95: difficulty

Ning Ruogong walked towards the city gate. His identification, rulebook, and the beast bag given to him by the sect had all been confiscated.

He tried to explain what happened to the Elder again, but the Elder simply wouldn't listen. In his view, what had occurred should never have happened.

Finally, he reluctantly left the area. He had been expelled, making him a rogue cultivator.

"It's fine. I have this system. As long as I have it, I can go anywhere. I can do anything. This is just a small island on one continent, on one planet in the infinite. Once I have enough energy, I can go anywhere I want."

"For now, I should focus on gathering my energy," he thought. Then, he looked at the Night sky and the Beetle following him. Night wasn't conspicuous, so it wasn't a problem, but the Beetle was too large.

"Sigh, System, can you make a 20kg storage space for one beast and a 300kg storage space for another?" he asked.

<Beast Space 1x20kg and 1x300kg costs 370,000,000 energy> "Yeah, buy it," he said.

<Confirmed>

Now that he had a space within him, the beasts could freely stay there, cultivating their techniques at a higher rate, and could also be healed if injured.

Furthermore, and perhaps the best part, it was connected to his Cross-dimensional Storage, so as long as there was food inside it, the beasts in the beast bag would always get food when hungry.

As soon as the bird and insect entered, he went to the city gate, paid a small fee, and entered the city. Then, he found himself a tavern.

He spent a full 10 gold coins to rent the tavern for 100 days so he could safely raise his energy cap. Soon, energy would become something he wouldn't need to care about.

He cultivated all Night, waiting until dawn. At dawn, when it was time for the daily cap reset, he stopped cultivating.

"Hmm... Kinetic Energy. The energy of a moving object, no, an object moving relative to me, that's what the System said. Then..." he mused, referring to our Night.

Night descended, and he looked around. He wasn't hungry, there were no fights, and it was early morning. So, he looked around in confusion, wondering why he could calm down.

"Hit me with your flat claws, as hard as you can," Ning Ruogong said.

"Hit. Master. No." The bird believed he couldn't do what he was asked.

"Do it, I permit you," Ning Ruogong said. He hadn't yet used Supreme Rule on Night, so it wasn't fully obeying his commands and needed persuasion. "If you hit me, I'll give you more snake skin," Ning Ruogong said.

Swish.

Night suddenly flew towards him, kicking him with its overlapping claws. Ning Ruogong extended his hands, expecting a loud sound.

Someone did, but the sound wasn't that loud.

"Is this how I obtain Kinetic Energy?" he thought. "Status."

[Status

Name: Ning Ruogong

Energy: $3,462,000,000

Separated Energy -

Heat Energy: 3,426,000,000

Sound Energy: 32,000,000

Qi Energy: 0

Kinetic Energy: 2,000,000

Skills: Simultaneous Thought, Intermediate Map, Omniscient Language, Candlelight, Yin-Heat Conversion Technique, Night Vision

I, Cross-dimensional Storage (Time Stop; 112kg), Air Cutter, Telepathy, Yin-to-Sound Conversion Technique, Water Filtration, Mundane Jade Cultivation Method, Sun God's Morning Cleansing Technique, Qi Cultivation Analysis, Body Cultivation Analysis, Basic All Languages, 2x Qi Adaptation Rate, Radiant Holy Sword, Supreme Rule, Beast Space]

"Wait, sh*t. Most of it went to Sound Energy. No, I want Kinetic Energy," Ning Ruogong said, frustrated.

When two objects collide, Heat Energy and Sound Energy will always be produced. If Ning Ruogong wanted to continue collecting Kinetic Energy, he would have to do something other than just being hit by Night.

"Hmph. Energy always converts from one form to another. How can I collect Kinetic Energy without mixing in heat and sound?" He began to feel unusually frustrated.

"F*ck, System. Help me. Give me some information on how to collect Kinetic Energy," he demanded.

<Regarding energy issues, this System cannot help you>

<The host must figure out a solution on their own>

"...," Ning Ruogong said, trying to calm himself down. He couldn't do anything else, so he decided to continue cultivating. To further increase his cultivation speed, he decided to purchase 4x Qi Adaptation Rate.

Fortunately, the previous rates were added, and the previous cost was discounted, so he ended up only having to pay approximately 884 million in energy.

This was still a lot of energy, but at least he wasn't being exploited by the System.

For the next 10 days, he spent his time cultivating and consulting different knowledge. He wanted to buy a comprehensive beast information knowledge, but apparently, it had information from the entire multiverse, and even a basic cosmic one started at approximately 23,000,000,000,000.

This made him realize that what he had learned from the Mist Origin Sect about beasts was still far from the tip of the iceberg. In the end, he bought an intermediate version, specifically for beasts on the Kumiya Planet.

Finally, after 100 days of different types of attacks, Ning Ruogong barely managed to collect Kinetic Energy and unlock his next cap.

Now, the cap had increased to 80 million energy per day. Ning Ruogong spent another approximately 50 days cultivating non-stop. He was very close to a breakthrough, and on the 49th day, he broke through to the Fifth Qi Condensation Realm.

His power increased again as his body and Qi were now on equal footing. Later, on the 50th day, he successfully collected 250 million Kinetic Energy and once again increased his cap, doubling it to 160 million energy.