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As time passed, Ryan began to notice that his meridians were being cleared. Step by step, he could feel the origin energy spreading through his body when suddenly his aura erupted. Ryan felt that he broke through some kind of barrier, he knew that he stepped into the first level of body tempering stage in his energy gathering cultivation.

The warm feeling spreading across his body due to evaluating his aptitude also stopped. Nevertheless, Ryan didn't want to stop cultivation yet. He wanted to cultivate for a little longer.

....

Half a month have passed.

Ryan stepped into the third level of body tempering stage. He reached a bottleneck in his cultivation and he couldn't progress any further. Therefore, he stopped cultivating, he also wanted to solidify his cultivation base and foundation before he continued.

He thought of the best way to solidify his cultivation base, which was usually by fighting or taking special resources like pills or herbs. But since he didn't have any resources at this moment, he decided to go out and fight some beasts.

Another reason why he wanted to fight was because he wanted to try out the monster transformation, he already had it ready, but he didn't have the chance to test it out.

As he opened up his eyes, Ryan expression turned awful, and he looked at his body that was covered with impurities. Ryan knew that it was inevitable, because the cultivator will expell the toxins inside his body during cultivation sometimes.

Even though he knew about it, Ryan didn't expect the smell to be this bad. He didn't have time to celebrate his advancement in cultivation at this moment. Instead, he walked out of the cave and jumped directly in the pond to wash his body as soon as possible.

The pond was deep enough for Ryan to soak his whole body withouth a problem. And he did so, he wished to scrub off the filth covering his body as soon as possible.

He kept scrubbing his body and only relaxed when he felt clean enough. He already took off all the clothes during the process, which consisted of an inner wear and a ragged robe.

After he finished, Ryan didn't immediately leave. Instead, he went to the side of the lake and soaked his body, showing his head above water. The water was cool and Ryan enjoyed it. As he was soaking in water, Ryan finally had the chance to see this body's face.

'Wow, i am so handsome!' Ryan had to admit, the previous owner of this body got some good genes. Then he realized that most people are good looking in this world, of course the reason was the nourishment they receive from the origin energy.

Ryan admired his handsome looks for a while, he had the face of a young boy with some baby fat on it, long golden hair and glistening amber-coloured eyes, long thick eyelashes with tall sharp nose and thin rosy lips. Ryan realised that the hair natural colour in this world is unusual, unlike his previous world where only a few colours exist.

He looked at his face and he thought that he could become more handsome when he grew up, his body was that of a 14 years old boy at this moment and there was still room for improvement. And as he advanced in cultivation, his looks will only improve, and if he kept cultivating hard enough, he could stay young for a long time.

As he was relaxing, Ryan began to think about his next step. He wanted to start cultivating his body refinement technique, but body refinement is mich harder than energy gathering. And Ryan realised that he needed to use a special way to refine his body.

One way was to get injured, it required the cultivator to hurt himself by using a self-harming method, or go through battles that could cause injuries. Another way was it to consume different kinds of pills or heavenly resources that could help during the body refinement process.

"System, do you have any items in the shop that could help me in my body refinement cultivation?" Ryan decided to check the system first, even though he didn't have system points at this moment, but that won't last long since he plan on going on a journey to explore the forest.

[Answering the host, the system shop have a variety of items, pills, techniques and treasures that could aid the host cultivation.]

"Open the shop for me then." Ryan decided to check it out first. And a list appeared in front of him. Ryan went through the list and realized that there was a tremendous amount of items that could help, but there was one problem.

'They all require system points.' Ryan thought. All the items required a specific amount system points, the items prices ranged from 300 system points to millions.

"System, can you tell my how do i earn system points?" Ryan had his doubts, usually he could kill monsters and other players in games to earn money. But this was the real world, he thought there might be different ways to earn the system points.

[The host can earn system points by killing a living creature or by recycling an item. The system will exchange system points according to the item's value.]

'There is a recycling function too!?' Ryan marveled at such an ability. He suddenly thought about becoming a thief then he shook his head immediately, he wasn't a bad guy anyway.

'Well, that won't stop from stealing from the other bad guys!' He suddenly felt enlightened, he became excited to find some criminals, but he didn't do soat this moment, sine he had more important things to do.

He closed the shop and decided to start farming. Naturally, as a gaming addict who loved farming Ryan felt excited.

He went out of the pond, still naked. He didn't plan to wear his old clothes, since they were haggard and smelled bad. And he was going to transform later, so he doubted if they could stay intact after transformation.

Ryan was standing on the grass, he felt the blowing wind brushing against his skin and he had to admit that he felt free at this moment. He tried to transform, but he didn't know how so he decided to ask the system.

"System how do i transform?"

[The host need to think about transformation and the name of the monster you want to transform into.] The cold mechanical voice of the system answered like always.