4 Chapter 4 - meeting the false protagonist
n/a: 100 bronze coins = 1 silver coin.
100 silver coins = 1 gold coin.
100 gold coins = 1 low grade spiritual stone.
1000 low grade spiritual stones = 1 medium grade spiritual stone.
1000 medium grade spiritual stones = 1 self grade spiritual stone.
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There are three types of young masters in the cultivation world, the resourceful, talented future patriarch with no social skills or world experience, the arrogant young masters who don't put anyone in their eyes, and the secret third type.
The fat young master who is the protagonist's friend and the only one who recognizes monte tai by default setting.
Zeng Xiang is the second type most taken to the tyrannical side, he has his position as heir son consolidated due to his great cultivation talent. But that doesn't mean his brothers gave up.
In a cultivation novel, the most important thing is not your identity, whether you are a protagonist, cannon fodder, extra or villain, it all doesn't matter.
To survive in a cultivation world, you need to have talent, however little.
After cultivating for two days in a row, Nathan checked his cultivation base, and what better way to check his cultivation base than by opening his status.
[Main Cultivation: 6th Layer of Body Reinforcement. {Li Dao: 05%}](+3%)
The fact that even though he had cultivated for two days and his cultivation had barely increased at all was shocking to say the least, only the kind of talentless protagonist would fit Li Dao's profile.
Even in the Cultivation Chamber where the heaven and earth essence density level was highest, Li Dao's cultivation speed was mediocre to say the least. "Damn, even if I were a protagonist it would be better than this."
Nathan didn't take any longer. After cultivating for two days straight, he felt hungry and quickly left his cultivation chamber and arrived at the sect's main dining hall.
For outer disciples, you need to pay if you want to eat food offered by the sect, the only way for an outer disciple to earn gold was by being a servant of an inner disciple, and the only way for an inner disciple to earn gold or low grade spiritual stones was by killing beasts spirits and praying that killing her will get you a beast core.
For a core disciple it was totally different, in addition to getting the best quality food for free, the sect pays the disciple a salary of 10 low grade spiritual stones for free!
The muffled sound of conversation between the only disciples present in the main dining hall caught his attention. A man and a woman were talking about various subjects.
He frowned. Ignoring the two disciples, he walked over to where the food was, feeling his belly growl, as soon as he finished getting the food, he sat down at one of the many empty tables and started to eat.
At this time, he can see that the sound of conversations had already disappeared, letting silence dominate the place. As his mind wandered without noticing the passage of time, a noise resounded in front of him as he saw someone take a seat.
"Senior Li brother!" A soft, feminine voice sounded in the distance. This brought Nathan out of his thoughts and he turned to look.
She had red eyes with wild red hair. There was a phoenix tattoo on his shoulder and right arm. She doesn't wear the right part of her outer robe, showing her tattoo as he remembered a beauty so great that nations would war with a single word from her, his eyes gleamed with curious intent as he swallowed hard.
'No wonder both Ye Chun and Zeng Xiang fight over her...'
"Wow, so it's true that the big brother has become a main disciple!" A shy smile hovered on her lips.
Nathan was shocked to see this affectionate side of Fang Qinqiu's cold and distant. He knew Li Dao wasn't ugly, but comparing him to Ye Chun and Zeng Xiang would be a crime. Ye Chun had to fight hard to melt the wild redhead's ice heart.
From Li Dao's memories, back when he taught Fang Qinqiu personally, she always smiled when she felt progress in her sword, but Nathan thought it was just happiness for her advancement, but now...
It seems I underestimated the feelings of adoration for a talented swordsman...
Nathan looked at Fang Qinqiu. As if realizing, she looked up at him with a sweet smile.
He sighed in his heart and ignored her as he felt a strong killing intent towards her that set his Qi boiling. Knowing who she was, he turned to Fang Qinqiu and said, "It seems you have a lot of admirers."
He took his eyes off the redhead and stared at Ye Chun as he pondered the reason for the public hostility, but as soon as memories of romance came to his mind, he couldn't help but despise him.
Ye chun was shocked when his senior sister voluntarily sat down with Li Dao, but suppressing the feeling of jealousy, he tried to ignore him, but failed when he saw his source of admiration smile at someone else.
She calls me junior brother and is almost indifferent to me, but now she is smiling at a new disciple. Fang Qinqiu! I will show that I am much superior to this garbage'
At first, Qinqiu was confused by Li Dao's words, but seeing his irritated gaze and also sensing the murderous intent, she understood. She turned around to express her disappointment in Ye Chun but was shocked to see him approach.
Nathan got up from the table, turning to Ye Chun who was already beside him, he leaned forward and joined his fists. "Long Senior Brother Ye!"
Ye Chun just glanced at him as if he didn't get it in his eyes and focused his attention on Qinqiu. "Senior Sister, don't leave me alone again." He sat beside her ignoring her look of disagreement.
Seeing Ye Chun ignore her greeting, Nathan suppressed the feeling of contempt that was growing inside him. Unashamedly, he smiled and advanced placing his hands on Ye Chun's shoulder as he said, "Wow, you have the perfect body for a sword cultivator!"
"Hey let me go!" Ye Chun quickly raised his right arm and took Li Dao's hands off his shoulders.
"I'm sorry." Nathan gave a sincere smile while Qinqiu was silent at all times, staring at their greetings with indifference.
With his plans succeeding, Nathan suppressed the urge to laugh as he stared at Ye Chun trying to strike up a conversation with Qinqiu. Seeing that Ye Chun wasn't paying attention to him and Qinqiu was too busy trying to ignore the first one, he finally focused his attention on the interface that popped up when he touched Ye Chun.
[Cultivation Infection Available!]
[Recognized target(Ye Chun)]
[Start Cultivation Infection?]
Answering 'yes' mentally, Nathan watched nostalgic interfaces appear again.
[Calculating infection time...]
[Calculations completed.]
[Estimated Time: 29 Days 2 Hours 27 Minutes to complete infection. (9th Layer of Body Reinforcement. {Ye Chun: 25%})]
"Shit!" His voice with annoyance and explicit surprise rang out as he cursed, staring for the amount of time it took.
"Did something happen, Senior Brother?" Qinqiu expressed his concern while Ye Chun also stared at him in surprise.
Rising from the table not looking at either of them in front of him he smiled bitterly and said, "I have to go. See you on the way to downtown." Leaving the cafeteria, he left two cultivators confused about what had happened.
Nathan couldn't care less what they thought, he knew that because of the closeness of cultivation, the time needed to complete the infection would be shorter, but it looked like he had been kicked in the stomach bringing him back to bed. reality.
I underestimated the importance of Qi density. I forgot that the Qi in Ye Chun's dantian is much denser than normal...
Nathan knew that now he needed to reformulate his plan. As he walked towards his private residence, several thoughts crossed his mind.
As an experienced reader, Nathan knew that he could not continue to rely solely on the system. He had read works with all kinds of systems and even if his doesn't seem to be aware of it, he doesn't know if one day the system will simply update and change everything.
He knew he needed to improve his talent for cultivation, but in this universe there was only one method.
At the end of the ancient era, the supreme being created powerful artifacts to help him escape the bonds of the Heavenly Dao and become the supreme cultivator. But he failed in his attempt and the artifacts fell into the world.
These artifacts are so powerful that they can be considered a protagonist's golden finger. For example, the third protagonist that Zeng Xiang encounters in the novel doesn't have a system or a hidden master.
It turns out that he had been thrown off a cliff by his enemy and deep inside he found the Artifact of Luck. Did the Artifact of Luck function as the power of convenience, if the wielder needs a cultivation method does the artifact give him one, if he needs a cultivation technique does the artifact give him one, if he needs pills to cultivate? the artifact gives him the recipe.
Because of this and his intelligence, the third protagonist was the most difficult protagonist Zeng Xiang had faced so far. The problem was that the novel had stopped at chapter 800, it was not known if Zeng Xiang had killed the protagonist or not.
At the time of writing, only 3 artifacts had been introduced, the Artifact of Luck being used by Chu Jing, the Artifact of Space-Time being used by Bai Suyei and the Artifact of Life.
The latter Zeng Xiang succeeded when he killed his third brother in a fight for the right to be heir. Nathan thought the other artifacts were in the upper sky, which until chapter 800 was still very mysterious.
But there were two problems with all this. The first was that the functionality of the artifacts was different from each other, so Nathan couldn't just take any artifact that would help him change his talent, he needed the lucky artifact.
The second problem was that in the novel it doesn't say which city Chu Jing lived in or which cliff he found the artifact on, all that was known was that he had found it on a cliff.
"Taking the lucky artifact before Chu Jing is out of the question, but killing him is even more impossible." Nathan's expression was deeply conflicted. After several hours of reflection, he realized that the choices before him were countless and the results of many of them could not be defined. In the end, his plans may fail.
He opened his status and stared at the information as he pondered what to do.
[Li Dao (Nathan Salt)]
[Main Cultivation: 6th Layer of Body Reinforcement. {Li Dao: 05%}]( + )
[Secondary Cultivation: 9th Layer of Body Reinforcement. {Ye Chun: 0.3%}]
[Cultivation Techniques: Burning Sword (6,800/10,000), Tiger Fang (3,550/10,000)]
[Mastery Points: 120]
As he pondered it, he looked at the 10 low-grade spiritual stones on top of the bed and faced the choice of cultivation techniques. Determined, he picked up the stones and left his cultivation abode towards the sect's stash.
As he walked towards the shop on the other side of the sect, Nathan noticed that wherever he passed the inner disciples pointed and whispered about him. Ignoring everything, he entered the store.
Upon entering, an elder stood up, clenched his fists, and spoke passionately, "Central disciple Li, welcome to the store. Allow me to help you."
"Thank you elder." Nathan took six spiritual stones from his pocket and asked the elder, "What sword can I get with 6 low-grade spiritual stones?"
The elder took a quick look at the spirit stones and came to some conclusions. He entered the shop and after a few minutes came back with a sword in its scabbard. "Central disciple Li, with 6 spiritual stones I recommend this black metal sword. The black metal makes it as tough as a high grade sword!"
Nathan took the sword and removed the sheath being delighted with the blade of the sword. As a reader, Nathan is a big fan of the Dao of the Sword, so he decided that when he started cultivating, this would be his only path.
"This disciple thanks the elder." He clenched his fists. Nathan realized as soon as he held the sword that it was worth more than 6 low grade spiritual stones, that was one of the benefits of having an affinity with the Dao of the sword, he could evaluate swords very quickly.
With the elder handing over this sword that was worth much more than 6 low grade spiritual stones, it basically meant that he wanted to be in their faction. As a core disciple, you can create factions and elders that see future potential in disciples, this elder was basically openly showing his desire to become his subordinate.
And Nathan, a core disciple who greeted him, basically replied that he recognized the gesture.
As he left the shop with his sword, Nathan noticed a commotion at the front, where several inner disciples were huddled together. Curious, he held the sword in his right arm and approached to understand what was happening.
"Look! This is Li Dao!" one of the disciples pointed at him calling everyone's attention to Nathan who, confused, stopped.
"Li Dao!"
"So the instructor really became a core disciple."
"He is handsome..."
Nathan swallowed hard on hearing the last comment, just as he was about to ignore the disciples and go back to his private residence, someone shouted.
"LI DAO!!!!!!" Standing out from the crowd of disciples, Wang Ting, exhaling murderous intent towards Nathan, shouted again. "YOU TAKEN EVERYTHING FROM ME!"
Confused, Nathan frowned. "I don't even know who you are."
