Chapter 36 Mishap

Chapter 36

Two days later…

After Shin Jiao helped the Zok clan, he gained the favor of the clan. So he now stays in the Zok clan as an honored guest. Since he now has a lot of free time he decided to at last concoct the fiery pill. The fiery orchid has now regained its luster and beauty after absorbing the rich natural energy in the mansion space.

"Okay, I can't wait to be able to wield my own soul fire. If I'm successful I will be able to concoct pills without using burners. He he."

Shin Jiao had a grin in his face as he prepares the materials and his cauldron.

It didn't take too long after he finished refining the fiery orchid and the materials. But then he suddenly felt something strange within his body. It's like a premonition of something bad. But this feeling was drowned by his excitement after he finished refining the materials.

It took him almost half a day before he finally finished concocting. After opening the cauldron's lid he can see three round translucent red pills the size of a thumb. The aroma of the pills wafted and pervaded the room.

"Ah, these are high-grade fiery pills. Nice, I guess my success rate is now improving by a lot."

Shin Jiao look at the pills and nods his head in satisfaction as he saw the grade of each of them.

"Okay…If I can remember correctly, Nushia told me that a single pill can improve my cultivation by a lot and also I will be able to use spiritual fire. Alright, here goes nothing…"

Shin Jiao suddenly pop a pill into his mouth.

It didn't take long for Shin Jiao to start feeling an extreme heat coming from his stomach towards his dantian area. So according to practice he started to absorb the heat. Shin Jiao struggled as the spiritual energy coming from the pill was too much, luckily his body was sturdy enough and was able to handle it. Then inside his dantian something strange is happening, a crystal starts to form near the spiritual energy orb.

After sometime Shin Jiao finished absorbing the fiery essence of the pill. And in his dantian he can see the red crystal floating, and to his surprise his spiritual energy become more abundant. He can feel a strong spiritual fluctuation which shows that he is now in the primary-level of spirit refining stage. Now judging from this, he can conclude that he was successful in absorbing the fiery pill.

He excitedly summon the spiritual flame in his hand. The flame is yellow like an ordinary flame coming from the burner he usually used. As he uses the spiritual flame he began to imagine the kinds of medicines he can make with it.

"He he. If my master, can see that I now have a spiritual flame I think she would be amazed by this. He he."

Shin Jiao laugh as he watched the flame dancing in his palm. The consumption of the spiritual flame is not that much. In his opinion he can concoct pills with it for seven days before he exhaust his spiritual energy. That is the advantage of having your own spiritual flame. Then his next goal would be to get a flame origin to enhance his spiritual flame further.

"Ha ha. Oh well, let me try combining this with crafting maybe it will give bonus effect. He he."

With that Shin Jiao took out a metal ore from his mansion space and crafted a dagger. Then he imbued his spiritual flame with the dagger. After a while a unique rune became visible at the dagger's blade.

"I knew it! Since this is not included in the basic crafting jade slips, maybe it is in the advance crafting slips. Ha ha."

After he finished crafting the dagger he tried to test it out.

When his spiritual energy enters the dagger, its blade begins to emit a bluish light. And heat can be clearly felt in its blade. This made Shin Jiao more excited, in his mind he already had a lot of weapons and trinkets to make.

"Whew, that made me lost three energy spheres. Well, it's worth it though. At least now I can have a lot more options this time."

He took out a level 3 demon beast core and began to absorb the natural energy inside it. Then all of a sudden Shin Jiao was dumbfounded. No matter how long or how hard he tried he could not fully absorb the energy inside the core. It will just flow to his dantian and a small portion of it will just go inside refill the sphere in his dantian. If his calculation is right it will take him 30 days just to absorb 1 level 3 demon core.

"What the… How did this happen?"

Shin Jiao began to panic.

So he observe carefully as he tried to absorb the demon sphere once again, and truly what he observed was right. His sphere take in just a miniscule amount of natural energy. Then an idea pops in his mind, he will try to absorb the natural energy in the surroundings.

Closing his eyes, since he haven't done it for a long time as he always get his natural energy from demon cores. But it didn't take too long for Shin Jiao to start feeling the energies all around him. But when he tries to absorb them, he was once again dumbstruck. The balance is now off, he could not grasp the rhythm.

Now for the first time Shin Jiao felt frustration swell within his heart. As he noticed the balance was disrupted by the fluctuating amount of fire energy being absorb. If he could not find the pattern of the fluctuation he would not be able to absorb natural energies for the mean time.

Since it was hopeless he will just stop for now. Although he gained a lot but the only regret he had was him being too impatient. If he had absorb the knowledge in the advance crafting skills he could have prevented this mishap. But it was already too late. He needs to have at least 50 spheres in his dantian so that he would be able to open the red jade slips. That would be 10 more spheres from what he have right now.

"Sigh… Oh well, I guess I have to make do with using my spiritual energy then. If I advance my cultivation to golden core, I could become stronger than what I am now. Hmmm… maybe this is blessing in disguise."

Shin Jiao said to himself trying to just at the mishaps in a positive way.

So the next day, he decided to approach the Zok clan leader.

He went out of his room into the courtyard. On his way he saw a young woman, although she had a cold bearing but her beautiful face is far too noticeable. Shin Jiao almost hit a post as he walks while gazing at her. Seemingly feeling his gaze, she suddenly turn her gaze towards him and frowns. Seeing her sparkling green eyes, Shin Jiao almost gasp in admiration.

This is Laxia Lee, she was talking with Albert Zok and the other youths. When Albert noticed Laxia Lee's reaction he followed her sight and saw Shin Jiao.

"Hey, brother Jiao! Come here!"

Albert Zok called out as he waved his hands toward Shin Jiao.

This garnered the attention of every youth in the area, which made Shin Jiao a little embarrassed as all of the gazed are on him.

"Hello, Good morning!"

Shin Jiao greeted politely at them as he walks closer.

"I would like you to meet the rest of the youth members of the clans."

Albert Zok introduced each of the youth in the area.

"So where are you going, Brother Jiao?"

"Oh, umn… I need to talk to your dad about something."

"Okay, well my dad will be here soon. You can just wait here for him then."

Albert Zok suggested.

"Brother Zok, I think that would not be appropriate. He is just a mere… spirit refining stage cultivator."

A burly youth interrupted Albert Zok, as he look at Shin Jiao and scanned his aura.

"Yeah, brother Zok. This meeting today is only for the core disciples and geniuses of the clans. Although he is close to you but we can't bypass the rules set by the Zok clan ancestor."

Another youth chimed in with a little contempt and mockery in his voice as he look at Shin Jiao.

In the young cultivator's hearts they despise Shin Jiao for riding on Albert Zok's friendship just to be able to enter the selection that's going to happen today. As they themselves prepared for it for a long time, they won't agree that a low level nobody would suddenly just pop out of nowhere.

This made Shin Jiao a little embarrassed. He just sent Albert Zok a signal that it's okay, and just smiled then turn around.

The group of youth are not just composed of the local clans in the town. There are also some of them coming from the other towns, and wanted to try their luck for the selection. If ever their name would be selected then they would gladly represent the town of Dis for the entrance qualification in the Xi academy.

On this particular group, a youth eyed Shin Jiao, but when he saw clearly Shin Jiao's face he was shocked and stupefied. Disbelief and worry can be seen all over his face.