August 27, tuesday.

It didn't take long for the whole police station to become chaotic and noisy. Everyone's practically running around, screaming to each other, while also trying their best to stop the group of college students from wrecking havoc. Fortunately, since there are many police in the police stations, it also didn't take long for the whole place to calm down. After that, those innocent people that got caught in this whole mess, was quietly told to go home. While those college students were arrested for many charges. In the end, the college students can only cry and hug their parents, while their parents cry and beg the police for mercy.

It was really a touching scene.

Except, everyone didn't feel sorry for those college students, and probably even hoping for them get locked up fast. As for the parents, some of them are kinda pitiful. But some parents also have some haughty and bitchy attitude, so instead of feeling pity, everyone just smiled and silently left.

As for me, everything that happened today are nothing but a small episode. A filler that I wont even bother to remember if not for some shits.

Anyway, by the time I arrived in front of Carissa Residences, it was already late afternoon.

Walking towards the front gate, I met the old guard who immediately called me over and told me that the foods I ordered has arrived. But because I was away, the guard paid it in my stead. After thanking him and receiving the four medium sized bilao, I asked the old guard if he wanted to eat some in my apartment. And while at that, I'll also pay back the money there.

He shook his head and told me he cant leave. He also didn't really want to eat, but because I practically forced him and he couldn't refuse, he just chose the palabok.

After I went back to my apartment and put the other bilao inside the fridge, I opened one of the bilao containing the palabok and put some in a plate. I took some money, then I went to the first floor and gave him the plate and the money. Before I left, I asked him if Agnes already came back or even called?

The old guard just said, "no".

Shaking my head slightly, I didn't pursue anymore and just left silently.

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Inside my living room, while sitting on a sofa, I relaxed my body and calmly started absorbing Qi.

At first my absorptions was normal, slow and steady. But as I continued absorbing Qi, I realize that the pace I'm absorbing is becoming more and more faster. And after almost half an hour, I can already feel my surrounding trembling as waves after waves of Qi flows into my body like a river! The surge was strong and heavy, that at first I thought my body wouldn't be able to take it all. To my surprise though, it didn't only take all, it still wanted more! I couldn't help myself to feel like a demon who continue to devour everything like fcking a black hole.

Like before I continued absorbing Qi until I feel myself full. Then I started circulating it to slowly compress and purify it over and over again, until the amount of Qi in my body started decreasing while also becoming purer and more heavy. This repeated cycle lasted for at least an hour before all the Qi in my body became purer and more compressed.

To be honest, this slightly surprise me since my body's Qi capacity became even larger and could now hold more than three times of what I previously can. Also the process of purifying the Qi became a lot more easy, and all the final results are more amazing than I did before.

"Well, lets start then."

Right now, my body is on the verge of breaking through. And even if I don't do anything, just by practicing Martial arts and circulating my Qi should be enough to naturally unlocked the third meridian. That's why, for this whole night, I'll try to naturally cultivate and let the meridian be destroyed by itself. The only thing is, I'm not sure if doing this is more effective, than just breaking the meridian myself.

Anyway, after feeling myself full, I immediately planned myself to practice Martial Arts. But then, I suddenly realized that there is only a small space in my living room, and my bedroom is way too small to practice. So thinking for a while, I just went out and started running towards the park just a couple minutes away from our neighborhood.

Arriving there, I immediately walked around and looked for a suitable place to continue cultivating. However besides the spacious grass garden (where you could see a "don't step on the grass" sign), all the places in this park are way too awkward to practice martial arts. Also, just beside this garden is an old looking bench, perfect place to meditate after I consumed all my Qi.

Shaking my head a little bit, I decided to be a mad lad and just cultivate myself here.

Positioning myself, I started circulating my Qi and slowly moved my body according to the postures of Thousand Hardening Body Refinement. This practice has been done by me for uncountable number of times, and I'm already proficient in it. The pain as the Qi inside me explode and spread in my body, is also negligible that I almost didn't notice at first. Anyway, I feel like a pro as I continued moving my body and practicing martial arts.

That's until I noticed something wrong.

Even though I said and thought that I already perfected the Thousand Hardening Body Refinement, when I carefully observed myself as I move my body, I slowly realized that the way I moved is way too stupid. Maybe because of my strengthened mental capacity, I easily noticed many wasted and unnecessary movements as I move. This movements might not be apparent for normal fights, but for those experts and people stronger than me, they would immediately notice this and I would immediately killed.

Realizing this mistake, I immediately tried to correct my movements and practice it to make it more efficient. It took me a few cycle before I can finally see some differences. And the moment my movements are starting to be more effective and powerful, for some reasons, I could feel the effects my cultivations is becoming more and more prominent as well. After even more cycle, I finally managed to correct myself and made my movements more efficient and more ferocious. At the same time, my cultivation started advancing fast and more steady.

This hyped me even more and continued cultivating.

Around midnight, I popped the balloon in my head and again started a new round of cultivating. And since my movements are closer to the original Thousand Hardening Body Refinement, the effects are more immediate as I could feel every part of me exploding and becoming more stronger.

Slowly, without me noticing, sunrise is already rising and its heat are starting to cover the land. At the same time lights started to appear, I heard an explosion in my body and I felt myself become more lighter and more refreshed. Immediately, my body started absorbing the Qi in my surroundings like hungry beast!

Opening my eyes, I saw waves and rivers of lights swirling from all directions as they entered my body. As they circle around me, I could even see some small tornadoes forming in my surroundings. The scene is very beautiful and breathtaking. Added to that is the sunrise in the background that slowly spread its light while making the surrounding Qi even more stunning.

A couple dozen minutes later, I again opened my eyes and slowly breathed out.

Looking around, and feeling every part of my body, I smiled.

I now unlocked the third meridian.

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Back to my apartment, while lying down on a sofa in the living room, I used my phone and silently opened my twtter account. To be honest this account was created for two reasons, to follow Agnes, and to post videos that I could use to destroy someone's life. For example, these two videos I uploaded last night before I started cultivating.

These videos are all about what happened in the carinderia, and the police station yesterday. The videos are high quality since the camera used for these came from a latest model of a certain brand. Unfortunately, since this account is newly made, and I'm not really knowledgeable when it comes to making something viral, the current share, hearts, and comments are not that many.

Of course I know that this would happen, that's why I was hoping for Agnes to like (was the heart thing and the like the same?) or comment on it just to bring this to the attention of everyone. A small move like that can make these videos viral for sure since the content of these videos are fcking good. When that happen, everyone in the videos would have their lives destroy.

Closing the app, I sighed and stopped caring for now.

When I was about to close the phone, an Ad suddenly popped up and instinctively, I read the words written on it.

"Congratulations."

Immediately, the whole world turned black and I again entered the world of darkness.

"Coming here the fifth time means you unlocked your third meridian within a month after you received the cultivation method. For that you'll receive 100 points. Additional points will be given after calculating your ranking."

So many things happened to me that I almost forgot about this.

"So its fifth time.." I murmured.

From what I remember, the first time is when I saw the dancing lights in a shape of humans, the second is when I chose a cultivation method, the third is before I unlocked my first meridian, the fourth is after I unlocked my second meridian. And this time, the fifth, after I unlocked the third.

"Your Rank has been calculated.

Congratulations, Your current Rank is 997.

Because your Rank rose and became part of the 501 to 1000 Rankings, you'll be given additional 100 points.

You currently have 1100 points."

Hearing that, l smiled.

Right now, there are three ways to earn points. To unlock a meridian, to do it in certain period of time, and to climb the ranking. From what I experienced earlier, unlocking one meridian, and do it in a certain period of time would both give 100 points (200 points in total). As for the ranking, its already obvious that once a cultivator reached a certain rank, they would receive a certain amount of points.

I was really suspicious about this at first, since before I unlocked my first meridian I received 100 points, when I unlocked my second meridian, I received another 100 points, and a 600 points since I became part of 1001 to 2000 Ranking. Then when I curiously looked at the amount of the points I have, I clearly saw that I have 1000 points. Counting it carefully, even an idiot would realize that it should only be about 800 points. Then where did the 200 points come from?

At that time, what I know was very limited, so I could only make some assumptions. Now though, I could at least say that I'm at least 85% sure that my theory is correct.

"Thousand points is enough for now." I smiled silently.

As I was thinking of the cultivation method I wanted to buy in the cultivation market, a transparent looking screen manifested and the sexy woman I saw before I unlocked my first meridian appeared. Like before, she's wearing a uniform meant for teachers and in her back, a classic blackboard with words written on it could be seen.

"This is your fifth time here." she smiled beautifully and continued. "That means you just unlocked your third meridian and is now preparing to challenge the fourth. Before that though, I want you to know that unlocking the first three meridian is way too easy compared to unlocking the fourth."

For the first time in a while, I received a lesson about cultivation.

"Because the fourth meridian signifies the first step of transition from Mortal to Alpha."

Then, for almost an hour, the sexy woman talked and discussed about the things I should remember before challenging the fourth meridian.

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Pratenzya is a modern world with an advance civilization.

They have almost everything they wanted and has the most the things they needed. And unlike, Earth, that's still divided into different countries, Pratenzya was already unified under the same banner of Federation almost a thousand years ago. This made the whole world a little bit peaceful. At least compared to before where bombs might suddenly explode on top of one's head, the fighting and terrorism now is a lot more hidden and quiet. Making those innocent people have an easy and relaxing lives.

But even with these, the people of Pratenzya still strives to have more. More resources, more things to invent, more things to learn---- they're greedy for the things that they haven't seen or discovered yet. Because of this way of thinking, their modernization kept advancing to the point that, they finally discovered the vastness of the universe.

Based on some of their theories, tests and in-depth analysis, they finally learned that there are billions or even an uncountable number of worlds out there in a different dimensions who's also living the life like them without knowing that they're not alone. When they learned of this, the whole world of Pratenzya became excited and tried their best to communicate with them. Unfortunately, even though they're advance enough to detect the worlds in other dimensions, they're still not advance enough to send and receive anything in those dimensions.

But, all of these things suddenly changed three-hundred years ago.

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Kreg is currently standing on top of a rooftop while looking at the whole city below him. Beside him are the members of his group, six men with the age of twenty-to-thirty years old. In their batch, the six of them are considered as the strongest cultivators with six-to-five meridian unlocked. But compared to the real talents from their world, Pratenzya, they're only considered as average. Even so, attacking a world who just started cultivating in two-to-three weeks, aren't really a threat for them.

At least that's what they thought.

"What did you say?" Kreg asked while his anger's slowly rising up.

The six of them have transmission on their ears that was design to look like earrings. In their worlds this kind of technology is normal and considered old-school. Using this as a tool for communication while making it look fashionable was quite famous a couple decades ago.

"I.. we were planning on meeting with the other group.." the trembling voice on the other side started explaining. "But, but we couldn't. The-they're hunting us down."

Hearing this, Kreg narrowed his eyes and slowly asked.

"Who?"

"T-two women, sir." the voice said.

"Women? Their numbers?"

The voice on the other side stayed quiet for a couple of seconds, before replying with a more scared voice.

"Si-sir, they're not part of the Top 100 rankings.."

Kreg frowned and looked at the men behind him. From what he could see, they're also confused. Without waiting, Kreg continued asking.

"What do you know about them then?"

"Th-the older one is only at fourth meridian, the younger one is at fifth meridian."

Kreg frowned even harder.

There are over a hundred young cultivators chosen to start the invasion. It is to test the strength of their opponents and also to weaken them severely. By doing this while they're still weak, it would definitely be a good thing for their Federation, and their world, Pratenzya. The thing is, the condition to be sent here must have at least five meridians unlocked. At the same time, those at the same stage would have to fight until they finally got their position. That means, the people that got sent here are all battle hardened and considered as the best of the best.

The thought of two women with the strength of fourth and fifth meridian, killing numerous fifth and sixth meridians like that is unbelievable for them.

"How many of you left?" Kreg asked.

"Originally there are eight of us here, three of us are sixth meridians, and the rest are fifth."

Kreg stayed quiet and let him continued.

"Ri-right now, they're all dead." the voice started sobbing. "I'm the only one left, sir."

For some reasons, Kreg felt a chill on his spine as he heard that. As he and his group stayed quiet and started thinking, they suddenly heard noises from the other side. Screams and begging of mercy was heard clearly. While they're listening, the noises stopped. As the silence continued, suddenly their group heard a soft giggle from a woman. And with a gentle and seductive voice, she whispered.

"Found you."

After that, the connection ended and all they could hear from the other side is silence.

A couple minutes later, Kreg clicked his tongue and murmured, "fcking useless..".

Even though they heard all of that, except for being shocked a little bit, they didn't really feel that scared. After all, they might be on the same fifth or sixth meridians like them, but their qualities are a lot more higher than them. Besides, those that they talk to earlier are nothing but those who just barely passed the test and got included here. In short, the caller and their group are nothing but just some extra thats needed to add numbers.

"Well, forget those trashes." Kreg turned around and looked at the other five. "The other's are already preparing, and some of them already started the hunt. We cant be late. After all, we're the strongest. It'd be really embarrassing to come home with us killing only the small fries. We should aim higher."

Hearing that, all of them smirked slightly and looked at the city bellow them. To be more specific, they're looking at the chubby looking guy laughing and playing with the girls on the park. With just one look, they could see that his appearance is nothing but a lie. And even though he acted like a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, they know he's the best target they could find.

"Why don't we start with the person titled, the strongest?"

Kreg and his group narrowed their eyes with anticipation. And with a small voice, Kreg whispered.

"First in the Top Rankings, Long Chen."