Chapter 440 - Mind Tempering 1st Realm (1/2)

Notifications started appearing in front of Alex's eyes. But none of them were as captivating as what was happening inside his own body.

Most of the time, when he broke through to a realm, his Qi would get just a bit denser and increase just a little more in amount.

During minor realms, those increased by quite a bit more, but not a lot.

Aside from that, the main change came in the body being tempered a little more to gather more Qi during the self-tempering realm.

That was what happened every single time Alex broke through without question. However, this time was a little different.

Along with his Qi and body changing slightly, he felt a hot rush of Qi that flew up through his body and entered the brain. They stayed there for a few seconds without any discomfort and left.

When they did, he felt his mind grow cool and just a little bit stronger.

Finally, he opened his eyes and looked at the notification in front of him. When he saw it, he smiled.

<Congratulations! You have broken through to the Mind Tempering 1st Realm>

'Finally, I'm on the last stretch of realms before I enter the True realms,' he thought.

He felt a lot fresher now that he had broken through. 'Did reaching the Mind tempering realm really help my spiritual sense?' he wondered and released it.

”Woah!” he was surprised when his spiritual sense immediately reached 25 meters.

”It increased by around 3 meters,” Alex mused to himself. He tried stretching his spiritual sense and it nearly reached 40 meters mark.

He quickly brought back the spiritual sense and entered his spiritual sea to see how it had changed.

”Oh!” he was surprised. He was expecting to see denser water, but surprisingly, the water was vaster as well.

”Wait, not only did it increase in density, but it also increased in amount?” Alex thought in pure happiness.

”And this is just the first realm. Will I have nearly 50 meters of spiritual sense by the time I reach the True realms?” he thought.

He quickly stopped and got up. However, he decided not to leave now. It was already late night, so there was no point in leaving right now.

'But, I will have to see him very early tomorrow morning to explain what is wrong,' Alex thought and went back to his bed.

It had been a while, so he decided to cultivate. He called out Pearl and gave him a monster core.

Pearl meowed as he ate the core.

”How are you feeling today, Pearl?” Alex asked. He was hoping for some sort of complex answer.

”Happy” however was all he got.

'Well, I guess it will take some time before he can fluently speak,' Alex thought and asked Pearl to start cultivating.

Cuts started appearing around his body but the pain wasn't as high as it should have been.

'Sigh, Pearl is falling behind once more,' Alex thought. He shook his head and started cultivating as well.

Soon, sleepiness overcame him and he could no longer keep his consciousness up.

When he woke up once again, he realized that it was 6 AM the morning. He stopped Pearl from cultivating any further and asked him to go back to his space.

Once the cuts disappeared and Pearl was gone, Alex got up to leave, but then… he felt something weird about his body.

'Huh? What's going on?' he thought. In just a single part of his meridian, he could feel just the slightest hint of something strong.

That single small part has a stronger aura than his entire cultivation base.

'Is this…?' he wondered as he tried to send his Spiritual sense to check inside. When he reached that part of his meridian, he could see a viscous bright yellow Qi that outshined the other Qi around him.

Alex's eyes went wide in both shock and surprise.

”True Qi!”

He didn't know what to think for a while as his thoughts ran array in a million directions. He quickly gathered them all and tried to think about it all.

”Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! How do I have True Qi? Isn't that something I can only gain after I reach halfway through the Mind Tempering realm?” he wondered.

He thought back to the information he had already read, and it only confirmed what he already knew.

”Yeah, around 5th or 6th Mind Tempering realm, the common Qi gets condensed so much that I turned from Qi to True Qi. It doesn't normally happen before that. So why is it happening to me?” Alex thought.

The Qi was really way too small to be of any use to him, but it showed that he could easily jump up to the True Realm when the time came.

”Wait, how well can it work?” Alex thought. He wanted to try out a technique using this True Qi, but he couldn't think of a single technique that could be of use inside a room.

”Ah, let's try the fire,” he thought and quickly reached into his storage bag before bringing out the Fire formation.

He did have a fire palm technique that could produce fire, but he wasn't sure he could control that fire fast enough to stop it from hitting the wall, and he didn't want to damage the house at all.

So, he quickly set up the formation on the floor and watched as fire appeared on top of it.

He tried to normally control the fire as he would with his Common Qi and it was very easy. He was very used to it so there was no problem.

Then, he started to do the same thing with the one strand of True Qi that was running around his meridian.

He slowly brought it from all over his body to his hands and released it into the fire.