Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

When morning came, Zen got out of bed and bathed.

Though he had a really strong body, he still took a lot of blows from Jesse's persistent attacks.

But, to say that he had to worry about the inflicted wounds was an overstatement—they really weren't that deep.

Moreover, Zen gained more than he had lost from the fight he had with Jesse. He had learned how to defend himself from his opponent and he had gone over the strategies he could harness the next time another opponent chose to battle him.

In addition, Zen's body absorbed the strong forces within the Destruction Hoop which further refined his marrow in the grand scheme of things.

In the process, the fight had taken away almost every impurity that resided in Zen's marrow; he kept this up and soon he would be reaching the peak of the marrow refining level.

Zen wasn't particularly celebrating anything just yet, as he was not impressed with whatever milestone he had taken.

If he were in a backwoods county, he would have stirred something else entirely with the abilities he currently honed.

But things were different in the Cloud Sect; it was normal for people to peak at their marrow refining level. Besides, there were so many disciples from noble clans rivaling you all the time.

Zen thought all of these things while preparing and could not help but get a little worried, but this did not stop him from leaving the confines of his own room to go for the ridge.

As he walked out of the door, there was an extensive amount of outer disciples that greeted Zen very warmly along the way.

They knew Zen not as the new disciple that he used to be. They had already been certain that this man was going to make a huge reputation for himself after he defeated Leo who was ranked thirtieth among all the outer disciples of Drizzle Peak.

What they had not anticipated was the immediate rise of Zen and no one had foreseen that it would happen in this way.

After everything, Zen did not get into the charts; nothing proved his worth on paper, but everyone had it plastered in their minds that the man Zen should have ranked first in the outer disciples of Drizzle Peak.

This was what he impressed in people. Zen left their presence to find Aura, who was waiting for him.

Zen returned from the south unscathed; Aura was sure that he must have been loaded up with trophies of his trip.

She had seen Zen's fight with Jesse only to realize that she had been underestimating the man.

Because of this, Aura had thought Zen was being impatient—if he went to hunt blade locusts,

thought about this, she assumed that Zen had been confident in

why Zen was so anxious to

gather just from one trip to

he could kill? One thousand? Or maybe two

probably get one, if not two, hundred points just from doing this, but what good would

state, she thought, did a number of points like

was in this moment that Zen arrived, knocking on the door. "Master Su, I am here to report to you,"

was only kind enough to give him a cold nod with her

did not mean she had already forgiven him for his carelessness. She knew

of these beasts can he actually kill? Did this man

frustration. She was still angry after all. On top of that, it was never as if Aura

the helpless man could do was silently take the crystal cores out of his space ring;

One, two, three…

cores

sure. All in all, I've gathered 4, 626 common crystal cores."

smirked and said, "Four thousand, huh? And you're already cocky enough to think that this is an impressive number? This only gets

turn away Zen took out more crystal cores from

acquired higher kinds of these crystal cores from

Aura's thin lips grew steeper when Zen once again exceeded her expectations. With the additional crystals, he would get five

points now, but what of it? Five hundred points won't get you very

eyes narrowed and she still hadn't lost the sarcastic tone she was talking with. Despite her

was not long until Zen took out a

killed and now was glowing softly in the palm of his

Aura's face drastically took another expression.

knew full well that the queen blade locust was not any man's battle; she had killed such twice herself and she knew that it was not

killed thousands of ordinary blade locusts and more

core from a queen blade locust shed an entirely new

man's options were limited; Zen could do nothing more than run from the queen as fast

actually killed a queen blade locust?