Breaking into the Third Grade

¨Hey, let's get going¨ He didn't want to let her stay like this for more. Of course, he didn't mind this, but he was pretty darn wanting to go and drink those potions he had concocted today, so the woman would need to move off him.

¨Do I have to?¨ Zhuan An even after hearing the order come a second time wasn't being very co-operative.

¨You want some potions or not?¨ Xiao Fan said this and from doing so garnered the attention of Zhuan An, who from hearing this raised her head to look at him. Now knowing what was at stake she didn't blurt it out, but holding onto it, she moved her body on top of him in a way that her mouth was next to his ear ¨You have potions?¨ She wasn't aware of him having potions.

¨Of course, the Prince just yesterday gave me herbs by the hundreds, so how can't I have some potions for our personal use?¨ Xiao Fan whispered this to her ear.

Who either from the feeling of that whisper or the message he was saying got a small shock to run through her body ¨I'm interested¨ When that was gone, she stated this.

¨Then can we get moving?¨ Xiao Fan now took his hands that had been on her back to her sides so that he could push her up a little, indicating his want to get going.

¨Sure¨ Zhuan An now knowing why they needed to move was much more happy to do so. After all the items that were on the line were potions, so even cuddling with Xiao Fan could wait a moment.

And after her saying so, the two of them got out from the blanket which under they had been. When upon two legs Zhuan An watched where Xiao Fan was going, and when knowing followed him.

The two of them needed to cross the whole first floor as unluckily the Guard Captain to who Xiao Fan had trusted the herb bag with had placed it on the opposite end. Still, as both of them were cultivators of a respectable level in this group, something like sneaking to the other side wasn't too much of a problem.

As in the end, they were both cultivators, so if they didn't want to make any noise, there would be no noise. Anyway, it only took a few minutes for them to cover some five hundred meters of ground to get to the herb bag.

Getting there Xiao Fan wanting to make the least noise began to open up the bag and then look for the things. This part made a little noise, a rustling noise from Xiao Fan moving the bag around. But no one cared for this noise since who wasn't moving their blankets around? It was just a voice amongst many to the people who could take note of this voice.

The noise he was making while taking out the herbs wasn't anything serious at all since even the Guard Captain himself who was next to the bag didn't blink nor move from all of that.

Soon Xiao Fan had taken out all the herbs he needed for this time. He wouldn't be taking every potion as they couldn't be used well if taking too many. So he only took one Elixir of Karna, one Elixir of Otso, and one Aid of Ninlil. Taking more would have been a waste.

Yet while he was taking out the herbs from the bag, his accomplice Zhuan An was a little confused, but it was Xiao Fan doing something, so she didn't question him on this one. She had never been briefed on something like this, yet she wouldn't stick he nose into this.

Anyway, all her questions were soon answered as Xiao Fan opened up a handcrafted inside compartment in one of these herbs, showing a potion to her.

Zhuan An seeing this didn't say anything, she simply nodded and took the Elixir of Karna that was being offered to her at the end of Xiao Fan's stretched out hand.

When she had done so, Xiao Fan keeping the no talking up, pointed towards the light pillars that took them into the trial space.

There was no better place to be using these potions than the trial space because in there no one could hear them and no one could see them even if both of them were knocked out for a day or two.

Getting his idea, she again nodded. But before walking into the light pillar, she came up to Xiao Fan, lifted herself up from her legs a little, so she was able to plant a small kiss on the cheek of Xiao Fan.

It was a form of thanks from her to him.

Xiao Fan not suspecting nor waiting for this was taken a little when her lips touched his cheek a little, which made him be confused yet also happy for a second. A second that was too long since when he came back from it, he saw Zhuan An already being teleported.

Only the smile and small blush on her face were noted by Xiao Fan's brain before she completely disappeared into the trial space.

'Romantic, romantic¨ He repeated the word once, yet at the end of it, he was at the first trial, which was the one with the complete darkness that was still fooling his visions.

¨Well, there is nothing else than to get to work¨ He self monologued and then began to open up the two herbs he had taken with him here.

Next time he spoke was when the two potions were in his hands instead of the herbs now lying ruined on the ground ¨Now... which one to take first?¨ To see this, he flipped the pages inside his mind a while.

¨Oh it is actually the Aid of Ninlil. I would have thought that the more mild Elixir of Otso would be the first one of the two¨ Finding the right order was he a little surprised.

Nevertheless, after now having the right order, he didn't think much more, soon he was going to have enough of that. And so he lifted one of his arms up, opened the bottle and drank the Aid of Ninlil. Drinking it felt like it was water, the purest water he had drunk, and what was weirder was how it didn't go down in his food pipe, but instead the windpipe?

From this, Xiao Fan was for a moment about to gag, but realising he could breathe just as normal when it was filled with this material he didn't. Knowing it wasn't going to do anything to him, he then focussed on the feeling that was making his lungs enlarge with a speed that he could note.

Of course, the lungs of a person can't be enlargened much towards the front seeing as the rib cage was there, yet it could be enlargened to the other directions, plus even a small amount of this was enough for him to feel much fresher with every breath he was now taking.

However, that was only a few breaths as not long after he found a spot to lie on the floor, and when that was found, he drank the Elixir of Otso.

The Elixir of Otso might focus mainly on the power that one had in his legs, yet that didn't make it so that one couldn't breakthrough wit said elixir. Especially Xiao Fan who was at the very top of the Second Grade of Body Activation Realm by now.

Xiao Fan was very much so at the point that when he felt the Elixir of Otso be used by his legs and the rest of the body when the legs couldn't take in more, he started to feel a breakthrough happening.

First came all the usual, like his blood flowing all around his body making it better in every way before coming into the heart and then again racing into the head of the cultivator. And with that happening soon came the usual lose of conscience, or was it that?

Like before, Xiao Fan had the thought that if he lost conscience during these breakthroughs why could he think and move around in this world he was brought into? If one was out of it, surely these things were impossible but then again if it wasn't so... what was it then?

Does this place have something to do with spirituality? But the Body Realms weren't in any way spiritual, right? Cao Cao himself had said that Body Realms had very little in terms of harvestable Fait Influence. Though again, in his very words, Cao Cao didn't deny it having some spirituality? It was just very little?

¨Here I go again, thinking of stuff that the even the Gods don't have answers to, yet I think that me pondering this for a few minutes will make me realise something...¨ He humoured himself a little since this was a fact, he was thinking of something that couldn't be unravelled by him.

In all reality, before he got to the level of Cao Cao, he shouldn't ponder so much when it came to the deeper meanings of life and the universe or cultivation. It was just something that would never bear fruit. Yet as he was about to strike the hammer on this thinking, he had another thought that contradicted himself ¨Why shouldn't I? Is there something wrong in thinking of problems that can't be exactly pointed out with logic and facts to be precisely something?¨

His thoughts would always fly in this place really well, and now having the Bit of Wit helping him, it was even more so than it had been ever before. At this point, the Bit of Wit had made Xiao Fan regard it as a legendary herb. The Bit of Wit was truly something that made him think in different ways and see new paths and opportunities.

¨I should really ship these to Du Lan, she will surely still get the full benefit of it... though Qian Ki, she might be at the Body Strengthening Realm already¨ He knew that time was running short ¨Has the letter I send them reached them?¨

Yes, the letter had reached them; however, the place the letter had come to was abandoned by the two of them, and the smuggling services wouldn't be delivering it here. However, same would happen to the letters the two of them had sent to Xiao Fan, well a little better, or worse... Why? Simply because those letters would fall into the hands of Meng Chin.

And what would Meng Chin do with them? Play around with those letters or send them forward to Xiao Fan?... The option she would take was obvious.

Those letters would never reach Xiao Fan either.

Not knowing how the mail was doing, Xiao Fan focussed to the current situation, which meant the different colour he had possibly seen when here the last time. Last time here, he had noted how this place wasn't completely pitch black, for he had noted how there was a different colour in the direction he was racing towards currently.

At least he thought so. There was no way to be sure of it yet, he felt, and so he was going to find out by, in his mind, moving towards that different colour.

Also, similar to the last time in here, Xiao Fan was thinking of the most important things to him in the near future. There was no reason not to, seeing as when he was here he could think so freely and getting to conclusions was so easy. Pondering something in this space made him get a conclusion even to the hardest problems in a thought or two.

With the help of this fact was he was making quick progress in his plot to manipulate Wang Geming. And other plots like the one concerning the end game that this tower would hold, that also got a conclusion. And as he was thinking of an escape plan out of the place if he would ever need one, he realised that although he had moved towards the direction he wanted, he wasn't still sure enough! Lel