Chapter 12 Cultivating (2/2)

He read the ain, but the answers he looked for were nowhere to be found According to the e right after refining their blood vessels if cultivated the body, or reached the profound spiritual connection if they cultivated the spirit

Daniel had no way of understanding the depths of these stages with the inforive by these manuals He had four e, and learn what perfection hts aside, Daniel started reading the methods of cultivation depicted in the h the strain of the body Ki, similarly to the core essence of a ranked beast, was the essence of the human's body, and it was produced constantly

Breathing, exercising, training and combat These were just few of the methods a martial cultivator had to produce Ki The produced ki could then be used to gradually refine the cultivator's body

Just like a martial practitioner used ki to cultivate, a spiritual cultivator used then the spirit

Mana was a natural essence that could be found everywhere in the world Each and every type of essence, included ki and beast essence, were in fact, mana The very own definition of mana coed to the earthly plane

A spiritual cultivator could produce ki just like any , and then use the ki to strengthen their spirit

Most people had no , or Muscle Strengthening stages, so they erroneously considered mana as an alternative sort of essence to ki, while instead calling it a ”generic” sort of essence, would be much more accurate

At some point in the past, after martial cultivators had found out that every type of essence could nurture the spirit, they started to experi out every viable sources of essence which could be used to increment their cultivation speed

After dozens of years, they had realized that, every for could be absorbed by their bodies and turned into ki

This had been the reason that had started the hunt for ranked beasts, and many uncountable wars between humans and the other races

Daniel had decided to cultivate the martial path, so he read the martial way of cultivation and adjusted his body into the lotus position He had also decided to avoid using beast cores, as he wanted to fah self produced ki

For an hour, he breathed in and out slowly Whenever he breathed in, his enhanced lungs would expand and send waves after waves of newly produced ki through his ans When this ki had reached every corner body, Daniel forced it to seep through his tissue and reach his bones, then he began to refine thee became more elastic, the stratum of cortical bone became harder by the minute

After another hour, Daniel decided to stop

He had read that breakthrough was a lengthy process, and he wanted to kno ht hours had consumed

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Dan Hiel - Kare - 14

Rank

- peak rank 2 of Martial cultivation

- early rank 2 of Spiritual cultivation

Karma - 656

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Daniel was extremely surprised that it took him only two hours to increase his cultivation from early rank 2 to peak rank 2 Unfortunately, he still had no idea of the rate his karmic system had speeded his cultivation All he kneas that, before he started cultivating, he had 662 kar cultivation, he would require to spend 1 point every 20 minutes

This had left him elated, as this type of cultivation was effortless and required a very small amount of karma points Of course, he knew that different methods of cultivation would increase the aer times to be absorbed

When he was about toa rank 1 beast core, he heard knocking sounds co from his door At this point, Daniel realized that he had been cultivating for the past two hours, and that he still hadn't started to pack things up

He put his beast cores and manuals back into his backpack, and went to answer the door Behind it, a couple ofone in front of the other The one in front was a short and skinny man, while the one in the back was tall and stout The skinnythat it looked out of place On his head, a lock of thin hair had been glued to his scalp with the intent of hiding his i scar that reached fro whenever he breathed in

The tall and burly man was completely bald His eyes small as a pair of needles, and his neck was so fat that it was indistinguishable where his jaw ended and where his neck started

Daniel knew these two men all too well He had never learned their real naanization, they were called Rat and Sweet Cheeks The skinnyand fat one was called sweet cheeks, had always been a mystery to hiin of their nicknames, was the fact that these two men worked for the hotel owner to whom he owed his debt