Chapter 19 - Appraisal! Get!

After an 8-hour long nap, Long Ren is finally wide awake, though, still a bit weak. He didn't expect himself to recover with just 8 hours of sleep after all so he was fine with it.

The woman had long gone back to her village and break the good news to the citizens, and as per the agreement, they haven't bothered Long Ren yet.

Long Ren packed up all of his things into his ring and immediately left the room, not wanting to spend another second longer in this one hell of a shithole.

While leaving, he considered using the [Corpse Disintegrator] on the bodies but decided against it.

One, it would only make it look weird on him as people will think he took all the corpses with him or something along that line, and more importantly two, it's too much of a hassle to disintegrate everything.

So Long Ren just left them to the villager, it is now their problem, or they could just let it rot, who cares honestly.

Long Ren surely don't, as one day later, He had already reached back to Star Clan. His home.

While camping outside isn't that much different than sleeping inside his home as he slept in his futon regardless, the safe feeling he got from his room is different than the wild ambiance nature gave off.

Overall, this mission is a nice experience for Long Ren…If he exclusively remove any parts of the pile of innocent bodies he saw. Other than that one scar in his heart, he felt this mission is pretty successful.

He got his first blood. He now won't hesitate to kill anyone, well, at least his enemies, and honestly, that's enough for Long Ren.

He won't ever end up in a situation where he would need to kill or slaughter innocents after all so it's all good.

…

Yep, all good.

Anyway.

As Long Ren arrived at the entrance, he saw the same cultivator when he arrived for the first time guarding the gates. He recognizes Long Ren as Xing Lao's disciple and lets him in after a bit of formality and an identity check.

Long Ren had gotten his identification badge after registering as Xing Lao's disciple, and apparently, faking an identification badge is almost impossible, so, he got in without any trouble.

One thing he noticed though, is that the guard is at the 7th rank. He could now roughly estimate how strong people are, at least those who are not above the 10th rank, as they exude a much different type of aura and he can't tell the difference between them with his current power level.

Long Ren, after going inside the clan's premises, started receiving stares from everyone. Though he is a bit uncomfortable with the attention he received as Xing Lao's disciple, he quickly got over it.

He killed someone already, what's the problem with a few stares. They didn't matter to him anyway.

His mentality had completely changed now. After committing a bloodbath, everything just seems so insignificant.

He used to overthink and worry a lot in his previous life, thinking of other people's stares and perspective of him, but not anymore, at least not for strangers.

Now, he just simply shrugged it off and went about his day.

Arriving at the clan's main Pagoda, he went towards the missions section and turned his mission in.

After doing so, he is informed that someone will go to the city and confirm the situation, so his rewards will arrive after that, to which Long Ren only nodded.

He didn't care much about the rewards at all, if he did want something from the clan, Xing Lao is there for him.

'Is this how it feels like to have rich AF parents?' Long Ren thought and chuckled by himself.

Oh, how the turn tables, he went from a poor worker who can't even feed himself daily into a young master of a prestigious clan.

Long Ren went towards his home quickly, as he wants to relax his mind by taking a deep and long bath time, preferably over 3 hours long. He just wants to soak all his depression away.

As he reached his home and opened the door, he looked at a runestone placed near his door. He could use it to relay small messages to its counterpart in Xing Lao's hands.

He poured his qi in it and relayed his return. He asked Xing Lao to come tomorrow as he is tired and quickly removed his clothes to dip into his bath.

One thing he didn't miss from Earth is the water-heating system. In here, all he needs to do is keep pouring his qi into a fire runestone, and viola!

If the water is too cold, pour qi into the fire runestone, if it's too hot, pour qi into the water runestone, simple really.

While in the bath, he suddenly remembered of receiving a notification from his system a while back. He was too engrossed in the guilt of killing another human being back then to check.

'System, can you show me the logs i missed.'

[Yes.

Achievement Completed: First Blood! (Completed)

Kill an intelligent lifeform of a certain threshold (71/1)

Rewards: Simple Inventory Appraisal. | Achievement Sub-Feature

]

'...'

'How did I complete an achievement if the feature hasn't even been unlocked yet…'

[...because I said so?]

…

'Ah Ok, make sense, that completely nullifies all logical arguments and is totally reasonable!' (A/N: :3)

…

'NOT! But, whatever, I'm happy I get more chances to get rewards. Can you open the sub-feature and the description for the reward I received?

[Sure.

=Achievements=

First Blood (Completed)

[???]

[???]

[???]

[???]

[???]

[???]

[???]

[Reach Rank 10]

[???]

[???]

…

[???]

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Simple Inventory Appraisal: Every item in the user's Inventory will be appraised lightly, providing the very minimum description.

]

Seeing the blue screen in his mind, he felt bamboozled. Around 99% of the available achievements are redacted from him, he could only see the [Reach Rank 10] as his non-completed achievement.

Nonetheless, it is a new feature, so at least that's something for him. Now, he might try some absurd things just to try and see if that counts as an achievement.

Something absurd like getting [Demon Lord] by killing off an entire country or something…

'No, stop it! Bad thoughts, Go away!!!'

Long Ren then decided to check his inventory, now that he has a very basic appraisal skill, though only for items he received from the system, he could at least understand the uses of some items he was confused about before.

Turns out, the simple appraisal skill is really, very hmm, how to say, basic.

For example.

[Earth ascension Pill x5: Pills made specifically to help cultivators ascend to the Earth Realm, must be used when in 10th rank.]

[Sunavalon grass (10 gr): Grass that grows from the pure Yang energy, boosts Yang Energy when consumed.]

…

Basically, it only gives a VERY brief description of what an item is, and what it does when consumed or use. A very basic but still very useful reward that he got here.

All regrets about killing those bandits are now gone. Money really does make the world turn.

Now, to a certain extent, he knew which items are safe to use or consumed and what are not. This was one of his main concerns before, but now it is resolved, well partly.

Long Ren knew his body had its limits, even if the resulted appraisal does not explicitly say the item will kill or harm him when consumed, he knew which items are too powerful for him.

He had read of people imploding due to consuming a heavenly grass…imagine dying because you munched on grass.

How pathetic is that?

So, Long Ren will keep being extra careful, at least until his appraisal's rank is high enough to be able to say explicitly when an item is safe or not safe to be consumed.