Chapter 5: Nine Years Later
Time flew by, and nine years had gone by. Shen is now 15 years old, and his body grew taller and stronger. Because of his above average height, people mistook him for 17-19 years old young man. There were hints of coldness in his deep black eyes, disregarding the whole world as if nothing was worthy of his attention!
He dazedly stared at the dancing swords of a beautiful woman and a young lady. Looking at this spectacle anyone could be dazed let alone to the young man who loved these two as much as his life, if not more than that.
After 20 minutes, he finally moved from his dazed state. These nine years were peaceful with only a few events. He roamed around many villages and some cities.
Four years ago, he understood his Absolute Strengthening Technique, albeit only the first layer. The first layer of the technique creates a strand of chaos color qi throughout his whole bone structure. From skull to foot, not even a single one missing.
Unlike the Ancient Strengthening Technique, Absolute Strengthening Technique didn’t need any auxiliary or base technique. But on the downside, his body never exuded even a strand of Qi.
Once he even had the ridiculous idea of breaking one of his bones to see if any Qi comes out or not but he stopped himself from doing it as it really seemed too exaggerated. Besides, he wasn't really that desperate.
He didn’t know just which realm he is currently, but he could exert 50,000 jins of pure strength. From the strength alone, he already surpassed the Houtian realm, touching the strength of Xiantian Ream! But he knew he only reached the peak of the first layer of Absolute Strengthening Technique. If he wants to have a solid and profound cultivation base, he needs to spend his time on the first layer, before attempting to breakthrough the second layer of the technique.
Last year, he already completed the first layer of the Absolute Strengthening Technique. He felt he could break through at that time but decided against it. He knew the importance of foundation. Without a proper foundation, his future cultivation would be extremely hard.
But at this point, it was getting harder to suppress his cultivation anymore. Now, the strand of chaos colored Qi within his body thickened by three times.
Today he planned to break through to Xiantian. As usual, he sat in a lotus position, soon chaos colored Qi emerged from his body. Unlike how one would expect, this Qi didn’t exude any tyrannical might nor any divine strength. If one didn’t see it by their eyes they might even doubt about its existence.
Shen started to feel a heavy feeling of power surging within him. His body felt as light as feather. A feeling of overwhelming power started to take over him. He felt, if it is now, he can possibly shatter some mountain or destroy a River but slowly he calmed himself down.
As Qi’s gushed out from his body, he could feel they were being greedily devoured by something. Startled, he quickly opened his eyes and noticed the Immortal Jade Pendant which never reacted in this 9 years was absorbing his Qi’s.
He quickly took out the shining Jade Pendant from his neck.
[Immortal Jade Pendant +10 (Contractible)]
Without any hesitation, he bit his finger and dropped a few drops of blood onto the pendant.
The Immortal Jade Pendant begin to emit waves of soft chaos light, slowly enveloping Shen. From what the naked eye could see, the light from the pendant seemed to devour Shen as he completely disappeared from his position.
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The next moment, Shen was in different surroundings. There were two ponds, one in the middle and the other by its side. The middle pond looked 10 meters in diameter and there was a black colored tree on the center of the pond, which had myriad colored leaves. The tree had a mystical feeling to it.
The other tree was by the side of the other pond. Next, just a little further away, there was a monument. Shen only glanced at it before sitting in lotus position. When he broke through the Xiantian realm, he gained many pieces of knowledge.
Knowledge about the different amount of ingredients, cooking styles, taming, elemental affinity. He also gained knowledge about the changes and weirdness of his body.
His physique changed into something called Absolute Physique. His Earthly Meridians changed into something called Absolute Meridians which gave him ability and affinity to control any elements.
The technique he cultivated created a special type of Qi called Absolute Qi. Also known as Chaos Qi. This Qi has all kinds of elements in it.
But as this Qi contains all elements it is extremely chaotic and hard to control. Among the pieces of knowledge he got after breaking through to Xiantian, there was a technique called ‘Absolute Manipulation’.
Absolute Cooking Manual, Absolute Taming Manual, and Absolute Energy Manipulation! This was the three things he acquired after breaking through. He never expected to get any other cheats or techniques after receiving Absolute Strengthening Technique.
‘Could it be every time I break through a large realm I will get something from my Absolute Cheat?’ this thought suddenly crossed through Shen’s head which caused him to be greatly shocked.
But he noticed something. Both Cook and Tamer were known as professions on AST. The knowledge's he got this time mostly concentrated on Cooking and Taming. They looked as vast as ocean while the energy manipulation took a minuscule part of the Knowledge.
He became excited after realizing that he has a chance to obtain knowledge about all professions. Not only knowledge but he can possibly learn them all. He always wished to learn all the professions. Especially after getting the Immortal Realm, he can feel his dream coming true.
After another few moments, Shen started going through the introduction of the technique he got.
[Absolute Cooking Technique - Even Goddesses who broke all mortal ties shall salivate!]
[Absolute Taming Technique - Path to tame anything below or above the Heaven!]
[Absolute Energy Manipulation - The only path to control the universe, The Absolute Qi!]
Again Shen became speechless. He wanted to shout “WOULD YOU DIE IF YOU ADDED A FEW MORE LINES IN THE DESCRIPTION?!?!?!?!?!” but didn’t as it was completely against the calm temperament he built up till this point. He only sighed a little.
The Cooking Technique listed all the materials one could think of. From condiments to even cooking Dragon meats. There was even cooking styles where one needed special flame and nature Qi to cook. Obviously, those are something he couldn’t even hope to touch now.
On the other hand, Taming Technique had all the beasts possible. What amused him was the fact even cats or ants were listed as something dangerous. But after thinking for a few moments, he found it extremely normal.
Even a normal looking worm can be deadlier than some Martial Emperors so anything can be possible in this cultivation world.
As he finally got the rough view of the techniques he finally opened his eyes. He stood in front of the monument. It's finally time to check the benefits he would get from the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal but Wait...
It’s not the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal?