《Reincarnation of The Butcher Alchemist》 Prologue Inside an Ancient Rune there were three things. A dragon corpse, a bloody human with one of it''s legs missing and an old book. "How ridiculous that I, The Butcher Alchemist Fu. Who butchered his enemies if they were weak and poison them if they were stronger. Would recklessly die while fighting with a dragon over a book." After some time he sighs and says: "Maybe this isn''t so bad. I will die like these foolish heroes in fairy tale stories where they died trying to save the princess, only I was stealing a book from a dragon. Hahaha..." After some laughter later, he chose to put the book and dragon corpse into his Soul Space, so that no one could benefit from his hard work. After that he died.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. ..... "Zhu Tufu!" "Wake up Zhu Tufu" A black haired boy with black eyes that looks around six years old, covered by his blanket sleepily and silently said: "Hmmmm? Who dares to call me a Pig Butcher(1). I am at least a Human Butcher." (1): Zhu sounds a lot like Pig in Chinese and his name Tufu is meant as Butcher in Chinese. So he thought someone called him Pig Butcher. [Wait... Shouldn''t I be DEAD?! How am I alive? What the hell?!] After some seconds of calming down and thinking [Maybe a dream?] He sat up on his bed, pinched his arm and felt pain. That means he wasn''t in a dream. After some seconds he thought of another possibility. [Di-Did I get reincarnated, but how is this possible?! I thought only these that cultivated the Buddhist path can be reincarnated? Whatever! I AM ALIVE!] "Zhu Tufu wake up or your breakfast will get cold!" Hearing the same voice that woke him up. He said: "Coming" [Well. Let''s see what this life has for me.] Chapter 1: Poisoned After standing up and going to the bathroom. He looked at his reflection in the mirror thinking. [Wow I look much more handsome than in my past life. Well I had a lot of scars back then that made me look fierce and ugly, bu- wait, what is that small dot under my nose?] Taking a piece of toilet paper to pick the black dot off of his face. He looked at it and said surprised: "The Beginner Poison? No wonder the previous owner died. This poison is composed of a weak posion, a Colorless Flower and a sticky pebble. So it means there is no smell, is so small that even i almost missed it and can only kill living beings that don''t have strong Vitality. Like this body that hasn''t matured, so no would know that this body was poisoned, but still this poison is pretty rare and who would go such length just to kill a six year old child?"Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. After some seconds he felt no point pondering over it. "Let''s think about this later. I don''t even know who''s calling me much less who poisoned the previous owner, but don''t worry i will avenge you. Take that as payment for giving me your body." After that he walked out of the bathroom into the kitchen. Chapter 2: Grandma? After walking in, he saw a woman in her thirties sitting there waiting for someone, on the table was a plate with bacon, a fried egg and a cup of milk. She, like him also had black eyes with black hair and her face was very beautiful and her body looked like one of these hot models. Her breast were just the right size not too big not too small and her bottom and legs would even put these hot models look like normal commoners, but if you looked closely you could see some some wrinkles on her face and a little grey on her pure black hair. [Is she the grandmother of the previous owner? No wonder his face is so handsome. With a grandmother like this, how couldn''t he have a handsome face?] After walking in. He saw the woman turn towards him and smilingly said: "Tufu, you shouldn''t let an old woman wait so long or else she will tickle you to death. Hahaha...." After hearing this heart warming sentence. He remembered the past, where he grew up with the other orphans in an orphanage to when he met his injured Master as a Butcher. These were one of the few happy memories he had.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. "Hey Tufu, what are you spacing out for? Come here and eat your breakfast. After you finish, I will need to go the the weekly conference with the Patriarch, Grand Elders and Elders. Uhhh how annoying it is to be a Grand Elder. If I could, i would play with you all day. Now, come here and eat." Zhu Tufu came back to his senses and went to eat his breakfast while asking his grandma questions. He really enjoyed his new grandma and the heart warming felling that he got from her. Which he didn''t experience for a long time. After some time passed, grandma suddenly said: "Tufu why do you ask such questions? Also what happened to you? You seem a lot more matu-" But before she could finish her sentence a voice shouted: "Grand Elder Zhu Li, the conference is gonna shortly begin." Zhu Li stood up and said to Tufu "Well doesn''t matter, you just need to be happy and safe. I am going Tufu, if you are going out to play. Take the guards at the entrance with you and remember be home before sunset." After that she pulled Zhu Tufu''s cheeks, waved her hand and left. After she left Zhu Tufu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "ufff it seems she noticed, but doesn''t care for now. I should be more careful with my questions and bearing I am a child right now, so I should behave like one, but at least i know where I am." Chapter 3: Blue Sky World "It seems I am no longer on Starlight World, but on a world called Blue Sky World. There are supposed to be 7 Empires called Forge Empire, Desert Empire, Snow Mountain Empire, Beast Empire, Human Empire, Devil Empire and Pill Empire. Right now I am in the second most powerful city of Human Empire called Vermilion city. And in Vermilion city there are three clans called the Ma clan, Lin clan and the clan that I am in, Zhu clan." "Well at least I didn''t reincarnate into a poor family or else I wouldn''t be able to cultiva- Oh, I forgot to check my Soul Space maybe there is still that book and dragon corpse!" With anticipation he looked inside his Soul Space to find the dragon corpse and the book. Zhu Tufu shouted: "YES IT''S STILL INSIDE, HAHAHA..." While Zhu Tufu was laughing happily, but also madly. Two guards came running into the kitchen asking: "Are you alright Young master??" When they heard the mad laughter of their Young master, they thought someone broke in and did something to him. "I am alright. I just laughed out of joy, nothing more."This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it The two guards looked at each other and saw each other''s thoughts. [If that is laughter out of joy, then my laughter is an angelic laugh.] Sensing the awkward atmosphere Zhu Tufu said: "Ok you can return to your stations, today I won''t go out to play." The two guards simultaneously said: "Yes, Young master" ..... When the two guards were at their station. One of them said: "Don''t you think our Young master is behaving weirdly today?" The second one said: "You also noticed? Yeah, normally he would always go out to play or else he will be bored to death, but today he is staying at home and that laughter. Just remembering makes my hair stand." "Do you think we should report this to Madam?" "Well I don''t see why not" ..... After the two guards left. Zhu Tufu went into his bedroom and sat down on his bed. [If I knew that I would get reincarnated I would have put more stuff inside, but who would want use their Soul Space when you have a Space ring that has a lot more space. Oh well at least I have my book and a dragon corpse with it''s core, flesh and scales.] Opening his Soul Space again he retrieves the book, but not before seeing a Space ring on the floor. Surprised he took it out too. After taking out the book and Space ring he tried to examine the ring with his Qi and then remembered that he didn''t cultivate any Qi yet. [Oh yeah I haven''t cultivated yet. Well I put you back into the Soul Space and then take a look at what this book is.] Chapter 4: Bloody Devourer After putting the Space ring back into the Soul Space. Zhu Tufu looked at the title of the book. [Bloody Devourer? Is it a Qi Cultivation Method?] Zhu Tufu cautiously opens the book only to make the book turn into light particles which flew into Zhu Tufu''s head, after that he fainted on his bed. ..... After two hours, Zhu Tufu slowly woke up and astonished for a moment before saying: "Ridiculous." After some seconds of calming down. "A Qi Cultivation Method that let''s you learn the Innate ability of the living thing you devour. And you need to devour a specific amount of it''s flesh and heart while drinking it''s blood. How crazy and grotesque."Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. But as Zhu Tufu said that, there wasn''t a disgusted or frowning face. Instead there was a smile. That smile looked like when you got a game or book which you wanted for your birthday. "Hmm let''s first get into the Core Stage so that I can use a little of my Alchemy" There are two stages before the Core Stage, named Qi Gathering Stage and Qi Manipulation Stage. First you need to gather the World Qi around your body if you are successful then you are in the Qi Gathering Stage. After that you need to manipulate the Qi around your body to unlock at least four merdians to go to Core Stage. But the more you unlock the harder it will get, so it depends on your talent or a special way to open more merdians. Of course the more merdians you unlock the faster your recovery speed of Qi and cultivation gets. "But I need to unlock all twenty merdians to be able to use Alchemy. But thanks to Master i have a special way to unlock all the merdians at once or else with my talent I would never be an Alchemist." "The bad thing is I need Blood Qi to cultivate the Bloody Devourer and as a Butcher, i can feel the Blood Qi that''s in the World Qi, but it is not enough to unlock all my merdians." Chapter 5: More Blood! [Hmm... oh I know. If I have enough blood in my room, the World Qi will fuse together with the blood and turn into more Blood Qi.] After thinking about this. Zhu Tufu went over to the entrance of the house. It was already afternoon and the sun was shining outside, no cloud could be seen. When the two guards saw him they immediately bowed and simultaneously said: "Good afternoon, Young master." Without beating around the bush, Zhu Tufu asked: "How many gold coins do we have?" The two guards spaced out for a moment before one of the two guards replied: "Young master, gold coins are only accessible when you get ten years old. Madam said Young master is only allowed to have 60 silver coins a month." When the two guards finished Zhu Tufu thought: [Bullsh*t, since when was the last time I didn''t get access to something.] After that with a gloomy face he asked the two guards.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. "Is there any place where they sell blood?" One guard curiously asked: "What does Young master need blood for? Zhu Tufu''s already angry mood flared up and coldly said "Since when did a lowly guard dare to interrogate the Young master?" When the guard heard the coldness in Zhu Tufu''s voice, as if it came from the pits of hell. The guard immediately shut up, went on his knee and cold sweat started dripping from his back. The second guard said with a shaking voice: "I-In the Bu-Butcher store w-where th-they sell a-animal meat th-they may ha-have the blood." When Zhu Tufu heard the shaky voice of the second guard and the first guard that was on his knee. He felt a lot better and said with a warm and kind voice: "See uncle guard, it wasn''t so hard, right? Can uncles please follow the humble me, I want to go to the Butcher store and buy some blood. Oh yeah, please don''t tell grandma that I bought blood or that we had this conversation? If not I will come for your and your families blood ok? When the two guards heard the threat with such a kind, warm voice and with the innocent smile on his face. The two guards had only one thought [Devil!] After that Zhu Tufu told the guards to show the way. The horrified guards silently lead the way to the Butcher store. Chapter 6: Making Trouble While walking out of the Zhu clans entrance, and walking to the Butcher store. Zhu Tufu met a lot of interesting businesses like Tailor shops, Blacksmith guild, Mercenary guild, Restaurants, Pill guild and etc. [I bet there is a Slave shop somewhere and a Brothel too. Should I buy virgin blood from the Brothel or buy slaves to cut them up and let them bleed to attract more Blood Qi. Well both are expensive and I have no money.] After some seconds of thinking and walking, he saw a man silently stealing a woman''s wallet in her purse while she wasn''t looking. The man walked away and was walking towards them. [I have a plan. Thanks for the money that you have worked so hard for.] When the man walked towards them, Zhu Tufu intentionally slipped and fell on the man. The man was double his size, but he still somehow made him fall too. "Ow oww. Fu*king child. I am gonna kill you." shouted the man. When the crowd heard the shout, everyone just sighed [What a pity. A child will die.] Only some curious ones came to enjoy the show. But when the man saw the two guards that were helping the child stand up and saw the symbol on their chest he immediately regretted. [Fu*k me, the Zhu clan. What dog shit luck did i step on today. To actually make one of the Zhu clans Young masters fall on me.] The man hurriedly bowed and said: "Ah so it''s one of the Zhu clans Young masters. I sincerely apologize for my lowly words that I just spoke and hope that someone as majestic and mighty as you will forgive me." Thinking [He is only a six year old child, if I flatter and compliment him enough. He surely forgive me.] That''s what the crowd and the man thought, but sadly for him it had the opposite effect.Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. Zhu Tufu shamelessly said: "Yes, indeed such lowly words from such a lowly being. I bet even the dogs and chickens in your home have more value than you and your words, but I, as majestic and mighty as I am shall not discriminate and still treat you like a lowly human." Even though the man was enraged, he still knew that, if he killed the boy. He will be killed by the Zhu clan and if he somehow escaped, he will be chased for the rest of his life by them. Sounding as calm as possible he spoke: "Thank you for treating me like a human. So am I forg-" But before he could speak further Zhu Tufu continues. "Who said you could interrupt me. The majestic and mighty me not discriminating the lowly human being that is you, doesn''t mean you should act arrogant." "For falling, injuring, traumatizing, cursing and interrupting me you shall give me all your belongings expect your underwear." When hearing this. Everyone from the crowd, to the man, to the two guards were speechless. Then they only had one thought. [How can a child be so shameless and arrogant. You clearly fell on him, humiliated him and what injury, what trauma. You look tottaly fine and interrupting you is arrogant? Then what is calling someone worse than a dog or chicken be as?] The man couldn''t handle it anymore and attacked Zhu Tufu, but not before being stopped by the two guards. With a smile, Zhu Tufu looked him in the eyes and said: "And attacking me. For that you will need to break your arms and legs." "Guards take everything he has, expect his underwear and break his arms and legs." Without a choice the two guards did as they were told to. The man already fainted from the pain. The crowd was already long gone, fearing they would be noticed by this crazy Young master. After checking the mans belongings and taking all the coins before throwing away the clothes and wallets only taking the coin bags for future uses. [Hmm only 2000 silver coins meaning two gold coins, I thought he would be richer. Well whatever with this amount I can a probably buy a small bottle of virgin blood.] After that he looked at the two guards and threw them two coin bags each filled with hundred silver coins. "You did a good job stopping him and listening to my commands take this as a bonus." The two guards, for the first time felt that the Young master wasn''t so horrible and scary, but that lasted only a moment when Zhu Tufu said. "Also this is me blackmailing you for not telling my grandma. Now lead the way." The guards shook their heads and lead the way again. Chapter 7: Butcher store When they arrived at the Butcher store Zhu Tufu thought [Ahh that brings back memories.] Thinking about the past. The Butcher store was as big as a convenience store, but it had two floors. When they came in, they saw people choosing, buying or talking with the staff members. When one of them staff members saw the symbol on the guards and the six year old boy, a middle aged man came to them and politely asked: "Welcome to the Butcher store, may I ask what businesses does one of the Zhu clan''s Young master have with us?" Zhu Tufu asked with an innocent voice: "Does senior have any Demon beast blood?" The staff member thought for a moment before saying: "Yes we indeed have Demon beast blood, but everything Demon beast related is managed by the owner and the managers." Zhu Tufu happily thought [With Demon beast blood, I just need two or three liters. If I used normal animal blood it would have taken five to eight gallons of blood.] Demon beast is an animal that has somehow found a way to cultivate Qi in his body and can choose what it wants to become, but has a low chance to evolve. They can also be a distant descendent of a Saint beast. And if they are a distant descendant of a Saint beast then that means they have a Saint beast bloodline and have a higher chance to evolve, but they will have their path set in stone. Normally if you are the direct descendent of a Saint beast you will be a Saint beast too, but your bloodline will get diluted. Saint beasts can be half human, half Demon beast, like Mermaids, Werewolves, Centaurs, etc. They are evolved from the Demon beast they can transform into or the body part they have, but they can also be a descendant of a Divine beast. For example Saint beast Pegasus and Saint beast Unicorn are descendants of the Divine beast Pegacorn(1). (1): Pegacorn is the name for a winged unicorn Divine beast is a creature like a Dragon, Pheonix, World Serpent, World Turtle, etc. They can be evolved from a Saint beast, but their descendants will always Saint beasts. "Senior can you please take us to the owner? I want to buy three liters of the most high quality Demon beast blood that you have." The staff member replied: "Yes, Young master. Please follow me." Following the staff member upstairs, Zhu Tufu saw a narrow hall with many doors on the sides. After following the staff member at end of the hall. There was a double door made of wood, the design on the double door beat the former doors by a large margin. The staff member knocked on the door and after some seconds a bossy, female voice yelled: "What is it? I have a guest in here right now." The staff member respectfully replied: "One of Zhu clan''s Young master wants to buy our best quality Demon beast blood." "One of Zhu clan''s Young master? Let him in and you are dismissed." After that the door opened and the staff member left. Zhu Tufu entered with his guards right behind him. After entering what looked like a office they saw a young man and a 6 foot tall lady. Even though, she had clothes on. You could see that her muscles were just ready to explode with strength, but oddly enough. The places were too much muscle would be grouse, weren''t their. "Hmm, she would definitely be high quality meat if butchered." Zhu Tufu thinking such thoughts heard the young man say: "Oh so it''s junior brother Zhu Tufu, how is Grand Elder Zhu Li doing?" Zhu Tufu turned to look him in the eyes to find out that there was malice and a little bit of suprise before hurriedly hiding it. "Ah yes, Senior brother. Grandma is doing fine." While saying this Zhu Tufu thought [Why would he be surprised that I am here? And that malicious intent in his eyes, maybe he was the one who poisoned me, but what reason would he have to poison me and where did he get that poison?] The young man turned to the owner and said: "Miss Sun Bai, I see that you have business and shall not disturb you further." After saying that, he left. Zhu Tufu asks one of the guards "Who was that?" The guard replied: "He is the Patriarch''s adopted son, Duan Fa. Madam and him aren''t exactly on good terms, because when the Patriarch decided that Duan Fa would be the next Patriarch. Many Elders and Madam disagreed with it, but his master Grand Elder Zhu Sha and other Elders agreed with it. Some Elders and the last Grand Elder are staying neutral, for now." Zhu Tufu thought: [Now i know it was him that poisoned me. If I died, grandma would be grief stricken and would probably agree to let Duan Fa be the Patriarch if he could frame someone to be the murderer. But a bigger question comes to mind. Was someone working with him to poison me?] ..... After Duan Fa left. He walked towards the Lin clan to find someone. But unexpectedly met him on the way there. It was also a young man, but he looked older than Duan Fa When Duan Fa saw him. He ran towards him and whispered: "Hey, can we talk in private?" After going to a private place Duan Fa couldn''t hold it anymore and said: "Didn''t you say if I put the poison on him he will die tomorrow? Well guess what he doesn''t even look sick much less dead!" The young man thought and said: "It definitely wasn''t the poisons problem. You said you wanted a poison that was without smell and almost invisible to the naked eye. Well I got you one and it was a pretty rare one too. I needed to pay a hundred contribution points at the Academy to pay for it."The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "Then what should we do now?!" Duan Fa said, helpless and angry. The young man replied: "Why are you so impatient, he is just a kid right now with no cultivation, while you are at the Body Stage. You could kill him any day." After hearing these words, Duan Fa calmed down and said "Well that''s true, but don''t forget our deal. You help me become the Patriarch and I will help you destroy the Ma clan." "Don''t worry I didn''t forget, but after two days I need to go back to the Academy. So tell me what you need in these two days and I will help you get it." "Ok." ..... The owner turned towards them and rudely said: "How much top quality Demon beast blood do you want?" Zhu Tufu said straight: "Three liters. How many silver coins?" She pointed one finger up and said: "One gold coin." The two guards were astonished. That three liters of Demon beast blood could cost so much, but you need to understand that their pay was two hundred silver coins each year. And they were guards of one of the three most powerful clans where money isn''t a problem. Sun Bai as thought she knew what they were thinking said: "Don''t be so astonished. You guys are buying one of our top quality Demon beast blood that means their is a very, very diluted drop of Saint beast bloodline. I am actually quite gener-" But before she can finish, she was thrown a coin bag. When checking it and seeing that they were exactly thousand silver coins she heard "Bring me three liters of your top quality Demon beast blood." After that Sun Bai shut up and went somewhere. After ten minutes, she came back with three buckets of blood, saying: "Here, these are the three liters of top quality Demon beast blood." Zhu Tufu smiled and said: "Thanks, and I am going to probably come again, so be ready. It was nice doing business with you." After saying that, he ordered the two guards to take the buckets and were about to leave when he heard Sun Bai say: "Aren''t you worried that I cheated you and put normal blood inside?" Zhu Tufu sweetly answered: "There are three reasons, why I am not worried. First it wouldn''t be worth tarnishing your reputation or getting the wrath of the Zhu clan just for a gold coin. Second we have no animosity against each other and third if you did, you wouldn''t be among the living for long." After saying that Zhu Tufu left. Sun Bai mumbled to herself: "Is he really a child?" ..... When Zhu Tufu arrived home. The sun was already slowly going down. [Hmm what do I do now? There will definitely be rumors that a Young master of Zhu clan broke a man''s arms and legs and stripped him to his underwear and that I bought Demon beast blood won''t be a secret anymore too. Well that depends on that Duan Fa, if he deliberately spreads rumors about me buying blood.] [Well rumors are rumors, I just say I was playing outside and let the guards confirm it.] After thinking that he put the three buckets of blood in his closet next to his bed and sprayed perfume, which he stole from his grandma, near the closet. But while he was spraying perfume near the closet his stomach grumbled. "Oh yeah. I forgot that I didn''t eat lunch, well let''s just eat some dried meat as snack, before eating dinner with grandma." Zhu Tufu went to the kitchen and saw the dried mead in a bag on the table. He pushed a chair out climed on it and then took the bag. "How inconvenient to be so small. But there are some good points about being small." Mumbling to himself. He arrived back in his room and ate some dried meat before sensing that the blood Qi was almost enough. "First let''s try to gather the Blood Qi." Zhu Tufu started gathering Blood Qi, only find out that the Blood Qi was a lot heavier to control than World Qi. Imaging using a baseball bat as a sword. So he tried different approaches, different ways to gather it and it paid off. "Ahh it took me so long to do this. But at least i can say that i mastered the Qi Gathering Stage and and I am at the beginning of Qi Manipulation Stage. My experience from my previous life helped me a lot here. Oh yeah, what time is it right now?" When he said that, he heard the house''s entrance opening and his grandma''s voice saying "Tufu come here." He went after his grandma only to see her taking off her shoes with a bag on the ground. Zhu Li looked somewhat tired and said: "Will you help your grandma prepare a hot bath, won''t you? And also can you take this bag into the kitchen? it''s your favorite rice with steak and onions." Without knowing, his heart spread that warm feeling that he felt this morning. [How weird, this is the second time i feel this warm feeling, but I should have already forgotten this feeling. Maybe it''s this body, which is spreading this feeling by instinct or maybe, because of blood are the same? Whatever, if it it''s only her then It doesn''t matter. Truth to be told. I sometimes miss the time where I was with Master and junior sister.] While taking the bag and making a hot bath, Zhu Li sat down on a chair in the kitchen, looking at him tenderly before remembering about something. [Oh yeah, on the way back, i heard some rumors about Tufu buying blood? Hmmm i just ask him, he would never lie to me.] After seeing that Zhu Tufu was done she said: "Tufu can you come here. I need to ask you a question." Zhu Tufu walked over, prepared to deny any rumor that she heard. "Did you, by any chance buy blood?" When Zhu Tufu was ready to say no, but his mouth, like it was moving on it''s own said: "Yes." Both Zhu Li and mainly Zhu Tufu were astonished. Zhu Tufu thought [WHAT THE FU*K!? How can this body speak on it''s own?!] While Zhu Tufu was still cursing his body. Zhu Li came back to her senses. She smiled and said: "Oh really, at least you didn''t lie to me, but what do you need the blood for?" Without a way out Zhu Tufu spoke honestly: "I need it for my cultivation." Zhu Li astonished again and saying: "Yo-You are cultivating? What stage are you in and what rank is your Qi Cultivation Method? If it''s worse then a low grade Sky rank than give it up. I give you a new one." Zhu Tufu replied: "I am at the beginning of Qi Manipulation Stage. And my Qi Cultivation Method definitely isn''t worse than a low grade Sky rank one." There are a total of 5 ranks from top to bottom. The Divine rank, Heaven rank, Sky rank, Earth rank and Mortal rank. And each rank has 4 grades. The peak grade, high grade, mid grade and low grade. Zhu Li shocked and then excitedly said: "My Tufu is a Genius! A Genius! Six years old and already at the beginning of Qi Manipulation Stage! And a Qi Cultivation Method that isn''t worse than a low grade Sky rank one! Tell me, you got a master, right? And didn''t tell me about it. This was when Zhu Tufu was shocked and then thought [She would definitely think like that, I mean who would believe that a child would know how to gather Qi without guidance and get a Qi Cultivation Method that isn''t lower than a low grade Sky rank by himself?] Zhu Tufu sincerely and innocently said: "Yeah grandma. How did you know? Master said I shouldn''t tell anyone that I have a master or that I am cultivating." Zhu Li proudly said: "Of course, you can''t hide anything from your own grandma even if you wanted to. Hehehe..." [Oh really?] Zhu Tufu rolled his eyes and thought. "Now i go take a bath and you eat your dinner and go to sleep ok? I already ate so you don''t worry." After that Zhu Li went to take her bath and Zhu Tufu ate his dinner. After that both of them went to sleep, but not before Zhu Li kissed Zhu Tufu''s forehead and said: "Goodnight." ..... In bed Zhu Tufu thought [Should I kill her? Well I don''t think, this will work. If this body can move through instinct as i think then I probably will just freeze in mid stance and if somehow she wakes up then I am done for. I also don''t want to help that Duan Fa become the Patriarch so I can''t kill her. But I can catch that Duan Fa, but I need him alive. Torture him and then find out if someone is working with him. But how am I gonna do that? Let''s think about this tomorrow.] Chapter 8: Grand Elder Zhu Ya Waking up and feeling refreshed. Zhu Tufu went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face before going into the kitchen. When Zhu Tufu arrived at the kitchen. He saw Zhu Li putting his breakfast oh the table. "Oh right on time, I was just about to call you. First eat your breakfast and then let''s go to our clan''s Pill shop to get you some Qi Concentration Pills and then go to the Zhu Technique Temple to get some Battle techniques that will suit you in the future." But while Zhu Li was saying this, Zhu Tufu was thinking. [Qi Concentration Pill? The one that cuts off your five senses to let you concentrate on gathering and manipulating the Qi near your merdian? What a bullsh*t pill! If I could use a little bit of my Alchemy then I would make some Qi Attraction Pills, which automatically gathers the Qi near my merdians. So infuriating. And the Technique Temple... It isn''t a bad idea, They may have some Battle techniques that''s related to Blood Qi, but I don''t think they will have any battle techniques that are better, then the ones in my memory.] Battle techniques are a way to control the World Qi or other specific Qi that''s outside the body to make your punches, kicks or other body parts more destructive or more profound. This can also be applied to weapons. To make your slashes, stabs and other basic moves into a combination of attacks or just to make them stronger. But you need to use your inner Qi(1) to make the battle technique work. (1): It''s the Qi that you gather inside your core. Only available at the Core Stage. Alchemy is a skill which let''s you control, deconstruct, fuse together or change the shape of the elements with the help of your inner Qi. Something like a battle technique, but with a lot more choices. Of course the more elements you control, fuse together, bigger the change or deconstruct of the element, it will consume more Qi, but you can use the element without Qi if you completely learn the element. For example the Fire element, if you master the first level, then it is called first level Fire element. And if you want to completely master it then you need to get it to the ninth level. Where it''s then called Fire Dao. After eating his breakfast. They went to the Zhu clan''s Pill shop to buy some Qi Concentration Pills. ..... On the way there. They met an kind looking old woman. When Zhu Li saw her, she walked towards her while dragging Zhu Tufu with her. "Good morning, Senior sister Zhu Ya. What brings you here?" "Hello, Junior sister Zhu Li, I just came back from the Pill shop to take some pills that could help my granddaughter, my little Dite already opened all of her twenty merdians, a once in a thousand years seen prodigy. If this continues she can make it to the competition that''s nine months later. But first she needs core(2) for the Core Stage. I need to get her at least a decent quality Saint core. So she won''t end up like my son." (2): You get a core by killing and extracting the core from a Demon, Saint or Divine beast. "Congratulations Senior sister, as expected of the prodigy of this year''s generation seven years old and already at the beginning of Core Stage. And don''t make it too hard for your son. He became the First Elder after all." "If we talk about sons then what about yours. The Freak of the Zhu clan that entered the Academy at the age of six and became the Champion of the 7 Empires Competition all thanks to a Divine core, twenty unlocked merdians and other reasons. If your son took responsibility and stayed in the clan he would have definitely became the Patriarch, but instead he wanted to adventure the World with his wife. At least he left you with a grandchild." While talking Grand Elder Zhu Ya saw Zhu Tufu listening to the conversion full of interest and then asking. "Oh yeah is your grandson also going to participate in the competition nine months later? With such a father he would definitely have high talent in cultivation. Which Stage is he already in?" When Zhu Li was about to say ''The beginning of Qi Manipulation Stage''. Zhu Tufu interjected and said: "Grand Elder Zhu Ya I am at the middle of Qi Gathering Stage." When Zhu Tufu said that Grand Elder Zhu Ya eyes revealed disappointed, but when Zhu Tufu looked deeper into her eyes. He could see that she felt a little relieved. "Don''t worry about it, life in the clan isn''t bad. Oh it''s already late and my granddaughter hasn''t eaten her breakfast yet. So If you excuse me. Goodbye, Junior sister. When Grand Elder Zhu Ya left. Zhu Tufu asked: "What''s this competition and what is that Academy thing?" "The Academy is the most powerful school in Main City only for Freaks among Geniuses. A big city would get three Entrance letters every year, which could let you try the entrance exam while other smaller cities have two Entrance letters and towns only get one every year. You need to be less than twelve years old and have the cultivation of first level Body Stage to even participate. That''s why every year there is a competition among the three clans and other clan''s to see who would get the first three places to let them take the entrance exam. Of course you need to be less than twelve years old and be at Body Stage to participate in the competition." After that she asked: "Why did you lie to Grand Elder Zhu Ya?" Zhu Tufu put on a sincere smile and innocently replied "Did you forget grandma? My Master told me to hide my cultivation and the fact that he exists." While saying that he remembered something and asked: "Ohyeah what''s this 7 Empires Competition and where are my parents?" Zhu Li looked into the sky and replied: "I will tell you in the future where your parents are. And the 7 Empires Competition? You will find out if you get into the Academy." After some seconds she asked: "Oh yeah, did your Master get you a core for the Core Stage and pills to help you unlock merdians?" After thinking about the Qi Cultivation Method ''Bloody Devourer'' that didn''t need a core for Core Stage, but needed to strengthen the thing that will replace the core with cores and the special way to open all the merdians at once he said: "I will need a lot of cores as many as grandma can get, for now it''s more about quantity than quality. And more Demon beast blood wouldn''t hurt." Zhu Li confusely asked: "Why do you need so many cores, normally just one good core should be enough and why do you even need more blood?" Zhu Tufu innocently replied: "It got something to do with my Qi Cultivation Method that my Master got me. And as grandma said, people now only care for the very good ones so the low Demon ones are ignored and cheap so we can buy a lot of them and more Demon beast blood just to make sure I can unlock all my merdians." Zhu Li shocked said: "unlock all your merdians? Do you know how hard it is for normal people to even unlock ten merdians much less all twenty?" But when Zhu Li saw her grandson with that confident smile she stopped, smiled and said: "But if you say that you can do it then i belive you. Leave this matter to me." After that, they continued on their way into the Pill shop. ..... The Pill had three floors and looked really elegant. There was a sign above the front door reading ''Zhu''s Pill shop''. When they arrived at the entrance, an attendant greeted and respectfully asked: "Welcome Grand Elder Zhu Li and Young master Zhu Tufu, what businesses does Grand Elder and Young master have here?" In an imposing tone she replied: "Give me a hundred of your Qi Concentration Pills."Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. The attendant went into another room and then came back he had two bottles in his hand and then said: "Here Grand Elder, in each of these bottles are fifty Qi Concentration Pills. Does Grand Elder have any wishes left?" "Do you have any low Demon cores that you sell?" The attendant blanked for a moment before saying surprised: "Yes we do indeed have low Demon cores they are sold for one silver coin and are of the worst quality and which are most bought by poor commoners." "Good, give me all these cores, hurry up." The attendant astonished, went into, what seemed to be the Manager''s room and came back with an old man. The old man came to them and asked politely: "Hello, Grand Elder Zhu Li and Young master Zhu Tufu. I am the Manager here and heard that Grand Elder Zhu Li wanted to buy all the low quality cores?" "Yes, is there some kind of problem with it?" "Well, you see the low quality cores are used by our Pill students to train their skills. So we can only sell you half of the cores we have." Zhu Li thought for a moment before saying: "I can buy half of your cores, but i want a 10% discount. Deal?" The manager hesitated for a moment before replying: "Deal." After that he went into the warehouse and brought back a Space ring. After getting the Space ring and checking that they were 250 cores. Zhu Li gave him a space ring that was filled with 225 silver coins. "With The 10% discount, you have 225 silver coins." After saying that they left. When they left the attendant asked: "Sir why did you agree on that 10% discount?" The Manager wisely replied: "If I hadn''t agreed to it. Grand Elder Zhu Li would have insisted on buying all the cores and who could stop her expect the other two Grand Elders? Even the Patriarch could do nothing about it." The attendant looked enlightened and said: "Manager is wise." ..... When they left and were on the way to the Zhu clan''s Technique Temple Zhu Li asked: "Tufu how much Demon beast blood do you need?" Zhu Tufu replied: "If possible then ten liters top quality Demon beast blood would be perfect." "Sure, then let''s do it like this. I go to the the Butcher store first and see if they have ten liters, while you go to the Technique Temple. Like this you can take your time picking some techniques, you like. When you arrive at the entrance there should be an Elder, who is there to oversee everything. Say that you were sent by me and they should let you go to the second floor." After some talk later Zhu Li left and Zhu Tufu arrived at the entrance. The Technique Temple looked like a four floor tower which looked pretty old and majestic. And at the entrance there was a grumpy looking man. "Hello Elder, my name is Zhu Tufu and my grandma Zhu Li send me to the Technique Temple to take some techniques at the second floor." When the Elder saw him and heard his words. Zhu Tufu could see that the man had ill intent towards him. The Elder impatiently replied: "You need to show me evidence that Grand Elder Zhu Li send you or who knows if you really are Zhu Tufu." Zhu Tufu angry, thought [Fu*k you, with how identical I look to my grandma only blind people couldn''t know that I am her grandson. You want to make trouble for me? Well you will reap what you sow.] After thinking this, calmly replied: "Elder I see that you have knee pain which had troubled you for five years and even in your sleep, it will sometimes hurt like hundred needless have pieced your knee. That''s why I assume that you are protecting this place instead of doing something else. Am I right? If you let me through, I can give you a prescription on how to cure it." When the Elder heard Zhu Tufu he was shocked and then suspiciously asked: "How do you know that? Even my wife doesn''t know that. I went to all the Pill Masters(3) secretly in our city, but just to find out that they are all useless. So how can a little kid like you know how to cure it?" (3): There are 7 ranks that are ranked for people who make pills. Pill Student, Pill Junior, Pill Senior, Pill Master, Pill Grandmaster, Pill King and Pill Emperor. Zhu Tufu sincerely replied: "If you tried all the Pill Masters and know there is no hope. Why not try my advice? Maybe it will even work?" When the Elder heard him he said with a voice still with doubt: "Let me hear what you have to say and maybe I let you go into the second floor." "You have a bug that''s called Bone Eating bug. As the name implies the bug will slowly eat your bones and are very small. If you were a normal person then you would have already died by having no more bones, but thanks to your cultivation that makes your bones regenerate faster than normal people that''s why you only feel pain and are not dead. But if this continues in two years, they will lay eggs in your flesh and then more Bone Eating bugs will eat your bones and after that you will feel pain in your whole leg like a thousand needles have pierced you and will need to cut off your leg to even survive." When the Elder heard the horrifying effects of the bug, he impatiently asked: "So how should I cure it?" "First you need to break your Leg make to the bugs loose and then you need to put the broken leg in a bottle of water with the prescription I will give you and then you should be fine. But please tell no one about this or I will have more people to cure and less time to cure you when you need me." But inside, he mockingly thought [You actually don''t need to break your leg and the prescription I am giving you will make the bug go into a frenzy and lay eggs as if it would die if it didn''t and after when night comes they will eat your whole skeleton overnight and you will definitely die a painful death. And with telling no one I mean so no one will get suspicious of me. But still, who would believe a six year old boy poisoned an Elder without him knowing?] "Sure, no problem I will tell no one, but how can I be sure that you are telling the truth?" "Why would I lie to you Elder?" After remembering that the one he was talking to was a six year old boy he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Ok you can go to the second floor after you give me the prescription ok?" But in his heart he thought with joy [Who would have thought making trouble for Grand Elder Zhu Li''s grandson would save my life.] After that Zhu Tufu wrote something on the paper and gave it to the Elder. The Elder happily took it and then gave Zhu Tufu a card saying: "Here is the card that will let you go to the second floor. You can only take three techniques. You will need to return them in a month time and can''t be learned by outsiders or you will be punished by the clan. Also you need to let me check you so I can be sure that you didn''t take more than three." After saying that the Elder let Zhu Tufu enter. When Zhu Tufu entered. He directly went upstairs to the second floor thinking [That fool shouldn''t have made trouble for me. Well bugs eating his skeleton sounds like a fun death. I hope he enjoys it.] At the second floor there was a door that had a hole fit for the card that Zhu Tufu got. After putting the card into the hole, the door opened and the card disappeared. [It seems like a formation build by a master Blacksmith.] Then he started looking for techniques that would be useful to him. ..... After three hours of looking through the techniques one by one he found exactly three Battle techniques that Zhu Tufu thought were good enough. The first was a long range Agility Battle technique named ''Bloody Wings'' It was ranked as a low grade Heaven rank, but it was on the second floor because it needed Blood Qi to use. If you mastered this technique than you could float in the air like a hang glider and if you were at the Sky Stage then you could fly faster than other people at Sky Stage without wings also on the ground you could use the wings for a speed boost. You could also harden the blood and make the Blood Wings block an attack or swing your wings to shoot your hardened blood at your enemies. It was apparently found in a tomb of a Devil Cultivator of the Devil Empire here in Human Empire. They usually used dead or living bodies as puppets to fight for them. For their immoral act towards dead or using living beings as puppets and other things, they got named by the rest of the Empires as Devils. They normally cultivate the Yin Qi(4) to turn bodies into puppets. (4): You can take Yin Qi as Dark Qi and Yang Qi as Light Qi. The second was a Stealth Battle technique named ''Temperature Stealth'' It was only a peak grade Earth rank technique, but had the ability to change your temperature to as cold as a rock or as warm as the desert. So Snake beasts who use infrared vision won''t even be able to see you and you can blend more with the background. And if you need to play as a corpse than you can just turn cold as one and hold your breath. The third and last one was a Battle technique that could change your height named ''Dwarf into Giant''. As the name implies you can only get bigger and not smaller, your strength will still be the same too so you could say it is only for cosmetic purposes. It is a low grade Earth rank and is pretty much ignored here, but Zhu Tufu thought that this was a very good technique, mainly because it didn''t need inner Qi to activate and just needed you to gather the outside Qi inside you. Like you would blow a balloon. So he wanted to try something and if it worked than this technique could be overpowered. After finding these three techniques he started leaving. When Zhu Tufu arrived at the entrance and saw the Elder he said: "Elder I picked the techniques I wanted. Here take a look." After saying that he took three techniques out, but they weren''t the techniques which Zhu Tufu picked, but were the most picked techniques in the Temple. When the Elder saw them he said with praise: "Good choices, these are the best techniques for beginners. But I still need to check you." After checking and finding nothing the Elder kindly said: "Ok you can go now and don''t forget to cultivate hard." After that he walked out of the Temple and Zhu Tufu thought with disdain [You would have never imagined that I actually stole three more techniques of you. Hahaha. Well who would expect something as a Soul Space in this world when I myself didn''t believe it at that time.] Zhu Tufu hid the three Battle techniques in his Soul Space. [Oh yeah after I enter the Core Stage. I should check what is inside that Space ring in my Soul Space. And that dragon corpse? Hmmm... I still can''t take it out or the pressure of a Divine beast would totally crush my body right now.] While thinking this. Zhu Li saw Zhu Tufu walking out of the Temple and called for him: "Tufu come here and let''s go home to have lunch and then I can take out the ten liters of Demon beast blood out of the Space ring for you. And you can then cultivate in peace." When Zhu Tufu heard her he answered: "Ok, coming." Chapter 9: Unlocking Merdians Arriving home, Zhu Tufu looked satisfied at the ten buckets of Demon beast blood in his room with the three buckets of Demon beast blood that he bought before, which weren¡¯t so pure anymore like the ten buckets. He had thirteen buckets of Demon beast blood. Thinking [This should be enough to unlock all my merdians and have enough to make the thing that¡¯s going to replace the core in Core Stage.] Sitting down on his bed and eating one of the Qi Concentration Pills. He started to lose his vision, couldn¡¯t hear anymore, didn¡¯t feel anything touching him, didn¡¯t smell the blood anymore and couldn¡¯t taste the pill anymore. But he sensed the World Qi and the very thick Blood Qi near him very clearly. [It seems it¡¯s very effective, but if someone attacked me right now, I would probably be dead.] After thinking that. Zhu Tufu concentrated on gathering the Blood Qi near him. When they were gathered, Zhu Tufu manipulated them near all the twenty merdians and slowly covered the inside with the Qi like you would paint walls. [First I need to cover the inside with the Blood Qi then I need to manipulate all the energy to attack all the blockades in all twenty merdians at the same time.] It seemed simple in theory, but in reality it needed all your concentration to gather the Qi near all your merdians, slowly cover them and then attack the blockade without breaking your cover or your merdian would get damaged. If you had the Qi Attraction Pill then it would be 35% easier. But with the Blood Qi which Zhu Tufu never used. He was at first very carefully gathering it near his merdians then cautiously covered them after that he started to attack the blockades only to find out that he already had no energy left to attack the blockades. [I was too careful and ended up concentrating more on gathering and manipulating than I should, resulting in wasting too much energy and time. I should take it step by step, slowly speeding up the process.] After this Zhu Tufu slowly, but steady speeded up the process. ¡­.. Duan Fa went to the Lin clan secretly and was in a underground room with the young man who he met the day before. ¡°Here is the list with the items I need, this time I just directly poison the Grand Elder and frame it on her grandson. That''s the more secure way for my future as a Patriarch, but it will take some years to succeed. If I frame it on him now. No one¡¯s going to think a six year old boy poisoned his grandma, but probably think someone framed him. So you can take your time.¡±Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. The young man looked at the list and said: ¡°With these items it¡¯s definitely possible to poison the Grand Elder, but it will cost me a lot of contribution coins.¡± Duan Fa reassured: ¡°Don¡¯t worry after I become the Patriarch, I pay you back with interest in mind.¡± ¡°I hope your little scheme works, if not I will look for someone else to help me destroy the Ma clan.¡± ¡°It will definitely work. You just need to wait, just to make sure that Grand Elder Zhu Ya or the other Elders that are against me won¡¯t suspect me that I poisoned her. So I need to plan everything carefully.¡± [Well I already waited ten years what does a little more hurt] "Ok I will give you the items on the list in the next two years when the Academy let¡¯s their students out again. While you just plan everything for now.¡± ..... After five days Zhu Tufu finally unlocked all his merdians with the Blood Qi. Zhu Tufu happily said "Finally and at the right time too. I still can''t believe that one Qi Concentration Pill can only last one hour and thirty minutes. Witch such a duration, all my Qi Concentration Pills are almost gone.... Well I won''t need them anymore anyway." In these five days expect eating, drinking and going to the bathroom, Zhu Tufu has only been trying to unlock all his merdians and it paid off. Zhu Tufu sniffed himself and thought [Uhhh I smell worse than dog sh*t in summer. Let''s first go to the bathroom and then check what''s inside that Space ring.] Going into the bathroom and washing himself. He went back to his room, changed the sheets and sat down on his bed. Excited, Zhu Tufu takes out the Space ring from his Soul Space and looks inside. Only to find out that this Space ring was secured. A secured Space ring can only be opened by the one who secured it (Usually it is the owner of the Space ring). Because the key to open it. Is the Qi which secured it, meaning no one can open it beside the owner, because everyone''s Qi is unique (Like fingerprints). Of course you can just through out destroy it, but you need to be at least a stage higher than the owner to destroy it. "Motherfu*ker, i was excited for nothing. This is definitely my Space ring, but with this new body I definitely can''t open it. #@$&@..." After some cursing later Zhu Tufu calmed down. [Well if I needed to secure it. It means something valuable is probably inside, but wasn''t needed anymore?.... Hmmm what could it be? I remember in my hundred something years old age I had a Space ring which I secured, but it was such a long time ago... Well doesn''t matter, before strength everything will be destroyed and a mere security on a ring will too.] After that Zhu Tufu went to find his grandma to take the cores. Finding Zhu Li and taking the cores away. Zhu Tufu went back to his room as fast as he came out with no time for Zhu Li to question him. Chapter 10: Void Center After getting the Space ring with the cores. Zhu Tufu stood in place and thought about the information the Qi Cultivation Method ''Bloody Devourer'' gave to him. [I still can''t believe something like this thing called Void Center really exists.] The Void Center is what you could call a growing black hole. It is first constructed by hundred cores which are of the lowest quality and the Blood Qi as a starting point. You need to shrink all these hundred cores into a golf ball sized vortex which is almost invisible with the help of your Blood Qi. After that you would have the ability to gain the Innate ability by devouring it''s heart, flesh and blood as previously mentioned and you could also devour beast cores, poison, toxic, or any other thing which would harm or kill a normal Cultivator. Meaning beast cores, poisonous herbs wouldn''t need to be refined into pills to get rid of the impurity or poison inside them, but could be devoured whole, which in turn would help grow the vortex with the impure, harmful stuff and it would nourish your body with the pure, nutrious stuff. You needed the worst cores and Blood Qi, because the cores are the most easiest to shrink and the Blood Qi was one of the few Qis which were heavier than World Qi which means you would have a easier time shrinking them. But there was only one drawback and that is you needed to be at least as tall as an adult, open at least ten merdians and a lot of willpower, because the body of a child doesn''t have wide merdians like an adult to manipulate the Qi inside and you would need to endure the pain and suffering from shrinking the cores inside your body. It''s so painful like when you are going to be skinned alive and then thrown into boiling water. After thinking of the information about the Void Center inside his head and how to start. He sat in a crossed legged position on his bed and he slowly started to grow until he was five feet tall(1). (1): 152 centimeters or 60 inches [The ''Dwarf into Giant'' battle technique really did widen my merdians as I thought! But it still isn''t wide enough.... wait it said i needed to open ten merdians to work while I have all twenty merdians open. Maybe I can use quantity over quality?] Thinking over it, he took out a hundred cores from the Space ring. [Well let''s try or else I would need to wait until I hit puberty to have wide merdians with the ''Dwarf into Giant'', if it doesn''t work at worst i will get a vital injury and the hundred cores will get destroyed.] The cores all flew into his abdomen while the Blood Qi flowed from his twenty merdians into his body and then gathered near his abdomen too. Zhu Tufu slowly gathered the cores in the middle as much as possible and slowly but steadily manipulated his Blood Qi to push them together. [And here comes the pain fu*king bullsh*t!] He cursed inside his heart and then slowly felt the pain intensify by two times and then four times and then more and more as the cores slowly shrank into a baseball sized core. His teeth were already clenched together from the pain. [Now i need to spin the baseball sized core really fast while shrinking it. How can this pain possibly beat the pain I felt in my 214 years of my past life?!] The baseball sized core slowly started to spin while also slowly turning into a tennis ball size and then getting smaller and smaller.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ..... After some hard dedication, the spinning core which was as small as a golf ball started spinning wildly and after some seconds later there was no longer a core, but an almost see through vortex. [Finally, it seems I was successful! How lucky or a hour more and I would have fainted from the pain.] Thinking this Zhu Tufu opened his eyes and his body slowly shrank back into his original size. He looked out of the window only to see that the sun was almost in the middle of the sky. [It seems I cultivated the whole night and morning. No wonder my stomach is starving. I should take a bath and then eat lunch.] Thinking this Zhu Tufu stood up and noticed that he no longer had clothes on. When he looked at his bed, he noticed pieces of his black clothes. [I probably ripped it apart as I was growing.] No longer thinking about it he walked into the shower, washed himself and went into the kitchen to see food on the table and a note beside it saying. "I didn''t want interrupt you while you were cultivating so make your lunch ahead of time. I went out for some business and will come home after two days so don''t worry, if you are hungry ask the guards to take you to some restaurants to eat. Money is with the guards so don''t worry about it and remember don''t be too late outside. Love grandma." Reading the text Zhu Tufu felt worried about his grandma. [Again with this feeling of kinship, I still can''t control what the body instinctively feels. If I had gained this bodies memories then I would express them too. But i didn''t, actually it''s kind of weird that I didn''t.] [I heard that the Buddhists always reincarnated into a fetus and when they grow older they have a chance to remember their past life, but some of them don''t even know what reincarnation or Buddhism even is. But I reincarnated into a six year old boy with my memories unlike the Buddhists which have a chance to remember them? How weird. What could cause such a thing as reincarnation?] Thinking about it he suddenly remembered the distant past when he was adventuring with his Master, Junior sister and...him... ..... There were four people riding on horses in a plain land. "Master where are we going this time? Are we going to the next city to help more people?" Asked an innocent and sweet voice. It was a cute looking young girl. She looked like the little girl in the neighborhood who everyone liked and found adorable. Her height was around five feet four inches(2). (2): 64.2 inches or 163 centimeters "We are going to a village. It is said that people are mysteriously disappearing and the only thing they leave behind is there clothes and belongings which they had on." Answered a man strictly. He looked like a middle aged man with long brown hair. His eyes shone with wisdom and knowledge. The girl shrieked and a well build average looking young man with black hair riding next to her teased: "Master don''t scare our little Yani she is still too young for horror stories. Hahaha." Yani pouted and said angrily: "Hmpf you are scared of horror stories. I was just surprised that''s all. And just to let you know, next year I am going to be 19 years old." The young man teased again: "Haha with these small breasts you have, you look like a 16-17 year old girl." Yani embarrassed and angrily got closer to him with the horse and was hitting him with her right hand while riding the horse with her left hand saying: "Pervert! Pervert! Pervert! How dare you say that my breasts are small and how dare you look at them!" The young man jokingly replied: "It''s not like I had something to look at hah-aw aw-w Ok, Ok I apologize. I don''t dare. I don''t dare anymore okay? Just please stop hitting me anymore Hahahahaha..." Another young man with a kind smile on his face interjected and said: "Ok you two stop playing around. Junior brother Fu you should stop always teasing Junior sister Yani or else she will no longer like you." Yani''s face turned bright red and stopped hitting Fu and said embarrassed: "Senior brother how could you say something like this. Who would like a guy who is lazy and so perverted as him hmpf." Fu blushed too and stopped teasing Yani. After some seconds of awkward silence. The man with brown hair said: "We are almost there. When we arrive we will split up. I will go with Zao Leilei to find some clues while you two love birds go and ask the people living there for details." Fu blushed again whileYani''s face which was returning normal turned bright red again and said: "Master not you too?!" The man with brown hair and Zao Leilei both laughed and went on. Chapter 11: Death of Elder Zhu Wang After some minutes of traveling, they saw in the distance a tall wooden wall and a gate. In front of the gate were four guards who were guarding the entrance. When they arrived in front of the gate they saw a young guard came up to them and politely asked: "Welcome to Carefree Village. How can I help you Sir?" The man with long brown hair answered: "We came to this village hearing that people are mysteriously disappearing and are here to help you solve the problem." When the young guard heard that, he became overjoyed and quickly said: "Thank you, thank you. Quickly come in, I let you meet the Village Head and you can discuss further." ..... But while Zhu Tufu was remembering the distant past, a knock on the door brought him back into the present. After that Zhu Tufu heard someone saying: "I am sorry to interrupt you Young master, but a Law Enforcement Elder is here to ask Young master some questions about Elder Zhu Wang." [Zhu Wang? It''s probably the Elder who was blocking my way. What a nice surprise. Is he already dead?] While Zhu Tufu was thinking this, he had a sinister smile on his face before hiding it and opening the door to see a man in his forties. The man looked at Zhu Tufu for a moment and kindly said: "Hi, I am the Law Enforcement Elder Zhu Wo. I am only here to ask you some questions about Elder Zhu Wang who you met yesterday at the Technique Temple." After hearing that Zhu Tufu led him into the living room, where the Law Enforcement Elder Zhu Wo and Zhu Tufu both sat down and Law Enforcement Elder Zhu Wo started strictly saying. "As I said before I am here to question you about Elder Zhu Wang who you met at the Technique Temple yesterday." Zhu Tufu said innocently with a fake confused face: "Sure, but why are you asking about him? Did something happen?" The Law Enforcement Elder Zhu Wo hesitated for a moment before making up his mind and said: "It won''t be a secret very long anyway so I just tell you. We found him dead in his bedroom with his wife. Of course if they died by poison or assassination then we would never come here to interrupt you or Grand Elder Zhu Li, but the weird thing is they died without bones inside of them. We also found some unmoving tiny dots in their bed and later found out that they were some kind of bug we never seen before. We concluded that they were probably the cause of Elder Zhu Wang''s and his wife''s death. Luckily they were already dead or else we could have got infected too. But we still quarantined the whole building just for safety and are waiting further instructions from the Patriarch."The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. When Zhu Tufu heard that he thought [It seems as soon as the bugs ate all the bones in that Elder Zhu Wo''s body, they went to the nearest bones, which was his wife.] As for the quarantine, Zhu Tufu didn''t pay much attention to it. The Bone Eating bugs will die in one hour if it doesn''t eat any bones. So it''s almost impossible that some of them survived. After this Law Enforcement Elder Zhu Wo started questioning Zhu Tufu. "So I got a report saying you and Elder Zhu Wang were chatting before you went inside the Technique Temple that day. Is that true?" "Yes, Elder Zhu Wang didn''t want to let me inside the Technique Temple and ended up arguing. After some time he let me inside." The Law Enforcement Elder Zhu Wo said surprised "Really?" Inside he thought [He always supported, that Duan Fa would be the next Patriarch while Grand Elder Zhu Li was against it. But to think he would even cause trouble to a six year old boy. How petty can you be?] "Did you have any other encounters with him?" "No" "What... ..... After two hours of questioning, the Law Enforcement Elder said goodbye and left. Zhu Tufu was tired of the questioning and went into the bathroom to splash cold water on his face and then went into his bedroom to take out the rest of the cores inside the Space ring and put them beside him. Zhu Tufu sat down on his bed, closed his eyes and started slowly absorbing them with the help of his Void Center. The vortex inside of him absorbed one core after another. Absorbing all the Impure or harmful Qi from the cores while nurturing the body with Pure Qi. ..... After one hour all the cores were absorbed and Zhu Tufu opened his eyes filled with satisfaction and mumbled to himself. "With this I am already at the second level(1) of Body Stage(2). And I don''t even need to care about my foundation being shaken(3) thanks to the Pure Qi. (1): After the Core Stage every other Stage will have nine levels. The first, second and third level are called low level. the fourth, fifth and sixth levels are called mid level and the seventh, eighth and ninth level are called high level. (2): After Core Stage is Body Stage where it nurtures your body to have the minimum requirement to be able to become a Cultivator meaning you can strengthen your body in the future with a specific Body Strengthening Technique. (3): Normally if you absorb so much Qi without strengthening the foundation, you might shake your foundation. The best case you just suffer an internal injury that''s going to make you weaker than a person without a shaken foundation in the same Stage or the worse case, death. The only exception is if you only absorb Pure Qi which is hard to find, because even the World Qi has Impure Qi and you need to precious herbs that can be eaten or refine a Pill with no impurities to absorb Pure Qi. Than you could cultivate as much as you want without caring about your foundation. After cultivating Zhu Tufu took the buckets of Demon beast blood which were still in his room into the Space ring and went outside the house into his backyard and took out the buckets and started reading about the low grade Heaven rank, long range Agility Battle technique ''Bloody Wings''.