"Oooh, Your strong! You seem fun to be around already, Could you perhaps tell me your secrets?"
{"Secrets are Secrets, if I reveal them then it wouldn't be a secret anymore, though if you feel like you're stuck you could ask me to help you!"}
She sounded very interested in me reaching the peak of the first realm albeit it wasn't much for what I was trying to Achieve, I felt a little excited due to the fact I already got a friend just because of being strong, though it didn't feel so genuine they still became my friend, I had a feeling they would've still been my friend even if I wasn't strong, but that was just a gut feeling, I hadn't met her before because I normally stayed inside my home unless I was getting something for mom.
"Awwwh, come on... Whatever keep your secrets, Hmph!"
Seeing her pout made me laugh a little, it had been a while since I laughed, I couldn't remember the last time I did, Qing didn't seem so pleased at my laughter in which I backed away as she playfully hit my legs, she looked really short, I could assume she was at least 5'2 in height, she looked abnormally short even for a girl.
{"You're really short, is that why you're so angry?"}
"I am not short! Well- Okay maybe I am short but that doesn't mean anything about how angry I am!"
She was shouting but not too loudly, I would've laughed a little more seeing her like this, All while she was pouting and turned away from me, I would reach my hand out to her as she walked away though I couldn't help but notice a smile on her face of which she waved by before storming off like I had offended her even though it was just acting.
I haven't had that much fun in a while, but I shouldn't be going around revealing my Cultivation to others, Most if not everyone knows I'm unable to Cultivate, so suddenly being able too would be too much of a Risk to show.
Once I was done laughing I moved through the streets while looking at the Screen of Quests, The second Storyline quest had shown up which asked me to do something extremely specific.
[Storyline Quest II]
[Drop the Shining Lotus in an isolated Area and create a circle of wood around it]
[Reward: ??? - Will be given after Quest is finished]
It didn't look appealing but I still wanted to see what it did, I would've walked over to a gate which lead into the forest, the Guards looked at me and gauged my strength seemingly by looking me up and down before giving me a pass on leaving, I walked through the trees finally reaching a silence of which wasn't broken a single bit, I would've first went to create a circle, Seeing a stone I decided to circle it to get the perfect shape, Turning over to a tree I could finally test my strength.
A single punch landed on the tree as it fell down landing on the ground causing the ground to shake a little from its loud thud, at least with it feeling like the ground shook. I went through a few more of the trees as my hands easily ripped through the tree before I would get hurt from even hitting it softly.
Soon enough I had carved out enough wood from the fallen trees and twisted them to create some type of crooked circle, After that I took the Shining Lotus out of my pocket at which point I put at the center of the stone as a popup appeared showing the ritual was complete a surge of Qi came out from it in the shape of a dome.
[Quest Completed!]
[Reward - Upgrade too Qi Gathering I, Unlocked Shop]
I looked back at the Qi sphere around the Lotus only for it to Deteriorate as all the Qi flew towards me entering my body slowly so I could adjust to it. Once all of it had entered my body I had reached the first stage of Qi Gathering, my body felt supernatural, It felt lighter along with my mind being clearer, A surge of information entered my mind as I was automatically shown how to create items out of Qi though only for a short while and some couldn't be used due to their original's properties. I sighed feeling a little bummed but also extremely happy from what I had gotten.
I would've looked around to test my strength once more and saw some sort of giant boulder, My feet moved towards it as I stood in front of it, Before I could realize I had already punched it splitting it in half through the middle due too the fact my Qi was distributed right through the middle in the shape of a sword.
I still didn't have control of this considering how It was my first time using it, but it felt extremely good, It felt addicting to do it again and again but the urges of doing so were resisted. I could keep those fantasies in the back of my mind, I didn't want to hurt anyone unless they hurt me so it would be bad to think of hurting someone without a given reason I had to be responsible after all.
{"God this feels amazing, I wanna destroy more but I shouldn't, I should also learn how to control my Qi properly..."}
I stood there in silence looking at my hand, The feeling was insane to say the least, I had never felt this way before. It was something foreign to me, I sat down with my eyes closed focusing on my Qi, breathing slowly as the Qi continued to circulate through my vessels, my arteries, My organs and bones, and now even my Skin, a thin layer barely visible to anyone around my physical body even if those were to only see Qi it seemed like I was normal even though I wasn't.
I walked back through the Gate waving at them now reaching home once more as I saw my dad wake up, I quickly ran in sitting down in front of him ready to do what he asked, While it seemed weird and would be weird to other peoples point of views, whatever he had told me to do would always be exciting, and because of that I wanted to do that whenever I could, Looking around I saw the place looked a lot cleaner and better.
"Shang? Is that... You? I can't see properly but I can recognize your hair..."
His voice was raspy as he spoke as I moved his hand to tell him to be quiet so he didn't hurt himself while talking to me but moving his hand already showed it was me with him smiling at the thought of that.
"How did I wake up...? I thought I needed medicine for t-that."
I would've nodded a resounding no while looking at my dad making sure he didn't roll off the bed or anything. I could hear some crashing noise from outside the house and what looked like a piece of glass went flying right into the room almost hitting my dad.
I wasn't going to put up with something like this happening so I had got up and quickly left and noticed a group of people standing while laughing with each other and looking slightly towards the side at my direction.
"Yo Loser! What happened?"
He asked this even though from the Trajectory the glass flew at, it clearly came from them, not to mention them still trying not to laugh, I would've sighed seeing the fact they weren't even at the level of Qing Xuan so I knew I could deal with them very easily.
"Look at him! Hes stunned, Whats Wro-"
My body instinctually moved as he spoke as he clearly tried to insult me, He was a hundred percent going to talk about how I couldn't, I had just knew it since literally everyone here did that except for those who just didn't know I even existed, My hand moved forwards connecting with his face sending him flying back with the amount of force I used.
Not only that, I didn't give the other two any chances of reacting I swirled my body in a circle with my leg stretched out hitting both of his friends in the head causing them to fall onto the ground, While I said I wouldn't try violence, That would be unless they tried to harm my dad or mom, anything with Family is something I would not tolerate.
[Shang Haoyu has leveled up]
[50 Points have been given to the User]
Points? I didn't know what that was but I remembered the fact the Shop had been unlocked recently so it probably was for that, I didn't know if there was anything else which used points in Shaper, I looked back seeing those kids on the ground as I sighed, I shouldn't have let kids get to my head...