Shen walked back into the clan and went to turn in his task he had 2 Wood fox tails, 3 Lightning fox tails, and 2 Flaming fox tails. He was given his 700 contribution points for the completion of this task and decided to spend them on some pills and body resources so he walked back to the large plaza encircled by pavilions of all purchasable goods. He walked quickly towards the pill makers area first and went towards the pills of body he looked them over and saw 1 that caught his attention that pill was a steel flesh pill it was a pill that all body cultivators of the first realm would long for since using it at an early stage would be very beneficial for ones growth later on. Shen paid 800 of his 1,280 contribution points for this pill and then went to another shop for the sake of buying some cheap resources he saw snake scales which weren't a really popular item among the body focused cultivators, however those who wish to slightly increase their defense would often buy these. Shen walked past the scales and arrived at the counter where he sold his spoils from the battle with the armadillo-type beast which were its plates of natural armor and fangs for the 10 plates of armor he gained 2000 contribution points 200 for each one he felt rich with his 2000 contribution points then remembered how he had spent half of that on just one pill earlier and he no longer felt rich. He went ahead and purchased 5 cups of a very tough beasts blood for 1000 points and then saved the remainder of his points for the future.
He went to the same little plaza he always went to and used his steel flesh pill and felt an incredible pain as his skin was filled with energy he felt as if his skin was bursting and tearing from the inside out and yet he bit down and kept quiet as this pain ravaged throughout the underside of his skin for 6 hours he was drenched in sweat when the pill finally stopped circulating its chaotic energy through him. He was exhausted and almost didn't make his may back to his bed in that crowded foul smelling space that he shared with so many people.
The next day he awoke and went to the training field to practice his techniques and finally his 1st technique reached the next level and allowed him to create a phantasmal axe out of his lightning energy that is twice the size of his physical axe he would also be able to sweep the axe in front of him and so long as he didn't hit something he couldn't cut through. He practiced this technique further and when he was accustomed to using it.
The next day he practiced his other technique until he brought it to the level of applying his energy to increase the speed of the weapons strikes to a terrifying new level he felt that this technique was exceptionally good. He then went to the large group cultivation pool and through in his resources and joined the rest when he began to cultivate he felt a tug in his soul one he wouldn't have felt if it weren't for his transition into the soul realm only a short while ago.
The tug was the demonic Dao seed that he had in his soul he noticed it seemed to have called out to the energies from the resources and force it into his meridians he know understood why he had cultivated from the third to the fourth level so quickly and was now quickly approaching the fifth but before he could the energy in the body of water ran out and he was left at the peak of the fourth level.
He left from that area and then went back to buy more resources and bought 2 more of those cups of blood and returned to the group cultivation he poured his contribution into the body of water and joined them planning to reach the fifth level this day and he did but he needed to consolidate his new level and make sure his cultivation wasn't unstable from the constant use of resources and insane speed however it seemed his fear was pointless since a body cultivator depends on resources anyway as shocking as his growth was it wasn't making his foundation unstable at all.