21 Poor skills

"Umm, Elder which sect do we belong to?" Rudra asked with a beaming smile, gazing to the side of the Elder, confirming his suspicions of the Elder being a woman.

The first thing that his eyes caught was her wavy deep blue hair that reminded him of the deep ocean. Her skin was fair, and her eyes were round with arching eyebrows.

The next thing that attracted his attention was a blue colored trident mark between her brows.

'A trident mark?', he thought to himself.

"We are part of Spirit River Sect." the lady spoke with a monotonous voice.

Rudra recollected information about 'Spirit River Sect' it was a mortal grade sect that was under the umbrella of much larger Heaven grade 'Spirit Ocean Sect.'

'A water elemental sect, I'm fucked.' Rudra felt like crying.

'I don't even have a water-based qi how am I even going to cultivate any of their Manuals.'

The sect selected Qi condensation cultivator based on their elemental affinity.

Take Spirit River Sect, for example, it would only accept disciples, who can absorb Water-based QI from the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth.

....

Rudra was racking his brains and discussing with Rishi and Yali, on how to get out of this predicament.

'Why don't I just try to absorb some Water Qi?'

DING, an idea emerged in the head of Rudra.

"Body Refinement, we have never refined this new body."

[I like what you are thinking kid.] Yali roared in excitement as if he was agreeing with the idea of Rudra refining the new body.

Rudra felt his feet touch the ground while three of them were holding a debate.

The blue-robed Elder turned him, "What was your name again?"

"Rudra."

"We have traveled a quarter of our journey we will rest here for some time."

Rudra seemed to guess that the elder must have run out of her Qi as it was very consuming for Core Formation Stage Cultivators to fly, unlike the Nascent Soul Cultivators who can naturally float their body in the air without using much of their Qi.

She gracefully moved her hand in a circular motion and a clearing was created in the thinking of the forest. She took out a tent from out of nowhere and entered inside.

Rudra guessed she must be carrying a spatial ring on her. As he was not invited inside he thought it would be better to stand guard outside, he sat cross-legged and started to cultivate his Verdant Earth Qi.

After about 5 hours later the Elder walked out of her tent and with a flip of a hand stored it inside her aquamarine spatial ring. She walked up to him and unceremoniously grabbed him by his collar and flew off.

After some time they flew out of the forest and reached the coast of an ocean. The Elder took a Blue Colored Boat out of her ring and threw it into the ocean.

Rudra and the Elder then traveled by boat along the coast of the ocean.

"Elder, how may I address you?" Rudra initiated a conversation with her one day after seeing her sitting equity and not cultivating.

"You can call me Elder sister." blue-robed elder smiled cheekily as if she had pulled a great prank on him.

While Rudra cursed her in his mind, thinking she was some old grandma having reached Gold Core Stage but trying to present herself....., he associated her with one of those 'Don't call me Aunty I'm not that old, Women.'

He spent the next few days bootlicking his new Elder Sister much to the amusement of Yali who would tease him after each bootlicking session.

But because he had no prior bootlicking experiences he just messed up a lot of time, leaving the opposite of the desired effect on the Elder.

One time the Elder got so pissed she threw him out of the boat, which he was barely able to get back on.

"What do you want from me?" Kai asked angrily.

Kai was an elder of the Spirit River Sect this was her last mission before she was accepted as a core disciple into Spirit Ocean Sect.

Being able to reach Core formation at such a young age has caused her popularity to soar in her sect, she had been even awarded the position of Spirit River Sect which was just an honorary title, she would be moving to Spirit Ocean sect after the recruitment event was over.

She knew that this event was organized by the 7th prince of the great sun empire; the elders of her sect had given her this customary mission to complete before she finally left for her time in Spirit Ocean Sect.

Every one of the sect elders was there because of the underhand benefits provided by the 7th prince.

She too was forced unwilling to judge such an event she was the only one that had not taken in any disciple, so when the last participant was barely passable on her standards and had an affinity for the water element, she decided to just accept one disciple to not seem conceited in front of the group of elders who all had admitted some disciples except for her.

The journey started smoothly everything was going well for her till the day that bastard started his horrible bootlicking which made her want to drown him in the ocean.

Rudra who was lamenting not putting some skill points in his bootlicking skills was alarmed at the sudden question and replied honestly,

"I want a Water Body refining technique and a Water Qi Condensing Technique."

"Why do you need those don't you already have the cultivation of middle stage Qi condensation" Kai glared at him.

"I do but I practice Earth Qi, not Water Qi," Rudra muttered in a low voice.

"What...."