Lin Lingtian could not help but feel excited . This golden finger did not have any other use other than to change the duration on the status bar. A single press of the plus button would increase the duration by one minute.After holding it for five seconds, the duration would become infinite.

By pressing the minus button, the duration would be reduced by one minute. After five seconds, the status would disappear completely.

What did that mean?

From his memories , things like pills that could do wonders existed in this world .

This meant that if he ate a pill in the future, it was equivalent to eating this pill forever!

After receiving one enhancement, the power of the enhancement would never disappear! The only shortcoming was that this golden finger was powerless against certain statuses that had no duration.

Take [Hunger] for example. How could hunger, as a status, have a duration such that it disappeared after a period of time?

When it was time to eat, he still had to eat. After he was done treating his injuries and putting on a new pair of clothes from the bag he found near his body .

Speaking of his body , this body had a fighters build that most karate or taekwondo practitioners had .

Lin Lingtian walked out of the alley .

At this moment, the sky had already turned dark . Jogging his memories , the original Lin Lingtian had save enough money to attend the Holy Orchid Institute's entrance test where the soul realm and soul force would be tested .

A soul realm is the basis of on which talent is measured in Glory City .

There were 7 soul realms : Red , Orange , Yellow , Green , Cyan , Azure and Indigo .

The previous Lin Lingtian had thought that due to him being a 2 star bronze rank fighter , he could gain a scholarship by showing that he had potential in him that was worth investing for the future safety of Glory City , so that was his goal for now .

( Grrrrr )

But he first had to eat something solid .

[ A Few Hours Later ]

Well he found a place to stay the night and eat but the problem was the place he found was a cheap brothel .

He calmly walked through the crowd to the long table where the food was distributed.The person distributing the food was a burly man who looked like an iron tower.

He was dressed in black and had an ugly mark on his face.

The man glanced at him before he scraped off the last bit of soup from the iron pot, and then he casually grabbed a piece of roasted meat and a steamed bun before placing them on the tray before pushing them towards Lin Lingtian.

The soup, which was originally not much, was completely spilled by this push.

Speechless, he took over the tray of food.

Suddenly, he remembered that he had an appraisal skill that came along with him from the virtual game. He silently threw an appraisal at the man in black in front of him.

[ Name: Unknown ]

[ Gender : Male ]

[ Class: 4 star Silver rank ]

[ Danger Level: Extremely Dangerous ]

Lin Lingtian was shocked. He did not expect that a random appraisal skill would show someone to be extremely dangerous.But the more important question was that why was a 4 star silver rank working in a cheap brothel .

Walking back to his room , Lin Lingtian skimmed through his memories to find out something .

Even though the memories of Lin Lingtian to him were like a movie someone has watched for the first time . After watching it you know the plot but not every little detail in the movies .

Was this brothel owned by someone powerful ? Was someone powerful visiting this brothel ?

[ Consumed 1 barbecued meat and 1 steamed bun. Hunger status has been removed. ]

[ Added Status: Satiety ]

[Satiety: Restores 1 Stamina per minute. ] [ Duration : 30 minutes ] (− +)

He pressed the plus button .

[ Satiety: Restores 1 Stamina per minute.

Duration: ∞] (-)

It was another new status, and the effect was actually quite good.

Having something in his stomach , he calmly thought about it and only came to one conclusion that actually made a lot of sense .The guy was from the Dark Guild .

A secret organization of criminals which is the driving force behind most illegal activities in Glory City .They are considered the enemy of the Glory City's ruling families.

According to the memories of Lin Lingtian , the young master of Sacred Family frequently visited many brothels so the best answer for why such a powerful expert that may or may not be from the Dark guild was in this brothel is that the young master of the sacred family was here and the spy was going to assassinate the young master .

Taking a deep breath , Lin Lingtian stood and decided to leave this establishment .

He didn't know what was the purpose of the spy . Nor was he strong enough to protect himself if a fight broke out between the spy and members of the sacred family . There must be more members of the Dark Guild . He didn't know how many were there and the unknown scared him .Sitting on the bench at the park of the Glory City Park , looks like this was this world equivalent of central park just like in New York .

Sitting on the bench , he couldn't help but sigh in relief , he had almost died...maybe

"Looks like I won't live long enough in this world if I don't increase my strength ."

He opened his interface and examined the interface as he looked at it from top to bottom.

Nothing .

Like literally nothing was on his interface that could help him become stronger .

Taking a deep breath , he began searching through his memories.

Oh yeah !

Opening his satchel , as he began searching through his few things and finally found what he was looking for .

In a white coloured Cloth was a blue pill and a notebook .

The Pill according to his memories was the Body Strengthening Pill . Pills like Soul Assembling Pills were out of his reach and the original Lin Lingtian had tried to steal a soul assembling pill a few months ago , when he was cleaning the room of Elder Shen Ming . Even though it was one pill , the elder had him whipped a 100 times .Remembering that moment , a primal hatred arose in the heart of Lin Lingtian . This hatred was not from him but from something within his heart .

Placing his palm of his heart .

" Your Hatred , I will one day quench it ."

Glancing at the pill , it didn't have any smell and was the size of a gumball. Looking at the book in his hands , this was stolen over the course of 5 years .

Every night when Lin Lingtian was a servant in the sacred family he would clean the library daily .

Even though he was punished for it , Lin Lingtian always done the job of cleaning up late which had allowed him a small window of time to read the cultivation techniques in the library .

Over the five years , through hearing the talks of the other servants he came to know what the cultivation technique that members like Shen Fei the young master of the sacred family used and had slowly but surely copied the entire scroll of the Sacred Fire Lotus Technique .

Lin Lingtian didn't practice the technique of fear someone will discover him and he will die at the hands of the sacred family .

Looking over the manual , Lin Lingtian began ready it .

' Blaze the Heavens with the Light , The light of guidance is the sacred flame . Creation and Destruction lies in the heart of the blaze of flame . Praise the King , Praise the Light , Praise the Sun . '

Even if he didn't understand what the hell was written on it but on his character interface .

[ Lesser Sacred Fire Lotus ( incomplete ) level 0 ] was added .

After reading it , Lin Lingtian frowned , had the cultivation technique Lin Lingtian salvaged over years of beatings and abuse jus this , an incomplete manual of a lesser cultivation technique .

Rather the getting demoralised , Lin Lingtian thought .

' According to Lin Lingtian's memories , this Technique is quite commonly used by many members of the Sacred Family then why is it an incomplete Technique . Why were the higher ups of The Sacred Family doing this ? ...Did they even know it was an incomplete Technique ? '

Shaking his head , Lin Lingtian dismissed his thoughts as it didn't matter to him what the members of the Sacred Family did or didn't .

Looks like he would have to wait until the start of Holy Orchid's Classes to get a proper cultivation technique as he doesn't think an incomplete cultivation technique was something he should practice .

Throwing back the cultivation technique into his satchel.Placing the pill on his palm .

The appraisal skill swept across, and a line of small words appeared above the pill.

[ Name: Body Strengthening Pill]

[ Type: Medicinal Pill]

[ Grade: Low-Grade Yellow-Rank]

The effect of the Level 1 appraisal skill was a little useless.There was very little information that could be obtained.

It seemed like he had to develop a habit like in the game, which was to appraise whatever he saw and level it up.

Without any hesitation, he swallowed the body Strengthening Pill.

Very quickly, a warm current flowed out from his stomach and slowly flowed through his limbs.

Another two notifications popped up infront of him .

[Consumed Body Strengthening Pill. Added Status: Body Strengthening]

[Body Strengthening: Increases physical

fitness, increases the cultivation speed of body cultivation methods of Medium-Grade Yellow-Rank and below. Duration: 2 hours] (− +)

Lin Lingtian did not even see the status effect clearly before he pressed the plus button for five seconds.

[Body Strengthening: Increases physical

fitness, increases the cultivation speed of body cultivation methods of Medium-Grade Yellow-Rank and below. Duration: ∞] (−)