Free Web NovelChapter 104: Friend? More like a subordinate!
"Ai, your constitution isn’t bad, and this is the first time you started cultivating with so many resources. You should have experienced a sudden explosion in your cultivation speed, which would stimulate a spike-like improvement in your cultivation level. But you have only advanced slightly. Looks like your talent is not very good." Darius shook his head, looking a bit disappointed.
But when he thought about it, this was actually very normal. After all, this was Dragon City and merely a rural area in the grand scheme of things. For geniuses to be spread left and right wouldn’t sit right. In fact, he had a doubt that he himself was also not that talented, but that still needed testing later on.
"Take this. Break through to the Acupoint Qi Realm within one month. If you are unable to, you do not need to come see me again as a friend." Darius tossed a pill bottle over to him. There were ten pills to replenish one’s Spiritual Energy inside this pill bottle. It wasn’t anything special, but just enough to slightly ease the burden from Shen consuming more from Harley.
Break through to the Acupoint Qi Realm in a single month?
Shen experienced a shock. How could that be possible! He was sure he would be able to perfect his ninth-layer realm or even reach the half-step Acupoint Qi Realm within one month, but to break through to the Acupoint Qi Realm? That required him to open his acupoints and fill one to half capacity, while also studying his Heart Method for the next realm, which involved comprehension and understanding of his cultivation. Spending even three to five years... eight or ten years even... to successfully break through was already quite good, but a single month?
Just look, there were so many disciples in Dragon City Academy, but how many of them were actually in the Acupoint Qi Realm?
Less than a hundred, and the majority of these people were above twenty-five years old!
But if he did not manage to break through to the Acupoint Qi Realm in one month, then he would not even be qualified to become Darius’s follower?
Indeed!
What Shen understood as friends was in reality being a follower, like his little sister bragged to him whenever she saw him, constantly talking about how she could come and go with Darius and even benefit from it, which created a deep sense of jealousy inside him.
Why couldn’t he also become a subordinate? As for a friend? Shen never took it into real consideration. He was rather confident that Darius wanted to uplift his spirits back then and didn’t really mean it.
For example, look at Darius back then. The cultivation realm he displayed was at the ninth layer of the True Qi Realm, but was that his true realm? Laughable. Neither he nor his little sister thought that. They had clearly witnessed his third-realm aura back then, so for such a mysterious young man who was playing around with James back then, did Shen really have a chance to become his friend? Unlikely.
Immediately, a strong wave of rebellious feelings rose up within Shen. If it had been anyone else, wouldn’t he have died of happiness after hearing such words? But Shen was a man of his word, and he also had his pride.
Being disregarded even for the lowly position of a subordinate... how could he still have the face to stand tall and walk with an upright spine in the future?
"Alright. Within one month, I will definitely break through to the Acupoint Qi Realm!" he forced out through gritted teeth.
"Go on!" Darius waved him off.
Shen turned and left. Behind him, Darius smiled. With his support and his deliberate provocation just now, this silly boy should be able to break through to the Acupoint Qi Realm in one month, right?
Even he wasn’t really sure. He was just giving reasons for the young man to push himself and mimicking what those old masters did to train their disciples. He had no deep knowledge to begin with. He was still learning, and while he appeared mysterious, he was really a toddler when it came to this cultivation world.
’Shit, I forgot to inform him about his identity as a mage and warn him!’ Darius slapped his forehead, but thinking deeply about it, even if he warned him and advised him to change paths, he had no way to give a substitute Heart Method for warriors. All he could do was talk.
’At the end of the day, everything came down to funds and power. Without either, you have no power to change anything,’ Darius shook his head, knowing that he had to tighten his belt starting from now onward.
"Alright, time to go. John, come with me and close the door behind you." Darius and John exited the pavilion. They toured around the inner city once, and he dropped by Dragon City Academy on the way.
John at the side didn’t question anything about where the owner was going or what was on his mind. His job was to be the pavilion’s guardian, so basically Darius’s guardian. Since it was within business hours, he would simply obey as long as it was within reason.
"Why are you here?" After being informed by the servants, Annie very quickly appeared in front of him.
Darius shook his head and asked, "Have you been beaten up or scolded by someone that you are venting your anger on me?" freewēbnoveℓ.com
"You are the one who has been beaten up!" Annie said irritably. She was irate about how Darius always appeared serene.
Though she hated it when others looked at her pervertedly, as a beautiful woman, she would naturally have her own pride. However, when Darius looked at her, it was as if he were looking at air. She would, of course, be extremely displeased by this, and whenever she set eyes upon this young man, she would have the urge to grit her teeth.
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