The atmosphere suddenly tensed shocking those in the crowd, as killing intent so thick you could reach out and grab it, seemingly appeared out of nowhere making those weaker ones to pass out and those who didn't found it hard to take a breath as it felt like a sword was pressing into their throats.
Step by step Damian caused the floor to crack with spider like patterns as he walked towards the duo with an expressionless face. His killing intent the only evidence of his rage as he finally arrived before them. Feeding them both healing pills, Damian lifted Kie-er of the ground and motioned for Dara to climb on his back as he could see she could barely stand which was met with a light blush before she climbed on.
Walking a few steps with both girls before stopping
"you asked what i planned to do in this city?"[ asked Damian without turning his head]
"yes"[replied Hime Cheng]
"I'll either become an saviour to many or an executioner to thousands "[said Damian as he finally turned his head and looked directly at Hime in the crowd before turning and walking away]
"....which ever comes first"
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Damian could be seen sitting on the floor by the waterfall meditating as a mini whirlpool formed above his head sucking in the surrounding qi as he sent it through his body following a strange route depicted in his cultivation manual. This continued for a few minutes before he groaned and spat up some black blood before taking a deep breath.
"ha...ha.....finally uncblocked that blasted meridian"[exclaimed Damian as he unblocked his 12th major meridian.]
(I'm surprised you didn't rush straight into the Chen Family's main house and started a slaughter like normal hotblooded youths"[said Hope all of a sudden]
(furthermore sit and cultivate for 3 days)
"oh I'm definitely gonna slaughter them but to do that I need the strength so I'm not the one who ends up dying"[replied Damian as he walked into the cave behind the waterfall.
(ooh? I thought you said you could handle anything that was thrown at you?)
Awkwardly scratching his head after recovering from a stumble
"err....ofcourse I can just not yet...."[said Damian shamelessly]
"I just didn't expect to run into so many spirit connection stage experts and they're not even the strongest in the city, so even though I'm strong I won't risk their lives"
(you could just leave them here and they wouldn't be in any danger--)
"no, no I won't, I'm not gonna go all "I'm a man so I'll protect you even if the sky falls" then those same men leave, make enemies and leave the so called "defenseless women" to take the brunt of his enemies wrath"
[replied Damian as he looked at the sleeping Kie-er and Dara who was preparing their meals]
(fufufu they're alot of girls who'd fall heads over heels for you especially when it's coming from a handsome boy like yourself)
"don't get me wrong, I'll protect the woman around me, that's a given and I'll slaughter anyone who has any other ideas. But I won't allow them to grow into a bunch of defenseless flowers that anyone could pluck when I'm not in the garden, I'd be satisfied even if they just have a few thorns"[said Damian with a chuckle]
(hmph at least you understand women can't be just pushed around)[said Hope]
"congrats on your breakthrough"(said Damian catching Dara off guard]
"hmph, what's there to congratulate me for, I'm 15 yet I only just become a stage 9 body cultivator"[even though she said that she wasn't hiding the pride at her achievement with a look on her face that screams "praise me"]
Damian found himself speechless at her actions, They're people that struggles for months or years to breakthrough 1 stage yet here she was breaking through 4 in 3 days and acting like it was nothing. Damian could imagine several people spitting blood of they heard her. Shaking his head as he seemed to conveniently forgot he reached his current cultivation in less that 6 months.
(fufu I like her, she has decent talent to be able to reach stage 5 with such scarce resources)[said Hope ]
"I'm glad that you're smiling already"[said Damian softly as he remembered she was constantly crying these past couple days and glad she seemed to be starting to recover]
Smiling slightly stiffer than before as she gazed complicatedly At Damian before looking away and speaking
"you gave me an opportunity to gain strength I didn't think to be possible at my age and also the chance to avenge my father. My life is yours to do whatever you want with after we destroy the Chen family"[said Dara as turned around and continue cooking]
Guiltily starting at her back, Damian sighed, before walking towards the unconscious Kie-er
"how long do you think she'll be unconscious for?"[said Damian as he rubbed her head]
(she overworked her body when she lost control and was going to fall victim to her heart demon when the connection she had to you through the system saved her, but her soul was damaged.)
(on the bright side the system seems to be slowly repairing her soul and she did defeat her heart demon so when she wakes up she will definitely break through to the Spirit core stage)[explained Hope]
"you need a large amount of qi to form your core, the more plentiful the qi the larger the core, the larger the core the more qi it could hold and the faster it refines any future qi"[murmured Damian before smiling wryly. Where was he supposed to find that much qi?His body seemed to endlessly swallow the surrounding qi so the amount of qi he'd need was huge]
(spirit stones)[replied Hope simply]
That's right how could I forget, those where a reward for one of the missions. With those I should be able to break through.
(actually those should be barely enough, but if you use them to create the dragon qi gathering array if should be relatively easy to break through and will even speed up your future cultivation.
.Submission:-
a). learn of her name & background
-reward 10,000 DP, recipe for spirit bridge pill
b). get her to become a follower
-reward bluueprint for dragon qi gathering array, Inferno Furnace , 50 gold
c). kiss her and steal her heart
-reward 1 royal gold, swallow steps movement art, 5% blood integration
"i don't even know why they future seems so bleak now....