New Life

Gaofeng woke up after sleeping about six hours, and this surprised him, as he felt fully rested. It seemed like his reborn body had benefits like this as well, as Gaofeng had estimated that he would need more than 20 hours of sleep to get over the exhaustion from yesterday's trials, however his metabolism had been greatly boosted, and his evolved DNA made it far harder for him to exhaust himself in addition to this increased regeneration after being exhausted. After thinking about these matters for a couple of moments, he finally realized that the girl was still laying on top of him, but now she wasn't merely laying on top of him, but she had instead grabbed his waist with both her arms, and was clinging to Gaofeng with her face buried in the crook of his neck. Such a sensual scene would make any youth heat up, but Gaofeng quickly suppressed such urges utilizing his heart-realm and simply loosened her grip gently with his hands before sliding out of her embrace. To not make the girl notice the lack of his presence, however, he grabbed a large pillow and used it as a replacement. She seemed like she was quite exhausted as well.

After getting out of her embrace, Gaofeng did a quick stretch before heading out of the room. The moment he touched the door-handle, however, he heard the noise of a person shifting. He glanced behind him and noticed that the girl was now completely awake and staring at him. She had a tinge of red spreading across her cheeks, and she hesitated slightly before saying "You didn't take advantage of me in my sleep, right?" Gaofeng shook his head slightly before cheekily giving her a wink and leaving behind the words "Thanks for last night" as he exited the room. The girl was left in exasperation and pouted slightly as she lightly beat the bed below her with clenched fists. She knew that she should feel like she had been somewhat violated due to the close contact with a complete stranger, but she couldn't really blame him as she was the one who initially attacked him. Why did that bastard have to be so frustrating to deal with? She sighed heavily as she concluded that she didn't thoroughly dislike the feeling of sleeping on his body, and she definitely knew that she had fell asleep like that because she woke up during the night. However, seeing the handsome and completely defenseless Gaofeng soundly sleeping beneath her, she couldn't help but feel her heart flutter slightly. Instead of distancing herself from him, she instead nuzzled up to him and embraced him. He wouldn't know of this anyway, right, so she was simply taking advantage of him rather than the opposite. That's what the girl told herself at least, that this was a kind of revenge for him barging into her room and making her feel helpless.

What Gaofeng was currently doing, however, was going through a map he had found on the nightstand of the bedroom. The map wasn't exactly a normal paper map, but instead a holographic map which always at any given time showed his position in relation to his destination. He merely had to think about what he wanted to do, and the map would automatically create a path to the place which best fit the description of what he wanted. At this moment, Gaofeng wanted to truly find out how powerful his body was, and thus he was being guided towards the strength-testing hall.

Gaofeng's speed was much quicker now because of his transformation, and thus he quickly found himself in the strength-testing hall. He wasn't in a hurry to thoroughly test every aspect of his new body right now, but he wanted to know the approximate level of his physical strength. This hall was filled with a myriad of strange devices, long hallways which recorded speed, special armored plates which could measure the striking power, human-like mechanical training dummies, and multiple circular rooms which had many small holes in the walls. Gaofeng also noticed a great amount of other devices which he was a stranger to. He had only come here with one purpose, however, so he walked steadily over to the armored plate which could measure striking power. One simply had to hit it with their greatest power, and this machine would use that power in conjunction to the average power of different cultivation stages to determine the approximate cultivation realm the power behind the strike could be equated to. Gaofeng decided upon using a simple palm technique which was just a martial art he had trained when he was younger. This was far from a true ability like those utilized by cultivators, and was instead a simple physical palm strike. Gaofeng tensed his legs, rotated his chest 90 degrees to the right and lifted his palm. Utilizing the momentum of his rotation in addition to the force of his legs, arms and chest, he struck the metal plate with all the physical power he could muster. The machine took a second to process the power of the strike before the display right next to the metallic plate showed a simple "Divine core realm, stage 2". Sucking in a deep breath, Gaofeng quietly exclaimed "I didn't think the improvement was that drastic, but this is even beyond my greatest expectations."

This simple strike wasn't the end of Gaofeng's testing however, as he also wanted to utilize both the Yin-Yang Dragon Fist as well as the Heaven Destroying staff technique. He didn't have a staff at the moment, so he decided to first see how powerful the Yin-Yang Dragon fist truly was. He gathered the power of Yin and Yang in his right hand as he blended the energy together following the cultivation technique, until he formed the outline of a grand divine dragon with the Yin-Yang symbol visible on its forehead. Pulling his arm back, for so to strike out utilizing the first and only move available to him, "Rebellious Dragon Strike". This was the first fist-move in a sequence of ten total moves, but as he had only just begun cultivating the technique, he couldn't utilize any of the other moves. When the outline of the grand divine dragon, in conjunction with the power of his fist, hit the metallic plate, a small amount of hairline fractures could be spotted on the metallic plate if one looked close enough. The pause before he got a result was far longer than last time, taking a total of five seconds to complete its calculations. The final result, however, would make even the ancient elders of the Holy Temple shiver at the thought of such a young boy possessing this kind of might. "Dao searching realm, stage 1." Utilizing the power of a divine technique, his power had increased from "Divine core realm, stage 2," all the way to "Dao searching realm, stage 1". This increase was not simply that of doubling or tripling his power, but was instead akin to the power of an ant being transformed into the power of an elephant. Even most of the elders of the Holy Temple had a Dao searching realm cultivation, and thus how could a twelve-year-old boy possibly have the strength to contest these old fogies who had cultivated for millennia? Gaofeng smiled smugly at the thought. His long wait had truly paid off, and now his true cultivation path could commence. He knew it would be filled with great tribulations, considering his ambitions, but he welcomed any challenge. This kind of power and potential increased his confidence in achieving his goals to the point that he felt that the victory was already in the bag.