
Since he now had the Buddha Eye Seeing Everything, Jian wanted to reach the 4th Step of the Qi Core Realm. He also wanted to become an Inner Disciple to have access to more things than he did as an outer disciple.
Since Li Kuo also had to strengthen his body and look for medicine, the two of them decided to go to the Thousand Flowers Forest. Jian already knew where it was so he led Li Kuo there. When they reached it, Li Kuo warned Jian about something.
"I'm not really how to fight, although the Zero King Sutra allows me to use certain techniques. With my current strength, I might be able to compete with the Qi Core 1st Step Beast but that's it." Said Li Kuo.
"Don't worry about it, I know how to defend myself. As long as it is not a Qi Core 2nd Step Beast, I will be able to fight back. Also our main goal is to find some flowers for you." Jian convinced. Then they both entered the forest.
The forest was quite dense and the trees were very tall, Jian could not see much because the sunlight did not even penetrate the big branches of the tree. However Jian had a nice nose and nice ears. That was why he could hear screams from a distance and smell a smell similar to mint.
"I think we found some kind of spiritual flower, it smells like mint. Also I heard some screaming from a distance, there might be a flock of animals in that direction." Said Jian pointing to the east. Li Kuo nodded and the two of them looked for flowers.
In just a few minutes they found some blue flowers. Li Kuo saw his father using a soul pellet.
"Soul Pellets? What's that supposed to be?" Ask Jian. Li Kuo looked at him like he was a fool before he remembered that Jian was not very good at cultivation.
"Soul Pellets are small balls of Qi that help cultivators grow in strength. They are very expensive and some people from wealthy families use them to get stronger without having to actually work. But the stronger they are, the more expensive they are. From what I heard in the neighboring country, the strongest Soul Pellet that can be purchased is the Qi Core 8th Step Soul Pellet. A stronger Soul Pellet could not be bought with money. " Said Li Kuo.
Jian looked at the flower in his hand, and greed flashed in his eyes.
"So that means we can make Soul Pellet with it and become stronger?" Jian and Li Kuo asked immediately shook his head.
"Not really. For that we need to really know alchemy. We can also ask a good Alchemy master to make some for us, but it will be very expensive. We don't have that kind of money. You can sell them flowers for a good price. They're pretty rare I hear. We also have to get out of here. My father had always said that Spiritual Beasts could directly eat Spiritual Ingredients like those flowers. They don't even need to purify it. That was why Spiritual Beasts liked to eat such flowers. We might meet some Beasts if we stay ..... On here. " Said Li Kuo, his face grew even paler at the end. Jian turned around and saw a bunch of creatures had appeared.
[Name: Iron Rabbit
Age: Young
Rank: Qi Core First Step
Type: Stray Beast
Description: The Iron Rabbit is larger than a regular rabbit with skin as hard as iron. They do have a weak spot and that is their stomach. They usually hunt in groups and only hunt weaker creatures. ]
"Iron Rabbit ?!" Shouted Li Kuo.
"You know about those things?" Jian asked as the Rabbit slowly approached.
“Yes, my mother likes her meat, so our family servants usually go hunting for them. I heard one of them say their weak point is their stomach, but I'm not so sure.” Li Kuo said, his knees trembling. Although he could easily handle some of them, the problem was that a pack of Iron Rabbits was not made of five or six rabbits. No, it was made of twenty rabbits!
"Stay calm. They are not strong, just fighting. After all you are stronger than them and I know how to fight. We just need to make sure we don't split up and we're good." Said Jian. Li Kuo nodded and used a careless fighting position, while Jian used a fist position. At the right moment, the rabbits jumped on top of them and the two Cultivators attacked.
Li Kuo had superior strength, so he could easily fend it off, even though he did not really damage it. Jian on the other hand hit their stomachs with a quick punch.
After a few minutes, Li Kuo was exhausted and surrounded by six rabbits. Jian finished off the last rabbit that attacked him. He had been hit a little, but he was not bleeding so it was okay. Li Kuo had a weak body, so the rabbit could make him even rougher a little more.
After he finished, Jian was behind the rabbit as Li Kuo heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at the towering shadow on the ground, the rabbit turned around and squeaked as Jian started kicking them one by one.
"OK, that's all. See it's not too hard?" Said Jian. Li Kuo nodded and calmed himself down. Jian gestured for him to take the rabbit with him. Jian then placed him in his inventory, although it seemed like he had placed him in his robe, which was a little strange, but Li Kuo did not mind.
Both of them were ready to return to the sect, unfortunately the rain started to fall. They could return to the sect even when it was raining, but it was known that the rain attracted powerful creatures, so they both hid under the big tree and waited for the rain to subside, while looking around to look for signs of creatures approaching.
The problem is that they look back, forward, left and right. They don't look up.
"BIGWWW!"
"What in All Heavens is that ?!" Shouted Li Kuo. The strange sound made him jump in fear and fall to the ground.
"LI KUO !!!"
Seeing Jian running towards him and yelling at him, Li Kuo understood it was wrong and he looked up because he could not see anything around him. And that's when he saw it. A creature similar to a crow, yet he is very large and has a ... White wing? It was truly a strange creature, it had a black body like a crow but it also had white wings, which gave it a somewhat holy appearance.
Jian jumped onto Li Kuo and pinned him to the ground just as the crow was descending and nearly stabbed him with a knife-like beak. Jian then looked up and his feet almost gave up when he read the information the system had about this creature.
[Name: White Winged Demonic Bird
Age: Adult
Rank: Qi Core Step 4
Type: Demon Beast
"White Winged Demon Crow Brackets ?!" Shouted Jian which caught Li Kuo's attention.
"Wait what?! It was impossible, that mutant-type Demonic Crow could only be found in Li Zhang Kingdom!" The nobleman exclaimed as the crow swooped again and they dodged as fast as they could. They hid behind a tree as Jian looked puzzled.
"Kingdom of Li Zhang? What'sthat?" She asked.
The kingdom I came from. The kingdom closest to the Sect in the east. ”Jawab young nobles who wonder if they have nothing better to do than talk about Geography.
"Oh, okay. About that crow, I have a way to kill it." Jian said while Li Kuo did not face him.
"Oh yeah?! I would love to see .... This ..... IS THIS THIS ?!" Li Kuo shouted as he looked at Jian who now had a broken sword in his hand.
"Don't ask. Know that this thing is powerful enough to kill that damn bird." Said Jian. He then rolled away from the tree and the crow's eyes looked at him. The crow dived once more and Li Kuo clenched his teeth in fear.
But just as the crow was about to kill Jian, the boy blocked with his sword. Sparks appear when the beak of a crow and its blades clash. But the Crow was forced to flee when Jian tried to kick him.
“I haven't thought of that yet, but actually I can't kill him by how fast. I need to find a way to stop it.” Said Jian. Hearing this Li Kuo gulped, but finally steeled himself.
"I have a way to stop it completely, but you have to hold it for a few seconds!" He yelled.
Jian nodded and opened his hands, Li Kuo wondered what he was doing, but understood when the Crow dived once more and stabbed Jian with his beak.
Jian actually used his pain tolerance to block him from using his own flesh. He then stabbed the crow from behind with his sword to restrain it.
" NOW !!!" Shouted Jian. He had a tolerance for pain, but he knew that he could die if the Crow actually stabbed him.
"OK it's coming!"
Li Kuo glided on the grassy ground and reached Jian. He then stretched out his hand and crossed it before putting it on the ground.
"ZONE ZERO!" Shouted the young nobleman. In an instant the temperature dropped and the Crow was completely encased in a thick block of ice. Jian actually jumped back in fear because of how cold it was. He then saw Li Kuo had fainted and shook his head.
"So it's a technique he can use with the Zero King Sutra. So the Zero King Sutra allowed him to use Ice. Poor Li Kuo if he had been recruited by a sect like the Snow Peacock Sect, he would have become a valuable disciple easily. . "Say Jian. He then gripped his broken sword and swung it vertically, but it only left a dent in the ice.
"How tall is that block of ice ?!" Jian exclaimed in frustration.
[No need to try Teacher. This ice block is too hard to break. The temperature of this beam is also too low for you to move. You have to leave it.]
Jian wanted to refuse, but he knew the system was right. The only thing he could do was to take Li Kuo with him and return to the Sect. At least they have the corpses of the Beast and the flowers.
What Jian did not know was that a few hours later, the two Elders would stumble upon a block of ice.
"* Hiss*This ice block is so cold!" Said the first elder, who was the East Gate Elder, Hou Fei.
"Hm ..... It does. Weird .... None of the ferocious beasts in this area could control the ice." Said the second elder, who was none other than Wei Fang.
"Lu'er, did you know that some disciples returned from the Forest in the past few hours?" Hou Fei asked the girl standing behind them.
"really. Three disciples returned from Fores in the past few hours. Li Kuo, Jian and .... Zhao Shu's." Lu'er. Hou Fei looked pensive but Wei Fang was surprised.
"Li Kuo and Jian ?!" He exclaimed, surprising Hou Fei.
"You know this old student's friend?" Ask Hou Fei.
They were the newest recruits of the Sect. Li Kuo was a noble of the Li Zhang Kingdom while Jian was an orphan. The two of them showed little or no talent during the exam, yet Jian had an overwhelming will and Li Kuo. ... He somehow cheated during the exam. He somehow became very resistant while inside the cave and passed the exam easily.What was surprising about them was the fact that Jian seemed to be able to completely ignore Pain and Fatigue, while Li Kuo broke through the first one, and the second step of the Qi Core Realm in one night. " Said Wei Fang. Both Lu'er and Hou Fei seemed interested, although Lu'er was interested in Jian and Hou Fei in Li Kuo.
They were about to continue on their way when Lu'er suddenly shouted.
"WAIT !!"
The two Elders suddenly turned around and saw that Lu'er was staring at the ice intensely.
"What is a girl?" Hou Fei asked, although Lu's expression when he turned scared him.
"Zero ... Zero Zone King Zero!" It was Lu'er who made Wei Fang and Hou Fei almost have a Heart Attack.
"What are you talking about, Lu'er. The legacy of King Zero was lost many years ago, how could this ice be made by the Zero Zone he used?" Ask Hou Fei. Yet it seemed to recall something as he fell on his butt. Both he and Lu'er looked at each other and their eyes widened. They could not help but exclaim at the same time.
"ZERO KING SILK !!!"