The shadow slowly opened his eyes as he was face to face with Blade and spoke, "Ah- how did I end up here?" and Blade replied, "The herd found you unconscious and brought you here, you were covered in wounds, what happened?"
The shadow rubbed the back of his head as he spoke, "Tch- those bastardly seniors, I had found a rare treasure herb in the forest after taking a quest that was beyond my ranks because I was in debt from one of their disgusting tricks after borrowing pills for qi replenishment, since i had used them all they increased my debt by many times and i had to stay in the godforsaken western forests for 3 days and nights for a high rank quest but now not only did they steal my item, but I am also at the deadline now, basically I will be banned from the mission hall if I return empty-handed" he paused "Seems like my journey has come to an end"
The creature felt a bit of pity as he asked "What exactly were you looking for that you had to suffer?" and the shadow spoke "it is a 9 coloured lotus, they grow in the lakes of the western area in mass amounts and are a key ingridient for various pills but the western forest has many strong beasts and extremely close to the norther edges that nobody beyond genesis can step foot, the seniors definitely used a artifact to hide their presence but they are stronger than me so its impossible for me to complain", Blade confused asked 'why is that?" and the shadow replied "Because in my sect, the strong is respected if the complainer is weak, they will be ignored even if the other person did it in broad daylight and many abuse this system"
"That's pretty much the law of the jungle as well, in here, the strict rules and the weak bows, so it doesn't affect us much. All you need to do is get strong enough not to be pushed. "He said, 'Around that's how master and us are still here,' Blade said as he continued. "And the flower you speak of... is this it?" He paused as he took out a multi coloured flower from his pouch
The shadow jumped on his feet as he spoke, "That's it! How did you get that?!" and Blade, confused, spoke, "Uh- we used this to season our meat every day, and it grows pretty fast, so we don't really care about it disappearing unless we tear it from the roots" and shadow spat out blood as he coughed and spoke "Truly, being strong is different"
The shadow accepted the multiple lotuses from Blade as he spoke, "Alright, this should get me more than enough for the debt and also to purchase some equipment," and thanked Blade and the creature, but Blade spoke, "Wait," and the shadow paused midway and asked, "Is there anything u need?"
Blade explained to him the situation and the shadow felt into a thought "yes that is indeed true but..." and Blade confused asked "whats wrong?" as the shadow replied "Going from beast to human means resetting your cultivation, there are also some knowledge from other worlds and one of them is verified by a clan where it was confirmed that since beasts and humans are different, the beast can become humans but their cultivation will be reset, they can be a beast with same power as before but since humans are not same as beasts their human forms will be at mortal stage" and the creature nodded inwardly as he wrote "so as long as i can manifest a human form... it will be at mortal stage is that it?" and the shadow nodded.
The creature, aware of this, called up the panel as he searched for a skill or information regarding the transformation, and, as if understanding his intent, the panel expanded into a large screen, displaying a skill in an instant, which caught the creature off guard.
[skill: Flesh Form(Human)
Description: A well known technique of the plant beast which allow them to obtain a human form in exchange for their cultivation, upon use the user musy sacrifice a core to form the body around if there is no core in the beast body then the beast body will be destroyed, it is one of the most risky techniques and using it is a taboo amonst many as its usage means abandoning their beast identity entirely]
The creature thought inwardly, "I have 3 cores, so I can leave my beast body here and control it as well as use my human body to mix in the human cities, this deal is very good for me to ignore at any cost", as he selected the skill to activate in exchange for 100 qi as the panel appeared
[Please select the core you wish to extract
* Heaven Core
* Earth Core
* Darkness Core]
The creature thought as he selected the darkness core, and the outside world began to shake rapidly.
To be Continued-->