At the end of it all, only the people from the Sunrise sect were still staying.

"Brother Ghost! You really did it"

Compared to the boys, the girls were more excited as they surrounded him like the ants around the sugar.

Elder Mark put his hand on Micheal's shoulder and gave a nod of appreciation.

"System, transfer Thirty-five thousand gold from the ring to the storage"

[Ding! Transfer successful]

"I should give this to you"

After transferring the amount he received from Sadie, he gave the ring to sect leader Claire. At first, she looked reluctant to take the ring but after looking at the other elders, she took the ring from him.

"No offense but just don't ask me to wear these orange uniforms because those are fugly "

Haha...

All the disciples from the sect burst into laughter hearing him because they themselves knew the orange uniforms were far too ugly and it was good to hear someone openly saying this to the elders. Since the elders were in a good mood, they too laughed and the atmosphere became very lively.

"First, we should return to the sect and settle some of our debt"

Elder Sandra sighed.

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At the moment, Micheal was following the elders to the sect through a rural road and his black robes had a tint of brown due to the dust.

"Brother Ghost, you never told us where you came from?"

One of the girls asked him curiously.

"Well, since I was born, I never stayed in the same place for long, I like to travel, so I can't give a direct answer to your question"

"What about your parents, Brother Ghost?"

"I don't have any"

Even though he answered this question too many times while he was growing up, it still hurt him to say it again. A sudden change appeared in their faces when they heard him.

"I'm sorry, Brother Ghost"

"Don't be, it's alright"

His gentle smile made the girl quickly forget about this and because of his easy-going behavior, they felt comfortable around him and established a good relationship with him.

"Young man, then how did you cultivate to this point? Those spells you used looked extremely rare and precious" Elder Miled joined the conversation and asked.

"As I said, Elder Mark, I traveled a lot, met many people, explored many ruins. Since I don't have anyone to teach me or help me in the cultivation path, I have to do all that not to waste my talents"

"Worry not anymore young man, even though we don't have many resources to provide you, we can teach you and guide you on the right path"

Elder Mark proudly said as he patted on his back. All disciples of the Sunrise felt proud looking at him, almost putting him on top of this world.

None of them were idiots, especially after witnessing what he was capable of. For such a freak of nature like him, even if he was in the three big sects, he would be amongst the top disciples, and the sect's management would put a lot of focus on him. Besides, after today's competition, his name would spread across the Bredia Kingdom, so he was now a superstar of the younger generation.

Since now even the worst of the outer disciples of the three big sects ridicule them and their sect as well as bully them whenever they could. However with him as their core disciple which the elders would surely make him as one, they had the means to walk head high in front of those who mocked them.

"And don't think that you don't have a family, young man, as Elder Miles said, we don't have resources but we treat everyone in our sect as our family and now you have become one of us"

Elder Sandra slightly brushed his head like a mother and smiled at him. For the first time in his long life, his heart felt warm as he smiled.

He had quite a good impression of the people in the sect. They were poor in wealth but very rich in kindness. Although he was once the greatest assassin slash hitman ever lived on the earth, he was a lonely man as he had no family, no friends, no girlfriend, and no one even saw his real face except for his mentor. All he had was his job and a shit load of money in his offshore accounts and affection towards his job.

"YOU!"

She tried to shout but her throat tightened and face turned red because this was the first time she had been this close to a man. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at his eyes while her heart started to punch against her chest as she could feel the heat coming from his nose and sense the fragrance of his face.

"What...are...you"

She was powerless and she knew if he wanted to take advantage of her, there was no stopping it.

"Jeez, would it kill you to apply some makeup!?"

As he asked, he moved to the side as she was frozen by his comment for a moment.

"AH!"

Micheal suddenly felt a sharp pain in his hand and looked at his arm to see she was furiously biting it in anger like a little girl.

"Did you at least brush your teeth?"

"I'll...ka...ll...yo..."

She became even more furious when she heard him and put more strength to bite his hand.

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Micheal laid down on the bed as he stared out of the window, watching the beautiful moon, and the beautiful girl on the sofa before him. The light from the moon reflected on her figure and made her look extraordinarily beautiful. Even if she tried to dress as a ghost to scare him, it would have been impossible due to how beautiful she is.

"Hey"

"What?"

After what happened on the bed, there was a tint of shyness in her eyes but she masked it with an annoyed expression.

"I'm going to break through, so you have to keep anyone from disrupting my cultivation" Micheal sat upright and said.

"This soon? You just had reached the Body refining stage two days ago!"

She frowned and didn't believe he could breakthrough again but after spending time with him, she knew this freak of nature might be telling the truth.

"Cultivation is a walk in the park for a talented person like me"

He winked at her. Gaya had never met a more narcissistic self-praising human like him before as he now looked like the definition of pride.

"What can I do? Bite whoever comes knocking? You have to give me something to get back some of my power" For a moment she resembled a sly fox. As for what she meant by something, he knew she wants a healing pill to heal her meridians.

"Here, you greedy snake"

He already bought one pill from the shop as he threw it at her.

"Only one?!"

She growled when she realized he only gave her one pill and at this rate, it would take at least two hundred more pills to completely repair her broken meridians and start cultivating.

"One now and do this successfully, I'll give you two pills "

"Four pills"

Gaya raised four fingers and bargained

"Three pills"

"Deal"

She proudly smiled praising her bargaining talent and suddenly she remembered something.

"Why didn't you ask those old f**kers to do this?"

"I forgot it and it's too late to knock on their doors"