Chapter 230: Gathering (1/2)

Early morning, Alex got out of his room and made his way to the kitchen. Hannah was probably still in-game, so he didn't bother preparing anything for her. It was too early after all.

Once he was done, he left her a note at the dinner table saying that it was Friday and he didn't have any classes, do he would eat later whenever he could.

Once that was set, he went back to his room and logged back in. It was still a while before he would be taken away, so he decided to practice his techniques.

Fighting with a mortal body had made his body move way better than it did before. When combined with Qi, he was on a higher level. He practiced the Elusive Heavenly sword.

A slash, a stab, a swing, he practiced every stance there was in the Elusive Heavenly Sword and before he knew it; he was starting to lose vision of the surrounding.

It was just one man and one sword against the world. Soon, Alex lost himself too, and it was only the sword.

After a while, he abruptly stopped practicing. Alex felt a sort of mental whiplash from suddenly being in control of his body once more, fully conscious.

”It happened once again…” he thought. The first time he learned the sword technique, he had fallen in a trance as well. 'Why does this keep happening?' he wondered.

”You out of it now?”

A question came from the side. Ma Rong was standing at the door, looking at his train.

”Ah, master. When did you get here?” He asked.

”I've been here for 5 minutes now. Took you quite a while to notice me,” she said.

Alex just gave small smile and didn't tell her that he didn't notice her at all. He quickly looked at the time and was shocked at how late it was.

'It's 8 am already?' he thought in surprise. More than an hour had gone by without him even realizing it.

”Come one, we are leaving now. People are going to arrive at the place soon,” she said.

”Oh, okay,” he said as he walked out with her. ”Have the disciples who are leaving been already selected?” he asked.

”Yes. There are over 15 disciples who will leave with us. Considering that one sect can only have 3 disciples in each of the competitions at once, and each disciple can only take part in 3 competitions; we will need a lot of these disciples,” she said.

”Oh, we can only take place in 3 competitions huh. Have you decided what competition I am going to take part in?” he asked.

”I am going to put you in two of the alchemy competitions. The Ingredients Recognizing competition and the best pill-making competition. As for the third one… I haven't thought about it yet.”

”There are other alchemy competitions such as the fastest pill making, where as long as you make a mortal grade pill, you pass the competition. Or the one where one is made to make the most unique pills out there.”