After waiting for 5 minutes, finally, a girl walked out from inside. "Ah, here she is. She will take you in, dear customer," the receptionist said.
The girl looked at Ning with surprise and said, "You, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, it's you. Uhh… sister Mikaela. Good morning. My Night Snatcher here needs some treatment, so I came here," he said.
The girl was the granddaughter of Kaezir Brouch, named Mikaela Brouch. "Is that so?" she said with a cold face and looked towards the bird. After confirming that he was telling the truth, she told him to follow her and walked back inside the building.
After a long corridor with many rooms to the side, he finally reached one of the rooms where a middle ages gentleman was staying in.
"Master, we have a customer," she said as she walked in.
"Oh," the man said as he looked towards the door. He saw Ning standing there and asked, "Dear customer, are you injured."
Ning looked back at the bald middle-aged man and told him that it was his beast that needed the help and not him. After learning about it, he asked to see the Night Snatcher and carefully examined the bird.
After a while, he reached into his storage bag and took out a bunch of ingredients. "Take out a clean slab," he said to Mikaela.
"Yes, Master," she said and walked towards the drawers on the side of the room and took out a stone slab with a smaller stone from inside. She handed it to the man and he started crushing the different ingredients in it.
He would measure each ingredient before putting it in and use only the required amount. In the end, after he crushed all the ingredients into the slab, he mixed it until it formed a grayish-black paste.
He took out a ceramic bottle from his storage bag and put all of the paste inside, aside from a bit. He then handed the bottle to Ning.
"Can I get the bird once more please?" he asked.
"Of course, here you go," Ning said and handed Night to the man. Night was pretty docile right now under Ning's orders.
The bald man took the remaining paste on the slab and applied it gently on Night's wound. Night started crying, "Hurt. Burn. Pain." "Just endure it, it's good for you," Ning said.
Night stopped struggling after that. After he was done applying the paste, the bald man looked back towards Ning and said, " Apply the paste twice a day for about a week and he will be fine. Just don't let him fly around or sit on his leg."
"I see, thank you. How much do I have to pay?" he asked. "3 gold coins," the bald man said. 'Hmm… that's cheap right?' he thought, still quite unsure about the value of gold coins.
'Whatever,' he thought and paid the amount. "Amitabha," the man said in response.
Ning was then escorted back out of the room to the reception hall, after which he said his farewell towards the girl and left the place.
He went around searching for food to give to Night and eat some himself. Going around the city, he once more got to the sect grounds of Eagle sect. It was as rundown as he remembered.
'Do they not fix it or what?' he wondered and left the place. Soon, he returned to the sect and went back to his room. Given that there were still 490 more days until he could double his cap, his next target was to increase his body and Qi cultivation realm.
He also wanted to increase his mental strength as much as he could.
Another thing he wanted to do was learn new techniques. His movement technique and spear technique were too constraining during fights. So, he wanted to learn something else if possible.
"Might as well learn new knowledge at the same time," Ning thought.
So, over the next few months, he did exactly the thing.
His days were divided into doing 6 different things.
First, he would cultivate all the time. Every waking hour, it was time for him to cultivate. Unfortunately, after adding the other various things to his routine, the rate of cultivation had gone down a few points. Even then, he had reached the 4th Qi condensation realm in the last few days.
Second, he would collect heat energy and heat energy alone. He would always have to make sure that he didn't accidentally collect Qi while he was cultivating, so around the mornings, he would always stop cultivating.
Third, he would increase his mental energy by wasting it on himself over the course of the night. Then during the whole day, he would get it back and increase it a few.
Fourth, he would train his body. It didn't take a lot of his time. It was only during the mornings just before the sun came out so, this didn't take a lot of his days.
Fifth, following the body cultivation, he would also train the techniques he got from the techniques hall. This included both him and Night, for who he also got the techniques.
Speaking of Night, Night had also increased his cultivation by quite a bit. He was now at the same cultivation realm as Ning.
Even while doing all of this, Ning didn't forget about his work at the Beast Feeding hall. For 2 days, every 12 days, Ning would go to the beast's ground and feed the beasts 6 different times. That was all he had to do to get 30+ gold coins.
Ning had come to understand that 30 gold coins were actually more than a disciple would earn after working in the Beast Care section for 3 months.
His jaw had nearly dropped when he learned that. He thanked God every day that he didn't stupidly leave the Beast Feeding hall at that time.
After so many days, Ning had also learned quite a bit about the different beasts, including their names, personalities, likes, and dislikes. Adding on to the fact that he was already knowledgeable about their rankings, he knew quite a bit about the beasts now.