C14 - Slurpfest from the Wok Outside

Yin Kai put on his fighting boots. Made with leather, metal, and a thick cloth, they did a good job of increasing his attack power while keeping his legs more flexible.

He then left the sect to search for poison herbs. His mother had left behind a method to absorb them and add their properties to his body constitution. Luckily, it also came with a way to keep the poison from leaking out of his body.

Without it, he would have straight up killed the flirtatious second elder and corroded her entire body, leaving nothing left over but the mushy remains of her blackened bones. Luckily, she was fine.

His Ancestral Rebirth Qi was slowly taking another shape. Due to his inborn constitution, it could be considered as Ancestral Poison Rebirth Qi. Though his poison was low, it was still beginning to affect his cultivation.

As such, he needed higher quality poisons in a higher quantity- hence the trip outside.

Yin Kai applied for 3 days leave and prepared to leave the sect. He then left towards the backwoods.

Due to their close proximity, the area in between the three sects and the bazaar was off limits for fights between cultivators. However, disciples commonly fought in the areas around them.

After running for 4 hours, he reached a portion of the woods that actually grew herbs. Like a kid at the candy pavilion, Yin Kai began to comb the woods like a lunatic. Every time he found a poisonous herb, he treated it like that very six year old from the candy pavilion. He ate it.

But then… He found the mother lode. A sprawling expanse of poisoned cleargrass ivy upon tree after tree, as far as the eye could see.

As Yin Kai began to slurp the transcendental ivy like a bowl of noodles, he slowly began to hear the sounds of fighting nearby. He cautiously backed around the trees to check.

There were a total of 12 combatants. One was from the Golden Buddha Temple. He appeared to be fighting alongside one of the Martial Fist Temple disciples.

Against them stood 10 cultivators in the Qi Transformation realm from the Frozen Sea Palace.

A beam of light appeared above the Golden Buddha Temple cultivator's head and slammed into four nearest of the Frozen Sea Palace disciples' heads, thoroughly incapacitating them. He began to summon another one.

Unfortunately, this held him back for a moment, allowing one of the Frozen Sea Palace disciples to close in.

Fortunately, the female Martial Fist Temple disciple was strong enough to hold him back. However, this gave another the chance to run through.

"Seven Hands of Harm!"

During the last month, Yin Kai had been perfecting the Seven Fists of Fury, and modifying it to his own tune.

A series of qi hands struck out at the three closest Frozen Sea Palace members.

Liver punch!

Eye Strike!

The three cultivators were momentarily stunned.

Gonad Grab!

The foremost cultivator fainted on the spot.

With another seven hands, he struck again. With this, all ten members of the group were temporarily incapacitated. This gave the buddhist cultivator enough time to destroy the remainder of the wayward people.

With a shining golden light, the battlefield was cleared.

Yin Kai swaggered on out of the trees.

"Amitabha, brother." The buddhist smiled politely.

Cupping his hands, Yin Kai responded in kind. "This disciple of the Martial Fist Temple is Yin Kai. Might I ask the name of my junior sister's benefactor?"

"This buddhist cultivator goes by the name of Pu Deng. We thank you for your timely assistance. You are our benefactor just as much as I am hers."

Yin Kai smiled. This kind of person was very easy to get along with.

After a short discussion, they each chose their portion of the surrounding loot. Yin Kai received a spatial ring and a small carving knife and left it at that.

Since Pu Deng already had a spatial ring, and Yin Kai had dealt the second-most damage, he was able to get it with no issue.

Due to his inner strength and cultivation method, Pu Deng appeared to be fairly high up in the Golden Buddha Temple's hierarchy.

"Pu Deng, may we meet as friends in the next inter-sect competition."

With another thought, he added, "Also, you got a little something on your robes. You might want to change before you return to the sect."

The pair blushed.

Yin Kai left the general area and went back to slurping the wonderfully beatiful ramen.

Once he ate approximately half of all of the poison ivy in the forest, the sun started to go down. Not to be undeterred, Yin Kai continued through the night.

He was surprised not to have seen any beasts in the area, but with no sounds or erupting auras raging around he wasn't too* worried.

When he had completed his inhalation of about 80% of the ivy, he felt a 'pull' on his body.

Slowly, he threaded his ways through the trees, using them for cover against the location of the pull. It seemed to be absorbing his poison qi as he used it on the vines, and any excess outside his body.

Once he felt he got closer, he stopped using his poison qi to locate it.

That's when he saw it. The Holy Grail.