"A minor matter, Young Master Clark.
It just so happens also that supplies from the sect just arrived. Elder Tan Hai has really worked wonders in ensuring that you get your allotted resources in a timely manner.
If you see him again, you should know what you should do. There are 1 million spirit stones inside and it would be enough for you to reach the 9th Stage of Mortal Shedding Realm."
Elder Chang Tu reminded and passed on a storage ring towards our bored gamer's way.
He realized that with how low the stock of spirit stones in the sect was because of the Sect Master's monopoly, getting this much was already very surprising.
"I know, Elder Chang Tu. The care and expectations of Elder Tan Hai won't be wasted on me. In fact, you just need to stand here and I will let my actions speak for myself."
Clark grinned widely as he palmed the interspatial ring on his hands.
"A big headed braggart. A crow mouth like you really doesn't know how to change his skin, Lu Chen. You're still the same lying fool that I knew so well in the past!"
There was of course one soul in the scene that was ever toxic towards our good gamer.
Though she was already defeated but that did not mean at all that she would just shut up and stand there in impotent disgrace.
Since Tang Xinyue still had breath left in her, she would speak her mind and no one could tell her otherwise.
"Hehehe. Much has changed from that time already, Xinyue. Why don't I take this opportunity to let you see fully how much I have changed from the person you know 80 years ago."
Instead of getting angry, our boy protagonist has laughed the insult off and motioned for his audience to make way.
The latter obliged and a breath later, he sat on a lotus position at the same spot where he stood last.
"What are you doing, Young Master Clark? If you want to cultivate, there are other many suitable places in the sect. I could take you in one myself. It's just nearby.
Please come with me." Elder Chang Tu had an awkward smile on his face and was in the process of turning around to lead our bored gamer away from making a fool of himself in here.
Cultivation was not that easy. It was almost always a messy and a stinky process.
"There is no need for that, Elder Chang Tu. I'm a man and a true man never goes back on his words!"
Clark announced to the world and before the Demonic Sword Sect's Outer Disciple Court Master could utter another word of reply, our bored gamer had already closed his eyes and began taking the initial steps of proper cultivation.
He steadied his breathing and thought of nothing of the world but only of his own inner consciousness.
When he had achieved that familiar sense of being one with nature, our bored gamer then scooped up a fistful of spirit stones from the storage ring on his hands.
After that, he did the unexpected!
"Young Master Clark!" It was Elder Chang Tu who called and he even rushed to stop what our bored gamer was about to do.
Alas, he was too slow to stop it and it was just too little too late for him to do otherwise. Not for the lack of trying though.
The old man wanted to shake Young Master Clark in order to force those spirit stones out and away from his mouth.
One should know that with that many spirit stones in one sitting, Young Master Clark would most likely explode from the extreme accumulation of spiritual energy inside his mouth.
This was why the normal way of taking these spirit stones was only one at a time and never in batches like what our good gamer just did.
"Stop, Elder Chang Tu."
A calm voice halted the old man's charge and before he could even take a second step towards the now cultivating teenager on the floors, Elder Chang Tu felt a huge spiritual pressure upon his body.
The weight was too much and too heavy for him to bear that this absolutely stopped what this concerned Head of the Outer Disciples Court wanted to do.
"Why did you stop me, Elder Feng Lin? Young Master's life may be at risk already. Please! You have to act now!"
Elder Chang Tu forced his words to a bare minimum as he did not want to disturb and distract our bored gamer on the ground who was currently refining the spirit stones inside his mouth.
"Young Master Clark's destiny is beyond our understanding, Elder Chang Tu. His fate has already been foretold by the heavens as we did see yesterday."
Feng Lin paused for a bit as he noticed the drastic changes that were happening inside the body of Young Master Clark.
His spiritual senses roamed over Clark's form and he did not utter a word for another breath or so.
"Our job as Elders is only to guide our disciples.
Should Young Master Clark die because of his actions then it will be better to die early than for us to waste our time raising a pig in a wolf's world."
Feng Ren added and said no more. All the people around him also did the same and so everyone focused on the immovable figure of our bored gamer in their midst.
A full minute passed by and it was at this time that a change would finally happen in the next beat of the clock.
'Hmmm... I think this much acting is enough already.' Clark mused inside and opened his eyes for the first time since he had closed them.
He looked around and saw the shocked faces of the masses around.
"Yum! That tasted good. Time for another batch of these sweet candies!" Our smiling protagonist declared and began taking mouthfuls of spirit stones one after another.
His hand would be brimming with these white pebble like treasures and would throw them all inside his mouth without care for any consequences whatsoever.
This repetitive action was done over and over again until our bored gamer had perhaps devoured at least twenty thousand spirit stones more or less.
'How could he take this much spiritual essence and not explode? And I had wished earlier that his head would detonate from that much power already!'
Tang Xinyue could not believe her eyes at all.
Cultivating like what Lu Chen was doing right now was totally unheard of because one spirit stone would usually take several minutes to refine depending on one's innate spiritual vein.
But Lu Chen has basically shattered this truth at the moment.
Tang Xinyue's clear beautiful eyes were already filled with disbelief but she was absolutely not prepared for what was about to happen next.
"BANG!" A blast of spiritual energy shrouded the scene as it announced a rebirth of sorts.
"CRACK!" The familiar sounds of bones shattering and reconstructing dawned in place until it ceased after 3 breaths of its start.
"Mortal Shedding Realm 5th Stage! Young Master Clark has gotten a breakthrough!" Elder Chang Tu was of course very fast to state the obvious.
The recent worries he experienced had all gone into smoke as he celebrated in what he could perceive from his eyes and spiritual sense.
Our bored gamer had no choice but to take his spot on the limelight. A cheeky smile hung on his face while he addressed the combined shock of the people around him.
"I know. I know. I'm really awesome. No need to look at me like I'm some kind of monster or something.
I have already known from the moment i was born that i would be the greatest cultivator to ever live. I should call myself the number one under the heavens already!"
Clark grinned even further as he got no retort from anyone else around him.
Even Tang Xinyue, the one who has hated his guts from the moment they had first seen each other today, could not find her tongue right now.
Everyone just stood there with a dumbstruck expression on their faces.
'Even I could not cultivate that fast and that easy in my lifetime.' Flower Goddess Ze Min thought inside.
Silence reigned for a couple of seconds until another voice made itself known on the gathered souls around our bored gamer.
"Clark, how could you remain so fresh after cultivating? And you even had your breakthrough."
Wan Fei asked in a soft voice as her senses tried to sniff the air for any foul odor that came from our protagonist's way. Unfortunately, the Queen of Haran did not catch any bad smell at all!
'Ohhh... Yes, I forgot that.' Clark remembered how much he reeked after cultivating before. This was the result of his body expelling bad elements from his flesh and bones.
"I'm just built differently, Wan Fei. The heavens love me so much that even the negative effect of cultivating doesn't apply to me at all."
Clark offered a lame excuse and sported the usual stupid grin on his face.
"Okay then, let's continue." Our bored gamer hastily said in order to escape from this uncomfortable situation. And that was what he did.
Clark took several handfuls of spirit stones and began eating them like cheap candies.
His audience just stood there with an almost uniform dumb looks on their faces as their brains failed to fathom what was presently happening before their eyes.
Our good gamer repeated these actions for 15 times until he finally got tired from the monotonous act.
"This is taking me so long." Clark muttered and everyone heard him, loud and clear.
"Let us take a shortcut, shall we?" Our bored gamer smiled and took a piece of metal in his hands.
He looked at the treasure with fond eyes before putting it inside his mouth and swallowed without ado. One ring and all the thousands of spirit stones within!
"BANG!"
"BANG!"
"BANG!"
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After that, a series of detonations could be heard in the entirety of the Outer Disciples Court.
