morning.levi got up early again today. while exercising, he saw noah. when noah saw levi he was pretty shocked, because yesterday when he brought levi to the sect, the latter didn"t have any qi at all. but today when he saw him, levi was at the qi absorption 1st level.
during these few days of exercising, levi"s body went from weak and frail, to st.u.r.dy and tough. the thick skin he got from the boars bloodline made his skin tough. exercising caused his body to use the nutrients he got from the blood he absorbed. so right now he had a fairly st.u.r.dy body for a 12 year old child.
after was.h.i.+ng himself up, levi started to walk around the sect, again. he went to the skill library to return the cultivation manual he got yesterday. since it didn"t work no matter how many times he tried it and the fact that the enlightenment forest helped him come up with that idea, he no longer needed the manual. even when walking around, the qi was still circulating.
after leaving the skill library he walked around aimlessly. after a while he found himself in the "mission hall". as the name suggest, disciples come to the mission hall to take missions in return for a reward, if completed successfully. the mission hall was filled with disciples.
after looking around for a while, levi decided to take a mission. "Grade c mission, find a bone cleansing gra.s.s. do you want this mission?" the old man behind the counter asked. "yes." levi replied. "fine. failure to complete this mission within 3 days will result in you being banned from the mission hall for 2 months. next." the old man said.
levi took the mission and left the mission hall. he walked in the direction of the sect gates. two senior disciples were guarding the gate. "without a reason, you are not allowed to leave the sect! go back!" one of them shouted. levi said nothing as he raised the mission in his hand for them to see.
after leaving the sect, levi just walked around aimlessly. honestly, he just wanted to get out of the sect for a while. you might want to know how he would find a plant like the bone cleansing gra.s.s in this poisonous h.e.l.l. bone clensing gra.s.s is a herb that is naturally poisonous, it also needs an extremely poisonous environment to grow.
walking around the forest of withered trees, levi kept his head down, looking for the bone cleansing gra.s.s. after searching for a while he stumbled upon a cave. the cave was spewing out poison gas at an alarming rate. he tried to go in, but the poison coming out of the cave was way more concentrated than the fog outside. although the sect robe could keep the disciples from being killed by the fog, the poison coming out of the cave was just too much.
just as he turned around, ready to leave, he heard a slow and heavy slithering sound. he turned back around to face the cave and what he saw shook him to his core.
A giant scaly purple head popped out from the cave. it slithered out while spitting out it"s forked tongue. a pair of golden eyes with black slits going down the middle stared at levi. the first thought levi had was to run. run as fast as he can!
levi turned around and ran at full speed. but the question is, would the giant snake let it"s lunch get away so easily? of course not! the snake appeared beside him in the next second. the snake lashed out with its tail, sending levi cras.h.i.+ng through the dead trees.
"ughhh!" levi spat out a mouthful of blood. he looked down and saw a long b.l.o.o.d.y line across his stomach. the gash already began to turn purple from the snakes venom. levi tried to use his blood to filter out the poison but failed, then he had an idea. "if i absorb the snakes bloodline, the poison might not affect me anymore!" his eyes became vicious.
he slowly pulled out the short sword and pointed it to the snake. seeing it"s lunch dared to resist, the snake spat out it"s tongue in disdain as if saying "an ant like you wants to fight your snake here? dream on! your lord snake here will definitely eat you up for lunch!".
the snake rushed to levi and sent him flying once again. levi got up and glared at the snake before running towards it. levi chopped towards the snake, nothing at all happened. the snake looked at levi like he was a fool, then sent him soaring once more. levi spat out a mouthful of blood as the sword fell from his hand, he also dropped to the ground.
the snake slithered up to levi and used it"s tongue to pull him into it"s mouth. is stared into the distance with a satisfied look on it"s scaly face. all of a sudden, the snake started to thrash around while screaming in pain and anger. yes, the lunch it just at gave it a tummy ache.
levi, who was swallowed whole by the snake, pulled out his knife and repeatedly stabbed the snake viciously. the snakes stomach acid was eating away at his skin, which made him look horrifying. he didn"t even care about his skin being melted off, he just wanted to kill this d.a.m.n snake.
after a while of stabbing the snake, it finally stopped moving. with a lot of difficulty, levi cut a hole in the side of the snake and crawled out. he was covered in foul smelling stomach acid and the skin on his face and body was partially melted off.
he walked Unsteadily up to the snakes head and stabbed one of its eyes, a purple colored blood started to flow. levi absorbed the snakes blood which caused it to deflated like balloon. he felt a warm sensation coursing through his body and repairing his skin. after absorbing the snakes blood, he pa.s.sed out.
evening.
"hey, look at this giant snake! if we take the skin back with us, it could sell for a good price!" levi who was slowly waking up heard a voice. he slightly opened his eyes but didn"t move. right now, his eyes were golden with black slits down the middle. he felt like he could see at least 10 times better than before. he could also somehow feel a strong poison flowing through his veins along with his blood.
"hey, isn"t that dead guy wearing our sect"s robes?" one asked. "who cares? we should also check to see if he has anything valuable!" the last one said. once levi heard this, his eyes became colder before he closed them again. step....step...step...step.
levi waited, hearing step after step becoming louder before finally coming to a stop in front of him. the unsuspecting disciples bent over, getting ready to search for valuables. at this moment levi struck out, stabbing the disciple in his throat with the knife. he coated the knife in his venom.
the disciple tried to say something but the only sound that was coming out, was that of gargling blood.
thump!
the other two disciples heard a thump but didn"t pay it any mind, they thought it was just their friend flipping the body over to search. levi started to walk in their direction calmly. "hey, did you find anything good on that dead guy?" they didn"t even look around to see who was walking towards them, they just kept skinning the snake.
crack!
a light cracking sound resounded out as levi stabbed the disciple in his head. the last one, who heard the crack looked over and saw the scene. "yo-you! how can you kill people from the same sect?!" he shouted with a trembling voice. "didn"t you guys want to steal my snake and take my valuables? stealing from a dead sect member isn"t wrong, but killing fellow disciples is? i don"t understand your reasoning." levi"s cold voice and gold eyes shook the disciple to his core. he started to walk toward the disciple.
"if-if you kill me, you won"t get away with it!" the disciple tried to scared levi into letting him live. "if i kill you here, who will know i was the one that did it? now if i let you live, that would be the real problem." levi coldly said. seeing that he didn"t have a way out, the disciple attacked.
he sent out a palm strike filled with qi. he was actually stronger than levi, but being stared at with those golden eyes caused him to be scared for some reason. levi dodged to the side, the way he dodged looked strange. after dodging, he stabbed out, stabbing the last disciple in his heart.
"it seems the bloodline of that snake not only increased my sight and gave me the ability to produce poison, but also altered my body. i feel more flexible than before." he mumbled. looking around, he found the short sword. he then proceeded to strip the cloths of all three disciples and changed out of his dirty torn up rags. he then took their money pouches along with a strange looking ring.
he found a pretty decent saber on one of them and decided to keep it instead of the short sword. as he was about to leave he remembered some things. "since i have the bloodline of that snake i should be able to go into that cave now. i"ll go find the bone cleansing gra.s.s later." he thought.
he walked into the cave and found that rather than being bothered by the poison, he was actually enjoying inhaling it. "i guess that snake was absorbing the poison coming from this cave to make it"s own venom stronger." he mumbled. after walking for a few minutes, he found himself inside a natural dome.
inside the dome was a plant that was growing in the wall with what looked like some kind of fruit. the fruit was purple in color while radiating a strong poisonous aura. "don"t tell me that an entire forest died because of one little fruit." he said doubtfully.
"why didn"t the snake eat it? was the fruit to poisonous for it? or was it waiting for the fruit to ripen?" he reached out his hand to pick the fruit. before he could touch it, the poisonous aura went into his fingers, causing no little amount of pain. it felt like his fingers were going to rot off. luckily his own poison fought it off, otherwise he would probably have to cut off his own fingers. and although he could probably grow them back, he didn"t want to take that kind of risk.
this time he took a different approach, he pulled the whole plant from the wall and was ready to take his leave. while walking out, a spiky while thing caught his attention. "bone cleansing gra.s.s." he went and picked that too. all of a sudden, both the purple fruit and the bone cleansing gra.s.s dissapeared.
levi was shocked. he looked all around but couldn"t find them. he looked at his hands and saw that strange ring on his finger. "could it be this thing?" he poked the ring, when all of a sudden both items appeared. "is this a spatial ring?" he mumbled. he thought for a while before putting them back in the ring along with the snake skin. since that weird fruit keeps spewing out such a poisonous aura, a lot of people would probably want to take it from me.
the snake skin also looks like it would be pretty valuable. after putting everything in the spatial ring, he decided to head back to the sect.