Oliver entered the house and walked into the living room of the house without wasting time he clean up the house, living room, and bedroom, it was a wooden apartment with a living room and two extra rooms with a kitchen.
When Oliver enters the house and saw the inside of the house he felt the crystals he paid for the apartment were not worth it if compare to how the house was spacious and with the rooms, he felt at the end he won but to Hall Master Leo, he was the victor but if only he knew how pleased Oliver was with the apartment.
"Since I am thinking about starting a kitchen to get different grades of crystals, I will have to start up my kitchen before the ten thousand battle will begin, so before the battle, I will be able to gain some name."
"But I still need to develop my strength in the upcoming tournament so I won't end up miserably."
Oliver was lost in thought as he was cleaning up his apartment he was thinking of ways to get resources and he knew as a magical cultivator he needed a lot of resources to develop his strength quickly and to catch up with his mate he will have to spend a lot more to shorten the time, the only idea that had entered his mind since he saw the house, was to start up a kitchen and cook good food. for magical cultivators' eating food, was not a necessary thing to do because they can neglect it for some time and the more they grow the more they can abstain from food, Oliver knew to have a kitchen in a world where food was not on high regard was hard to get the interest of people to eat in your kitchen.
He was thinking of things that he will have to add to any food formula he will use to attract more people to his kitchen. Oliver was experienced with types of herbs because as a child he was sick and was forced to take a lot of herbs, raw and cooked ones in other to heal himself but they did not work out, the thing was that with his high intelligence as a kid, he was able to learn about the herbs he was taking and their effect and when his family saw that he was taking interest in studying herbs they did not hold back but gave him books containing information about herbs for him to know more about them and Oliver watch his mother and the healers that was attending to him they boiled herbs in different occasion and with different styles to treat him, during those time he was leaning.
When the healers saw the passion Oliver had for learning about his skill he did not hold back it was like helping a dying man fulfill his wishes so they were all joyful in teaching the little kid that look so sickly, everyone thought he would die any time, won't be able to walk but he did walk with his thin figure and was able to learn slowly.
But he was able to learn which was a miracle, the two things that Oliver was able to learn apart from cooking as a kid were running and studying herbs, he was able to put one into practice and the other was just in its knowledge form and have not been experimented.
Oliver was stuck in thought he did not know if he should start up the kitchen before the battle or after the ten thousand battle, he needed resources but he knew that no matter the Dao crystal stone he would be able to gather before the ten Thousand battle tournament he will still need more than one week to increase his strength since it was not long that he broke through it will take time.
He felt he was limited by time and did not know how to go on about it he felt if he should focus on magical cultivating it won't suffice for anything meaningful, Oliver sat on a wooden chair in the living room and was deep in thought he placed the sleeping White Lotus by his side on the chair.
While Oliver was in thought and a little frustrated he started to memorize the battle step enhancement technique which was the only magical cultivation technique that he had with him, when Oliver was memorizing he felt a movement in his dantian and it came from the black seed in his stomach.
"Strange why is that little seed moving and acting uncomfortably in my dantian" Oliver was confused he did not know what was happening and since he broke through and had not felt any movement from the black seed in his dantian, it was lying comfortably in his stomach but now why the sudden change.
With the movement from the black seed, Oliver was uncomfortable he tried his best to comprehend the battle step enhancement technique but he could not, he kept on trying but the more he tried the more the movement of the black seed increased and the more uncomfortable he was.
"what is all this why are things not working in my favor, am I going to stay in the fifth level of the Qi magical essence realm for another fifteen years". Oliver was fully frustrated this time, he knew if he could not increase his power and learn a technique that he will use to support himself during the ten thousand battle tournament, things won't end well for him.
Oliver opened his eyes and stopped his comprehending of the battle step enhancement technique with anger written all over his face, he was happy since he broke through and to him, his bad luck curse must have been fading away with time and things were about to get better for him, but now he felt it was all a joke and the curse was only trying to kill him with anger after giving him a little happiness. Oliver tried to calm his mind but he could not he looked at his left wrist.
"Are you not supposed to suppress the power of the bad luck curse even if you can't seal it completely". Oliver could not help but talk to the invisible black bracelet in his hand