbing and slaughtering Festival! With the dead having no more use on the treasures, the fate is only either left in the battlefield to rot, or taken by another person to use .

"Six points . " Zhang Wu Ji looked at his Soldier Plate before continue to move forward . The six kills of cultivator close to his own strength are worth one point each .

And from the treasure he robbed, it was only a few pouches of lousy treasures like Basic Blood Nourishing Pill and some Qi Accumulating Pills .

By following the guidance from the hint of red light, Zhang Wu Ji turned into a hunter and slaughter the soldiers from the Eastern Imperial Kingdom . But no matter how smooth is his path, one is fated to face a worthy opponent on the battlefield .

"Hmm . . . Let's hunt him . " the one name Zhang An Yang redirected his direction slightly right from where he's heading and approach their target . By looking at the pillar of red light, they can easily chase their target!

"Somebody is coming closer at the right side . " Zhang Wu Ji stared at the four approaching red pillars and prepared himself for a good fight .

"Dogs from General Yang's troops! Go die!" two long spear users charged at both left and right when Zhang Wu Ji approach them, but with a swing of his Baton Glaive, Zhang Wu Ji throws his opponent back to where they came .

"Strong! I like that!" Zhang An Yang charged at Zhang Wu Ji with his great hammer . By borrowing the advantages from above, Zhang An Yang swings his great hammer downwards .

"Nine Meter Travelling Fist!" a single punch, a hundred fists . Attacked charged from all over the place to defend against his attack, but failed to force Zhang An Yang to retreat .

"Mountain Beast Mortal Body!" by activating his Martial Body's ability, Zhang An Yang's strength increased by two times stronger . With the Great Hammer's weight no longer bothers him, the attack of a hammer become terribly concentrated .

"Is this the power from the younger generation of the East Imperial Kingdom?" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised . A mere 17th Stage Inner Qi Warrior can perform this well under the threat and situation on this battlefield .

"Natural Springs!" Zhang Wu Ji retreated with two drops of liquid thrown at the same speed . The moment it touches each another, an explosion happened and separates them from the deadlock .

Zhang Wu Ji let go his Baton Glaive, and with quick speed, he sent four Silver Flying Stakes at his four opponent, with Zhang An Yang as his last target .

"I'm sorry . " Zhang Wu Ji delivered his bare fist on his opponent's hammer and sent his weapon into the path of destruction . His hammer's flat surface first received a dent on it before an internal crack destroyed the hammer .

"My weap . . . " four head left their bodies when it was cut by a swing from a glaive, but thick like a baton . The attack negates all the resistance from them with their death .

"Hmm? Not bad at all . . . " Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of laugh when he looks at the word [114 Points] on his Soldier Plate . With the newfound motivation to go further, Zhang Wu Ji smiled and took a view surrounding him .

The light on his own pillar grows further, reaching the limit close to them when they're group together . If his hypothesis is right on its point, the size and density of the light pillar are determine based on the number of points in his hand .

"Its a hunt of bottom rankers to the top . . . We shall have a pretty good game . " Zhang Wu Ji laughed and selected another direction to charge forward .

"Senior brother, there's a light from the enemy coming from our left . It seems like the strength of this enemy is quite strong . " his junior reported . And because this leader is calmer than the previous Zhang An Yang, he chose to retreat instead of charging forward .

"Oh? This group chooses to retreat instead of charging at me . . . They must have some top-ranked fighters in the team . " Zhang Wu Ji noticed that their retreat is neither hurry or slow, just enough to keep him hooked .

"I'll guess we're going to have a proper cat and mouse chase then . . . " Zhang Wu Ji sped up a little, but maintain a distance to see what they're trying to do .

"Yes . I want to become a Platoon Commander in one push . Everyone, please help me, I will not mistreat all of you in any way . " the leader of this team replied his junior and senior brother with a respectful tone .

"Fellow Brothers, I'm sure everyone knows that following brother Chen Ming will give us the best results . So let all of us support him . " a disciple mentioned his name .

The soldiers were slaughtered easily like livestock . As for the cause, it is due to a deadly whip weapon that comes from the Ice Legacy Inheritance Realm .

Similar to Zhang Wu Ji, each sector has a top contender that's fighting hard for the sake of getting a proper recognition within the Military .

"He entered the trap! Launch an attack in all direction!" the senior that chosen to retreat earlier shouts . Under his command, five teams attacked and charged into where Zhang Wu Ji located .

In the gap of five minutes, over forty cultivators appeared before Zhang Wu Ji from all direction and ready to attack, but Zhang Wu Ji's Nine Meter Traveling Fist is capable of controlling the situation .

Occasionally, Zhang Wu Ji will fire a few Flying Silver Stakes to defeat his opponents . But those are only for backup if the enemy is too close to his position .

"Such a strong defense!" those from Eastern Imperial Kingdom exclaimed . Unfortunately, Zhang Wu Ji preparation completed before they attacked . With a swing full of water, Zhang Wu Ji spreads them to the designated location and ignites all the Natural Springs surrounding him .

"BOBOBOOM!!!" a chain reaction of explosives sent the opponents into disarray . Casualties are unaccounted, but from the number of points keep increasing on his Soldier Plate, Zhang Wu Ji knows that he did not enter their trap, but they do!

"I promise that my surname is not Zhang if I cannot kill you!" the strength of 18th Stage Inner Qi Warrior came forward and fully ignited to kill the enemies .

"Hehehe, come ahead and try!" Zhang Wu Ji replied to his taunts . With his own weapon in hand, Zhang Wu Ji swung his Baton Glaive at his opponent with the intention to kill!

"And I, Zhang Wu Ji, will not be the one you kill!" the situation in the battlefield ignited his power . And because a bloodline strength can be only activated in extreme condition, Zhang Wu Ji's bloodline started to boil along with its owner!

At the same time, a piece of Golden Nameplate with an engraved word of "Zhang" flashed without notice, surprising the higher-ups in this South VS East battle!

I hope to clarify one matter . Let's say . . . They're Zhangs, but at the same time, they're not . The surname is born with, the bloodline is different . Let's assume that its a kingdom filled with harems and everyone either related or not related .

"One of Zhang's Bloodline is activating . Try to guess who would that be?" the higher-ups in the Royal Zhang's Camp started to guess . Based on the ability of their younger generations, only four carries such a talent to igniting their hidden bloodline .

"My bet is at Zhang Jingmu . That kid is a Half-Step Soldier Stage now, it must be him . " one of five commanding officers inside the camp guessed .

"No . Jingmu don't have that kind of challenging mind . I will bet on Zhang Kai Xuan . This kid is a ferocious monster, just like you, elder cousin Tian Lei . " the second officer said while looking at their leader .

"Hahaha, both of you, stop jesting . When it comes to skills, who is better than my house's Zhang Wu Heng?" another burly guy join their conversation on whos better .

"Elder cousin Tian Lei, what do you think?" the fourth officer questioned their leader instead of making a guess . The issue for his approach is also due to the fourth talents from their family is a lady .

"Zhang Mu Lan might ignite her bloodline too . . . But my suspicion is on somebody completely we don't know . " Zhang Tian Lei suspect that it wasn't one of those they mentioned ignites their bloodline but somebody else, with a bloodline of Zhangs .

"Elder cousin Tian Lei, who would that be? Only those we mentioned belonged to the Right Zhang's Family! Those from Left Zhang's and Core Zhang's did not participate!" the further they speak, the deeper is the conversation related to the overall power of the Zhang's Family .

"Four Season Slaughter!" four gigantic flying swords struck deep into the opponent's ranks and started a slaughter . When the stance ends, four swords returned not to their master, but their sheaths .

"Isn't that the so-called General's Son In Law?" a mocking speech came from his front . It was a group of close to a hundred soldiers, led by twin brothers .

"East Undefeatable Sutra!" the moment the twin brothers energy channeled, a word "EAST" appeared on their forehead . This sudden rise of power threatened Zhang Wu Ji and his existence in this 7th Rank Captains Battlefield!

"Impossible!" the person charging at Zhang Wu Ji was thrown back about fifty steps before he stopped tumbling like a piece of rock . But that exchange itself tell him that his strength is incomparable to this opponent!

"My strength increased . The Baton Glaive becomes very easy to use now . " Zhang Wu Ji himself was surprised with his sudden increase in physical strength .

"Is that bloodline? I remember that I've read a book before in the Zhang's Family Library about the bloodlines and how it was activated . " Zhang Wu Ji communicates with Sheng, unaware that his opponent already peed on his pants .

"Imperial East, Imperial East . . . How can I mess with a person with the Imperial East bloodline . . . " the soldier crawled back and tried to escape, but without him noticing, a Flying Silver Stake is coming closer .

"SPLASH!" his blood smeared the battlefield . The Flying Silver Stake's damage is two times stronger due to Zhang Wu Ji's sudden increase in strength . And at the same time, he obtained the ability to magnify his point of view .

"There!" Zhang Wu Ji stormed to his Northeastern direction . Through the Magnifying ability, Zhang Wu Ji noticed three red pillars is trying to surround a yellow one .

"Heaven! How can that light pillar come so quick! Get ready to fight!" what surprised the team of three is not due to the speed alone, but because Zhang Wu Ji's pillar is too brilliant!

"Nobody can leave . " Zhang Wu Ji fired a total of twenty-two Flying Silver Stakes . The attack comes too quick and deadly, where twenty soldiers are killed before they can react .

"YOU!" the closest leader used his sword to defend the attack, but how can a thin blade overcome a wrist-thick baton that comes in a shape of glaive?

His blade shattered . His ribcage curved into his organs . The worst thing is before he even cries in pain, the second attack arrived and smashed his skull .

Zhang Wu Ji's momentum did not stop there . Armament Wolves charged into the enemy ranks and started a slaughter, where all of them died with a word in their mind .

Soon, drums are beaten to indicates the end of today's fight . Based on the momentum, seven of the ten zones for Platoon Battlefield increases, while three is utterly defeated .

As for the 8th Rank Commander Battlefield, it was an equal exchange of five win and five defeats . The 7th Rank Captain Battlefield only have 5 zones, and all of them is on a stalemate situation .

"Brothers, the fight today is over . Good job on staying alive . Point your Soldier Plate on the ship so we can retrieve everyone . " the Battalion Commander of different teams come forth and receive their soldiers .

When all of them were transported back to the main Military Camp, it was an incredible sight! Put aside them as the new recruits, a single deployment of General Yang's soldier are amounted to at least a million soldiers .

"This is the General Yang's Military Camp?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled . His eyes are opened wide from excitement, but within a Military Camp is strict rules and Army Supervision, thus, no matter how excited he is, he has to follow their rules .

"Those lesser than a hundred points in their Soldier Plate, Follow me!" a Platoon Commander with nine lower rank Platoon Commanders took a group between 12 to 13 thousand people away .

"Those lesser than two hundred Points in their Soldier Plate, Follow me!" another Platoon Commander ordered . This time, only three Platoon Commander of similar strength leads them away . Their number range between 3 to 4 thousand people .

"Chen Ming!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the appearance of his subordinate . But before they can continue talking, the seventh call is here .

"Those lesser than seven hundred Points in their Soldier Plate, Follow me!" only one Platoon Commander is here leading them . Two people left included Chen Ming .

"The two of you, follow me . " This time, the escort leading Zhang Wu Ji and somebody he doesn't know is actually a 7th Rank Captain, although he was one of the weakest in the group of Captains .

"This will be your living place . Remember that by tomorrow, the two of you will no longer remain in the Platoon Battlefield for recruits, but commanders . Your opponents will become much more difficult, so rest well and don't be stingy with your points . " the Captain said before he left .

"Hahaha, welcome to the 9th Rank Platoon Commander Tent . Not bad at climbing up into Platoon Commander rank in your first day . " a warm-looking youth came closer with a conversation .

"Thank you for your praise . Junior heard that . . . " Zhang Wu Ji was trying to continue with his sentence, but he was stopped in the middle .

"Brothers . My name is Yelu Yin Yuan . Blood Messenger Religion . " unexpected to everyone, this youth is from the top superpower in Middle South State .

"We have to exchange the points before the camp close . When the Military Court Order comes, nobody is allowed to leave the tent . " the warm-looking guy said .

Under his guidance, the two of them were directed to a VIP location for especially for those that entered 8th Rank Platoon Commander in a push . Or else, they're going to be crowded with the others for the sake of exchanging some treasures .

Furthermore, Zhang Wu Ji obtained many treasures and junks from the people he killed so he will need to clear some of them before he went to fight the next morning .

"Zhang Wu Ji," he reported his name before the soldier seated on the exchange tent . And instead of been given with a list, the soldier handed him a piece of Jadeslip for him to channel his Warrior Qi inside .

"COOL!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised . The Jadeslip is nothing but a fragile material as it was made from a mere blend of Jadeite and Nephrite . The surprising element is its nine Formation Engraving used to enhance this Jadeslip further .

"This is what the soldier called as Military Exchange Jadeslip . As long you're one of the soldiers of Southern Imperial Force, you're qualified to use this . " the soldier explained . As a Captain, his experience in this matter is broader than the three younger soldiers present .

Checking on the list, Zhang Wu Ji successfully found many kinds of materials that weren't available in the Heaven Point Exchange List . Furthermore, he remembered one of the words spoken by the Second Mountain Elder before he moved into his private residence .

"As a head disciple, your master's previous faults can be said as exempted . Of course, you'll have to do your best to maintain your performance . " this is what was said when he met the Second Mountain Elder .

After he runs through the list of exchangeable materials, Zhang Wu Ji decided to spend his 900 points to exchange for something surprisingly unusual in that list .

"Brother Zhang, what did you . . . WOW!" Yelu Yin Yuan turned to Zhang Wu Ji after he completed his own . But the moment Zhang Wu Ji's treasure appeared on his hand, Yelu Yin Yuan felt a hint of regret .

What Zhang Wu Ji exchanged is not those cultivating treasure in the list, but a blueprint . But before he opened it to have a view with the others, the Gong outside was beaten .

"Time is up! We have to return to the tent!" the warm-looking guy took the two as they returned to the camp with haste . Moments later, only those guards with the tag of Yang are allowed to patrol, guard, and defend the entire military base .

Inside if their tent, the group of fifteen Platoon Commanders shared their story and experience, but when a cough came from outside, everyone quickly returned to their bed for a rest .

Meanwhile, Zhang Wu Ji is smiling as he touches the blueprint in his hand, which is too suitable for what he needs at this time . All he required to do next is to complete the fight tomorrow and apply for an approval to visit the Forging Tent .

Oh well . . . I'm being very kind here because the battlefield is too big! Everyone might get lost! But guess what? He got a blueprint, and its a quiver! What can the Quiver do during a war? And why it was something unusual on the list?

Still, deep inside the hear of the soldiers, everyone knows that the General Yang Nan and General Zhang Tian Lei is yet to make their move . Their current situation is more likely to train their elites before the final battle .

The reason is due to their standings . The Eastern Forces are the attacker, while the Southern Forces is the defender . The attacker may retreat if their momentum to win the war is broken, but the defender's situation is different .

No defenders can relax in the aftermath of war, because they must rebuild, retrain, and repair! This injury alone is similar to a tumor that reacts slowly but continues to seeps the life away .

Their standing did not change drastically, but such a steady stalemate hinders Zhang Wu Ji from achieving his plan because of the lack of resources and Soldier Points .

"Brother Zhang, how much is our success rate if we attacked into their formation?" Yelu Yin Yuan came closer after seeing that all the enemies already returned to their initial defensive formation .

"If I'm attacking alone, the success rate will be between 15% . Even if both of us went forth with this our success is not more than 40% . " Zhang Wu Ji calculated the risk they may face if they attack .

"True . Unless there's another two of us here, then the plan will be a success . " Yelu Yin Yuan added . At their current location, both of them can be said to be the spear of those in their 5th to 9th Ranks of a Platoon Commander .

Unless those 1st Rank Platoon Commanders willing to come and support them, the success rate to break into the enemy formation is lesser than what Zhang Wu Ji said .

Of course, Zhang Wu Ji maintained secrecy on his ability and trump cards . Although they're calling each another as a brother, for now, Yelu Yin Yuan is still somebody from the Blood Messenger Religion, a superpower faction that arranged people to attack him and Ming De when they return from Mystic Vein Realm .

Furthermore, Zhang Wu Ji is confident that he can easily charge into the enemy formation without worry . What he was concerned is will using this trump card worth the effort .

Seven groups of Platoon Commanders totaled to about eighty to ninety soldiers in their 18th to the 19th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior charged at them . When Yelu Yin Yuan looks at the attacking soldiers, his expression becomes bitter .

He was a Half-step Inner Qi Master, and if he participates in killing these soldiers, it was not only a waste of Soldier Points but putting himself into danger by focusing on opponent at least twenty stages below him .

"Brother Zhang . . . " Yelu Yin Yuan hope that Zhang Wu Ji understands his difficulties in helping him . He can help him to escape but not fighting .

"I understand . Brother Yelu can leave first . We'll meet in the Platoon Commander's tent tonight!" Zhang Wu Ji cupped his hand and went to his enemies .

"I'll have to kill a few before they finish wrapping up . " Zhang Wu Ji monitored the situation on the battlefield before he shifted his attention to how far Yelu Yin Yuan go .

Once he was out from his sight, Zhang Wu Ji ignited the Inner Qi Warrior force within his body and prepared to fight . With the defense of above every cultivator in their Inner Qi Warrior Stage, Zhang Wu Ji is fearless against his enemies!

Zhang Wu Ji wields his Baton Glaive which already started to show some hint of chipping on its sides, came out to face the enemies . He purposely stomps the ground hard to taunts his enemies but did not forget to start producing the Armament Wolves .

"Attack!" with a shout, eighty-five soldiers rush forward, leaving the back with a total of four leaders . While a million ants can kill an elephant, a hundred man will have no trouble to kill a junior younger than them!

"Nothing can defeat numbers!" the opposing forces asked themselves the two questions, but at the same time, all of them assumed that they can win with numbers .

The Armament Wolves charged at them, but nothing could stop them from attacking . Some were bitten, but most of the Armament Wolves died before getting closer to their enemies .

"It's pointless to run!" the soldiers turned their attention above them . But when Zhang Wu Ji is using water to attack them instead of a weapon, they're questioning his sanity .

"Did he get surrounded and forced to use this kind of drastic measure?" There seems to be hesitation among them, but what they did not know is before they attacked, Zhang Wu Ji already prepared his life-saving technique .

His earlier strike on the ground is to cover the sound of Natural Spring dropped on the ground near him . And with this simple trick, Zhang Wu Ji ignites about thirty of them, leaving the battlefield with a gigantic explosion that kills even himself easily .

"Crazy! Did he died in the explosion as well?" one of the four leaders exhaled as he looks at where the explosion took place . But when a silhouette belonged to an unknown entity appeared, one of the leaders shocked .

"Shit! That's the Ob . . . " a jaw bites across where the body stands and separates the head and the body . From that shock comes the second Wild Beast appearing from where the explosion took place .

"Obsidian Serpent Warrior! Quickly escape!" one of the three remaining leaders shouted and retreats . With the leader leaving the team, their teamwork crumbles .

They started to break apart and escapes on their own, but the speed of the two Obsidian Serpent Warrior is too fast for them to outrun them . The situation becomes similar to a game where snakes chase their target in a circling cage!

"What are you thinking? One step forward and the formation will split apart . Do you want to kill everyone here for the sake of a few fools?" another leader shouted on this team .

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" the drums are beaten again . Today fight is over . With their Soldier Plate is lift up facing the Battle Ark, everyone returned to their respective Military Camp .

"Second brother!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised that the one inside the tent sitting is his second brother and son-in-law to the General Yang Nan . Seated beside him is two unknown youth similar to his second brother's age .

"The one on my left is Yang Jiu Lang, the youngest of the Nine Yang Spears . He's 18 years old and is an early 21st Stage Inner Qi Soldier . " Zhang Wu Chou introduced .

"As for the one on your right, he's Yang Ba Hu . Eighth son and the eighth of the Nine Yang Spears . He's also 18 years old and is a 22nd Stage Inner Qi Soldier . " Zhang Wu Chou continued .

"Who says the elders are not here? I'll drag him out to the Military Core and give him few lashings!" another two guys came in, both having similar facial features like the two Yang siblings .

"Seventh Brother Yang Qi Shi, Sixth Brother Yang Liu Xiang, this is Wu Chou's youngest brother, Wu Ji . " Zhang Wu Chou introduces his brother to the two new Yang Younger Generation .

"General in the tent!" the guards standing outside of their tent's entrance shouted . At the same time, the six of them forms a straight line and bows to the general .

"Raise . " he waved his hand across and went to his seat . After the master of this camp seated, the others followed . The hierarchy for a military is strict, where although the Sixth Son is the eldest among them, he has to sit on the left of the general instead of the right .

"I heard that the genius Zhang Mu Lan will participate in the battle soon, make sure you both are ready to fight against the one Eastern Imperial Capital called as Peony Spatial Bloodline," he said .

"Jiu Lang understood . " he immediately quit his rash tantrums . Although his father can be very understanding in their house, this is where war happened, so his understanding turned into threatening .

"Can you make sure to defeat the entire Zone 5 Platoon Commander tomorrow?" his question surprised everyone within the hall, included the two guards .

"How about Wu Ji show the incomplete product first?" confidently, Zhang Wu Ji took out a squarish Quiver-like tool out from his spatial ring . Because it was incomplete, the ability to minimize is not applicable to it .

Instead of calling this a quiver, it was better to call it the Arrow Catapult instead . Mechanism equipped behind the tool is strong enough to send the volley of arrows to somewhere of a 600 meters distance .

"Tang! Tang! Tang!" hammering sound came from the Forging Tent . Although it was noisy, nobody dares to disturb the youth at all . All they know is this youth holds the Yang Token in his hand .

With this token, Zhang Wu Ji is allowed to do anything he wanted, and only the general can punish him in any Military Court offense . But at this moment, the youth did not use the token for his own benefit, but instead . . .

While the others were guessing about what he was doing, In fact, Zhang Wu Ji wasn't the one to do the hammering, but Zhan Yu . The Servant Puppet is taken out to assist him in producing many different parts while he studies the blueprint .

-Information: Created by Arrow Division of Southern Yang Family, the Celestial Bombing Quiver is an independent single firing weapon that can support land soldier from a range . To lighten the loading burden on the user, the Celestial Bombing Quiver comes with two different aspects .

-Additional Information (1): Artillery Single Volley Function, the weapon is equipped into a 400 shot Yang-Lightning Cracker Volley . Covers 1,400 meters radius .

-Additional Information (2): Agile Pursuit Volley Function, by compromising in the total number of arrows and reduction of an explosive head, this weapon is capable of covering 700 meters distance . Arrows fired may end up at quarter to a half less, but attack now capable of ignoring enemy defense .

"According to the blueprint, This item was named as a quiver category due to its capability to contain arrows of different usage . Either Explosive Volley or Agile Volley, both attacks are capable of delivering excessive damage, but one compromise in weight, another in the number of ammunition . "

"The trigger process is activated by a Formation Plate, which distributes the explosive ability to fires the arrows . Due to the tedious number of 400 connection is required to succeed in firing all ammunition, it can only be used once . "

"Won't this be solved by . . . Oh, I understand . . . " Zhang Wu Ji almost solves the main problem in its firing issue, but soon found another problematic part . Like what the information said, this weapon compromise too much to bring its desired effect .

First of all, the 400 shot capacity forced the weapon to be a single-use disposable design . It was comparable to how Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon works, but a hundred times heavier in cost . Worst of all, it used a single wick to lit 400 arrows, what kind of engineering is this?

The Formation Plate used are the second issue to be taken into consideration . The cost alone to activates this Formation Plate is 40 strands of Warrior Qi . With such an expensive activation cost, how can they replace the first reason with additional formation plates?

"I'll follow the main design, but change them to suit my needs . With only 360 strands of Warrior Qi in me, I can only activate them nine times, counting that I don't get attacked . "

"I'm a fool if I follow your design, Arrow Division's Celestial Designer . " Zhang Wu Ji whispered in his heart . By putting in his night in twerking the parts, Zhang Wu Ji starts to assemble the Celestial Bombing Quivers .

In the next morning, everyone was sent into the battlefield once more . Today seems to be a decisive battle when looking at the deployments . Similar to how the South thinks, the East is not losing in their tactics to crush their defense .

Only at Zhang Wu Ji's battlefield itself already deployed a total of five Warrior Chariots . They were equipped with Horse Puppet as the moving engine, with weaponry attached on its four wheels .

"Brother Zhang, good luck!" Yelu Yin Yuan was sent to a different battlefield to support that side . This zone is only covered with himself and six other high potential candidates in their 3rd Rank Platoon Commanders .

"Attack!" Zhang Wu Ji charged . With enough time and the assistance from Zhan Yu, his production last night exceeds what he can do alone . But as the battle is just starting, it wasn't wise to use the Celestial Bombing Quiver now .

As he was a long weapon user, Zhang Wu Ji easily destroyed one of the chariots without any trouble . But the others weren't a cultivator comparable to him . His forces started to see significant losses, but it wasn't deep enough to damage the vitality of the zone he's in .

And as he expected, the moment more soldiers from his side succumb to their defeats, more soldiers are dispatched into the zone . At this moment, their opponent's number reaches three thousand, two times above them .

"What is the soldier in Zone 5 tries to do? Yang Nan, your tricks are worthless against my Lightning Chariots . Even your troublesome Celestial Bombing something . . . Wait!" Zhang Tian Lei suddenly remembered something important .

"Did they perfected it? But nobody can control that weapon easily! Not even master archers!" Zhang Tian Lei's focus on Zone 5 is higher than before .

The Succeed or Die situation once again activated the bloodline hidden deep inside Zhang Wu Ji's body . With the word [Zhang] appeared on his forehead once more!

"That kid possessed a Zhang Bloodline Inheritance!" Zhang Tian Lei made his remark . And that remark caught the attention of four other Right Zhang's Family .

Using his enhanced sight, Zhang Wu Ji opened his hand wide and activated the enhanced Celestial Bombing Quivers . In total, he activated four quivers on the ground but fired two .

Eight hundred arrows volley spreads across the entire battlefield, where the explosion blinded the sight of everyone staring on the battlefield . The moment the hell breaks loose, the battle in all zone halts .

But the attack is yet to be over . The group that gathered on the left and right corridor marched forward out of confidence, but what was shocking about their march is not because of their numbers, but the fact both left and right is carrying a Quiver is what made them afraid!

Zhang Wu Ji spreads his hand wide once more, igniting the Natural Springs as his order . At this moment, both Celestial Bombing Quivers on the left and right corridor fired .

Four hundred arrows filled with explosive made their way towards the wing, and explosion started to spreads . Even those in their Inner Qi Soldier strength failed to defend against an attack of this magnitude .

"Heaven Lightning Screen!" Zhang Tian Lei's forehead has a [Zhang] word too! His Zhang Bloodline Inheritance ignites and destroyed all the attack before they hit their Commanding Wing!

"POO!!!" the horn in the Southern Commanding Wing was blown, and this means a full-scale attack is going to be launched from the Southern side! Weapons like Ballistas are deployed, General Yang's private force, under the leadership of four of the Nine Spears of Yangs!

"Yang Nan, Come!" Zhang Tian Lei gives his force an order . But it was not to attack, but retreat! As a general himself, Zhang Tian Lei charged into the battle against the general himself!

"BAM!" the first exchange of the generals from both side stunned those battlefields below them . At least three zones for Rank 7 Captains are completely crushed from their first exchange .

And the reason is because General Yang possessed no bloodline strength at all! The battle between one with bloodline and one without results in a leading for the latter!

In this exchange itself, the Eastern attackers lost their momentum and failed to take the lead to cause severe destruction . Worst of all, the one that changed the flow of this battle is not somebody from the Yang, but from their own Zhang!

"I want this kid to come to the Eastern Wing . He's a Zhang . " his request is simple, but the moment his sentence end, the entire Southern Forces started to whisper .

"How about the Family of Zhangs come to our Southern Wing? I can take the time to introduce you to my son-in-law and his brother at the same time," General Yang replied .

"Eastern Soldiers! We may have lost the battle, but this doesn't mean we're lost completely! Today, we'll retreat, and let us met General Yang again on this battlefield . That time, we'll take this Fortress as the payment!"Zhang Tian Lei shouts .

"Retreats!" both side called off to their battle, with the soldiers claiming their fruit of war . What was unexpected to them is that Zhang Wu Ji is no longer a 2nd Rank Platoon Commander, but a 3rd Rank Captain .

"Wu Chou, come here and pay your respect to this general . " General Yang Nan summoned his Son-In-Law first, based on the differences of seniority .

"You two brats! You're actually from our Royal Zhang Family!" Zhang Tian Lei speaks . But that simple sentence caused the jaw of everyone present to drop .

Doesn't this mean only a Zhang can defeat a Zhang? This means that General Yang Nan is not going to change the result of his defeat if there's no Zhangs in his troops?

Hohoho, their hell is here . What do you think Zhang Tian Lei will do to the brothers? I'm sure Zhang Wu Chou is cursing his brother in his heart now for messing with their head family . If he actually knows that fact before this .

"Both of you should come back to our Main Family . " General Zhang Tian Lei said . Instead of punishing both of them for fighting against their own branch of Zhang Clan members, Zhang Tian Lei's word shock the others present .

"You Zhangs are a group of sick bast*rds . If they're Yangs, I think we already throw both of them into the Traitorous department already . " General Yang Nan added .

"Unlike you guys from Yangs or Zhao . We, the Zhangs, are proud of our own people . " General Zhang Tian Lei lifted the cup of wine on the table and drink after he hinted General Yang to do the same .

"Listen, especially to you younger generations . Do you think all of us come from nowhere and cultivate? Did you ever think about the history of the first generation population in this so-called Ping An Continent?"

"All of us here comes from various other continents, but among everyone, four Clans existed the longest . They're the Eastern Zhang, Southern Zhao, Western Cao, and Northern Xiang . "

"As for the subfamilies, I think everyone knows the Eastern Gong, Southern Yang, Western Ximen, and Northern Beiping . The subfamilies aren't what we called as Master and servants, but Emperor and King siblings," Zhang Tian Lei took a deep breath .

This fact alone shocks even the Zhang siblings and Yang siblings . As a younger generation, it is normal for them to not educated on such knowledge . As for those soldiers, and servant, they're not even worthy of knowing such knowledge .

"The reason I mentioned the eight of them is due to the Clan's specialty . Some call them Battle Bloodline, Imperial Bloodline, or Bloodline alone, but we call them something else . " Zhang Tian Lei continue and look at Yang Nan .

"Forbidden Providence . This is what they're called . But calling them bloodline is not wrong either as the name usually touches the privacy of the Bloodline itself . "

"The Body Providence's example is like Yang's Family Valiant Heritage Bloodline, or this Lieutenant's Harness King Body . Their focus mainly on the part of strengthening the body . "

"The second is Soul Providence . We recognize your bloodline, and we're sure of its name . Do you want to know about it?" Zhang Tian Lei pointed at Zhang Wu Ji as he speaks and offers the youth if he wanted to know its name .

"This bloodline's power in battling is weak, but its forte is providing support . Based on how the battle happened earlier, you must be a Celestial Designer, a very skillful one on that . " Zhang Tian Lei faced the youth as he speaks .

"This junior is indeed a Celestial Designer . It was . . . Thank you, General . " Zhang Wu Ji answered, but he stuttered and stopped after saying thanks .

[Heaven Glancing Bloodline is an ability only those from Core Zhang Family can obtain . Act dumb and stop talking . Anything further will be explained when His Honorable Ancestor comes out and find you]

[What you have to do now is stop crafting tools, forging pills, engraving formation arrays, and designing blueprints . Else, everyone in your family will be in danger]

The youth nod to the general and the others as they continue with the banquet, but before they left, Zhang Wu Ji received a precious treasure that might be even above what he'd seen in his life .

-Special (Unique to Zhangs Only): This Jade can act as a bookshelf to store all acquired knowledge, records, and manuals for user's uses . Physical contact before reading is eliminated .

With the entire battle between the Southern and Eastern is ended, they're sent back to where they come from . Everyone exchanged what they desired for the last round before leaving, and riding on the Southern General's Ark, they carried a proud and victorious expression .

In this battle alone, the Southern Yang produces two Captain Ranked Soldiers, which was a great accomplishment . The only thing that Zhang Wu Ji did not imagine is that this news alone caused all the tigers, dragons, phoenixes, and Longevity Tortoises to wake up from their slumber .

Because there's no longer a rush to return, their trip past Eastern Part of the Southern Imperial Kingdom took four days to complete . Peoples started to disembark from their ships .

On their fifth day, everyone belonged to the Seven Heaven Sect disembarked . As the Head Disciple is now seen as a hero of the younger generation, everyone searched for him .

"I remember your Head Disciple left when we fly past Tie Ying Forest . I thought everyone knows about it?" a disciple from Silver Wolf Gate told them .

"Oh no! Where the hell I am now?" Zhang Wu Ji is staring at the trees, grasses, rocks, mountain, and river . Of course, as a professional in getting himself lost, Zhang Wu Ji did not lack any experience .

"12th Generation junior Zhang Qing Feng pay his respects to the ancestor, grand uncles, royal uncles, and royal cousins!" Zhang Qing Feng and all his servants kneeled before one of the Ping An Continent's mightiest cultivator .

With such a request was made, Zhang Qing Feng quickly brought the uninvited visitors to his father's grave for them to take a look . Especially for two people following behind him .

The current Eleventh Emperor of the Eastern Imperial Kingdom, Emperor Zhang San Tian . Beside him is the second son of Emperor Zhang Yu, name King Zhang San Ben . The other was also the members of the Zhang Royal Family, or the Core Zhang .

"Let's head back to the hall . " the ancestor made his second request . When everyone returned, they begin to share about the incident caused by Zhang Wu Ji, and also how great is his ability during that war .

Although the results end with Eastern Forces losses, it did not ruin their confidence . The soldier is much more motivated than before, with already three junior generations entering the Inner Qi Soldier cultivation .

The Zhang Family practices internal struggle and battle . The stronger they are, the more they worth the position granted . Although this will end up with internal destruction within the clan, they did not work that negatively towards the Zhang's Clan in the Eastern Imperial Kingdom .

"The Core Zhangs could use some additional talents . I'll give you one year to prepare and return to the Eastern Imperial Kingdom's capital, Dong Men Capital . Make sure the youth is informed . " the ancestor stated his request .

By giving Zhang Qing Feng one year to complete this request is far more than enough . But what's worrying him is the background of all his child .

With each child's background are deeply linked with the Southern Imperial Kingdom, Zhang Qing Feng now questioning himself on what can he do .

Before this, Zhang Qing Feng is worried about all his child is too insignificant in this Southern Imperial Kingdom, but now, he blames all of them for doing too well!

The moment they left, Zhang Qing Feng dropped on the ground . The existence of the people stunned him a while ago, and it was turning into a form of trauma .

Furthermore, they left him with a Royal Eastern Imperial Ark, which about the size of his Li Jiang City, ten Inner Qi Lords attendants, and a thousand chests filled with cultivating treasures for him to strengthen himself .

"What did my youngest child did to get all of this attention?" Zhang Qing Feng stares at the treasures . Only through estimation, a single chest is precious enough to purchase the entire Lower South State .

"Out of so many places, I entered a bandit's nest . This is really the worst that can happen to me . . . " Zhang Wu Ji complained . But it was not on his terrible sense of direction, but his bad luck .

He assumes that if he dropped at Xue Hou Valley, getting help and direction is not impossible . After all, he befriended Gumu Wuwo from the Battling Ape Tribe .

Sheng reminded him what he can do here before they return . It might be a coincidence that they drop here out of all place, as he accepted the task to tame a Silver-Coin Panther on behalf of the Second Heaven Library's Elder .

With a new objective as he looks for his way back to Seven Heaven Sect, Zhang Wu Ji utilized his Natural Energy Sonar from the Vein Listener Art to search for his targets .

While he failed to find any Silver-Coin Panthers, his action alerted a different party . In a gap of ten minutes, a total of twenty bandits placed his location as their target .

"Oh? That's just good enough for me, right? With an additional group of guides, I can found my exit earlier and catch the Silver-Coin Panther too!" Zhang Wu Ji smiled .

War Arc over, Lost Arc here . I'm sorry we got a delay on updates . Christmas goes, New Year here . My work kills me before I'm done writing . Sorry guys!

Imperial father, can this son ask something?" the second child, Zhang San Ben asked . He was curious about his father's visits to the Li Jiang City personally and even brought the others with him .

"As the historians recorded, his grand ancestor Zhang Xianfei is the strongest cultivator during that time and known as the most capable man when he was 40 years old . "

"I believe that everyone here educated with the history of our Eastern Imperial Kingdom and our nine ancestors before Imperial Father's reign . Although Grand Ancestor Zhang Xianfei's story is impressive, nothing beats his ability to control three inheritance . "

"He obtained the [Heaven Glancing Bloodline] when he's 19, the [Indestructable Sunstorm Body] when he was 25, and the [Heaven's Immortality Martial Vein] at 35 . "

"Why did Imperial Father wanted to . . . Heaven Glancing Bloodline! That kid possess the same Heaven Glancing Bloodline like Grand Ancestor! This fact alone means if we nurture him as much as we could, he can repeat Second Emperor Zhang Xianfei's legacy!"

His fact caused the entire group of cultivators to open their eyes wide watching at the Ancestor, Emperor, and the Core Zhang's King . But unfortunately, while the three foundation level individuals are considering the best for their Kingdom, the others think differently .

As usual, family or not . . . This is how the family of a strong survive . Unless your foundation is established, it would be impossible to come into somebody else's territory that has been built for a few generations .

"Brat! Hand over all your treasures and wait for your death!" the bandit leader warned him as they approach the youth surrounded by the twenty of them .

"You don't even know where you're? Listen well, this is the Upper part of the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress . And you're unlucky to meet us before you even do anything . " the bandit leader laughed as he explains .

"I see . Where can I catch a Silver-Coin Panther? I will leave you with your life if you tell or guide me to their nest . " Zhang Wu Ji questions them back before he answers them .

"Brat! If you continue to be ignorant, don't blame us . . . " the bandit leader speaks . But before he finishes, a sharp flying weapon struck the bandits beside him .

As there were no screams at all, the bandit leader took a glance by turning to his back, but what follows is few more flying stakes came forth and nailed the others on the body of the trees .

It took him a second or two to realize what happened, but that one to two seconds is enough for Zhang Wu Ji to send half of them to hell . With lesser than five bandits including the two bandit leaders, they try to escape .

Two more seconds later, only a bandit leader is left alive . But on his neck is a scar from the Silver Flying Stake . It did not miss, but it was used to warn the bandit leader to stop running .

"My Lord, please forgive this ignorant bandit for failing to recognize your ability . Please let me go, I beg you . I'm willing to leave all my belongings here as my payment . " the bandit leader kneeled .

"Southern from here, Middle part of the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress . But the location is inaccessible due to the danger from crumbling edges . " the bandit leader quickly answered the question as his life depends on it .

"But before that, collect everything from them included their clothing . Put everything inside this Spatial Plate and come back to me once you're done . " Zhang Wu Ji throws the bandit leader a Wooden Universal Plate while he does nothing .

About fifteen minutes later, the works are done . Except for the Bandit leader, all the others were stripped naked, without a piece of clothing was left on them . Nineteen stark naked bodies were put together waiting to rot .

As for himself, Zhang Wu Ji followed the "guide" as they proceed, and happily work the Bandit Leader for free . The path ahead was partially safe from Wild Beast, but not bandits .

While the Bandit Leader aims to have the others to kill Zhang Wu Ji for him, the latter treats his effort as delivering the charcoal during the winter season .

After a few more attempts, the Bandit Leader finally gives up . They finally took the correct path leading to the Silver-Coin Panther's Nest . Although the way to their lair is challenging, the taming process of the Silver-Coin Panther is pretty easy .

What Silver-Coin Panther excels in was not fight, cultivation or soul tempering . It was better known as the Karma Pulling Panther due to their ability to grant their owners a stroke of good luck, a hint of prosperous karma, and more .

This is also the reason why their end destination is not some mountain or hills, but somewhere behind the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress . They were especially situated there for the sake of ensuring luck goes to the Bandit Fortress unreservedly .

Furthermore, the Silver-Coin Panthers need nothing else but Silver Metals . They're easily satisfied, and less demanding when it comes to their tributes . As long Zhang Wu Ji can make sure that he comes with good intention and gifts, the Silver-Coin Panthers will follow him willingly .

"Young Lord, I've brought you here to the nest, please let me go . " the Bandit Leader was in a hurry to leave this location as if he knows something is hiding here .

"Zhan Yu . Keep him here while I'm exploring the Silver-Coin Panther's nest . If something happened, kill him first before you come in to help me . " Zhang Wu Ji summoned his Servant Puppet out to assist him, while he entered the nest .

Sheng provides him with an opinion what was accepted . Without further ado, he activated his Heaven Glancing Bloodline to look further before he steps forward to the nest .

As he expected, the path was rigged with a whole lot of celestial trap, formation arrays, and mechanisms before he reaches the top of this small mound where a nest of seven Silver-Coin Panthers . There are two adults, most probably a pair of husband and wife, and five younger Silver-Coin cubs .

Holding the piece of High-Grade Fool Silver Ingot in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji steps closer to their nest and begin to feeds the human with foods . But weirdly, only the four cubs came forth to enjoy their meal, with a single cub seemingly weak and injured .

He knows that his Small Nourishment Art could help the weaker cub, but as he tries to steps closer, the pair of Silver-Coin Panthers bares their fang with an intention to kill .

Their power is not worth worrying, but the aggressive behavior does . Zhang Wu Ji knows that it was unwise to approach them in a hurry, and took two additional Fool Silver Ingots as he pushes them closer to the parents .

One of the pair, most probably the father, went down and took a sniff on the Silver Ingot, and with a quick bite, it crushes the entire Silver Ingot and chewed .

"And this is their bullsh*t saying the Silver-Coin Panther is not good in a fight . If that jaw bites me, even my Qingyang Fortress Body will felt painful . " Zhang Wu Ji felt threatened by that ability to crush and chew Silver Ingots before they swallowed .

"Ou . . . " one of the cub dropped on the ground as if it was having a portion of bad food . But as he looks at the still healthy father of the Silver-Coin Panther, Zhang Wu Ji can only make a random conclusion .

"They're not well developed to eat high-grade Fool Silver Ingots . Forcefully eating them with results with too much energy in a weak digestion body . " Zhang Wu Ji turned to the younger cub and tried to heal it .

But facing the louder growls from the pair of parents, Zhang Wu Ji is puzzled with what he supposed to do! He thought about this situation for a moment before Sheng gives him a suggestion .

"Small Nourishment Art!" Zhang Wu Ji injects a portion of his Fighter Qi into the young cub, where it started to get better . But the parents failed to notice this situation and gave him a bite on both his neck and wrist .

"Aargh!" although he was protected by the Qingyang Fortress Body and Pure Jadeskin Inheritance, the pain inflicted on his cannot be ignored . But while they're stuck in this situation, an alarm within the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress started to cry .

"This alarm? Intruders inside the Silver-Coin Panther's Nest! Gather our men and go there to capture the thieves!" one of the Eight Fortress Leaders of the Stronghold ordered .

"This is the ninth bell, which activated if anyone tries to attack the Panthers . But what happened to the earlier defensive obstacles? Did the thieves found another way to went inside the nest?"

"And this happened when the Chief, Vice Chiefs, and Four protector is out for an auction within the Celestial Gate . Is this an Internal Disturbance or Exterior?" the Fortress Leader questioned .

Back at Zhang Wu Ji's situation, a soft growl from the healed Silver-Coin Cub stopped their parents from continuing to attack . Both let Zhang Wu Ji free as it rushes to the cubs .

When it noticed the younger cub is healthy again, the father gave a soft growl in reply . This caused the mother Panther to quickly took the weakest cub on its neck and came forward to the human .

"You want me to heal this one too?" Zhang Wu Ji said . It wasn't that important for him to capture them, but looking at their bond, Zhang Wu Ji felt a little too . . . Unforgivable .

Back in his previous life, he was an orphan . He wishes parent's love more than anyone else, which made him accepted the former Zhang Wu Ji's father without a hint of despise .

And as he looks at this family of Silver-Coin Panthers, Zhang Wu Ji's cold and emotionless heard where he just killed more than few thousands of soldiers melted .

"Small Nourishment Art . " Zhang Wu Ji healed the cub and the others . Of course, the parents weren't an exception . The seven of them was blessed by this human, while themselves landed their jaws on this savior .

[It seems like the bandits caught wind of our existence within this nest . They're at least three hundred cultivators, half of them in their Half-Step Inner Qi Soldier strength]

[The system deem the weakest cub you healed earlier is dangerous . I would suggest master kill the cub before it grows into a disastrous beast]

"Zhan Yu, come back quickly!" Zhang Wu Ji ordered the Servant Puppet to retreats as he continues with what he's here for . Looking at the pitiful cub that Sheng wanted him to kill, Zhang Wu Ji hesitates .

"I can't do it . Instead, I will take care of this little thing and make sure it will not become what you said . " Zhang Wu Ji expresses his stubbornness in handling this matter his way .

Sheng retreated as he knows Zhang Wu Ji's stubbornness when it comes to such a matter . Instead of forcing him too much, Sheng would rather spend the effort in somewhere else instead .

Zhan Yu reported what happened earlier from what it had seen . As the Servant Puppet is heading back to where he can in top speed, Zhang Wu Ji needs to complete what he was here for .

"Silver-Coin Panthers! Do all of you wants to follow me? I'll take care of all of you . " Zhang Wu Ji said . But before he can react, the youngest hops to his side, telling the others he will follow this human .

Looking at each another, the younger cubs did not resist themselves from following this human, but the parents hesitate . There was too much to consider, especially their stay, their meal, and their growth .

But as they considered, Zhan Yu returned . Following behind him is a group of bandits armed and ready to fight . Unexpected by themselves, the bandit's action completely destroyed their own positive impression within the Silver-Coin Panther's Parents .

The parents lowered their head and plea for their allegiance . With this submission, Zhang Wu Ji kept all of them into his System Realm and turned to face the bandits .

"Brat! How dare you try to rob the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress as it's protectors! Releases the Silver-Coin Panthers and we might consider leaving you with a complete corpse!" the seventh of the eight Fortress Leader said .

"How about you guys let me leave? I'll restrain myself from killing everyone . " Zhang Wu Ji threatened them in reply to their first warning . Due to his sweet looking Jade-fair appearance, his words failed .

"BRAT! Don't blame all of us then!" the Fortress Leader pointed at the youth and ordered his men to attack, but in reply to their actions, Zhang Wu Ji did not escape . A miniature toy was taken out and activated .

"Celestial Tools! Everyone pay attention!" the Fortress Leader warned . Too bad, it was a little too late . A quiver appeared on the ground where Zhang Wu Ji stands, and when it was activated, a rain of two hundred arrows struck them hard .

"This brat possess a Celestial Tool! Everyone retreats! We will stop him at the base of the hill!" the Fortress Leader shouts as he leads their retreat . Forced to fight under this situation is extremely unprofitable .

"Fortress Leader, how if the enemy has a Flying Tool or a Tender? He can escape the moment he came out from the nest!" one of the bandits questioned his decision .

"Fool! Do you think that Flying Tool or a Flying Ship so easy to get? If it is, then all the bandits are robbing people in the air, not ground! I'll slap myself if he's capable of taking out a Flying Tool!" the Fortress Leader continued as he answers his subordinate's question .

But the moment all of them turned around, an Iron Kong-Que is flying above them and left . All they can do is looking at the bird and their Fortress Leader .

"What are all of you looking at? Chase him! Chase him!" to get rid of the shame, he shouts at his subordinates to follow the youth . But one in the forest, another flying, the latter's speed overcomes those on the ground .

"Oh, shit! I just left a tiger's mouth and entered the lion's den!" Zhang Wu Ji blamed himself for his lack of sense in direction and also his bad luck in getting into the bandit's den instead of escaping .

"How will I do if there are more bandits within their den?" Zhang Wu Ji worries made him whispered in his head . But remember that his Heaven Glancing Bloodline allows him to magnify his sight, Zhang Wu Ji activates it as his life depends on it .

At this moment, one of the little cubs inside of his System Realm growls and fall asleep . A hint of undiscoverable energy was release, unknown of where did it go .

"Oh my god! How can such a big Bandit's Den has no bandits at all!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by what he saw . Even in his wildest dream, an empty Bandit's Den is rarely seen .

"Was it because all of them comes out to chase me? Impossible, their number is too small to disturb the population in this Bandit Fortress . "

"Was it because I killed most of them? Impossible as well . . . My total kill is between 300 to 400 bandits including those I killed earlier before my escape . "

"Well, who cares . The entire Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress is before me! If I don't rob them, who will? Let this Zhang Wu Ji get this challenge done!" Zhang Wu Ji charged into the base of the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress, unaware of his recklessness .

Zhang Wu Ji's momentum was pretty great . His recklessness allowed him to charge inside the Fortress without alarming their Defensive Array . Without any alarm is ringing, Zhang Wu Ji existence within their fortress is unknown to them .

The Heaven Glancing Bloodline was used once again, and Zhang Wu Ji quickly found everything that's worth robbing . Afraid that the bandits might come back in the middle of his robbery, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight to the location seems to be their treasury .

"Ai! I forget to take the key away from our room . " one of the Fortress Leader said . But before he made his way back, another bandit stopped him from leaving .

"Leave it . Even intruders wanted to enter the Fortress, they'll have to break through our three Xuan Wu Shield Formation . A defensive formation, alarming formation, and restriction formation, how many people can get through so easily?" another Fortress Leader said .

"Fine . Hopefully, Chief, the two Vice-Chiefs, and Four Protectors quickly come back . I don't want to be punished for the sake of forgetting a key . " the Fortress Leader said .

He's standing before a door into the Treasure Vault, but because it can only be opened by a key, Zhang Wu Ji felt that it was risky for him to destroy the door .

But at the same moment, the third cub growls and fall asleep . The parents were busy licking their two remaining cubs so both will fall asleep .

"Hey! There's a key!" Zhang Wu Ji turned around and put his attention at the next room, but noticed a key stored inside of an Iron Chest . When the description came out, it solves all his trouble!

-Usage: By using this key to open the Treasure Vault, it allows the treasure to be unlocked for usage . Secret Chamber remained close unless Xuan Wu Master Key is provided .

"Hahaha! Luckily I did not try to open the vault by force!" Zhang Wu Ji laughed and went to the door with the key this time . With the key came closer to the door, it unlocked automatically for his access .

"Time to clean their treasures!" Zhang Wu Ji did not keep all of them inside his Spatial Ring or Wooden Universal Plates . But instead, he used the Mark of Sheng to delivers all the treasure into the System Realm .

This trick is usually used by the larger sect . By managing an entire personal realm to store the treasures, it can be said to be the best protection given to their life savings to operate the establishment .

Of course, Zhang Wu Ji skipped an entire 4 tiers of cultivation and background to possess this ability . And it was given by the UPGRADE System . Additionally, even Sheng appeared .

Not long after he cleared the outer treasure vault, Zhang Wu Ji stumbles across something weird . It wasn't impressively hidden, but the design left him with no solution in opening the door .

"Bztt . . . Xiu . . . " the power that covers the wall partition went dull . At this moment, it was precisely his moment to try to dismantle this wall . Sending in his strike of Collapsing Fist, Zhang Wu Ji opened a hole for his access .

"Old Fei, I remember that today is the day we have to infuse our Strands of Lord Qi into the Fortress Core . " the Chief of the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress mentioned .

"Yes . We'll have to replenish the stored power within that Elder Qi Weaving Stone today . But worry not, my chief . I've prepared some treasure to maintain its energy, it will last until tomorrow . " the Vice-Chief explained .

But what they did not know is Zhang Wu Ji's massive robbery completely moved the treasure away . At this moment, the entire Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress becomes a regular fort that can be destroyed easily .

Inside the Special Room, Zhang Wu Ji cleared their belongings and prepared to leave the Fortress . He left the building in a hurry again . But as he reaches the main exit, another group of bandits caught him in sight!

"Boss! We found the thief!" the subordinate shouts . The entire Bandit Fortress shook because of his voice . And the results from the shock is an angry Fortress Leader Charging into the fortress .

That sudden releases of Strength captured the attention of the bandits waiting for their higher-ups, and also the seven people that coming back with a regular flying speed .

"Something happened in the Fortress! Quickly return!" the seven Fortress Leaders was surprised . Immediately, half of them left, with the remaining going forth to where the ship comes .

Zhang Wu Ji throws some of the Natural Springs at the Fortress Leader and quickly escapes, but when he was halfway to the air, Zhang Wu Ji caught the incoming three Fortress Leaders and thousands of bandits .

"Holy Moly! They come back so quickly!" Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the speed they took to come back . Furthermore, there's a Flying Ship is getting closer to him at an even pace .

Looking at the incoming threat to him, Zhang Wu Ji withdraws the Celestial Bombing Quiver out and prepares to fire . What he did not notice is he accidentally took out an additional single chamber quiver along the way .

With the Strands of Warrior Qi going out without him controlling them personally, Zhang Wu Ji spent 80 strands of his Warrior Qi instead of 40 . When he realized that mistaken, everything was unreversible .

The higher-ups of the Bandits finally reaches their fortress, but the 400 explosive arrows went out from their chambers and turned the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress into a mess .

"Oh, F*ck . My secret weapon is fired accidentally . " Zhang Wu Ji complained at the heavier 401st arrow coming out from that single Chamber Quiver . At the same moment, the mother of the Silver-Coin Panther falls asleep .

"BOOM!!!!!!" right in front of everyone's eyes, the 401st arrow explodes . And that destruction completely turned the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress into a piece of barren land, with the Fortress Leaders injured, the Flying Ship was destroyed, bandits killed, and there's no longer Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress existed .

"Search all over the forest . Find me the culprit that destroys our Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress!" the Bandit Chief ordered the others as he inspects the grade of their losses .

At this moment, the entire Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress is demolished to the last piece of their brick . The damage itself destroyed their entire foundation, leaving them with nothing but deficits for at least a few years before they balance their account .

As for Zhang Wu Ji, the sixth Silver-Coin Panther fall asleep as he retreats, putting him in a beneficial situation because he unexpectedly found the correct way for him to escape efficiently .

He dare not to take his time this time and quickly rushes outside of the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress territory . If he was caught, perhaps ten lives of his will not be enough to subdue their anger .

From the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress territory, Zhang Wu Ji passed the border and went in between of the Flame Burial Sect and Silver Wolf Gate, until he finally reaches the intersection to the Celestial Gate or Seven Heaven Sect .

"That's the entrance into the sect . I won't be lost again this time . " Zhang Wu Ji said and controlled the Flying Sword straight across the barrier, and was given the approval to enter due to his status as Head Disciple for the Second Heaven Mountain .

"Head Disciple Zhang, you're required to report yourself in the Seventh Mountain Hall . " one of the enforcers with the rank similar to Wu Jing approaches when he crosses the Formation Array .

"Understood . Would senior be kind enough to guide this junior there?" Zhang Wu Ji extended his hand with a Qiyue Flying Sword on his palm . After agreeing to do so, the enforcer leads the way to the Seventh Mountain .

Here, he was greeted with enormous buildings, marking their status as the leader of the different departments scattered in the lower six mountains . They're also the decision maker for the lower branches when needed .

"Disciple brings Head Disciple Zhang Wu Ji from the Second Heaven Mountain . " the Enforcer kneeled and reported to everyone within the Seventh Mountain Hall .

"Rise . Leave us alone and inform the guards to disallow anyone other than Sect Patriarch from coming in . " the person seated in the middle of the seven elders waved his hand as he speaks .

"Disciple understood . Please excuse this disciple . " the enforcer bows and retreated . Now, only Zhang Wu Ji alone is standing before the seven mountain elders .

"Zhang Wu Ji . First of all, good job in bringing back some fame for the Seven Heaven Sect . The seven of us all agreed that your remarkable accomplishment should be rewarded . " the Seventh Mountain Elder started .

"Good . Young one should always be energetic enough to face all challenges . Or else, how would they grow and replace all of the old ones here and bring the Seven Heaven Sect further?" the Seventh Mountain Elder added .

"We'll reward you with the right to choose a Manual inside the Fifth Heaven Mountain . But . . . " the Seventh Mountain Elder said, but his end sentence come out with some difficulties .

"The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Heaven Mountain all come with their own entrance restriction . Even as an elder ourselves, we have no right to interfere with the entrance test . " the Seventh Mountain Elder said .

"Without even been given the opportunity to study the third and fourth Heaven Mountain's Manuals, the possibility of overcoming the Entrance Test is practically impossible . " Sixth Mountain Elder added .

"Even all the prodigies of the Fifth Heaven Mountain added together, I bet that only the top three of the first seeded disciples, Ren Qian Wu, Cai Jian Hao, and Pu Tao Zhao are capable of doing it . " the Fifth Mountain Elder added .

"Answering to Seventh Elder, Sixth willing to see another wonder instead of waiting for it a year or two later . " the Sixth Mountain Elder is the first to answer .

Everyone gives their consent to Zhang Wu Ji taking the test . In their mind, it was puzzling because they're partially hopeful and partially depressed . Even the Sect Patriarch possess no such a might to challenge the examination .

"To do this challenge, you first needed to overcome the Third and Fourth Stage Mountain Formations before you can challenge the Fifth Mountain's Test . Are you sure you're ready to face such a challenge?" the Seventh Mountain Elder asked .

"I'll do it now . Let's not waste the elder's time . " The Seventh Mountain Elder was halfway in his sentence before Zhang Wu Ji interrupted . Before he waits for them, he went out from the Seventh Mountain Elder's Hall and went straight to the Third Heaven Mountain .

"This youth! Atrocious!" the elders said . But they did not hesitate and followed the youth on his track . The moment the youth provokes the Third Stage Mountain Formation, it tells them how decisive is that youth .

"He's too rash . The Third Stage Mountain Formation is guarded by two Early Stage Inner Qi Soldiers . Although it was just an early stage, the two Scarlet Berserker Crows never lost before even before we captured them from . . . What is that!" The Third Mountain Elder was surprised before he finished what he was saying .

"So quick?" the others took a view on the Third Heaven Mountain, where the youth is riding on top of a Scarlet Berserker Crow as the second crow hovers from one side to another .

"Hahaha, let it go . You can catch another two beasts later . I can't wait to see how the two Jadehorn Fire Bulls fight . " the Fourth Mountain Elder replied as he pats on Third Mountain Elder's back .

"Wait until your two dumb bulls going to get tamed by that kid . " the Third Mountain Elder replied and took the lead to chase the youth . Following behind him is the other six elders .

The news of his amazing performance is quickly spread across the entire Seven Heaven Sect . The moment it went to the ears of those disciples from the Sixth and Seventh Heaven Mountain, all of them started to pay interest to this youth .

In fact, the disciples from the Sixth and Seventh Heaven Mountain's disciple finally made their debut . They're 670 disciples in total . The most surprising thing from all of them is that they possess their own Flying Tool or Beast to travel around .

But nothing beat the twenty disciples in the back of their formation, especially the disciple riding on top of the Azure Kong-Que . She's Bai Xue Xue, the daughter of Sect Patriarch Heaven King and strongest disciple of Seven Heaven Sect .

"Moo!" one of the two Jadehorn Fire Bull charged at Zhang Wu Ji, but the charge was stopped by him through physical strength . His power is so strong it allowed him to overcome the bull in many ways .

"What kind of physical strength is that! That's a Jadehorn Fire Bull!" the Fourth Mountain Elder exclaimed . Except himself, even the other six Mountain Elders starts to sweat .

"Not good! With both hand fighting against the first bull, he's incapable of fighting against the second bull!" the Fifth Mountain Elder said .

"Zhan Yu!" Zhang Wu Ji shouts . From his Spatial Ring, a Servant Puppet came forth and fought against the second Jadehorn Fire Bull . This sudden arrival of a helper stunned the others spectating the fight .

"Servant Puppet!" the First Mountain Elder is the one surprised the most . He's also the person that knows about Zhang Wu Ji's participating in forging the Metal Puppet for Master Jiang Lei .

"Anyone capable of forging his own puppet?" Bai Xue Xue questioned the 669 of them . As the younger elites of the Seven Heaven Sect, the 670 of them are the foundation for their future .

Nobody nodded to her question, where it answered her clearly that none of the younger generations are capable of creating their own puppet . Without a Servant Puppet at least, how can the disciples confidently grow?

"Won't this kid took my spot beside Senior Sister Bai if I'm not capable of forging my own Mechanical Puppet?" Yang Qing said . But Zhang Wu Ji did not know that this person is Fourth of the Yang Seven Spears, Yang Qing .

"Nine Meter Travelling Fist!" Zhang Wu Ji sent his attack out and beat both bulls until they give up on retaliation . By activating his tyrant Martial Body's strength a little, he easily tamed the two Jadehorn Fire Bulls and prepared to leave to the Fifth Heaven Mountain .

With such an entourage following behind him, Zhang Wu Ji made his way to the Fifth Heaven Mountain and prepared to activate the formation, but what came out is not Strong Beast, but an exceptionally made puppet .

"Puppet? That's my opponent before I passed the test to enter the Fifth Heaven Mountain?" Zhang Wu Ji guessed before he withdraws his weapon .

But in the first step of his opponent's move, a swing of the Puppet's hand easily creates a circle of Formation Array that restricts everything within its territory .

"Chief, we're done taking care of our fellow bandits . What should we do now?" one of the Fortress Leader reported as he prays in mind that the Bandit Chief will not vent his anger on him .

"Good . Temporary rebuild the Fortress . The Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress will have a facelift after so long . " the Bandit Chief replied . But from how he looks, the Bandit Chief's mood is still sour as to date .

"Understood . " the Fortress Leader quickly come out from the tent before the Bandit Chief gets angry . Before him, two Fortress Leader had died . One is because of his mistake on a failure to bring the key away from the Fortress when he's away .

As for the second, it's due to he's the instigator for the destruction of the Xuan Wu Bandit Fortress . Worst of all, the nest of Silver-Coin Panthers is taken away by the bandit .

Inside his mind, the Bandit Chief is suffering from the guilt of shame because of his incompetence in catching the bandit, stopping him from destroying their fortress, and so on .

Worst of all, it's because of his reputation as one of the well-known person within the entire Middle South State . As a Chief of the Xuan Wu Bandits, what is more, shameful than having your fortress destroyed and treasures stolen?