87 The day of the agreement. (1/2)

Killing Teng Shinsu was the 6th mission that Li Yang had completed, leaving him with only another six that had to be completed. These were missions he had accepted based on his strength before breaking through, so now that he had finished his breakthrough, none of these missions proved any challenge.

Over the next three weeks, news of strange occurrences once again started to pop up around the continent, bandits and Demonic beasts slain in droves, their lairs turned to either ash or frozen wastelands. One of these strange occurrences was the death of a bandit guild led by the Shinti twins, a pair of brothers who had both reached the very peak of the Ascending Heaven realm.

Their entire base was twisted and distorted, countless dead bodies crushed beneath the metal pillars that used to support their large base. Looking at the scene, it was as if the pillars themselves had flown away from their previous locations just to destroy the bodies of the bandits. As for the bodies of the two leaders, their headless corpses were found a few kilometers away from the ruined base, causing people to guess that they had tried to flee from whatever had attacked the base.

Nine days after killing the Shinti twins, two days before the promised six-month agreement, Li Yang finally returned to the Yuan clan. He arrived at the hill standing at the edge of the vast forest, the same place he had arrived when he first entered the Yuan clan. He only gave the area a cursory glance before he swiftly made his way through the forest, heading for the dome-shaped building that was the mission control center.

It had only been six months since Li Yang had left the clan, and he could be considered somewhat famous among the outer and provisional disciples, mainly because of the fact that he had beaten Yuan Yijun's third in command and challenged her second in command. Because of this, there were quite a few who noticed him as he made his way to the mission control building.

He caught a few odd stares because of the change in his hair color and eye color, but Li Yang couldn't be bothered with the stares of the surrounding people. His plan now was to spend his contribution points, finish his six-month agreement with Yuan Ruogang, and then focus on increasing his strength so that he could meet up with Fang Ying and find a way to wake up Jinwu and Shenlong.

Li Yang entered the mission control building, walking up to the same middle-aged man with a graying beard that had first processed him accepting the missions. Li Yang swiped his interspatial ring, taking out nine straw sacks and three wooden boxes, placing them in front of the man.

”The missions have been completed, please check them over.”

The middle-aged man raised his eyebrow slightly, moving his gaze between the 12 containers and Li Yang. He wasn't too surprised that Li Yang completed the 12 missions in six months, what he was surprised at was the increase in Li Yang's strength. Each new cultivation realm was stronger than the last, so it was no easy task to break through to the next cultivation realm.

Even if it was just going from the Human Rune realm to the Ascending Heaven realm, it could still take people several years to take that final step. This middle-aged man was one of the weaker elders of the sect, but he was still an elder, so he knew that when Li Yang arrived at the Yuan clan a little less than a year ago, he had only been at the middle stage of the Human Rune realm, the Houtian Rune stage. And now he had already reached the Ascending Heaven realm, meaning that he either had some secret on him, or that he had talent that could only be called terrifying.

The middle-aged man didn't say anything about Li Yang's increase in strength, it was best to bring it to the attention of some of the higher ranked elders later on. He opened the nine straw sacks and the three wooden boxes, quickly going over their contents. The straw sacks contained the heads he had taken from the various bounty targets, while the wooden boxes contained the herbs or Demonic beast parts he had to deliver for some of the missions he had taken. After carefully checking the 12 containers, the middle-aged man swept them into his interspatial ring and nodded his head.

”Everything is in order, the 12 missions have been completed and registered. The total reward is 1650 contribution points, would you like a list over everything that can be bought with contribution points?”

Li Yang had originally planned on using these contribution points on various treasures that he could use to push his cultivation up to the Ascending Heaven realm. But since he had already managed to reach that realm thanks to the strange crystal inside the Frozen God's Tomb, he decided to use the contribution points on something else instead.

”No need, I already have a list. I want to buy two cultivation manuals, one for the soul and one for the body. It doesn't matter how many of my contribution points it'll require, but I want one of each.”

Li Yang had only cultivated his Qi in his past life, mainly because back then, only those who specialized in the law of the flesh or the law of the soul could cultivate their body or their soul. But in this age, cultivation manuals that allowed everyone to cultivate their soul or body existed, so there was no way Li Yang would pass up this opportunity.

The middle-aged man gave another nod of his head, closing his eyes in what seemed to be thought. He opened his eyes again after half a minute, quickly listing everything that Li Yang could afford, pulling out a blank scroll from his interspatial ring and quickly writing down an explanation of the five different techniques.

”Very well. Since you only have 1730 contribution points, there are only five of these manuals that you can afford if you want one of each type, and even then, you can only afford the first parts of the techniques. For the body, we have the Heaven's Lord technique, the Iron Peak technique, and the Myriad Monarch technique. For the soul, we have the Thousand Dragon Seal technique and the Bloody Shura technique.”

Li Yang grabbed the list and gave the five different techniques a quick read, memorizing the description of them. Each of the techniques had their own specialties and effects, each one also had different ways to cultivate them, some easier than others. After reading over all five techniques, Li Yang made his choice, pointing at two of them.