Chapter 412: Visit (1/2)

Alex immediately let go of his restraints on the spiritual sense and his cultivation. He also brought out a healing pill and ate it as he sighed.

'Only 3 more remaining huh? Should I ask the master for more once she wakes up or should I make my own?' he thought.

The energy of the pill entered his body and quickly healed the wounds on his rib cage. The bruise slowly disappeared and he stopped feeling pain.

'Common Rank pills can't do it that fast right? You really do want a True Rank pill. I wonder when I will be able to make those,' he thought. 'First I need to convert my common Qi to True Qi.'

He checked his surroundings and made sure there was nothing that could sneak attack him right now. He took out the Onyx armor and wore it again. Now that he had the slightest bit of knowledge on how Intents worked, he no longer needed to force himself into such situations.

He looked down at his hands and chuckled a little. Somehow, during all of those minutes he spend fighting, his long nails had somehow not broken despite the heated battle.

'Well, they are durable, I can give them that,' he thought. He looked at the dense forest and wondered if it was at all a good idea to bring out Pearl now.

'Hm… since Meridian Tempering realm beasts are starting to be common now, I should just fight on my own. No need to bring Pearl out and put him in danger,' he decided. He quickly changed the torn robe as well and walked deeper into the forest.

He didn't forget to pick up the alchemy ingredients growing in the forest during the entire time.

'Wasn't it around this deep when senior sister found the Spirit Cleansing lily? Maybe there are some here too,' he thought with optimism in his head.

Every time he came across a beast, he only fought it using his newly founded, still terrible sword intent. It didn't take long for him to realize that his sword intent was about as strong as the 3rd Meridian Tempering realm in terms of damage. It was because of his physical body that its damage during the fight had increased to 5th Meridian Tempering.

'I wonder… if I fully master this, will my damage go higher than it already is?' Alex thought. He thought that was a little too strong and started wondering why everyone didn't try to learn intents from the very start.

If people knew that intent could make your attacks stronger, he didn't doubt they would flock to it. He also didn't doubt that the people who cultivated didn't all know about intent.

'Then, why do they choose not to?' he thought.

He got his answer very soon. It was during his fight with a bird in the 9th Meridian Tempering realm when he started feeling his body getting unusually fatigued.

Not only that, it felt like he needed sleep very soon, or else he would fall down in the forest.

'I see,' he thought. 'No wonder they don't learn it. It's so taxing on the body and mind.'

The body wasn't as bad as a little bit of resting could help him get back on track, but the mind was a different thing. It wasn't easy to refresh a fatigued mind.

And after forcing the way one thought every time one thought, one's mind really did get fatigued.

'I can probably do much better once I find it easier to use Intent. Still, my mind will probably get fatigued then too,' he thought.

Seeing that he was dangerously close to falling asleep, he quickly concealed his cultivation fully and put on the invisible veil. Then, he started walking back, but while taking a different path.

Once again, he had all the ingredients he could want right there. 'I should do this more often,' he thought. After an hour of walking, he brought out Pearl and let him walk next to him.

It was now safe for Pearl to come out again. Pearl happily fought all the beasts they came across and killed them all. It was still shocking to Alex to see this little fluffball kill so many giant beasts like they were nothing.

Soon they were out of the forest. Alex quickly put Pearl back into the tattoo and flew back to the sect. He quietly landed in the outer sect and walked his way back to his house.

Once inside, he finally laid on the grass in the courtyard as the fatigue caught up to him. 'Yeah, I'm not going to use Intent so freely again,' he thought.

Thankfully, he could log out now and not have to worry about this mental fatigue for now.

Before that, he went to his master's house to check if she was alright. The girls were there, but these were different from the ones yesterday.

”Has there been any change?” he asked.

The girls shook their heads. ”No, junior brother. Sect Leader has still been sound asleep ever since we took over last night,” the girl at the front said.

”I see. Thank you for looking after my master,” he said.

”No, no. She's our sect leader too. We are doing this because we want to,” the girls said.

Alex nodded and left. He went back to his house and looked at the time. '6 AM huh? Should I leave?' he wondered and quickly decided he should.

After all, he had his assignments to do.

So, he logged out. For the next 4 hours before classes, aside from eating breakfast with the girls, he spent most of the time focused on his assignments.

The assignments for the first years were quite easy, so he could easily finish them in about 4 hours for each. He just needed to do this a little more after returning from the classes and he would finish the assignment for one of the subjects.

He didn't spend all of his time doing assignments, however. Midway through, he would get bored so he went on the internet for quick 5 minute breaks.

During one of those breaks, he went to the forum to check on his post about Structure and Composition. Surprisingly enough, the post was decently popular.

It wasn't popular enough to be on the first page of the forum, but just enough that people who browsed it for longer than 20 minutes easily found it.

One of the things that surprised him the most was the increasing number of negative comments on the post. Most of the people were calling his decision to become an alchemist stupid, as that would take forever to become good at.

He simply laughed at these people and forgot about them. Before getting back to his assignments, he noticed that he had received another message.