He fell to the floor, body reeling with exhaustion. He looked to the sky thanking his ancestors for the chance to keep living.
He slowly picked himself up as he began to leave only to remember some beasts have cores that could be sold to the sect for contribution points.
He approached the bodies of the Sinüè Mountain Apes as he began to search their carcasses. Every core he found he placed within his Qiankun bag. Eventually, he left with 12 Early Rank 3 cores,10 Mid Rank 3 cores, and 6 High Rank 3 cores.
With these gains, he smiled as he left as they could be considered fortune within misfortune.
After returning to his courtyard he went into his quarters as he cleaned himself up and began cultivating to heal himself and relieve his weariness. He slowly retrospected to the night before and realized that although he was quite powerful for his stage, he was still too weak.
He noticed a few problems he had...
He didn't have a weapon, even though his fist worked well they didn't have enough lethality unless he used Advent of the Overlord which drained his Prana too quickly.
His Qi wasn't as vibrant as his Prana which made him run out of qi quickly as well as it not being as pure or powerful.
His cultivation was still too low to take on multiple enemies.
Upon healing, he made his way to the War Titan Hall as he exchanged for contribution points. In total, he had gotten 590 contribution points which were able to get him a weapon, an Earth Grade Qi Technique, and a few pills to cultivate.
Under the shocked and envious eyes of disciples, he left the War Titan Hall in the direction of the Armament Treasury.
"What kind of weapon should I get?"
As he was mumbling to himself, he soon realized a group of people blocking his way.
"Golden Ape! Retribution is Here!"
" How dare you sneak attack me at the Martial Arts Practice Area!"
A voice sounded out as it alerted bypassing disciples.
As heads turned and people gathered, who else could the voice come from aside from Shenkong Yang?
*SIGHS*
"I don't have time for you all, move aside "
Madlenkosi was quite exasperated by this guy, who courted his own humiliation.
Shenkong Yang was infuriated as he turned to a slender-eyed male disciple with similar features.
"Cousin-brother, don't you see how arrogant this golden monkey is?!"
Even Shenkong Mufeng was quite shocked by how he was dismissed.
A glint passed within his eyes and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
"Oh I'm so sorry Junior Jīn, but I heard you exchanged pointers with my younger cousin and he was injured quite badly, you see."
Mufeng continued...
" I'm just here to set things right, can't have our family arts being shamed so I'll have to ask you for an exchange of pointers"
"Not interested " He didn't know where these people keep coming from or why, he just wanted to cultivate in peace and become stronger.
"Sorry to say Junior Jīn, you don't have much of a choice!" Mufeng smirked as he lunged and drew his two swords.
Mufeng was a tricky one to fight, he was a dual-wielded sword-cultivator. Wielding a male and female pair he towards Madlenkosi. One long sword and one short sword were soon upon him as Mufeng flawlessly executed his movement technique.
As Madlenkosi pivoted out the way of the longer sword slicing at his head a sharp glint came towards his side!
'Dragons Swim Everywhere'
He backpedaled as he dodged the small sword which approached his side like a snake in the dark.
*RIP!*
He saw his robe torn as he looked underneath his sleeve.
His eyes squinted and his brows furrowed at the sight.
This only reinforced even more that he needed a weapon...
'Solar-Lunar Slash!'
Mufeng approached with blistering speed, his full Qi cultivation of 9 layers on show.
The skill released sword qi which seemed like a large crescent moon as it tore through the air silently.
Madlenkosi knew this skill was trouble so he no longer held back. His Prana and Qi aura rocketed outward. With his 5th Layer Body and Qi cultivation, he should be able to fight evenly with this Shenkong Mufeng.
'White Dragon Moves The Sky!'
A white Dragon claw manifested within mid-air as he clashed with Solar-Lunar Slash.
Screeches and the sound of metal colliding rang out. Soon both skills could no longer hold on as they both blasted out pushing back both Mufeng and Kosi.
Both retreated 4 steps as neither was more powerful than the other. Shengkong Mufeng eyes widened at the result, he couldn't understand how a newly admitted disciple could equal him.
"Must be because of him being a Jīn Rèn," He chalked it up to racial superiority, instead of Kosi's diligence.
Mufeng then got in a dual sword draw slash as he prepared to execute his next technique.
He whispered...
'Void Break'
Mufeng suddenly seemed to vanish before Kosi's eyes as he appeared silently in mid-air as he pivoted.
Suddenly he drew both his swords, the shortsword in a reverse grip draw while the other directly chop downwards as he aimed to the back of Madlenkosi's head.
Kosi dived to his right as he was missed by a hair, but Mufeng wasn't giving up his advantage.
'Yin Yang Thrust!'
The swords seemed to overlap each other as they stabbed right at Kosi's brow, his eyes widened in shock as his anger surged.
"First monkeys try to bully me and now this asshat?"
"FUCK YOU TOO THEN!"
'Advent! Of! The Overlord!'
Madlenkosi went mad with rage as his eyes turned bloodshot, the memories of the constant fight at the edge of death still fresh in his mind.
As the punch collided with the swords, the sword was parried to the right as he struck out!
White! Dragon! Moves! The! Sky!
Due to the speed and sharpness of the attack, the white Dragon claw which was formed slammed directly into Mufengs chest.
Blood trickled down the corner of his lips as his swords fell out of his grasps.
He tried to focus his sight but everything was blurry. As his eyes refocused, he noticed he was at least 8 feet in the air with an enraged Junior Jīn on his way upwards like an agitated, untamed dragon!
He tried to grasp for his swords to notice they weren't there!
He began to panic!
"Wai..."
WHITE! DRAGON! MOVES! THE SKY!
With both hands coated in white ethereal Dragon claws, he rained down a torrent of attacks upon Mufeng.
Like a Dragon with its reversed scale touched, Madlenkosi went berserk leaving a bloodied Mufeng to fall to the tiled floor like a bag of flesh.
Everyone was filled with fear at the display of pure unadulterated violence exhibited...
Soon a shadow came over Madlenkosi as a hand gripped his shoulder.
"Come with me..." An elder garbed in a black and gold hanfu said as he whisked Madlenkosi to the Punishment Hall.