Body Tempering (2)

"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.

Of course, due to the slightly large amount of Natural Energy everywhere, their existence is the fourth after Air, Water, and Soil.

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.

"Erm... Disciple Zhang Wu Ji..." she called him.

"Yes?"

"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.

"Wait... I'm number eight?" her word puzzled Zhang Wu Ji.

"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.

2-star Mission

Collect 10 gallbladders from Obsidian Python

Reward: 10 Qi Accumulating Pills + 1 Obsidian Tempering Powder

Mission Duration: 2 days

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3-star Mission

Hunt and return with a complete corpse of Molten Flame Lion

Reward: 20 Qi Accumulating Pills

Mission Duration: 2 days

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6-star Mission

Capture the bandits in outer Formation of Seven Heaven Sect

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.

Mission Duration: 7 days

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9-star Mission

Assist Master Jiang Lei to refine a Metal Puppet

Reward: 200 Qi Accumulating Pills on success. If the mission is incomplete, no reward issued.

Mission Duration: 3 days

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10-star Mission

Participates in the Holy Medicine Realm and collects three drops of Life Essence Dew or one Stalk of Life Essence Grass.

Reward: 300 Qi Accumulating Pills and 1 Bursting Essence Pill

Mission Duration: 24 days (14 days to deadline)

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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.

"Attention, disciples."

"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.

"Are you going?" one of the disciples as the person beside him.

"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.

It was a glaive with a baton at its end instead of a blade.

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.

This is the first entrance, leading to one of the ten Danger Zone inside the Seven Heaven Sect's Core Forest.

Zhang Wu Ji is very motivated as he went in but forgotten about his ability to get into a wrong direction.

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"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.

[Low-Quality Body Tempering Powder]

"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.

"What is wrong with him?" Liu Xin Xin said.

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[Author's Note]

Guys... Guess why Liu Xin Xin is there? You're all my loyal readers, so you all will be able to guess the reason of her appearance!