Chapter 3

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Facing the laughter of the crowd, Li Ming’s heart was as still as water.

After three years, these people no longer had the respect for him that they had in the past.

Simply said, they all regarded body cultivation as a side path and looked down on it.

However, being ridiculed right in front of his own cave abode, there was truly nothing better to use to instill reason within them than his own fists…

But then, just as Li Ming got up, the rustling of bamboo leaves could be heard.

A girl in a purple dress flew out of the bamboo forest.

Everyone looked over and saw that it was Junior Sister Chen Qingke from the neighboring cave abode.

“Ah, it’s Junior Sister Chen!”

“What a fast speed. Junior Sister Chen has only entered the sect for less than a year, right?”

“This is a true genius.”

While the crowd was still discussing amongst themselves, Chen Qingke said with a cold face, “This cave abode is where Senior Brother Li cultivates. It’s improper for you to be quarreling here! Are you not embarrassed of yourselves?!”

The disciples looked at each other. Li Ming was obsessed with body cultivation and was about to be demoted to the outer sect. Who would still treat him as a senior brother?

Nevertheless, even if they did not care about Li Ming, they had to give Chen Qingke some face.

This was because Chen Qingke was the most popular genius in the Divine Will Sect!

Duan Xiuwen was secretly annoyed. He simply could not understand why Junior Sister Chen would speak up for a body cultivator like Li ming.

“Go! Don’t let me see you guys again!”

Chen Qingke ruthlessly told them to leave in Li Ming’s place.

The group of disciples all looked at Duan Xiuwen.

Duan Xiuwen pouted and said angrily, “Junior Sister Chen, I’ll be giving you face this time. Alright, let’s go.”

When they heard Duan Xiuwen say that they were leaving, the group of people that followed him left with him.

…

Chen Qingke had driven the crowd away with a few words.

She had a good reputation in front of the Divine Will Sect’s disciples.

Although Chen Qingke had only joined the Divine Will Sect a year ago, she was undoubtedly a genius.

She had a very strong talent for cultivation. From nothing at all, she reached the perfected level of the qi refining real in just one year.

In addition, based on the stability of her realm, the sect elders judged that she would definitely reach the foundation establishment realm!

To be able to reach the foundation establishment realm at such a young age, one could see how high her natural talent was. She was thus a talent that the sect attached great importance to.

Li Ming watched as Chen Qingke dispersed the crowd.

Li Ming could not help but recall the time when Chen Qingke had just joined the sect a year ago.

As her senior brother, he had given her a lot of care.

Unexpectedly, the little girl from a year ago had already reached the peak of the qi refining realm and now had a respectable status within the sect.

Meanwhile, he was still at the third level of the qi refining realm, and he was even being insulted in his own residence.

Unfortunately, in this world, those that were kind were prone to bullying.

If Junior Sister Chen had not appeared today, further trouble would have been unavoidable.

“Junior Sister Chen, thank you very much.” Li Ming sighed and stood up.

“It’s nothing! That bunch of people just need to be taught a lesson.”

Chen Qingke raised her small fist and said, “Senior brother, if they dare to come again, just call me.”

“I guarantee I’ll beat them up until their teeth are all over the ground.”

Li Ming smiled and nodded in response.

Back then, Chen Qingke had made rapid progress in just one month. She had displayed her talent in cultivation and gained the attention of the entire sect.

It was also because of this that the elders placed all their energy on the younger generation, allowing Li Ming to continue refining his body.

Sure enough, as the elders had expected, even a genius like Li Ming, who had matured early, could not make much progress in body cultivation.

Ever since then, the sect stopped allocating him resources.

In the blink of an eye, the door in front of Li Ming’s cave abode was left empty.

By drinking water, one would know whether it was cold or warm.

After Chen Qingke learned about Li Ming’s experience, she did not despise him.

She would often come to his assistance whenever he met with trouble.

Watching Chen Qingke’s back as she left, Li Ming thought to himself, “What a loyal junior sister.”

But naturally…

She did not know that she was a part of the reason why Li Ming was targeted so much.

…

Li Ming closed the door of his cave abode.

He returned to his room and silently thought about his future.

He had made some achievements in the three years he had spent in the Divine Will Sect.

The martial dao was divided into six stages, namely: stability training, skin tempering, bone forging, blood changing, organ refining, and marrow cleansing.

However, unlike qi cultivation, the six stages of body cultivation were all processes to improve one’s life essence.

Thus, in theory, each stage could be repeated countless times until one attained the effect of complete evolution.

In these three years, he had already completed a cycle.

Therefore, it was not impossible for him to go to leave the sect.

After all, the Divine Will Sect could not teach him much.

The path he was now on was also a new path filled with the unknown, and he practically had to explore everything on his own.

If he left the inner sect, he might be able to better conceal his cheat-like ability, the entries.

The entries or descriptors were the foundation of his strength and abilities.

As for talent in cultivation, could one not cultivate just because they had poor aptitude?

Li Ming never intended to give up.

Even if qi cultivation would take a while, was there not still body cultivation?

Refining his body was also a means of cultivation!

As such, he decided to tread the path of martial arts!

And to walk this path, he had to use the entries.

However, three years had passed, and the highest-ranked entries that Li Ming had obtained were only green. It seemed that he was still far away from attaining higher-ranked entries.

However, that was not necessarily the case.

This was because the system also had an entry synthesis function!

Thinking of this, Li Ming became quite excited.

He learned that this function could be used to fuse his old entries!

Every entry had a different function, and they were divided into different ranks or levels.

These were white, green, blue, purple, orange, red, and gold.

The higher the rank of the entry, the better its effect!

The effects of white entries were basically at the level of mortals.

Although they were weak, they were relatively well-rounded, and some of them were very useful.

For example, his [Forebearance (White)] simply increased his temperament.

However, [Weapon Mastery (White)] allowed him to use any weapon!

As for the green entries, they had greater effects and were much more impressive.

For example, [All Rivers Run to the Sea (Green): Increases efficiency of learning breathing techniques].

Of course, even so, the level of these entries was still too low, and they did not help Li Ming’s cultivation that much.

But now, his chance had come.

As long as the entries were combined, higher-ranked entries could be synthesized.

Of course, this function could only combine entries with similar attributes.

And the entry that resulted from the combination would still have a similar effect as its components, just that it was more advanced!

Moreover, there was no limit to the number of times that this function could be used.

“In that case, I’ll place some entries first and try synthesizing them.”

When he thought of this, Li Ming made a prompt decision.

In any case, he did not need to be stingy with these white entries. After fusing them, they would become better.

Li Ming began to combine all the entries of the same type right away.

[Synthesizing…]

[Combined entries: Unmoving as a Pine, Weapon Mastery, Spiritual Sword, Reinforced Iron Bones, Dextrous Hands, Silent Steps, Unified Mind, All Rivers Run to the Sea.]

[Synthesis complete. New entry obtained: Unobstructed Hundred Meridians (Blue)]

[Unobstructed Hundred Meridians (Blue): The acupoints throughout the body have been linked. The efficiency of learning any body tempering cultivation technique has been increased by 100%.]

Suddenly, Li Ming felt a very comfortable and refreshing feeling throughout his limbs and bones.

At the same time, he also obtained a skill.

[Martial Arts Fanatic, increases the power of any martial arts technique by 50%.]