19 Luo Zhirou (1/2)
Since they no longer had the capacity to continue the bidding, the Black Horned Mammoth ended up in the hands of the strangely dressed woman next to Xue Wei.
The price for these two mounts exceeded a couple of years' worth of value for the Auction House, but they would be getting nothing as all of it went to the monks.
”No wonder monks live in fancy temples, where everything is properly looked after. The Diviners finance everything that has to do with the monks and priests. Even though it seems like a lot of money, there are not that many Diviners out there, but there are so many temples. I guess they just barely scraping by.”
At first, Xue Wei had been amazed by the sheer amount of gold that they had gained, but after thinking a bit further, he realized that this bit of gold was not a lot for an organization that spanned the entire continent.
Having finished the sale of the two beasts, the light slowly returned to the auction.
”Thank you all for attending the beast auction today!” the auctioneer called out. ”We are very proud to have been chosen by the esteemed Diviners as the ones to handle their magnificent beasts. Now those two experts that made the winning bids, please wait to be lead to our office, and we will finalize the sale. Everyone else, have a pleasant day.”
Having said this, people started standing up from their chairs, and the doors opened. Everyone, except the Shen Family and the strangely dressed lady, began leaving the auction hall.
”I guess Shen Mu is going to go with his father,” Xue Wei thought. ”When he is with his father, it will take some time for them to be handed the beast, and then I am quite sure that they will go back home right away to get familiar with the Four-Tailed Scorpion.”
”Since that is the case, I should return home and cultivate.” Xue Wei was amazed by the beasts. They had truly looked overwhelming and powerful, even more so than humans at the same cultivation base. However, now that he had seen them, he understood that if he truly wanted to fight against Fierce Beasts, and one day against Primordial Beasts, then he had to increase his strength tremendously.
Returning home, Xue Wei went to his room to change into more suitable clothes for training before he went straight to the back of the mansion where he started to train the Shattering Mountain Palm and the Forbidden Rush.
He had gotten a good understanding of the Forbidden Rush skill and was now able to merge with the wind, almost teleporting around.
There was almost no wind in Tiankong City, but Xue Wei was now able to sense even the tiniest changes in the air that could be considered a form of wind and merge with these. No matter how little wind there was, there would always be changes in the air, and these could be used just as well.
As Xue Wei practiced the Forbidden Rush technique, he found that his senses were heightened and strengthened. He could see much further than before and hear even the smallest sounds.
He knew that some of it was because of him finally becoming a cultivator, but he was also aware that his senses were heightened further than most Ordinary Warriors.
Xue Wei also had a strength that was superior to other fifth layered Ordinary Warriors. As to how much superior it was, he still did not know.
Xue Wei wanted to know, but he did not have anything to measure his strength with. He had heard about strength-measuring stones, but his kingdom was simply too small to have them.
The Kingdom of Heping was a long stretch of land. It was placed all the way at the edge of the continent and followed the coastline from the cold north to the hot south. It was like a snake coiling its way down the side of the continent, and it was also the most impoverished and most underestimated kingdom in the entire continent.
Xue Wei had read so many books about the vast world, and he knew that many kingdoms on the continent had great sects filled with martial art cultivators, martial art families, and so many other things that the Kingdom of Heping did not have.
Many of the experts in the Kingdom of Heping were just frogs in the well. The Primordial Beasts in the Kingdom of Heping were also the weakest compared to the rest of the continent.
Most of the experts within the Kingdom of Heping would never leave, and thus they would never experience for themselves what the vast continent was like.
Xue Wei had let his thoughts wander while practicing the Forbidden Rush technique.
He found that his speed had decreased and his accuracy was not as high as when he was focusing on his abilities.
Since this was the case, he decided to focus fully on his techniques. He continued to train the rest of the day and the next couple of days without interruption.
After a few days, Luo Zhirou came visiting out of nowhere, and Xue Wei took the time to accompany her.
”I am sorry that I never treated you well before,” she said as she handed him some sweets. ”I was influenced by my friends and my family. You were incapable of cultivating and regarded as the most useless person in the city. And although I know my words won't change anything, I still wish to apologize.”
”I made these sweets myself. It is my hobby. If I could, I would become someone who made sweets for others, but I am afraid that I cannot become one of those people. I have my family's expectations on my shoulders.”
”Anyway, when I started speaking with you when you followed Shen Mu to see the Fierce Beasts, I could not help but feel that you were so different from how everyone described you.”
”You are really smart, and you seem to know about so many things that the rest of us do not know about.”
”If it is not too late, then I would like to become your friend.”
Xue Wei had said nothing while Luo Zhirou was speaking, and he saw how she was twisting her hands, filled with nervousness and worry, and he could not help but smile at her.