Chapter 14 - Dominion Techniques

The knowledge that Kyle suddenly unlocked was an explanation of what cultivation is and what exactly did his teacher leave with Kyle as an inheritance.

In Kyle's memory appeared Seng Lin, now much younger than the statue. He was explaining something to a youth that he couldn't see. "The cultivation techniques usually are broken down into 3 categories. Cultivation techniques that let you improve your body and your qi, movement techniques that improve the way you move in and out of combat, and battle techniques which teach you how to utilise and shape your qi into ways to protect yourself and attack your enemy. Those are the basics." Seng Lin was a lot different from what he felt when he met his teacher in this pearl world. He was smiling and showed a full heart of love to the disciple that he was teaching. Most likely, it was a child or a grandchild of Seng Lin's. "There are multiple ways to study them. You can choose the most powerful techniques in each of the three categories and learn them to be strong in everything. But that would cause you to really focus on one thing at a time to perfect and master one side of the cultivation." Seng Lin was getting more serious.

"If you want to make sure that you have a perfectly stable foundation and your techniques complement each other, you have to find a cultivation technique that suggests which techniques are supplementary to it. Most people choose the cultivation technique as the base and choose battle and movement technique to supplement. The problem with that is that different people can't integrate techniques fully. That is why there are unbelievably rare techniques that combine all 3 aspects into one technique. Your grandfather was able to find this technique in the ancient ruins that he explored. This is also the technique that your father sacrificed himself over. Now is the time for you to learn it. The name of the set is Dominion Techniques." With this last words echoing in Kyle's head, the vision ended.

Kyle was absorbed into words of Seng Lin; every word spoken was embedded into the deepest parts of the memory as never to forget what he saw and felt. This was the ultimate legacy his teacher could have left for a student. It was a family technique that even the son of teacher sacrificed himself over. 'I have to remember Teachers grace eternally!' Kyle dropped onto his knees in the pearl world and kowtowed to the statue. As if the book was waiting for that, a page of the book turned to the second page, and suddenly white beams of memory started flowing from the pages into Kyle's head.

The knowledge was vast and boundless; it was as if an overbearing river was pouring into Kyle's head. Kyle was not expecting this, and he had to greet his teeth as not to lose consciousness, the azure pearl started rotating faster inside of him and giving him the power to stay conscious. After one minute of this torture, the book stopped. It carried on floating in the air as if some magical energy was supporting it.

Kyle could feel that the book has allowed Kyle to get access to the recording of Seng Lin speaking in his memory. Also, it left a description of the intact Dominion Technique and its full first level of cultivation.

First, Kyle decided to play the recording back as to make sure that he didn't miss anything. The second time saw Seng Lin speak. He felt that every word spoken had some power that he could not really understand. The voice was strengthened and changed so much that it could kill the beasts he met in the forest with just a sound. After careful thought process, he still couldn't understand it. The most likely explanation is that while practising the Dominion Technique and with the rise of your level, you will be able to exclude this power naturally.

The Dominion cultivation technique had 9 steps in it, with the set recovered by Seng Lin's son having only the first 4. The rank of this technique was unimaginable, and it far above anything else that existed in this world. It was said that if this technique physically appeared in this world, there would be a full out blown fight between the cultivators and nations. The bloodshed would be too much for any world to sustain.

Any race in this world could improve their power through either a system or the ancient cultivation techniques with qi. Dominion system allowed one to improve both simultaneously, which was unheard of in this world.

When Kyle heard this, he was shocked. He has gotten both notifications at the same time before cultivating the Dominion technique, which was apparently out of the ordinary in this world.

According to his memory, the system allowed exponential growth due to the ease of collecting experience and strong power-ups. This had a drawback that the control of power was very minimal and didn't allow for full-body utilisation.

On the other hand, the cultivation was much slower and dangerous as you had to rely on your understanding and thought process. Also, the process of upgrading one's power was much more resources focused, which resulted in huge sects forming around the cultivation practice. It would be much easier to collect specific resources in a sect then alone. The Dominion technique solved all of those issues. It allowed to practice both, but according to information recorded, one is supposed to have a cube-shaped system, and it is supposed to be where the sternum is.

Kyle had the pearl that was directly inside his dantian, 'I am not sure if this is a benefit or a curse, but I hope that it will allow me to practice the Dominion Technique.' Kyle wanted to start practising straight away.

As Kyle has already reached Body Tampering Realm by collecting the energy using the system that meant that he could start at the first level.

Usually, children at the age of 12 would achieve Body Tempering Realm, and 18 was the benchmark to achieve the Qi Refinement realm. Kyle right now was 22 years old, approaching his 23rd birthday and he should be very close to achieving the Foundation Establishment realm, just before he turns 25. Right now, Kyle has just started on his path, and Body Tampering realm already felt like he has evolved into a completely different person. Even thinking about what is to come seemed very exciting and scary to him at the same time.

'So I was supposed to get to Body Tempering by soaking in medicines and vigorous physical activities from birth... I am glad I dodged that bullet…' Kyle breathed out, 'So to get to Qi Refinement I have to do meditation technique as well as special movements that looked like a karate or a dance with very fluid and strong motions. I haven't even thought that something as silly as this could improve my body. It says that while doing these movements, I will be allowing the natural flow of Qi into my body and will be able to convert into my own qi. Later I will need to combine the breathing and the body movement to get the full effect. The other way that the book describes is me just absorbing the energy of everything that I come across.' Kyle was thrilled with the secret of his body he has discovered. 'This will speed up everything considerably. I won't have to wait until my bottleneck disappears, I can just overwhelm the bottleneck with energy.' Kyle sat down on the edge of the mine in the lotus position, just like the book said and bathed in the sun rays. 'Now is the time to cultivate!'