Blue Phoenix Chapter 18 – Black Market Auction House

Yam Chi-Keung was a young man who had just turned twenty-three years old. He had been part of the first batch of students who had aspired to attend the martial arts schools from the age of five years old. Although he did not have the talent to enter the Royal Academy, he had managed to reach the fifth star Student rank a few months after the admission test by cultivating on his own.

Yam Chi-Keung’s parents were poor. However, his uncle owned a shop and had just enough money to assist the young child in his cultivation. The uncle had considered it an investment as cultivators were in high demand, and he had been right.

Yam Chi-Keung currently was a first star Practitioner ranked expert. Although he had reached the Practitioner rank, he had braved the toilsome battle with the first bottleneck every cultivator encounters in their journey, before his eventual breakthrough, as the quality of his qi was just below average.

His qi was of such low quality that it was currently impossible for Yam Chi-Keung to open his middle dantian. If he were to consume a large amount of Qi Refining pills, then it might become possible. As to whether or not he could open the upper dantian, it would prove an ungodly endeavor against his favor; like trying to fuel an engine with soil. He would never be capable of doing so.

The first few years had been spent at his uncle’s shop where he had worked hard on his cultivation, moonlighting as a security guard. As soon as he had broken into the Student rank, Yam Chi-Keung had joined a mercenary group and traveled to the Magical Forest time and time again.

Back then, his cultivation had been very low, and his job as an errand boy had earned him some coin. Although they considered his job to be of the least important in their midst - making it the least paid job - it had kept Yam Chi-Keung out of danger. Nobody had expected him to partake in the fights against the magical beasts.

After five years of working with the mercenary group, Yam Chi-Keung had finally reached the last few stars of the Discip

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