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🕑 Added 2021-07-16 16:06:30 +0000 UTCTitle: Coughed Up Loss
"Heh," Ja Sun crouched while looking at the heaving Xie Xan lying on the floor. One skill. Ja Sun only used one spirit skill to defeat Xie Xan. Not other Technique or ability. Just with silver burst, his feet and fists were enhanced. Compared to other attacking spirit skills, the enhancement was no doubt low.
But Ja Sun only used left jabs enhanced by 59% while the remaining 1 continued to fizzle Xie Xan out. With three rings itself, he wasn't able to defeat Ja Sun.
The glow from his feet lowered simultaneously until the enhancement of Ja Sun's left fist reached 74%. In six days, his control had risen drastically. Even the spirit energy within his Spirit Sea gained an extraordinary glimmer aside from its pure snow-white color. A change was slowly bubbling within him, Ja Sun could feel it clearly.
"Come on, get up," Ja Sun stretched his hand towards Xie Xan as he caught it pulled himself up. With a deep sigh, he shook his head, "I don't have any motivation to spar. All we've been doing is sparring with each other for almost a month. I practically know what skills everyone is going to use. It's not exciting anymore."
"Really?" Ja Sun gave him an odd glance. As Bibi Dong said, this is a team-building exercise. If Xie Xan can practically understand what his teammates are going to use, isn't the goal already reached? But the only thing holding the group in this wooden fortress is Ja Sun himself.
By now, even if he cannot control the spirit energy from dissipating during an attack, he can still acutely feel that there is some resistance before it disappears. This also made him focus on refining his control further. All this time, Ja Sun has focused on self-control. Now that this realm was practically the definition of his long-time goal, why wouldn't he focus on it?
Though Ja Sun had reached 38th rank two days ago, there was still some time before he would reach rank 40.
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"This is getting frustrated," Hu Lana grunted. Of her three rings, two of them were related to illusions with eyes, and the third one needed physical contact.
Seeing Ja Sun waving at her with his palm practically wrapped in silver, she groaned again and stretched her arm out in defeat while lying on the ground.
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Liu Erlong silently stared from the ground while Ja Sun danced in front of her. Even going as far as making funny faces, "Come on, I'm right here. Hit me! Hit me!"
His left palm glowing brightly while his other limbs were dull, without a single current of silver energy.
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"How... are you doing it so quickly?" Ah Yin frowned, exhausted. Ja Sun's upper two wings were glowing astonishingly brightly while the lower two wings were reduced to a mere attached feather.
Looking down from the sky, Ja Sun shouted, "What? I can't hear you!"
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"Will you really take your teacher's wealth?" Bibi Dong gazed at Ja Sun gloomily. His spirit rank already 39 in another two weeks and getting close to the final led. In this time, Liu Erlong and Xie Xan had gained a rank, too.
"Of course, teacher."
Ja Sun didn't poke Bibi Dong too much. All it netted him was the task of cleaning the toilet.
With a graceful bow, Ja Sun tiptoed away.
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Ja Sun sat cross-legged while feeling his spirit energy moving within his spirit sea. After the constant flow of his spirit energy without letting any of it phase through his skill, this was the attribute that even his spirit sea gained. The calm spirit sea under the combined array of Final Buddha Array and Myriad Step Refining Array moved. Large waves of spirit energy would crash within themselves but instead of dispersion of Spirit Energy, Ja Sun felt extremely refreshed.
His body thrummed with spirit energy. Ordinarily, in this process of breakthrough, a spirit master would unconsciously expel a formidable wave of spirit energy and so would Ja Sun but a transformation slowly crept over him. This transformation did not occur because of a technique, resource, or array. It came from the characteristic created by Ja Sun himself. Within the flowing and constantly crashing spirit energy, a soft tremor passed that instantly made Ja Sun's body shudder.
The tumbling waves slowly moved in a uniform flow. Much less expelling, the spirit sea instead compelled the giant array above it to absorb more and more spirit energy. The sea of spirit energy continuously rotated, forming a shallow whirlpool. This was the extent of it. Besides the minute rise in the speed of cultivation, and a simple change in appearance, Ja Sun suddenly felt extremely...
Withdrawn.
Opening his eyes, Ja Sun looked around himself.
He had reached rank 40.
But the breakthrough was silent. No propulsion of spirit energy or anything else. Under his calm gaze, two purple spirit rings formed around him and two pairs of wings unfurled behind him. His eight limbs covered in a transcendent glow.
But his eyes lit up in satisfaction as he found his reward forming in front of him.
He had done it.
Back then, Ja Sun used the breakthrough to resonate with the evolving Bright Goddess Butterfly to reach a higher rank quickly. Now he used a breakthrough to achieve the desired result. All that left him with was satisfaction and calmness. His wings disappeared but instead of dispersing, the spirit energy filled his body once again since he never lost connection with it.
This was a qualitative change hard to be expressed by words.
In front of him, a small token slowly took form. It was bright green with soft cloud patterns over one side and the other side had the character— Immortal— plastered on the surface.
Picking the strange item up, Ja Sun carefully observed it for a long time. Once he failed to find anything noteworthy from his eyes, he swept the item with his mental energy to observe it carefully. But the result still disappointed him. Injecting his spirit energy also didn't seem to bring any effect.
Thinking for a moment, Ja Sun brought it closer to his lips.
He used to lick any strange crystal since it might be ingestible but this token clearly wasn't. Instead, his nose stung slightly and a drop of blood dripped from his nostril over to the token. He had used bloody token before. He now had a blood-binding storage essence tool. Clearly, using blood may also work.
The moment his blood dripped on the surface of the token, Ja Sun instantly felt a new connection building within him. It was with this strange token and suddenly, his spirit energy gave a rumble while information flowed into his mind. On the other hand, spirit energy leaked from his body but instead of nurturing his surroundings, it entered the strange token.
Sigh of Immortal.
A storage essence tool that only stores any amount of spirit energy provided for an indefinite period. Its capacity in storing energy is so high that even an Immortal will sigh in admiration.
Ja Sun's lips twitched as he stopped funneling his spirit energy into the token before storing it within his storage ring.
After cultivating for half an hour, Ja Sun opened his eyes and added a mission with a calm expression.
[Objective: Win the raised bet against Ah Yin and Bibi Dong before finding an enclosed space privately and pumping your fist.
Mission Rank: F
Mission Rewards: Bibi Dong's Handkerchief, Ah Yin's Handkerchief.]
Seeing the rewards, Ja Sun shook his head. He hadn't sunk so low yet. At least, there needed to be inner garments present. With a sigh, he walked out to announce the room. He only left his room once he had packed his stuff.
Knocking onto Ah Yin's door, Ja Sun waited until she walked out. Her expression was a little tired since it was 3 in the morning. And it was one of the rare nights where instead of cultivating, she slept.
Seeing Ah Yin wearing a loose nighty that simply draped over her, Ja Sun sneered. Her lack of curvaceous charm made this all the more simple.
"Get your assets in order. I won the bet."
Ja Sun smiled before walking towards Bibi Dong's room. Ah Yin's expression was frozen. Her slightly dazed eyes revealed a confused look before she heard Ja Sun knocking on Bibi Dong's room.
Looking sideways, she found Bibi Dong opening the door while wearing a purple set of pajamas. Her hair was slightly disheveled and her sleepy eyes trailing Ja Sun.
"Dong Dong~" Ja Sun smiled cheerfully, his expression full of joy and warmth before quickly turning into the coldest sneer Bibi Dong had ever woken to, "Get your assets in order. I won the bet."
"Khm?" Bibi Dong frowned.
"You woke me for this?" She inquired in a low voice.
"And I have reached rank 40 so we can leave this place," Ja Sun chuckled. Soon, he woke everyone up. Since everyone had only been, and Ja Sun quotes— Bitching, to him about reaching the bottleneck, it was a sincere action in letting them know the moment he achieved it.
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On the long, dusty journey, Bibi Dong and Ah Yin walked together. Both of them revealed cold expressions. Even if Bibi Dong's face was covered by a mask, it was easy to feel her chilling intent. Ja Sun walked next to Liu Erlong, even his face covered by a mask and Hu Lana and Xie Xan followed silently.
"Teacher, Ah Yin, even if I said that I will take everything, I did return to you one set of your clothing, right? You can always buy new clothes!" Ja Sun proclaimed and everyone flinched. The devouring of Ah Yin's and Bibi Dong's items was a bloody sight. Ja Sun refused to budge at all. Aside from leaving the storage items and the teaching material, Ja Sun only let the two of them take away a set of clothing in exchange for their nightwear. The situation, admittedly, was escalating. Ah Yin and Bibi Dong were confident in their abilities but were they not astute?
They simply did not think that what they were practically unable to achieve in almost six months would be completed so easily by Ja Sun. In fact, with Bright Goddess working with him, the result was exponential.
If they had known, they would have diverted their greatest treasures into another storage item and hid it close to their delicate region to keep it hidden. But Ja Sun struck viciously. He woke them up in the middle of the night and gave them no chance to divert their stock.
Mournful tears trickled this dawn.
The loss was actually quite real.
Bibi Dong, as a successor of Supreme Pontiff, was filled with wealth. Ah Yin was quite poor in a financial sense but she simply had too many clothes.
"Fine, I can't have teacher and Ah Yin being angry with me all the time, don't you think, Erlong?" Ja Sun inquired while stopping. His elbow on Erlong's shoulder while she stayed there calmly without answering at all.
"Do you mean it?" Ah Yin looked back and inquired. Dubious expression touched Lana's and Xan's faces.
Nodding, Ja Sun replied, "Yes, once you have collected enough coins, I will sell your stuff back without touching it at all. In fact, I will give you a 20% discount compared to the market price. Lana, what is the price of sea-green lacy panti—"
"Another word... and I will cut you," Bibi Dong tilted her face slightly without turning back. Instantly, Lana smacked Ja Sun's back and pouted, "Can you not provoke those whose gaze send such chills?"
Over this month, Liu Erlong retained her ambiguous feelings towards Ja Sun. When he beat others, she admired him. When she got beaten, she resented him. But when it came to Hu Lana and Xie Xan, Ja Sun's friendship with them grew with flying colors once they realized that most of the things Ja Sun says are only to trigger others. Ignore him, and his words will change naturally.
"But," Ja Sun sighed and shook his head.
"They looked expensive..." His mumble made Bibi Dong's body shudder.
Her dignity. She lost it with this bet.
Ah Yin scoffed and continued to walk next to her companion.
"Teacher, you haven't told us where we are going," Ja Sun inquired. He couldn't stop.
"You'll know when we get there."
"Anyone wants to bet on how much time it will take us to reach our destination? I'm wealthy."
Ja Sun's words made their expressions bleak.
It was the truth. There were many spirit essence tools with Bibi Dong. Although, most of them were for more official and unorthodox uses, keeping them wouldn't hurt him at all.
As for bullying the Pontiff's disciple and taking her stuff, so what? Bibi Dong could never step back from the bet since Ja Sun's identity was no longer ordinary.
The Pontiff wears a mask to hide the scare that Ja Sun gave him. And if Qian Xunji really has a problem with Ja Sun, then he literally needs to ask for his own father's permission before taking any step.
What kind of status was this?
Though risky, Ja Sun would have never reached this position by staying in Star Dou Great Forest.
The group continued until they approached a small town for rest. Later in the night, Hu Lana was approached by two poor entities for extra sets of clothes even if their figures were different.
As for money? Bibi Dong could never ask someone else for it.
The moment the two of them left Hu Lana's and Xie Xan's door, they found Ja Sun coming out of his room.
"Oh, Ah Yin, do you want to go out for a little while?" It was already evening at this point and seeing Ja Sun, she snorted. Of course, she didn't care about her clothes being taken. That would be the last thing she cared about. Would a person really be petty for clothes if they could take out a Blue Silver Emperor's Core? Ah Yin never forgot that great favor, and in this life, it would be hard to do so. What she was annoyed with was Ja Sun's comments thereafter.
"With you? Tch, no!" She narrowed her eyes and began walking past him.
Bibi Dong silently looked at the two and knocked on the room next to her, "Erlong, open up. I wish to discuss something with you."
The room opened up quick enough, as if Liu Erlong was beside the door the entire time. As Bibi Dong entered the room, Ja Sun turned back and calmly followed Ah Yin.
"We could enjoy as we used to in Balak City. We never got that chance after leaving Spirit City this entire time."
"You made a throwing ball out of my dudou," Ah Yin countered sharply.
"And you care about that?" Ja Sun smirked, "You like buying a number of clothes. You barely wear the same thing again."
"You observe my clothes?" Ah Yin stopped in front of her door and turned around.
"I observe everything. Now put that frown upside down."
Ja Sun smiled as he removed his mask, "We're only going to train afterward. You and Bibi Dong are stuck on the level momentarily but my training still lacks quite a bit."
Ah Yin looked at Ja Sun's outstretched hand.
A smile slowly forming over her lips as she placed her hand over his while she chuckled, "Those comments were disgusting."
"As disgusting as the one you made in Balak City?" Ja Sun narrowed his eyes.
He didn't wear the left gauntlet or wrapped his left hand with a gauze. As he held Ah Yin's hand, he was pleasantly surprised by the refreshing coldness of her skin.
"I don't remember," Ah Yin began to walk next to Ja Sun as he snickered, "Sure you do. We were in the streets and thinking of what to do—"
"We never talk about that," Ah Yin headbutted against Ja Sun's shoulder.
"Fine... but you should know that you still will be a swine for saying that," Ja Sun scoffed.
"Heh, and you will be a dirty dog for your comments. On a different note, you know what we should do?"
"What?" Ja Sun inquired. Holding hands, in this world, was easily considered a base far greater than the third. Tenth base. Ten fingers stuck together.
"We should buy some clothes."
"You don't have any coin."
"Lend me some," Ah Yin's smile never faded.
"You leech. That was your plan all along."
"You're smarter than you look."
*Creak*
Two doors opened simultaneously. From one, Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong observed. From another, Hu Lana and Xie Xan observed. Four pairs of eyes followed the backs of the attractive couple reaching down the stairs.
"Does that mean... they are a couple?" Xie Xan inquired lightly.
"No, they didn't confess," Liu Erlong's reply was a snappy one.
"Teacher, we all should go shopping for your clothes, too. We can lend you money," Hu Lana spoke up.
"I'm not in the mood. I have to train," Bibi Dong replied calmly as she entered her own room before starting to train and control her spirit energy.
