6 Space Palace

It has been five years since Jiang Chen entered this private valley he has reached 9th stage of body refinement and will be able to breakthrough to Martial Disciple stage any day but his true goal was still far away. He mastered most of the basic skills to grand perfection but he has yet to perfect the final step that is assimilating all of them into one. He could easily make any of the moves with a thought but he was not able to connect one move with other. He was not able to shift between one move from other in a swift manner and rhythm is missing in it. He understand now it is the final step he has to cross.

So he spent most of the time meditating about his moves. Now his body was completely tempered and they direct a heavenly aura he had never felt before. Jiang Chen felt for him to reach the final step he should have some lucky encounter to breach it. He felt he will be able to break to Martial Disciple stage sooner. So Jiang Chen decided to hit it first and was completely immersed in cultivation.

For one to reach Martial disciple stage they have to reshape their dantian in form of a container. It would not exactly be a container but in particular shape such that suits the cultivator. Once the dantian was reconstructed the attributes of the cultivator will form a seed inside the dantian. That seed would convert the heavenly energy to the heavenly attribute energy and that energy obtains some characteristics from that attributes. Jiang Chen remembered how his aunt ignited the furnace that day with her Fire attribute energy . The shape of the container and seeds were affected by the cultivation techniques of the cultivator.

For example their was a cultivation technique called Blue lotus technique where the cultivators dantian is reshaped to a Lotus flower and all the energy in dantian is stored in the form of lotus container. The seed was formed at the center and the seed could convert center most part of lotus to attribute energy. It was told to him by his father who cultivated the same.

Jiang Chen understood something about it and tried to make the base over his cultivation technique.

But his cultivation technique formed a puzzle for him as it was called Dragon Star Pagoda technique.

There were three terms in its name DRAGON ,STAR and PAGODA . He was confused whether he should be shaping his dantian to a dragon shape or pagoda or a star type system.

Jiang Chen was cultivating day and night pondering over the same thought. But it was not his to choose.

As Jiang Chen was in the process of reform his dantian the heavenly energy in his dantian slowly started compressing itself in a random manner. It looked like random for Jiang Chen but it was nowhere random it was taking place in a systematic manner Jiang Chen felt incredible pain as he was breaking through ,he knew the energy in his dantian was nowhere enough for him complete the breakthrough so he started absorbing the heavenly energy as fast he can but the energy absorbed was no where enough ,first time he felt the importance of Alchemist pills he understood that if he had some pills he would not be in this state where he has to stress that heavily for every strand he needed. It continued for the full day and finally it came for a stable position as energy required and absorbed was balanced.

Jiang Chen noticed that his dantian was converted to a formless shape,contrary to his expectations his dantian didn't form any shape but it felt like some huge space that he could never transverse as his consciousness entered that space it felt like nothing and he noticed multitude of stars around his consciousness and in a distance he observed a pagoda like structure but it was not a real Pagoda but no one can see it if they just glanced at it. That Pagoda was in shape of 6 walls surrounding the seven stars there . On closer observation Jiang Chen would see tiny dragons above each star there were seven such dragons with six dragons each facing the wall while the one in the center was coiled to the star. Each dragon was different from the other. The one in the center was total pitch black ,if it was not above the star and in space he might not be able to see it at all . The other dragons were standing on different stars and Jiang Chen observed them carefully he noticed one of them was purely white in color it was so pure it contrasted to the first one completely, There was one with grey color , one of the dragon was pure golden ,while other showed a fiery red , there was one azure colored dragon and last one was in orange color. Jiang Chen finally understood what they were. They are his attribute seeds . Total of seven attributes.

Jiang Chen now understood his Aunt Ming's action. She has totally used seven different types of cores while making his weapons. So the reason was for this . He is not any dual attribute cultivator but seven attribute holder. The Pagoda is formed by his attribute energy.

Seven attributes he really have seven attributes. He was sure of two of his attributes.

The fiery red dragon is the seed of his fire attribute ,while the Orange one was his thunder attribute, so azure one should be his Ice attribute and golden one is his light attribute. Jiang Chen could make out these four but what he really want to know is about the other three especially the center one.

Jiang Chen concentrated his consciousness on the grey colored dragon trying to probe into it. As he reached out to grey colored dragon as if it sensed him it slowly laid on the star letting him touch it . Jiang Chen slowly forwarded his hand and patted on the head of it. Suddenly Jiang Chen felt he was being dragged somewhere and he couldn't stop himself as he was sucked into it. When he finally opened his eyes Jiang Chen found himself in an huge palace. As he was staring at it in awe series of information reached out his brain. One name came in his mind.

Natal Space Palace

It was his natal space palace . It was like a private space that moves along with him . He was now exactly in Space Void . This palace was constructed in void. Every space attribute cultivator have their own void space. But it should have just been a space but how is it a palace. Jiang Chen knew the answer some one already constructed one for him. Series of information reached out to him.

This Natal Space palace was his both space and time domain as everything here was under his control. It is a place where he has absolute control.

Jiang Chen tried to explore around the palace but he could not go to any place above him as he doesn't have enough Attribute energy to break the barrier and he was bounced back. He observed that here heavenly energy is very dense and could be helpful for cultivation.

As Jiang Chen noticed the surroundings he was very happy. He was able to determine what those two attributes are they are Space and Time they are two legendary attribute he heard of in myths but he possesses both of them.

Jiang Chen roamed around the palace for few minutes but there was nothing special in what yet appeared before him. All the place accessible to him was the first floor of the mansion and there were only 4 rooms here and all have different purpose .One of the room was furnished and it looked like a bedroom for him , other four were similar and last one was a weapons store there were no weapons there but Jiang Chen understood its usage.

Jiang Chen stayed in the palace for whole day in awe as he slept on that comfortable bed for a change instead of dry ground.

Jiang Chen started cultivating after some time and he checked the changes in his body now he could sense that there were over 1080000 strands of heavenly energy inside his dantian and he could sense few strands of attribute energy in the pagoda. There were over 30000 strands of each now and it seemed like limit for him now. In total he has 210000 stands of attribute energy. It was almost four time what a normal person holds. A normal first stage Martial disciple can store 54000 strands of attribute energy usual dual cultivators can also combine it up to almost same amount or even slightly more .But no one would be more monstrous to have that much energy.

Jiang Chen understood for now he could only use up to 120000 strands as the big three attributes of his he don't want to reveal them also he was not sure how to use them in combat. He can't use other four in combat now but they were quite common and are widely used.

As he was planning to leave the palace a single instruction came in his mind never discuss with anyone about his seventh attribute.

As he walked out of the door he came back to valley and he found nothing changed. He know every time he accessed his Natal Palace he would be spending space attribute energy .

As he checked his dantian he found his space attribute energy half empty and grey dragon shrank to half in size.

It would be same if he tried to access his time domain of Natal palace. In his time domain he could either speed up time, slow it or even reverse it up it will consume his space energy.

It is pity he can't use it outside the palace. He thought to himself.

For next few days Jiang Chen continued making experiment with his attributes he could only check on three of them. Fire ,Space and time. Jiang Chen saw his father using fire attribute many times and he was able to form a speck of fire outside and allowed it to burn and empty the fire attribute energy.

After all his experiment he was able to make few conclusions and gained a rough understanding.

Every time Jiang Chen entered his Natal Palace he would spend half the space energy in his dantian and it will take almost a week for his Grey dragon to recover all the spent energy. But he could easily store and access his weapons in Natal Palace. They take lest than dozen strands each time . It was almost like no consumption at all and it could be recovered in few minutes.

But consumption was not a problem for fire attribute as even if he completely empty his fire attribute energy it would be restored in half a day.

Even time energy has heavy consumption similar to space energy. For now Jiang Chen can make use of three characteristics Reverse ,speed up and slow the time.

Each of it is heavy consumer. Such that Jiang Chen could not use any of them for now.

He could slow the time by 10 times and he will be completely empty of his time energy in couple of hours. Same applied to speeding up . But giant was reversing the time as with all his energy he could only reverse it for a second he was not sure even if it was a second or micro-second.

Jiang Chen understood if he planned things carefully he could benefit a lot from each of it.

Jiang Chen could enter his Natal Palace thrice in half a month and there was no restriction in amount of time he could stay inside it as only consumption was for breaking the barrier. Here the heavenly energy is 10 times the normal in rivers-spring city. And with time domain here he would be able to cultivate at 10 times speed for couple of hours twice every month.

It has been three month already and Jiang Chen adjusted himself to all the changes. He already reached to peak of Martial disciple first stage and will break through sooner to second stage.

He was even able to fuse the moves and now he can swiftly change from one move to other.

He has almost reached all his objectives of the training and it has been five and half years since he left home. His aunt would come occasionally to give him some guidance and supplies to him.

Now he was waiting for his Aunt to come to tell her about the progress. She wasn't here for more than three months and she is not aware about him breaking through to Martial Disciple stage.

Jiang Chen smiled of thinking how his Aunt would be surprised once she know but then again cut it off as he knew she wouldn't .

Jiang Chen then taking out his wooden bow from his Natal Palace decided to practice on Bow and Arrow.

He drew his bow and aimed at the huge rock at over thousand feet away as soon he released the arrow the huge rock shattered to piece. That arrow was not reinforced by any energy .Just the arrow alone at the point of impact had over 20000 pounds of energy , it would be completely different story when it would be reinforced with heavenly energy or suitable attribute energy. It could easily reach ten times that of now. Even now it could easily kill a first stage Martial disciple and seriously injure disciples of fourth stage.

As he was analyzing his feat he hears some claps ringing from afar as he the sight of a familiar figure.