25 Awakening My Inner Masochis (2/2)

For the Chaotic Neutral Transmogrification technique, anyone could cultivate it. However, the technique required a cultivator to consume dozen or even hundreds of times the number of resources other body cultivation techniques required. Moreover, the energy channeling routes for this technique were designed to pass through every cell of the body.

These two attributes were the only negative aspects of the technique. However, they prevented nearly everyone who wanted to train body refinement with this technique, from attempting it. Not many could handle a second taste of the soul crushing pain brought by the shredding and reforming of each and every cell in the body.

Jam had just started channeling energy through his body along the route indicated in the Chaotic Neutral Transmogrification technique and immediately pain flooded his senses. This pain was negligible to Jam, but for him to feel pain… The experience could be imagined, if you consider that Jam could tolerate the same amount of pain as Spirit Realm Cultivators. Moreover, this was only Jam training in the least painful route in the Chaotic Neutral Transmogrification technique; the one for the Flesh Realm.

Jam persisted through the pain, and after popping several dozen pills for the Flesh Realm, he finished perfecting his foundation and could move on to the next Realm. Jam examined his now perfected Flesh Realm body and tested how much energy he could pass through his body. Unsurprisingly, he could channel a bit more energy through his skin all over his body.

Jam stopped looking around in his body and resumed his Body Refinement. Since Jam was now cultivating the Muscle Stage, his energy channeling route had upgraded to be able to reach all over the muscular system in his body.

This time the pain was much, much worse than before; it was almost unbearable. Jam even had to use Divinity to cast ice energy around him, to tolerate the burning sensation that the Body Refinement brought him.

In any case, Jam suffered for over a day, constantly popping Muscle Realm suitable pills, before having to take a break. Once Jam stopped cultivating, he checked his progress and was saddened by the fact that he was just shy of completing half the Muscle Realm.

Even with a 50% completed Muscle Realm body, Jam could feel just how much of an improvement there was in his ability to infuse his body with energy; his base-state punches now had to power of non-fused Beams.

During his break, Jam thought it would be stupid to just waste time, so he made himself some armor. Perhaps Jam was the only person in the academy how would think of Artifact Refining as a break.

Back when Jam went to the Wolf Range he only took his Stellar Bow and his uniform, completely forgetting about armor. He only thought about his lack of armor when he noticed that all the other students in his class were sparring with armor over their uniforms.

Jam took out some metals and quickly trained his skill level to enter the ranks of Novice Refiner. Then Jam created a rather ”unique” set of armor for himself; he didn't like the look of bulky armor sets like the one that Alex had, or the loose robes of Jared and Kirin, and he couldn't dress like the girls, even if he did really like their armor.

Instead, Jam modeled his armor set after Cynthia and Rina's armor sets; it was a balanced combination of robes and metallic armor. Jam's armor covered most of his body, exposing only his forearms and shins.

Jam added space, time, fire, and thunder energies to his armor. He would have added more energy types like demonic and stellar energies. However, his skill as a Tier 2 Refiner would only allow him to add four types of energy to his artifacts.

The colors and aesthetic of Jam's armor closely resembled his Dao Palace; especially the evil aura emanating from it.

Jam also made a pair of gauntlets, they were not as a part of his armor set. These gauntlets would be used when Jam was relying on melee to fight. After becoming a body refiner, Jam was expecting to be in many close-quarters-combat situations.

The gauntlets, much like his Peak Armor, were tainted with dreary colors and an evil aura. This time, to maximize the power outputted by his gauntlets, Jam used time, space, thunder, and demonic energies when inscribing the runes.

After completing these artifacts, Jam felt he had taken a long enough break and resumed his Body Refinement. After another of torture, which spanned a course of 13 hours, Jam completed the Muscle Realm of Body Refinement. As Jam analyzed his muscles he was very surprised by the results. Jam had essentially shredded his muscles and reformed them, cell by cell, to the most optimal state they could presently be.

With a body at 100% completion of the Muscle Realm, Jam could channel dozens of times more energy through his body than before; mind you, he still had to Refine his Bones, Marrow, and Organs, before being able to channel energy throughout the totality of his body. At his current level, Jam could trade blows with a Berserking Arnold without needing to charge his melee attacks with Points.