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Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 1
Sounds of fingers vigorously tapping on a mechanical keyboard along with clicking noises filled the dimly lit room. A certain 30 something so male was concentrating on his game of choice while enjoying the company of his fellow gaming comrades.
"F*king noobs, what are you aiming at!""God damn shitty team."
After giving them some more words of praise and affection the male exited the game and gave his desk a good thump with his palm, which made it shake in response. Well maybe he was a little bit angry, but if you had to play with teammates like he got, you would probably react in a similar way.
He leaned back in his overpriced gamin chair and looked at his small apartment in which he lived alone. His posture wasn't that great and his eyes had bags under his eyes kind of giving him that tired easily irritated look.
"Might as well check out my gmail..."
After scrolling through some advertisements which he promptly deleted, he spotted a strange message at the top which he clicked.
"Is this some kind of scam?"
'Congratulations on getting chosen as an alpha tester for our new Xianxia themed game, immerse yourself in our faction based narrative, build your sect or clan up and become the number one under the heavens.'
"Sect building? is this some kind of strategy game? sounds a bit like and rpg too..."
After reading the colorful email, Matthew decided to give the whole thing a try though it looked like he could fill in a lot of stuff and create his own character right here and now for some reason.
"So I get one main character? guess it's more an rpg then strategy game, maybe you can upgrade stuff in your base or something."
After clicking a big button that said 'Get started' he was taken to a character creator that had a lot of options to choose from, Mat took his time in shaping his characters face, giving him manly facial features and long silver hair, his eyes were blue. For the build, he gave him a robust body type, quite muscular but not an overly beefcake look. 6'2'' as the height which was 190 cm.
"Well that took a bit longer than expected, there are way too many choices in this thing... let's see ..."
He was able to choose clothes for his character, it ranged from all sorts of robes through which he started clicking through and tried to match them to make his creation look nice and badass. He ended with a white one, the character ended up in white clothes. He as wearing mostly functional ones that wouldn't get in the way of a fight, none of those baggy type robes that those sword immortals liked to wear while zooming along with their oversized swords, though that was something he wouldn't be opposed if he got one to fly around. The model had a smaller robe over his body that covered the head part with his long silver locks peeking out for other people to see his abs were also visible as he decided to put a form-fitting shirt, would be a waste to have a muscular body and not show it off right?
"Okay, what's next... starting point?"
You start off as a young Qi Condensation inner disciple of a prominent sect.You start off as the last Nascent Soul elder of a mostly destroyed sect.You start off as a Core Formation young senior of a declining family clan. ( Character will be aged to fill the role)
"Wait... what does that even mean, you make me spend so much time on designing and then you want to turn my perfect boy to an old raisin or a little kid?"
The male grumbled and then looked at the choices that he was giving, he might as well finish it up not like it really mattered to him as he as just killing some time between gaming and before going to sleep.
"Ah whatever, guess choice 3 sounds close enough I'll go with that."
The screen changed to a short backstory that he didn't really want to go through as he started quickly scrolling down, the explanations to the game and world were also mostly skipped as it sounded like gibberish to Mat that was already confused with the Chinese sounding names and terms. Finally, after some skillful clicking, he found himself at the skills menu.
"Ah, guess I get to chose some starting stuff, let's see..."
There weren't that many skills to choose from, but he ended up going for the elemental type packet, with some premade skills that looked the coolest from the descriptions and pictures that were next to them, plus he thought that if he as going with the pure white look, he should add some nice lighting to the mix to fit his character.
"Guess that's it for now... just need to add the name and I'm done... Zhang... is that the first name or last name... hehe"
It didn't take him long to put in Dong as his name, in his mind this being the only obvious choice for a name in this kind of setting. His childish grin didn't last for long as he suddenly heard a strange robotic sounding voice.
[Core Formation beginner package selected]
[Beginning transfer in 3...2...1...]
"Wait what, that's not coming from the PC..."
His vision started going hazy as he heard the voice that sounded like it was speaking directly into his mind. He didn't know what happened afterward as he drifted off to sleep and the last thing he saw was the blinking screen of his computer.
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 2
His ears were ringing and he felt drowsy as he finally came too, Matthew rubbed his glabella while slowly opening his eyes and he was greeted with green. He found himself leaning up against a big tree in an open field, a lot of grass around him with more trees after that as he was apparently in a clearing with no one around him.
"God damn, what happe..."
98%....99%....100%... Ding.
[Downloading of the package finished.]
[Initiating tutorial]
"What the..."
After waking up he was greeted by the sound of the similar robotic voice followed by a dinging sound similar to a microwave being done cooking. As the so called tutorial started he could see some screens pop up in front of him with a lot of words and prompts and something that looked it could fit into a mmorpg game. Matt flailed at the sudden semi-transparent screens in front of him with his hands but they just went through it, though this made him realize that his hands looked a lot rougher then what he was used to.
"Wait what is this..."
He looked at his hands, they looked rough and callused and looked like he could snap some bones with those. He then stood up and started feeling up his body only to realize that he changed into the character he was previously designing along with the same getup that he chose for it. He couldn't see his face but it was just like he made it, just in super high definition as this was a real-life person.
"D-did I just get wished away into another world? or a video game? or both?"
He started frantically looking around the place, not really seeing anyone in the vicinity besides a few hopping bunnies, though they looked a bit strange with those horns sticking out from their foreheads. The square screens in front of his face kept following him around whenever he turned his head to the sides which made him stop and read what was written in them.
[Welcome to 'Immortals R Us' the best cultivation system in all the realms]
[Earn spirit points through various ways and increase your cultivation]
[Increase your faction's reputation to earn rewards, it's always more fun in a group!]
"Uh... what kind of name is that... is this some kind of scam... "
After reading through some introduction gibberish Mat, that was now called Zhang Dong could see his character's status screen though it didn't have much to it besides showing his name and cultivation realm and some more stuffs.
Name: Zhang Dong
Affiliation: Zhang Clan
Cultivation Base Qi: Core Formation(Pending)
Cultivation Base Body: Foundation Establishment(Pending)
Techniques : (Pending)
Dao: (Pending)
While looking through the screen he spotted a flashing button in the top right corner which drew his attention, it read 'Unload starter package' which didn't really mean anything to him at the moment as he found himself pointing with his finger at the button and pressing it in mid-air. He was greeted with the robotic sounding voice after he did that and a countdown. As it counted down he started getting stressed not really knowing if he did the right thing or not but he couldn't really do anything about it now.
[Uploading starter package, prepare to receive the information]
He suddenly felt a sharp pain, his head started throbbing while he collapsed to his knees tightly grasping his head as he squirmed around the grassy ground. His legs twitching around and kicking to the sides as he rolled side to side while holding his head with both his hands and screaming in pain. He could feel information being injected directly into his brain as he received the knowledge about techniques which he previously selected while in the character creator but not like he remembered what he clicked at that point.
Zhang Dong also felt a sharp pain inside of his body in his dantian area, his core was changing. It started crackling with lightning, spinning around as it transformed into an elemental lightning core making his whole body release static energy as it discharged some of it into the surrounding area.
[Transformation of the core finished, lightning core established]
[Beginning body refining...]
The animals in the vicinity could see the grown man squirming on the ground in a weird way, just trashing about while vomiting black blood which made most of them flee out into the forest. He could feel his body tensing up, muscles expanding and bones shifting around as he got stronger and his body got accustomed to the changes, but that wasn't the end of it as knowledge of martial art techniques started flooding his mind, the ways of dao and how to use his cultivation along with the techniques that came with it.
[....DING... starter package uploaded... have a nice day and don't forget to check out your inventory, you will find a couple of goodies!]
"S-shit god almighty...ughhh"
After some projectile vomiting of some black blood and rolling onto his back to pass out for a good 15 minutes Dong finally woke up while still twitching. After wiping the tears and snot from his face and checking out if he didn't pee himself during the whole debacle he rolled to his knees and while supporting himself on the tree, he stood up and took in a deep breath while trying to calm himself down.
"Woah... guess I know kung fu?... they made it look way easier in the movies..."
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 3
Took a while for him to stop hearing a buzzing sound in his ears, his eyes were hurting and his whole body was aching. Matt felt like he had run a marathon, his muscles were sore and twitching while blue and white lightning energy crackled from them. The pain started to subside after a while after which he noticed that his fingers were digging into the tree that he was leaning on, bending the hard wooden bark on it like he was pushing into some soft cardboard. He pulled his hand away to examine it, everything felt surreal at the moment all of his senses felt like they were enhanced as he had a problem in focusing his vision on it.
"Okay let's calm down..."
Matt had a habit of talking to himself, probably because he never had many people to talk to back in his previous world, spending most of his time at the computer screen and just surviving through his workday without interacting with his coworkers all that much. He was a classic introvert, nothing special.
He felt the information insert itself into his brain, which was a lot of gibberish at first but after a while, he managed to piece it together as it was mostly information about the world he was in right now. He found out that he was in isekai of sorts, the planet was similar to earth but a lot bigger, closer to the size of the sun, quite huge. There were quite a few moons surrounding this planet, which he could even see now in daylight as they were quite close by, some looking green some gray and others red.
After shaking off the sweat and snot, surprisingly his clothes weren't covered in the black blood sludge that was covering the ground, guess they had some self-cleaning enchantment on it or something, which he would probably confirm after checking out is equipment screen and so he did.
*Um... status?*
He thought to himself as the screen popped up in front of him, he tried playing around with it managing to enlarge it with his fingers if he wanted it swiping at it as you would on a tablet screen, though he noticed that if he thought about it the screens and prompts would change to suit his needs without any hand movement.
*Oh neat, will take some time to get used to.*
Name :Zhang DongAffiliation :Zhang ClanSpirit Points : 9999Cultivation Base Qi :Core Formation [Early Stage 0%] (Lightning Core)Cultivation Base Body :Foundation Establishment [Middle Stage 0%] (Silver Body)Techniques :Lightning Qi cultivation art, Silver Body Arts, Thunderlight Sword, Thunder Movement Art...Dao : Dao of Heavenly Lightning , Dao of Smithing and CraftingOther : Senior Aura
Matt read through the status screen, it had a lot more entries now than it previously had which piqued his interest a bit. He was mostly a gaming guy but in his off time he did read a couple of Xianxia and Wuxia type novels, though he was more of a western than eastern fantasy type of guy as he always got confused with the naming sense in those novels and had to reread it to actually know who was interacting with who, plus the tragedy of coming back to an old novel and not knowing what the hell was even going on anymore was a real thing.
*Okay guess we are going with a cultivation system, the stage kind of one...*
The status screen showed him basic stats but nothing too specific, so he hovered his finger over the cultivation base which made it go into a bit more detail.
Cultivation Base Qi :
Core Formation
Cultivation Realm
Early Stage 0%
Foundation type
Heavenly Lightning Foundation(Immortal Grade)
Core type
Lightning Core (Immortal Grade)
*Immortal grade huh?*
He somehow knew what that meant as the information was dumped into his head just a few moments ago so he knew about the grading system, it went on from Common, Mortal, Earth, Heaven, Immortal, Celestial Immortal and then finally Eternal. Though from what he could tell on this planet Immortal grade was the cream of the crop, also those ranks had sub ranks ranging from low grade to perfect grade.
He also tapped the spirit point tab, finding out in the description that it was the name of this systems point system and he could spend them in various ways to increase his level, he could increase his cultivation base directly but he could also spend it on his support skills and techniques plus the system gave him a tip that he could increase all of his skills the old fashioned way as he gained said points if he did it himself.
He tabbed out of that screen and noticed a colorful blinding icon, that had a glowing sword and shield and a sack with hat looked like to be spirit stones.
*God damn, does this thing have a cash shop?*
He clicked the icon and it brought him to a cash shop screen, it looked like your regular free to play, mmorpg kind of cash shop with a search bar, on the left side he could see all the tabs like 'Magic Treasures' 'Spirit Herbs' 'Items' 'Weapons' 'Cultivation Techniques' and the sorts, while on the right side he could see the descriptions and the costs, they all had various costs ranging from 10 SP for some low grade common pills to millions and billions for some Immortal and beyond ones.
*God damn it, what kind of scam is this running, how am I supposed to get a million Spirit Points? Do they grow on trees? Can I suck them from some voluptuous babes bosom? wait... I hope you can do that..."
But soon he would find out one way of getting them as he suddenly felt a jolt run through his spine which made him turn around. He saw the unsuspecting bunny with the horn staring at him, his eyes red and out for blood. As he was staring at the creature he noticed that it wasn't just a regular-sized rabbit it was more wolf sized. Which to him was quite huge and as he blinked the creature decided to charge at him, horn first after giving out a high pitched scream.
"Wait... Mr. Rabbit lets talk about this like civilized people..."
Matt gulped as he wasn't much of a fighter, going through his life without having actually fought anyone, at most he got into shouting matches with some people but that didn't really count for much. So being the heavenly god of destruction that he was, the Senior that all his juniors look up to... he just froze in place like a brick. The monster rabbit didn't stop as it gained speed and momentum but our godly senior just stood there while sweating profusely.
*Is this it... am I going to get done in by Bugs Bunny here... I'm still a virgin for Christ sake...*
As the impending doom in the shape of a sharp horn was flying at his face he finally mustered up some courage to push his legs to try to dodge, but he wasn't dodging to the side, he was far to untrained for that to happen as he propelled himself backward. Though not being used to his new bodies enhanced stats he lost his balance the ground caved in and he did a backflip hitting the demon spawn of a rabbit right in the body promptly turning the creature into meat paste while he himself flew 50 meters back and hitting the tree on his way which broke in half as his face hit it, he tumbled a ways back before coming to a stop, he was on his back with his legs back while his butt was showing and his knees were resting on the ground next to his shoulders, if you didn't know what was going on you might think he was presenting his rear end to his lover or something.
[Frenzied Rabbit Slain ( Qi Condensation 6th stage ) Earned 50 Spirit Points
Hello author here, don't expect this to be anything grand as this is the first time I'm writing anything. I'm sorry for any grammatical or spelling mistakes that I make as this is my second language. Not really sure where I'm going to take the story if I ever finish it as I'm more of a go with the flow kind of person and don't really plan ahead that much.
Also playing around with the text editor to make it look a bit nicer, having tables to keep everything more orderly is always a nice thing. Also open to critique just be easy on this noobie, I cry easy ((´д｀))
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 4
There wasn't much pain as Matt found out that his new body was a lot more sturdy than his old one was, something probably to do with the silver body thing and how it was at the foundation establishment stage. He rolled to the side and pushed himself off the ground a bit surprised at what just happened. His foot was quite bloody and his hair had some tree bark in it as he looked at the area where he 'kicked' the creature while trying to fell for his dire life.
"I-is it dead?"
He looked at the destroyed tree in the distance, he couldn't see if the horned rabbit was dead or not as the tree was in the way but he felt somehow that it was not among the living anymore after the robotic voice announced that he had slain the creature. But being the true hero that he was, Matt grasped a branch from the side and slowly crept up to the spot that the 'battle' took place.
"Hey, there Mr. Bunny... you're not going to pounce at me again are you?"
Gulping sounds could be heard as the over six-foot-tall man crept to the now tree stump, he peeked behind it slowly and could see the red trail and entrails of the monster spread on the grassy field. It looked dead, not even twitching or anything as he slowly tippty toed closer and closer. His hand grasped the wide branch as he finally was at the head part, his kick having parted the weaker creature in two. After a few pokes to the head with his trusted 'weapon' he sighed in relief, then a vein could be seen appearing on his forehead as he gave the dead thing a wack with the branch putting it in an even more miserable state than it previously as.
"Damn rabbit! Who's your daddy now you little shit!"
The rabbit didn't reply but Matt started venting his emotions while poking and hitting it with the stick which broke in two after a while. He tossed to the side and calmed down, looking at the monster and then to his spirit points which now counted up to 10049.
*Guess that's one way to do it... why did it have to be this kind of setting...*
The novel protagonists made it look easy, get an op system? Learn some badass skills? Slay some monsters and court some ladies. Reality as a bit different as he didn't really know how to react as the monster run towards him, even though it was a trash mob that he could fart to death at this point.
*I have to get my shit together, these cultivation worlds are always so bloodthirsty, everything will stab you in the back if you look weird in their general direction*
Matt wasn't much of a fighter and if he could choose he would rather take the pacifist route and talk it out, the whole 'Kill them if they besmirch your honor' thing didn't really go with his life philosophy. But this was a nice wake-up call as he scanned through his list of skills and abilities. He had to test them out to see if he had any way of defending himself if anything bigger then the rabbit would attack him. What if some huge black duck was next? Or a yellow grizzly bear... wait wasn't that in that other franchise... well never mind.
*Okay I'm sure I had some skills in there...Lightning Qi cultivation art, Silver Body Arts, Thunderlight Sword, Thunder Movement Art*
He mumbled to himself while focusing on some skills, not really knowing what to do. He focused on the Thunderlight Sword one, did he need to get a sword to test it out? He had a feeling that he didn't need one for it. Matt focused on the name and then on his hand, he kind of knew what to do as he started gathering spirit energy into his right hand. He closed it into a fist, its electricity crackled around it and then with a loud boom of thunder a saber of light expanded from his fist being 1,5 m long.
"Woah... is this a lightsaber..."
It looked similar to it, but looked more unstable with the lightning energy buzzing and jolting out of the blade's shaft. He swung it around and it made familiar noises that you would expect a lightsaber to make. Matt looked to the side at the half-collapsed tree and then back to his light weapon. He took aim and swung to cut at the part that was still standing and with one swipe managed to slice it in half, the poor tree just falling apart even more and probably cursing him and his ancestors to a life of misery as it faded away.
"...okay... this could work...what else do we have"
He went through his skills a bit, somehow managing to throw some lightning-induced punches and kicks that made thundering sounds in the process and scaring the wildlife around but probably alerting some potential baddies in the process. Matt slowly got used to his new body finding it quite more robust than his old one, even after running around and flailing his hands and legs in all directions while 'training' he didn't feel all that tired, he was also strong, like really really strong. He could lift up large boulders with ease, and crush rock into dust with those big burly hands of his which gave him quite the confidence boost.
During the whole training montage that took about an hour he finally noticed that he had something stuck to his belt, it looked like a ring with some Chinese characters on it. Weirdly enough he could understand what was written on it 'Spatial Storage Ring' and he already knew what it was for. He focused his mind on it, injecting his spiritual qi into it, the ring had some items in it. He slowly started playing around with it and after fiddling for some time managed to remove all the objects and place them on the ground in front of him to examine.
"Hm... is that a flying sword or something? Some strange pills... a golden hammer... some scrolls and some books ..."
He glanced at the things but didn't really know what to do with them as he only had a rudimentary knowledge of the world around him, the gaming system didn't give him anything specific but he knew that those were probably some starting items that he received along with his package.
"Could really use something to identify stuff with... I have no idea what this is used for...wait a second..."
He remembered about the item store that he previously saw and pulled up the window with it.
"Hm, let's see..."
He poked the search field and was able to input words into it, he wrote 'Analize' but then changed it to 'Appraisal' as that gave more coherent choices.
Glasses of the SageBig glasses that give you that nerdy look, insert some spiritual qi into them to appraise items.5000 Spirit PointsEye of Appraisal (Skill, Evolving type)Look at an item to appraise it, appraisal stats vary by skill rank (You are able to appraise items 1 cultivation realm below your current cultivation at start)9000 Spirit PointsPill of AppraisalSwallow it to temporarily gain the Appraisal skill and identify items. 500 Spirit Points per pill.
There were more choices in the store but those were the options that piqued his interests.
*Hm... the Glasses sound okay... but it doesn't say if there is a limit at what they can identify... also not really keen on wearing those. The pills look like a scam to just dump points into so the middle chose looks the best... but uhh... that almost all my points...*
After contemplating for a bit more he went with the skill choice, it looked like the best deal at the time and it was an evolving skill so he could probably level it up. After pressing the buy button he looked at this spirit point number go down into the gutter.
[Uploading skill, prepare to receive the information]
"Oh shit, not this again..."
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 5
His eyes got extremely itchy, it was like a bunch of mosquitoes decided to have a crazy party right inside his eye sockets. It was uncomfortable, to say the least, plus his forehead was also throbbing as the information on how to use the new skill was shoved in there as well. Matt wanted to strangle the person who made the information distribution in this strange system and also give him a couple of slaps, but this time around it didn't take that long till he felt a release from the itching and pain, probably something to do with it only being one skill this time around and not a full information dump.
Matt rubbed his teary eyes and straightened out his posture as he blinked a couple of times, his vision going from hazy to sharp as time passed. He looked down at the items on the ground, focusing on the sword and as he did he could see some words popping up.
Crystalline Flying Sword : Earth high grade, perfect condition
The sword was bluish-green and looked like it was made from crystals, it wasn't pointed at the end but was flatter. It was quite a lot bigger than regular swords making Matt think of a peculiar one-eyed, one-armed manga protag that had a rage problem. He figured that it was this big so that he could stand on it as he flew about and he kind of knew how he should do it, thanks to the previous information dump that he received.
*Okay moving on...*
He started scanning the rest of the items, managing to identify everything some the pills were used for restoring spirit qi, while others were used to restore health they were all in the earth grade which made him think that's probably what would be around his level, maybe a bit below. The books and scrolls were just cultivation manuals of the skills that he already knew, he wasn't sure what they were for as he already knew them, maybe he could sell them? Then he turned his attention to the map which he took and started to examine, it didn't come together with a gps though as he didn't have any idea where on the map he actually was.
*Well... this doesn't help at all... just some strange continents that I don't know, At least there is a name... Hm ...Heavenly Spirit Realm? Well, that sounds quite generic as you can get... can the system help with this somehow?*
Not much on the map could be discerned beside that so while grasping the map he opened up the system window wondering if he could find some help there. He was pleasantly surprised as the system did give him a new prompt which he clicked and selected.
World map item identified, absorb? Yes. No.
After a little jolt to the skull which he was now getting used to he noticed that he got a map option in his system screen, he could even bring up a mini-map that spread through a couple of kilometers around him. He could see a lot of dots some red, some green, some blue. Which he deducted that the red ones were probably monsters or beasts like the horned rabbit he just killed, green ones probably friendlies and blue ones maybe unknowns? He would have to confirm his theory later but now he went back to examining his stuff as he was mostly done.
He looked at his clothes, checked his pockets and scanned the ring once more to check if he didn't miss anything important and found some shiny gold coins tucked away in a sack by his belt with some shiny crystals to boot. After identifying them as plain gold coins and spirit stones he got a prompt once more as he was identifying the stones while his system window was out.
Spirit source detected, absorb lower grade spirit stone? Yes. No.
Matt raised an eyebrow and selected yes, and watched as the spirit stone dissolved into lights which then entered his body through his skin.
Spirit source absorbed, you gained 10 spirit points.
"I guess it works like that too? Neat."
He placed the pouch of coins and spirit stone into his storage ring along with the rest of the items he wouldn't really be using at the moment. He didn't absorb any more of the spirit stones as he didn't know if he would need those for something later and from what the info dump in his brain was telling him there were many uses for those, ranging from crafting to just plain old trading with others for other treasures and items.
The golden hammer was identified as a crafting tool with some nice bonuses, but he would need to get his hands on some crafting manuals to go with his crafting skills that he already had gained in the starter package. He tossed the shiny thing into his spatial ring and looked as it just vanished into thin air still a bit baffled by the whole sight.
*Well I guess I should get this thing to work now."
He looked at the huge person-sized sword on the ground and picked it up with his hand, surprisingly it wasn't all that heavy though as he gave it a few practice swings it had a nice ring to it and generated a nice gust, you wouldn't want to get hit by this thing.Matt looked at the flying sword and concentrated his Qi, he was starting to get the hang of this whole cultivation thing as he could feel the sword absorb his spirit. The sword started to shake and gently vibrate hovering upwards as he let go of the grip.
*This is getting even neater with each passing moment...*
He forgot about the dangers around him as the flying sword started swishing about , wobbling at start but then it swished back and forth like a drone, though he noticed that he couldn't control it too well if it got more than 10 meters away from his body, might have just been his inexperience or maybe that it wasn't a sword meant for fighting that much and more as a way of transport. Matt hopped on the wide blade and ordered the weapon to move upwards firstly just letting it move him up and down as he tried to balance himself on it without falling over. Luckily he came equipped with the sword flying technique which let him move around on it, while maybe a bit slow at first but with time he would probably get a bit more comfortable. After moving in circles while staying close to the ground a smile was plastered all over his face, as who wouldn't like to zoom around the area on a kick-ass looking sword like this? Though after a moment of bad judgment he jumped off while the sword punctured the tree stump in the middle of the field. He placed it in his ring afterward and placed the ring on his finger as he relaxed a gathered his thoughts.
*What am I supposed to do now, this is all nice and fine but I can't just run around in this field or forest without a place to go... wait wasn't there some setting to this...*
He opened up his system menu again and quickly moved over to his stat page and he clearly cloud see that he was affiliated with the Zhang clan, he clicked on that to bring up if there was any explanation for it.
Zhang Clan :
Once a prominent family clan but now it's in decline, it's patriarch had failed in advancing his cultivation and suffered for it with early death. The clan is in dire need in higher cultivation elders so it has reached out to side families for help.
The clan is situated in the Spirit Spring City with a population of 10 million.
"Guess that would be a good place to start, now how do I get to Spirit Spring City..."
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 6
Matt who was named Zhang Dong, which he still thought sounded hilarious in his mind clicked on his system screen and took a peek at his own name, wondering if it would bring out anything about his new persona and it did.
Zhang Dong :
Age : 30 , Mother Zhang Biyu (Deceased) , Father Zhang Peng (Deceased)
You were the child of two clan members of the Zhang Clan, your mother died while giving birth, your father a regular elder member of the clan brought you up till he also died after a beast attack, you were 12 years old at the time. Swearing vengeance on the beast you dedicated your life to slaying the evil monster. You didn't interact with the rest of the clan giving them the impression of a stoic type. You left the clan after reaching the age of 20 and ventured the world. Your cultivation level exceeds your peers, your cultivation choice of heavenly dao makes you give off a noble aura. After reaching the core formation realm you managed to slay the evil beast that took your parents in a ferocious battle. Afterward, you heard the rumors that your old clan was in decline and decided to see if you could help them out with anything.
*Well that's a nice little story, well at least I don't have any family members that know me, that would make it weird if they started acting all familiar with me. Guess going with lightning wasn't such a bad idea if it will give me a popularity boost like that.*
Matt smirked while reading through his short bio, that didn't tell him much about his situation, he was more or less a blank slate to the people of the Zhang clan as it said that he didn't interact with them all that much from a young age, so it wouldn't be weird if he couldn't identify anyone if he showed up, he didn't really look forward to any awkward situations that could come from that.
*Okay spirit spring city, where is that and how do I get there...*
He fumbled around his map system and found a handy GPS like option that let him search for things and after writing in the name of the city it showed him the direction that he should be heading in. Matt opened up his eyes wide as he looked at just how far away the city was, it was in the hundreds of thousands of kilometers, which was more than the whole circumference of planet earth that he lived on. Guess he would have to figure out this flying sword thing otherwise he would probably spend his whole life just walking there.
*Why do they have to make everything so big in here, is someone overcompensating with something here?*
His brows were furrowed as he looked at his destination, though he could see that there were other smaller landmarks on his way, plus he had some gold coins and spirit stones so he would probably have a place that he could stay in while traveling. Matt's train of thought got interrupted as he spotted a lot of red dots moving in his direction, the thunder sounds were quite loud that he was producing with most of his skills so more trouble was heading his way, this made him sweat a bit.
*Okay... calm down, they are just weak little creatures, my power level should be way above them, they shouldn't even be able to scratch me if they are below the early stage of the foundation level.*
Z.D. tried to pump himself up while looking in the direction of the red dots and as they appeared he noticed that it was the same wolf sized bunny creature type as before. He had his appraisal skill this time around so as he focused on the fuzzy balls he could see their cultivation realm, safe to say they were all in the Qi Condensation realm, which made him a bit less tense but he was still uncomfortable. The horny bunnies looked at him with their red eyes that were filled with rage and madness and gave out high pitched sounds before charging at him.
*Why are these things even attacking me, shouldn't they run when they meet someone of a higher cultivation level, thought magical beast should be somewhat intelligent... Maybe it has something to do with the Frenzied prefix in their name? *
He focused on the charging creatures while feeling tense, but as he did so he noticed that they were moving really slow, like as if they were in bullet time. He could clearly see them charging at him all 5 of the little buggers, crooked teeth in their mouths and pointy horns ready to penetrate him in various ways. He was quite a distance away from then so he decided to test out the waters, he quickly grasped a larger rock from the ground and then promptly chugged it at the closes one of the buggers. The round object just flew through the air with momentum and hit the creature right on the mouth. The monster hare gave out a strange sound before his head exploded along with the rock that hit him.
Frenzied Rabbit Slain ( Qi Condensation 5th stage ) Earned 40 Spirit Points
*One down...*
After the first kill Matt decided to keep it safe and started running around and chugging rocks at the fuzzy buggers, sometimes he hit on the first try, sometimes he had to run away while the monster bunnies chased him around the field but he was much faster than them so after a while all the creatures were slain and covered the grassy field in their blood.
*Geez... what's up with these shitty rabbits...*
They all laid dead before his mighty rock chucking skills, he felt a sense of accomplishment even though he bested the beasts in a cowardly way, it was better to be safe then sorry though if people from this world saw a core formation senior running away from Qi Condensation creatures while chugging rocks at them they would probably think that they had a bit too much to drink. He would probably have to grow some balls before he started interacting with the people of this world or else they would see him as quite the oddball.
*Damn, after a hard-fought battle I sure could use something to drink, I didn't see anything back there in the spatial ring though.*
His belly rumbled a bit as well as he was getting hungry, he rubbed his belly as he felt the hunger, he stopped a minute as he noticed the abs that he was now, long gone was his flabby belly that he was used to now he too had a nice beach body. After some self-encouragement in the form of patting his muscles he decided to check the item shop if it had any food and it did, it even had hamburgers and soft drinks but there were various other foods around ones that made his eye bulge out, but mostly because they have astronomical costs to them so he went with the cheap junk food for now, guess old habits die hard.
After his burping from his soft drink, he decided to take a look at that flying blade of his but before he could do that he noticed that even more red dots were approaching him and one from them was looking a lot bigger than the rest which gave him a bad premonition.
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 7
He started wondering if he should move from this open spot as he was in the same damn area for the past couple of hours, no wonder some bloodthirsty creatures were just emerging one after another if he just hung around the same spot all the time for no reason whatsoever.
But using the help of his 'radar' he picked up some rocks and decided to use the same tactic, hey why fix it if it's not broken? He took aim and fired off his rock bullets hitting some of the rabbit mobs right on the head, his aim getting better and better with each of his throws. Though after he managed to take care of a couple of the raging monsters he could hear some trees fall down in the direction that the monsters were coming from. He could hear the trunks snapping and the birds flying away as something got closer and closer and then he saw it. It was a giant rabbit monster, about as big as a polar bear, it had black fur that was kind of shiny, it's build was a bit lankier and lean then the what the smaller rabbits had and instead of a horn sticking out of its forehead, it looked like it had a bladed weapon stuck there instead.
Matt threw the rocks at it, but they shattered against the monster's fur that seemed to be metallic in nature so his tactic of kiting around the mobs went out of the window. He focused his eyes on the large monster that was roaring at him in a much lower-pitched voice then the rest of its kin.
Enraged Obsidian Hare Foundation Establishment Middle Stage
*Guess throwing rocks at that thing won't work... should I try with a boulder?*
The creature didn't give our hero much time to think as it charged at him while its eyes glowed a deep crimson, it didn't really care about its kin either as it just plowed through them as it was much faster than the low-level rabbit monsters. It tried skewering the man dressed in white, though it missed the mark by a hair as Matt managed to dodge to the side now without losing it's cool, the creature was a lot faster then the other ones but not as fast as he was, though he barely managed the maneuver still not being used to this combat thing but he was slowly getting used to it, adrenaline was pumping through his veins as he also managed to dodge a swipe from the thing's large paw that had huge claws on it, though he lost some of his long locks to it as he backed away, even more, trying to formulate a plan in his mind while the Hare kept swiping and trying to headbutt him.
*D-damn... this thing isn't stopping... what the hell can I do, the rocks aren't doing anything... should I try hitting it without of those strange skills that I have...*
He didn't think about just running away as probably running into the forest where more of these things could get him wouldn't be such a good idea, either way, so he used the skill that he previously played around the most and summoned the sparkling light sword that he had. Matt was still a bit scared to get too close to that thing, what if this lightsaber of his doesn't do anything and he ends up getting mauled by the thing, so he waited for the thing to do another large swipe at him with its paw which he dodged to the side and after finally maning up he delivered a sideswipe, the aim was the large arm of the creature. As the flashing sword came in contact with the black metal like fur of the monster it discharged electricity directly into its body, who would have thought that the metal in the creature's fur would be good at conducting, right?
The sword of light dug into the flesh of the monster but it didn't sever it in one clean swipe as out Zhang Dong didn't have that much practice in swinging a sword of light just yet, but it did some damage as he stepped back even using his movement technique that made thunderous sounds.
"...Huff... Gasp... I-i can do this..."
He could see that the creature wasn't looking so great as the loss of its front paw made it limp quite a bit, making it lose a lot of speed and quickness in the process. While holding his sword he managed to cleave one of the grunts of the larger monsters in half as it tried to attack him from the side. He didn't charge at the injured thing as it was still going at him for some reason, it was clearly mad with rage not really caring for it's well being as a normal animal would have probably fled by now. He danced around it some more, poking and cutting it here and there mostly aiming at the limbs and after a while, the Hare couldn't really move as all of its limbs had huge gashes in them. Before going for the last hit he made sure to back away from it so that the smaller mobs would follow and so that he could clear them out as well and after that he delivered the finishing blow, separating the creatures head from its body in one clean swipe. Of course, after he did that, he collapsed on the ground onto his knees and continued panting.
Enraged Obsidian Hare Slain, gained 6100 Spirit Points
*I did it...*
It wasn't the cleanest fight and he was fighting something much below his level, but being a normal person on the inside it was tough to get used to slaying huge monsters on his first day. He stood up and examined the body of the thing in front of him, Matt started to think that he should probably get out of this place as soon as possible because these berserked mobs would probably be appearing more often and what will he do if the big boss decides to great him and he ends up in its belly.
As he looked at the cleaved head he noticed something shiny and round sticking out from the neck, he moved in close and picked up the orb that was dark in color and about the size of a golf ball.
Obsidian Hare Core discovered, absorb spiritual energy?
"Oh? guess I can use this... think this thing can also be used for crafting things... I think I'll save it for later."
He pocketed the monster core and looked at it, using his light sword to cut of the blade looking horn of the creature, thinking that he might be able to sell it somewhere later, this giving him the vibe of looting a monster mob after you killed it in a video game. He also wondered if he could find any cores on the lesser rabbits, but he gave up on that after looking at the gory bunny bits all over the place, he didn't really want to go through all those animal entrails, though he did take the horns, maybe he could use those as throwing knives or something. And just as he did that he noticed more red dots coming this way.
"Okay, screw this..."
He tossed out his flying sword and jumped on it, making it slowly move upwards and into the air and would you know it as he was in the air he could see more of the same creatures down below walking out of the bushes, he could probably grind quite a bit of points on those things but he wanted to get to some town and just lie down and take a warm shower.
*Wait, do they even have showers in this world?*
Guess a hot bath would do too, so he moved the sword forward, it wasn't moving fast for now as it wobbled around in the air in the direction of the first settlement which looked like a small village, it was still quite far but as he picked up the speed and got used to flying he would probably reach it before the sun went down, he didn't even want to think about the weird creatures that came out at night in this world.
"Next stop, a warm bath!"
Chapter 8
-Schwing-
Sounds of a sword cutting through the air could be heard as Matt flew through the air, at first he had to go down to his knees and hold on for his dear life as he was wooshing through the air a bit too fast, but after a while he started getting used to it now looking like a bro surfing around in the sky with his hands on the sides as he balanced it out. He didn't have to do that though but he just liked how it looked, the flying sword technique kind of made his feet stick to the sword blade so he wouldn't fall down it also generated a little spiritual forcefield around his body, covering it in a thin membrane so that the winds wouldn't get to him, though his long silver locks flopped around all over the place which was a bit annoying if he tried doing anything besides flying in one direction while facing it.
He was getting close and close to his destination, his speed was picking up as he hovered above the large forest of the beasties and there were many of them there, he could see the monsters duking it out as he was above them, he was lucky that most of the flying beasts left him alone as he discovered that he could release his aura that was of the core formation level and if he did that the non frenzied beasts would quickly turn around and flee from him. He also learned that he could more or less judge the power of the beasts around him even without his appraisal skill, but he could probably use it for other things later on and he felt that 9000 points weren't all that much as he almost got over 6000 points for slaying a monster that wasn't all that strong.
He started whistling to himself as he flew around, trying out various cool poses. He crossed his arms in front of himself and struck a haughty pose, then he moved his arms behind his back and straightened out his back to look like a seasoned master, the fluttering of his hair and robe made him give off a refined aura. He thought that the last one was probably the proper one to use if he meets other people, as the other ones made him look either a bit goofy or eccentric, this was a good middle ground of a mysterious expert.
As he flew longer and longer he noticed that the magical beasts were kind of getting weaker and weaker, that was probably the indication that he was getting closer to some human settlements as the weaker the mobs the safer it would be in the vicinity of any village. The thought of some rest and relaxation made him release more of his spiritual power which he had loads to spare the flying technique wasn't that hard on his cultivation, maybe because he had it cultivated to a high level. Though as the village on the map starting getting closer and closer he started to worry a bit.
*Will they be friendly? don't think they'll attack me like these monsters right?*
He wasn't sure about the people around this world, he hoped they weren't that bloodthirsty but this was a world ruled by the laws of the jungle it was a lot less organized as his old one plus he wasn't part of it that much. His introverted character trait made him a bit reclusive around other people, but if he found someone he hit it off he was able to keep up a conversation. Though he probably wouldn't need to interact that much with others, he would probably just find himself some food and a place to stay for the night his spatial ring didn't have any magical hotels in it, though the cash shop did but the pricing on those was horrendous.
Matt gave off a sight and continued with his trajectory, now even being able to detect some humans on the way, they weren't that far from him and he stopped and looked at the map of his and as he calculated with his big brain that he was just a couple of kilometers away from them, he might have just read it from the map, but no one would ever know that. The small habitat which he presumed would be a village wasn't far from those people, he hoped there wouldn't be any problem when he arrived but he slowed down a bit to see if his clothes were in order as he didn't want to look scuffed when he arrived or make a fool out of himself, he also hoped that his choice of clothes wouldn't be considered strange he did look like a martial artist and all.
As he got closer and closer to the blue dots and noticed that there were 5 of them and they were moving in the direction of a red dot. They were probably a hunting party going for some beast meat. He slowed down and increased his altitude a bit as he didn't really want to alert anyone to his position, he hoped that they wouldn't see him from so high up while he himself with his enhanced vision could see what was going on.
After getting to a good spot he stopped and focused his eyes below him, his vision zooming up to the desired spot as he could see 5 men encircling what seemed to look like a deer, or maybe it was a moose? He couldn't really tell though it was quite big for a deer more of the size of a large horse with huge antlers that looked like they could do a lot of damage, the tail that it had looked also a bit strange it had a strange pattern to it and looked like crocodile skin which didn't match the rest of the big deer which had brown fur on it. It wasn't very strong he could feel it even without his appraisal skill as it was even weaker than the monster rabbits that he previously met.
*Interesting... I'll just wait and see how these people hunt I guess...*
Matt wasn't all that in a hurry as he was close to his destination and with the help of his flying sword he wouldn't take long, plus he could follow these people back there if there were problems with the map. He could see some arrows poking out of the beasts hide as it ran and tried to evade the attackers, the men were getting closer and closer though slowly tiring the deer out while plunging more sharp arrows into it and it didn't take long before it fell to the side and the people had some meat to transport, it was quite uneventful as he watched the people tend to the dead creature, slicing of its tail and horns and putting those away, probably to sell it or use it for something else.
*Hm, well I guess it would look strange if I popped out now and asked them for directions... I'll just keep it low key and follow them for now, maybe I'll learn something while at it.*
He rubbed his chin while the men dug into the deer's flesh, taking out a round object that was probably a beast core, but it was really small compared to the one that he got. Then he heard a howl and could see the men become alert as they got in a defensive stance. He glanced at his minimap and could see a lot of red dots moving closer and closer to where the men where and soon enough he could see a big pack of what seemed to look like wolves but they were red in color and quite scary looking.
*Gulp... they can take those out, right?*
He wasn't very keen on interfering and if the people survived in this environment the probably were capable fighters, right? He apprised the wolves and they had the obvious 'Crimson Wolf' Name to them, but there was another thing, the just like the ones that attacked him had the 'Frenzied' and some had the 'Enraged' prefix as well. Judging by that fact they would probably throw themselves on the people, plus the natives didn't look that confident as Matt could see them shouting to each other while backing away. They even abandoned their hunted deer while backing away, probably hoping that the wolfs would go for it instead of them but the beasts ignored the fresh dead meat and threw themselves at the hunters that weren't too keen on a fight.
*Hey watch out!*
Chapter 9
Hunter point of view :
Cheng Yun was a member of the Tatar Tribe, he just reached the age of 15. This was a special occasion in his tribe, at this age you were considered an adult and you had to start real work for your tribe. The males were obligated to hunt or if they weren't cut out for that gather food or take care of the livestock. Most of them preferred hunting though, it was the most honorable type of work in the tribe, hunting down beasts and protecting your family was an honor for these people.
The men from the tribe formed smaller hunting parties of five people, this was his first time out in the deep forest , children were forbidden in going in too deep as dangers lurked at every corner. Lately the creatures in the forest became more and more unruly as his fellow tribesmen came back injured more and more, even a few deaths happened. They reported about how the beasts were acting strange, eyes going red while they lost their mind, they charged at the humans and other beasts without any sense of self, just throwing at anything that moved and ripping it apart, they even went after their own kin from time to time.
Though the village he was part of couldn't support themselves on only farmed food and gathered fruits and vegetables from the forest, they needed meat dense in calories and also Qi. After a mortal began their cultivation and went their first step into the Qi Condensation stage, even if it was the lowest one they started to need food high in spiritual Qi, the stronger the person became the more they needed, there were all kind of spirit foods around but they were hard to produce out in a small village as they had , the seeds were hard to come by and you needed special qi rich soil to grow them, so the best way to circumvent that was hunting what most people called spirit beasts.
A spirit beast of the same cultivation as a human mostly came out on top, because of the larger size but it was possible to win. That was why they formed small or large hunting parties to hunt, mostly targeting the herbivore types of creatures as they weren't as ferocious attitude like the carnivores and were less craft than the omnivores. But lately the beasts started acting up, getting violent and attacking people that were clearly of a higher caliber then them. The people didn't know what was driving them crazy but they would have to get to the bottom of this if they didn't want to have a hard winter without any stored meat.
They managed to find a nice adult Serpent Tailed Deer, it would bring quite a lot of meat for the people in the tribe, he was more or less in a support role on this hunt, using his bow skills that he was quite proud of as he was the best at his age group. He managed to hit the beast in a couple of spots but the damage wasn't that great, but after a while it added up and with the help of the more experienced hunters they managed to bring the spirit beast down without any loses on their part.
He was in charge of the field dressing, meaning it was the removal the animal's internal organs, also known as the entrails, which was necessary to preserve its meat. While he was doing the dirty work the others used their time to pluck out any arrows from the deer and any that they could salvage from the vicinity. They fished out the core and were ready to move, they didn't want to wait that much and the smell of blood would probably attract the other beasts. They were quite unlucky though as a pack of crimson wolves suddenly appeared around them.
The cultivation levels of the tribe members wasn't all that high, the highest was at the Qi Condensation 6th level, they were poor and it was hard to cultivate without any resources. The condensation stage ranged from 1 to 12 but every three levels you would reach a bottleneck, so between the 3/4, 6/7, 9/10 stages and then at the 12 stage the biggest one as you had to form your foundation. Every bottleneck was harder than the last one, so without resources being them guidance from a seasoned master, spirit herbs, cultivation manuals it was impossible to advance.
The wolves were between the 4th and 6th levels, but there were over a dozen of them and they were only five. This was quite the predicament as the only option was to flee, they didn't stand a chance against those beasts that also didn't care much for their own safety and didn't feel any pain when attacked. They abandoned the deer in the hopes that the wolves would go for it and started backing away, but they just howled and looked at them with a ferocious glint in their eyes, more interested in the moving humans than the ready to devour dead beast in front of them.
The hunters fired off a couple of arrows that did some surface damage and then bolted out of there with haste as the chase started, they knew the forest quite well so even though the wolves would be faster then them in an open field as they run through the the forest while having to go through bushes and trees they could somehow flee. Though that was the case for the four experienced older hunters, the boy was panicking and tripped over a root which sealed his fate. He soon felt sharp teeth going into his thigh as one of the red beasts caught up to him as he was trying to get up. The pain was unbearable and he screamed, his fellow tribesmen looked at him in fear but they knew that the couldn't do much for the youth.
But at this moment something strange happened, as another wolf was about to go for a neck bite while the other one was chewing the kids thigh a sudden explosion happened kicking up dust and debris into the area. The hunters covered their eyes as the smoke flew into their eyes trying to make out what was going on, was it another horrendous beast that came to wreck more chaos? But to their surprise after the dust had cleared they could see a huge sword in the spot that the charging wolf was in, sliced in half. They saw a man standing on the hilt of the large sword, hands behind his back and standing straight up with an otherworldly aura to him
He looked like an immortal in that pure white robe, the top of his face was covered with his robe and his back was facing the four hunters while the scared bitten boy was a couple of meters from the huge sword. They could see lightning crackling from him as he looked at the crimson wolf that was next to the boy, it wasn't biting his leg anymore as it growled and flung itself at the new enemy only to be bisected by a strange glowing sword that the stranger formed in his hand.
If they could they would have cheered on but they were too shocked to say anything and just gulped while watching as all the wolves charged at the robust looking cultivator. They stood no chance as with every swipe of his light sword a beast fell. Soon they were all dead in a gory puddle around the white robed man. He stood there for a moment as he looked at the slain monsters and then looked down at the youth that was still in need of medical attention.
Cheng Yun looked up while grasping his leg, he was bleeding out as the wolf had mangled up his artery. He would probably die soon if nothing was done. Then he heard the man speak, he had a domineering voice. "Here, eat this." He placed a pill in his mouth which the boy swallowed with haste. After the pill went down his throat he could feel it's healing properties getting released and his leg started patching itself up at a visible rate and within a minute it was all healed up, he could even stand up while looking at his torn pants and blood that they were soaked in.
The man was also surprised about the healing speed, though the boy and hunters didn't see that as he was hiding his face behind his hood...
Chapter 10
*Holy fucking shit... they are going to die...*
Matt looked on as the shit hit the fan and the wolves started chasing after the human hunters, he was still hovering above the crowd as it all happened , it looked at first that they would be able to escape as they were quite agile and moving through the forest quickly while the beasts were a bit less used to running there. But one of them tripped and fell right on his face, Matt did a mental facepalm at the sprawled out kid that was right below him, he looked quite comedic. Though this was no laughing matter as he knew that a wolf could catch up to the fallen teenager.
*Damn... I have to help them... but... *
If you had to assign an alignment to Matt he was probably in the neutral good category, if he played any rpg games he always went for the good guy options, not really liking to replay them with the evil path options. But having a good personality and acting out on it were two different things as he froze while the kid was close to getting attacked by one of the monsters. He wanted to act, he wanted to be the hero of the story and whatnot, but that was harder than expected. While he was looking down at the scene, the wolf finally chomped down on the hunter's leg, ferociously shaking its head to damage it more and more as it tore into the flesh. He could see the fear in the kid's eyes, he screamed out in pain the other people around him didn't go to help him as they only stopped for a moment before turning around wanting to flee once more.
*Fuck... move you damn coward!*
He gave himself a slap to the face and gritted his teeth, finally getting a hold of some courage and finally forcing himself to charge directly down while on his sword. He used quite a bit of his spiritual power to fling himself downward hopped up on adrenaline as he charged. The sword slammed into the ground and luckily killed the second wolf that was going for the boy's neck, he finally arrived. He managed to keep his balance on the sword, his eyes looked around while the dust was settling he didn't even notice that he was still holding his flying sword pose from all the stress but after the other wolf that was at the boy let him go to charge in his direction he used his sword skill to quickly take care of him.
These crimson wolves were about the same levels as the trash mob rabbits that he fought, maybe a bit more agile. He took care of them quite fast just hopping down from the sword and swiping at each one once as the stupid mutts just blindly charged at him without any strategy whatsoever. He cleaned up quite fast, thinking to himself that he shouldn't be scared of creatures of this level down the road. He glanced at the boy that was bleeding out, he noticed the spot that he was bitten and there was a lot of blood and he knew they the artery was probably severed, the kid would bleed out in a short while.
Matt remembered that he did have some healing pills on him, so he fumbled around with his storage ring and brought out one of them not really sure if it would work but that was the only thing that he could do at this point, he didn't have any healing skills whatsoever. He didn't wait long as he moved closer and just popped the pill into the young male's mouth while hoping for the best. Luckily it worked, he could see the leg glowing a bit as it healed itself up which made him stare at the phenomenon. He sighed in relief and then he looked back at the dead wolfs.
Now he was in a bit of a predicament, he managed to save the kid but now he had five people stare at his back. He wasn't good at speaking with others as he was very reclusive in his old life. The hunters themselves were shocked down to the core, they never saw a cultivator of this caliber in their entire life and didn't know how to react. They thought it would be rude to speak up first in front of someone of this immense strength so they kept quiet, the boy below him also turned around and started bowing his head down after examining his now healed leg.
"I-it's fine you don't need to do that... I was just passing by and saw you having some trouble... no biggy..."
*No biggy? do people even talk like that here... wait can they even understand me in this world... please don't speak in mandarin...*
"Honorable Senior!"
They all fell down to their knees and started hitting their foreheads on the floor, while not looking up which gave Matt a funny feeling. Though he did understand them, he wondered if English was normal around these parts or of there was some kind of translation thingy helping out.
"Uh... you don't need to do that, stand up"
All of them shoot up to their feet as if it would be rude not to follow his instructions and doing it slowly would be rude. He rubbed his neck a bit finding the whole thing uncomfortable but people in this kind of setting tended to be this way always revering the strong cultivators. One of the men that were previously running away moved forward over to the boy, he had a large build being even taller than Matt, he looked like the leader of the bunch.
"We of the Tatar Tribe greet honorable senior and thank him for giving aid."
He bowed some more while the other three moved behind him and helped the previously injured boy up Matt didn't know if the pills accounted for blood loss but the other three were tending to the kid so he would probably be okay.
"Do these uh... beasts often do that, they seemed to be... enraged?"
He was now interested a bit why the creatures were so violent and he also wanted to move the conversation along, he found the whole bowing thing to be quite awkward, to say the least.
"Yes, Senior! the magic beasts have been acting up for the past months, it started off small. Mostly it was a one or two of them that we came across but after a while more and more started getting violent, we believe that they are getting affected by something, maybe by another stronger beast or some treasure, but we can't go check as it's far too dangerous now, we have lost a lot of brothers to the beasts, we don't want to lose more."
He rubbed his chin while hearing the explanation while trying to think about his next move. The burly man in front of him seemed to be stressed out a bit as he stood at attention like he was talking to his superior. He looked even more stressed as after the explanation Matt kept staring at him without saying anything. Matt noticed that the man didn't look like any particular race of humans that he knew of, their skin had a darker tint to it but looked more to be a deep tan.
*I wonder if there are any other races besides humans in this world, there are magical beasts here... maybe there are some elves around?*
He wouldn't be against meeting some curvy elf girls to be honest, or maybe some cute catgirls? Though he preferred the more humanoid looking ones plus he liked them quite curvy... in his old world those girls were referred to as thicc, but thick in the right areas not overweight this and that were two different things. He remained with his poker face while his mind drifted to pervy thoughts. The men that were looking at this overpowered senior in front of them gulped down as they didn't know if this was a good thing that he came here to save them or if he would be worse than the wolves.
Chapter 11
"Uh... aren't you going to take those? Think you were out here to hunt."
Matt coughed into his hand as he finally noticed the uncomfortable atmosphere around him as the men were frozen while staring at him. He pointed with his finger at the dead creatures that laid down on the ground, he didn't really want them as he already gained the spirit points for killing them, he was tempted to see how many he had now but he wasn't sure if the others could see his system screen and either way if he started waving his finger around in a weird way they would probably think that he had a few screws loose.
"Oh but if you find any cores, could you hand those over?"
He stood to the side a bit moving away from the bloody scene as he inserted his spiritual energy into his flying sword that was still stuck to the ground. As it hovered upwards the blood and gore pieces fell down from the corpse of the crimson wolf that it parted in two. It was dripping and had pieces of flesh on it, the tip was kind of flat and looked more like it was better for bashing than skewering things on it. Matt grimaced at the gory sight. The flying sword didn't seem to have a cleaning function like his clothes and the light sword as just a skill and it just evaporated all the blood anyway so he would need to clean that otherwise it would probably start to stink in a bit.
"Um... do you guys maybe have some water and a rag?"
He looked at the men that were moving over to the animal corpses who froze and looked at him as he was speaking. He had a strange way of talking in their opinion, but they thought that experts of that level were probably a bit quirky. He looked at them while asking and then to the sword that was hovering a bit of the ground and then placed down on it, then back to them. They spotted the blood on the tip and blade and then quickly spunk into action. The hunter in charge gave one of the other men a bottle of water and told him something and then that man started tearing off his sleeves he quickly run-up to the blade and started cleaning it with a ferocious dedication like his life depended on it which made Matt rub his neck as things got even more awkward.
"W-wait you don't need to do that..."
"Dignified Senior! it's an honor for us to clean your blade!"
The leader replied while cupping his fists and doing his bowing show of respect while Matt just looked at the thing a bit perplexed, but this was kind of how the world worked so he probably had to get used to it, or maybe he could change that world view of those natives if he wanted later on. His sword was nice and shiny within moments, the blood and guts were still warm so it was a lot easier to get them out than if they were dried. The male that cleaned it bowed to him and then moved to the other tribe members while they gathered up the spoils.
"Ah yes, thank's."
He moved the big sword closer to himself and just let it hover next to him, the hunters kept looking at the huge thing and the animal that it parted in one go and gulped. They were on their guard a bit, but kind of knew that they couldn't do anything about the situation and hoped that this immortal cultivator was of a gentler kind, but that went a bit against their popular belief as most of what the rumors said, was that when someone reached a high enough level of strength they became quite haughty. But this person wasn't giving off those vibes, so maybe the rumors were false.
"Ah, Also is there a hotel or something like that around here? It would be nice to take a bath.
The men looked at each other a bit surprised that this person was even here, most of high level cultivators wouldn't really interact with low-level ones if they didn't have too. He was even asking about bathing and staying for the night at their crummy little backwater tribe village. This wasn't really a problem for them as having someone of this caliber come to their land would just make the other tribes shake in envy, maybe he would even fancy one of the tribe girls or pick up a disciple? That would elevate the entire tribe to new levels. This was a big opportunity and they were quite lucky because they even had a nice hot spring in their village, that being mostly the only good thing about it.
"Yes Senior, we have hot springs in our village also you can use any hose you deem worthy to stay in it, it would be an honor!"
The hunting party leader replied while his eyes were sparkling for some reason, Matt wasn't sure why the person was looking at him like that but he shrugged and nodded back.
"Okay then, how about you pack those beasts up, I'll just follow behind you, also would be a waste to not take that deer beast too."
The men went back to work, quickly cleaning up and removing the beast cores that they handed over to Matt as he told them too. Though there was a little problem there were 14 dead wolves and 1 dead deer beast, they were a bit bigger then their Earthy counterparts and the men weren't really prepared to drag so much game back home, they were mostly just prepared for maybe getting smaller animals and maybe one or two larger ones at most.
Matt wasn't really too keen on dragging the dead animals on his own and he wasn't interested in their meat whatsoever if he could just get food from his game like system instead. Though at that moment he almost facepalmed as he remembered that he had something he could transport the dead beasts with.
"Hey, just gather all of those together in one spot, I'll just take them."
Two of the men came back with the larger deer in tow and placed it together with the dead wolfs, and then looked as the man waved his hand around the corpses vanishing from the spot afterward. The beast corpses vanished into Matt's storage ring of course, the hunters opened up her eyes wide as they never saw spatial manipulation before. They just bowed some more while the man dressed in white moved back onto his large sword.
"Venerable Senior, we thank you for the aid! Would you honor us with your name."
Their eyes were sparkling even more than before, and Matt rubbed his neck as he felt a cold sweat taking over.
"Um... you can call me Zhang D-dong I guess..."
He regretted getting a silly last name like that, the man having a juvenile sense of humor but in this word that wasn't such a strange-sounding name. But he would probably have to get used to hearing dong this dong that around this place now.
"Well, I'll just follow you from up above then..."
He hovered back up while the hunters nodded to each other and started running towards their village, hoping that they could get this Senior to show some interest in their Tribe, they were a bit of an opportunistic lot but the times were tough so that was normal around these parts.
Unfathomable Senior
Chapter 12
Matt flew above them as he didn't really want to move along with the strange men, and sighted to himself as he looked down on them just running in one direction. He was stuck in this world, everything seemed so surreal, he didn't know if he was in some other world, or if he was comatose and stuck in a game world. The people looked real enough and he couldn't see any lag or the sort of thing, though the game-like interface plus the appraisal skill made him see numbers, names and cultivation bases of the people that he was looking at.
Cheng Yun, Human, Qi Condensation 2nd level
*Hm, that's quite low or is that high for that age?*
The youth looked between 15 and 16 years of age, he was a bit on the thinner side but it was lean muscle. He probably had a hard life, the clothes all of these men were wearing weren't too extravagant. It was all plain clothes, brown colors it was more functional but looked a bit shabby compared to his own white robe.
*Well, looks like with those guys speed it's going to take a bit longer till we get to that village of theirs, they said I could have any house they had, heh wonder if the town chief or is it mayor will give me his if I wanted to, he probably will judging by the strength of these hunters and how they look at me. Well I guess I'll look at my points, should have gained a few now...*
Name :Zhang DongAffiliation :Zhang ClanSpirit Points : 8084Cultivation Base Qi :Core Formation [Early Stage 0%] (Lightning Core)Cultivation Base Body :Foundation Establishment [Middle Stage 0%] (Silver Body)Techniques :Lightning Qi cultivation art, Silver Body Arts, Thunderlight Sword, Thunder Movement Art...Dao : Dao of Heavenly Lightning , Dao of Smithing and CraftingOther : Senior Aura
*Hey, almost got all my spent points back, not bad should I stock up on them or go buy some stuff? Well, no need to rush guess I should check out my skills a bit more, I really could use some range attacks though, Maybe some spear throwing lightning attack? But first, what's this Dao thing...*
He tapped the Dao of Heavenly Lightning and looked at the explanation.
Dao of Heavenly LightningThe Dao is the way that every cultivator strives for, you have chosen the way of the heavens, the Heavens are the beginning and lightning is the end. By cultivating this dao the user gains bonuses to all lightning-related skills as well as a 30% discount in the store.
*Oh that's good to know, makes it easier to specialize if I stick to lightning stuff. I recon the other Dao will give me a discount to crafting skills? Hm... I guess it would be best to get these Dao abilities and then get the responding skills, but I bet those cost a lot...
Being curious he decided to look up the Dao skills and he could even order them from the cheapest to the most costly one.
Dao of Gourmet30000000 Spirit PointsYou dedicate your life to food, there is nothing your taste buds won't be able to taste if you go on the path of a foodie!Dao of Tea32500000 Spirit PointsMaking tea is an extremely meticulous and labor-intensive procedure, you dedicate your life to it gain bonuses from brewing tea!Dao of Painting33000000 Spirit PointsPainting is an art in itself, create new worlds inside your paintings if you peruse this dao!
* 30 million? ... Tea?... Gourmet ... why would you even want that... are there battle skills related to tea making and eating food?*
His eyes bulged out as he looked at the prices of some of those Daos that looks a bit useless for him... unless he wanted to make a restaurant. Or some tea shop with nice paintings hanging on the walls that would give of a nice atmosphere. Guess there are or sorts of those, he was mostly interested in the battle ones but after looking at the prices he gave up on getting any at the moment, he would probably need to kill like a million of those trash mobs to even have enough spirit stones to get one, guess the prices were so high due to the skill discounts, he was glad that he had two already...
*Think I'll stick to the lightning-related skills... hope I won't find anything with lightning resistance here. Guess I'll just use the Jojo secret technique if that happens.*
(For people that don't know what that is, google will answer all your questions)
He fiddled around his status screen some more and found out that he could spend his spirit points to further his cultivation, but he also knew of normal ways other people did it in this world that would work, he did have the core formation manual for it so he could cultivate it without the help, guess he could save that option if he was in need of a power-up. Should I get a lightning bolt spell then? Chugging lightning bolts at people was a cool thing, he could just hang out in the back and pelt them into nice fried corpses.
Lightning Javelin (Earth mid grade)11500(8050)Throw a javelin made of elemental lightning at your enemy, power of the skill is dependent on cultivation base and other stats.Lightning Bow (Earth high grade)15000(10500)Form a bow of lightning and fire of arrows formed from your Qi, power of the skill is dependent on cultivation base and other stats.Thunder Strike (Earth low grade)8000(5600)Summon a lightning bolt from the sky to strike down your enemies, power of the skill is dependent on cultivation base and other stats.
*The Thunderstrike sounds kind of meh, how would I even aim that, the bow one sounds nice but I never used one before, plus I don't really have the points, the Javelin looks nice too... and with the discount I will just have enough points, should I get it or not, maybe I should have farmed more of those beasts back there...*
He furrowed his brows but finally selected the new skill, he really needed some range attacks and not like anyone around here would have any skill manuals he could learn, could he even read those if he wanted to? He felt a buzzing sensation in his head and felt a little migraine as the skill information rushed in. After it subsided he started closing his hand and Qi gathered around his fist, it looked similar to his other sword technique but the light was equal in length on both sides, the lightning javelin was about 2 meters in length. He looked at it, waving it around before chucking into a faraway tree looking at it collide with it and obligating it to pieces while scaring the poor hunter tribe members as they heard a loud boom in the distance.
"Oops sorry about that, nice penetrating power though."
He got back into his sword flying pose and looked as they sky started becoming red, the sun or the star that this world had was going down in the horizon, the sight was quite captivating as the many moons in the sky added to the whole spectacle.
"I'm really far away from home, aren't I? Hope mom and dad are doing okay..."
He got a bit sad as even though he was a loner he still had a family back home, he didn't talk to them much and lived alone but they were still his parents. He wondered if they would miss him much after they found out that he was gone or not, but he soon tossed his worries to the back of his head as he saw a village in the distance, they had finally arrived at the Tribe settlement.
Went back and changed the points he gained vs the bigger mob bunny as it felt a bit too low. Worked out some numbers and this seems a bit better now. Sorry for the inconsistencies.