Outer disciple Lin Fan year 265 EC
I had finally become an outer disciple when thanks to my talent with the sword, if not for the pendant my parents left me I would not have been able to reach this far
Unfortunately recently I've hit a bottleneck and can't break through to the Apprentice Jin Rank, I've felt my cultivation receding and the other disciples have been mocking me and telling me I should go back to being a servant disciple
But I know what the problem is, it's the pendant that had helped me nurture my talent for the sword, it's been swallowing the Li from my surroundings like a hungry whale
Because of this I could not absorb energy into my body as the pendant stole it all leaving me at a loss
Today the sword shaped pendant had finally stopped swallowing Li making me feel relieved before a sudden energy surged out of the pendant into my heart
With a swoosh I felt a tranquility inside me like none before, when I picked up the sword again I felt like I was a drop of water that fell into a vast ocean
Ripples of air surrounded me as when I swung the sword it was like I was cutting through water, my movements were extremely slow or so it seemed to me, to anyone else they would have trouble even seeing the shadow my sword left behind
I realized that the pendant could absorb Li and increase my talent for the sword, when I thought of this I remembered the pills that Senior Via had given me, he said that they were useless to him and that I should use them
I knew that they were definitely not useless to him as they contained large amounts of Li inside them making it so that in a single night you could absorb 10 times more energy than normal
But even so I'm forever grateful for this opportunity that he has given me and I hope I can one day repay him in the future
I placed one of the pills near the sword pendant as the pill turned to dust and the energy from inside was swallowed by the pendant, when I put the pendant back on I could feel a similar energy enter my heart like before which strengthened my senses for the sword path
I quickly used the rest of the pills and felt myself breakthrough to the Apprentice Jin Rank in that moment, not only did the pendant help nurture this strange talent it also helped my body absorb Li like a mother who chewed the food before spoon feeding her child
If I had eaten these pills normally my body could only absorb a small portion of the energy and the rest would dissipate into the air
"when Senior Via returns from his hunt I must give him something for his help"
It was extremely rare for an inner or even more so a direct disciple to be so kind to an outer disciple like him