Chapter 87 - Crisis
“Greetings, master.”
The person who had arrived was Weapon Peak’s master, the disheveled old man. Su Zimo bowed and greeted.
Nodding slightly, the disheveled old man’s gaze turned towards the spirit tiger behind Su Zimo and frowned.
Right now, the spirit tiger was in internal turmoil. It was actually looking for an opportunity to run away but an old man popped out of nowhere and by the sound of it, he was the perverted human’s master!
Didn’t that mean that he was even more perverted?!
“This pit is getting deeper by the moment. I’m screwed…”
Furrowing his brows, the disheveled old man asked, “Is this your spirit beast?”
The spirit tiger regretted its decision…
However, since it had made a promise, it felt bad to renege on it in the blink of an eye.
“As long as he doesn’t do ‘that’ to me, I can accept even those random cries every now and then. Alright… I’ll just stay here on that condition for now then. Since we didn’t make a blood oath, I’m free to come and go.”
At that thought, the spirit tiger felt no burden and stayed in Su Zimo’s cave abode for the time being.
An additional spirit beast did not affect Su Zimo’s life much.
The spirit tiger would head out to look for food every now and then, even bringing some back for Su Zimo.
Because Su Zimo had demonic cultivation, he required sustenance through meat as well. The spirit tiger’s actions saved him trouble and helped to conserve the essence of his Scarlet Flame Fruit as well.
Su Zimo spent the following period of time cultivating the Marrow Cleansing section while raising his cultivation realm and improving on weapon refinement.
After the disheveled old man’s hint, Su Zimo went to look for him at the Weapon Refinement Hall for all doubts and view projections left behind by seniors in the sect at the same time.
In this period of time, Su Zimo made tons of improvement for the first four steps of weapon refinement.
However, the most crucial step was the fifth one – spirit gathering.
For that, he was still stuck and had no success in creating inferior-grade spirit weapons yet. Instead, his storage bag was now filled with a whole bunch of pseudo spirit flying swords.
The disheveled old man had once said that Weapon Refinement Masters would develop a unique sense of spirit perception after a long time of refining weapons and that would help with spirit gathering.
For Advanced Weapon Refinement Masters, the chances of them gathering a single spirit pattern to create an inferior-grade spirit weapon was close to 100%.
Su Zimo had spirit perception as well, but it was different from the one Weapon Refinement Masters had.
He had tried to make use of his own spirit perception for spirit gathering but to no avail.
During that period of time, there was another month end test on Weapon Peak. Once again, Feng Haoyu came to Weapon Peak and even sent Qi Refinement Warriors to Su Zimo’s cave abode, challenging the latter.
However, Su Zimo refused to see them.
The reason why he had taken part in the previous test was because he wanted to observe the projections. But, now that he could view them at any time he wanted, there was no need to waste time on the test.
He couldn’t care less about Feng Haoyu’s challenge.
What Su Zimo did not realize was that his rejection of the challenge would indirectly lead to the greatest crisis in the history of Ethereal Peak!