Golden Core Realm

While I'm cultivating, I suddenly feel a surge of energy trying to enter my body. I promptly stop cultivating and quickly pull out my cauldron and herbs, just because I was resetting my cultivation didn't mean I would pass up the opportunity to take the excess Qi. I quickly draw a fire circle and put the cauldron over it with some wind magic while using wind magic to grab the herbs.

I have to manage the temperature and change it throughout the process and keep it going perfectly for exactly 3 minutes and 1 second. While I'm halfway in, I feel a massive wave of spiritual energy coming for me while I'm cooking, and it causes a decrease in temperature of about 3 degrees. I quickly add a bit more power to stabilize it, but the temperature then goes back to normal, forcing me change the temperature again. Though after that it went smoothly.

I quickly consume the pill and then feel an extreme amount of pain, but I keep cultivating using the breakthroughs Qi to nullify the whole reset and brings me right back to the golden core stage, saving me around a week of cultivation. For fucks sake, this shit has to be designed by masochists.

I then read the notification next to my head.

[Quest Completed]

I then open up my status to look at my physique.

[Physique]

[God of Death's Incarnation]

While looking through my new memories, I find the one on my own physique. It actually has quite the formidable buff of letting me instantly learn any assassination art or dark element magic upon seeing once. It also boosts general skill, comprehension of techniques and power on using a technique all boosted by around 100%. Why am I not certain on the exact percentage? No one's has had it before me, so no one knows it exists and detailed information isn't available. This isn't the best part though, all my techniques and spells will have the element of darkness added on.

As much as I want to, cultivating is off the table for the next day or so. With all this time I decide to my gacha spins, getting the training dome and practicing there. I'm only getting enough for pity, so it's just 20 spins.

[1 Training Dome Technique, 7 3000 USD, 5 books for Cultivators' Chaos, 1 six pack of beer, 3 fridges, 3 magic circle fragments]

I put the books on my shelf with my other Cultivators Chaos stuff and put it box facing upwards while the books are right on top of it. When I finish putting the stuff away I go outside and just start walking around to go buy some supplies needed for my next gang raid.

Aside from a new arm, what I needed most now was some weapons to cause havoc while I'm fighting. I could use water and lighting combo magic as much as I want, but something like a grenade would probably be more effective. While walking down the street, I'm also trying my best to cast some spells using the element of darkness, but I can't get anything more than a pitch black wisp to appear in my hands.

I then try again, and like that I arrive at a weapon store I haven't made any real progress, but I just buy some more pistols, ammo and a sniper rifle with a stand. I put the stuff in a bag and walk outside and try some more magic while putting the stuff inside the storage ring, I finally manage to get it to work.

A tendril of darkness appears out of my hand, so I try moving the tendril to pick up a dagger. It slips out of it's grasp, so I spend the next 20 minutes or so trying and failing to grab the dagger. The main issue seemed to be the fact I was moving to fast, but it needs to have fast movement in combat. In the end I decide to reform the majority of the magic circle while keeping the base.

Just like that I keep walking in town and find two small gangs fighting dangerously close to an active school, it was at risk of being totally being destroyed. I had reformed my new magic circle and it worked much better, although the tendrils were to big to grab something like a dagger, they could now efficiently move. The biggest downside of the spell was the fact they appeared out of the circle so I had to place them on walls or the floor.

I walk towards the conflict and find a broken vending machine. I put the snacks back inside with my latest spell as a test, and it works just fine. I then walk up to the warring gangs and decide to end the conflict prematurely. I sneak around the fight using my face changing mask and place magic circles all around the battleground.

After that I take the sniper rifle and fire it in the sky, causing everyone to look at me. I then activate the magic circles I placed and have it grab them and slam them into the floor. Some of them have there ankles pulled, some are picked up and slammed into the ground, but they're all unconscious.

After that little incident I walk up to nearest goon and take his face while changing my posture and walking away. Camera monitor who enters these areas at what time to determine if someone is a gangster or not, so my real face can't be seen.

After finding an alleyway 4 blocks down from my shop, I take the mask off and fix my posture while taking my arm away.

When I get back to my bed I find that my gacha tab was changed while looking over my status.