4th and 5th levels of stage 1 of the 4-fold path.

Despite the bone-deep pain ravaging my body, I keep my eyes open and quickly examine my body, the fat is literally being melted away as my skin tightens upon newly formed muscles. I immediately get into a stance as my suit pants tear from the strain of my muscles constantly growing muscles the size of my waist, only for them to immediately condense a smaller more efficient form, going from body builder to swimmer's physique over and over. I Haven't even started to cultivate yet and I already feel myself break through to the first stage of body tempering for each path of the four-fold path.

I start chanting, and then my body is strengthened to hold my future Spiritual Power.

I start running an algorithm through my brain that is now instinctive and my body is strengthened to hold the might of my Mind-Force.

I start doing the physical exercise, entering multiple stances in quick succession, and my body is strengthened over again to carry the strength of my Bodily-Ki.

I start visualizing Gods and Goddesses that I don't know the name of and my soul starts to be strengthened along with my body.

I quickly find that my power grows exponentially. Over and over my power is increased, in the corner of my vision I see my stats growing

[Body cultivation 0.15]

[Body Cultivation 0.2]

[Body Cultivation 0.25]

[Body Cultivation 0.3]

[Body Cultivation 0.35]

[Body Cultivation 0.4]

[Mental Power 1.5]

[Mental Power 1.6]

[Mental Power 1.7]

[Mental Power 1.8]

[Mental Power 1.9]

[Mental Power 2.0]

[Mental Power has reached a bottleneck and must be evolved into Psychic power]

I feel my mind start to ache and I feel a pop.

]You have reached stage 1 of mental-forming, level 1.]

[You now have a mental Barrier that extends across your body.]

[You may now move things with your mind Via Telekinesis estimated weight limit is 5 pounds.]

Notifications swim past my vision as I notice that I've reached the same Level of strength in all of my abilities. but the torrent of energy doesn't stop there, it continues to strengthen every aspect of myself.

as I continue to sink into the spiritual pool, the pain no longer bothers me. I can feel the ecstatic feeling of getting stronger constantly, and forcing my body beyond its limits,

[Soul power has reached the threshold you have reached stage 1 of soul-strengthening, level 1.]

[Soul Power 2.0]

[Soul Power 2.1]

[Body Cultivation has reached the threshold and is now stage 1, level 1.]

the notifications keep coming, and after a long while, they stop.

4 explosive feelings in my brain over the course of 10 hours.

4 explosive feelings across my body.

4 explosive feelings in what i instinctively know is my soul.

and finally for explosive feelings in my stomach.

I look at the notifications in the corner of my vision, and they enlarge I filter through the notifications that aren't up to date.

[Body Cultivation 4.0] (stage 1 level 4)

[Spiritual Cultivation 4.0] (stage 1 level 4)

[Psychic Power 3.0](stage 1 level 5)

[Soul-Force 3.15] (Stage 1 Level 5)

[Talent: 34.4](increased due to heavenly treasures/pills)

[Bloodline: Dormant Cosmic Demigod]

the water starts to recede and a platform stretching the length of the pool is pushed upwards so that I am forced out of any remaining spiritual liquid. Thinking fast, I start draining what I can into the storage ring, hoping that no one notices

an alarm starts to blare out into the pool and the platform stops.

[WARNING! Return the spiritual water to the pool or be disqualified! Disqualification will equal your death.]

I immediately dump it back in while internally cringing.

the alarm stops blaring after the last drop is back in the water. and then it recedes into the ground. The platform then continues to rise and I find myself quickly back in the room

I look at the clock, and it says 13 hours 30 minutes until next mission.

It was time to buy some answers.

"how much would it cost to buy the information about this contest?" I ask, hoping for a good answer.

"Basic information about the 230984th Inter-Planar Kung-Fu Hyper-verse contest is 100 points. Intermediate being 200 and advanced is 400. You cannot purchase anything above advanced. You have 1400 points remaining for abilities and martial techniques. Are you sure you wish to spend any on information?"

"Well, yeah, Flying blind isn't my favorite thing in the world at all." I sit down in the chair,

"Hit me with the intermediate knowledge." and I am immediately glad I sat down.

I have to survive in the most inhospitable dimensions and universes ever in the most horrible conditions. Every week I am sent to a new dimension to earn time and points for my dimension and myself. In fact, if i I didn't at least buy the basic info, I wouldn't have known that I need to purchase time for myself and my dimension at all. I and my dimension would be erased entirely within a week! These guys are monsters! 1 million universes are selected each time.

This happens every 1600 years. It also lasts for 100 years each time.

I'm never gonna see my family again. I'm stuck doing party tricks for monsters for 100 years or until I'm too strong for them to contain.

The studio head has a cultivation I can't even fathom. He's a 34th stage level 5 Multiform-High-Gold-Phantasmal-God. what the hell ever that means besides he's completely out of my league.

But I can't lose hope. I don't care how long it takes. I'm getting the hell out of here one way or another.

"ALICE, How much would It cost to implant the knowledge of a cultivation technique similar to mine up to the 2nd stage into my family members?"

"Since you already bought the technique, you can implant the knowledge for 10 points per person which is the same price for a 10 years of earths survival."

I spend points on giving my brother and his wife, my mother and father and for shits and giggles my cat. spending 50 points total.

"You now have 1150 points." I spend 150 points on giving the world 150 more years to exist.

"you now have 1000 points."

I extend my family's lifespan by 150 years each because mortal lifespans are actually super cheap. a batch of 50 years while someone is still mortal costs only 1 point.

"you now have 985 points."

I spend 85 points on my lifespan. which is a point per week of existence.

That's right, they're charging me to fucking breathe their air.

I smile sardonically and say, "good, now I can live for a year and a half."

I then start sorting through abilities.

50 points for absolute mastery of 5th dan equivalent Wing Chun.

I buy it.

50 points for 5th dan mastery of taekwon do.

bought.

50 points for 5th dan mastery Karate equivalent.

nice.

Jeet Kune Do? 150 points? okay. Bruce lee is a badass no wonder his martial art is so expensive.

"You have 600 points left." The AI says, sounding irritated.

"That was last martial art I promise." I grin.

"would you like to start the transfer of abilities?" ALICE asks, and as soon as I nod, I fall asleep.

I wake up, and look at the timer,

I have 2 hours left to prepare for the mission. I take a deep breath and look at the abilities list.

I start searching for one more skill.

I find one that lets me control my strength and instinctively know how much force will kill a person and how much is necessary to simply disable them.

I buy it for 100 points.

I have 500 points left.

I spend the rest of it on High-speed regeneration and call it a day.

I'm already over-powered, and I haven't even been on my first mission.