Chapter 6: Tournament

After having a short nap, Neonero decided to practice basic martial arts movements.

Huh! Hah! HuH! Yah! Ahhhh.

He is now drenched in sweat and then decided to end his practice session. He breathed heavily and relaxes himself. Feeling that he is about to enter into the mid stage of body refining, he decided to take another three low grade body tempering pills. He sat down in a lotus position then started to meditate. To his surprise he doesn't feel any pain and the intense heat he had experienced when taking the body tempering pills for the first time.

"Huh? Weird I don't feel any pain at all."

Right now his nerves, organs and bones are being tempered by a strange bluish light. Actually the bluish light is the Primordial Dragon's flame. Not just any primordial dragon but this dragon is the Primordial Divine White Dragon, the ruler of all dragons. Its blue flame is the hottest and most sacred of all flames. Just a tiny flame is already enough to ignite a person into flames!

Right now every nerve, organ and bone in his body seems to glitter and developed microscopic dragon scales around them. His skin even looks metallic like his wearing a really thin armor from head to toe. Of course his strength is almost doubled this time.

Three hours passed his meditation ended and he already reached the mid stage of body refining. If other people had to train their body for several months just to reach mid stage of body refining from the early stage with the aid of mid grade body tempering pill, Neonero only needed roughly three hours with the aid of consuming three low grade body tempering pills. He really don't need that much time to advance in body refining since he's practicing the Primordial Dragon Body Tempering technique plus the blue flame from the Primordial Divine White Dragon which really improves his speed in body tempering.

"Nice, I'm already at the mid body refining stage. Let's throw some punches to test my strength. Hyah!"

Boom!

The pressure from his punch hit the wall and created a loud sound.

"Holy cow! Never would've I imagine that it will cause such pressure."

And someone yelled from the other side of wall next to his room.

"Hey, what's that noise? Someone is sleeping here you son of an egg! "

"What did he just call me? Damn!"Neonero muttered.

Then he apologized at him in a loud voice. "Sorry!"

After awhile he then decided to sleep......

Early in the morning after taking his meal he decided to visit the Sect Library. The library has a wide variety of books from martial arts skills of different tiers to history books and some other informative books about this world. He chose to read the history books and the other informative books to have a wider understanding of this world. Through it he learned that the There are four continents on this world namely Eastern Continent which he is at right now, Icy Peaks Continent at the North which is full of Icy mountains, Western Plains Continent which is rumored to have very powerful experts at the Godly Soul Realm and the uncharted region of the Southern Continent also called Continent of Despair since majority of the experts who went there goes missing for thousands of years already. Some were able to come back but heavily injured. It is said that the Southern continent is full of strong demonic beasts and there are even demonic beasts at the Godly Soul Realm level. It was already afternoon when he decided to leave the library.

At this moment someone patted him on the back and startled Neonero. It was elder Zen who's beaming with smile while looking at him and said.

"Oh you're quite a monster kid, being able to enter the mid stage of body refining in just a few days. You quite have a remarkable talent in cultivation."

"If you are able to reach the early energy condensation stage within the next ninth month, you may have the qualification to join the next Personal Disciple Selection Tournament which will be happening next month. But the higher the cultivation levels the better. Anyway you still have nine months to cultivate and reach the energy condensation stage."

"Personal Disciple Selection Tournament? What kind of tournament is that elder Zen?" Neonero asked.

"It's a tournament of all the disciples who have reached the energy condensation stage be it early, mid or late stage they will battle and the top five disciples in the rankings after the battle will be chosen as personal disciple of the sect master and the two grand elders. Aside from being chosen as a personal disciple by either the sect master or the grand elders, the disciple who will emerge as the champion will be rewarded with a high grade cultivation resources, a mortal rank fighting technique and a low grade weapon. "

Neonero's eyes shown some glittering lights like his eyes are saying that he wanted to join the tournament. Elder Zen chuckled a little and said.

"Sect master has ordered me to gift this to you as a reward in reaching the early stage of body refining."

It was a small wooden box and it did not look impressive. So Neonero was wondering what kind of gift it is since it was sealed in just a small wooden box. Then accepted the small wooden box and expressed his gratitude to the elder.

"Please send my thanks to sect master." Neonero said while bowing his head respectfully.

But after handling the gift to Neonero, elder Zen smiled then grabbed something from his pocket and said.

"Since you have already reached mid stage of body refining, this will be my gift to you."

As he accepted the gift Neonero noticed it was a small scroll made out of some animal skin.

Again he bowed his head and thanked the elder.

Elder Zen waved his hand and said. "No need to thank me, it is I who is thankful to have my Mystic Lightning sect a talented disciple like you."

"If my guess is correct that scroll is some kind of a martial skill and a high grade at most. I tried to comprehend it but it was just hard for me to understand the written characters on it. Since I sensed that your comprehension in cultivation is monstrous I decided to gift it to you. Who knows you might be able to cultivate it. It'll greatly help you in the upcoming tournament."

"Elder Zen, you're overestimating me too much. But thanks elder I will try my very best in comprehending this martial skill." Neonero said while scratching the back if his head.

Elder Zen just smiled at him lightly then both of them leaved the library.

Upon reaching his room, Neonero instantly locked the door and opened the box which the sect master gifted him. A calming and pleasant smell came out of the box. Inside the box were three glowing beads bluish in color about the size of his index finger nail. If the other disciples are seeing this, they would die in envy and anger against this newly recruited disciple.

"Oh my god, this is a superior grade body tempering pill!" Neonero's eyeballs almost pop out while saying this in his mind.

He really didn't expect to receive something like this since all newly recruited disciples will only receive low grade body tempering pill every after two months. Yet now the sect master gifted him secretly a superior grade body tempering pill. This is such a VIP treatment for a common disciple like him.

Now that he has obtained three superior grade body tempering reaching late stage of body refining will be just breeze or so he thought. Feeling ecstatic about advancing to late stage of body refining he took the last four remaining low grade body tempering pills and consumed them all at once and started the body tempering process.

A whole day has passed but he still wasn't able to advance to the late stage of body refining. After a brief of contemplation he decided to consume one superior grade body tempering pill. Neonero then started to sat in a cross leg position and after a few seconds the superior grade body tempering pill started to release its potent effects inside his body.

An image of a Primordial Divine White Dragon started to emerge in his mind. The Primordial Divine White Dragon suddenly opened his mouth and breathe fire on him. The fire did not hurt him even a little instead it strengthened his whole body in an unimaginable way. In his thoughts he was burned over and over again but his skin, muscles, organs, bones and every bit of cells in his body regenerates just in a blink of an eye.

A month later he succeeded in advancing to the late stage in body refining. His body looks more muscular now and he also gained some height. His physical strength is now comparable to an early stage Energy condensation cultivator.