19 level 3 body tempering

"From this moment onwards you're my disciple." the old man said angrily, Sora quickly nodded, making the old man almost explode in rage. just how many people were willing to kill their mother and father just to follow him?

"That orb you took shows you can become my disciple. here's the complete Blazing Body cultivation art." He said with a cold snort as he gave Sora a storage ring, Sora sighed softly, since this guy was his master, he should suck him dry.

Sora took the ring before he looked at the old man with an innocent look, a look that said I'm waiting for more

"What?" The old man asked with a frown, Sora stretched his head slightly before he spoke in a low voice.

"don't the master gift their disciple with treasures?" Sora asked in a low voice, making the old man's lips twitch none stop, seeing this Sora quickly waved his hands.

"master, the world is hard, the struggles out there are huge. Feeding oneself is hard on days. this one was rude to ask the elder to give him anything." Sora said quickly, veins slowly appeared on the old man's forehead, what a hateful brat.

"I do have something, something which would help you break through many levels within a short amount of time." the old man said with a weird smile, making Sora fill chills. Sora shook his head, as he humbling bowed

"this one knows the use of a slow and steady cultivation path. I saw the wrong, and I will work better." Sora said humbling, making the old man's leg twitch slightly. he wanted to kick Sora, he wanted to send Sora flying with a kick, but he had high self-control.

with a turn of his palm, a fireball appeared in his hands, the air suddenly became hot, the pond close by began to boil, and the bugs in the sky began dropping, drying from the overwhelming heat within this old man's palm.

"what you have in the storage ring is known as a Fire Gathering orb. it was created from the core of a fire dragon. once your cultivation reaches a high level, you are to swallow it, allowing your body to gain the ability to absorb and refine the purest energy at all times." the old man said calmly

"but if you were to swallow it now, you would be killing yourself, this here is known as a Fire Seed. a rare treasure, which burns your body, tempering your body to a high level. of course, if you can't handle it, the flame would turn you into ask." He said as he threw it towards Sora, Sora caught it, and instantly his hands began to turn back,

'he didn't even flinch...' the old man thought seeing how Sora's eyes didn't move from that pain of his eye burn. of course, he could see the slight twitch in Sora's muscles when this hand was burning, showing that Sora could sense the pain, but he just could withstand a huge amount of pain.

"Now, swallow," he said calmly, making Sora look at him weirdly,

the old man froze slightly before a slight blush appeared on his face upon realizing why Sora was looking at him. but he had thick skin. he quickly forgot he said something like that,

"That skeleton in the sea... was that your disciple?" Sora asked softly while holding the orb with the other hand as the other was burnt black and needed time to heal. the old man shook his head slightly,

"he wanted to be my disciple, the task was to get that orb before reaching the Qi gathering realm. you a level 2 body tempering realm got it, from the moment you took it, you were my disciple." the old man said calmly, Sora fell into deep through before he asked another question

"May I know who eld.. master is?" Sora asked calmly, making the old man snort slightly, trying to suck up to him by calling him master? no late for that

"snort, just call me elder fire." He said without a care, Sora was speechless Sora hesitated while looking at the orb while gritting his teeth. for a moment didn't trust someone who couldn't even give him their real name. he had no reason to trust this old man.

"cough, elder, I was taught not to take candy from strangers," Sora said weakly,

"How could you say that? we are masters and disciples, how could we be strangers." the old man said with a smile, which was not a smile. Sora bite his lips, he tried thinking hard about the elder, just how high were his statues. the vice sect leader had to take a step back just because he knew he would take him in? he had to be something on the level of the sect master... right?

'i hate gambling.' Sora thought as he removed his mask, he looked at the old man for a moment, before taking a deep breath and putting the fireball into his mouth. once he did, Sora's face twitched slightly. the fireball went straight to the dantian, and from there the heat started and began spreading all over Sora's body.

Sora's every breath released smoke, as if he was in the middle of winter, his body turned burning red as if he was being cooked from the inside out.

"... begin cultivating the Blazing Body cultivation art, once you enter the sect come find me within the pill hall." The old man said after snapping out of his state, Sora's looks were just too eye-catching. normally a person's charm couldn't target a group of people, yet Sora seemed to be walking the path charming people, his looks can make even the birds freeze in mid-air to look at him.

"... and don't tell anyone your my disciple." He said with a snort before turning and leaving, leaving Sora there boiling from the inside... no blood was boiling. Sora fell to his knees as he covered his eyes, his eyeball was melting

he was not a cultivator of a high level yet for all of his body to withstand this, his eyes were the weakest point of his body, so they suffered the most. but Sora could recover things like body parts, even the eyes could be recovered,

So, as Sora's eyes recovered only to melt, the XP Sora was gaining by the second was shocking.. each time his eyes were suffering the energies, they slowly built a resistance towards the flames. this was not because of the system or anything. it was a normal adaptation

be it animals or even humans, if they stay within an averment for long enough, they would adapt. on earth, Sora heard of some humans who adapted to stay in the water for a longer amount of time than others on humans on earth.

through destruction comes creations, each time his eyes try to cover only to be melted away, the next time recovered would high a higher resistance. you don't build something the same way after it's destroyed, if you do make it the same way, you learned nothing.

With all of this, plus the XP he was getting at the moment, Sora could soon level up many of his abilities to level 9. almost all of Sora's abilities were at level 8. only two of his abilities were at level 7, being [Aimsman] and [Martial arts]

Every other ability was at level 9, needing a billion XP to level up. it has been so hard to get injured, and now Sora was suffering such injuries, how could [recovery] not get a huge amount of XP?

Sora slowly got up and began walking back home, the pain was huge, more than anything he had ever felt. his blood was boiling at the moment. but [endurance] was at level 8,

if Sora suffered the worst injuries, part of his head blown off, his heart stabbed through with a sword, and so many other injuries that should kill him. Sora would be able to fight, he would fight off death, fight until his body just can't do it anymore. he would be able to push on until his body break down.

his blood boiling was nothing, sure his face twisted, but that was just a reflex, but Sora's reflects were not like others. he didn't pull his hand back or even make a soul. at most, his face would show that he feels the pain.

'with this, I should be able to break through to level 3 within 3 days.' Sora thought with a smile which came and went, he walked home while cultivating. cultivating within such a state would give him, even more, XP, this was pushing himself to his limits just for more XP.

Sora no longer needed to pay attention to cultivation, just a breath allowed him to auto-cultivate, plus he could slip his attention into a billion parts, allowing him to cultivate while doing billions of stuff.

'This is not Blue grade talent...' Elder Fire thought while watching Sora walking off, there were 7 grades to one talent. starting from worse at best, it was white, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, and red. at the moment, Sora was showing around grade orange talent and a high one at that.

'but his cultivation talent isn't the best thing about him, it's the fact that he can seemly comprehend anything... along with that is his willpower, senses, unique physique, control of his body, sharp mind, martial capability, rune capability, back smith capability, and alchemy capability.' the old man thought while watching Sora walking off.

He didn't need to ask anyone to find out most of Sora's abilities, while watching Sora he got to know many things about him. the weapons on his back, it was clear he created them himself, along with the runes on them. the alchemy capability is something he got from elder thunder who told him.

for the next few days, he watched Sora. Sora went on to spend all night and most of the morning cultivating. when not cultivating, he was busy charming people, which was working and giving him a huge amount of XP.

2 days later, Sora had broken through to the level 3 body tempering realm, this breakthrough brought forth a huge amount of XP for Cultivation, this was because a breakthrough in cultivation was something huge.

with the sect, normally a person would need about a week to reach level 1, at least 3 weeks to reach level 2, and a few months 3. on the other hand, Sora reached took about a month to reach level 1, Sora took about 2 weeks to reach level 2 body tempering.

and Sora took 1 month and a few days to reach level 3 body tempering, this in truth was considered fast. of course, it was only fast because of the events around Sora, in the forest, his father gave him the Qi needed to cultivate.

along the journey, Sora bathed in fire each night after getting the cultivation art, and now the fireball the old man gave him pushed him to level 3. without the fire seed, Sora would have needed to wait until he joined the sect and found a pill of some kind to help him.

luckily, for Sora. the energy he needs didn't seem to be increasing with each level his abilities reached, if that was the base then Sora would have been in trouble. it seemed as if they were helping him out. with his already strong body, body tempering would be smooth, all he needed was energy and time.

in a blink of an eye, the tournament had finished, and only 49,000 people remained, all 49,000 of the split into 50 groups, and each group has 980 people. due to the numbers, they were split up and sent out to different locations around the city where people can come watch them battle.

the purple lightning city was huge, it had arenas all over the place, so many people gathered from all over the city to their nearby arena which was holding the sect tournament to watch the battle.s

"elder, brother, you were right. I broke through." a young man said joyfully upon seeing Sora walk into the arena, with his words, the whole ground gathered around Sora, leading to the people citing within the crowd sitting to look at Sora.

Sora was in the show when he saw how big this place was, he never even heard of anything like this on earth. the arena was like its own town, holding seemly millions of people around him. Sora's heart skipped seeing this huge number,

{Gained Attention- Gained 999,999 SP

you have been suspected- Gained 999,999 SP

you have been watched- Gained 999,999 SP

You have been debated- Gained 999,999}

Sora froze seeing just a huge amount of numbers... if he didn't milk the crowd dry then he shall go kill himself by slamming his head upon a brick wall. but the question was, should he enrage them, or make them love him?

of course, he had to charm them, if So many people charmed him, what would happen? the XP would be huge. he already gained a huge amount in the past few days, but now he could get more than all of that combined if he does things smartly.

he had to put on the image of the perfect big brother and make the crowd love him. it would be hard work, but Sora will not let such a chance slip through his hands