155 Chapter 155 (1/2)

Earlier at Spirit Spring City in the dimensional regalia treasure:

The floating island in the void of the medallion had seen better days. The whole place was riddled with craters and rubble, even the buildings there were partially destroyed. The reason was the person who was in there and he was the one and only Nascent soul cultivator of the Zhang Clan.

Zhang Dong floated around while being in a seated position. His robe dangling downward due to gravity while he rubbed his chin. He had spent quite some time at just getting used to his new cultivation realm, he had long consolidated it and moved on to training in his techniques.

He didn't have the cash shop to go back to so he had to use his own understanding of the Dao to make progress. This wasn't a problem though, thanks to him having an astonishing amount of knowledge concerning the Dao of lightning. The upgrade to his cultivation technique also increased his understanding in the field of the holy elements so his healing arts would be more potent as well.

”Well, this place looks like shit... but with my current cultivation I can almost instantly repair it by infusing my Qi into the medallion.”

He could barely get the pocket dimension to expand in size when he was still in the great circle of core formation. But things were different now, he was a Nascent soul grandmaster, a true behemoth in these lands. His true battle potential yet unknown as he hadn't faced a foe at the same level yet.

”Time to repair this place.”

Matt knelt down and placed an open palm on the ground. The whole lump of earth that he was standing on was a part of this treasure. Thanks to this he could repair it without having to go outside to touch the medallion that was still in that protective room. His golden spiritual energy flowed into the earth beneath and he could already feel the fissures and craters sealing themselves back up again. In a matter of moments the scenery was back to normal, still not fully though.

”Well... I guess repairing the buildings would be too much to ask from this treasure...”

The structures like the large dorm looking building or the other ones that were built in this dimensional space couldn't be recreated like this. He would have to have his clansmen do the repairs manually. Some of the structures had collapsed due to several mistakes on his end. He had to watch his output a lot more now, a simple swing of his hand with a minimal amount of Qi in it could destroy the landscape around him.

”Haha, It's good to be the leader. Not like anyone can complain to me about destroying things here.”

Matt was adamant about his leadership position at first, but now he was slowly warming up to it. It was much easier to just gather points with the help of his clansmen. He just needed to shove them slightly in the right direction and they did most of the work for him. Not having to worry about a popular vote when it came to making new laws was also a nice bonus.

”I don't think I would be able to pass most of those new laws if we had things like a Senate or a House of Representatives...”

Matt stood up after getting the ground back into shape, though it looked slightly barren as only the basic plant life recovered like grass.

”Benevolent Dictator Zhang Dong... has a nice ring to it...”

He laughed while walking towards the dorm house where the platoons had stayed at when they were training.

”Still, I'll have to look into that when things settle down...”

He was someone from modern times and his country was also a democracy. So he leaned in that direction, but in this world ruled by strength it would be hard to propose that way of thinking. Getting people to follow elected officials that weren't actually stronger than them in battle would be a strenuous task.

”Well I got most of the techniques and the Qi flow down now, this new enhanced spiritual sense is quite neat as well.”

”I should probably craft that dagger now, wonder how much stronger I will become when my body also reaches the nascent soul level...also what's above a golden body... platinum?”

Matt rubbed his chin, thinking that that metal looked silver and would be just backtracking. Though a silver sheen was nice as well, maybe he would get a pure shiny chrome body that blinded his enemies.

”I will ride eternal, shiny and chrome...or something like that?”

No one was there to appreciate his bad monologue, so he moved on and was ready to enter his crafting abode to move on with the crafting. He wanted to take his attempt at the heaven grade weapon slowly, this was mostly the reason why he spent close to a week in training his Qi control. This skill was paramount to crafting weapons as making a slight mistake while infusing the metals and materials with his Qi could turn a treasure into junk.

[ Warning!!! Disciple Zhang Liu's body condition is rapidly decreasing! Warning!!! ]

Suddenly he heard a siren that was followed by a big red pop up window right in front of his face. It said that Zhang Liu was in a dire situation, he didn't know what was going on nor that his system even had this kind of function.

”What the hell ...”

He quickly tapped that prompt, the window quickly switched to Zhang Liu's disciple window and he could even see his photo in the top left corner. On the right side, there was a miniature version of a human body, it looked like one that you found in a medical book. Normally this figure was green, the colors changed depending on the amount of damage his disciples suffered.

”W-what is this!”

His eyes bulged as he knew how this disciple window should look like. He had trained with the kids before and they had suffered some minor injuries. The colors shifted from green to blue, yellow, orange, red, and then black. Black was the color of death and he never saw his disciples ever getting anything below the yellow color. To his astonishment, most of the diagram was red or orange and there were places turning red at the same time as he was looking at it.

”What's happening in that city? did they run into some demonic beasts on the way home?... what's going on?”

Matt rattled his brain, he didn't know what was going on. His grandpa and his retainers assured him that this was just a friendly get together for the clans. There shouldn't be any problems along the way as it was a safe zone, Zhang Jin even had that prototype treasure that he made to help him out if something went wrong.

”I must call them!”

Matt hastily left the dimensional regalia and appeared next to the medallion in the spacious empty room. The guards were startled as they couldn't even give him a salute, their Patriarch just zoomed past them and flew up the stairs leaving an afterimage behind.

[ Warning!!! Disciple Zhang Liu's life is in danger, killing intent detected, should the system activate the protection mark? Warning!!! ]

Matt stopped after another popup window showed up. He remembered that he spent some points on his two disciples when he was examining his system more throughout. He remembered that this was something high-level masters did for their pupils, so he spent a good amount of his points in his system on that mark. He almost thought that it was a rip-off, but now it could be Liu's only chance of survival.

With the pinpoint precision of a seasoned gamer he poked the 'yes' button as fast as his nascent soul cultivation allowed him to do. This of course didn't get unnoticed, a simple finger poke from someone this strong produced a giant shockwave blast that turned the stairs that he was standing into rubble.

[ Warning!!! Disciple Zhang Liu is in critical condition, life protective mark has been activated! Trying to stabilize, please wait! ]