Chapter 19- Essence Cultivation

-Week 4, Day 23/Tuesday, Mayort City-

-Time: 4:27 P.M.-

Inside a rather average-sized white room with a queen-sized bed and a bathroom attached to it, there was a young man sitting on the bed as a quarterstaff lay there next to the bed.

That was Nivril, who was starting to utilize his Almighty Rod Ascension technique, in order to cultivate his essence.

He could feel the yin energy accumulated in his body, like boiling sparks of life, It danced around trying to exhaust itself to oblivion but his body was stopping that from happening, not entirely but enough to delay the reaction for a very long time.

As per the information in the technique, Nivril's goal right now was to guide all of the yin energy to his rod and once it was there, he would use the Yin-Yang Harmonious Mixed Breathing Method, to mix it with his own yang energy, and then the resulting yin-yang energy would have to be spread throughout his body from his rod, and absorbed into his whole body.

Easier said than done, was how he would describe the experience as the yin energy ran around doing its best to escape him and his control, apparently aware of the fact it should naturally not be inside him. To make matters worse, there was a scary consequence of failing to do this properly. The yin energy must be driven slowly and always kept in cheek, cause if it got to just move around while near the rod, there was the possibility it would contaminate his yang energy purity and slowly begin a conversion that would eventually lead to genderbend.

The worst part was that it would only happen If he continued to cultivate after the contamination and well, if the contamination fully happened and the genderbend took place before he could cleanse it, he would lose all the essence cultivation he achieved up to that point and have to start again as a woman, which was not something, Nivril planned to experience.

Anyway, Nivril started doing his thing and began trying to guide the Yin energy to the right place in other words, into his rod. However, there was a lot of chasing and forcefulness going on since he was fully focused on what he was doing.

Nothing happened for quite a long while as he just failed at this various times, not even managing to guide Yin energy to his rod at all. Each attempt made things worse instead of the opposite as the tiredness built up. Things looked bad, as each passing second felt like he would not be able to actually do it.

He could feel himself drowning in his own body as it would not lead to results for him to try to chase or guide the Yin energy toward the correct place or even anywhere else, so what now? Nivril asked himself as not even the tiniest bit of Yin energy gravitated to where he intended it.

At that moment, Nivril realized something, however… For all that time he thought that Yin and Yang were attracted to each other as if opposite poles of a magnet, but they worked differently from a magnet much so it seemed, instead they were naturally repelled from each other if something else is used to try to move them closer… Then he thought, what if he used his own Yang energy to attract the Yin energy in his body to it?

That was exactly what he did next, focusing on his Yang energy and using it to call upon the Yin energy in his body, and like a miracle, it worked… Actually, it worked too well! Almost all the Yin energy in his body was pulled to his rod at once, forcing him to stop and try to guide it the way he was trying before, only to prove his theory correct, as the Yin energy was repelled as soon as he did so.

From this Nivril concluded that the interaction between the purest form of EP which was known as pure energy, the form of energy used by Energy cultivators to cultivate, and Yin or Yang, caused them to repel each other rather than attract. This was something he immediately began testing as he tried to move his Yin energy away from the Yang energy using pure energy as he had from the beginning and it worked!

Knowing that he used this knowledge to his advantage and stopped most of the Yin energy in his body from going any closer to his Yang by using pure energy, then used his Yang energy to call upon the Yin energy he left untouched by the pure energy.

Slowly but surely he repeated the process until all of the Yin energy went to his rod, and once it was there, Nivril began using the Yin-Yang Harmonious Mixed Breathing Method, and he could feel his own Yang energy being mixed with Sasha's Yin energy, making for a sort of friction as they began to merge.

The breathing method itself consisted of three times inhaling the air, followed by three times exhaling the air, then constant breathing to the rhythm of his heartbeat for 3 minutes, before taking in a great load of air and keeping it in for whatever time he took to finish merging his Yang energy with the Yin energy.

So the merging began as the energies began clashing in his currently almost nonexistent rod, and it became erect as a result of this clash. Both energies rotated against each other in opposite circumstances causing him to tense up, and his veins to pop up all over his body as he almost let the air he was keeping in out, but managed to push through.

If things continued that way, the energies would collapse on each other and kill him, so Nivril who couldn't spread it through his body yet as it was unstable, and would cause him trouble, decided to instead swirl both rotating energies around each other, making them become closer to the Yin-Yang symbol. That stopped the energies from clashing aggressively and allowed them to merge at a safe pace as the excess from the previous clash began to settle down.

As soon as the energies calmed down enough and had actually begun to merge, Nivril who was struggling to keep the air inside at this point, began to slowly spread the Yin-Yang energy in his rod to the rest of his body.

At that moment he experienced something like he never had before. He felt both hot with his body burning alive and cold as if he was freezing to death. The world around him was so loud his ears burst before blood dripped from inside them; even so, there was never a moment in his life as absolutely silent as that one.

The foulest and most retched smell of all making even his impurities seem pleasant assaulted his nostrils, yet there was never a more pleasant smoothing, and nice smell in the air. The grimiest and most slimy toxic taste passed through his mouth as if tempting him to vomit, but there was a divine taste that would wash it off every second like he was a dangling key swinging between two sides.

Finally, before his now-opened eyes, nothing could be seen like he had been consumed by absolute darkness, and even so, he could see all the colors from the ones he was used to, all the way to the ones that had yet to be named. Not stopping there, he felt something else, as if the world around him didn't exist at all, however, he had never felt more connected to everything around him than he was right now being one with all things.

It took some time, he didn't know how much, but he managed to spread the Yin-Yang energy through all of his body, and the Yin-Yang energy swirl had reached its peak.

At that point, Nivril could finally let out the air he kept in all this time, so he did.

A purplish-pink gas escaped his mouth and enveloped his whole body, swirling around it until it was only around his rod, becoming one with it.

There was a strong aroma reminiscent of honey and peaches all over him. Not only that, he also had much smoother skin and an overall more charming look to himself.

His every breath contained a tinge of chocolate, while his green eyes now contained a luster about that could consume whoever looked at them whole in their green lush beauty, with his eyelashes the best they have ever been.

Looking down, Nivril could see the changes, and they were… unsatisfactory… There was a change, but things weren't that much better.

[Congratulations to the Lust Ruler candidate for becoming a cultivator. You are now a Lesser-tier 1st Layer Essence Martial Apprentice Realm. As a result you have earned the class, Cultivator.]

[As a result of your cultivation breakthrough, you have earned 400 exp]

[You have accumulated sufficient exp and reached level 2]

[You have accumulated sufficient exp and reached level 3]

[You have accumulated sufficient exp and reached level 4]

[You have accumulated sufficient exp and reached level 5]

All Layers of a realm in cultivation were divided into 5 tiers from weakest to strongest being Lesser, Mid, Upper, High, and Peak. Meanwhile, the realms themselves normally had between 9 and 13 layers depending on the talent of the cultivator, but someone aiming to become a Domain cultivator had to reach the 15th layer of each realm.

"It seems I'll need a few more breakthroughs before I can use this thing… if it keeps growing like this it should be usable for me by Peak tier 1st Layer Essence Martial Apprentice Realm." Nivril commented as he saw it pulling his pants and underwear out of the way.

His sorry excuse for a little brother now existed, and was no longer micro, but was still very small, having a flaccid length of only 4cm(1.5 inches) and an erect length of 9cm(3.5 inches)… in other words, it was not enough. Meanwhile, his flaccid girth stood at 2cm(0.78 inch), and his erect girth at 6cm(2.36 inches), together with 104 ml of cum stored in the circumstances hanging below it, made the current situation.

"Now… I should focus on cultivating the other 4 types, next in line is… energy…" Nivril let go of the matter for now and decided to focus on the next part of his cultivation path.

Then he opened his status screen to see the differences.

[Status Screen]

[Name: Nivril Armondis Mortalis

Species: Human | Sub-Species: Earth Human

Age: 18 years old

Sex: Male

Class: Lust Ruler Candidate, Cultivator

Sub-Class:

Physique: None

Bloodline: Sun Phoenix Lineage,

Affinities: Void, Neutral(Null), Lust, Sun, Fire

Lv: 1 -> 5

Cultivation Level: Lesser-tier 1st Layer Essence Martial Apprentice Realm

Cultivation Technique: Almighty Rod Ascension technique

Exp: 4/250

Titles: Reincarnated Otherwolder, The Hero Of All Men, Transmigrated Regressor

Attributes:

Hp: 87% | EP: 50/50 | Stm: 125/125

Strength: 20 -> 25(+5)

Dexterity: 20 -> 25(+5)

Vitality: 20 -> 25(+5)

Intelligence: 4 -> 8(+4)

Endurance: 20 -> 25(+5)

Wisdom: 4 -> 8(+4)

Agility: 20 -> 25(+5)

Will: 20 -> 25(+5)

Charisma: 45(On Hold: 0/10) -> 45(On Hold: 5/10)

Luck: 1(On Hold: 0/100)

Free Attribute Points: 16

Stats:

Diplomacy: I- -> I+

Influence: I- -> I+

EP Core: I- -> I

EP Circuit: I- -> I

Divine Power: 0

Profane Power: 0

Spiritual power: I-

Racial Talent: Adaptability, Personal Flame Control, Sun Phoenix Form, Flame Creature Malleability, Intense Flame Light, Sun Flames

Abilities: <Instant Climax.Lv-2(Rank I)>, <Pleasure Multiplier.Lv-4(Rank I)>, <Child Selection.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Ecstatic Ram.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Lustful Hands.Lv-3(Rank I)>, <Hentai Logic.Lv-1(Rank G++ Limited)>

Techniques: <Meditation.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Ejaculation.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Ejaculation Resistance.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <100% Fertility.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <100% Infertility.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Cum inflation.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Increased Sperm Load.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Decreased Sperm Load.Lv-1(Rank I)>, <Sexual Touch.Lv-4(Rank I)>,

Magic: None

Extras: Lust Ruler's Omni-Records System,

Inventory: Locked(100,000,000 points)

OLP: 620 points]

(Considering I can increase most of my attributes with cultivation… I'll dedicate them to luck and charm which seem harder to raise… ) Nivril decided and then put 6 AP into Charm and 10 AP into Luck.

That gave him 46 charm and luck stayed at 1.

Getting up from the bed, Nivril grabbed his quarterstaff and realized it was nighttime and it might be best for him to home and finish his daily quest before going to sleep, tomorrow, when he was no longer mentally tired, he would start his energy cultivation after his morning training and school.

Getting to the living room, Nivril found that Sasha was not there, only Ishmaya was there watching TV.

[Answer me! Just who is this masked man?! And why does he follow me around?! I know you know! So tell me, the truth!] A well-dressed woman on the TV demanded.

[Me and Him… are in reality…] There was a dramatic pause and an ad break.

[Me and Him… are in reality…] After recapping the last 15 minutes it was back to it.

[Twin brothers! And for the last 15 years… I was not your husband… he was!] The shock was visible on the woman's face as the masked man took his mask off and looked identical to the man talking to her.

"Holy sh*t! They were twins all along! That explains why he didn't want to kiss her at the ball when the mafia was after them all those episodes ago!" Ishmaya was fully immersed in her viewing of a soap opera.

"You're into soap operas? I didn't expect that from you…" Nivril was slightly surprised seeing her so immersed.

"It's not just me! All the girls back at the… place, agree it's peak! These so-called soap operas are amazing! Truly the marvel of humanity." Ishmaya expressed.

(If only you knew how many people hated these with boiling passion… then again they aren't all bad… even I have fallen prey to watching a few… Maybe I could use this to get back at her for almost destroying everything…) Nivril could only nod not saying a thing.

"I guess you got a hobby while I was in… aahh… pain coma, good for you. Anyway, I'm leaving and going back to my place." Nivril decided to let her be, for now, he had other things to focus on.

[How could you lie to me for so long?! I don't even know who you are anymore!!] The woman yelled dejected.

[My love, all this... I only did this because I love you, and I had to be the one to keep that man at bay.] The unmasked man responded.

[No! Enough of your lies! You are clearly not the man I loved! Your words… they don't even make sense, just who would you ever have to keep at bay?!] The woman refused to believe.

[*Bang*]

[Look out brother!] The man jumped in front of his unmasked twin taking a bullet for him.

[I assume he would be talking about me!] From the shadows a man dressed in a fancy suit full of burns on his body appeared.

"I knew it! I knew he was still alive!… I guess humans are more resilient than I thought… he survived being burned alive and thrown off a 13-meter(42-foot) cliff… It's a pity the brother is dying though… after all he did for his brother… this is why you should fend for yourself rather than others." Ishmaya was so focused on the soap opera that she didn't even hear anything Nivril said.

Not minding her, Nivril went on with his day.