244 Qi vs Spiritual Energy (2/2)
”Thank you.” Tang Liu was not a sore loser. When he was given the pill, he did not display any kind of nervousness and popped it into his mouth right away and sat down.
He suddenly felt how the heaven-and-earth essence from the surrounding air was pouring into his body, nurturing his injuries and healing them—all while converting some of it into Qi
Having never before taken a pill that could enhance one's Qi cultivation base, and suddenly getting one that was of high purity and made for Ordinary Knights, Tang Liu felt an acute pain in his dantian.
His dantian suddenly felt bloated.More and more heaven-and-earth essence gathered in it, making it show signs of cracking, yet when the pressure was the highest, Tang Liu suddenly felt as if a dam had been broken and all the energy poured out.
Tang Liu was a human with a mutated bloodline, but his body was still human with slight changes. His dantian worked exactly like a humans, but he had previously been a Heavenly Warrior. Now he suddenly broke through to become an Ordinary Knight.
Seeing him suddenly having a breakthrough in Qi levels from one pill, the eyes of everyone, including Xue Wei and his comrades, widened in surprise and they looked at one another.
It was not easy to break through from the Warrior to the Knight ranks. If it was, then there would not be so many stuck at the Heavenly Warrior rank in Yan Dalu, but now with a mere casual pill given by Xue Wei, Tang Liu broken through.
”Do you think their talent is not limited to spiritual energy?” Xue Wei mentioned the question that all of his friends were considering. Bai Tianyi shook his head in shock, and said, ”If they have the same talent for Qi cultivation that they do for spiritual energy, then their race could very possibly take over the entire world.”
”The world sure is vast,” Xue Wei agreed. ”I once thought I was a genius, but the truth is that I just need to work harder if I want to achieve anything. There are heaven-sent geniuses everywhere with more talent than me. This is quite depressing.”
”You did a good deed though,” Hei Gou said with a nod of his head. ”Perhaps after our visit here in Yan Dalu, Qi Cultivators won't be looked down upon as much as they are now.”
”You can always dream,” Lin Xiao sighed. ”Their culture is many millennia old. They can't just change it because four random Qi cultivators passed by. Keep in mind that they have also seen outsiders from the Demon Phoenix Continent. I fail to believe that there has never been Qi cultivators from there.”
”That is true,” Hei Gou nodded his head seriously. ”I did not think about them. Since they are aware of the fact that some people are able to do well when it comes to Qi cultivation, why would they still look down upon it?”
”It is hard to say,” Xue Wei answered. ”Some of it could be because of their culture, and some of it could be because of customs, but it could also be because they simply don't have the ability to raise Qi cultivators here.”
”Even if there have been visitors, they have not managed to gain anything from them. Their skills are mediocre and not enough to ever bring trouble to a spiritual energy cultivator. They don't even have cultivation techniques to bring them to a higher level than Heavenly Warrior.”
”Although I can trade some skills for merit points, I do not have any cultivation techniques that can allow them to reach higher ranks,” Xue Wei sighed with dejection. ”I can let the Heavenly Warriors fight much more seriously, but they cannot break through unless I feed them some stronger pills.”
”That might not necessarily be true,” Bai Tianyi snickered. ”I have quite a few cultivation techniques. I have no use for them, as I cannot cultivate Qi, but they are still imprinted within my memory. I can give you a few of them and you can sell them for merit points. I have two that allows one to cultivate to Heavenly Knight, and three that allow one to cultivate to Heavenly Saint.”
”You never told me you had skills before?” Xue Wei asked curiously and slightly begrudgingly. Bai Tianyi shrugged his shoulders. ”You have the innate technique for an Azure Dragon. You can't even use any other technique, so what was the point of telling you about them.”
”Fair point,” Xue Wei quickly understood that what Bai Tianyi said was correct.
While the four of them were talking with one another, the rest of the audience had gathered around Tang Liu to ask him multiple questions. From time to time they would glance at Xue Wei, wondering how he had become so strong.
”Well, we need points, so let us go hunt some bandits,” Xue Wei said with a snicker. He could let loose and feel the excitement from fighting again. Killing again.
Before they left the sparring field, Tang Liu looked at them, and then he realized that he had severely overestimated himself. His face turned pale and his lips trembled.
”What is wrong?” one of the others asked. Tang Liu cleared his throat, before saying, ”The child has stronger spiritual energy than the one who beat me. His spiritual energy is at the ninth layer of the Ordinary Knight rank.”
”And the other two, both of them are Earth Knights in Qi levels, and they are both at the middle of that rank! It seems that the one I fought was the weakest amongst them all, and still I could only manage two hits.”
Hearing the words that Tang Liu said, everyone felt fearful in their hearts. Was this truly possible?
Of course no one knew which one of them was actually the strongest, but it was a fact that Xue Wei had the lowest rank among them.
Bai Tianyi was not ranked much higher than him, but because of his childlike appearance alongside his smile and grown-up demeanor, he was without a doubt the most mysterious.
Lin Xiao seemed the most straight forward, but at the same time he also seemed like a big metal wall, one that was impossible to shift.
Hei Gou was attractive. Even though he had only two eyes, he was incredibly handsome, and also very secretive.
Then there was Xue Wei. He seemed like a very honest and average youth. But you could not always judge someone based on their appearance.