A few days passed peacefully for Alex in the Prafta Mansion. He did not do something special, he only listened to the classes and visited the different parts of the school. He did not interact much with the students, because he had no interest in them and they were too young for him to have a proper conversation. The only person he had contact with was Gabri, which was cultivating the whole time.
"Congratulations, you reached the 5th Level of body Forging. You are incredible!" Alex said to Gabri smiling as he saw that a spiral of QI was gathering around Gabri.
These days Gabri was cultivating at a speed never seen in this part of the world. He reached the 5th level of body forging in only 10 days, which is incredible and for most people impossible. Normally, a disciple needs one year to reach this level, but Gabri did it in 10 days.
"Thank you, I never thought that my talent could be so terrific. I could reach the 5th level in a few days and so on." Gabri replied very excited. He was happy, that the roommates of them would never try to attack him again, because he as strong as them and he could kick their asses if they try to rob him again.
Alex smiled and he knew what Gabri was thinking, so he said: "Don't think about those two, they are only dust in your way to immortality, if you think too much you will forget your goal."
Gabri was struck by lightning when he heard Alex and he nodded directly: "Yes, you are right. I was so angry that I forgot what is the most important for cultivators. Thank you again."
"Whatever, I can see that your body needs some stimulation. It is not good to accumulate the QI without letting it out. Let's go and search for a combat technique." Alex said after a few moments, he himself did not visit the library yet.
Because he did nothing but walk around the past days, he had not visited the library yet, so he thought that it was the perfect moment and he could also search for new information and learn something new.
"Maybe I can find a herbs encyclopedia and something about pill refining." Alex thought while walking to the library with Gabri.
But on their way, there were a group of people looking at Alex and Gabri with malicious eyes. They were the same people, that observed Alex when he bought the pills the first day.
"He is only an outer disciple and he has no backing. He also does not cultivate, he only walks around in the day and sleeps night." said young man to the strong man in front of him.
"Good, I will show him what the strength of Clive is, he will never dare to brag with his money!" Said the young man with big muscles. He had a very malicious look and he was very envious from Alex. He came to the sect three years ago, but in this time he did not achieve anything and he was still poor. So, seeing a new disciple that was richer than him was very hurtful and he would do anything to bring his misery to others.
And he always thought: "What can a new disciple do?", that was his reasoning for anything.
"Hey you!"
"Stop!"
When Alex and Gabri had to walk through a small way between two buildings, they heard someone calling them to stop.
"Yes?" Gabri asked confused.
And Alex thought: "Oh, they are moving, finally!"
He knew about the plan of Clive a long time ago, but he did nothing to stop him. He wanted to experience the face-slapping scenes in novels and this was perfect.
"I am here to collect taxes from you, take your spirit stones out!" Clive said while standing there like a stone with two lackeys on both side. He was standing there very arrogantly, as if he is the owner of the world.
"What do you mean? I did not read anything about taxes here in the sect, are you trying to rob us?" Alex asked very innocently
"It's the same, take out 50 spirit stones if you want to continue, if not you will not return safe today!" Clive replied arrogantly.
"Do you think you can rob us because you want? If you want something from us, you have to defeat me at first!" Gabri shout and stepped to the front in their direction.
"You are a 5th level body forging? How is this possible, you entered the sect only a few days ago!" Clive was incredulous as he saw the QI that was around Gabri. But he quickly returned to normality and said: "if you think you can do something with your meaningless power, then you are wrong." Clive said and let his 6th level body forging out.
"Tom, go and give him a beat!" Clive said to the young man on his left hand.
"Yes, big brother." Tow quickly obeyed and let his 5th level body forging out and then jumped towards Gabri. He was like a snake and his arms looked like snake heads.
"Take my Seven Snake Points!" Shout Tom and then with a quick move, he picked Gabri in seven different places.
Suddenly Gabri felt weak and pain at the same time and his body was not responding as it should.
"What did you do?" Gabri asked in pain and looked at them with hate, he was losing for the second time.
"This technique is an earth level technique and I hit seven of your Acupuncture points. You will have difficulties to move for the next minutes and forget about using your QI for the next hours." Said Tom with a very malicious and proud smile.
[Author here: I am in a very stressful exam period again and i can't write anything right now. Updates will come out regularly in one to two weeks. With corona and self teaching, i don't have the time to write, thank you for understanding.]