Chapter 10: Marketplace

Jie Jun let Jie Zhengfeng rush him as he moved his body to lean sideways a little while keeping his hands behind him. The first move of Jie Zhengfeng's missed as his palm slap hit nothing but air beside Jie Jun.

Jie Jun gave a small smile to his cousin, "You still have two more moves if you want." he taunted. Seeing the look passing his cousin's face, he couldn't help but think trash talking was a good way to vent. If he was to start attacking too soon, it would be over before he could truly release his anger.

"You only got lucky by guessing my first attack. There won't be another time." Jie Zhengfeng shot back. Then he raised his leg for an ax kick to make up the first mistake. This was also dodged by sidestepping.

Jie Jun could not help but be disappointed. His cousin was only using common moves and was hoping to land a hit. Even if he did land a hit, once the body became tough enough, only skills could make up for this difference. "Your second move, one more." He reminded.

At this time, Jie Zhengfeng didn't get mad. Instead, he began smiling crazily. "Hmph, I got you Sitter" With that said, his palm lit up in a glow as his speed strike was raised and aimed at Jie Jun's chest. When seeing this, Jie Jun knew he been had.

He had always known Jie Zhengfeng had got to visit the ability room three times. What he wasn't sure about was that if he learned more than two abilities. Jie Zhengfeng clearly was able to learn the Palm Push skill. This meant, he had two skills and one technique at least.

When the surrounding clansmen saw this scene, they reaffirmed that Jie Jun stood no chance against Jie Zhengfeng. One was a sitter, the other was the new number one genius in the Jie Clan. There was really nothing to compare between them.

As the palm strike got close to Jie Jun's chest, he vanished from Jie Zhengfeng's vision. It wasn't because he was too fast, it was because Jie Zhengfeng was too close. He had used Sprint to get beside him. "Sorry, but that's your last move."

Jie Jun then swung his leg forward as he used Sprint on it mid kick. With a hard hit by his glowing leg, Jie Zhengfeng was sent flying across the small platform stage. This action surprised everyone who believed the fight had already been determined.

Wasn't Jie Zhengfeng the new elite in the Jie Clan, a rising star? But who was Jie Jun? A born sitter that had nothing going for him besides being the Clan Leader's son. Who would believe them if they were told Jie Zhengfeng would lose to Jie Jun today? No one would believe them, let along lose in one move.

Jie Zhengfeng laid on the floor of the small stage coughing blood. Clearly, a few ribs were broken and maybe another inside injury somewhere. "Don't wait too long to get that fixed, or others will say I didn't go easy on you even though your surname is Jie."

When Jie Zhengfeng heard this, he could not help but cough another mouth full of blood, out of rage this time. How was this going easy on him? Wasn't it because he didn't care his surname was Jie that he was in this state? Otherwise, he would lightly wound him so he could have time to heal.

One had to remember that the Big Bully sect entrance assessment was only seven days away, with injuries like these, even if he did recover, he still might be affected by this duel. This was the same as crushing his chance to become a Ranker.

Without resources that sects like the Big Bully sect had, the people in Bullying City could forget leveling pass level 10. To level up to G3-rank, one needed to get exp kills from G3-rank wild beasts or use G3-rank death orbs. Could those below G3-rank accomplish such a thing?

The ranking effect was something of a nightmare to those lower in rank. No damage unless the attack is the same rank meant one couldn't kill across ranks. Who could say they were gifted enough to get their skills up to G3-rank before becoming G3-rank.

It was for this reason that the Big Bully sect could have all the main influence it Bullying City. If you wanted to become strong it was only through Big Bully sect or places outside Bullying City. The influence was so great that it was known by all that Big Bully sect was like the king or ruler of Bullying City. Next came the three Clans Jie, Liu, and Xiu.

Following the ladder of power, was the actual ruler of Bullying City, the Mayor House. The Mayor House was considered something of a joke because there were four names greater than it. How can one claim to be a ruler if one didn't have the highest power?

When the other clansmen saw and heard these things, they no longer thought Jie Jun was arrogant. Jie Jun was cruel instead. He was blocking someone from the same family's road to be stronger. If one from the clan gain strength, then it meant they all got stronger too.

Of course, this could be said the same as Jie Zhengfeng who was said to be stronger, chose to fight before the assessment and planned to not hold back. He had not even tried to hide his goal of destroying Jie Jun's chances. Only those blind would not see through this scheme.

The real truth was that Jie Jun really did take it easy on his cousin. The only way to give damage through a skill was through another skill or higher stats. Jie Jun did not have higher stats to break Jie Zhengfeng's Hard Body skill.

Getting support by a few of his followers, Jie Zhengfeng did not leave yet, he still had a few words left. "My father will not let this go Zero Sitter. You are going to pay for trying to affect my future development."

Jie Jun turn around to head back to his room now that the drama was over. He ignored the warning and threat he got because as it was, the older generation had no place to meddle with the younger generation unless they wanted to make an uproar in the whole clan.

The thing he wanted to do right now, was trying to level up and then take a small trip to the marketplace. The reason was to try his luck and see if there was a spear talent hidden in the death orbs sold. Talents orbs were something rare in Bullying City, so he doubted it but he would still try.

Once he arrived at his courtyard he cleared his thoughts. He then grabbed a level 3 death orb to start absorbing. What made leveling up slow was that when someone leveled, the exp they got from death orbs depended on their level.

Jie Jun was level 4 so any death orbs level 4 would give him exp from 1 to 99 exp. The thing was, people could only gain exp from death orbs one level lower than there own level or higher. For Jie Jun, he would need death orbs level 3 or higher to help increase his exp.

Level 3 orbs would have there exp cut in half giving only 1 to 49 exp. A level higher would have its exp raised 50 exp points each level higher. Like a level 6 death orb would give 1 to 199 exp. As for ranked death orbs, their exp gain was huge but if no good enough breathing technique, it was worthless.

Jie Jun's current exp was at 37/300 so he didn't have any worries if he could level or not, with his resources, it was a sure deal. With five level 3s and four level 4s, that should be more than enough. If it wasn't he still had two level 5s and one level 6 death orb.

Two whole days later, Jie Jun had ended up using all his level 3s and level 4s death orbs. Thankfully, he leveled or he would have needed to use the level 5 orbs before he had a chance to change his breathing technique to a better one.

His current stats could be said to be good for his level. He checked his status screen to finish using his body stat and redo his stats to what he preferred.

Status View

Name - [Jie Jun]

Age - [15] [Life Span 15/101]

Body Rank - [None]

Body Level - [5] [Exp - 2/350]

Body Stats - [0] Talent Stats - [0]

Vitality - [1]

Stamina - [3] {2+1}

Strength - [3] {2+1}

Agility - [9] {3+2+4}

Spirit - [1]

Perception - [4] {3+1}

Physical Resistance - [5] {1+2+2}

Spirit Resistance - [2]

Techniques - [3]

[Basic Refine Breathing] [Stat Redo]

[Basic Spearmanship]

Skills - [4]

[Identify] - [6] {1+1} [Sprint][G3] - [11] {2+2}

[Spear Thrust] [Conceal Presence]

Talents - [7]

[Double Stats Up] [Status View] - [6]

[Talent Learn] [Body Motion] - [11]

[Void Status] [Agi Body]

[Phys Res Body]

Stretching, he decided to eat a meal with his family before asking his sister if she wanted to tag along and help him search at the marketplace. After a quick meal, Jie Jun and his older sister left to search around.

The marketplace was located a little way from the center of Bullying City. What was in the center was the Big Bully sect that was taking sign-ups. The Jie Clan would be said to be on the east side of the city, the Liu Clan toward the south, the Xiu Clan west, and the Mayor House to the north.

Each taking a portion of the city from themselves. Through the Big Bully sect was in the center, it still held a small area that led northward, toward an area used for life and death experiences. They both soon arrived at the market.

Most of the time, one could see stall set up with many sellers. Though there was a lot, it had nothing on places like the Royal City. About 70% of the sellers were people who didn't leave Bullying City so the items couldn't be said to be rare.

If there was a good item, the auction house located in the market area would be the first to most likely gobble it up. Hopefully, he could use the silver coins from the group of five to grab any leftovers since the auction house wasn't open for any auctions.

As they searched, he didn't see anything that stood out or was a talent orb. His sister, on the other hand, was as if she was a child inside a candy store. She would jump from one place to the next. Pointing and asking to look here or there.

After some time he heard her grab his attention again. " Look, look, there is a youngling as cute and small like the young me." She pointed.

Taking a look, he saw in a corner area, an animal looking like it could have seen better days. What was weird is, it was in the city and nobody paid attention to it. Even he would not have noticed it if Jie Li didn't point it out first. To not notice with a 4 stat perception was strange.

The animal looked like a small elephant the size of a grown cat. It was white around the body area and black on its legs and head. It even had its tusks already despite it being young. Was it a wild beast? He had never seen a normal animal since he got to this world so he didn't think it was normal now.

He then used Identify to check it out but got nothing. That couldn't be possible unless it was a ranked body. How could it be already ranked at that age? Before he got to check father, he heard commotion to the side of him.

Wait! Where was Jie Li?

"I have never seen such a beautiful thing such as you! Do you have a pretty name to go with a beautiful face?"