Lu Xie's shock

"I have reached perfection in the Basic Blood Circulation technique! I can't believe that while the rest of the world is having a hard time increasing their mastery over their cultivation technique, to increase their refining speed, I have already completed it."

He said in excitement as he thanked his second cultivation technique, Existence Shadow Will.

"Now that I think about it, it looks very strange that its progress has stopped before reaching the 10%. Should there be some kind of change once I breakthrough the 10% mark?"

Thinking about something else, Ling Xu took out his refined short sword as it was finally time to test his skin with it.

After entering the peak of the Blood Qi realm and surpassing the limits of his organs, Ling Xu's current skin was extremely hard. Even more so after he advanced to the seventh stage of Blood Qi and his organs were strengthened once again.

Pressing against his left arm, Ling Xu felt nothing.

He tried to press harder and harder as he finally saw some reaction. When using his whole body strength, Ling Xu's arm revealed a small cut.

…

The next few days, Ling Xu has officially started condensing his rotating dual threads into one.

Still, the progress was extremely slow as the consumption of blood qi was several times higher than making the dual threads rotate through the pressure of the heart.

During the week, everything went as usual except that he went out to have dinner with Lu Xie. There he was told that he was invited to a reunion with his classmates from college.

Although Lu Xie told Ling Xu that he didn't need to go as he knew the intention of his classmates in inviting him, he still told him about the invitation as he had realized that with his current self, Ling Xu didn't have anything to fear.

Ling Xu had once revealed his aura to him showing him that he had far surpassed the third stage of Blood Qi, which was Lu Xie's current realm.

Lu Xie couldn't breathe and almost became afraid of his friend after feeling his aura. But it soon was washed away as he saw that Ling Xu was the same as always.

…

Friday night, while going to the reunion in the center of the city, Ling Xu observed several buildings in the midst of remodeling as they were planned to be used to sell and exchange items from the tutorial.

Although this new market was currently monopolized by wealthy people, as the supply of these items was extremely low because the vast majority had barely managed to gain a few Blood Tempering Pills, companies were thinking on the long run as humans were entering a new era.

Even the meat from beasts was bought at sky high prices as it was very rare. The number of people that had the idea of taking the beast's meat with them was very small and after they came back they realized its exquisite taste.

And more important, the incredible tonic effect it had in the human body, helping increase the refining speed.

Ling Xu didn't sell any of his as he had the money he needed and he really liked the meat's taste.

After entering the middle stage of the Blood Qi realm, the tonic effect of the meat decreased severely as the quality of blood qi he needed to refine his organs had insanely increased.

This was something that those few who managed to enter the fourth stage realized, as they began focusing their time on increasing their master on their cultivation technique instead of refining their organs which showed almost no progress.

And now that he had reached the high stage of the Blood Qi realm, Ling Xu only ate it just for the purpose of enjoying it. His current realm was too high for the energy from the meat to have any effect on him.

…

After half an hour of walking, he arrived at the building that had a luxurious restaurant made of flour whole floors. Each representing a difference in status.

Ling Xu entered through the third floor as Xiao Xuan, the person who reserved the table, was the son of one of the biggest companies in construction in the whole country.

As he entered the corridor, he noticed himself in a mirror.

"Wow! I didn't expect to look this handsome."

Not having paid too much attention to his appearance, ever since he came back from the tutorial, this was the first time that Ling Xu was seeing his face in a mirror.

"Ling Xu, over here!"

He turned around as he was greeted by Lu Xie who was waiting for him.

Following him, Ling Xu soon found out that the table that had been reserved was located in a private room just for them.

"This should be your first time here, I can't believe you didn't come before even after I advised you to sell a small part of the beast's meat, you could have gotten a small fortune. Even now, the price is increasing."

Lu Xie said as he had been invited by Ling Xu to eat some of his beast's meat and he knew that the price he would get for it would be able to make him a small fortune.

Having tasted it after his father bought a few pounds of a second stage beast from the market. Lu Xie knew that with the strong effect of Ling Xu's, it was at least one stage higher.

Every increase in stage increased the price ten times or even more, having the first stage beast's meat sold at thousands of yuan. Lu Xie had tasted the second stage meat, so he expected Ling Xu to be able to make at least tens of thousands of yuan.

Ling Xu entered the room as he saw familiar faces, there were already a few people who had arrived and he recognized all of them as they were the students with the highest status in his year.

"Look who is here, Lu Xie!"

"Lu Xie it's so nice to see you! Who did you bring with you?"

Ling Xu was made the center of attention as everyone stared at him.

"Can't you recognize him?"

Lu Xie had a smile as he was playing with them, planning to see their reactions. He expected this night to be fun.

He expected to see Ling Xu have a little payback as he had heard several times the people in the room talk behind his back, jealous of his high grades among the top while being of low status.

Although he didn't like that much the people around him, Lu Xie had no other choice as they all were from wealthy families and shared the same age.

The first to recognize him was the one who reserved the room, Xiao Xuan.

"Wait everyone, isn't he Ling Xu?"

He said with an incredulous face as he saw the change in appearance he had over the last month.

"What?! Ling Xu?!!"

The rest said as they were impressed by how different he looked from before.

They saw a man with a strong build, handsome face and great eyes that showed a calmness he didn't have before.

"But he looks so different now!"

After a few seconds passed and they all calmed down, they realized that it actually was their old classmate who they were used to make fun of.

"Humph! And so what if you have a good face, it's not like you are anything special. I bet you didn't achieve anything in the tutorial." Xiao Xuan thought as he recovered from the shock, he then was the first to speak.

"So how did you do in the tutorial?"

Ling Xu looked at him in silence with a meaningful face as he knew what Xiao Xuan was trying to do.

Not caring at all he sat down and continued talking with Lu Xie.

"Lu Xie, is it right that the meat cooked in here comes from the tutorial?"

"Humph, you wish you had the chance to taste the meat from a beast. Without it you will never be able to enter the fourth stage of Blood Qi."

Xiao Xuan said full of anger as he didn't like Ling Xu's change of attitude.

"Just because you have changed your appearance doesn't mean that you can get full of yourself. See how I humiliate you."

Ling Xu continued his conversation with Lu Xie as Xiao Xuan exploded even more this time.

"That's enough! If you think you can come in here and disrespect me you are wrong, you have already ruined the mood in here, you can now go."

Ling Xu looked at Xiao Xuan.

The moment Xiao Xuan felt Ling Xu's face he felt a chill run down his spine, as if he had met a predator hunting small prey.

"Guards!"

Two bodyguards protecting the entrance on the door entered right away as they touched Ling Xu, planning to force him out violently.

Lu Xie observed all of this with peace of mind as he knew what was about to come.

Ling Xu felt their aura that let him know they were in the second stage of Blood Qi. He stood up as one of them tried to grab him from the shoulder.

Xiao Xuan looked expectant at Ling Xu's change of attitude once he was forced outside and he lost his chance to prove the effect of the energy from the beast meat.

The next second, his eyes showed complete shock as he saw Ling Xu completely overpowering the bodyguard that touched him.

Ling Xu took the hand from the bodyguard in an instant as he started pressing on it.

"Arghh!!!"

Fortunately for the bodyguard, he went easy on him or else he would have turned it into complete meat paste.

Everyone in the room became quite for a second as they didn't know what to say, they never expected Ling Xu to be able to break so easily the hand from someone that was in the second stage of Blood Qi.

The other guard hesitated as he didn't know what to do, he didn't feel confident in gaining the upper hand after seeing his fellow worker in such a desperate situation even though he was about to break through the third stage.

"I will walk out myself, thanks for the invitation."

He turned around and headed to the door.

Lu Xie sick of Xiao Xuan and the rest, who only watched as Ling Xu was about to be thrown outside from their points of view, stood up and went with him.

"Lu Xie, what are you doing siding with him? Don't think you will have an easy time after doing this."

"Humph, don't think just because you didn't succeed that I don't know the purpose why you invited him here."

Exciting the room, Ling Xu looked at his friend.

"Thank you for backing me there."

"Humph, now you have to compensate me, don't think that just because my family is wealthy I can eat beast meat every day. I even heard from the group that Xiao Xuan had prepared the meat from a third stage Blood Qi realm beast."

"Don't worry, since we have already come I'm sure I can do something about this."

Lu Xie saw Ling Xu get close to a waiter as he told him something, the next moment the waiter became nervous and guided him somewhere as Lu Xie tried to guess not having heard anything.

After fifteen minutes of waiting, Lu Xie saw Ling Xu coming back.

"What did you do? You told me to wait here."

"We now have a table on the fourth floor."

"Hahaha as expected, you got a room in the four… What?! You got a room in the highest floor?!"

"Come on, let's go."

Looking at his friend in complete shock, Lu Xie followed as he saw the waiter. He was the one who previously had a nervous look after Ling Xu approached him, but now he was faithfully serving them as he opened the door to their private room in the highest floor.