1,000 Years - 307

It took three days for the banquet and feast to finally end. Just about every single Heavenborn and visitor greeted him at some point.

At its end, Tian Fu was preparing for seclusion. Playtime was over, he needed strength as soon as possible.

First, Tian Fu went to the library. He spent most of his time in the deepest level, accessible by less than a hundred people in the entire sect. 

He looked around it, but found only two techniques that interested him. Tian Ren had been right, the techniques he had chosen were the best of the best and suited towards Tian Fu.

As he left the library, Tian Fu decided that he would begin creating his own techniques once he mastered the two new ones. He would also hone the ones chosen by Tian Ren farther.

As Tian Fu entered his house and shut his doors, a long period of seclusion ensued.

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Two giant doors opened, a golden light shining out of them. Ying Xiong walked through the doors that blocked the deepest area in the Buddhist sect from others.

He entered a large hallway and looked around. In front of pillars that held up the ceiling were bald men dressed in robes. All of them were meditating.

Ying Xiong nodded at the scene. He was used to it.

Although he entered the room and everyone had sensed him, there was no reaction. In most sects, status was extremely important and showing respect to those with higher status was expected.

In the Buddhist sect, however, there was no such thing. Although a sect master like Ying Xiong was very important, no respect needed to be shown.

Ying Xiong exited the Buddhist temple and walked through the streets of mankinds greatest imperial capital. Soon, he came upon an area surrounded by gates, but with an open entrance. He walked through the gates and ventured around, soon coming to a stone grave.

Near the end of her lifespan, his mother had fallen due to a sickness. She died happy, a thing that made Ying Xiong very glad.

Ying Xiong knelt down and honored his mother. A while later, he got up and returned to the buddhist temple, entering the deep doors.

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In a deep sinkhole, in a room at the very bottom, a giant man with grayish skin cultivated. He had not moved for a long time, but he constantly gained strength. 

The fiendcelestial world, as well as the other races worlds, were still gradually recovering from the cultivation reset.

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1,000 years passed.

Tian Fu, Yao Mun, Ying Xiong, and Lernean had all reached the peak of the soul formation realm. 

Their strengths soared leaps and bounds in that time, but soon, the tutorial was going to end.

Upon entering the void traversing realm, the smooth and predictable journey they had lived through would finally end.

From then on, their individual talents would truly shine on the world.

For the first time in a thousand years, Tian Fu stepped out of his house. Despite so long passing, nothing seemed to change. Ever since the retreat, there had been no outside conflict. Still, the new lack of resources had greatly stunted the growth of the Heaven sect and Heavenborns in general.

As time passed, the talent requirement for joining the Heaven sect had been gradually increasing.

Although the Heaven sect's size had not been expanded due to the fact that it was personally built by the first Heavenborn, there were new cities outside of the current Heaven sect in order to allow more people to join.

In the first 500 years, Tian Fu honed his techniques to perfection. Even the ones he had gotten from the library had been fully perfected.

The first three techniques he had gotten from Tian Ren, the formless sword, the light space cutting technique, and the sword explosion drill, would continue to be useful through most of his cultivation journey. The new ones, however, would barely be useful in the void traversing realm. He had learned them more as a reference point for creating techniques.

In the later years, Tian Fu worked on creating his own techniques. Once he reached the void traversing realm, the bonus from being restricted would disappear. The difference between cultivating for 24 hours a day and 18 hours would once again exist.

Luckily, he still had nearly a thousand years before reaching the void traversing realm was possible. If he wanted to, he could wait to breakthrough, but he would not progress in cultivation at all that way, so it would be stupid to do so.

Tian Fu had some success with creating his own techniques, but nothing incredible yet. After many trials and errors, he had finally created the framework for two techniques he was excited for.

In terms of usefulness, they were comparable to the formless sword, and above the light space cutting technique and the sword explosion drill.

The first was a very simple looking technique that held a lot of complexity and power within it. It could only be used in a downward sword strike, but its power was incredible. He named it "Unparalleled descent".

The second technique was not a sword technique. It was a fist technique. Once he reached the void traversing realm or the space shattering realm, he would be able to break space with a punch using the technique. 

When punching, it created a tunnel shaped force that was so powerful and fast that it should theoretically break space. 

It was wishful thinking breaking space in the void traversing realm with his techniques, but it was not impossible.

Tian Fu called the second technique "Tunnel force". He was not good at naming, but the names sounded reasonable to him.

The techniques were still in the beginning stages of creation, but they were likely to be finished in the next thousand years. Mastery would come after that.

Tian Fu had thought about it and decided that when he reached the void traversing realm, he would spend 23 hours a day cultivating, as it was the very foundation of all his power, and would spend an hour practicing techniques.

It would be less efficient in both ways, but it was what he had to deal with. He only hoped that Yao Mun's cultivation talent was not greater than his.

Although Tian Fu came out, it was only to fight battles. The first person he looked for was Lernean.