The Misery of a Direction Challenged (2)

"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.

"Zhang Wu Ji!" she finally reaches the open area where fighting sound can be heard.

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.

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Wrath, when the killing occurs due to hate, anger, and sense of oppression.

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Greed, which includes the urge of possession.

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Lust, armed with the charm to control cultivator's mind.

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Pride, the arrogance and confidence that blinded the cultivator.

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Envy, a form of contempt against everyone because of everything.

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And from what cultivators that almost embraced or slain by the Negative Qi, all of them only left the world with one sentence.

[For every Negative Emotion you release, it will strengthen the Negative by ten times more]

"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.

"Hahaha..."

"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.

"How many people are actually suffering from my situation? Maybe they got it worst!" Zhang Wu Ji thought.

"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.

"Here." she throws him a bundle of ropes.

"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."

"But on you, I still think you will be lost even with this treasure." Liu Xin Xin said.

"Why would you say so?" Zhang Wu Ji was unhappy because of how she looks and think about him.

"Tell me, how are you going to use this Cave Exploring Threads?" she asked.

"Scatters them wherever I go? I can follow them when I want to return to the entrance," he answered.

"SEE! I REST MY CASE!" she shouts.

"Where did I get wrong again?" Zhang Wu Ji asked.

"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.

"Name Token!!"

"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.

"Stupid!" Liu Xin Xin quickly pulls Zhang Wu Ji away from the Mission Hall.

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Outside of the private residence for the top ten disciples in First Heaven Mountain. The seventh residence.

"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.

Furthermore, Mortal Flame provides a cleaner source of flame, which helps a lot to the end products.

"Senior sister, can you let Wu Ji know about the Heaven Points now?" he said.

"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.

And with all the example, one particular choice becomes very interesting to him.

[10 Heaven Points: Relief one session of penalty to a specific individual]

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?

The reason is caused by the treasures exchangeable by the points!

[1 Heaven Point: Exotic Warrior Lotus]

[1 Heaven Point: Strandmaker Pill]

[2 Heaven Point: Low-Tier Spirit Grade Silver Weapon]

[2 Heaven Point: Warrior Qi Condensation Pill]

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.

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[Author's Note]

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.

The problem?

My wife is a great Drama Queen, which means my laptop is now her iPad. So, that explains everything...

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.

If what I stated above is difficult to understand, this is my layman term of explanation.

MC go Ting-Ting-Tong-Tong

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MC go ROAR

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MC Level up

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3rd Arc

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Thank you.