14 No Undo Button!
<<Congratulations! Based on your observations you created a movement technique!>>
'Uh?'
Raden was stabbing a bear. The ninth one.
He couldn't control his breath. His legs and his arms were trembling. Exhaustion was written on his face.
He opened the status window.
<<Name: Raden -
Qi cultivation realm: Peak Qi Gathering
Soul cultivation realm: Peak Soul Tempering (60.9% compatibility)
Body cultivation realm: Late First Stage
Occupations: Alchemist (Lv.3) (de facto lv.1)
Laws: Fire (Lv.1)
Cultivation Art(s): Temper the Body, Devour the Qi (lv.1); Standard Method (lv.15)
Skills: True Punch (Comprehension); Forceful Transmigration (Initiation); Ant Slash (Mastery) ;
Soul Perception (Initiation); Myriad Thoughts (Initiation);??? (Self-Made Skill)>>
'Uh? Can't I name it? What if I wanted to call it 'Bear Bearing'?'
"Oh..."
The name changed on the screen.
"Ahhhh, why???"
Regret. What a stupid name for a movement technique...
'I hate this!' 'Still the fact that the system can read my mind is...uncomfortable, using a euphemism...'
"H-hey what's your problem?" Jin Liang asked.
"Nope...I'm sad that bears aren't appearing anymore..."
"Uh...That's true, usually, it'd have spawned another by now" He commented.
'Are you really thinking out lo-Wait that's what I've been doing just a minute ago.'
'Still...Why am I still being here?'
RUMBLE
That was-!
Raden's stomach.
'I guess that is not my top priority.'
He took the bear and...
'I don't have any way to cook it...'
He thought it deeply. But without his notice, the meat was already in his mouth.
'D-disgusting!'
But he still continued, he drank blood as water and crude bear meat as some delicious food of...some...sort... (As a reminder of my DEEP knowledge of foods)
He felt replenished, though he had a bad aftertaste in his mouth.
He waited, and finally, at midnight he was teleported back.
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"An Unranked one challenged the Red trial!"
"What? Is he mad, or he purposefully remained an Unranked to do so?"
"No no, I saw his aura and he was only a Qi Gathering cultivator!" Another said.
"He must be mad..."
"Well, and what if he were really talented?"
"Talent isn't enough, I've heard that there's a minimal cap for the trial."
"He's mad for sure."
"Or maybe...Hey who give him the ticket?"
"Eheh!" Someone laughed sadistically.
Su Li was in front of the Ki Tower, worry written in his eyes.
It was midnight, he waited there for more than 10 hours!
A figure appeared on the horizon: it was Ai Bai!
"Kid, were you really waiting there for 10 hours?" He asked worriedly.
Su Li didn't respond.
"It is useless you know, the trial finish only now: you wouldn't see him exit alive before."
"How does the trial works?"
"I couldn't say it but...I'll make an exception. Basically, inside it you would have to face nine savage beasts with at least Half-Stage Two Body!"
"At least?"
"It's based on your current cultivation...to test one potential. He should have pretty good chances at surviving actually."
"I hope..."
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Raden heard everything. He was watching a screen that made him seem the Ki Square.
'So it's still day...this tower may be the solution to my immortality desire!'
'Well...surely that's a beautiful Xianxia crowd...'
'Ah! A Red Disciple! Beautiful!' 'I should now make my glorious appearance.'
"AHAH! I see that you're talking about me!"
And a deserted square greeted him. Only two people were present.
"Y-yes we were talking about you. Were you spying our conversation?" Ai Bai responded.
"..."
'Well, social embarrassment is actually pretty useful...It helps you grew a tolerance against it and so you'll be free from society imposition...'
He felt his head shaking.
"Hey what's up with you?" Ai Bai asked.
"No. Thing."
"Hmm?"
*Coff Coff* "Why did that guard give him a Red ticket?"
"Ahah, you should ask him." He pointed toward Su Li.
"I-" Su Li was anxious.
"You?"
"I'm sorry. It's all my fault that you got involved in this."
"Oh, what happened?"
"I had some rivalry with another Disciple so...you got involved..."
"What type of rivalry?"
'If it is a stupid rivalry I don't think you would remain my servant here any longer! I trusted you and that's what I got...'
Raden was quite angry. He could have died in that tower! All for a rivalry with a person who he didn't even know about.
"It actually went like this..."
...
'Su Li saw another boy getting bullied so he stopped him. Then the bully returned and beat him, so to retaliate Su Li stole him his Low-Grade Earth Spear...Ugh, that seems a bit unrealistic' 'Well, Jin Liang says that he's renewed for his honesty but...that could be only a facade.'
'But would he, if he were intelligent enough maintain a facade in the course of years, steal from someone with such a background?'
'I'll have to investigate myself!'
'Well...' Raden took out 'Temper the Body, Devour the Qi'
'I could ask Jin-No I should support the pain by myself...It'll be a useful training.' 'How much of I masochist have I just sounded?' 'Ahh, whatever.'
He started cultivating it.
Ice-freezing pain. It was the pain you'd feel by going in the outer space without a space tute.
Raden couldn't think.
A flow of imprecations exited from his mouth. Considering that with his high-level soul the pain would be reduced...
'Oh, God!'
...
It continued for an hour.
A lifeless Raden was laying on the bed.
'I need a Qi Explosion Pill...After all that I've done the system says to me that!'
"Ahhh!" He shouted in rage.
And continued screaming sensing the remainings of that pain.
He didn't care anymore what Jin Liang may think of him.
"Elder, are you perhaps been a coward because of your high pain-sensibility in your life?"
'Those are pretty good conclusion actually'
Raden didn't answer.
"..." "It is strange since having a stronger soul means a higher resistance pain"
"It is actually...because of my past conditions. They still influence me nowadays."
"Conditions?"
"I don't want to talk about them now..." He put a melancholic face. Though Jin Liang couldn't see it.
'It is because I'm a normal person of the Earth...' 'Yeah a normal person of the Earth.'
He didn't feel homesick, rather he was nostalgic. He remembered Earth and missed it in some ways but actually didn't want to return to it.
'My parents died two years ago in a car accident and I had basically no real friends...'
'Where should I return? In my empty house?' 'No, thanks.'
He sighed.
'Here it's more exciting...or maybe it is because short-term objectives are easy to create and there are no forms of distractions. No distraction at all.'
Raden whenever he introspected himself used to divert his trains of thoughts. It happened a lot of time.
'Exciting...Do I fell excited when fighting?' 'Well surely I feel the adrenaline...but I don't want to fight I want..'
Raden realized something: he didn't feel pleasure for fighting, but for winning.
'So pathetic...' 'Yet that's what I am.'
'Maybe I'm not simply born for battle...There's nothing wrong about that.'
'If this was a novel the author would be really incompetent: I mean...making the character expose his personality instead of showing it with actions? Idiot...'
'But I'm not in a novel, but in a real world.'
And so he closed his eyes.
