Chapter 4: Cultivation

'The bone and marrow refining took about 6 months which otherwise would take years for practisioners. The grade of flawless body refinement technique is also important.Even though the techniques obtained from optimising the existing cultivation body refinement sutras from previous it still won't compare to the temporal demon spirit book as it is from an even higher realm than Draconic ruins realm.May be more heavenly principles are involved.'

Chi Tao's body reached gold rank body physique by the end of body refinement.

While walking down the hallway of his mandion he compiled the soul force cultivation technique he gathered together bunch of already optimised flawless sutras and 'his own recipe' as he calls it. It's actually a offshoot thought of his to write down cultivation sutra lines and protagonists declaration and heavenly ways described in the fantasy novels he read before. It was full of flaws but some of them managed to get integrated into existing sutras and now he is ready to start his journey to transformation.

MC PoV

' I am now 11 and half years old. I have nearly two years of time to get started before the cannon event start. I wish to be a passive observer but sometimes my intrusive thoughts may result in me impulsively interfering. Anyway we can see what happens'

The book in front of me in LoHP is named by me as "Mortal transcendence sutra".Now that I reached Bronze level in soul cultivation I could directly transfer information from LoHP to mind without the reading process.

I sat down in my room infront of the window which opened to see the mountains and forest view around home distant from the noise of markets and I began to listen to nature. See the wonderful world around me as my perception spread around. Gradually I felt at peace. I ate the soul condensing, soul assembling and spiritual enhancing pills I prepared before and closed my eyes.

I converged my perception to within myself and start to imagine myself in void inside my consciousness and started the mortal transcendence scripture to chant.

I feel like squeezed at first but gradually I could feel aura around me converging to my imagined figure in mind and getting assimilated.Gradually the imaginative figure inside me became real in astral plane and soul force started to circulate in mysterious ways around my meridians and body structure.

On the outside, chen Tao's realm began to fall from soul force of 135 to back to 100 then to 60 to 50 then finally to a minimum of 20, but the soul force never left his body. His soul core began to strengthen and began to condense around the little figure around his form.When the figure anchors at the exact centre of his soul realm,the condensed soul realm began to expand by absorbing the aura around him and the pills he absorbed through refining . After 5 hours, the realm gradually reached 110 and his cultivation was restored.

He sat up and felt his body.He could feel the power running through his physique converging soul force and maximising his stance to give his all out punch to the air. A sonic boom sounded along with a rush of air.

Well that is like a full force of his body using soul force field control.I could kill a bronze 5th rank person with this punch. Well the power I felt is gone and my body readjust itself instanaeously to control that power fully. Ha .. the evolving body is good. I began to train my body with the movement and muscle control exercise and controlled every part of my body.

6 months have passed by during these times I felt no pressure to cultivate as my body passively absorbs aura and the figure inside me refines the soul force at a low rate.

I have reached 2 star bronze realm.

My body has awakened the energy storage ability I wished for which means I could absorb energies that I know the properties of, that includes blood energy and chemical energy from the beasts,spiritual energy, kinetic energy,Gravitational potential on my body to restore my soul force and creation force God placed inside me, that just settles inside the little figure inside my body.It is virtual and couldn't be felt in anyway or even observe but I know I could will it for copying any concept within 5ms around me. Yes the range extended as my life level increased during these times. Same is the case for divination shield except that I could shield it within those field around me.It is ethereal.I can feel it cover me always and outwardly shifting as I will it, but it costs some creation energy which is instantaneously replenished by the surrounding energy. This energy is like a nexus item like a mill that grind any rebellious energies into absorbable energy.

I will be using this energy absorption ability for creation force refilling only for now otherwise I felt that I am too invincible or something.It's good to experience the challenges in life.

Speaking about energy, since I can't manipulate energy and only use it to replenish soul force or whatever creation energy. So I only felt like my weight got decreased somewhat absorbing gravitational force and no further changes.

I have been training on archery, footwork and movement techniques,Sword control,sword intent recently using flawless scriptures and experiences I once copied from the current strongest fighter, Shen yung a black gold rank fighter I found at the fighters guild event. He has some affiliations with sacred family I think but the important thing is that those memory fragments relating to fighting did give me a lot of practical solutions to the flaws found by the techniques I practised.

The soul force while properly employing during a fight has the added advantage of increasing reaction time. Otherwise what the use of all this power if others could hit you within a blink of an eye. But my evolving body now that it neared its potential, fundamentally altered my neuron pathways as it is stupidly fast as I can judge from my reaction time and increased thinking space. So many ideas came to me and many combinations and re combinations to reach solutions could be judged in an instant.

It's a weird feeling like you could see that the world slowed down and sounds slowing down. The one thing I feel is the mild wind pressure which would be offset if I use soul force to cover myself.

I also trained a few little brothers I have as my followers who I know in martial arts and others except cultivation and alchemy items. The items obtained from academy library included cultural arts like painting and singing. Using LoHP I have reached a minor accomplishment in conveying my intent through it, although only keen eyes could see this. It was also helpful in otherways as if I transcribe a scripture the reader could understand my understanding of the subject if he is talented. I tried it with my mother and it was very helpful.

Now I have nearly 10 months to see properly indulge in cultivation after all these training.

But I can't completely stay in my room as no one other than elders know my talent in cultivations and other children my age is mostly helping family business I helped bringing up or even farming so that they have a chance for selection to holy orchid institute. I cultivated 3 hrs everyday with stability of foundation and my joy in growth as intention so the refining is steady and my strength is also deliberately slowed down. Rest of the time I get involved in family business decisions and my hobbies.

After first two months are over I reached peak of 4th rank bronze soul realm.

Recently I got writing down and proving scientific formulas from Laws of motion, Heat transfer, Fluid dynamics,Material science and sampling of elements, Relativity theories and assumptions regarding fundamental particles, Generation of thunder element a.k.a electricity, magnetism, Thermodynamics etc.and mathematical concepts like multidimensional geometries ,probabilitiy theories, calculus, later biological concepts like human cells,genome and hereditary gene transmission and anatomy also.

It was whatever which I could pick up from my perfect memory.It also feel very close to me informing myself about my previous life. When I read my own creation I applied LoHP and it helped fill the gaps in my knowledge I have by deducing from my memory fragments. There are indeed many undeducible flaws now. May be when my cultivation reaches a certain height I could feel these abstract laws. Interestingly enough, I could feel a completely different energy surrounding me after I injested the information inside the books. It appears to be law energy. I ran my cultivation formula with the understanding of these new scientific laws now I could see these new law energies trying to assimilate with soul realm but I lack the understanding of legend rank and demigod realm so it began to fight against my own soul force. I could only activate energy absorption by doing some activity to reduce my soul force and absorbing havocing law energy which became absorbable quality and quietly enters my figure inside mindspace. The leakage of law energy also stopped and disappeared. I reactivated my concealing techniques. My physique also had increase in body cultivation as by body instantly began to evolve in a direction that could accomodate those havoking law energies.

I only recently understood that the figure identical to me inside my soul sea is nothing other than my soul form which is myself.

While this is happening, I felt a peculier soul force and law energy fluctuations passing by. It seems I have had alerted that ye mo dude of snow wind family the strongest person present in glory city. But he couldn't locate my presence due to my shield but he probably could feel law energy manifesting out of nowhere.

City was in tension for the next month with lot of guards deployed around, as rumour of a strong person presence was spread.I was smiling at home hearing all these rumours, even with all these achievements over the years there are many people within this city that could swat me like a fly. My body refinement was stopped after reaching gold rank fighter body. It seems I need to bring my cultivation of soul and body to same level as I merged body refining aspect to mortal transcendence scripture.During the month I was able to procure simple medicinal species relating to a new soul pill I was developing while moving around the grass field and mountaneous areas around our home while I ordered some servants via my mother to order low rank beast souls also.

In my room I sat down cross legged infront of the alchemy pot and array structure I manage to copy from local alchemy guild and introduced the medicinal ingredients after which I introduced these beast souls.

Usually no one would be able to refine beast souls to absorbable pure soul fragments without very high cultivation or high order cultivation techniques like Nie lie had.But so can I with LoHP. Throughout the procedure I would use it and finally the elixir refined is of very high quality, I don't know what those old foggies at Alchemy guild would do if they sees this. I extended the shield to cover the room and took in these new soul essence pill I created while running the scripture.