I started my killing spree after noticing that I had not that much time using this function. I killed 5 rank 1 monster in 1 hour and gained 2 upgrade card. I decided that I will kill keep on killing until I reached the maximum of Qi I could keep in the system until where I had to refine the Qi. I looked to my left to see a gang of rank 2 wolfs but I decided against fighting them, cause if I did they would have ganged up on me and kill me.

I started to spread my Qi sense to sense where monster with a rank 1 were, soon I found 36 rank 1 monster on my surroundings. I started to go look for the first one and decided to use my bare hands to fight, so I could build a fighting sense for myself.I come close to the beast and I could make out what kind of beast it was, it looked like a normal bear but with longer fangs. I went in front of it and confronted it from the front. The bear looked at me and roared in a very loud voice that it attracted other beasts around us. Suddenly, from my surroundings 2 other bears appeared and launched an attack with their fangs at me. My body reacted unbelievably quickly and dodged the fangs and tried to attack the bears on instinct, but before my attack could land on their body I was attacked by the third bear and was sent flying towards a tree behind me.

I felt my ribs breaking, but I could still get up and I felt like that wouldn't be able to defeat with my hand only so I activated blood, death aura, so I could neglect 10% of the damage that I might take. After activating blood, death aura I took out the ordinary sword and said menu in my mind. I looked at the equipment section and a sword with its rank and cost to upgrade. I spent 3 upgrade card to upgrade it from normal to common than from common to uncommon and now I was left with 1 upgrade card.

I felt my ribs breaking, but I could still get up and I felt like that I wouldn't be able to defeat them with my hand only so I activated blood, death aura, so I could neglect 10% of the damage that I might take. After activating blood, death aura I took out the ordinary sword and said menu in my mind. I looked at the equipment section and a sword with its rank and cost to upgrade. I spent 3 upgrade card to upgrade it from normal to common than from common to uncommon and now I was left with 1 upgrade card.attack from my left and right sides sending me back on the spot that I was thrown couple of seconds ago.

This time when I was attacked I notice the difference the between when having death, blood aura activated and when it was not activated. Learning my lesson from this experience I stood up and used the same momentum and ran towards the bear, but this time I cut the 2nd boar's head than twisted my body as fast as I could and cut the other bear's head. I collected the bears fangs and threw it in the pouch where I had the other beast fangs.

(At the moment I didn't notice that the 10.75% in my dantain had already been refined cause just now in the fight I was being suppressed and my body used this moment to refine the qi in my dantain.)

I continued killing the rest of the 33 rank 1 beasts and earned 3 upgrade card. I looked up in the sky to see it turning dark I decided to go home and eat dinner, but before I did that I went to the river next to the forest to wash my body, so that Lucy doesn't get worried about the wounds on my body specially the ones I got from the bears. I washed myself and went home.

When I reached I said "hi" to Lucy and takes about what we did today. She mainly stayed at home doing nothing. After we finished talking I went and started to refine the key in my dantain and to my surprise 10.75% of it was already refined. I asked the system "why was 10.75% of Qi refined"

"When you were fighting the bears you were feeling pressure from fighting them, so your body, refined that Qi to make you handle them and not die" I looked at what percentage was still remaining, I still had 41.25% left refine. I decided that I would refine Qi for 5 hours each day and follow this structure each day. I started to put everything away and started to refine the key in my donation by just letting it through my body, 1 cycle, 2 cycles, 7 cycles, 14 cycles, 49 cycles, 108 cycles and 187 cycles.

It took me the whole 5 hours to refine 10% of the Qi in my dontain I thought to myself that I should be able to break through the 3rd rank of muscle refinement stage in 10 days and the same will go for all other sub stages in muscle refinement stage. I opened my eyes and got off the bed and had a warm shower so I could go to sleep and wake early tomorrow and do some more hunting. I finished washing myself and came back to sleep but as I was coming out I felt that something was happening to my body.

I asked the system what was happening, it said that my cultivation state was stabilised by the system, so it was nothing that I had to worry about. Slowly a grin appeared on my face as I remembered if you didn't have a solid foundation you will not be a match to a real cultivator at your stage, but the thing that brought the grin on my face was that I didn't have to stabilise my foundation as the system did for me.