Just as levi returned to his room, he began coughing uncontrollably.
Blood along with bits and pieces of his organs was coughed up.
Without any thought, he took out the elixir and drank it.
After drinking it, a warmth spread throughout his body.
It slowly went from warm to scorchin hot, making him wince in pain.
Unbeknownst to him, multiple black lines appeared on his chest and arms before fading away.
After a while, his body cooled down, leaving him sprawled on the ground.
He couldn't even muster the strength crawl onto the bed.
Next day. morning.
Levi woke up and found that both his clothes and the ground was soaked with sweat.
He got up and went to bathe.
Just as he was about to walk through the door, a voice boomed in his head.
" Blood flame! The blood flame is one of the most powerful flames in existence!" The voice gave him a headache.
" What blood flame? Fucking hell, now voices in my head are saying random things." Levi sighed.
Since he was already covered in sweat, he decided to exercise first.
After bathing, he got something to eat and then started to walk around the sect aimlessly.
Then he had a thought. " That old man always has something for me to do." So he headed towards the sect master's hall.
Creak!
The large doors opened with a loud squeaking sound.
As he walked in, a gentle breeze blew through one of the large windows of the hall, the thin curtains getting caught up between the pillars.
As he walked in, he saw the sect master sitting in his chair with his eyes closed.
Although the sect master heard someone come in, he didn't open them.
" Oh, my dear disciple, do you need something?" He asked with his eyes now slightly opened.
" Old man, give me something to do." Levi said.
" Hey, hey, hey, shouldn't you be calling me master?" The sect master opened his eyes fully and stared at Levi.
" Do you have something for me to do or not?" levi asked.
" Sigh, not even my own disciple respects me, ah, ah..." The sect master sighed.
Levi kept silent.
" Well, the 5 year Tournament is coming up, you can go if you want." He glanced at levi.
" 5 year Tournament?" Levi asked doubtfully.
" The 5 year tournament, as it's name suggest, is held every 5 years."
" All of the sects in the area go to an arena that was built for the tournament, and the disciples do some 'friendly' sparing. it's in 4 months." The sect master explained.
" Not interested." Levi instantly rejected the idea.
" Hold on now! There are rewards for the top 3 disciples!" The sect master hastily said.
" Rewards? Even if they are rewards, 4 months is too long. I want something to do now." Levi said.
" Then, do you want to go to desolate mountain?" The sect master thought for a while before asking.
" Desolate mountain? What's that?" Levi asked.
" Desolate mountain is a dangerous place. It was tainted with some nasty qi, making everything, even the grass and the trees deadly. Normally no one goes there, although sometimes disciples go there to train." He explained.
" Didn't you say no one goes there? Now you're telling me that disciples go there to train? Old man, are you taking me for a fool?" Levi asked.
" Not normal disciples. No inner or outer sect disciples would be able to survive there. I'm talking about the elite disciples." The sect master explained with a slight smile.
" Ok, i'll go." Levi thought for a while before deciding.
" What!? Didn't you just hear what i said? Only elite disciples go there and come back alive! Some even come back missing limbs!" The sect master shouted.
' Dammit! I underestimated this little brat! I only told him about desolate mountain to scare him into quietly waiting for the 5 year tournament! Fuck!' He thought.
" Hmm? The deadlier it is, the better it is for me." Levi said.
" Hey, hey, hey, don't be cocky just because you broke through to the 2nd qi refining level thanks to that elixir! Obediently stay inside the sect until the tournament!" The sect master shouted.
" 2nd qi refining? I didn't even notice..." Levi mumbled as he clenched his fist, as he circulated the qi in his body.
" Are there any powerful beast in desolate mountain?" Levi suddenly asked.
" Yes? Why do you ask?" The sect master asked, confused.
"....Then i'm going." Levi said after a slight pause, then turned around and left.
The sect master sat back in his seat, then a voice boomed across the whole demonic god sect.
" I SCREWED UP!" It said.
After leaving, Levi walked around the sect aimlessly, before once again finding himself inside the herb hall.
Since he found himself in this place for a second time, he decided to look around.
Surprisingly there was a book shelf in a corner.
Levi picked up a book called 'pill refining: beginners', he flipped through the book before putting it back.
He bought some herbs from the counter, then rented one of the rooms with the giant cauldrons.
He had about 25,000 gold coins and 17,000 silver coins, he wondered why he picked up both gold and silver coins from the tomb, but what was done, was done.
When he got into the room, he put the slightly withered herbs on the small table.
" According to the book, you can make a fire using qi....by compressing the qi a certain way....puft!" He mumbled.
He had to try a few times before being able to do it.
After lighting the fire, he put one of the five herbs into the cauldron.
The herb was burnt away, leaving a pale green liquid floating.
Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Using qi to both control the fire and keep the herbs floating was too much for him with his current strength.
One after the other, he put the herbs in.
At this point his clothes were soaked with sweat and he was panting heavily.
Using his last sliver of qi, he was trying his best to mix the liquids together and form the pill.
The qi in his meridians was circulating at an alarming rate, drawing in more qi.
At this moment, a strange smell wafted out of the cauldron.
Levi didn't even notice the smell as he dropped to the ground from exhaustion.
Even with the strand qi circulating at full speed, it still took him twenty minutes to get back less than half of the qi he had.
He got up and looked inside the cauldron, then put his hand inside and picked up something from the bottom.
What he pulled out didn't even look like a pill, it had bumps on the surface and was giving off a weird smell.
It was red in color, while the tips of the bumps were white, with their middles being black.
It looked nothing like the qi returning pill he saw in the book.
He just forced it into the spatial ring and decided leave for the day.
When he left, a flicker of red fire appeared in the cauldron before disappearing.
Levi went to his room to get a clean robe before going to take a bath.
After bathing he didn't go back to his room, instead he found a clear patch of dirt and sat.
He looked up at the stars, his expression cold.
" You will belong to me, one day." He mumbled.
After sitting silently for a while, he got up and went back to his room.
As soon as his body made contact with the bed, he fell asleep.