A few weeks later, Alex Regis is in the middle of a battle with a group of bandits.
These guys aren't all that strong, they are also stupid, and they've been attacking the sect for a over a month, robbing caravans that enter.
I look at my teammate for this mission. One of them is smoking a pipe despite his young age, the smoke that comes out of it is blood red, he's wearing the black outer-disciple robes and his blood red hair is the only thing that makes him stick out. He's pretty average looks-wise,
I need to figure out a way to kill my team-mate, not only is he evil to the core, but he's also a rapist, I can't let him return to the sect at all.
"Hey, do you know where the leader is?" I ask the man.
"Why would I tell you that, I'm just a lowly disciple."
"Well, I want to fight the leader, I can offer you a better deal than the usual one."
the guy smiles and says, "Sure, your funeral."
after we behead the bandits, he leads me to the team leader.
I immediately speak up and say, "Team leader, This other disciple says he wants to fight you."
With a reversal of legendary proportions, the idiot who brought me here is slapped to death by an Irate leader who I just tricked.
"You dare junior!! I, The legendary team leader Hongfeng Li, will not tolerate this slight!" He raises his sect token in gratitude and says, "here are 5 sect points for bringing this traitor directly to me!" I grin, "Thank you, Leader Li." I turn around, and go back to doing my fake work.
I get a message, +Mission complete. sabotage the sect Mission Reward: 10 weak spirit gathering pills.+
I look at my inventory and grin,
***
That very night, I swallow a spirit gathering pill, and rotate the Three Purities Life and Death Visualization technique automatically.
15% of the way to the next stage of cultivation with just one pill? nice! and these are the weak ones? I grin, and swallow the rest.
My cultivation rotates quickly.
+Body formation has reached body formation level 6+
+.3 body.
+.3 soul.
+.3 spirit.
I then stop meditating for the night, moving on, I stand up and look around the room, and notice nobody is watching the hut.
Breathing out a sigh of relief, It seems I wasn't noticed when I increased in cultivation.
I go to sleep, hoping the next day to be easier.
─ Character Status Screen Name : Alex Regis
Race : Humanoid (Human)
Age: 18
+Cultivation level: Body formation 6
+Cultivation methods:
Great Blood Essence Demonic Art(main).
Three Purities Life and Death Visualisation technique(Secondary)
Body cultivation methods 0/1
Soul cultivation methods 0/1
Spirit cultivation methods 2/2
+1% resistance to poison.
***
The morning after, I wake up and make myself a quick bowl of rice, and head out to the forest to hunt.
As I walk, a voice calls out to me.
"Young master, why do you walk alone in the woods?" I freeze, and turn slowly, noticing a man who is clearly out of place, He doesn't seem to realize it however.
I smile, and reply, "Just walking, I was bored, I thought it'd be fun to kill a monster or two."
"I see, well, I am glad to see that you are a true Disciple of the sect, young master." He bows, and continues to talk.
"It is a shame that the sect has such a low opinion of the common people, the higher ups in the sect think that the lower classes should be used as slaves, or worse. But, if the masses were given a chance to advance, they might be able to rise against the sect,"
I cut his head off without thinking about it too hard, he's talking openly about sabotaging the sect, either he's a moron, or he's trying to suss out my intentions, either way I can't afford to let him live and ruin my ability to sabotage the sect.
A man comes from behind me, and says, "Good, no hesitation."
I nod, and continue to walk.
After a while, I hear a scream.
I look behind me and see another hut where a female Disciple who listened too long and showed too much interest in what was clearly an illusion and a trap was being stabbed multiple times. I scoff, and think to myself, I can't be exposed here.
I continue to walk, hating myself for it. But I can't allow myself to be eliminated.
I come across a small pack of grade 1 spirit wolves, and decide to kill them for food.
They attack, and I easily dispatch all of them. I absorb the blood essence from the first 6 and grab the other corpses of the 2 that I didn't ruin and take them to my hut to be cooked.
Once they're done, I eat the meat and drink the blood.
"This is delicious." Spirit wolves are better than normal wolves, clearly.
Frowning, I think about the dead disciple who's only crime was listening too long to the plight of the people. I sigh, and continue to work on my cultivation.
I'm still not strong enough to fight the weakest of the elders.
I can barely hold a candle to the lowest tier of Inner disciples. There's nothing I can do yet.
I leave the hut, and see a man who is obviously a cultivator, but he's not wearing the outer-disciple robes.
He's wearing a black robe, and he's smoking a pipe.
"They can't hear us here." I look around and notice we're not anywhere near the sect.
"You've done well, the cultivation world is cruel, You cannot save everyone. Keep the path and destroy the sect. Free the people of the province when it is able to be done, but don't risk your life in the pursuit of helping others."
He claps his hands.
+Tutorial has ended. You will no longer revive on death at a previous checkpoint., Survive.+
Before I can ask him any questions I find myself back in my hut about to open the door and exit.
I sigh, and move on.