Tomorrow came, and Adonis is currently cultivating in his soul domain, after his fight with Tristan, he thinks that he has enough experience to go toward the next level. He did have enough experience and broke through into 3-spark.
"Yes! I broke through!" Adonis said excitedly.
"Now, the question is, what should I do now?"
Adonis thinks he could keep trying to fight stronger people in the sect, keep getting experience, and cultivate into the next level. But if he did do it he thinks that there would be certain people that would try to get rid of him due to this, whether it be because they were afraid of him or jealous of him. Either way, it wouldn't be good for him.
"Maybe I should try using pills or herbs to enhance my cultivation, and then I could get experience through something else. Alright, let's try to do a mission now!"
Within the sect, there was a mission hall, which disciples could take to get extra magic crystals plus get some time outside the sect as disciples were required to stay in the sect unless they do a mission or an emergency popped up.
Adonis went towards the outer mission hall and looked on the mission board to see what was available.
"Hmm...what should I choose?"
Adonis looked around, and unfortunately for outer core disciples, there were no subjugation missions or missions involving fighting. This is due to the sect, as they want to keep the outer core disciples safe since they were beginning their cultivation journey and would not be prepared to face any monsters or cruel humans.
Adonis decided to go for a collecting mission, where he would collect these flowers called "Fire Lilies" and collect about 40 of them for the sect and receive 50 magic crystals.
"Eh...it's not that much, but it would be a good material to make some pills."
In the sect, you had to order pills from the alchemists and you would have to bring in the ingredients for the pill or you would have to pay extra for it.
Adonis took it and gave it to the guy at the counter, who was an elder in charge of this particular mission hall. The elder looked at Adonis and checked Adonis's cultivation.
'What the-! He is already at 3-spark! Wasn't he just 1-spark like 2 days ago?!'
This elder was the only person who saw the entirety of Adonis's fight with Vichon, his original plan was to stop it, but after seeing Adonis's confidence he got interested and decided to see how it would play out, and he was very shocked by what he saw, especially since Adonis was only a 1-spark at the time. Then was even more shocked when he heard Adonis fought and won against Tristan, and at that point, he was just a 2-spark.
'He is cultivating so fast! Should I report this to the other elders?'
Adonis was just there standing, waiting for the guy to register him for the mission.
"Uhh...Elder?"
"Huh! Oh, I'm sorry." The elder then registered Adonis for the mission and Adonis went toward the 'Blaze Forest' to get the lilies.
The elder was prepared to go tell the other elders and sect master about this, but then Tristan showed up at the mission hall. Tristan got a mission and went right towards the desk, "This one."
The elder looked and it was a mission that also goes towards the 'Blaze Forest'. The elder eyed this suspiciously but registered Tristan for it anyways. After that, Tristan left without saying anything else.
The elder was concerned since Tristan was most likely following Adonis to get his revenge for defeating him, but he thought that 'this was just the world we live in' and that 'stuff like this happened all the time'.
The elder sat back down and waited to see if it was Adonis or Tristan who would walk back through those doors.
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Adonis made his way toward the Blaze Forest, That is a 4-hour walk away from the sect. Little to Adonis's knowledge, 10 people were following far behind him.
Adonis walked for 2 hours, halfway to his designation till he felt a strange presence from behind him, and when he looked all he saw was a red slash coming towards his head.
"OH CRAP!"