He observed the remaining energy, and while observing, an hour passed, he noticed cultivators sitting and cultivating alongside the road. "So selfish," he said. "No, maybe they are just doing that for survival." He understood that Divine Qi stalk was an extremely rare material for these low-talent cultivators.
"Rare, huh, let's collect some." He used his absorb technique and began absorbing all the Qi around. The old person who already was sitting beside him was annoyed. "Hey you child, why are you absorbing near me? Go somewhere else," he tried to get Luo away from himself so he could absorb steadily and effortlessly.
"I am not going anywhere, you old man," Luo said arrogantly. Suddenly his mind rang like a bell.
No! I can't be arrogant anymore. I must have a mind as quiet as a Buddha; I mean, I need to have zero arrogance like a standing tree, like a Buddha, needless of mortal desires. I can't perform his past mistakes. I can't slack off at all. He thought.
He stood up and walked away. "I am sorry, old man." The old man watched him go and thought, 'What an honest man; it's a rare sight.'
While walking, he exclaimed, "My technique of absorbtion and detoxification, or, say, purifying, was still half incomplete." If he wanted to complete it, he needed other parts of it.
He always urged for full technique.
"Old master, why don't you give me the whole technique?" I have accepted you as my master," he said, looking towards the Dharma Body of his master on his shoulder.
"I am not saying you haven't. I am just saying that I haven't accepted you as a discippe. His mouth lunged.
"You..." he looked at him in a stern expression.
"I will only accept you as my disciple when you will truly transcend the lower limits of a cultivator," the old master said in a serious way.
"And what are they?"
"No, how many centuries would it take to transend the lower cultivation limit?"
"It will only take some years if it is you; you may have crossed body tempering in a month, but remember, with fast progress comes arrogance. Body tempering was a pebble in front of this might wall of Qi condensation; you are still Half Step into that. Practice; maybe in half a month you can breakthrough." After an minute-long exclamation marked coversation, Luo understood.
"Then what is this lower cultivation limit?" Luo asked, twitching sides of his mouth, not humorous but a little wary.
"Don't worry, its just time that matters; you will know it later," the old master's dharma image dissipated in the air.
"That day will be soon."
.....
Crescent Moon City, Ji Zheng Pavilion
"Welcome Traveller," a beautiful, breathtakingly fairy said to an exceptionally handsome man.
Luo suddenly entered the hall filled with the fragrance of tea and the melody of strings of zither. He saw tables and chairs, cultivators and musicians, and a beautiful fairy countering.
He paved the way towards the quest list.
[Quest 1: Rescue a Lady of Ordinary Family; she was lost for more than 3 days.].
Recover alive, Bag of Grains
Recover dead body [bag of fruits]
Hw saw the quest but immediately lost his interest. He has a Buddha temperament, but he himself isn't a Buddha.
Then he searched, and his gaze fell upon a real dangerous quest, a real adventure quest.
[Quest of the day: Kill a Spiritual Beast havocing a nearby forest.] Near Thousand Pondering DongTing Lake.
Estimated Rank Requirement: Body Tempering, Stage 8 or Above
Reward: Ten Spiritual Stones]
Luo drooled seeing the reward of ten spiritual stones. "Holy cow," when he was in the academy, he barely earned a silver tael or gold tael, let alone a single spiritual stone. Incomparable!
'I can buy my own guard team for a year with this one fortune.'
'But I don't want guards; I want a suitable sword; I want to pursue Sword Dao,' he thought fiercely.
He took the paper; it had dust on it; it seems like it was not even touched for days.
He reached the counter; he saw the counterer chatting with a man. He waited a minute long.
"Hey, why are you hearing our conversation?" the burly young asked. His facial features make him seem like an adult. He had an aura of Body Tempering Stage Nine. Although it was only ninth stage, the aura it excluded was far from any ninth stage body-tempering sage.
He thumped on the table and again asked, "I said, Why are you here hearing our conversation straight?" Luo replied in a humble way, "I only wanted to do a quest; I never intended to offend this sage."
"Huh! Punk, beware unless you will be killed someday," he said with a hint of arrogance.
'I have already accepted Buddha'
'I have already accepted Buddha'
'I have already accepted Buddha'
He interrupted his mind again and again, although his eyebrows showed a spark of anger. He quickly suppressed; he wasn't arrogant anymore.
But what was he arrogant for before? He was an orphan, a broken cultivation base, barely a string of power on him. He was just self-imagining.
'What was I before? Why can't I remember? What kind of personality I had as a dead meat orphan? Oh! I can't remember, then just leave it and forget the past.' he thought to himself.
Presently, he placed the quest paper on the counter. Visibly, the handsome guy left the hall.
The counter woman said, "You shouldn't have infuriated master Sheng Dong; he is a prominent genius in the Sheng family." He may seem to be in his thirties. But he is just in his twenties."
"Yeah, I will heed your advice," Luo said. The woman stamped the quest paper, and finally Luo sat his foot outside the chamber. He smelt the fresh air.
He counted on his finger. "That way"
He walked towards the boundary of the forest area. Again in the cursed forest. With this he sighed.