Chapter 4: Work for me
After telling Talion what he knew about the realms of refinement, Shi Feng went silent as he waited for the former to talk.
Talion hummed as he thought about something then asked. "When will the game be released?"
"Monday next week, 26th of April."
"Good, We still have time."
"Sir? What do you mean we still have time?"
"Work for me. I will let you reach heights that even Domain Realm is considered an Ant."
"Reaching heights that consider Domain realm as ants." Shi Feng mumbled these words repeatedly as he considered Talion's words because it sounded unbelievable but when he thought about the young man appearing moments after he reincarnated.
After a while contemplating, Shi Feng finally said. "It is my honor to work for you, Esteemed Sir."
"Good choice. Had you rejected my offer." Talion stopped talking after saying his last sentence but Shi Feng could see the grim reaper within Talion's expressionless eyes.
When Shi Feng noticed the certain figure in the man's eyes, he inwardly let out a sigh of relief. Talion told him some good news "Since you have worked for me. Let me bestow you a gift, I will leave a part of my spiritual energy that will open your meridians."
"I have two methods to open your meridians. The first method is forcefully opening all your meridians, This would cause unimaginable pain over the next 18-36 hours if you manage to stay conscious but after that, you will feel soreness and tiredness of the body for at most 6 to 7 hours but after the soreness disappears you can feel the tremendous increase in your physical prowess. I would recommend this if you cannot resist the urge to seek revenge and beat the shit out of that person.
"The second method is to slowly open your meridians, This still is painful but not as painful as the first method but you would need to bear the pain for at least 4 days and at most a week, however, you would slowly grow stronger as time passed while not feeling sore and most importantly it will slowly strengthen your flesh and bones as the spiritual energy moves through your body. I would recommend this method, it will surely help you during your training."
"What is the difference between their pain meter?"
Talion grinned as he said. "The first method feels like amputating a limb without anesthesia and you can feel this in every part of your body. The second method is like the pain after major surgery but you can only feel this on the part where the spiritual energy is present."
Shi Feng thought himself picking the first method and lying down on the bed like a paralyzed person this sent chills down his spine. "I'll pick the second method." Talion raised his hand as he opened his palm and a sky blue ball of energy floated toward him. "As there are 1575 collateral meridians, It will open a meridian after opening 75 of the collateral ones, It will first actively seek and open the minor meridians before moving on to the major meridians. Put the ball on a certain part of the body where you want to open first.
After saying what he wanted to say, Talion walked toward the balcony and disappeared like the wind the moment he stepped out. Minutes later he had arrived back at the Mansion, entered the bathroom before dispelling the invisibility spell and exited the bathroom.
He entered the living room once more and sat down as he asked a question to Xuanyuan Ren. "Old Ren, Have you heard of the realms of refinement?"
"The realms of retirement? Of course, Even Old Zhen here is at the Void Realm"
"Woah! Can I spar with Old Zhen?" Talion acted as if he was shocked and said with a thought of probing the prowess of a void realm expert since Shi Feng's explanation was kind of vague and the best thing to do is to fight against one.
"Old Zhen, you won't mind right?" Old Ren asked Old Zhen and the latter replied. "No won't mind and in fact, I too would like to see Young Master Talion's prowess."
The moment that Old Zhen accepted his challenge, Talion suppressed his strength to the strength of a normal human being.
Both of them went outside the Mansion and went to the courtyard as they positioned themselves. As soon as they arrived at their location they immediately went into their battle stance.
Old Zhen took the initiative and rushed toward Talion while gathering momentum in his right hand before punching out toward his chest but Talion leaned to the side and too punched out forcing the old man to block that attack.
Suddenly Old Zhen counteracted with a flurry of punches and kicks but Talion kept dodging every attack that Old Zhen made, this continued until Old Zhen showed an opening where Talion immediately changed from the defending into the attacking. Both of them were at a stalemate until Old Zhen found the chance to counter-attack with a knee strike to the diaphragm.
Talion noticed the incoming knee and slammed his elbow to block the incoming attack and before the knee and the elbow touched, Old Zhen retracted the leg and instead kicked at the opposite side.
This caused Talion to defend against the attack using his forearm but it had also given him a chance to do the finishing blow.
After blocking the attack he immediately grabs a hold of the leg as he kicked the other leg causing the old man to fall, Talion immediately mounted the old man as he raised his fist as well as slightly increasing his strength and punch the ground beside the head of Old Zhen causing the ground to crack.
Old Zhen tapped the ground the moment he was mounted and pinned to the ground but he did not expect the ground beside his head to crack when Talion punched it.
"Such strength. If he didn't hold back against me, I'm afraid that my bones would turn into powder." Old Zhen thought after he saw the crack beside his head before saying. "Old Zhen thanks young master Talion for being lenient in his attacks."
"To beat Old Zhen at such a young age, you have also reached Void Realm. The young surely replaces the old." Old Ren sighed upon seeing the prowess of Talion.
Taliom stood up after seeing that the opposite party had already surrendered and helped Old Zhen stood up. They went back inside the Mansion and sat down while servants brought them towel and water all of them was silent before Talion broke the silence and asked a question.
"Old Ren, Have you heard of the VRMMORPG God's Domain that is coming out next week?"
"Ah, Yes. I have heard of the game, Many companies are planning to invest in some guilds financially I too would like to invest but there isn't a guild good enough to meet my expectations."
This caused Talion to grin as he proposed something to Old Ren. "How about you create your own guild, you will have full control over the guild and if you want I can help you train a number of your people in exchange for something."
"What is it that you seek?"
"I will make a guild so If possible I would like to have many Gaming Cabins," Talion said as he continued. "I'll train a person to the Void Realm for 25 Gaming each person, the Flowing Water Realm for 5 Gaming Cabins each person and to the Refinement Realm for 500 thousand credits. Of course this would include their bodily prowess as the body of a normal person could not sustain such use of senses."
"What?! You can train people to the realms of refinement!? Even training a person to the refinement realm needs enormous amounts of nutrients, how much more the higher realms." Xuanyuan Ren said in shock as he couldn't believe the words of Talion but Old Zhen suddenly said.
"Master, I presume that he has already reached the Domain Realm at the very least. If it weren't for the fact that he had held back against me, I would have died for sure."
"Ahem, My bad. So what if you can train Old Zhen to the Realm that you are currently in?"
"That would be impossible but I can still train Old Zhen to the realm above the Domain Realm. I can also train another person to the Domain Realm for a Building that could be my dojo in this city and if you want more Domain Realm, I would need some S-Rank Nutrient Fluid. 200 S-Rank Nutrient Fluid per Domain Realm expert trained. "
Old Ren was silent for a while before saying. "I would like you to train 16 Domain Realm experts, 64 Void Realm experts, 256 Flowing Water Realm experts and 1024 Refinement Realm experts. This should be a good foundation for the Guild."
Talion thought. "This is more than enough for a foundation a guild. This is practically overkill." before saying. "Are you sure Old Ren?" In which the Old man nodded and Talion said. "My dojo may be big but it cannot contain a thousand people, I would first train the Domain Realm experts so pick the most experienced people."
After this, they shake hands as a friendly gesture and a bond of trust, He also asked for their contact number because he didn't have a phone right now.
They started to talk about martial arts which Talion happily taught them some important factors about martial arts, sometime during their talk Gu Heng had returned together with a bank card in which he gave it to Talion and told him the card number and the password, they continued to talk for a while before Talion excused himself as he went outside the mansion.
He went to an ATM and withdrew 10k credits before riding a taxi toward a mall, he asked the taxi to wait for a while because he needs to buy some necessities like clothing because his current clothing is still his battle robes and he just used a mirage spell to let it look like the current fashion.
After a while, he went out of the mall holding 3 bags containing 5 types of clothing and a black bag containing 10 A-class nutrient fluid, there was also a small bag that contains his newly bought phone, the Samsung S12. He entered the taxi and told him to go to the Serenity Hotel, on the way to Serenity hotel he created a contact and put the number of Xuanyuan Ren then saved it, he thought about the Domain Realm experts on how strong they were compared to Void realm experts. He needed to know how strong they are before training someone to the same level in case he would go beyond and instead created a monster.
He called Xuanyuan Ren and after a while, the phones were connected, Talion asked. "Old Ren, I've got a question. Are there Domain Realm experts in the city or a city nearby."
Old Ren was silent for a while before someone's voice nearby was heard talking to him and he said. "There should be a Domain Realm expert here in the city. If I'm not wrong, it should be the Old master of the Tian Family, Duan Tian." Talion gave his thanks and ended the call.
They had arrived at Serenity hotel and Talion went outside the taxi as he paid the driver then went inside the hotel. Two beautiful employees greeted him as he entered the hotel, he then walked over to the receptionist and showed a black card in which the receptionist bowed down and said. "Young Master, please wait for a while, I will call the manager."
After a while, a beautiful woman with blond hair walked out of the elevator, the woman smiled and walked toward him when she saw Talion as she bowed down and introduced herself. "I am called Anna Lourde, you must be young master Talion? I was told that you will go here, please follow me to your room."
People were shocked at how polite Anna was to the young man, they took pictures of Talion and Anna and send it to their friends and social media. Normally she would carry a cold expression on her beautiful face, this would act as a detrimental force that makes people afraid to go talk to her.
"The Ice-cold manager is smiling at him. Just who is that young man"
"Woah! The manager is very polite the man. That man must be a VIP but how come I do not recognize his face?"
"He must be a low-key figure on the higher circle."
Talion sighed as he wanted to be low-key before the game will be released but he looked at the crowd as he smiled and acted as if he did not mind but Anna did not even look at the crowd and instead walked to the elevator and Talion followed.
A while after they entered the elevator, she curiously asked a question. "To own a Diamond Vip card at your age, you must be a good friend of the owner." Talion smiled. "Ah yes, Xuanyuan Ren is a good friend of mine." Their talks continued until the elevator stopped at the top floor and after that, she kept thinking about him. Anna walked to a door at the end of the corridor and opened the door, revealing an extremely luxurious room.
"Welcome to the Presidential Suite of Serenity Hotel. The suite has 4 rooms, a Living Room, a Bedroom, an outdoor swimming pool, and a Garden." Anna said as she guided him to the rooms.
The rooms were fully furnished and each of the furniture lets out the essence of that room. Especially the Garden, it has many types of plants including exotic and rare plants it really is a great place to stay and look at the amazing scenery of the city below, the garden is certainly an oasis amidst the bustling city.
10 minutes later, she finished her mini-tour of the presidential suite, she excused herself and before exiting the room she secretly left a note on the bedroom. Of course, this didn't go unnoticed by Talion, he chuckled at what she did.
He called the reception and asked her to bring a mat to his room. A few moments later, there was a knock on the door, Talion opened the door and an employee was carrying many different types of mats but he randomly picked a mat as he thanked the employee.
He carried the mat and went to the garden as he placed it on the ground, he went to get the A-class nutrients fluid that he recently bought and drank it. He noticed that the Nutrient Fluid is more or less equal to 1/64 of a Body Strengthening pill and that there was something that the Body Strengthening pill didn't have, you can drink as many as you want without a decrease in potency unlike the Body Strengthening pill that decreases potency with each use.
He went to the mat as he sat cross-legged as he meditated hoping to increase his Cultivation rank to stage 1. Time passed as night time arrived and A floating female figure flew toward the garden when she saw the young man meditating.
But when she arrived at the Garden, she felt an unimaginable pressure coming from the young man. She sat down as she knew her master was meditating, a few moments later the pressure had disappeared and the young man opened his eyes.
"Perfect, I have achieved stage 1." The young man murmured and a female voice was heard talking to him. "Master, I have already found the perfect place. It is below a cliff and deep inside a cave, there is a spring inside gushing out water that contains spiritual energy." He turned around and saw an extremely beautiful woman sitting down
"A spring gushing out water and deep inside a cliff? This should be a Spirit Pool." Talion thought as asked her. "Is the cave hidden?" She nodded "The cave had a large opening enough to fit 4 people but I have already covered the cave with some limestones and rocks. I left a tracking mark on it so we can immediately head there."
Talion gave her a thumbs up and told her. "I have no more worries, let's go eat dinner."
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