8 2-Leaf Warrior, His Path

Holding the beast core, Bolemo started to absorb the energy inside. Little by little energy seeped out of the core and went inside his body.

With the wood element being the most the core had, its energy should've been mild, however due to his lower cultivation stage, each strand of energy prick Bolemo's mind like how a number of ants cause uneasiness at first but gives out big damages when left unchecked.

Bolemo directed the energy into his skin. Now that he is attempting to break through 2-Leaf Warrior, he needed to persist and bear with the pain.

Seconds to minutes passed. Only the changing expression on his face can be seen. Sweat rolled on his forehead. His skin becoming redder the more time passed. However no sound of discomfort came out from his mouth. It remain tightly sealed.

The place tranquility was broken when Bolemo exhaled a mouthful of turbid air. A smile was plastered on his face.

Feeling all the pores on his skin opening and sucking the spiritual energy greedily, Bolemo knew he had broken through.

His reddened skin slowly turned normal. The previous fair complexion turned a bit brown. His looks becoming more mature. Adding his ink black tattoos, it gave him a more distinct vibe. From being a 19 years old delinquent, he now looks like an adult person that has gone through a few experiences in life.

"My skin should be two times harder than normal people" Flexing his limbs, Bolemo nodded contently. Entering early stage 2-Leaf warrior means he had a full force of one thousand kilograms. Normal warriors would only have four hundred kilograms of force. From this he is already way above other mortal cultivators.

Projectiles are his weapon of choice, not because he liked it but because he doesn't have swords or weapons to choose from. When he killed Harong, he left their short swords in the cave as he didnt want to be implicated. His level gave him force double than what others have at the same level. Hence he chose projectiles to showcase that force. One thousand kilograms may do nothing to practitioners, however he can use it in hunting low level magical beast. With Kiring causing damage with his lightning, he can just target open wounds. Though his accuracy is only at forty percent, it would surely go up the more he uses his projectiles. Anyway stones are free and can be picked from anywhere.

He heard that warriors would choose a path when cultivating. They either focus on weapons strengthening or be an elemental warriors.

Weapon strengthening warriors are cultivators who decided on a set of weapon and enhanced it with their cultivation. They will form a seed of elements they have understood and letting it breed in the weapons, strengthening the weapon and becoming one with it. It was said that some cultivator can kill a person thousands of miles away after strengthening their weapons with wind elements, crack the earth or raze the seas. A weapon strengthen with cultivation could become an artifact.

Elemental Warriors on the other side are people who uses their understanding of the elements in their everyday life, be it for fighting or just for miscellaneous things. This kind of people can create houses when manipulating earth. Produce gales and storm with water and wind. They are superbly strong that they can summon the clouds and beckon the rains with a wave of their hands.

Ninety percent of cultivators chooses to be an Elemental warrior. Aside from the fact that it is powerful, a variety of attacks can be comprehended as long as you have a decent understanding of the elements.

Bolemo wanted to be an elemental warrior. He wanted to soar the skies and fly into the horizon. Also, he finds that being an elemental warrior should be easier. He didn't like watching animes before as his attention were all on his tattoos. However, he still knew some characters that could control wind. The character was someone bullied because wind was weak, but it turned out that he can actually cut flames with his wind.

He had decided. He wanted to be a person who creates elements from nothing. But for now he can only be a person relying on his powerful force to throw projectiles.

Staring dumbly at the ceiling of the room, he decided to cultivate more. The faster he tempered his body, the faster he can enter Wood Carver stage and be a full blown practitioner.

With one deep exhale, Bolemo calm his heart and focus his mind in absorbing energy from the beast core. His fair skin started turning darker. Few minutes passed and his color only turn darker, like a bread being baked in the high heat.

The energy slowly course through his meridians. Purifying them in the process. Unbeknowst to him, a tiny part of the energy was sucked in by the flame printe on his heart. If anyone was with him, they would surely see the flame flicker and vanished the next moment.

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Mark brandished his sword and easily dispatched a Grade 2 magical beast. He did not take its carcass and directly went into the core zone of Dark Woods. He is feeling tired and really in need of sleep. The black bag on his eyes spoke volume of how much energy he spent travelling. He did not sleep even a bit and made it to the core zone at his fastest speed.

Few days after he reported to his master that the lightning beast vanished, he reluctantly went back to cultivation. He made a blunder in front of his master and he had not done anything to resolve it yet. Thus he was not able to relax and cultivate.

He only ranks 6 from all his masters elite disciples. He is still using the peak level Human rank Aqua Shingaling Cultivation Method to cultivate thus he is only a low level Water Blaster Stage expert. If he truly wanted to be rank number one and further his cultivation he needed five times the effort or more to understand the elements compared to people that got the right cultivation technique.

Cultivation methods are rank in four levels. Human, Earth, Heaven, Divine. These are the ranks of cultivation methods. Human rank can at most assist you till pinnacle Earth Shaper stage. Earth rank can further your cultivation up to Wind Specter stage. Heaven rank will pave your way until 4th Level Elemental Stage.

Divine rank are your golden ticket to immortality. It is rumored that anyone possessing this sacred art which people call it will launch you to heaven in one step. With proper resources, you only need to cultivate in seclusion and the method will assist you in reaching higher stages.

The planet is huge and many empires and countries are scattered in the three continents. But the planet lacks powerful cultivators in the Nirvana Rebirth stage. There are some lone cultivators and protectors in this places that reach this level, however compared to the billions of people in the planet, the numbers only reached thousands to perhaps only hundreds of thousands cultivators. The ratio of people advancing is 1 to 100.

This event was associated with the lack of Divine rank cultivation techniques. If you have one, surely you wouldn't share it to your enemies right? Cultivation methods are a highly guarded secrets of clans and sects. Only when you do a great deed will the powerhouses be willing to grant it to you. Hence people mostly reach 4th level Elemental Stage in their lives. With 500 years of life span, they continue to look for ways to break through and entered Nirvana Rebirth. Many have tried but few succeeded. Only top genius would be able to either create their own techniques and further their cultivation stage.

Mark mulled over his situation while traversing the Dark Woods. With his cultivation, he managed to avoid most beasts in the area. Looking at the black feather in his wrist, he followed its tip and pursue his target.