5 Creating A New Path Pt 1 (1/2)

'After speaking with my father about the requirements of the Academy being quite similar to the Coming of Age ceremony. It's clear now that my previous banishment from the village was seen as a no-win scenario for me, where death was the expected outcome. The village doesn't have high hopes for any member that leaves before reaching rank 10 of the Upper Mantle layer- Diamond.

Father has said that the academy works closely with the village and the Alicorn Empire. It seems we even share the duties of headmaster between both groups. But one thing is for certain, I need to get stronger, to accomplish all that I have set out to do. However, it will be tricky trying to hide my origins if I'm using any style that links both Dragon and Phoenix arts together.

I still have my Land Dragon skills and I could just improve on those. But that seems very limited, maybe I should create something new that could be seen as Land Dragon based or Vermilion Bird based.

Well let's look at this logically, the body refinement system is tied directly with the soul development system as one Art, G.o.d Spark. The humans have to train hard to achieve the same level of strength as us Beast King and G.o.dbeast. All we need to do is breathe and when we mature, we gain an increase in strength. However, that takes a very long time and leaves us at the mercy of others. But if we train as humans do, then we can control when we ”mature” physically and how strong we ultimately become. A gift and a curse it may seem to some.

Humans have also divided the G.o.d Spark into 5 Layers with 15 Ranks or Levels and each rank above rank 9 carries a range that could be seen as lower, middle and high.

The Layers and corresponding Ranks of the body refinement art, G.o.d Spark, are:

Mortal Ascension

Crust Rank 1 - 6 (27 - 8,170 units)

Upper Mantle Rank 7 - 10 (8,171 - 100,000 units)

Immortal Balancing

Mantle Rank 11- 12 (100,001 - 3 Million units)

G.o.d's Tribulation

Outer Core Rank 13 (3,000,001 - 20 Million units)

G.o.d's Power

Outer Core Rank 14 (20,000,001 - 100 Million units)

Divinity

Inner Core Rank 15 (100,000,001 - 999,999,999 units)

They've even devised the level of the soul that must be attained before improving the Rank of the body. These Ranks and corresponding Soul level/Dao level are:

Talc --Human Soul

Gypsum --Dao Seed

Calcite --Dao Germination

Fluorite --Dao Sprout

Apat.i.te --Dao Plant

Feldspar--Dao Tree

Quartz --Dao Lord

Topaz --Dao King

Corundum --Dao Emperor

Diamond --Dao Immortal

Elementals --Dao Elemental

Pseudo-King --Dao Elemental Lord

Demi-G.o.dbeast --Dao Beast King

Pseudo-G.o.dbeast --Pseudo Dao G.o.dbeast

G.o.dbeast --Dao G.o.dbeast

In fact, humans are often ahead of us by the time we start to cultivate. They start their training and education system at the age of 2. A full 3 years ahead of us so we are essentially playing catch up. I need to fast track both Edan's and my own training sessions.

I can still use my self made skills of the Pseudo-King Rank. Granted they'll be weaker in my current form, but they will be unique to me and not to any specific Beast King or G.o.dbeast of the village. As for my other skills, those I'll need significantly more power to use than this body can currently manage such as Spiritual Sense.

Let's review these skills: