2 Starting Cultivation

''Morning". His uncle greeted and smiled affectionately when alex came in. Alex greeted back with a lovable smile and took his seat, relaxing himself on a cushion chair.

His uncle, named Houston, was a man in his prime. He had raven-black hair and was handsome, he was quite tall and had an impressive athletic physique.

Dressed in a really expensive outfit, he emanated the grandeur of a giant business tycoon.

"Uncle. I had a dream about that supreme expert again. I have been counting it, this should be the eighty-seventh time. I don't know why I keep dreaming about the man." Alex said.

"I don't know why you keep having dreams about him. Perhaps it's to open your eyes to things you may believe, such as only gods possessing devastating power to turn worlds to ashes." his uncle said with a hint of shock and strangeness in his eyes which he tried concealing from the young boy in front of him.

Alex shook his head disputably, "Uncle, I have asked you to tell me about cultivation, but you always said you would tell me at an appropriate time. Can you tell me now?" Alex asked with a false wrath in his face.

His uncle saw the anger in his face and withheld the urge to laugh, his angry face looked very funny, it was like squashed tomato.

"Alright, I would tell you before you burst." Houston said.

Then he continued "Cultivation is a process of harmonizing oneself with an energy, then absorbing it into one's body and nurturing it. Over time, the energy would grow from a small amount to a large amount."

"Okay, where is the energy stored in the body?" Alex asked.

"The area where this energy is stored in the body is just below the navel. It's in the form of a sphere. We refer to this spherical area as the power-vessel, energy globe, realm orb or energyhouse." Houston replied.

"Hmm. I got that uncle"

Alex said.

Houston nodded.

Then he continued "Cultivation stages can be divided into four phases. The initial-phase, middle-phase, late-phase and peak-phase. While Cultivation realms are grouped into seven. They are, Human realm, Profound Adept realm, Saint realm, Sage realm, Celestial realm, Immortal Realm, Divine Adept realm and Imperishable realm." His uncle said.

Then he looked at Alex with a smile. "Are you following or it is too much for your small brain?" Houston asked with a laugh.

Alex rolled his eyes at him, "Uncle, what do you mean by that? Of course I understand" He said with fake anger.

Haha!

His uncle broke into laughter, he just couldn't restrain the urge to laugh anymore, Alex's face was now looking very funny.

After laughing for a while, he returned to his usual seriousness.

"What a comedian. Of course you are intelligent. I was only teasing you. Now, In the human realm, we have two stages. They are the Flow stage and Condensation stage..."

Like that, Houston began to slowly enumerate the cultivation realms there was to Alex, and then thought him more about cultivation.

***

Uncle, since you know so much about cultivation, you should have lots of cultivation manuals in your study room, right? I want a cultivation manual and a Supernal Battle Entity-grade battle-class methodology manual. I want to start cultivating" Alex said hurriedly.

"Haha!" his uncle broke into laughter. "It's an A-grade battle-class methodology manual you mentioned like that. I don't have such wealth to purchase such. It's something that experts from the High God-emperor stage could have. Even if they do sell one out, it should cost more than a thousand billion sapphirstone" Houston said.

Alex trembled.

So it has such value. Also, it must be exceedingly rare since it had such a price tag.

The currency used in this world is called sapphirstone, it's an octahedral crystal that comes in five colors. They are:

- yellow,

- cerulean,

- purple,

- silver and

- gold.

These colors correspond to:

- common-quality,

- good-quality,

- rare-quality,

- supreme-quality and

- peerless-quality.

Their value for exchange are:

A cerulean sapphirstone can be exchanged for a hundred yellow sapphirstone.

A purple sapphirstone can be exchanged for a hundred cerulean sapphirstone and ten thousand yellow sapphirstone.

A silver sapphirstone can be exchanged for a million purple sapphirstone or hundred million cerulean sapphirstone or one billion yellow sapphirstone.

A gold sapphirstone can be exchanged for a billion purple sapphirstone or ten billion sapphirstone or hundred billion yellow sapphirstone.

These sapphirstones are one of the vast minerals found in the earth strata. They converted it to money to trade for goods and services.

Their value depends on their rarity, for example, silver sapphirstones may only be found in a remote region in a continent out of ten thousand continents.

Alex then made a funny angry face at him "What of a Phenomenal Warring King-grade (B-grade) battle-class methodology manual?" he impatiently asked.

Alex's uncle smiled and shook his head. "Come with me, I have a special one for you. There is a manual I purchased for you really long time ago, you would like it, definitely" his uncle replied.

"I hope it's blazing hot or I won't accept it." Alex said with determination. "What a boy, you shall see, put your little mind at ease" he said as he laughed.

Then he brought Alex to a shelf at a corner of his massive bedroom, he opened it and pulled out a metal box. When he opened the box, a large book could be seen within, the book had a thick blank page cover and was fastened.

"Here. go practice" he gave Alex the book and immediately drove him out of his room.

Plak!

The door closed in his face.

Alex was surprised by his uncle's behavior.

"Uncle, if you gave me a trash manual, I swear you wouldn't rest, I would haunt you" he yelled attracting the attention of many of the workers.

They only smiled as they knew he was throwing a childish tantrum.

Alex snorted and left for his room, the moment he got to his room, he immediately unfastened the book and opened it.

The instant he did, the air in his room abruptly turned turbulent. It caused the doors of his wardrobe to swing violently, his curtains blew like a windstorm was occurring in his room.

His room turned disorderly.

Framed artistic drawings and images of sceneries hung on the wall began to fall off. His quilt, bed cover, pillow were flung away by the aggressive wind currents.

strong winds brushed his face causing his long hair to flutter.

Alex was shocked. "What's going on?"

he looked around trying to apprehend what was going on, then he brought his attention back to the book and being an intelligent boy, he recognized that it was a form of residual power emitting from the book that influenced the movement of air in his room.

"How mighty" he subconsciously muttered.

The book had a blank front page, but when he turned to the next page, he saw the words "Wind Element Trinity Methodology: Primordial Wind Conjuring, A-grade" boldly written in it.