I found myself in a world of cultivation with only tow abilities and one was temporarily useless. I had a magical mushroom that was red in color that would allow me to double my size and strength until I was killed in that form. In a way it gave me a chance in any fight with two lives. My second power was a system that had given me this power as a starter gift from the "Mario" world. Frankly I felt like yelling a bit but I held back. The mushroom after all was useful. Especially considering it didn't slow my speed down at all unlike other growing in size powers.
So here I was laying on the ground as the newest punching bag of a sect. They considered me the most useful punching bag that has been alive in a few hundred years at least. I think their even starting to warm up to me, or that could be the flames that they shoot out using their Qi daily. Truthfully life sucked right now. I only could look forward to tomorrow which marked a year since I have entered this world. The system promised to give me a random beginner level ability or skill as a gift for my "birthday in this world."
Looking at my system I remembered it actually had one more good power, but all systems had this power about it so I simply hadn't thought to mention it. It had a inventory that I could store items I get in. Looking at a pile of about 300 mushrooms I felt a bit safe. Considering the amount of mushrooms, I knew I had roughly that many lives, plus, I found out that each mushroom fully filled me up. Remembering the first time someone asked to eat one of my mushrooms I remember telling him that they were poisonous to anyone else. It was a lie of course, but thankfully he decided not to touch it. The person seemed heavily jealous of my bloodline ability to create them.
Getting up from the ground I made my way over to the punching bag house filled with people in the same position as me. Walking into the kitchen area of the building I started looking around and grabbing my lunch. Seeing a few friendly waves here and their I made my way over to the brother I had made since I had come to this world. Teichni, how are you feeling man. Rubbing his bruises slightly as he shivered he looked at me jealous for having a second life for a second. "You know your power is a cheat, it gives you the ability to regenerate these minor bruises in just a couple of hours. I really am jealous of you. Thankfully for the rest of us we got Qi to help balance out against your powers though. Hopefully you'll feel it and unlock it soon, or you'll never get to go up in the sect."
Smiling a small smirk I looked at him with a cocky smirk. Unable to resist bragging I told him something I knew I would probably regret later. "He, he, well I am starting to feel something happening with my bloodline. I feel it's going to evolve in the next couple of days." In a world full of Qi filled people everyone in the room heard it instantly creating a sensation. A random guy in the back ground couldn't resist asking "What do you think he will gain next." The person next to him guessed with a small smirk, "a bigger mushroom."
Obviously these two weren't ones who liked the mushroom power based kid. Still even though they disliked him, the hatred between them and the kid wasn't at some point that would cause a fight. It was simply a general dislike of them. After all not every person who dislikes another will fight it out with them. (I'm setting all the author's including myself who have done such a thing currently on fire. It's a beautiful bonfire.)
Leaving the lunchroom I made my way outside to the back of the building and kept trying to cultivate using the method that had been given to me. The method was called Mountain Thick Skin, and it would increase the durability of my skin making me even stronger. The skin under this method could eventually house Qi throughout it like a battery and allow me to instantly use it all across my body, even if it could never fully be gathered together into one spot using the method. Still no matter what I did nothing changed. Getting up after a couple of hours I started punching over and over again at one of the trees around the building that had been reinforced with special enchantments to make them soften our blows both so we don't hurt our fist, and so the tree could withstand all punches below the level of greater human.
Thinking of the realms I suddenly had an urge to repeat them. Giving in to it I repeated them one by one in order of weakest to the strongest.
Body Strengthening
Body Tempering
Spirit Strengthening
Spirit Tempering
Body/ Spirit Combining
Greater Human
Saint
Divine
Omnipotent
One Realm after the next was split into 9 parts. Following that thought process it meant this life was a game with 81 levels.
Laughing off the weird thoughts I got back full focus into punching the tree. After it reached around what would have been 8 o clock in my old world I went back to my post to once more be beaten. Once I arrived their though something new was happening, and truthfully it worried me. They had started using us to test some gears and weapons, and knowing my power I just knew they would be using me.