Oh yeah...Derrick is from a rich family huh.
"Oi Derrick," I say.
He jumps in shock and asks with a stuttered voice. "W-What."
"You are from a rich family right?"
"Y-Yeah!! I'm from a rich family!! If anything happens to me, you will-"
I immediately smile and grab Derrick's collar. "Do anyone in your family have a condensed dragon liver?"
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"Y-Yeah...that's our family heirloom." Says Derrick.
Heirloom huh...
I smirk and throws him onto the ground. "I honestly don't want to make things more troublesome and offend more people so let's make a deal."
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"If I'm not wrong, you are not the next heir of your family and that Steven guy is right?"
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"Yeah...he is considered the genius in our family who can achieve stage 4 of the gold core realm at the age of 17."
"Good, I will cripple his cultivation, how about that?" I ask.
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"You mean..."
I nod. "I will help you take over as the heir, in exchange, give me the heirloom. If you reject my offer, I will do things the hard way and slaughter everyone in your family."
"You think you can?" Asks Derrick.
I kick the wall behind and leave a deep mark. "Yes, I can."
Derrick gulps and looks at Steven. After about a minute he finally asks "Are you confident you can beat someone in the soul wandering realm?"
I nod.
He finally smiles and says "deal."
Derrick reported to his family what happened and proudly present himself in front of his family with me, I dragged Steven's body along after crippling him and throw him to the elders.
"Derrick!!! You bastard!! You plotted against your brother!?!" Shouts a man.
"Don't bullshit with me. This has always been how our family works. The strongest gets everything." Says Derrick.
"Is that so...Then you don't mind if I kill you right now do you?"
The man jumps at Derrick with his hand shaped like an eagle claw. He seems to be aiming for Derrick's neck.
I step in and grab his hand before throwing him onto the floor. I then stomp on his spine which paralyzed him.
"Aargh!"
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"That kid! Who are you!" Shouts a woman.
"He is the guy who helped me. So if you don't want to end up like uncle here, surrender the heirloom and the seat to me!!"
A girl can be seen hiding behind a chair. Derrick notices her and decided to ignore her.
"Y-You!!"
"Wait!" Shouts an elderly. "That boy...he has no cultivation but has trained himself up to a body that is similar to a stage 4, soul wandering realm...Derrick, He asked you for the heirloom in exchange for helping you right?"
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Woah, pretty sharp of this old man.
"So you are not planning to give it to me?" I say.
"No, let's make a deal, a better one than Derrick's"
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"W-Wait!! This is not what you promised!" Shouts Derrick.
"Shut up," I say, drawing my katana and placing it on his throat. "You, spit this deal of yours."
"Just not interfere with our family's matter and not only will we give you the heirloom but...we will also provide with this card, a black titanium VIP that you can use in every restaurant or malls that our family owns in Kyoto and Osaka. How about that?" He says.
Heh...
Luckily, everything is going according to plan.
I have no intention of helping Derrick, a bastard who constantly bullies me in school.
"Deal," I say.
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"Y-You damn liar-"
The elderly attack Derrick and knocked him out before passing to me the heirloom and card.
It took quite a while but I managed to confirm that it's real.
"Alright, I thank this elderly for your generous gift, I will be going then," I say and I left.
However, after I left, some of Derrick's family members seems to object to the elderly decision.
"Why did you give that card to him?!! That peasant bastard stomped on my spine and didn't even apologize!!" Says the uncle.
"Yeah!!! Not to mention that he is crippled trash. He can't even cultivate." Says Derrick's mother.
The elderly sigh. "You two are too young to realise this. The reason why he asked for our heirloom is so that he could make a Dao Dai Pill for his meridians. He was able to endure and train his body so much that he can fight against a soul wandering realm like you, how much stronger do you think he will grow after taking in the pill?"
What the elderly said silenced the other two.
"From now on, never look down on that boy again. Or he may be the one to destroy every one of us. It's better to make friends with him than become an enemy, we will lose more than we gain." Says the elderly.
"Then what if he failed to create the Dao Dai pill?" Says the mother.
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"Then we will kill him and put him out of his misery." Says the elderly.
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Damn... I can still hear their conversation even when I'm outside. My Enhanced hearing skill improved...
If I focus enough, I can listen through walls from a distance.
They will kill me huh...
I decided to go back straight home.
...
I stink...
Let's see if there is any public bath nearby.
I went to the nearest public bath and took a bath. It felt damn good taking a shower... I didn't even realise I stink this much.
Alright...menu.
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Setting
Exchange shop
Shop
Status
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Exchange shop.
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(The exchange shop changes every stage and as time goes by)
-Dao Dai pill
-profound cultivation pills
-heavenly cultivation pills
-defensive talisman
-offensive talisman
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Dao Dai pill
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Exchange for Dao Dai pill?
Required:
-1 one billion years old Ginger(1/1)
-1 condensed dragon lived(1/1)
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Yes.
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Exchange complete, you can find the item in your inventory.
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Alright!!
*growl*
...
I take out some food and water from my inventory and consume them.
Ah shit, some food already expired...
Whatever...
I trash the expired food and sit down on the dusty floor.
Consuming the pill, I close my eyes and concentrate on absorbing it.
My body feels hot...something is forming together in my body.
"ARGHHH!!!!!"
A sharp pain attacked my torso.
After a while, the pain subsides and I calm down. I open my eyes to find my body emitting some sort of smoke.
!!
I puke out some sort of black muddy liquid.
Huff...huff...huff
It felt like I just completed a 20km running marathon.
But aside from that, all the wounds on my body disappeared and... I feel a lot lighter and strong.
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Auto cultivation will now activate.
Current cultivation base: 3rd stage of soul wandering realm.
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Holy crap.
My stats! What's my stats?
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Karma
Lvl: 153
Title: Rebellion
Hp:300000(500000)
Atk: 1000900(2000000)
Def: 700082(900000)
Spd: 203000(500000)
Luk: 5000
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Wow...
The numbers in the bracket are my stats after the boost from the cultivation base is applied.
This...is amazing...
I spent the rest of the night consuming and absorbing the profound pills.
When the sun rises, my cultivation base is already at the 9th stage of the soul wandering realm.