4 Discount Observe Skill
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(Brian's P.O.V)
The slow beating of my heart, the circulation of blood in my veins, the tingling of my skin in the afternoon sun, the slow breath of air that filled my lungs. All that culminated in a deep awareness of my body that would have been impossible for a non-cultivator. I lacked the overwhelming power or even a clear cut path to that power but what I had were the innate perks that all cultivators took for granted.
For instance, it hadn't taken long to map out a general layout of my body. It wasn't a deep scan but I could finally feel my blood flow if I tried. It was really trippy. I could feel food being broken down but I usually just closed off that sense. It was too gross otherwise.
Of course it had taken almost five months of preparation. Five months of being one with myself. The deep scan of myself needed me to stop any distracting thoughts. Another reason why it had taken me five months was because of just how hard an effort it was to merge all the individual sensations into one. Now that, that step was over it was time for the next one.
"Ok. Here we go. Visualize then actualize, visualize then actualize..."
I pulled in the energy from the air. I hadn't established a stable energy circulation but I had found out, I could hold it inside my body for a few seconds to increase my physical strength by a few percentages. After a little while my body would start hurting as the energy took it's toll on my undeveloped body.
The colorless swirling mass of Spark energy ( a name I'd given it) made its way to the center of my brain. People had theorized that the soul existed in the unmapped part of the brain but I wasn't sure about any of that. What I was sure about was that my theory of using my mind to house the ability was feasible.
It didn't have to be correct. As long as there was an 80% chance if my being right, then the Spark energy would handle the rest. I guided the elusive and light mass of energy to my brain. All the while chanting a mantra of 'visualize and actualize.' The mantra helped me to focus better.
I held the image and concept of what I wanted and then gently nudged the energy to follow my intent. The energy started gently twisting as it mapped the entirety of my mind. Everything became instantly clear as I even started to remember memories I'd forgotten.
A hum of energy exploded from within me. No outward effects happened in real life though. Everything was occuring in my mind. My brain felt a pressure squeezing me from all sides that slowly grew in intensity, making me uncomfortable.
I never stopped chanting gently or lost the image in my mind. A little fear blossomed within me because of the strange sensations but I ruthlessly crushed it. Cultivation was a dangerous affair and I wasn't going falter at only the first step. This was nothing to what would come in the future.
Just before the pain became too much, everything stopped. The energy retreated from every nook and cranny of my body to gather at the middle of my mind. A multicolored ball gently materialized, resting in my consciousness. I marveled at it's beauty. At that time, I hadn't realized just how close I had come to putting myself in a coma. Luckily though, the Spark energy had ferried me across. It had turned something impossible into 'easy peasy, let's do this again next Saturday.'
"Yes! I did it! Now to see if it works or not." I said to myself giddy with excitement.
"Brian? Aunt May made cookies."
Peter's voice came from the house. Cookies first!
Later at night, after everyone was asleep, I delved into my mind to see the ball again. This was the first tangible evidence, I had that I was in another world. Just by having this dispelled any lingering doubts left. I could see my dream of making Natasha scream with pleasure happening.
"Observe."
I said the activation phrase. A wave of energy exploded from the ball to scan my body in pico seconds before a blue panel reminiscent of the time spent with the entity appeared. This blue panel however, was all mine. I had created this. It wasn't strong or powerful like the systems usually attached to the main characters of web-novels. This was just a tool that would measure my progress and help me plan my path to power. But it was MINE.
[Name: Brian Parker]
Cultivation level: N/A (0.6%)
Body strength: average human child.
Soul strength: N/A.
Mind Strength: Low Psion.
The name was of course mine, cultivation level was N/A. Ok, I understood why. I hadn't begun cultivating but that would hopefully change soon. Soul strength was a N/A too. It made sense. I didn't have any soul powers or skills and I didn't know if my soul was stronger than other people of this world after crossing over. My bet laid on not. This wasn't a wish fulfillment book where, I would gain extra perks from staying in the void or some other bull crap.
Body strength was understandable as well. I had a feeling I could increase that too, to a level higher than a baseline human. My intuition had never failed me before so yeah. My hidden dream to throw a bus and run faster than a speeding jet was well in sight.
Then came the enigma, mind Strength. It was placed at low Psion. Was it because I'd made the observe ability or had the energy simply opened up my potential for psychic powers. I had said that telekinesis, could be plenty powerful if used creatively. It wouldn't matter if someone took the direction of control or the direction of overwhelming power. It was broken in both accounts and knowing I could potentially learn that ability left me glad I had chosen to make the observe skill.
I mentally dismissed the panel and looked into the ball of energy in my mind. Dammit! That one instance of observing myself had taken all the energy! The multicolored ball was now colorless and faded. I started pulling energy in to myself to refill it again but it was slow going. 3 hours later it was only half full and I was mentally exhausted. I soon passed out in exhaustion.
"Wake up you dummy. We're gonna be late."
Peter shook me awake and I groaned as I blearily rubbed my eyes.
"I'm up... I'm up. Stop shaking me."
I got up and followed him down to breakfast.
I checked up on the ball of energy again on my way to school and breathed out a sigh of relief. Seems like it was fully refilled. I had thought that it would need my conscious effort for it to fill up but I guess I'd been wrong. Thankfully.
The rate was of course slower than if I did it intentionally but the automatic replenishment of the energy was a welcome change. It didn't strain me at all but that also meant I couldn't use observe willy nilly like I wanted. I also couldn't access other psychic abilities like I'd hoped. Guess that 'low psion' tag wasn't for show.
I could only see one way out of this predicament. Increase my mental energy to a level sufficient enough to spam Observe like nobody's business. Then once I got to that level, I would start teaching myself telekinesis then move on from there. I didn't want to wear myself out though. So my main priority was cultivation.
That presented another challenge however. I couldn't retain any energy inside me for a long duration of time. So I would have to work from there. The biggest hurdle I faced was that I was essentially doing all this blindly. A cultivation art would have made all this so much easier.
Unfortunately I didn't have that going on for me. I looked out at the window and sighed in exasperation.
"Brian you okay? Today you seem kinda down."
Uncle Ben said while watching me from the rear view mirror.
"I'm fine Uncle Ben. Just didn't get enough sleep last night."
He nodded but I could see that he still wanted to inquire more. I smiled reassuringly and hoped he'd drop it.
Luckily he did. I returned to look outside the window while lost in thought. Then I saw it. The answer to some of my immediate problems.
I perked up and wondered why I'd never seen the dojo before. We used the same road every day to go to kindargarten but this was the first time the building with the karate sign out front stood out to me.
Cultivation stages always begun with training the body. I had been so focused in creating a qi center or meridians I'd forgotten such an essential principle! In almost all cases, I had to temper my physical vessel before I could think of using qi. Qi was volatile. If my body wasn't strong enough then at the end of it all, I would get injured or worse if I ever took in more energy than I could safely channel.
It was really easy too. With a cultivator's potential, all I had to do was keep up body strengthening and I would achieve the first level of cultivation. Body Refining. It was the same concept used in Dragonball. Goku and the others had to reach a certain level of body physique to even start using Ki. The less said about DBS the better. Bulla doesn't make sense at all.
But a smile had finally appeared on my face. I finally had a legit path to follow. It wasn't going to be easy. That much was for sure but I would do it. I had the power of illogical progress on my side. Cultivator's were just hax. How the fuck does someone reach the level of creating a whole fucking universe inside them? Or creating a martial art skill that could destroy a whole multiverse?
With that sort of unreasonable potential by my side, there was nothing stopping me from achieving anything I set my mind to. But first let's see if I can convince my adoptive parents to let me learn Kung Fu. Oh boy.
