Third Stage of Qi Refinement

After a few hours of cultivating, Liang Feng opened his eyes and saw Wei Lan sleeping on the bed. Liang Feng took this opportunity to will out some of his metals and parts from his storage ring to start to fix himself up.

'Lori, what do I do now?' Liang Feng asked, not knowing how to repair himself.

[Simple, take out one of your puppets and command them to fix yourself. You can think that you're a puppet yourself. You no longer need to sleep, eat, drink, etc.] Lori said.

'A puppet myself huh... That's a strange way to put it.' Liang Feng thought as he took out his Iron Golem Puppet.

It was a humanoid looking puppet with many joints to allow for flexibility. It had two yellow eyes, a big iron mouth, and black hair. It was 10 feet tall and had many iron armor pieces on its body to act as defense.

For normal puppeteers, this hunk of junk would seem to be useless as a puppeteer must be able to move such a thing with a thin line of string they add to them to control them. However, Liang Feng can now give them their own consciousness and allow them to move without any strings attached.

Using his Qi, Liang Feng willed his puppet to start to repair his body.

The puppet grabbed one of the arm pieces and started to fix the broken joints, slowly bringing it back to how it used to be. After an hour of work, the puppet finally repaired Liang Feng's arm back to perfection.

'Hmm not bad, but can't I change some of the properties of my arm?' Liang Feng thought curiously.

'Like, can I add some sort of way to have my arm have some kind of poison when I cut someone with my nails?' Liang Feng wondered as he looked at his arm.

'Let's try tomorrow. After all, I need to get poison somehow.' Liang Feng thought and willed his puppet to finish the rest of his body.

After the puppet finished repairing himself, Liang Feng brought all the pieces back to his storage ring and took away the consciousness of the puppet and took it into his storage ring.

Looking at the time, it was already 1 am, and for someone who doesn't need to eat, drink, or sleep. He decided to cultivate and try to break through to the third stage of Qi refinement.

Currently, the average strength of the newest recruits are in the fifth stage of Qi refinement. You start practicing at the age of nine, and now Liang Feng is 17. The strongest out of the group is Wei Lan, at the seventh stage of Qi refinement. Everyone else is only in the fifth stage, so he was still far behind everyone else, but at least he was a genius in terms of cultivation compared to many.

"Time to cultivate." Liang Feng said as he closed his eyes and started to refine his Qi.

He circulated his Qi throughout his body, and formed it into his dantian which is located at his lower abdomen. In his dantian was a ball of Qi slowly expanding.

Liang Feng continuously refined the Qi and pushed it into the dantian.

The more Qi he put into it, the more it started to condense and become denser. He did this over and over again. Refining, then pushing into the dantian. Refining, then pushing into the dantian. Unknown to him, and hours quickly passed, and his dantian expanded again, taking in more Qi and condensing it. Another hour passed, and he broke through to the third stage of Qi refinement.

Looking at the clock, it was almost 7am in the morning.

'I guess I should stop for today.' Liang Feng thought as he canceled his cultivation session.

Looking at his new body, Liang Feng felt stronger and could feel that his body was more durable and flexible than before. This is another question that he has. Why does Qi affect robots? Why can his parts become more flexible? Doesn't this mean his parts are taking in Qi and strengthening it?

Liang Feng figured that he could worry about this later. He wasn't complaining and thought of it as a good thing.

"Cultivation is amazing." Liang Feng said and got up from the mat to get ready for whatever is supposed to happen today.

Walking to the closet, Liang Feng saw a school uniform.

It was a simple white robe with a blue sash around the waist.

Putting it on, Liang Feng walked to Wei Lan who was still sleeping on the bed.

'Maybe I should wake him up...' Liang Feng thought.

Just as he was about to reach him, Wei Lan woke up suddenly as if he was hiding something.

"Oh, good morning." Wei Lan said awkwardly as he noticed Liang Feng staring at him.

Liang Feng wasn't really bothered by this, but nodded his head and greeted him back.

"Good morning. Today is the first day, do you know what is supposed to happen today?" Liang Feng asked, curious on what they are going to do on their first day in the sect.

Wei Lan rubbed his chin as he tried to remember what his family told him.

"I don't know. Most of the Demon Sect is kept secret but the starting exams." Wei Lan answered as he got up and wanted to get dressed.

'Most of the Demon Sect is kept secret...' Liang Feng repeated in his head as he realized that there must be many secrets to be uncovered in this sect.

"Ahem, can you leave as I get changed?" Wei Lan said as he moved his body in front of his closet.

Looking at Wei Lan, Liang Feng saw that his face was rather embarrassed and shy as he looked at him.

Liang Feng shrugged. 'He must have a female figure under his clothes or something. Why would he be embarrassed in front of a man though?' Liang Feng thought and went out of the room and waited outside.

After a minute or so, Wei Lan walked out fully clothed in his sect uniform and looked relieved when he saw Liang Feng.

'Such a weird kid.' Liang Feng thought as he shook his head.

"What do we do now?" Liang Feng asked as he didn't know what to do.

"Umm, maybe we can ask Master Zhi or Li Chi?" Wei Lan said, unsure of himself.

Nodding his head, Liang Feng turned around and headed to the entrance of the building, followed by Wei Lan.