Reaching The Bottleneck Once More!

Su Jun sat on the bed with closed eyes, focusing on the . Strands of Qi floating in the air slowly moved towards him. They entered through his skin and travelled through his meridians into his dantian. Every time a strand of Qi entered his dantian which took five seconds, a message floated up in his head notifying him of the one experience point he got. Ten hours passed and a message floated up in his head, . He opened his eyes, 'Two more levels and I will be where I was before.' He laid down on the bed and closed his eyes, falling asleep a few minutes later.

The night passed and the morning came. Su Jun's eyes opened and he without waiting for anything sat down on the bed, closed his eyes and focused on his cultivation technique – . Five hours passed and two messages floated up in his head.

'Good I am back to where I was.' Su Jun focused on . He felt a strand of Qi leaving his dantian and moving through his meridians and ramming into something.

A few minutes passed and a message floated up in Su Jun's head, his eyes snapped open and he felt exhausted, 'I am out of Qi… I wonder how fast does it recover… I will just ask Duan Xi or Duan Ri.' He jumped off his bed and walked out of the house and like a day before, he saw Duan Xi standing by his door with closed eyes. "Good morning," he said with a smile.

Duan Xi opened her eyes and looked at him, "Morning," she said with her usual indifferent face.

"Duan Xi, how fast does Qi recover?"

Duan Xi tilted her head slightly, "It depends on the dantian's rank. Qi in an F-rank dantian recovers after twenty-four hours, E-rank dantian twenty hours, D-rank dantian sixteen hours, C-rank dantian twelve hours, B-rank dantian ten hours, A-rank dantian six hours and S-rank dantian four hours."

Su Jun nodded in understanding, "I see. Is there a way to recover Qi in the dantian without waiting?"

Duan Xi slightly nodded, "There is, Qi recovery pills…" she narrowed her eyes, "Are you perhaps at a bottleneck?"

Su Jun nodded, "Yeah."

'Elder did say that Su Jun reached rank 3 martial mortal in just a single day. Since he destroyed both testing stones it's not surprising that he is at the bottleneck to reach rank 4 martial mortal. Actually, it's more surprising that it took him this look to reach the bottleneck.' Duan Xi's eyes returned to normal, "If you want to get your hands on the Qi recovery pills you have three options."

"What options?"

"Option one, become an alchemist yourself and make the pills. This can only be done if you have a fire dantian. Option two, buy the pills with the sect contribution points. Option three, your easiest option. Just go and ask the elder, I am sure he will give you them if you ask. After all, he already gave you both whirling dragon punch and white tiger's palm."

'Alchemy will be the first profession I take.' Su Jun nodded, "I see."

"Now I have a question for you. What's the name of that fist skill that you used yesterday?"

Su Jun smiled, "It's called tiger's punch."

Duan Xi smiled faintly, "Thank you for telling me."

Su Jun heartbeat hastened and he shook his head, "No problem."

"So what are you going to do?"

'And it's gone.' Su Jun turned his head to the restaurant's direction, "First, let's go eat."

Duan Xi looked in the same direction as Su Jun, "Once you reach martial core you will no longer have to eat or sleep. So don't do so out of habit."

Su Jun turned his head to Duan Xi, "Really?" he said with a doubtful expression on his face.

Duan Xi was looking in the restaurant's direction so she didn't see his doubtful expression. She nodded, "Yes."

Su Jun nodded and they walked out of the house area and towards the restaurant. Like before, everyone they passed turned their heads to look at Duan Xi, but not one dared to approach her. Before they didn't have the confidence to come up to such a beautiful girl and talk to her but now there was an additional reason – Su Jun who they saw walking beside her. They heard about him fighting three opponents at the same time and they heard that his normal punch was of the same strength as an E-rank skill – dragon descends the mountain. They didn't want to offend him by walking up and talking to Duan Xi. Some of them even bragged that if Su Jun wasn't walking by Duan Xi's side, they would come up and talk to her which of course was a lie.

Reaching the restaurant, they entered and sat down at the first table they saw and like before, all, male disciples turned their heads to her but not one of them approached.

The waitress came to their table, the same waitress that waited on them a day before and the day before that, "What would you like?" she said and thought, 'Will they just look into each other's eyes again?'

Su Jun turned his head to the waitress, "Meat bun and a green tea," he said with a smile.

"Same for me," Duan Xi said.

The waitress smiled, 'Same again I see.' She nodded and walked away.

Like yesterday and a day before that, Su Jun looked at Duan Xi with a wide smile on his face while she looked at him with an indifferent expression on her's.

A few minutes passed and the waitress came back, 'They are still staring into each other's eyes. I wonder when will they start talking to each other.' She then coughed into her free hand, "I have brought your meat buns and green tea."

Su Jun and Duan Xi looked at the waitress and nodded. The waitress placed the food and tea on the table and walked away. The two picked up their meat buns and started eating. As for their tea, Su Jun drank it while eating while Duan Xi drank it after finishing her meat bun. They both finished at the same time once again.

"So what did you decide?" Duan Xi said and the waitress who came to pick up the plates and cups froze and widened her eyes in shock, 'They are going to have an actual conversation?'

"I want to become an alchemist but that won't give me the pill I need right now. I want to buy one with sect contribution points."

Duan Xi nodded, "You will have to complete a mission."

Su Jun nodded, "How much sect contribution points does one pill cost?"

"The cheapest and weakest Qi recovery pill restores 5% of Qi and costs two sect contribution points."

Su Jun furrowed his eyebrows, "Are there any stronger ones?"

"There is, but only one. It restores 10% of Qi and costs three sect contribution points. Other stronger pills are only available for the inner sect disciples. So what do you want to do? Still going to buy one with sect contribution points or are you going to ask the elder for one? I know that you destroyed both dantian and martial talent testing stones. Those testing stones can measure up to A-rank. Which means you have S-rank dantian and S-rank martial talent. S-rank martial talent means that you can use 80% of your total Qi. If you want to restore all your Qi you will need ten of those 10% Qi recovery pills and that will cost you thirty contribution points."

Su Jun smiled, "Let's go do a mission."

Duan Xi furrowed her eyebrows and nodded, "Alright."

They stood up from the table and walked out of the restaurant.

The waitress gulped down her saliva, her head was spinning from what she just head and she mumbled, "His martial talent and dantian rank are above A-rank?" The disciple that walked past the waitress stopped in his tracks.