At the sect, Noah was back at his routine again. He trained and cultivated, doing nothing else the entire day. He would also go back to the forest sometimes, doing herb collecting missions and discovering some interesting plants and animals. He had done this for three weeks, collecting about sixty five Spirit Stones. He finally bought a bow with his money, and it wasn"t cheap. Around forty Spirit Stones.Noah was at his cavern gazing at the bow he bought, it was made from some special wood,way stronger than Earth bows. This bow was near the level of a Spirit Artifact, a object, normally a weapon, that can be strenghened with Qi. The stronger the Spirit Artifact is, the more Qi it can absorb.
The guy who sold the bow also gave him a arrow quiver and free arrows, about twenty five of them. Noah made sure poison half of the arrows with the herb poison, that he had already crushed and made a liquid with. He don"t really had to be careful with it anyway.
"Guess it"s time to train in a new martial art" After all this training Noah was already proficient in Silent Steps, not mastered but he is already good at using it. Since he had twenty five Spirit Stones remaining, might as well buy another. He made his mind and left his cave in the pavillion direction. He stopped halfway because some confusion was taking place. A crowd of outer disciples were watching two people, who were probabily about to fight. One of them was Xiao Long.
"You piece of trash, you must have cheated! there"s no way trash like you can complete such a hard mission" Xiao Long opponent shouted aggresively towards him, with a enraged face. Noah seriously can"t understand these guy, somehow getting angry by him completing a mission. What Noah doesn"t know is that Xiao Long opponent it"s the disciple ranked tenth in the outer sect,Hai Chen, that some day tried to do the mission. He failed and when people heard that Xiao Long, the infamous "Trash" completed it, the disciples ranked higher than him mocked him with stuff like"You can"t even complete a mission that a trash can, what a weakling".
"Why don"t you come find out if I cheated" Xiao Long mocked him, making a "come, come" sign with his hand. Hai Chen became enraged and shouted "You dare mock me?!"
He gave a cla.s.sic "You are courting death!" shout and sprinted towards Xiao Long with a murderous look. Xiao Long showed no intention of running away, wich made people murmur stuff like "This guys wants to die? To dare try and take Senior Brother Hai blow", amusing Noah further.
Hai Chen tried to punch him in the face, wich Xiao Long avoided. He continued sending blow after blow, all evaded by Xiao Long. After the tenth attack, Xiao Long suddenly advanced towards him at a incredible speed, hiting a palm strike at his chest. Hai Chen vomited blood and flew backwards. He stood up with legs trembling, poiting his finger at Xiao Long and repeating "This can"t be real, no, this trash must have cheated..." like he had gone crazy. Xiao Long simply gave him a punch in the belly, wich made him faint. He left after that with people making way for him with amazed faces.
"The trash beated Hai Chen..." Noah heard a lot of these in the crowd, mister protagonist was probabily going to become the strongest outer disciple soon.
"That Hai Chen guy was in the third stage of the Mortal Realm..." Noah could feel he was close to a breaktrough, he would soon reach the second stage. Finally remembering what he came for, he reached the Martial Arts Pavillion. Searching around for a technique, he found one that he particulaly liked.
"Turtle Breathing Art, hides the presence and breath of the practioner, at the highest level can fake death. Twenty five Spirit Stones."