274 Third Day

Alex woke up early in the morning. As soon as he was even a little awake, the several painful cuts along his body woke him up immediately. He was jolted awake and he asked Pearl to stop cultivating.

Pearl let out a small 'meow' and got up from his cultivation. By now, pearl must've been very strong as well. He checked Pearl's status and saw that as expected, he was now in Bone Tempering 9th realm in cultivation.

Pearl was one step away from reaching the Organ Tempering realm as well.

'Does that mean my body cultivation is at Bone Tempering 9th realm as well?' Alex wondered. He seriously thought of going to check it at someplace in the capital today, but then remembered that he had to go to the library with his master today.

That was much more important as there were a lot of things he needed to check in the library.

He put Pearl back into the tattoo and looked at the time. It was 6:15 am. He then looked at his hands again and saw that the Spirit Cleansing Lily was still in his hands.

'Why can I not use it anymore?' he wondered. This was the third time that he had cultivated with a Spirit Cleansing lily and it hadn't worked at all.

He didn't know what was happening, so he just sighed and put the lily back into his storage bag, and logged out.

He got out from the capsule and realized once more that he was neither hungry nor was he in need of the bathroom.

'Ah, this capsule is seriously going to mess with my physiology,' he thought. He still went to the bathroom to freshen up and forced himself to each a few pieces of bread for breakfast.

After that, he returned back to his game 15 minutes later. He woke up back on his bed and got up. He walked over to Wan Li who was focused on his book and told him it was time to leave.

As expected, someone came to knock on the door to let them know just that.

Alex smiled towards Wan Li and they both walked out of the room. After a few minutes, everyone was ready and they went down the staircase.

Along the way, they met the group of Spirit Song sect, who were also going down the stair.

"You guys in a hurry to go somewhere? To lose maybe?" the fatty Xu said as he showed an annoying smile towards Ma Rong.

Ma Rong didn't have any funny or clever comeback to the fatty's words and so she simply said, "Just watch us." The fatty didn't seem to like the serious answer and scoffed towards her but said nothing else.

There was rivalry between the two groups, not animosity, and he wanted to keep it that way.

The two sects were together on their way to the coliseum, and along the way, one of the  Spring Song disciples came up to Wan Li and tried to strike up a conversation.

Alex saw the disciple and saw that he was the second place holder for yesterday's speed pill-making competition. 'If I remember correctly, his name was Han Long I believe,' Alex thought.

Han Long tried to talk with Wan Li, trying to ask him if he was going to participate today and if so what pill he was going to make today.

Wan Li was naturally very shy and thus didn't answer any questions at all, which the boy thought was rude. He didn't realize that Wan Li was simply like this and he wasn't trying to intentionally be rude towards him.

He then moved on to Zhou Mei and tried to strike up a conversation, but she was naturally coded to everyone aside from the elders, Wan Li, and Fan Ruogang.

Seeing that they weren't responding, Han Long returned back to his group.

"Hey, why didn't he try to talk with me? Rude. Does he not know that I am the third-best in the sect?" Fan Ruogang said acting as if she was insulted.

Everyone in the group laughed a little, including Ma Rong. "You can show them how good you are tomorrow, Fanfan," Ma Rong said.

"Yes, Sect Leader," Fan Ruogang said and was back to her cheery self.

Soon, they reached the coliseum and entered it. As a sect, they could directly skip the queue to enter and could go to the arena to look at today's competitions.

The host, Fu Zhen was there once more to tell them about today's theme, Perfection. He let them know the criteria based on what the results would be set and what being perfect meant in general.

In simple terms, the higher the grade of the produced product was, the better. He then showed a list of competitions for today.

As expected, Alchemy's competition was the Highest Harmony pill making. Ma Rong made a few more people take up different other competitions. While she didn't expect much from them, she still hoped to get a few stray points here and there.

However, her hope for today's competition was still with Alex and Wan Li.

"Alright, let's go register you lot," she said and took the disciples that had taken part in some of the competition, while the rest of them went to their predetermined seating area.

Along the way, he was the Tiger sect too, but the only one he knew from that group was Meng Yun, and she was too far away to strike up a conversation.

Once Wan Li's turn was done, he walked forward to the metal ball and picked it up before infusing some Qi into it.

They made the participants do it every day to keep track of their turns, as well as to see if there were some random jumps in cultivation which would mean that someone was probably doing something illegal.

Alex told her his name and that he was going to take part in the alchemy competition at 10 o'clock. Once everyone was registered, the group returned back to the seating area.