Online Cultivation
episode 12

«Player Fire Red, Player Poisoned Fiend, Player Mad Dog, and Player Get Creamed have become the first players to complete Burning Cave for the first time! Congratulations!"

The announcement hung above the clouds as Yuan danced elegantly with a steel sword in his grasp, quickly decapitating the four silver wolves surrounding him. The corpse of the wolf fell to the ground, but Yuan did not stop his sword movement and continued dancing, killing the two wolves that were trying to run away.

Xiao Hua, who was watching him from a distance clapped his hands, like a spectator watching a street performance. “Brother Yuan's growth was astounding, like a sponge absorbing water, he easily understood everything from his own weakness to his strength. In just a few hours alone, his swordsmanship and Qi manipulation had improved tremendously.”

His gaze suddenly flickered with regret. “If only Brother Yuan had grown up in the Highest Heaven, not in the Lower Heaven where Qi was lacking in quality and quantity”

After killing the last silver wolf, Yuan retrieved all the monster cores he had accumulated during this milling.

“Only seven fell after killing dozens of monsters, yes.” Yuan cried inwardly at the small amount of monster cores he had obtained after spending so much time and effort to kill monsters.

“Seven monster cores are considered a pretty successful hunt ” Xiao Hua told him after seeing his disappointment. “If used correctly, seven monster cores can last for one month of cultivation.”

"But in the case of Brother Yuan …"

"It won't even last a minute for me, let alone a month!" Yuan suddenly threw one into his mouth, and of course, it shocked Xiao Hua again.

«Physical Purification Heaven activated»

«560,000 Qi has been refined from the monster core of the Silver» Wolf Needle

«You have absorbed enough Qi for a breakthrough»

«You have reached the Ninth level Spirit Apprenticeship»

«All statistics +500»

1.519.395/3.840.000

”

"Brother Yuan ... you ..." Xiao Hua looked at Yuan like he was a ghost, his gaze filled with shock and confusion.

“It feels like candy.” Yuan licked his lips and said, "Although it doesn't have as much Qi as the Jade Frog monster core, it's still very beneficial to my cultivation."

“BBKak Yuan” Xiao Hua called him, but he did not know what to say after that.

"What's wrong?" He looked at her with an innocent gaze, seemingly unaware of how amazing her abilities were.

“When a cultivator absorbs the Qi in the monster core, they can only absorb a limited amount of Qi from the monster core depending on the quality of the monster core. However, even a high-level monster core would only allow one to absorb at most 50% of the total Qi before the rest disappeared back into the world. These are the rules set by Heaven itself and cannot be opposed. But from the situation Brother Yuan might his Heaven Refining Physique be able to disregard this rule and oppose Heaven? ” Xiao Hua trembled at the thought that Yuan might have a heaven-defying physique.

"About heaven, yes .." Yuan thought of his real body in real life. "If only I had such an ability in my other life as well .." he sighed inwardly.

‘Hm? The populace? Are they players or NPCs?’ He wonders. Since this would be his first meeting with someone other than Xiao Hua ever since he started playing this game, he wanted to see them.

“Three people ” two Seventh-level Spirit Apprentices and one Eighth-level Spirit Apprentice, and they fight a peak-level Fire Lizard.”

"I'm interested" Yuan said. “Come we see.”

“Un.”

”

Three young adults, two males, and one female stood a few meters away from the giant lizard with red scales that had black lines spreading out like burn scars from a lightning strike. Their gazes flickered continuously with fear and nervousness, and behind their clothes was a body filled with sweat. They had been fighting this Fiery Lizard for a few minutes, yet none of them were able to break through this Fiery Lizard defense.

"Dirt! The scale of this thing is as hard as steel! Senior-apprentice-brother Mo, we should leave now before we spend our Qi!”

“The junior-brother Wang's apprentice is right! We cannot defeat this beast with our current abilities! Let's go before it's too late!”

The oldest among the three there, Mo Zhou, bit his lips as he stared at Fiery Lizard in front of him. He had already exhausted all of his techniques on this Flame Lizard, yet there were only scratches on the surface of his scales. "I refuse!" he suddenly shouted.

"Expect senior-brother Mo!" The other two became anxious when they saw the stubbornness on his face.

“You two can go, but I'll stay here until one of us dies! My life depends on this Fiery Lizard monster core!” Mo Zhou bit his lips until it bled, but he continued to stare at Fiery Lizard with narrowed eyes full of determination. “Either I die here or I return to the sect and die there! Since I am going to die, I might as well risk everything this time! ”

“Then die here! I only helped you out of pity!” the man said before he turned around to escape the fight.

"This won't happen if you don't offend Senior-apprentice-brother Ren!" The woman also left the fight. None of the two were willing to risk their lives for him despite being friends for so many years.

Mo Zhou sighed hearing the words of his junior-apprentice sister. “Junior apprentice-brother Ling is right but I cannot ignore my heart no matter what happens not even knowing that I will offend the Chosen by doing that” He raised his sword once again to face the Flame Lizard. "Come, you're trash!"

”

"Hmm? Xiao Hua, you said there are three, but why is there only one here?” Yuan pointed at Mo Zhou, who was fighting the Fire Lizard with ferocious eyes and a robe covered in blood.

"They left before we could arrive" he replied calmly.

"What about him? Do you think he'll win?”

Xiao Hua shook his head. “His cultivation base nearly dried up; it was only a matter of time before he fainted from the Qi Deficiency. ”

“He is the only other person I have met so far besides you, Xiao Hua. It was a pity if he died here” Yuan suddenly jumped into the fight with a raised sword. "The Bloody Sword Attack!"

The Spirit Sword easily pierced through the steel scales like the unfathomable Fire Lizard and directly pierced through its heart, instantly killing it with a single strike. "Are you okay?" Yuan looked at the dazed Mo Zhou, who was staring at him like a stupid chicken, his mouth wide open and so on.