Martial Disciple

After getting the high-tier cultivation talent, Xen Liu was eager to test its effectiveness in cultivation, so he headed to school.

Right after arriving he went in a low-tier cultivation room. He needed to pay daily for it so he didn't have much time, because he didn't have many spiritual stones.

He sat down in the center of the room, leg-crossed, eye closed, and started cultivating.

He felt like he was one with the world as the QI started entering in his body.

Thanks to the fact that he had practiced martial arts his body was stronger than a normal person, so he could remain many days without food and water.

First day. Second day. Third day. Fourth day.

On the fourth day Xen Liu felt that he was near a breaktrough.

On the fifth day he was at the limit of the Mortal Realm.

Finally, on the sixth day, Xen Liu managed to reach the Martial Disciple realm, but he didn't stop there, so he continued to cultivate.

Each realm was divided in early, mid, later and peak stages. Initially Xen Liu was an early Martial Disciple, but after two days of cultivation he had reached the mid stage, making him become even more powerful.

At this time he noticed a notification on the system's panel.

[CONGRATULATIONS TO THE USER ON BECOMING A MARTIAL DISCIPLE]

[AS REWARD YOU WILL GET A THREE STARS SWORD TECHNIQUE]

The technique he got as reward was a three star sword technique called Stone Blade.

Technique had different level of comprension: entry level, minor accomplishment, major accomplishement, peak and pefection. There was also another stage but Xen Liu didn't know about it.

After practicing Stone Sword, thanks to his sword talent, he managed to bring it to early stage in just three eight days.

He then went in a training room to test his combat power.

After summoning twenty mannequinnes at the same level of the last time he just needed fifteen seconds to defeat all of them, and he didn't even use his full power.

Xen Liu was unsure about his next move now, whatever find a way to make money, copy more talents or continue cultivating, but in the end he opted for the last one, so he went back to the low-tier cultivation room, but not before buying some lowest-tier elixirs and a low-tier medicinal herb to aid him in his cultivation.

He spent seven days cultivating and he finally reached the later Martial Disciple realm, almost breaking trough the peak stage.

Now he really needed to find a way to make some quick money, as he consumed all of his money to buy the elixirs and the herb.

After pondering about it for some time he decided to go to the Hunters Center, a place in which martial artists could form team, take on quests and fight monsters.

Exiting the academy Xen Liu took a taxi to arrive at the Hunters Center, it was a magnificent building. It was around 90 meters in height and 250 meters in width.

There were five entrances, and each one of them had two guards at the Martial Warrior realm.

After entering Xen Liu could see different pavilions like the Quests Pavilion, the Store Pavilion, the Rewards Pavilion and many others, with the first one and the third one being the most important.

The pavilion Xen Liu was interested about at the moment was the Quests Pavilion.

Quests were subdivided in ranks, from F rank up to SSS rank. The most suitable rank for Xen Liu at the moment were the ones up to E+ or D- rank at most.

After taking a look a the quests board he finally found a quest that could satisfy him.

Quest Rank: E+

Number of participants: no limit

Description: Enter in the Blue Forest and kill the Grey Wolves

Reward: 50 dollars per wolf

It was the perfect mission for Xen Liu as he didn't have any teamates and he preferred to keep hit strenght hidden for now.

After renting a car he departed for the Blue Forest, named after its famous blue trees.

After some hours of traveling he had finally reached his destination.

After getting off the car he started walking in the forest to find some Grey Wolves.

Grey Wolves were usually as strong as Martial Disciples, with only the alpha managing to reach the Martial Warrior realm, so Xen Liu just needed to be wary of the alphas and of the biggest packs.

After some time he finally found a small pack of Grey Wolves, with 4 of them. He wanted to test his strenght in a real battle, not a virtual one, so he attacked the wolves directly. 

Thanks to his sword talent, his strenght talent and Stone Blade he one shotted one of the wolves and quickly attacked another one, killing it effortlessly. These two were only at the early Martial Disciple Stage, while the other two were one at the later stage and one at the peak stage.

The one at the later stage charged at him and managed to injure Xen Liu's right arm but getting killed right after by Xen Liu.

Now only the peak stage was left but Xen Liu was injured, and even at his peak he would have had some difficulties to win against it.

While he was thinking about what to do a panel apperead near the wolf.

Name: Grey Wolf

Race: Grey Wolf

Realm: Peak Martial Warrior

Talents: Low-Tier Bloodline Talent, Low-Tier Claw Talent, Lowest-Tier Defence Talent

Both the claw talent and the defence talent had a copy button near them, but Xen Liu decided to copy the defence one.

The two of them fought for at least half an hour, and right when botu of them were exahausted Xen Liu managed to cut off one of its limbs thanks to a lucky slash, and after another five minutes he managed to kill it.

After defeating his last enemy Xen Liu cut off the right ear of each wolf, to use it as proof.

Right when he had cut off the last ear he heard a loud howl.

"Shit! That must be an alpha wolf! I need to hide!"

After saying so he started running until he finally reached a small cave to hide.

After entering the cave he took out some medicinal herb to use to cure his injuries.

He then proceeded to integrate the defence talent. It was still painful, but not as mush as when he integrated the high-tier cultivation talent.

After doing so Xen Liu decided to cultivatte for some time, because if there was really an alpha wolf near he had to be at least at peak stage if he wanted to escape or to put a fight.

So he started cultivating.

And after eleven days he managed to breaktrough the peak stage, becoming almost twice stronger than before.

He also decided to cultivate his Stone Sword technique to minor accomplishment. So he started practicing it and after some days he managed to accomplish his goal. Now, thanks to it, his combat power was much greater. If he were to fight again against those four wolves he wouldn't need more that ten minutes to kill them all without getting injured and without using his strenght talent.

But now his enemy weren't those wolves, but the alpha, a much scarier monster, because even if it was just a rank higher its strenght was greatly scarier.