Looking into it very interested he found out pretty soon that everyone had gotten the Basic Blood Circulation technique.
Seeing another post he clicked on it as they talked about the cultivation stages of the Blood Qi realm.
"Hello everyone, I have managed to enter the second stage of Blood Qi but after coming back and trying to cultivate using the Basic Blood Circulation technique my progress has only slowed down. I don't even know when I will be able to advance to the next stage at this rate, can somebody help me?"
"I hear you brother, although I haven't entered the second stage, whenever I use our cultivation technique I can't help but feel that it will take me at least a month to advance to the next stage. Fortunately I have discovered a way to advance faster!"
"What?! Please tell us big brother."
"You don't have to call me that way, after all we all have the opportunity to advance faster, you just have to use the blood tempering pills you have gotten as a reward. I have already seen many posts and it seems that it's the most basic reward so everyone should have at least a few of them."
Seeing this Ling Xu understood that the vast majority of the citizens of China haven't been able to progress much without the experience they got from killing the beasts.
It all came to how far they had comprehended the Basic Blood Circulation technique as he had already felt the differences between each level of mastery. Every time he crossed into the next level he had gotten more than twice as fast as before when it comes to refining his muscles and progressing on his cultivation stage.
"I don't know why I got this Existence technique but I will make sure I use it to the best of my abilities."
He remembered that he had barely taken less than half an hour for him to advance from the second stage to the third and then enter the peak where his muscles transformed and purified his blood qi. If someone knew about it they would die from the shock.
"Why has nobody mentioned the countdown on the doors? I understand if no one had seen the one on the first floor but what about the one on the second floor, is it possible that once you loose the chance on the first floor you won't have another one on the next floor?" Ling Xu remembered that when he entered the second floor, he could see immediately the countdown on the door in front of him.
He didn't know if they had lost their chance to have a bonus reward from breaking the countdown or if they just were deprived of that information but still could get it if done on time.
Either way it seems those few who knew about this didn't have the intention of sharing any information.
...
After a while of reading several posts, Ling Xu felt curious about the bottle he got as a reward as he had learned from the website that the blood tempering pills they contained inside where helpful for refining the body.
He took the bottle of pills out of his space ring and took the cap out as he smelled a strong scent of blood.
"My whole body is stimulated just by the smell from these pills, I wonder what their effect will be like."
He took one pill out of the bottle and swallowed it whole.
Sitting in the lotus position, Ling Xu followed the Basic Blood Circulation technique refining his muscles very fast.
A few seconds passed and the blood tempering pill started to take effect as he felt his blood circulating at an astonishing speed while the rest of the medicinal effect from the pill helped in refining his muscles.
Not even a minute passed and Ling Xu suddenly felt that he was about to break through into the fourth stage. He remained calm and continued circulating his blood qi, rapidly refining every muscle in his body.
The breakthrough came and Ling Xu observed the process of his blood qi being absorbed by his muscles as they strengthened every breath.
Even though Ling Xu had felt that the channel that opened between his eyes had completely closed after he broke through to the peak of the third stage, and the stream of energy that helped in recovering his blood qi was now gone, he had no problem.
Entering into the third stage of Blood Qi and then reaching its peak while having the blood exchange as his blood qi became purer, Ling Xu had more than enough blood qi to complete the breakthrough without external help.
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After a few minutes, Ling Xu stopped his circulation of his blood qi as the medicinal effect from the pill had been completely used.
[Name]: Ling Xu
[Realm]: 4th stage of Blood Qi (10%)
[Cultivation]: Basic Blood Circulation (great success 2%), Existence Shadow Will (4,87%)
[Skills]: Enhanced Synapsis (high grade), Swift Steps (middle grade), Copper Skin Iron Bones (middle grade)
After breaking into the fourth stage, Ling Xu continued until he had used the effect from the pill. With its help he progressed another ten percent even though he only refined his body for another two minutes.
Taking into the account the speed at which the rest of the world was progressing on their realm right now, Ling Xu was too overbearing as he had only used one pill and his realm had already reached between two and three stages higher than others.
"It seems the only way I can increase my comprehension of the Basic Blood Circulation technique and completely master it is by slowly understanding it or entering the state of clarity once again. But I don't know how to open the channel between my eyes once again."
If the rest of the world knew about Ling Xu's worry about his "slow" progress in mastering his cultivation technique they would feel as if they had been slapped on the face.
"I should forget about that for now, next let's keep the rest of the pills in the storage ring. Although they help in increasing the speed of refining, with my current mastery of my cultivation technique being at great success I don't need them as I am already progressing extremely fast compared to others. Maybe I can use the pills to exchange for something valuable later."
Ling Xu knew that his progress was already at the top of the world as he didn't have to ask to know the value of his Existence cultivation technique, which somehow allowed for him to enter a state where his comprehension improved making his mind flow naturally.
And he also knew that the value that this pill would bring was limited as once he ingested it he was able to feel its purity, which was almost as high as his before breaking into the fourth stage of blood qi.
Once his realm advanced, its help would greatly lower as its quality would have less effect against the increase in blood qi. Even now, if Ling Xu used all the blood tempering pills, he would probably advance to the fifth stage. But with his current speed of refining, it would only take him less than an hour to do so all on his own.
"At least I got rewarded with medium quality pills as the vast majority have only gotten low quality ones." If he had actually gotten low quality pills too, its help would almost amount to nothing as he read in the posts the help they provided to lower stages of cultivation. So if they had to be consumed by someone like him who was in the fourth stage, he would be lucky if they at least helped him increase one percent.
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A few hours went by and Ling Xu woke up after sleeping for a few hours as his mind and body wasn't nearly enough to being recovered from his exhaustion from the tutorial. Even then, Ling Xu hadn't almost slept at all last night as he had been studying preparing for college as he had a very important test in less than a month.
But now it all seemed to not really matter after Ling Xu exited the tutorial mission. It was as if he had taken a big load off his body. After all, the direction at which Earth was going to go next would be one of cultivation where only strength mattered.
"What time is it?" He woke up as he remembered that he had agreed to meet with Lu Xie.
"I steel have two hours left, why don't I take a slow walk and enjoy my time outside." He thought confidently as if nothing was going on right now. While half of the world was currently hiding in their homes or returning in a hurry, feeling insecure about their safety.
Ling Xu wasn't the only one that had fought another human being, it was natural for those that experienced it or even had to kill someone to feel unsafe.
He changed his clothes and went to the restaurant taking the longest path that also happened to have the best view.
While he took some detours and was having fun walking outside, those few who were returning home or looking out of the window looked baffled at Ling Xu's attitude as if nothing mattered. They only saw a crazy child not facing reality.
Those weren't the only people that observed him as Ling Xu discovered a presence following him from a fair distance.
If it wasn't for his Enhanced Synapsis he wouldn't have noticed it as he heard the same footsteps following him for a long time.
Although he enjoyed his walk to the restaurant that didn't mean that he would be as carless as to think that he was invincible. Having entered the tutorial mission didn't change the fact that guns existed, Ling Xu was still far from able to resist a bullet with his body.
Before he decided to take action and see who this pursuer was, Ling Xu had arrived at his destination as he observed two bodyguards in the entrance of the restaurant.
At the same time, he could hear the footsteps that were following him slowly disappear.
"I never expected Lu Xie to have his own bodyguards, I knew that his family was wealthy but I didn't know that it was this much." He said in shock as he felt the aura from the bodyguards and realized that they both were in the second stage of Blood Qi.