"Haaa, haaa."
Today in the Skyward Sword Sect, one could find a very odd boy. He would wake up every day at the brink of dawn and start doing extremely odd body exercises before continuing the rest of his day, he'd then come back home and do those same body exercises before going to bed.
As if on a perpetual wheel Wang Tian's life continued like this for a week. "That should be about 50 minutes now." Wang Tian said with a huge smile on his face, he had finally reached his goal.
Although the 1st Level required at least 2 hours of continuous exercise to be deemed complete, Wang Tian now had at least enough power to match Xiao Yang. 'I should be able to make a 10 centimeter gash in the tree now.'
One had to know that the differences between cultivation levels grew exponentially and the difference between the 5th Layer and the 6th Layer was much larger than any other Layers within the Qi Refinement Realm.
In fact it was known as the Great Chasm of Qi Refinement and was the reason as to why only 6th Layer disciples and above were considered Inner Disciples.
"I should finally be able to beat that bastard, but now isn't the right time." Wang Tian sighed, currently Xiao Yang was in seclusion for the Ranking Battle that would take place in a month's time, in fact Wang Tian also had to prepare himself.
'Only 5th Layer and above cultivators are allowed to participate and if I succeed in getting a good ranking I can enter the technique hall.' With that thought in mind Wang Tian began his day before making his way to collect his tasks.
Once he arrived at the front of the hall he noticed a group of 5 disciples waiting outside. "Tsk, so he's finally here." A disciple muttered as he locked onto Wang Tian.
"Good, so Errand Boy we're all beginning our preparations now so I hope you'll be helpful and do your job." One of them sneered reaching his hand out with a pile of documents.
Seeing this sight Wang Tian wasn't infuriated, he was used to it after all, although he had had a significant increase in strength he hadn't yet made it known, but at the same time he wouldn't be completing their tasks.
"I will warn you once, I suggest you find another Errand Boy because my schedule is already full." Wang Tian simply said before walking past them. Hearing this they were dumbfounded, the trash of trashes himself rejected them.
Who did he think he was? He was only in the 3rd Layer of Qi Refinement yet he ignored them, this was unacceptable. "You fucking bastard!" One of them yelled pouncing towards Wang Tian his fist shooting towards the boy's head.
"Clink."
As fist connected to skull the expected scene didn't occur, rather than Wang Tian wailing on the floor in pain, the lackey pulled his fist back in shock. "....Did his fist break against his skull, what is Wang Tian made out of!?!"
The surrounding disciples were simply shocked, while Wang Tian was confused beyond words. 'What was that, did a mosquito just try and bite me?' He thought to himself before turning around.
Behind him one of the junior disciples he had just ignored was standing with his fist limp as his face contorted in pain. Suddenly Wang Tian realised something. 'So he was provoking me? And then his fist broke against my head?'
The boy was trying to process what had just happened, if he was being honest he found the whole situation laughable. "Hahahaha." He burst out laughing before pointing at the junior disciple.
"Normally I'd take offence to those words, but seeing as you've already taken quite a bit of damage I'll leave you with that." Wang Tian declared before walking away leaving behind a group of dumbfounded disciples.
This was the most shocking outcome they could ever imagine. It would be surprising if Wang Tian had managed to defeat the disciple in a move or two, but no, that disciple couldn't even injure Wang Tian, on the contrary, he injured himself.
"Gulp, I am glad I didn't try and attack him first." One of the disciples who had provoked Wang Tian muttered. "Ya, by the way do you need any help Brother Li?" Another of the disciples asked their downcast comrade, he had punched a metal plate and it didn't end well for him.
Entering the hall Wang Tian quickly made his way to the front desk. "So you've arrived, you just keep coming later and later these days." The man at the desk muttered in disdain. "I'd like to invoke my Month of Training." He said as he handed a blue token to the man.
Seeing this he was quite shocked. "....Don't tell me you think you can make it from the 3rd to the 5th Layer in one month." The man was shocked as he rubbed his balding head.
One had to know that Outer Disciples only had one Month of Training they could invoke before they became Inner Disciples, typically it was used before the Ranking Battle so that they could thoroughly prepare and then utilise the rewards from the battle to make it to the 6th Layer.
During the years Wang Tian had never invoked it because he was never close enough to the 5th Layer, but this year with the Dracodevil's Heavenly Body he finally felt confident in his chances.
"That's my business, I hope you won't make things difficult for me." Wang Tian simply muttered. While the man did despise him, Wang Tian had always completely his tasks properly and on time so Wang Tian hoped that the man would do the same.
".....Here, this is your token of training, once one month is up you must return this back or else there'll be dire consequences." He explained handing Wang Tian a red token.
"Thank you very much." And with that Wang Tian left the task hall walking along another path. He wasn't going back home this time but rather going to the Missions Hall.