Year 1036 of the Zhang Dynasty - Unnamed plains - Underground
We reached our destiny, but I was tired.
[You should sleep before coming out]
“Did we stop?“ Yue
“Yes, this is the place I was going“ Linjian
“Are we going to battle the spiritual creatures outside?“ Tang
“Not now, I need to be at full strength before doing so“ Linjian
[Better safe than sorry]
“I will sleep now, Tang take this time to get used to your new body and Yue go to sleep to recover your MP“ Linjian
“Yes, Master“ Yue
“Yes, Master Linjian“ Tang
I created an air hole to not suffocate and went to the bed.
(Good night Maria)
[Good night Linjian]
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[EXCHANGING MIND EXPERIENCE INTO BODY REINFORCEMENT]
[THRESHOLD REACHED REINFORCING BODY...]
[THRESHOLD REACHED REINFORCING BODY...]
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-Linjian Lv. 34-
HP 100%
MP 3300/3300
Stamina 146/136(+10)
Brawn 38(+6)
Awareness 33(+1)
Endurance 20(+6)
Resistance 18
SKILLS
Book of Appraisal
Earth Manipulation Lv. Max
Animal Whisperer Lv. Max
Life Detection Lv. Max
Mana Handling Lv. Max
OTHER
Trained body (Stamina + 10, Brawn and Endurance + 5)
Under clothes Earth Reinforce (Awareness, Brawn and Endurance + 1)
Reincarnation of Maria Campbell (MP 10000%)
28 years old
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After we came out of the Underground, I used Life Detection to search for spiritual creatures.
[Bronze and Silver Ranks...we are going to be fine here]
(How should I train them? Tang may be able to defeat a Bronze rank spiritual creature but Yue will not)
[You will have to stop their movements and let her finish them, she will get less experience but it is safer that way]
(She will need a weapon)
[Something with a wide range would be better]
I put the palm of my hand in the ground and think in a simple steel spear of one head.
(Transmutation)
[30 MP CONSUMED]
“Yue, take this“ Linjian
“A spear? I don't know how to use it“ Yue
“Until you are able of fighting by yourself I will cover you, so don't worry“ Linjian
“I will do my best!“ Yue
[She got the spirit]
“Tang do you have experience hunting spiritual creatures?“
“No, I don't“ Tang
He answered honestly.
“In that case we will go together and I will decide who will fight with what, are you alright with that?“ Linjian
“Yes, Master“ Yue
“Yes, Master Linjian“ Tang
[Yes, Master]
(...is it funny?)
[Very much]
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At the end of the day Yue killed three Bronze spiritual creatures, Tang four and I killed two silver ranked.
[This place is filled with them]
(If they try to get inside, that may become a trouble)
[Maybe we can do something about it]
(We can?)
[Yes, the mana power and the spiritual power are completely different energies and that could help us now]
(Are you implying that they will repel each other?)
[Exactly, if you modify your Mana Stones you may be able to create a repellent for Spiritual creatures]
(It is that easy?)
[It is only that easy for you, remember that only you can manipulate mana]
(With the Page of Enlightenment, that is only true for now)
It will really be useful in the future.
(Making repellents for Spiritual creatures will be a future project, right now I need to expand this bunker)
The Bedroom was too small for three people, so this time I make a rectangular bunker with six rooms and one corridor.
I made a new bed for everyone and furnished the rooms with plastic chairs and tables.
“Your abilities are amazing as ever“ Tang
“Lets call it a day, tomorrow we will be hunting Spiritual creatures again“ Linjian
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While I Lay on my bed, Maria Talks to me.
[So, we are hunting again?]
(Yes and no)
[?]
(Before I was hunting to level up)
[And now?]
(I am creating a new home, a new settlement)
[A new settlement?]
Change isn't only destruction.
(Punching cultivators will not change anything, that will only prolong the existence of a society made for pride and power)
[...]
(I will show those monsters the true face of humanity)
[True face, huh]
She sounds skeptical.
(I know that people aren't all peace, but I also know that they aren't all pride)
[...]
(Strength isn't an end, it is a mean to protect. A father who kills his own children doesn't have any sense, any meaning)
This world without change for over five thousand years is proof of that.
[If a city lord came here...]
(That will not happen)
[How are you so sure?]
(They are too busy meditating to care about some commoner, the only way to find a city lord would be going to him)
After all, Strength is the only thing in their heads and while meditating they get stronger.
(This place will become the starting point for humans and the ending point to cultivators)
[...This may take a while]
I know.
(All my focus is on this, I don't care how much time it will cost)
I made a promise.
He doesn't have the time unless author deviates from typical mage stories most mages don't live that long typically 200 - 500 years and only the powerful ones.
A cultivator is known to live thousands if not millions depending on the story. We established most powerful cultivators live only a few thousand in this story but still.
Cultivators will outlive him so all they need to do is hide their ass until he dies in the worst case.
Lmao
You are wrong. Cultivators are too arrogant for that for now. If he kills them before they realize the danger he will win. Also, you forget that unlike cultivators system users can reproduce faster and kids most likely will inherit the system. So he does not have to kill all the cultivators and just defeat those in charge and give more commoners his blood. After that commoners will reproduce and there will be more and more of them. If MC is smart after 100-200 years there might be millions of them if not billions. If cultivators reappear after he dies there will be many other system users waiting for them.
@sabazurc Yes! That’s exactly it! A cultivator’s power or lifespan doesn’t matter. System users get more powerful the more they level up. Furthermore, their fertility rate is high since there is no SP blocking it.
By the time the cultivators realized it. They will become old history for sure. Cultivators exchanged fertility rate for immortality. That’s practically becoming ghosts.
Also. A mage can outlive normal lifespan if mana levels and organs are kept preserved with magic.
@Gledis It would be interesting if 100-200 years later cultivators are just called demons by people and their leader demon lord :D
@sabazurc It isn’t impossible for this to happen. Cultivators are already demons who hunt and hurt menkind to make their pills.
At this point in time. They have shown no empathy for mortals despite being divin like shits.
@Gledis well the problem i see is that when everyone gets a system in will turn out the same as with the cultivators. some poeple will think they are better because they got better starting spells or something like that...And u cant really say that every cultivator is bad as was seen with Tang. So when they get called demons or something like that later it could just be the same story with cultivators in place of commoners.
@Baalmur unfortunately according to this stories setting all powerful cultivators need to be bad in order to achieve their level of power.
That's the thing I didn't like about this story and why I eventually dropped it.
It would have been more interesting if there were good cultivators too the weren't necessarily low level or the exception...
@Baalmur Unlike cultivators, they won't be all bad obviously. Cultivators are being corrupted by their own power and system users are not.
@Fuxy That would not make sense. In this world, it was stated that cultivating corrupts them, that's the setting. It turns them into narcissistic psychopaths with sadistic tendencies.