7 A little bit of training (Part 1)

As the light disappered, Reed found himself in large white room like the God's room. A familiar mechincal voice came out and said

Great Sage: Welcome to the virtual simulation floor. Here you can train your body and your battle techniques and also gain battle experience fighting with peopl and/or monsters. You can also summon characters from the anime to teach you their techniques. What will you do first?

Reed: I'll train my body first. Great Sage, increase the gravity starting form 2x the gravity of this world and increase it by two folds if I get used to the gravity. Also, remind me when we are at 100,000 hour mark.

Great Sage: Affirmitive. Complying to host's command.

'Bang', Reed immediately falls down feeling the gravity unbearable for him to stand on. It took him 10-20 minutes to adjust to the increasing gravity ableit with much difficulty. He then do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100-pull ups and run 10km with 2x gravity. When he gets tired he rest for 3 hours. He repeats that routine with increased reps and gravities until he reached 100,000 hour mark.

Great Sage: Host, you have reached the 100,000 hour mark.

Reed stops his routine. He can now withstand 500x gravity of earth. He still retain his lean body but, his muscles are now more defined which will bring big troubles in the very near future. He then ask the Great Sage to integrate the Shadow Clone justu. After a mild round of headache, he then make a very familiar plus sign and shouted 'Shadow Clone Jutsu'. Four 'Poofs' were heard and four identical clones of him appeared.

Reed: Alright. Clone #1, go to the 2nd floor and learn the 3600 ancient words and learn all the sealing techniques.

Clone #1: Aye, Aye, boss!

Reed: Clone #2, go to the 3rd floor and learn all the pill and potion making techniques and mark what kind of plant are grown in the garden there.

Clone #2: You got it boss.

Reed: Clone #3, go to the 4th floor and meet our three dwarf teachers and learn smitting from them. Don't worry, they won't drag you to their drinking sessions. I bet Gill is having fun there.

Clone #3: Okay then.

Reed: Clone #4, you stay here and get experience on fighting the monsters from the duengon floors.

Clone #5: Not a problem.

Reed: Don't worry about poofing back. The Pagoda will supply constant spiritual energy until you guys are finished. You can also make other shadow clones if you need it.

Clone #2: Where will you be going boss?

Reed: I'll be going to the 9th floor and train my magic there.

Soon enough, five white lights appeared and enveloped Reed and his clones sending them to their destination.

Reed's POV,

As the white light disappeared, I find myself in a huge garden with all types of medicinal herbs, and a decent sized pond adjacent to it. There is a 2 story wooden building in the middle of the pond. There is a huge Parasol tree in the middle of the garden, with a small meditating platform for 1 people to sit at its base. The spiritual energy is so rich that there are vapours of it. Breathing it makes me feel refreshed and energized. I also feel my body gets stonger by the minute. Getting curious about something , I ask the Great Sage

Reed: Great Sage, how much is the time dilation here?

Great Sage: 1 hour outside is 1 billion years in here?

Reed: How come?

Great Sage: Your soul energy in little to none. Also, add that fact that you are cultivating your soul energy with your real body. This might take a long time for you to absorb it. You will also cultivate all elements right?

Reed: Yes, I do. Oh and how much time is it outside?

Great Sage: Just 30 minutes since you fall asleep.

Reed: Wow, just 30 minutes? Well, can't help it. Tell me when it is time to wake up.

Great Sage: Affirmitive.

Reed: One more thing. Imprint the overlord soul cultivation technique.

Great Sage: Affirmitive.

3rd Pov

Reed undergoes another headache in getting the techique. It consists of mantras to draw in the soul energy, split the consciousness and spread the soul sense outwards. Reed took a lot of time to digest all the information, especially how to sit in a proper meditation stance. For the next few hours, he started repeating the mantras until she got into a rhythmic flow. When he did, he slowly lapsed into his meditative stance and started searching for the soul energy in the spiritual air, according to idea about how it feels imprinted on her soul. It took few hours to feel the presence of the soul energy. When he reached to the energy, the energy felt calm and soothing to him .

At first he started to slowly draw a strand of soul energy and absorbed it. After absorbing it, he went at that same pace for a while. His soul started to grow in small increments , with that speed and rhythm. He started to increase the amount of soul strands and absorbing it . After some time, he slowly lost himself to the increasingly calm and soothing feeling and fell into a trance. Over time his soul kept getting brighter and brighter signifying the process. Due to the rich density of spiritual air in 9th floor , his progress became increasingly better.

If any outsiders are watching this scene unfolding below the parasol tree, they will be shocked by the rate at which the soul energy is accumulating near Reed and his speed of absorption. At first it was just mere strands, then a group, then it's almost like a river of energy is surrounding him. With the passage of time and his soul strengthening, he started to slowly spread his soul sense outward unconsciously to increase the area of absorption.

At first it was 1 meter in radius, then 2 meters, 5 meters, 10 meters, 100 meters, 1km, 5 km, 100 km, 150 km, 200 km ....

His soul which started as a tiny spark , is now stronger and brighter than a nirvana flames. Time passed slowly in the dimension, when Reed was in his rare moment of meditative trance. By the time he came out of his meditative trance , more than 3,000,000 years passed by in the 9th floor. For a novice cultivator to stay in trance for such long period is a record time.