I have a divine body?

The oldman had expected Sam's reaction as he was not surprised by it at all. He waited for Sam to calm down. He spoke after a while.

"I know you are confused by my words and probably wondering if I am lying to you. Let me expel your doubts slowly".

"I have to ask you first. What is cultivation? What do you understand by the term 'cultivation'? "

Sam was woken from his thoughts by the question of the oldman. He gathered his thoughts as he answers in a calm manner.

"Cultivation means a way by which a practitioner uses different kind of martial arts to refine the earthly energy to become strong and increase their lifespan".

The old man nodded. "That is true. Cultivators cultivates to gain strength and long lifespan. Cultivators mostly desire to cultivate to a higher level and become an immortal. An eternal existence untainted by the river of time. However, there are other cultivators like us born with endless lifespan, we were gifted with things other desired the most. Thus, we cultivated as we searched for other things that pushed us forward like desire for freedom, desire to find a lifelong partner,etc. Cultivators all have their own conviction, principle and their purpose as they walk on the bloody and dangerous cultivation world. So, you must also find your reason that pushes you forward so that you wouldnot be discouraged and lose your way when you find yourself surround by endless temptations and unsolvable difficulties".

Sam was left deep in thought after listening to the old man.

'Reason to cultivate huh? I always thought that reviving the sect and avenging my master was my reason to cultivate. But now those goals seem so trivial like they could be achieved tomorrow. After I achieve them, so what? What will I cultivate for them? Oh well, I sure I will find another reason to push me forward then' .Sam thought as found himself much more relaxed.

His goal which seemed almost difficult to achieve now seemed so easy to accomplish. This pushed another burden off his chest.

The old man continued again:

"We got side tracked while talking. So I was talking about cultivation. Bodies of any living organism is made up of three natural treasure :essence, will and spirit. Thus, all living being cultivate either of these aspect to gain stronger.".

Sam was intrigued by this. He had never heard about such things before.

"Essence, will and spirit. Essence meaning blood or life. The person who cultivates the essence are called body cultivators or body refiners. They refine their body to have endless vitality and vigorous blood energy which make their body as strong as weapons. They can destroy mountains with their fists and poke a hole through stars with their fingers. Their body is their weapons".

"Qi means the environmental energy or as people of your continent calls it earthly energy. Qi cultivators refine the environmental energy using their body to be stronger. They fight by using different martial skills, treasure, formation, etc".

"Spirit meaning mind or soul. Spirit cultivators cultivate to make their soul and mind stronger. Thus they can directly attack the mind and soul of other cultivators. They have weak bodies and thus they use different miraculous method to enslave beasts and even cultivators to fight for them"

"The cultivation in your continent is less developed thus, most of the cultivator you interact with are qi refiners. Body refiners and spirit cultivators are very few in numbers in your continent".

Sam was astonished by the explanation of different path of cultivation by the old man. It took him a while to digest all of that information. Furthermore, knowing that all kinds of cultivators exists in this world excited him.

"Does that mean the body refining path and spirit cultivation path has not been developed in our continent? " Sam asked.

"I don't know all about it. As for the people I have seen, all of the are qi refiners. Cultivation paths are endless. Maybe only your northern region might be lacking in those areas".

Sam nodded to the old man's word. The old man was right. Today, he learnt there exists different paths for cultivation. And who knew there might be other paths that even the old man did not know about.

"Old man, I get that you are flaunting your knowledge about cultivation and I am more than happy to listen to it all. But how does it have any connection to me being a natural born supreme being or whatever? " Sam asked the old man. He wanted to hear about all kinds of thing from old man but he was also curious about the supreme being thingy.

"Right, I got side tracked again. So I was saying that in all the paths of cultivation, there are endless realms of cultivation. Each realm of cultivation representing a different level of power. But, there is a difference in strength between cultivators of the same level too. Due to different cultivation method, martial skills, supreme treasures, bloodline abilities, etc there is gap between cultivators with the same cultivation level".

"Thus, a leveling system was formed for the cultivators to differentiate between the same level. Cultivators of the same levels are also differentiated as chosen,favored, heaveners, kings, emperors, tyrants, sovereigns, etc. Each level represents a different level of power even within the same realm of cultivation".

"A choosen could easily defeat a ordinary genius of the same level and can even fight against higher level ordinary cultivators. Similarly, a favoured could also easily defeat most of the choosen except for the extraordinary ones. Thus, a complete cultivation system was formed giving levels to every level of strength".

Sam was surprised again. He was more surprised today that in his whole life. He knew that there was a difference in power among the cultivators of the same level but he could have never guessed that there could ever exists such a large gap between cultivators.

"If there is a level gap between cultivators, what level of cultivator do you think I am old man?

"This is hard to differentiate because you have not even reached core formation realm of cultivation yet. Mostly, such level can be given to a cultivators after they reach the core formation realm. You saw those two hours fighting outside right? They can be considered choosen".

"What? You mean to say that those two who are functioning outside with the undead are only at the chosen level. How could that be? They are so strong. They even seem to be holding back while fighting those undead outside".

"The level of choosen is already good enough for those living in your continent. They can at least reach the king level if they leave your continent and train hard".

"If chosen are already so strong. Then what about the supreme beings. What level are those supreme beings at? "

"Now about the supere beings. Supreme beings are those cultivators who cannot be differentiated into levels like chosen, favored, etc. They are born with unique gifts which can break through the restriction of such levels and easily defeat by jumping levels. Such anomaly on the cultivation world are known as supreme beings"

"Then, can I defeat those by fighting above level? But how could that be. I was born with a slightly unique Dantian and eyes but that is it. They are not powerful enough to helpe fight above levels".

The old man looked at Sam like looking at at the most stupidest person on the world as he said in a annoyed tone:

"You were born with a divine body and divine eyes. Yet, you are saying they are not special. Then all the others should die by drowning themselves in this cup of tea".

Now, it was Sam turn to be surprised, yet again..

"I have a divine body? "