Female Novel
chapter 1991-1995
Chapter 1991 However, Noel called out to him before he walked out of the door. “I heard you’ll be going against Wesleyin the wager battle arena soon?”
jackie raised his eyebrow and turned back to glance at Noel. He was sure Noel did not mean it as aquestion as almost all the disciples there knew about this. He also knew that the other disciples treatedthis piece of news as something to talk and laugh about after dinner. Therefore, he did not answer himbut waited for him to continue.
Noel pressed his lips and said, “You must be lacking In contribution points right now and it seems likeyou’re willing to have another go in the Soul Hall.”
jackie nodded. There was no doubt about it. If conditions allowed, he was even willing to stay there for amonth, soul-shockwave be damned. He could feel his power growing stronger little by little and thoughhe did not see Wesley as his rival, he needed to be cautious as he was still not strong enough to defeathim.
Noel coughed lightly and seemed to be embarrassed about what he was going to say next but still, hestraightened him up and said, “Do you know that new informal disciples can enjoy certain benefits?”
No, jackie did not know. He had kept to himself all this while so did not hear anything about that. Nowthat he had thought about it, Noel was the only person he had spoken the most with and Noel knew that.He sighed and said, “It’s been less than a month since you’ve joined the Dual Sovereign Pavilion soyou’re still eligible for the benefit. You’re entitled to exchange fifty contribution points for five hundred low-grade spirited crystals. Your deacon should have told you about this so I’m not sure whynovelbin
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jackie raised his eyebrow at the implication Noel was making. There must be a hidden reason as to whyDeacon Ambrose did not share this benefit with the new informal disciples. He turned around to fully faceNoel with a grateful look. “Thank you, Brother Noel, for telling me all this. Where should I go to do theexchange?”
Noel smiled faintly. “You don’t have to go there yourself. Although there’s still a slight difference in statusbetween the new and old informal disciples, you could still ask the runner disciples to help you do theexchange. You’ll only need to pass him the five hundred low-grade spirited crystals and your jade identitycard and he’ll do the exchange for you. After that, you can come back here to enjoy another five days oftraining.”
jackie became very excited at that. It was important for jackie to train as much as possible before thefight with Wesley and earning points through assignments would take up too much of his time. He wouldhave preferred to avoid taking that course if possible.
Noel coughed lightly and in a nonchalant voice said,” Wesley has reached high attainment in his goldattribute martial art skills so it’s better if you don’t fight him head-on. Keep in mind that gold attributetechniques or skills possess much higher attack power than other attribute skills.”
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Although this kind of information could be gotten easily, jackie was still very grateful for Noel’s favor.
jackie nodded his head vigorously. “Thank you, Brother Noel. I’ll keep all of this in mind. I’ll surely repayyou one day.”
Chapter 1992 When jackie got back to his room, he immediately sent for Brook to do the exchange at the Seven StarsHall. A runner disciple’s duty was to run errands for the formal and informal disciples and Brook was
considered a veteran in these matters. He quickly made his way to the Seven Stars Hall with jackie’sjade identity card and spirited crystals, leaving jackie to wait for him to be back.
jackie could have gone to do the exchange himself but he did not like crowds. Besides, he was quite thecelebrity amongst the informal disciples and it would be best to avoid getting into an argument withWesley. He knew that Wesley would never let an opportunity of talking smack to him go and he did notwant to waste his breath on such a person.
Brook came back an hour later and gave jackie back his jade identity card which had been successfullyupdated with fifty contribution points. He looked at jackie with an expression hinting that he hadsomething to tell him but did not know whether he should
jackie raised his eyebrow. He invited Brook into his room and poured him some tea. “Spit it out, whydon’t you? Did you run into some trouble during the errand? Or did somebody bully you?”
Brook shook his head and accepted the tea from jackie. “I wasn’t bullied. I’ve been in the Clanassociation for many years, and though the formal and informal disciples look down on us runnerdisciples, they wouldn’t dare to bully a veteran like me. It’s just that I felt something was off when I wasdoing the exchange.”
A hint of curiosity flashed across jackie’s eyes and he waved for Brook to continue on. Brooke breathedin lightly and furrowed his brow. “I’ve done this kind of exchange many times before as all the newinformal disciples would exchange their five hundred low grade spirited crystals for the fifty contributionpoints the very next day after joining the Dual Sovereign Pavilion because it’s not as if they lack thespirited crystals to do it. The place to do the exchange is at the Seven Stars Hall assignment submissionarea and I’m very familiar with the person-in-charge.”
“The person-in-charge? I thought all the assignment submissions were handled by the disciples?” askedjackie. To ensure that the disciples could earn contribution points, Dual Sovereign had set up differentposts for the disciples to take up. Jobs like this were normally handled by a formal or informal disciple but
judging by what Brook had said, the person in charge of the assignment submission did not seem to be adisciple.
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One look at jackie’s expression and Brooke knew what he was confused about. He chuckled softly andsaid,” It’s true the Seven Stars Hall belongs to the Dual Sovereign Pavilion and its importance is onlysecond to the Martial Art Techniques and Martial Skills Hall. Therefore, the posts there are not normallygiven to the disciples for fear they would embezzle the points. After all, contribution points could make orbreak a disciple’s career here. These positions are generally administered by the deacons personally.Each deacon has his own minor steward. These minor stewards are also former disciples, but theircultivation level has not yet reached the level of a deacon so they could only be minor stewards.”
jackie nodded in understanding. He was not very familiar with the administrators of the Dual SovereignPavilion. He knew that there were elders besides the heads. The elders were then divided into the formalelders and informal elders with the formal elder’s qualifications and power much stronger than those ofthe informal elders. He also knew that the deacons held many important positions and some trivialmatters were all placed under their jurisdiction. However the deacons could not handle everythingwithout the help of the minor stewards and though the minor stewards’ status was a little lower than thedisciples, they were still the management nonetheless.
Chapter 1993 “The minor steward in charge of the assignment submission is Steward Fleming and heworks under Deacon Ambrose. He immediately shook his head when he heard that I’ve gone there toexchange the five hundred low-grade spirited crystals for the contribution points. He said that thebenefits did not apply for the new informal disciples this time and his expression was a little off when hesaid that,” said Brook.
jackie furrowed his eyebrows. He recalled what Noel had said to him previously and still could not figureout what was going on. Maybe Noel was trying to tell him that the Dual Sovereign Pavilion was treatingthis batch of new informal disciples differently than all the previous batches. Coupled that with whathappened with the contribution points, jackie told himself he should be more cautious from now on.
Could it be that even the administrators deliberately looked down on their new batch of informaldisciples? If that was the case, no wonder the older disciples looked down on this new batch of informaldisciples so much. However, jackie did not really think that was the case. After all, the Dual SovereignPavilion was also ranked as the number one Clan association in West Cercie State. This kind of behaviorwould be frowned upon and create resentment in the new informal disciples.
jackie pointed to the fifty contribution points added to his jade identity card and asked, “How did you getthese points if this year’s benefit has been canceled?”
“We can thank Deacon Ambrose for that. I was about to give up because Steward Fleming was reallyinsistent that the benefit had been canceled. However, Deacon saw your jade identity card in my handjust when I was about to leave and excitedly asked me what I was doing there. I explained everything tohim and he instantly reprimanded Steward Fleming for speaking nonsense and that’s how I’ve managedto get the points.”
The lines on jackie’s forehead became even deeper. Ambrose Adams left a good impression on him. Thereason Ambrose had helped jackie grease the wheels a little must be because jackie had helped him outwith Zeph and it was public knowledge that they were mortal enemies. Even so, if the benefit was reallycanceled, then what Ambrose did was break the rule and anything to do with the contribution points wasa serious matter.
Ambrose would never openly violate the rules just to help jackie out. Besides, he said that StewardFleming was speaking nonsense meaning to say that the benefit was not canceled at all. There must bea reason as to why Steward Fleming had said that. Trying to make heads or tails out of the whole
situation was giving jackie a headache. He was feeling as if there was a thick pool of glue sloshing in hisbrain.
The whole thing was getting more and more complicated. No wonder Noel told him to put the wholematter aside if he could not figure it out, after all, his priority should be leveling up. Thus, with the newlygotten fifty contribution points in his card, he rushed to the Soul Hall again whereas, as usual, Noel wasfound sitting behind his long desk with a dead look on his face. He managed to come alive a little whenhe saw jackie entering the place.
Also, as usual, he asked jackie how many days he would like to stay there to which jackie answered byholding up five fingers. Then, he placed his jade identity card on the table. Noel heaved a sigh and with aface filled with admiration said, “I don’t know what advice I can give to a master like you. Your talent istruly enviable. You could not imagine how shocked the others would be if they knew that you’ve entereda difficulty level four Array Eye Door.”
Chapter 1994 jackie chuckled softly and said in a gentle tone, “I don’t think I’m a master. I guess I’m justa little lucky when it comes to spirit attribute skill cultivation.”
Noel shook his head and there was a little melancholy on his face as if he had suffered a huge blow fromjackie’s words. He gestured to the Array Eye door with his chin, leaving him with no doubt that he did notwish to speak to jackie anymore.
jackie chuckled softly again and entered the door. Before he came, he wondered whether he shouldincrease the difficulty level but after carefully thinking about it, he decided not to. There was still someway to go before he could fully adapt to difficulty level four and if he rashly raised the difficulty level, itwould surely increase his burden. The excessive impact from the soul-shockwave would not do him well.
After the array was activated, the soul-shockwave filled the room again. jackie closed his eyes andperformed several hand seals with both hands. Two black Soul Swords immediately floated up and downIn his hands.
This time his goal was to condense the third Soul Sword within five days and also keep track of the timeinside his heart instead of wholly immersing himself in training. The last time, he had no experience, andthe soul-shockwave rushed away without any warning. Fortunately, at that time, his true energy and spiritenergy were all used up and now he had recuperated. It would definitely deal a huge blow to jackie if thearray was suddenly closed during the most critical breakthrough moment. After all, the opportunity forbreakthroughs does not come by every time. If it was rashly interrupted, it would throw a spanner into histraining and he would have to wait for a long time for such an opportunity.
Minutes and seconds ticked by and the third Soul Sword slowly solidified and on the dawn on the fifthday, he finally condensed the third Soul Sword. He was panting heavily while excitedly staring at the thirdSoul Sword floating in his palm. With the previous two successful experiences, jackie found it easier tocondense the third Soul Sword this time.
However, to his dismay, he discovered that it would be more and more difficult from this point onward tocultivate Void Slaying. It did not take him long to condense the first Soul Sword but it would surely takehim a long time to condense more swords further down the line. Not to mention the amount of spiritenergy and true energy he would need to expand
jackie was experiencing splitting headaches, bloodshot eyes, and trembles after he had exhausted histrue energy and spirit energy. The soul-shockwave was still impacting his soul and the stabbing painbecame even more intensified as the barrier made by his spirit energy slowly diminished.
“I would waste ten contribution points if I go out now,” muttered jackie. He started to do calculations In hishead-he had been here for four days and one hour. According to the Soul Hall’s rule, even an hour wouldbe charged at a full day’s rate so if he were to go out now, he would have wasted ten contribution points.The emotional pain of that was more horrible than the physical pain he was feeling right now.
However, if he continued to train, his spirit origin might be damaged and that was something he could notlet happen. Thus, he had no choice but to leave. He heaved a sigh, slowly got up from the ground, and
walked out of the door in one breath. Noel, who was sitting with one leg up and eating sunflower seeds,immediately stood up when he saw jackie’s pale face and bloodshot eyes as if he was terminally ill.
“Oh my god, are you okay? How did you end up like this? Isn’t the difficulty level the same?”
Chapter 1995 Noel had no doubts about jackie’s skills after witnessing his first five days in the Array Eye Door difficultylevel four but this time it seemed to have taken an emotional and physical toll on him. Noel quickly walkup to catch him before he fell. jackie exhaled gently and in a tired tone said, “Don’t worry about me. I’mnot hurt. It’s just that I’ve exhausted my spirit energy and true energy.”
Noel raised an eyebrow and lightly pressed jackie’s meridian point with his finger and just as heexpected, the true energy inside jackie’s meridian points had all been used up, and there was only a littlespirit energy left. This made him become even more speechless.
“What could you possibly be doing inside to have used up all your true energy and spirit energy?”. AskedNoel.
jackie chuckled softly and told him the truth. “I’ve broken through a bottleneck. That’s all.”
At this, Noel immediately raised his eyebrow. “I must say you’re both high in talent and courage. Thesoul-shockwave for difficulty level four in the Array Eye Door was enough to kill anybody and yet you’vecome out of it alive after breaking through a bottleneck. Anyone would have tread carefully but you didn’tseem to be afraid that the soul-shockwave would damage your soul origins.”
It did cross jackie’s mind but he was so intent on condensing the third Soul Sword that he threw it to theback of his mind. It was only when he was out, that he felt afraid of what he had done. He made a note tohimself that he should not do that anymore.
Noel shook his head. His understanding of jackie told him that some advice would just bounce off jackie.”Forget it. I’m just wasting my breath here. By the way, I’ve just received some news you might beinterested in. Wesley is going to the wager battle arena tomorrow and his opponent is Dale Woodwardwho ranked 143rd place. I thought you might want to observe the battle so don’t forget to go.”
Hearing this made jackie straighten his body and laugh coldly. It seemed Wesley did not view him as aworthy opponent at all. If not he would not have gotten into another battle just before his battle withjackie.
“Thank you, Brother Noel, you’ve been such a great help to me these past few days,” said jackie.
Noel shook his head humbly and said, “It’s no skin off my back. I’m only passing on what I know.”
They talked for a bit more before jackie went back to his room. Ah, the beauty of having an abode tooneself—nobody could disturb you and there was no need to fear of one’s secret being exposed. The tendays of training had consumed all his energy, both spirit and truth, and not to mention the emotional tollon him.
He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. Ever since embarking on the road to cultivation, he hadnot had opportunities to sleep on a real bed and had to resort to meditation to rest his body. Therefore, itwas no surprise that he slept a total of one day and one night and when he woke up, it was already noonthe next day.
His true energy and spirit energy was fully charged but he did not continue on with his training as heknew that there was no overnight success in this field and that he would only enter a dead-end if heimmersed himself too much in training. Nash Wood had been a bundle of nerves ever since he knew ofjackie’s battle with Wesley so it was only natural that he would come out of Mustard Seed now that jackiehad a little bit of free time on his hands.
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