Chapter 5: Cultivation Knowledge

The sun rose up from behind the mountains, shining down on all the citizens of the Yěshòu Town. Some of the farmers were outside already, working on their fields, some bakers had already begun to show their bread and pastries while some mercenaries were already walking through the city gates to leave for adventures. All in all it was a plain and normal morning in Yěshòu.

Meanwhile in the Láng clan's Wolf Howl Dormitory:

*Yawn* a kid yawns while looking through the window of his room. His room is 2.8 meters wide and 4 meters long, inside, there were only a small wooden bed made of black oak, a drawer with some underwear, one green kimono and lastly a table with a chair.

The kid continues to look through his window "So it was really not a dream…. I really am in a new world now and my old world is destroyed" at first his face changes into a sad expression and then it slowly transformed into an angered expression full of hate "Xerxes… you will pay" Nie looks up towards the horizon "Mhm… I should get going, it's close to 8 a.m."

After getting dressed Nie leaves his small room and walks down multiple stairs, passing through many floors. While walking he meets some of the older students, he wanted to talk to them but the cold stares stopped him //It's as Tamer Láng said, they don't see me as a member of this dormitory… for that I first need to find out about the three things that I need to do to reach that goal//

While thinking about that he arrives at the exit and the moment he walks out he stumbles upon a small crowd of 7 people, with 6 of them looking at him with cold expressions, while only one is filled with sympathy //the 6 that are looking me so coldly should be the descendants of clan members while the other one should have the same status as me, one of the 4 that went through the test and not the trial// Nie looks at the person that should have the same status as him and nods before approaching him.

This person is 1.50 meters tall, with curly blue hair and deep blue eyes, his face is clean and gives off an innocent aura. He wears the same outfit as Nie, a green kimono and a straw hat.

"Greeting clan brother, my name is Nie and yours is?" The guy begins to smile "I'm Gou Xin, nice to meet you Nie" he says with a smile. "I heard that in your test round there was a rare seed, is that true?" "Yes it's true, she has great talents and is called Lian Xue, she even became a disciple of Elder Láng Li" he tells to Gou Xin with enthusiasm and they begin to talk about the events of their tests.

While talking Nie learns that Gou is an excellent seed with a yellow grade talent and some green specks. The 8 direct descendants that are in the same group of them have at least green grade talent, but Gou doesn't know what grade the talent of the 4th young master is. The only thing that was known is that even the grand elders treasure him.

They continued talking until 8 a.m. Everyone was there, the 8 descendants and the 4 recruits.

"Now that everyone is here I can tell you the reason why exactly all of you were called here at this early hour. There are 3 reasons and we will talk about all of them" Tamer Láng looks at all the students and waits for them to nod, after seeing everyone's action he continues.

"The first reason is cultivation, only some of you know cultivation techniques and the rough separation of the cultivation stages. Today I will tell you all the exact separations of the cultivation levels." As he said that almost all of the kids' eyes began to sparkle.

"The second reason is that from now on you will get tasks that you need to finish every week to get points and benefits, oh and to be able to stay in your rooms" he says with a big smile, while shocked looks appear on some of the kids' faces.

"Yes, you can't stay here for free. You need to work, okay? Now, the third reason is… this reason is actually something that's specially bound to our Wolf Howl Dormitory and somewhat bound to the first reason. You all know that the people of our dormitory will be the caretakers of the demonic beasts of our clan and to be able to that and be sure that they don't get out of control we use a special way. Do you know what we use?" he looks at us and one of the descendants calls out.

This descendant is male, he wears a green kimono like Nie and Gou, but there are claw marks on it and the wolf crest has a different color, it has a brighter tone.

"Senior Láng, don't expect the recruits to know about this stuff, their intellect won't be able to perceive it, our special way are beast contracts" The descendant says with a snobbish smile.

"Good answer, luckily it's wrong" as he hears that he gets shocked and begins to stutter "Don't worry little one, just know that no-one besides the adult know about this. Our special way to control all those beasts is Soul cultivation"

"Soul cultivation?" everyone calls out and looks at him confused "Yes, soul cultivation. We cultivate our soul to strengthen our will and to acquire the ability to connect with the soul of the beast to tame it or to turn it into a slave. These connections are called Beast bound and Beast oppression respectively"

Again everyone's eyes began to sparkle, even the eyes of the 4th young master that looked a bit dissatisfied with the whole situation.

"These are the three reasons" he then moves his hand and suddenly a token appears in everyone's hands. "This token is your Student Token, it will give you information about your tasks and will allow you to go into the martial hall to get one free cultivation technique of the body forging period and the soul system."

He then waited for a bit so that everyone could realize what was just said. Immediately some of them began to walk towards the martial hall "Hey, wait!! Didn't you guys forget something?" Tamer Láng shouts out to the ones that wanted to leave for the martial hall and only then they realized. He wanted to explain them the different cultivation levels.

"Good so you remembered" he sighs "Every generation becomes wilder than the one before…. So for you all the Body Forging Period is important and the level that comes after it. As far as you guys know, the Body Forging Period is separated into 3 major periods and those 3 are further divided into 3 minor periods, the 3 minor periods are separated into stages of minor success, major success and perfection. All of you know this right?" Everyone proceeds to nod.

"Good, now I shall talk about the three minor periods of the strengthening period, because all of you are still in it and it wouldn't be of importance if I talk about stages that are far away in the future. So the first period, the Strengthening Period is separated into Skin tempering, Muscle Forging and Bone Breaking Period.

In the skin tempering period you use the world energy to strengthen your skin until it cannot be injured by a normal iron knife anymore. The normal way to do this is to absorb the energy into your skin and let it injure yourself and then absorb more energy to heal yourself. This is a long process because we use the natural ability of our body to absorb the worldly energy. To increase that, you will need to train until you're exhausted and can't lift anything anymore while you injure yourself. Sounds painful right?" He looks at everyone and all of them agree unanimously.

"And you're right, it hurts like hell, but you don't have to do it that way, you can just go with the natural flow and you will reach the peak of the strengthening period when you're 20 years old, naturally by then all of you peers will have already left you far behind" He looks at us and it's as if he expects to find something, but it seems he doesn't find what he's looking for and continues.

"After that comes the Muscle Forging, it follows the same principle as the Skin Tempering, the only difference is that you don't have to injure yourself but you have to lift heavy weights. The muscle forging counts as the perfection stage when you reach a strength of at least 250 KG."

When everyone heard that number their mouth opened in shock.

"Yes, yes, I know, but it's the basics, naturally you can aim even higher, the clan record of the strongest muscle forging cultivator is 987 kg of strength. After that comes the bone breaking stage, yes you heard it right, bone breaking. In this stage you will follow the same principle as the skin forging period, only that the pain will be 100 times stronger and your goal is to create a bone durability of at least twice your own muscle strength for the perfection stage. That means even under the pressure of double your strength your bones wouldn't break. After you reached this stage come back to me and I'll teach you about the second period, the vitality period. Now go and get your techniques".

Everyone was shocked because of his words, but it didn't last long until the first one ran off towards the martial hall to get their techniques.

//I should run too to get the good ones// Thought Nie and he began to run towards the martial hall. As they ran some of the descendants tried to hinder Nie and the others, but when they tried to block him they just got run over because he rammed them away with all his weight //haha who said being fat is useless// Nie laughs internally and is the 5th to arrive at the hall. When he entered the token in his pocket sent him information about the separation of techniques and he didn't need long to find them, the type he was searching for were the kind of techniques that may be quite slow but give the most stable foundation // I know that I want to be stronger than Bai Wei quickly but I don't want to sacrifice my future for that//.

As Nie walked through all the body forging period techniques and soul cultivation techniques he found 4 with good abilities. 2 body forging period and 2 soul. He began to read them.

Wise Wolf Body: Body Forging Period Technique.

This technique strengthens the reflexes of its user to an inhuman level, it may not increase the strength of the user by much, but its calm nature allows the user to use all kinds of different techniques without having to think about the danger of restricting this technique. At the same time the user acquires the ability to hear better and to notice changes in body languages better.

Berserker Wolf Body: Body forging period technique.

This technique gives the user an inhumane strength of a berserker wolf, their senses will be strengthened to the level of a wolf and maybe even further. It is said that at its peak form the user can even turn into a wolf in a human body.

Path of the Wild: Soul Technique.

This technique gives the user a view into the path that all the wild creatures walk and become one with them. The user will acquire the ability to feel the energy of nature better and feel the emotions of animals.

Moon Crowning: Soul technique.

This technique gives the user the ability to be like the moon who rules over all the night creatures and controls their sleep cycle. The deeper the understanding of this technique the more control the user acquire above the night beast. At the same time the user acquires the ability to absorb a higher tier of dusk energy.

//These are all good techniques, but which should I choose?// then suddenly. //None of them, they're all low mortal grade, only the moon crowning technique is a middle mortal technique, but even then it's too weak, you want to acquire the strength to beat Xerxes, so let me show you good techniques//

An old voice reverberates through Nie's mind. //Who are you? … Wait, this voice, I know you. You're the old man that saved me, what are you doing here? I thought you could only help me a bit?// calls Nie out in his own mind.

// Yes that's me and you can call me Azure. The thing that changed is… I can't escape from the world. It's as if something is looking for me in this world too, but that is also good, that means I can help you without Xerxes feeling it. Now shall I give you a technique?//

//Mhm… I know I should try to get it myself, but I know that with these techniques I can't build a good enough foundation, so please show me them// Good, then let me show you three different body forging period and soul cultivation techniques, so called dual cultivation techniques// but before he is able show him these techniques they hear a shout //what's happening?// Nie asks himself and runs towards the direction of where the sound came, what he sees shocks him.

There are three people surrounding a fourth one, and the fourth one is none other than the 4th young master.

"Now 4th young master, won't you give us these techniques that you chose, will you? I mean you're the son of the patriarch you can just ask him to get all the techniques that you want" one of them says and walks closer towards him. Then suddenly all three of them get pushed back.

"You lowly ants, you want to steal from me? You want to steal the techniques that honorable me chose? You're 1000 years too early to try to do that. I may be alone and weak but all of you should know that I was a great existence in my previous life, everyone feared me, I was the master of an era! he says and then quietly adds "in a computer game" in a voice that only he could hear. He then he continues with a louder voice "That doesn't change the fact that I will always be great, I will surpass everyone once again, because I am the great Primordial Demon of the Demon Mountain… MENTI!!'' he shouts out and they all get pushed back.

Everyone is confused because of what just happened, but Nie wasn't, Nie was confused because of what the 4th young master said //wait… It can't be… The fourth young master is Menti… The real MENTI?!?!//