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NAME: Will of the Heavens
Type: Passive
DESCRIPTION: bestows the user with a silver of heavenly intent. Increases all stats by 10.
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Seeing such a precious skill, Cheng Hua couldn't help but respect his master more.
After all not every teacher would give his students such strong skills.
Cheng Hua thought that his master knew that he was poisoned and that he was living his last years and did not want to waste such a skill on his dying self.
Even so Cheng Hua felt appreciation towards his teacher as he decided to do whatever he could to heal his teacher before he perishes.
Cheng Hua pressed the yes button as the book transformed in some kind of golden light as it entered Cheng Hua's head.
This was Cheng Hua's first time learning a skill by a book, so it was a fairly new experience for him.
When the golden light was all absorbed into his head, he could feel a big amount of information enter his brain.
As such Cheng Hua opened his status window to see the changes.
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TITLE: None
RACE: Human
NAME: Cheng Hua
HEALTH: 330 / 330
MANA: 4100 / 4100
Cultivation level: Body Tempering 2nd stage
Elemental affinity: Fire
STATUS: None
Strength: 39
Agility: 75
Vitality: 33
Dexterity: 38
Intelligence: 410
Wisdom: 170
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Although he already knew what his stats were going to be, he was still extremely satisfied to see his growth.
As such Cheng Hua decided to go meet his teacher tomorrow to express his thanks, and then he fell asleep.
It was early morning the next day, Cheng Hua got up as he was doing his usual workout routine after a round of jogging.
While running around the sect grounds, Cheng Hua took his time to memorize the layout and the diffrent buildings inside.
The sect was built in a circular manner.
The outer layer was where he was living in right now, it was quite well built and seemed to be at the level of a big town, he saw all kinds of shops on the way.
From blacksmiths to bakers and jewelers, the sect had it all, it also seemed that the students were in charge of some things around here, there were many others in the same kind of clothes as himself setting up their stalls for the upcoming bussiness day, while others carried bags and boxes to bigger buildings.
Cheng Hua explored the whole outer circle but was rejected entrance further inside because of his low status as an outer disciple.
Coming back go the current moment, Cheng Hua was thinking about the 5 buildings that he found the most important.
The auction house, it was fairly big and quite exquisitely designed. Cheng Hua knew that he will pay a visit for this establishment sometime in his upcoming tutelage years.
The next one was the arena, it was as big as a football stadium in his former life, the only difference being that the arena was circular. Many people were betting on who would win certain figths, and Cheng Hua saw the opportunity to gain a nice amount of coins from this. As a former businessman, how could he miss such a chance?
The third one was a big pavilion it had four floors and a massive wooden arch. It was the treasure pavilion, where one could exchange the sect contribution points for certain items.
The fourth was a building that looked like a church. It was the Mana Swallowing Amphitheater. From what he got to know, it was called by fellow students simply "the cultivation room", as it increased the cultivation speed.
The last but not least was the main building in the sect outer layer, obviously it was the place where teacher would bestow knowledge to the outer disciples, it was built in the same way as the arena and it was where the main disciple masses gathered.
Analyzing everything and memorizing the important buildings, Cheng Hua headed for the place his master resided in.
As he prepared to knock on the door, it opened by itself, Cheng Hua did not think about it too much as he entered the house while slowly calling out
"Master Zhong!"
As he stepped inside, a figure appeared beside him as it sat down on a nearby chair and spoke
"Ah you problematic disciple, didn't I tell you not to bother me unless you have something urgent. It can't be that you already created trouble on your first day?"
"No master, I am deeply sorry to disturb esteemed master, today i came here only with one purpose, to thank master for the gift he bestowed upon this lowly disciple last night."
The man looked at Cheng Hua strangely and after a while his eyes lit up as he thought about something
"Are you saying that you already understood the book i gave you yesterday?" Asked the man with a suspicous look in bis eyes.
Although Cheng Hua had over 400 Intelligence, it was still not enough for him to learn such a manual in only one night, and so his master specualted that he only started understanding the book.
"Yes master, it is indeed so. This disciple once again expresses his most sincere thanks. If master has nothing for me, then I shall take my leave"
Saying so, Cheng Hua left the room.His master was looking at the now closed door and thinking about the might of this student of his.
After departing from Master's place, Cheng Hua went straight for the arena, so he could get some more money, as they all say, bad habits never go away.
As he enetered through the main door, he was met by a bustling crowd full of noise, he approched the information counter as he told the man that was currently there that he wanted to register as a new combatant.
The man did not check Cheng Hua's level, since he had not seen him until now, he was surely one of the new students, he couldn't be too strong.
If Cheng Hua knew what the man was thinking about, he would certainly have a little laugh.
Then he passed the default procedure and was appointed a match in 20 minutes against someone called Zhao Yang with 2 wins 0 loses
Cheng Hua entered the arena through his designated gate, he was quite surprised to see the crowd cheering on as he walked on the arena.
Then his opponent came, it was a skinny youngster, one could even see his bones.
However Cheng Hua knew better than to underestimate someone, unfortunately he learned that the hard way.
As the gong signifying the start of the battle sounded, the youth rushed to Cheng Hua fairly quickly.
Cheng Hua judged him to have around 20-30 points in agility. He did not bother to inspect the youngster, even if he did not underestimate him, Cheng Hua was confident in his own ability, afterall he had a whole 76 agility, not to speak about the 410 intelligence, his reflexes were probably even faster than some of the inner disciples.
But how could someone besides Cheng Hua know all of this?
Just as the youth was within 5 meters of him, Cheng Hua moved to meet the youngster with a kick in the chest.
The youngster couldn't even see the kick coming, how could he have reacted? Even more so defended? He was flung away for a dozen of meters as he vomited blood and fell on the ground while barely breathing.
Seeing such a scene, many of the spectators felt pity for the youth as the shut up and waited for the judge to anounce the winner.
The referee, a fat middle aged man, did not even give a second look at the youth as he walked to Cheng Hua, he took his hand, and proudly raised it up while saying:
"Congratualtions to contestant number 407, you have been officially accepted as a fighter in our arena, please do tell us your name!"
"Call me Joseph"
Saying those words, Cheng Hua slowly walked down the stairs to the exit.
Seeing such a peculiar contestant was extremely shoking to the crowd, even if the strong ruled over the weak, there was not that much of a difference in lower between them, however Cheng Hua did not even look twice at the youth, to him he was a mere passing by object, not a fellow disciple.
There was also the matter of his name, it was first time in history that they heard such a strange name
"Jo-se-fi? Who the hell made the name of this guy, couldn't they call him something more normal?
As everyone was recovering from the earlier sight, Cheng Hua was walking down the street to the blacksmith, he felt extremely happy, after all this was the first time in this world that he told someone his other name, he obviously couldn't just tell everyone call him Joseph out of nowhere, however an arena nickname fit the requirements perfectly.
Cheng Hua entered the quiet store with a sign representing a hammer hitting an anvil.