67 Earth Warrior (2/2)
The more curious people in the tent city decided to exit their tents and follow the energy to the epicenter of where it was most chaotic to see who was breaking through.
They were curious to know, as they had to know if another monster of the third layer had appeared in the camp.
When they arrived at Xue Wei's tent, they all looked at one another and frowned.
Knowing that Xue Wei was residing within the tent, all of them were suddenly feeling complicated.
Some of them were relieved by the fact that it was Xue Wei. He would at most become a one layer Earth Warrior, making one more Earth Warrior emerge in their camp, but if it had been someone who reached the third layer rank, then it would have been much different.
Others were not too comfortable about it because they knew that as an Ordinary Warrior he had the strength of an Earth Warrior, yet now that he had become an actual Earth Warrior, who was to say that his strength had not multiplied greatly?
Xue Wei was completely unaware of the audience he had attracted outside the tent; he was solely focused on his cultivation base and the consolidation of his new realm.
Lan had long since noticed the people that had come to scout Xue Wei, but after seeing that he was not being disturbed, Lan quickly relaxed again.
The group quickly dispersed. No matter what they thought about Xue Wei breaking through, all of them realized that they could do nothing about it, and all they could do was to return to their own tents.
The rest of the night passed followed by the sun rising in the sky, yet Xue Wei was still absorbing the Qi from the surrounding air wantonly as if his body was an empty reservoir that was being filled with water.
The sun rose to the middle of the sky, shining down on everyone, but Xue Wei showed no intention of awakening from his meditation. It was not before the sun was starting to set again that Lan could feel how the absorption of Qi was slowly dwindling down to a reasonable level.
Xue Wei opened his eyes, and a beam of light shot out from within. A breath of foul air escaped his lips.
”Well done, you made it to Earth Warrior already!” Lan praised him while clapping his hands.
Xue Wei, forgetting that he was not too keen on this prophet, sent him a beaming smile and nodded his head. ”Thanks!” he exclaimed, filled with excitement. Lan looked at him, seemingly contemplating something.
”Well. I was going to teach you about the different ranks when you became an Earth Warrior, so I'll tell you about it now,” Lan decided.
”I was planning to teach you something awesome, but considering that it is already getting late, I have a feeling that it is not the most suitable time to go to the fields. We will simply not have enough time!”
”Your body should be nourished from the Qi you absorbed into your flesh and body, so going to the dining hall tonight can be skipped,”
”But it is filled with medicinal properties,” Xue Wei complained, ”I need them to increase my strength, especially now when I have just reached the Earth Warrior rank!”
”Open your mouth,” Lan ordered, and hesitatingly Xue Wei did as he was told.
Lan flicked his fingers, and a small red bead-like thing entered Xue Wei's mouth and went straight down his throat, almost choking him in the process.
Just as Xue Wei was about to cough, he felt that the small bead transformed into liquid and fell down his throat, into his stomach where a wave of heat started radiating through his body.
”What's this?” he asked in amazement as he felt the impurities in his body being eradicated by this heat, burnt to a crisp and forced out of his system.
”It was a Scarlet Corpse Pill. A pill that is concocted from Corpse Grass and Blood Ginseng. It is very mild in nature, and this one had a purity of a hundred percent, so you don't have to worry about pill toxins. Since you turned into an Earth Warrior, you should just barely be able to consume it.”
Lan spoke as if it was natural for him to hand out medicinal pills of such caliber like candy, but Xue Wei was horrified. Pills were a rarity in the Kingdom of Heping, and especially pills of one hundred percent purity.
To randomly give away such pills like this was enough to shock him, but at the same time, he started to feel grateful to this prophet.
”Maybe I misjudged you at the start,” Xue Wei said with a small smile on his face, but Lan just grinned.
”I can give you much better stuff if you promise to join my collection,” he tempted, but Xue Wei just shook his head wordlessly.
”You said that you would tell me about the different ranks that come after the Warrior ranks?” the younger man changed the subject elegantly, to which Lan chuckled before he began to explain.