Chapter 258 - Martial Advent First Stage
[Sword Dantian Formation Complete]
[System Rebooting]
[System Reboot Complete]
[Cultivator- Mike Tyson
Cultivation- None
EXP- 0/100 (For level-up)
Wealth- Nil
Inventory- Howling Tiger Spear, Whirlwind Boots, Black Dragon Saber, and Wind Sword.]
'Woah! So, this is going to be my status screen. Contribution Points have disappeared. And, I don't have a single EXP or wealth. So, I guess I am starting all this from basic.'
'If I think carefully, I can earn EXP by killing. Although I won't go around randomly killing people, this can help me improve my cultivation when I do kill some people.' Mike puts his hand on his chin and thinks for a while.
'I have so many things that I need complete. First, I have to cultivate. Second, I have worked on my God of Speed Mode. It doesn't consume my lifespan and I have both space and lightning law to access it.'
'Third, I need to improve my sword skills as well. I can ask for help from Invincible Sword Sect once I get out of this place. They said that they don't fear anyone but why didn't they help me when I was fighting a Martial King.'
'Something is wrong here. Were they really bragging? But, they still have the support of those guys. There is no way they would fear anyone. Then why? Did they also learn that I have the dark energy?'
'But then again, why is the dark energy bad for these cultivators? I mean our half of the universe was made out of dark energy. But, dark energy is indeed chaotic. I think they correlate dark energy with demonic energy because of its chaotic nature.'
'Damn! So much to think about and I don't have enough brain to comprehend everything. Let's just go with the flow! I have to admit the fact that I am not a smartass plus badass person.'
Mike sighed as he withdraw from his thoughts. He knew he was giving too much thought to things that he didn't even need to think. He slightly turned his gaze to his hand clenched it.
'I guess I will just go with the flow while preparing a good boat.'
'Let's see whether I can absorb spiritual energy or not.' Mike sat down on the ground and closed his eyes. He remembered the method to absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings.
'Sword Law of Devouring'
The first rune was made around the sword inside his dantian. It seems Dantian was just like his core. A vast space contained with a small hole. It was like the pocket dimension. Inside the dantian, there was a sword hovering in the middle.
When focused a little bit more on the sword, he realized that his sword created this space. So, his dantian was also not a natural rather made by this sword. He focused a bit more on his sword and realized that his sword was able to create the pocket dimension just the core.
And, this space was the part of that pocket dimension. After that, he took out his focus from the sword and puts it on the Immemorial Perfect Sword Body Technique.
As soon as he chants the words written on the first and second page of this book, he forms a strange aura around him. This aura rose and spread around him. Soon, a huge wave of spiritual qi burst towards him.
The spiritual qi didn't enter his body directly. Rather, it stayed around him. At this moment, a mark that encircled the sword inside his body glow. It creates an enormous suction force that absorbs the spiritual qi inside his body.
The spiritual qi that entered his body first moved to his cells. There are more than trillions of cells in a human body, each connected to a certain blood vein. The spiritual qi that enters his cells passes into the blood veins.
Through several blood veins, it reaches his heart. Though it wasn't its destination. When spiritual qi enters his heart, it merges with the blood just like the oxygen and follows throughout his body. Slowly, he gathers more and more spiritual qi inside his body.
All of them encircling throughout his body. The number of spiritual qi increases to the point where it started leaking out of the blood veins. But unlike previous spiritual qi, this one possesses less vitality. All the vitality that has been stored in the spiritual qi has been absorbed inside the blood.
And, this remaining spiritual qi became so light that it could easily get devoured by the force produced by dantian.
The spiritual root or his sword has the devouring power. But, most of the time cultivators do not use the devouring power to its full potential. It infuses the devouring power to his body and sucks the spiritual qi inside him.
But, the dantian is still isolated from other organs. The only way to access the dantian is through thoughts or the spiritual qi that is has lost nine-tenth of its weight. The single balloon filled with spiritual qi has a weight less than 0.5 milligrams.
And, after its vitality gets absorbed by the blood, its weight decreases by nine times. Only now, the spiritual qi can escape through the blood veins and move towards the dantian. Although this spiritual qi has lost most of its vitality in the blood, it still has some remains.
This remaining vitality can be transformed into a thread around his sword. But, that's not enough to increase his lifespan by fifty years or even five years. He needs to form nine threads around the sword/ spiritual roots so that these threads can increase the suction power of the spiritual roots/sword.
The vitality that has been stored inside the blood can't increase one's lifespan. And, even if it is sucked by the spiritual roots, then it would be wasted since most of the time spiritual qi inside the dantian is used for battles.
This is the most prominent way to save vitality inside the body. And, once those threads are completed, the cultivator can use the devouring force to its full potential to suck the vitality. This is why devouring force is not fully utilized during the absorption period.
After absorbing spiritual qi for more than five hours, Mike finally succeeds in forming a thread. And, his dantian was also filled with spiritual qi. Now, he can compress that spiritual qi into a thread whenever he wants. And, he can use the thread as a backup whenever his spiritual qi dried up during the battle.
After cultivating for five hours, Mike finally understood how a cultivator could increase his strength using the secret arts or even using the martial arts. Cultivation is all about control. The most important part of this control is controlling the devouring force of the spiritual roots.
While using martial arts, people normally use the spiritual qi inside their dantian. But when they get angry, their power increases but there is a reason behind it. Whenever Mike used to read those novels, he missed out on why characters could burst out insane power after getting angry.
Whenever a cultivator gets angry, he can't control the devouring force of spiritual root. Thus, the spiritual root ends up sucking the vitality stored in the blood. Vitality is the real source of power. It increases the power of spiritual qi.
That's why secret arts normally consume lifespan to burst more strength. This same thing happens during anger. And, that's why cultivate decreases. Because the vitality is the main expect of cultivation and if you lose it, you must refill it.
Currently, Mike had formed a single thread that means he has finally stepped on the road of cultivation. He has reached the first stage of the Martial Advent Realm. But, Mike stopped cultivating and stands up. Suddenly, a status panel appears in front of him.
[Cultivator- Mike Tyson
Cultivation- None
EXP- 200/200 (For level-up)
Wealth- Nil
Inventory- Howling Tiger Spear, Whirlwind Boots, Black Dragon Saber, and Wind Sword.]
[Your EXP has been full. Would you like to level up?]
Seeing this panel, Mike sighed and shook his head. He found the spiritual qi is the EXP. But, that spiritual qi wasn't saved for breakthrough rather for battle and training. But, before he could do anything, a voice rang in his ears.
"Dear, can you hear me? If you can hear, please respond!"
"Babe, is that you? I can hear you. But, why can I hear you inside my head? What's happening?"