Fighting to be Kind in a Cultivation World

Chapter 185: Sweating Intensifies

Chapter 185: Sweating Intensifies

Remaining in the fetal position, I can still feel the spiritual sense of the guards wash over me.

As time has passed, and their emotions have settled, it appears theyre doing the smart thing and ascertaining what is going on with me.

This is quite bad for me.

With the level of the sense that they haven me, as well as the situation that they saw in front of them, it will be clear to them I have some sort of self-healing ability. They will also be able to tell that I havent formally started into cultivation just yet, which would have at least given me the option of using my cultivation method as an excuse.

With this, it is more likely they will realize that I have a healing constitution of some sort. And a powerful one at that, as I was able to almost instantaneously heal from clearly deadly wounds.

This is pretty terrible because that now means that the alchemy Guild will know that I can heal this quickly. They will understand why I survived their assassination attempt.

And even worse, they may come up with plans on how they could use me as a test subject. Foreign alchemist, having a self-healing test subject would be the best thing you could ask for, as you could determine just how bad a poison would be. Alternatively, they could just try to torture me to get information and see how they could replicate the ability.

Last idea would be for a particularly resourceful cultivator to take over my body, to gain access to the ability.

Obviously, since the ability is tied to my soul instead of my body, it wouldnt work, but it would still be an overall terrible outcome for me.

I have a few chances to avoid this fate, though.

The first chance is that the sect would be the first to know about what happened here. In the event that something happens that is worth the attention of a superior, they would either inform them immediately or wait until their posting ends.Yôur favorite stories at novelhall.com

Considering the waves Ive already made in my application, theyd easily be able to match my description and what I was going for.

This would make me an asset to them.

Despite the shock of the situation, this hasnt reached the level of using their communication tokens to contact a superior immediately. Only a demonic attack or a full assault would warrant such a thing.

The main reason? When someone comes through the first and second areas of the teleportation, each step passes along some information from the previous areas guards.

Not only that, but the information that they received from the first area is that Im a noble of some kind. Just this is enough to stay their hand and use caution with the situation.

Its likely also the reason they didnt attack me when I was in the house and simply got me out of the array area. Already, such an action is one that could get them in hot water, even if they were right to do so.

While carrying me, he quickly checks to see if Im conscious or not. I can see his face pale as he realized that Ive been awake the whole time. That I have seen each of their actions.

After placing me back in the house on the mats in the position they found me, he goes back and communicates this to the other guards, who also start worrying.

The anger of a noble is no joke.

Regardless of how right you are.

I can already see them going through different scenarios of what they might have to do. As they appear to be foundation establishment cultivators, they can speak in extremely low tones that no normal human could hear, but still communicate clearly between each other.

It is only with my scan that Im able to determine what theyre saying.

Funnily enough, one of them looks up sharply in comments that there is a possibility that I may be able to hear them with some artifact or something, so they switched to using a private sign language communication between each other.

Since most of my scan is focused on trying to make sure that everything is set up correctly for my cultivation journey, Im not able to decipher what their code means.

However, it doesnt really take a genius to know what theyre thinking. They are considering whether it is better to just get rid of me.

If they are smart, they will quickly realize that theyve left too many clues for a dedicated noble group looking for answers to follow.

And theres one thing that you can say about nobles.

They take threats and injuries to their face very seriously. No matter who its from.

If something happened, itll be bad. But if you try to hide something away, and you dont do a good enough job of doing so, it infuriates them.

I can practically see the resignation fill their face as they come to the same realization. Theyll just have to wait for me to formally go towards them and address the issue.

Soon enough, my changes are completed. It takes a couple more hours to do so than planned.

Almost immediately, I let my Qi flow through all parts of my body in accordance with the cultivation method. A wave of Qi washes out from me, showing that I just reached the first level of Qi Condensation.

The sweat increases on their brows.