25 Awakening My Inner Masochis (1/2)
Once Jam reached his house, he showed Tzatziki all the rooms in the house. The two then began to talk about Jam's next task.
”Kid, please tell me you're hiding the rest of your cultivation set up.”
”Uhh… this is really it. All I use to cultivate are my Tier 1 Energy Gather Pills and a Tier 1 Spirit Attracting Array.” Jam had stopped cultivating after he reached the Palace Creation Stage. Since he had completely created his Dao Palace at that time, and then immediately went to receive a mission, Jam had not yet elevated his Alchemy and Formations to Tier 2; or any of his other secondary occupations.
”Mhmm? Well this is a good thing in a sense. After all, if you've made so much progress with this utterly basic cultivation setup, you'll cultivate even faster after I tell you how to improve it.
The first thing you need to do, is level up these pre-existing resources to Tier 2, then you should set up energy specific attracting arrays like a Space Condensing Array, or a Fire Attracting Array. That way, you will attract only the energies you need to absorb without having to refine all the extra junk that you would be receiving otherwise.
Next, you're going to want to buy pill sets for body refining. After living in your body for a while, I've personally seen how weak it is. You're not going to get very far in the cultivation world without enhancing your body. I know you already have some pills that will help you cultivate your body, but those are far from enough. You're going to want at least 1,000 body cultivation pills to complete the second stage of Body Refining, the Muscle Stage.”
”I don't know much about Body Cultivation; can you elaborate on the stages?”
”In total, there are six Realm in Body Refinement. You have already completed the first Realm which is the Body Tempering Stage of regular energy cultivation system, also known as the Flesh Realm, in the body refining system of cultivation.
The next stage is the Muscle Realm, which is equal to the Mortal Realm. After that is the Bone Realm, which is equal to the Spirit Realm. Then the Marrow Realm, which is comparable to the Saint Realm. The final Realm achievable for those in the Mortal Plane is the Organ Realm, which is comparable to the Sage Realm.
The final Realm of Body Cultivation is the only Realm with substages and is known as the Twelve Heavenly Vessels Realm. This Stage puts a cultivator's body at the level of Immortals and Gods.
Right now, you are at the Flesh Stage, which lets you pass Energy through your skin with no problem. The Flesh Stage has no hidden benefits other than letting you pass a rather negligent amount of energy through your body. The next stage, the Muscle Stage, will let you channel dozens of times more energy through your body, and comes with the hidden benefit of Regeneration.”
After Tzatziki finished explaining the Body Refinement Cultivation System to Jam, Jam followed through with his suggestions and bought the materials needed to construct more arrays and pills. In total Jam wasted 1 million spirit stones on materials. Then he began constructing five special arrays to further supplement his cultivation.
First Jam upgraded his pre-existing Spirit Attracting Array to Tier 2. Then, Jam built various Tier 2 formations, he built a: Space Condensing Array, Stellar Condensing Array, Time Diverging Array, Fire Attracting array, and a Thunder Attracting Array. These various arrays would attract more of their specified energy types, while at the same time prevent other types of energies from entering Jam's domain.
After practicing his art of formation for a while, Jam was able to perfectly set up these arrays, at the same time becoming a Novice Array Master or Tier 2 Array Master. Jam then began a hellish pill concocting session that lasted for over a day.
During the pill concocting session, aside from making thousands of Tier 1 and Tier 2 pills suitable for the Flesh and Muscle Realms' of body refining, Jam also elevated his skills as an Alchemist to Rank 2 Alchemist or Novice Alchemist.
The reason Jam made pills for the Flesh Realm of Body Refining is to perfect his foundation. When Jam completed the Body Tempering Stage or the Flesh Stage, he did not use any resources. He could not guarantee that there weren't any spots on his body that he missed training. Now that Jam was at the Palace Creation Stage and had internal vision as well as divine sense, he noticed that his Flesh Realm body was not perfect.
Tzatziki told Jam to first reach the Muscle Realm before proceeding with his Energy cultivation, so Jam used his newly concocted pills to start Body Refinement. Tzatziki gave Jam a Body Refinement cultivation manual called the Chaotic Neutral Transmogrification. This technique was best suited for Jam as it let him use any and all energies to practice Body Cultivation.
Much like Energy Cultivation, with Body Refinement, cultivation techniques are just different paths a person can take to progress along their chosen cultivation system. Each technique would have their pros, cons, restrictions, and limits. Each cultivation technique would yield different results for each person.
The Chaotic Neutral Transmogrification technique had a path from the very bottom of the Body Refinement system, the Flesh Realm, to the end, the twelfth Heavenly Vessel. However, not many would dare try cultivating with this technique even if they met the prerequisites needed to attempt it. Every Realm, or Stage, would be increasingly more demanding from a cultivator's resources and willpower.