C10 New Motivation!

In a cave in the Endless Forest:

As established before, strange beasts were territorial animals. The size of the territories depended on how strong the owner of a particular territory was. The stronger the strange beast—the larger their territory.

Consequently, after the Red-eyed Blood Wolf died, Chu Zhongtian wasn't worried that other strange beasts would appear in the cave.

He walked in front of the Yang Tree and reached out to pick the Yang Fruit. Meanwhile, he didn't forget to start the "copy-paste" ability in his head.

After using the ability so many times in the past few days, he had figured out a way to control the ability.

From his experimentation, he had discovered that while copying and pasting something required a lot of energy, simply copying didn't. He could copy anything after spending just a bit of Qi.

The Yang Fruit was a low Level-8 herb. If he wanted to duplicate it, he would need a lot of spirit stones. Let alone a single Level-10 stone, he worried that even a Level-7 spirit stone wouldn't be enough.

However, he was sure that a single Level-10 stone would be enough to make a mental copy of the herb.

As for why Chu Zhongtian was taking such huge risks to merely copy the fruit... It was because he had his future in mind.

With his current wealth, duplicating enough Meridian Herbs was no longer a problem. After fixing his meridians, he could also start cultivating. With his peak Level-8 talent, becoming a Body Refiner was not a problem. However, after that, he might need the Yang Fruit to break through further.

Not to mention, the Yang Fruit could not only help him with a breakthrough, but it could also bring him unimaginable benefits in the Qi Refining realm.

Due to his damaged meridians, his cultivation had fallen behind the others. If he wanted to catch up with them quickly and then surpass them, he needed external help. Therefore, he had to seize every opportunity.

Chu Zhongtian pretended to be overly cautious while harvesting the first fruit to copy the fruit without drawing any attention. Consequently, just harvesting the first fruit took him more than 20 breaths of time.

However, that was enough for him to make a mental copy of the Yang Fruit. After spending a mere one-fifth of the Level-10 spirit stones, he had a precise mental copy ready for duplicating. This success filled his heart with joy.

Then, he quickly harvested the remaining two fruits before putting them into the jade box. Then, he returned and handed the boxes to Chu Fann, who had been waiting patiently.

All this while, Chu Fann had remained calm. However, after taking the three boxes, he could not help but laugh wildly. "Hahaha, God is fair!"

"With these three Yang Fruits, my Chu Family will have three Qi Transformation realm experts in a month. The Chu Family will then surpass the Liu Family and become the number one family in the Qi Country. It might even replace the royal family and become the true master of the Qi Country."

"Eighth Elder!" Noticing that Chu Fann had lost his composure and was laughing wildly, Hu Yi gave him a loud remainder.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I lost my composure." Hu Yi's reminder woke Chu Fann up from his reverie, and he stopped laughing. It didn’t take him long to adjust his state of mind and return to his previous calm.

Soon, Chu Fann realized that since Wang Family's experts could find this place, someone leaked the Yang Fruits’ location. So, the most important task now was to bring these three Yang Fruits back to his family safely and pass them to the elders.

"Hu San, I will bring Hu Yi and Hu Er back to the family. You will be responsible for sending Tian back to the shop in Luolin Town." After giving his orders, Chu Fann put away the three jade boxes and left the mountain cave with Hu Yi and Hu Er.

Before long, Chu Fann and the others could no longer be seen in the cave. However, Hu San was not in a hurry to take Chu Zhongtian away. Instead, he walked to the Wang Family experts’ bodies and bent over to search them.

After they killed Wang Family's men, they hurried to retrieve the Yang Fruit. Back then, no one had the mind to collect the spoils of war. Now that they had the time, Hu San naturally couldn't give up on collecting the spoils of war.

After all, the dead experts’ strength wasn’t any weaker than his own. Two of them were even stronger than him, so they had to have many treasures with them.

Looking at Hu San, who was collecting the spoils of war, Chu Zhongtian couldn’t help but feel sad since he wanted the spoils of war. However, he knew his own limitations. Those things weren't something he could collect, so Chu Zhongtian simply didn't look at Hu San.

Besides, he had more important things to do now: pluck the Yang Tree leaves.

After the Yang Tree bloomed and bore fruit, it would transfer nearly 90% of its energy to the fruit. However, there would still be a trace of energy left in the leaf. This energy in the leaf was equivalent to the Qi in the best inferior stone out there.

Also, apart from Qi, the leaves contained tiny hints of Tao laws within them.

Given their density and abundance, those Tao laws were useless to Body Refining cultivators and above. However, they had unimaginably affected Qi Refining cultivators, especially the weaker Qi Refining cultivators.

The entire Yang Tree was only a meter tall, and there weren't many leaves on it. Chu Zhongtian counted carefully and found that only a dozen or so leaves actually contained some Qi or Tao laws.

Despite the apparent lack of leaves, Chu Zhongtian was very satisfied since he could always replicate them.

Not long after Chu Zhongtian was done collecting the leaves, Hu San was also finished with collecting the spoils of war. Finally, Hu San looked at Chu Zhongtian, who was ready, and said coldly, "Let's go!"

Chu Zhongtian did not care about Hu San's cold attitude. After all, let alone knowing about Hu San’s origins, he didn’t even know why he was called Hu San. However, he did know one thing: Hu San was someone entirely focused on cultivation. People like them only respected those who were stronger than him. They were arrogant towards the weak, sometimes even indifferent.

Since Chu Zhongtian was a cripple who couldn't cultivate, he was a weak, ordinary person. Therefore, it would’ve been strange had Hu San actually respected him.

Chu Zhongtian quickened his pace and followed behind Hu San. They left the cave through the long dark tunnel.

Although Chu Zhongtian did not stay in the cave for long, the dark aura in the cave made him very uncomfortable. After walking out of the cave, he could not help but take a deep breath in the fresh air outside, his mind now feeling energized.

Hu San wasn't Chu Fann. He had an arrogant personality and didn't take special care of Chu Zhongtian. He just led the way in front and let Chu Zhongtian follow him. Although Chu Zhongtian had repaired about half of his meridians, Chu Zhongtian was still an ordinary person. He could only walk for a few miles with his weak body before he was panting from exhaustion.

"I'll just carry you." Noticing that the sky was getting darker, Hu San said impatiently. He was sure that given Chu Zhongtian’s weak body, just carrying him would be quicker and more efficient.

After that, he didn't ask for Chu Zhongtian's opinion. Instead, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Chu Zhongtian, then sped towards the Level-10 strange beasts’ territory.

"I must repair my meridians as soon as possible. I have to get stronger by any means necessary!" Hu San's contemptuous action had deeply hurt Chu Zhongtian's pride.

In the past, his only motivation for repairing his meridians was to protect himself. But now, his mentality had taken a major roundabout. Now, he wanted to heal his meridians so that he could become strong. Then, no one would look down on him and would treat him with respect.