Donglin Continent, Southern lands, Snow Eagle Sect.
"Lin Yu the Entrance Examination for new disciples is starting tomorrow, do you want to check for any new junior sisters," Fatty Tang asked with a mischevious grin.
"Maybe next time," he replied,
Lin Yu was as average as anyone could be, not handsome or ugly, with black eyes, long hair, and a bit built, he was an outer disciple, one of the oldest outer disciples in the Snow Eagle Sect, Fatty Tang was an inner disciple and his childhood friend, they joined the sect together, but Fatty Tang was more talented than him and had become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
[DONG!!!]
Lin Yu heard a sound, startling him as he looked around for what made it.
"Fatty did you hear that," he asked Fatty Tang who was mumbling away clearly angry at Lin Yu,
"Hear what," he murmured in a low voice not paying attention to him.
Lin Yu kept looking around, but after not seeing anything he continued walking to his cave, "never mi...
[System Assimilating 10% ....]
Lin Yu stood rooted like he had just been struck by lightning when he heard the word system. A faint translucent blue screen floated in front of him with strange runes. What was even stranger was that he could understand them.
"What's is it?" Fatty Tang who noticed Lin Yu was no longer beside him looked back and said Lin Yu who looked like he had seen a ghost, he walked back and shook him when he didn't answer, but Lin Yu didn't move. Fatty Tang looked at him, stepped back, rubbed his palms together, and raised it high, but before it landed, Lin Yu snapped out of his trance.
Excitement appeared all over his face, but his vision was getting dark, he looked above him and saw a big hand coming down that scared the hell out of him, with a reflex never seen before he bent down and moved away from the hand. Fatty Tang whose hand was still coming down at full force didn't expect Lin Yu to dodge couldn't stop in time and stumbled landing face down on the ground.
15%...
20%...
35%...
40%...
"Fatty I'll see you on the exam day" Lin Yu hurried to say and ran away. He didn't mind that he was almost slapped, nor did he care that his best friend Fatty Tang was on the ground. Although he had no idea what he was seeing before him, instinctively Lin Yu knew that his chance to rise had come.
Although he was not a flashy person and enjoyed staying in the shadows, he was still worried about his future in the Sect. This was his ninth year as an Outer Sect Disciple and he was still in Qi Building Stage 3. If he did not break through soon to the middle stages of Qi Building, he would be kicked out of the sect or reduced to a Sect Servant for the rest of his life.
Returning to his Immortal Cave, Lin Yu hurried to sit on his attribute-less futon. Unfortunately, the system was still Assimilating, the speed at which it counted slowing down the higher it got. With some time on his hands, Lin Yu started to fantasize.
As a man of culture, what else could he think about? Although he had rejected Fatty Tang's offer to pick girls on the Acceptance Examination day, that was only because no one would pay attention to an outer disciple when an Inner Disciple was there. It didn't matter that Fatty Tang was a ball of meat and he was... average ...not ugly. Anyways, he looked better than Fatty Tang at least.
[Dong!]
[System Assimilation Complete, Congratulations Symbiote]
Unfortunately, Lin Yu was in his own world right now, with drool at the corner of his mouth and a certain dragon standing, one didn't need to look into his soulless and yet soulful eyes to know what world he was. Fortunately, the system didn't mind, or perhaps it lacked the capacity to.
[Congratulations, you have received the 'Newbie Package'. Do you want to open it?]
Lin Yu being a strange man liked something else more than girls.
"A gift?" he awoke instantly from his daze shaking his head to throw away all previous thoughts. A new kind of drooling began but trust Lin Yu to realize that the gift wasn't in his hands yet.
"Yes, yes open it," he hurried to say.
[Congratulations! You have received...]
[1x Level-less Body Level-less Cultivation Method]
[1x Level-less Soul Cultivation Method]
[1x Level-less Qi Cultivation Method]
[10x Qi Building Pills]
[10x Lesser Body tempering Pills]
[10x Lesser Soul Format Pills]
[Access Inventory to collect your Pills]
Information rushed to Lin Yu's head as the cultivation methods were imprinted in his mind, Lin Yu grabbed his head in pain, it quickly passed away and he could clearly remember them like he had been cultivating them his whole life.
Lin Yu was stunned when he saw what he received, it wasn't exactly what he was expecting, but it wasn't bad either, in fact, it wasn't bad at all.
In Donglin Continent only Qi Cultivation was prevalent, the 'Soul Cultivation Method and Body Cultivation Method ' were a new term to him, but he could roughly guess their uses from the names.
Lin Yu began to fantasize again when he realized what this meant, while others only cultivated Qi, he would cultivate Qi, Body, and Soul, meaning he would be stronger than cultivators on the same stage as him.
But reality struck when he got there, it would take time to cultivate all three at the same time, "I should not have told Fatty I'll go with him tomorrow" he mumbled.
"No time to waste," he thought, and decided to try out the Qi Cultivation Method as it was a more pressing issue to him, if he did not break through to the middle stages of Qi Building Stage he would be kicked out of the sect or reduced to a Sect Servant for the rest of his life.
Pushing all distracting thoughts from his mind, he sat in a lotus position and started absorbing Qi from the heavens and earth using the Qi Cultivation Method that was imprinted in his brain, he took out the bottle of Qi Building pills, took one and swallowed it, wisps of Qi gathered towards him as a small whirlpool was formed around him with Qi gushing into his meridians.
The speed at which he absorbed the heaven and earth Qi and refined it was much faster than an average person.
This showed that the new Qi Cultivation Method the System gave him was better than the one the sect had.
After absorbing Qi from heaven and earth, the cultivator needed to refine it, as the Qi of heaven and earth was filled with impurities of the world.
Time passed in a flash, from sunset to late night, to morning.
Lin Yu's brow fluttered as he gradually opened his eyes, he inhaled deeply and let out a breath of foul air.
He grinned when he woke up, the feeling he had as he cultivated was more refreshing than usual, the sect Qi gathering formula he used before wasn't fitting for him, and because of it he was struck at Qi Building Stage 3 and could not advance, he was already looking for a new technique, but he didnt have enough contribution points to select for another technique.
Lin Yu took a deep breath and checked his cultivation, when he checked he was shocked, but he realized what happened.
He had been gathering Qi inside him all this time, but because the sect Qi gathering formula wasn't suitable for him he could not advance with it, but with the technique the system gave him, and the Qi he had been storing in his body, along with the pills he took had pushed him all the way to Qi Building Stage 6.
Cultivation in the Donglin continent was divided into Nine major stages.
Qi Building Stage
Foundation Establishment
Core Condensation Realm
Nascent Soul Realm
Soul Formation Realm
Spirit Profound Realm
Sky Profound Realm
Transcending Tribulation Realm
Accession Realm
The Qi Building Stage, Foundation Establishment Stage, and Core Condensation Realm were further divided into 12 levels.
Nascent Soul Realm to Transcending Tribulation Realm was divided into Early, Mid, and Late Stages.
The Transcending Tribulation Realm was divided into 12 Sub Stages, before ascending to the immortal realm.
Lin Yu stood up and got ready, the time for the Acceptance Examination was already here. But first, there was something he needed to do.