A Demonic Tree and 2 new rings

(I depend too much of my intent and aura, using to much spirit and stamina when fighting, being unable to fight long battles. To correct it, I will go to the outward part of the forest where only 10 years old beasts live and practice fighting numbers while only relaying at the sword).

Through 1 month, I went to the outward area and fought weak spirit beasts. Every time increasing the number of them, learning how to defend, evade, attack and counterattack with the minimum movement possible, learning battle experience.

(Now my spirit skill. Even though powerful, it spends a lot of spirit energy. To reduce, the best way it will be only activating at the correct instant, for less than a second as it will suffice in the majority of cases. So I'll need to improve my spirit control, permitting to active and deactivate instantly and without the necessity of the posture pointing up, being activated anytime without wasting time or movement.)

In the next 2 months, I spent most of the time meditating, controlling the flow of spirit power and injecting it to rocks, trying to pulverize them without any movement of the rock or mine. Finally, accomplishing it after 1 and a half months.

I spent a half a month creating my new passive skill, Recorded Light, that permits me to 'write' the movement of the spirit flow in a layer of my sword that will necessary to point upward to do. So now only with injecting spirit power, the skill activates, making it easier. Also, because it's a single way written, there's very little waste, decreasing the spirit consumption by 15 %. Only to 'write' this pattern, I spent 3 days, requiring a lot of control to do it correctly.

(My intent has two major flaws. The first one being the consumption of stamina and the second its invariability. Even though its main property is protection, augmenting the defense, the only thing that I do is improve my sword attack, making it more powerful, so a waste of properties.)

(For the stamina, I need to do the something similar as the spirit power. Control it to only use the required stamina, controlling its input. For the invariability, I need to change the aura form especially in some kind of shield form, gaining another skill-like defense.)

I start meditating the way of the sword, deepening my knowledge about it. I try to change the aura but seems impossible to change the sword form. After that, I tried to use my intent in combination with the Raising Breath finally noticing some changes along with the breath. Little by little, I manage to increase my control of it. Finally, after 3 months, I completely can control the form of the aura, spending less stamina and being able to do more bizarre forms.

(Now I need to combine all of them, spirit, intent and swordplay, so that it can be used fluently in battle. A practical approach will be the best way.)

I start going in a killing spree, fighting with every spirit beast that crosses my path while maintaining my Mind Eye, Stealth Treasure and Mirror Treasure always active even while maintaining my breath. Combining of all them with intent, spirit and swordplay until my body is near exhaustion. Then I return to my cave and rest.

After 2 month and a half, I'm proud of having extinguished, or at least nearly, the Silver Wolves beasts and the Fucking Hungry Hamster beasts (They don't gonna be hungry ever again).

Even with little cultivation, I broke through rank 20, having a hard fundation thanks to the battle experience. Also with the combination of intent and swordplay I create 3 new skills:

<Intent: Scattering Protection>: That makes my intent surrounds me, having all-around protection.

<Intent: Shield Protection!>: The skill with the biggest defense, creating a kind of shield aura after my swings.

<Intent: Remote Protection!>: The same as the former but its created by piercing and moves forward creating a ranged defense a little less resistant.

Today, it will be the final test before the Demonic Tree. I will fight the three Beast King of the Forest at the same time. Going to an open area near the center, I stay at the center. Then, I stop the passive of Stealth Treasure, scattering my spirit power all around the forest.

I close my eyes and expand the Mind Eye, being the actual range 50 m. After 5 minutes, I sense the 3 Kings approaching, the Land Bull, the Grass Eater Snake and the Steel Monkey, causing me to open my eyes and grin at them, signaling with my hand to come attack.

They angrily charge toward me at high speed while I invoke my sword piercing it to the ground. <Intent: Shield Protection!> White aura scattering all around pushing the three beasts 6 m (Too weak. I didn't even sweat. Now I'm ready for the True King.)

After almost 9 month, I'm ready to fight the Tree. I wake up and like normal, have my breakfast, finishing with a song invoking my first Oreo skill, throwing out the dark part and eating the cream. Then I meditated a little to calm my sense and I go to the center area of the forest.

As I approach, I can see the Demonic Tree standing alone at the center of the open area, now towering 60 m length "It seems that I'm not the only one that became stronger" I say.

I inspire and dash towards it. Just setting my foot at the clear area, 3 roots appears thrusting towards me (60 m distance)

I lower my body, evading one of them, slightly steeping left for the other and lastly, I cut the last one that immediately regenerates. I continue forward (30 m)

I sense something under my feet and I jump toward the left. In my previous place, it appears a root trying to impale me. I continue (15 m)

Suddenly in front on me, 5 roots block my way forming a wall while 3 roots try to attack me from behind.

I pierce the ground in front of me "<Intent: Scattering Protection!>" Light scatters around me, pushing all the roots. I recuperate the sword and continue running forward (10 m).

10 roots are unearthed in front, lashing towards me like whips.

I close my eyes (Mind Eye Full Concentration!) clearly noticing everything around 2 m of me. I evade the whip-like roots. Lowering my body, light stepping toward one side, rolling, slashing, protecting toward the right side... it seems like an eternity but only 2 second passed (4 m)

Being completely surrounded by roots, I jump forward twisting my body (1 m)

I arrive at the base of the Tree. I exhale and using all my strength "<First skill: Fire Power>!" "<Intent: Shield Protection>!" Surrounding my sword with red and white light being more powerful and resistant.

I slash the Tree, cutting 3 m of its diameter with a thickness of half a centimeter. Then, the white aura surge from the trail, expanding over and creating a shield, opening the cut to 5 cm.

Int only needs half-second for it to regenerate its trunk closing the cut (More than enough)

Just having finished the slash, I pierce forward at the cut made previously "<Intent: Remote Protection>!" White light push forward with great strength, breaking the tree. Finally, piercing through the trunk. The roots that were about to hit my back, stopping at 1 cm of distance and start to disintegrate.

The trunk being chopped falls to the ground with a loud "BANG!"Manifesting a purple ring above the stump.

(The strongest property of this Demonic Tree was its regeneration and vitality. So absorbing this spirit ring, the skill obtained it would be probably related to vitality or stamina. The perfect one with the use of my Intent).

I sit in lotus position recuperating some energy. Passing 10 min, I start absorbing the purple ring with my sword. After 30 min I finished absorbing it and the skill obtained is:

<Second skill: Wood Stamina>: Slowly erodes the opponent stamina absorbing it for you, causing more fatigue for the opponent until him faints. The rate of absorption depends on the rival. At the same level as the rival, doubling his consumption of stamina when attacking.

(So no more to do in this forest, better to notify uncle Bone)

I take the pagoda's statue and just as I was about to break it, I listen a low voice "eat, eat"

I look my surrounding without finding anyone but the sound is still being listened or more correctly I feeling was sensed more than a voice. I close my eyes, using my Mind Eye, finally locating the sensation at my left hand.

I invoke my Oreo spirit, surrounded by a white ring. This time listening louder "eat!eat!" (WTF is this shitty cookie trying to say).

Suddenly, the Oreo starts glowing with a white light and like being a lantern, the light signals at the feet of the Tree. I approach and following the sensation, I start to dig.

After 1 m, I find two red potatoes "EAT!EAT!" I sense this time very loud (I'm gonna follow your instruction cookie but if it's a trap like poison. I'm gonna eat you!) I think completely knowing it's my ow spirit.

I start eating it, finally stopping the voice as I taste its sweet flavor like strawberry (It's good! But it doesn't seem to be any change at eating except the voice stopping). I decide to start meditating, sitting in a lotus position, having invoked my Oreo spirit and closing my eyes.

When opening my eyes, I'm in a forest with hard black ground and fluffy white leafage that seems like clouds. There's also some milk river ( This is not a balanced breakfast!)

Besides me, there's an open part and at its centers, the red potato ate stand.

"Cranch! Cranch!" I listen eating noises being made by a little Hungry Hamster eating the potato. I watched flabbergasted the 1 minute that the hamster spends eating the potato. Just having finished it, the hamster starts to glow and after 30 seconds, it grows to double it previously size

(Congratulation my Hungry Hamster evolved to a Big Hungry Hamster) I recuperate my trail of thoughts, becoming angry and shouting "Fucking hamster what are you doing eating my..." Suddenly a sense a "Click!" and I know it, my first Oreo skill improved 50% and the ring previously without even 10 years, it had become 90 years old.

I look surprised at the big eyes of the Big Hungry Hamster and it answers saying happily "♪Eat♪Eat♪".