Chapter 19 - Elementary realm (1/2)

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Because of last nights drinking party Hao Xuan slept till 11 the next morning. He cleaned up and went straight to the hall where Fifth was already sitting in front of a screen.

They greeted each other and Hao Xuan took another seat and logged in.

He looked up several books on cultivation and started going through them one by one. According to them after the Qi foundation realm, the next four realms were basically used to enhance the physical body along with opening more meridians according to whatever cultivation manual a person uses.

For example in Elementary realm cultivators had to use their Qi to refine all of their fleshly bodies. They would temper their tissues and refine each and every cell with their Qi and infuse it with spiritual energy so it could become stronger. Similarly, in each proceeding realm cultivators were to cultivate their bones, blood, and then finally the soul itself.

There were many dozens of ways of going about this and depended on each individual's own preferences.

Hao Xuan then read some books regarding the Beast world itself and the Mei kingdom.

He found out that the beasts also had realms, with the lowest being called the ”Brute beasts”. After that came the Spiritual Beasts. Once a brute had been alive for a certain period of time it would evolve into a spiritual beast on its own due to the abundant spiritual energy in the Beast world. Spiritual beasts were intelligent and some rare ones could even speak the human tongues. They could live for over a thousand years.

But the most interesting thing was that Spiritual beasts and above could be trained by cultivators in a number of ways. They could be threatened or beaten into submission to form a slave bond, or if the beast initiated the bond by itself a life bond could be made where the beast would die if it's human died.

After that were the Demonic Beasts. All beasts had to go through evolution at almost every new realm, bringing changes to their appearances and abilities. That's why there were trillions of variations among the beasts and almost no two were the exact same. Demonic beasts had the same power level as a human Profound level expert and were extremely dangerous.

After that were the Heavenly and Divine beasts but not much was known about them. Beasts of those realms were millions of years old and had incredible power. They could even traverse the abyss and the universe at those realms.

There were other realms after that but nothing concrete was recorded about them other than an old story that was told to children to make them behave.

The story said that when the beast world was just discovered by the ancients and was colonized, an unknown creature came from the abyss and threatened their very existence. The ancients fought it for hundreds of years and after great sacrifices, managed to seal it in another dimension. But even now it struggles to break free and devour them whole.

Hao Xuan tried to imagine what kind of a monster was powerful enough to fight the ancients, which were capable of moving entire planets, for hundreds of years and even then it couldn't be killed but only sealed.

He then moved on to the History of Mei Kingdom. Everyone with royal blood was from the Mei clan and had their own bloodline. Their bloodline was called the Verdant bloodline and gave those capable enough to awaken it the ability to control life energies. They had much longer lifespans than others and retained their youthful appearances for a long time, even at low cultivation levels.

When Hao Xuan was done going through all the books, the sun had already set so he just decided to go to sleep and get an early start the next day.

He got up quite early the next day and found a package on his doorstep. It was the storage ring and weapons he had ordered.

There were some instructions on the rings box. Hao Xuan had to dip a drop of his blood on to the ring and then it would be bound to him until he either choose to sever the connection or he died. Someone extremely powerful could also forcefully sever his connection but that would damage the ring and might even destroy its contents.