Chapter 148: Mortal Cleansing (1/2)

”Huh? Me, a body cultivator?” Alex asked, stunned by what he had just heard.

”Yes, Your body is stronger than what it used to be. From what you said about your experience earlier, you must've gone through a tempering of sorts. That's how body cultivators are born. They temper their body through pain and hard work, and become stronger.” Wen Cheng was still in shock as he explained.

”But, aren't body cultivators supposed to be very rare. I remember master saying something about there rarely being a body cultivator in the Crimson empire and that I don't have to worry about them much.” Alex repeated what he had remembered from Ma Rong.

”Ma Rong explained to you about them, did she? Well, she is not wrong. It is extremely rare for there to be a Body cultivator in the Crimson Empire, but it's not rare. There have been a few times that body cultivators arrived in the Crimson empire, but they don't stay as one for long since there aren't many things they can use to temper themselves with.”

Alex got curious about something, ”Master, when you say Body cultivators temper themselves, is it different from the normal tempering realms of Qi cultivation?”

”Of course there is a difference. The tempering for both is meant for completely different results. A normal cultivator's tempering is meant to temper their body with internal Qi so that it is less resistant to the Qi during cultivation and they can succeed in future cultivation.”

”However, a Body cultivator's tempering means he is destroying and fixing his body a lot of times so that he can make his body stronger.”

”Normal cultivators temper to improve cultivation, while body cultivators temper to make their bodies much tougher. You… are now one of them.” Wen Cheng finally let go of his shock.

”That is not a bad thing, right?” Alex asked as he hoped for a positive answer.

”No, but since you won't really have that many ways to improve your body, you will stagnate later on and it will be quite useless in the long run,” Wen Cheng just finished saying this when he thought of something and added, ”Although, since your body tempering came from your cat, … maybe you can do it indefinitely.” Wen Cheng started getting lost in his own thought.

”Master?” Alex called to bring him out of his stance. ”What are you thinking about?”

”Hmm… I… want you to do it again.” Wen Cheng's reply came out of nowhere.

”Do it again? But, it hurts so much, master.” Alex's eyes turned wide as fear crept upon them.

”Yeah, that's what body tempering is. You have to get hurt to become stronger, and you have to do that without going overboard and injuring yourself badly.” Wen Cheng explained as such.

Alex took a deep breath. ”Alright, Pearl come out.” Light shined from his left arms as Pearl came out of it and stood in front of him, licking his front paw.

”Meow,” it spoke as he looked towards him. ”Master, make sure you stop him from cultivating if it gets really bad, okay?”