After that enormous fight with the beast I collapsed, laying there for almost five hours. It was nearly dusk by the time I woke up and i had to act fast, since i was weakened and almost any rank 2 beast could kill me. I quickly put the beast in my ring and before I moved, I saw that my ring was full, it was one of the largest rings from my time, but it was considered rather small in these times, only 25m² whilst most cultivators normally have 50m² or even more.I searched for a large tree with a hollowed out area to rest and cultivate for the night, after it is just about to be completely night, I found the perfect tree, at this point, I was completely exhausted, there was no way I could move after I made it up, I immediately set myself down at the top, there was no chance that id be able to move any longer if I didn"t cultivate as soon as i made it.
Cultivation was about to be incredibly stressful, the gap between realms is far larger than the stages, and they require almost ten times the qi and effort, and in addition to that a strong will to proceed. After building the perfect foundation, it was far easier for me, but the effort was still tremendous. In the midst of cultivating, I finally acquired the essence of the moon, doubling my cultivation speed once more. reaching the next realm without knowing, I continued cultivating, and the energy of heaven and earth came flooding to the tree, so much that it even disturbed the flow within the forest, the swirling qi could be seen by the beasts, flowing towards the tree tops, the qi from herbs, dead beasts, and rare gems all reached the my location, causing me to eventually, after the entire night, reached the 2nd stage of qi collection.
"This is incredible, i never knew cultivating in the forest would be so effective!" I thought to myself "I need to reach the qi cultivation stage so I can finally properly cultivate with my spirit and bone frame"
I felt full of energy and couldn"t wait to get my inner disciple residence, the inner disciples supposedly have their own cultivation chamber in their houses, and the higher rank you are, the better chamber you get. The strongest disciple has a cultivation chamber with twenty times the natural qi in the air! Meanwhile the weakest has a mere doubled amount of qi, which is also the amount that ill get.
There are 200 inner disciples, and each of them are divided into grades, going from the lowest of the low which is the single striped disciples, and the best of the best, the five gold striped disciples. each rank you go up, the better your resources and cultivation chamber are, single striped disciples get the doubled rooms, whilst the five gold striped disciples get the twenty times area, with an additional increased gravitational zone, reinforced by the laws of s.p.a.ce.
The journey back from the forest took far less time than normal, only 5 minutes even, my bodies strength was almost the same, but I could feel my qi thickening and almost as if I could see it within me, a bulging core with qi entering and leaving through certain areas. After the return to the sect, I immediately asked for the beast to be butchered, and to leave anything of value to me.
Hours pa.s.sed and the beast was finally butchered, there were two things that intrigued me the most, the beast had ten 3rd rank high grade spirit stones inside of it despite the fact that it was clearly at the lower stages, and the second thing was a spirit bone, it looked strong and sharp and almost as if it was as strong as the wolf before it went berserk. I quickly stashed them away in my ring as it finally had s.p.a.ce again and set off for the market, I had far more money then I needed, so I was set on buying materials to aid me in cultivation.
The cultivation market was always good, but there was no way that it could provide what I wanted, there is only one place you can go if you really want expensive materials there was only one place to go, the auction house! There are all sorts of rare materials that came in and out of there, high grade pills, weapons, martial arts, you name it! There was no end to what is bought there and no end to the prices. Thankfully, due to the small fortunes i"ve come across, there should be no problem with me getting a technique or two.
After walking around the city for several hours, I finally found, the auction house, its a shame that the stone doesn"t know the exact location of things, otherwise everything would be far easier to do. I went to walk in but was stopped at the entrance.
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"You need a permit to proceed any further!" one of the guardsmen commanded
"What? but I thought inner disciples were able to get in for free?" I was shocked, but realised that i didn"t have my pa.s.s on me "How can i prove to you that i"m an inner disciple?"
"If you can prove that you"re at least in the qi collection realm, I will accept you to be an inner disciple and let you in, however next time i wont be so lenient" the guardsmen stated
I walked up to him and started to circle the qi inside of me, also attracting the rest from the area around us.
"Will that suffice?" I asked.
"I believe it will, welcome to the auction house!" he bowed as i walked on through
It was truly a sight to behold, even though it was such a small city, the auction house was so elegant, the lights flashing and the stage wide and large, I walked to the seat closest to the stage and sat myself down, an auction was just about to begin, almost a hundred more people came in after me, and the light stones then faded out.
let the auction begin!