Seth stretched and walked out of the guest room. He was still puzzled on whether the mystery person of last night was real, or just a figment of his imagination. Having made no success, he chose to leave the room.
As his door slid open, Chun Hua also dazedly walked out of her room. There were dark bags over her eyes and her hair was a mess, a stark contrast to the crystal beauty she used to be by afternoon. On seeing Seth, she flinched and reached forwards her waist for her pretty pink hand fan, which unfortunately was not on her as she was still clad in her alluring night clothes that happened to reveal quite an eyeful of her equally alluring body.
"S-Seth?!"
In a flash, she disappeared into her room, leaving a confused Seth staring where she stood.
"I just wanted to say hi, though.."
As Chun Hua slammed her door shut, the color gradually returned to her face.
'I can't believe he saw me like that.'
She was a freaking mess this morning. She had not really slept well as she could have sworn that she was hearing fighting last night, she just had to happen to have a bad hair day, and the night clothes she was wearing was showing more than a fair bit of skin. She could vividly remember the confused look on his face.
'He must think I'm such a weirdo...' Then a frown found its way to her face. 'Why do I care about what he thinks, though?'
Anyways, she shook off all the distracting thoughts covering her mind as she remembered a slight detail she had missed.
'He has the aura of a Body Awakening tier cultivator of the second stage...'
Unmistakably, she was more than sure that he was at the mundane tier, and now he was not only at the next tier, but had already advanced two whole stages in?
'Exciting!'
Here, in the Allied Three Sectdom, such a feat was nothing short of extraordinary. Cultivation generally had six known tiers. The Mundane tier of ordinary people, the Body Awakening tier in which one would awaken the hidden potential of their own body. The Body Manipulation tier in which one would learn to control and use their new improved body, and the Body reinforcement tier in which the body becomes fully superhuman.
Above that, was the Qi awakening tier where one would unlock their dantians and release their soul Qi, the Qi manipulation tier where one would learn to control their Qi, the Qi reinforcement tier in which one'sbodu would be coated with nine thin layers of impenetrable Qi, and then the Qi refinement tier. Beyond the Qi refinement tier, no one knew what would be unlocked next. Only the Imperial Sky Lord had advanced past that tier, and he had not shared his cultivation tier since then.
However, with Seth's cultivation speed, she now had a worthy rival. A genius on the same level as herself. It was no fun advancing with her insane cultivation speed all by herself, and she wanted Seth to serve as a cultivation nemesis of sorts, someone whom she would strive to surpass.
***
"Girls are really weird ..." Seth thought as he shrugged and continued walking forward, only to stop abruptly in his tracks. 'Where am I even going?' He was a guest in this place, and he did not even know his way around. It seemed like he would have to look for Lee Chun Hua. Luckily, he knew where her room was since she had unintentionally shown him by running away.
_knock_knock_
"Um, hello? Chun Hua? Are you there?"
Lee Chun Hua was startled from the sudden knocking on her door and hurriedly fixed up herself.
"Coming!!'
For some reason, hearing Seth's voice made her insides squirm. Not quite like how she squirmed when her father threatened to give her out in marriage to some arrogant young master from the empire, but a different type of squirming that made her heart flutter and her stomach tied tightly into knots.
'I must be nervous due to his insane cultivation speed.'
Anyways, she tidied herself as much as she could, then slid the door open.
_creak_
"Oh hello, Seth..."
Seth gazed at the jade beauty with well concealed astonishment. She was literally a mess a few minutes ago, but now, she looked like someone going out for a modelling event. She even had time to attach her pretty pink hand fan to her slender waist. In less than two minutes!
He scratched the back of his black hair with a sheepish grin on his face.
"Uh... Hey. I was wondering if you could direct me to the bathroom, or .."
"Oh, no problem."
The two of them walked down the hall over to a door at the end of the passageway. Coming out of the door, was a tall man with long black hair parked up into a pony tail.
"Good morning, senior brother Su Bai.", Lee Chun Hua bowed slightly.
Su Bai bowed back with a slight smile on his face, only for the smile to disappear in a flash as soon as he crossed eyes with Seth. Seth also bowed slightly, copying Chun Hua's actions, but only managing to achieve an awkward shoulder hump.
However, his eyes widened into orbs as the senior cultivator fell on his knees and almost slammed his head on the floor.
"I greet you, Senior brother Seth!'
Su Bai was tasked with murdering Seth in the dead of night, but despite being a fifth stage cultivator of the Qi manipulation tier, was ultimately almost defeated. He was poisoned before he even knew where his supposed 'target' was, and in a flash, he was being pummelled into a pulp by the 'mundane tier' person. He could not feel auras, but he knew that this person standing before him was much stronger than an ordinary mundane tier. If he was even a mundane tier, that was.
Seth slowly nodded and bowed back slightly.
"Uh, I greet you too... I guess, weird guy I just met."