Cultivation Online novel Chapter 12

Chapter 12 - Heaven

«Player Fire Red, Player Poisoned Fiend, Player Mad Dog, and Player Get Creamed has become the first players to have cleared Burning Cave for the first time! Congratulations!»

An announcement hung above the clouds as Yuan elegantly danced around with the steel sword in his grasp, quickly decapitating the four silver wolves surrounding him. The wolf corpses plummeted to the ground, but Yuan did not stop his sword movements and continued to dance, slaying the two wolves that were trying to run.

Xiao Hua, who was watching him at a distance clapped, like a spectator watching a street performance. "Brother Yuan’s growth is simply astonishing, like a sponge absorbing water, he easily comprehends everything from his own weakness to his strength. In just a few mere hours, his swordsmanship and Qi manipulation has increased by leaps and bounds."

Her gaze suddenly flickered with regret. "If only Brother Yuan grew up in Supreme Heaven instead of this Lower Heaven where the Qi lacks in both quality and quantity..."

After slaying the last silver wolf, Yuan retrieved all monster cores he had collected during this grind.

"Only seven had dropped after killing dozens of monsters, huh." Yuan cried inwardly at the small amount of monster core he has obtained after spending so much time and effort into slaying monsters.

"Seven monster cores is considered a pretty successful hunt..." Xiao Hua said to him upon seeing his disappointment. "If used properly, seven monster cores can last a month of cultivation."

"But in Brother Yuan’s case..."

"This wouldn’t even last a minute for me, let alone one month!" Yuan suddenly throws one into his mouth, and sure enough, it startled Xiao Hua again.

«Heaven Refining Physique activated»

«560,000 Qi has been refined from the Silver Needle Wolf’s monster core»

«You have absorbed enough Qi for a breakthrough»

«You have reached Ninth Level Spirit Apprentice»

«All stats +500»

1,519,395/3,840,000

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"Brother Yuan... you..." Xiao Hua looked at Yuan like he was a ghost, her gaze filled with shock and bewilderment.

"Taste like candy." Yuan licked his lips and said, "Although it did not have as much Qi as the Jade Frog’s monster core, it is still very beneficial towards my cultivation."

"B...B...Brother Yuan..." Xiao Hua called him, but she didn’t know what to say after that.

"What’s wrong?" He looked at her with an innocent gaze, seemingly unaware of how amazing his ability is.

"When a cultivator absorbs the Qi within a monster core, they can only absorb a limited amount of Qi from the monster core depending on the quality of the monster core. However, even a high-grade monster core will only allow one to absorb at most 50% of its total Qi before the rest dissipates back into the world. This is a rule set by Heaven itself and cannot be defied. But... from Brother Yuan’s situation... perhaps his Heaven Refining Physique can ignore this rule and defy the Heavens?" Xiao Hua trembled at the thought that Yuan could possibly have a heaven-defying physique.