Training
It has been a few minutes after Jase broke through the first stage of body strengthening. Still currently sitting down Jase has decided to break through to body refinement before he does anything else.
Blue streams of energy flow towards him at a rapid pace seemingly with no limit. Finally personally experiencing the energy coupled with the memories, Jase quickly became proficient in absorbing it.
Stage 7...
Stage 8...
Stage 9...
Stage 10...
After reaching the final stage Jase suddenly stops absorbing the energy. Opening his eyes he could see Pixel lying down in the air whilst looking at him bored.
"Are you done?" She asks.
Jase replies, "no, but I just noticed that I have no idea where we are. Do you?"
"I do, but if you want a map then you're going to have to buy it. I'm not going to draw one for you." Pixel grumbles.
Pixel was still annoyed at the fact that all her belongings would be taken by someone else. She did not hate Jase nor blame him because he had no idea or rather, she never told him so she could only blame herself.
"Buy it? You mean from the system?" Jase asks.
"Yes and you currently have 1000 points. Every person with a system is given 1000 points to begin with."
Waving her hand the same type of transparent screen appears in front of Jase.
[Name: Jase
Age: 28
Cultivation level: Body strengthening stage 10
Status: Healthy, medium levels of impurities within body
Store ------------------
Tools
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Essentials
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Food
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Herbs
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Pills
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Weapons
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Armour
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Books
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Powers
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Lottery: 0 tickets ]
Overwhelmed by the menu, Jase did not know what to do or how to navigate through it.
"Just think of what you want and it will give you a list of the type of things you thought of." Pixel says suddenly.
Taking Pixel's advice Jase immediately thought of a map. The menu quickly changes.
[ Paper map of Jase's first planet: 10 points
Digital map of Jase's first planet: 100 points ]
"Hey Pixel, how does the digital map work?" Jase asks.
"Like the menu, you can bring it up whenever you'd like."
It was a choice of whether one would be willing to spend ten times the amount for something more convenient but, given the circumstances Jase does not want to be holding the map everywhere he goes when he could have it in the menu.
"I just tap on it to buy?" He asks.
"Yeah." Pixel replies.
Just about to tap on the menu Jase suddenly stops seemingly remembering something.
"But wait, how do I earn more points?"
"Easy. You just have to exchange it with something for the system. The system will judge how much it's worth and give you points accordingly."
With that answer, Jase's worries were alleviated so he could proceed to purchase the map.
*Ding!
[Digital map purchased.]
A map appears on the screen. Indicated in the middle is a green cursor which was probably Jase. Just like a game there was a scroll bar on the side for map size and on the left were numbers. It was most likely to be the worlds levels but currently, everything above level 1 is locked.
On the map, there appeared the words 'Energy gathering area' on a certain area and right next to it were the words 'Plant farm.'
That was it. The area Jase needed to head to first. But before that, he needed to break through into the body refinement stage.
Sitting down again Jase begins to absorb energy. The body refinement stage exists to remove all impurities making the body perfect. The body will be immune to weak poison and also many types of illnesses.
Before one can break through, they would need to locate where their bodies impurities are. This would usually be a long process but with Jase' inherited memories he already found them while he was breaking through the stages.
Absorbing and driving the energy within to remove the first impurity would indicate the first breakthrough.
Gathering energy into his body, Jase guides it to a location on his body with pin point accuracy before letting the energy do its job.
Dark black goo suddenly appears on Jase' body indicating the breakthrough to body refinement stage 1.
"Congrats, you've gotten a little stronger." Pixel said.
Waving her hand, the goo stuck on Jase's body floats up gathering into a ball before being thrown away into the distance.
Jase thanks Pixel for it.
'I really did make the right choice, 'He thought.
"Now that I broke through, lets head towards our first objective. The farm." Jase says.
Pixels only nods in return.
Jase proceeds to run but due to not testing his strength before hand he flies forward tens of meters before landing almost face planting himself.
Realising this mistake Jase decides to take some time in order to get used to his newfound strength.
*30 minutes later
Already used to his strength Jase was currently running in a plain green field with Pixel sitting comfortably on his shoulder. With each step Jase's foot sinks into the dirt before he launches himself dozens of meters forward. Keeping his body bent forward he is able to shoot forward like an arrow travelling about 200 k/hr.
Feeling the warm light and the cool winds brush his skin a smile forms on Jase's face.
'It feels good, ' was his thought.
*1 hour later
Reaching his location Jase is greeted by a large land of empty dirt of about 500 meters squared.
It seemed that training in body strengthening did not only increase strength but also endurance by multiple times as well.
Looking at the patch of dirt Jase remembers that he wouldn't have been able to plant anything without seeds or the product itself if it weren't for the systems store.
He laughs at his own stupidity. Jase would've been done for if the store didn't exist.
*growl
Jase's stomach growls. All that training has made him hungry but looking around he could only see green.
"If you're hungry, you can go hunt at a nearby forest a couple kilometres away from here over that ridge. Or you can just buy something from the system. A pill of just normal food." Pixel says.
Immediately opening the menu Jase selects food.
[Food ------------
Mortal food
Energy food
Divine food ]
Jase selects energy food curiously.
[Energy food -----------
Fried Griffon meat (Nascent soul stage 7): 50 points
Detoxified cooked King Cobra meat (ascension stage 6): 120 points
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Eating will increase cultivation depending on what level the individual is at.]
The foods listed were of what looks to be animals with cultivation levels.
There were high levels ones and low levels ranging from 5 points up to even 1000 points.
Seeing the message on the bottom of the menu Jase decides to try the food wondering how much he could level up by. Right now, at his cultivation stage, all he has to do is absorb energy and remove his impurities so eating this food might just make everything easier and less time consuming.
*Ding!
[Detoxified cooked King Cobra meat acquired.]