chapter 1991-1995
Chapter 1991
However, Noel called out to him before he walked out of the door. “I heard you’ll be going against Wesley
in the wager battle arena soon?”
jackie raised his eyebrow and turned back to nce at Noel. He was sure Noel did not mean it as a
question as almost all the disciples there knew about this. He also knew that the other disciples treated
this piece of news as something to talk andugh about after dinner. Therefore, he did not answer him
but waited for him to continue.
Noel pressed his lips and said, “You must becking In contribution points right now and it seems like
you’re willing to have another go in the Soul Hall.”
jackie nodded. There was no doubt about it. If conditions allowed, he was even willing to stay there for a
month, soul-shockwave be damned. He could feel his power growing stronger little by little and though
he did not see Wesley as his rival, he needed to be cautious as he was still not strong enough to defeat
him.
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Noel coughed lightly and seemed to be embarrassed about what he was going to say next but still, he
straightened him up and said, “Do you know that new informal disciples can enjoy certain benefits?”
No, jackie did not know. He had kept to himself all this while so did not hear anything about that. Now
that he had thought about it, Noel was the only person he had spoken the most with and Noel knew that.
He sighed and said, “It’s been less than a month since you’ve joined the Dual Sovereign Pavilion so
you’re still eligible for the benefit. You’re entitled to exchange fifty contribution points for five hundred low-
grade spirited crystals. Your deacon should have told you about this so I’m not sure why
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jackie raised his eyebrow at the implication Noel was making. There must be a hidden reason as to why
Deacon Ambrose did not share this benefit with the new informal disciples. He turned around to fully face
Noel with a grateful look. “Thank you, Brother Noel, for telling me all this. Where should I go to do the
exchange?”
Noel smiled faintly. “You don’t have to go there yourself. Although there’s still a slight difference in status
between the new and old informal disciples, you could still ask the runner disciples to help you do the
exchange. You’ll only need to pass him the five hundred low-grade spirited crystals and your jade identity
card and he’ll do the exchange for you. After that, you cane back here to enjoy another five days of
training.”
jackie became very excited at that. It was important for jackie to train as much as possible before the
fight with Wesley and earning points through assignments would take up too much of his time. He would
have preferred to avoid taking that course if possible.
Noel coughed lightly and in a nonchnt voice said,” Wesley has reached high attainment in his gold
attribute martial art skills so it’s better if you don’t fight him head-on. Keep in mind that gold attribute
techniques or skills possess much higher attack power than other attribute skills.”
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Although this kind of information could be gotten easily, jackie was still very grateful for Noel’s favor.
jackie nodded his head vigorously. “Thank you, Brother Noel. I’ll keep all of this in mind. I’ll surely repay
you one day.”
Chapter 1992
When jackie got back to his room, he immediately sent for Brook to do the exchange at the Seven Stars
Hall. A runner disciple’s duty was to run errands for the formal and informal disciples and Brook was
considered a veteran in these matters. He quickly made his way to the Seven Stars Hall with jackie’s
jade identity card and spirited crystals, leaving jackie to wait for him to be back.
jackie could have gone to do the exchange himself but he did not like crowds. Besides, he was quite the
celebrity amongst the informal disciples and it would be best to avoid getting into an argument with
Wesley. He knew that Wesley would never let an opportunity of talking smack to him go and he did not
want to waste his breath on such a person.
Brook came back an hourter and gave jackie back his jade identity card which had been sessfully
updated with fifty contribution points. He looked at jackie with an expression hinting that he had
something to tell him but did not know whether he should
jackie raised his eyebrow. He invited Brook into his room and poured him some tea. “Spit it out, why
don’t you? Did you run into some trouble during the errand? Or did somebody bully you?”
Brook shook his head and epted the tea from jackie. “I wasn’t bullied. I’ve been in the n
association for many years, and though the formal and informal disciples look down on us runner
disciples, they wouldn’t dare to bully a veteran like me. It’s just that I felt something was off when I was
doing the exchange.”
A hint of curiosity shed across jackie’s eyes and he waved for Brook to continue on. Brooke breathed
in lightly and furrowed his brow. “I’ve done this kind of exchange many times before as all the new
informal disciples would exchange their five hundred low grade spirited crystals for the fifty contribution
points the very next day after joining the Dual Sovereign Pavilion because it’s not as if theyck the
spirited crystals to do it. The ce to do the exchange is at the Seven Stars Hall assignment submission
area and I’m very familiar with the person-in-charge.”
“The person-in-charge? I thought all the assignment submissions were handled by the disciples?” asked
jackie. To ensure that the disciples could earn contribution points, Dual Sovereign had set up different
posts for the disciples to take up. Jobs like this were normally handled by a formal or informal disciple but
judging by what Brook had said, the person in charge of the assignment submission did not seem to be a
disciple.
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One look at jackie’s expression and Brooke knew what he was confused about. He chuckled softly and
said,” It’s true the Seven Stars Hall belongs to the Dual Sovereign Pavilion and its importance is only
second to the Martial Art Techniques and Martial Skills Hall. Therefore, the posts there are not normally
given to the disciples for fear they would embezzle the points. After all, contribution points could make or
break a disciple’s career here. These positions are generally administered by the deacons personally.
Each deacon has his own minor steward. These minor stewards are also former disciples, but their
cultivation level has not yet reached the level of a deacon so they could only be minor stewards.”
jackie nodded in understanding. He was not very familiar with the administrators of the Dual Sovereign
Pavilion. He knew that there were elders besides the heads. The elders were then divided into the formal
elders and informal elders with the formal elder’s qualifications and power much stronger than those of
the informal elders. He also knew that the deacons held many important positions and some trivial
matters were all ced under their jurisdiction. However the deacons could not handle everything
without the help of the minor stewards and though the minor stewards’ status was a little lower than the
disciples, they were still the management nheless.
Chapter 1993 “The minor steward in charge of the assignment submission is Steward Fleming and he
works under Deacon Ambrose. He immediately shook his head when he heard that I’ve gone there to
exchange the five hundred low-grade spirited crystals for the contribution points. He said that the
benefits did not apply for the new informal disciples this time and his expression was a little off when he
said that,” said Brook.
jackie furrowed his eyebrows. He recalled what Noel had said to him previously and still could not figure
out what was going on. Maybe Noel was trying to tell him that the Dual Sovereign Pavilion was treating
this batch of new informal disciples differently than all the previous batches. Coupled that with what
happened with the contribution points, jackie told himself he should be more cautious from now on.
Could it be that even the administrators deliberately looked down on their new batch of informal
disciples? If that was the case, no wonder the older disciples looked down on this new batch of informal
disciples so much. However, jackie did not really think that was the case. After all, the Dual Sovereign
Pavilion was also ranked as the number one n association in West Cercie State. This kind of behavior
would be frowned upon and create resentment in the new informal disciples.
jackie pointed to the fifty contribution points added to his jade identity card and asked, “How did you get
these points if this year’s benefit has been canceled?”
“We can thank Deacon Ambrose for that. I was about to give up because Steward Fleming was really
insistent that the benefit had been canceled. However, Deacon saw your jade identity card in my hand
just when I was about to leave and excitedly asked me what I was doing there. I exined everything to
him and he instantly reprimanded Steward Fleming for speaking nonsense and that’s how I’ve managed
to get the points.”
The lines on jackie’s forehead became even deeper. Ambrose Adams left a good impression on him. The
reason Ambrose had helped jackie grease the wheels a little must be because jackie had helped him out
with Zeph and it was public knowledge that they were mortal enemies. Even so, if the benefit was really
canceled, then what Ambrose did was break the rule and anything to do with the contribution points was
a serious matter.
Ambrose would never openly vite the rules just to help jackie out. Besides, he said that Steward
Fleming was speaking nonsense meaning to say that the benefit was not canceled at all. There must be
a reason as to why Steward Fleming had said that. Trying to make heads or tails out of the whole
situation was giving jackie a headache. He was feeling as if there was a thick pool of glue sloshing in his
brain.
The whole thing was getting more and moreplicated. No wonder Noel told him to put the whole
matter aside if he could not figure it out, after all, his priority should be leveling up. Thus, with the newly
gotten fifty contribution points in his card, he rushed to the Soul Hall again whereas, as usual, Noel was
found sitting behind his long desk with a dead look on his face. He managed toe alive a little when
he saw jackie entering the ce.
Also, as usual, he asked jackie how many days he would like to stay there to which jackie answered by
holding up five fingers. Then, he ced his jade identity card on the table. Noel heaved a sigh and with a
face filled with admiration said, “I don’t know what advice I can give to a master like you. Your talent is
truly enviable. You could not imagine how shocked the others would be if they knew that you’ve entered
a difficulty level four Array Eye Door.”
Chapter 1994 jackie chuckled softly and said in a gentle tone, “I don’t think I’m a master. I guess I’m just
a little lucky when ites to spirit attribute skill cultivation.”
Noel shook his head and there was a little mncholy on his face as if he had suffered a huge blow from
jackie’s words. He gestured to the Array Eye door with his chin, leaving him with no doubt that he did not
wish to speak to jackie anymore.
jackie chuckled softly again and entered the door. Before he came, he wondered whether he should
increase the difficulty level but after carefully thinking about it, he decided not to. There was still some
way to go before he could fully adapt to difficulty level four and if he rashly raised the difficulty level, it
would surely increase his burden. The excessive impact from the soul-shockwave would not do him well.
After the array was activated, the soul-shockwave filled the room again. jackie closed his eyes and
performed several hand seals with both hands. Two ck Soul Swords immediately floated up and down
In his hands.
This time his goal was to condense the third Soul Sword within five days and also keep track of the time
inside his heart instead of wholly immersing himself in training. Thest time, he had no experience, and
the soul-shockwave rushed away without any warning. Fortunately, at that time, his true energy and spirit
energy were all used up and now he had recuperated. It would definitely deal a huge blow to jackie if the
array was suddenly closed during the most critical breakthrough moment. After all, the opportunity for
breakthroughs does note by every time. If it was rashly interrupted, it would throw a spanner into his
training and he would have to wait for a long time for such an opportunity.
Minutes and seconds ticked by and the third Soul Sword slowly solidified and on the dawn on the fifth
day, he finally condensed the third Soul Sword. He was panting heavily while excitedly staring at the third
Soul Sword floating in his palm. With the previous two sessful experiences, jackie found it easier to
condense the third Soul Sword this time.
However, to his dismay, he discovered that it would be more and more difficult from this point onward to
cultivate Void ying. It did not take him long to condense the first Soul Sword but it would surely take
him a long time to condense more swords further down the line. Not to mention the amount of spirit
energy and true energy he would need to expand
jackie was experiencing splitting headaches, bloodshot eyes, and trembles after he had exhausted his
true energy and spirit energy. The soul-shockwave was still impacting his soul and the stabbing pain
became even more intensified as the barrier made by his spirit energy slowly diminished.
“I would waste ten contribution points if I go out now,” muttered jackie. He started to do calctions In his
head-he had been here for four days and one hour. ording to the Soul Hall’s rule, even an hour would
be charged at a full day’s rate so if he were to go out now, he would have wasted ten contribution points.
The emotional pain of that was more horrible than the physical pain he was feeling right now.
However, if he continued to train, his spirit origin might be damaged and that was something he could not
let happen. Thus, he had no choice but to leave. He heaved a sigh, slowly got up from the ground, and
walked out of the door in one breath. Noel, who was sitting with one leg up and eating sunflower seeds,
immediately stood up when he saw jackie’s pale face and bloodshot eyes as if he was terminally ill.
“Oh my god, are you okay? How did you end up like this? Isn’t the difficulty level the same?”
Chapter 1995
Noel had no doubts about jackie’s skills after witnessing his first five days in the Array Eye Door difficulty
level four but this time it seemed to have taken an emotional and physical toll on him. Noel quickly walk
up to catch him before he fell. jackie exhaled gently and in a tired tone said, “Don’t worry about me. I’m
not hurt. It’s just that I’ve exhausted my spirit energy and true energy.”
Noel raised an eyebrow and lightly pressed jackie’s meridian point with his finger and just as he
expected, the true energy inside jackie’s meridian points had all been used up, and there was only a little
spirit energy left. This made him be even more speechless.
“What could you possibly be doing inside to have used up all your true energy and spirit energy?”. Asked
Noel.
jackie chuckled softly and told him the truth. “I’ve broken through a bottleneck. That’s all.”
At this, Noel immediately raised his eyebrow. “I must say you’re both high in talent and courage. The
soul-shockwave for difficulty level four in the Array Eye Door was enough to kill anybody and yet you’ve
come out of it alive after breaking through a bottleneck. Anyone would have tread carefully but you didn’t
seem to be afraid that the soul-shockwave would damage your soul origins.”
It did cross jackie’s mind but he was so intent on condensing the third Soul Sword that he threw it to the
back of his mind. It was only when he was out, that he felt afraid of what he had done. He made a note to
himself that he should not do that anymore.
Noel shook his head. His understanding of jackie told him that some advice would just bounce off jackie.”
Forget it. I’m just wasting my breath here. By the way, I’ve just received some news you might be
interested in. Wesley is going to the wager battle arena tomorrow and his opponent is Dale Woodward
who ranked 143rd ce. I thought you might want to observe the battle so don’t forget to go.”
Hearing this made jackie straighten his body andugh coldly. It seemed Wesley did not view him as a
worthy opponent at all. If not he would not have gotten into another battle just before his battle with
jackie.
“Thank you, Brother Noel, you’ve been such a great help to me these past few days,” said jackie.
Noel shook his head humbly and said, “It’s no skin off my back. I’m only passing on what I know.”
They talked for a bit more before jackie went back to his room. Ah, the beauty of having an abode to
oneself—nobody could disturb you and there was no need to fear of one’s secret being exposed. The ten
days of training had consumed all his energy, both spirit and truth, and not to mention the emotional toll
on him.
He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. Ever since embarking on the road to cultivation, he had
not had opportunities to sleep on a real bed and had to resort to meditation to rest his body. Therefore, it
was no surprise that he slept a total of one day and one night and when he woke up, it was already noon
the next day.
His true energy and spirit energy was fully charged but he did not continue on with his training as he
knew that there was no overnight sess in this field and that he would only enter a dead-end if he
immersed himself too much in training. Nash Wood had been a bundle of nerves ever since he knew of
jackie’s battle with Wesley so it was only natural that he woulde out of Mustard Seed now that jackie
had a little bit of free time on his hands.
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