Chapter 03. Cultivation block

In these 2 months, Zen had tried to cultivate several times, but he encountered an obstacle.

In the early stages of building the body and

Mind strength, everything went quite smoothly.

Zen could smoothly supply Blood energy into his body even if his body was a Zombie's body. Moreover, since his body was a body powered by Magic energy, he didn't need to consume anything. He could convert the Magic energy in the air into Blood energy to strengthen his body.

The resulting effect was shocking.

In addition to the increase in his five senses and physical strength, even the wounds on his Zombie's body, which he thought could not be healed, turned out to be starting to regenerate.

Zombies in this world also have the ability to regenerate, but they usually can't regenerate limbs that are lost before they become Zombies, so Zen initially thought that he would remain in a state of injury until finally increasing his cultivation level until the Second Realm.

However, unexpectedly, it turned out that the wound could begin to heal on its own after he managed to establish his constitution and enter the First Realm.

The First Realm was often called as Martial Realm because it focused on physical training and martial arts.

The First realm has 3 stages, namely:

-Blood energy collecting & Mind strength stage.

-Martial arts training stage (requires suitable martial techniques.)

-Spirit body formation stage.

Zen has completed the collection Blood energy stage in just several day.

His Zombie body has been filled with Blood energy. Zen also will every day meditate to increase his Mind strength using the meditation technique he possesses: [Water Flowing Crytal Technique].

[Water Flowing Crystal Technique] is an high-level meditation techniques that has a good effect on one who wants inner peace in all situations but can still think sharply when needed. Zen and his friend found this technique at ancient pagoda.

Unfortunately, Zen and his friend, at the time, had already practiced other Meditation technique.

Since Meditation technique is couldn't be changed since it was cultivated, Zen eventually decided to just write and memorize it before he sold it to a top-tier Sect at a high price with his friend.

After Zen started practicing this meditation technique, his world suddenly became silent.

He seemed to have been transferred to a crystal stone in the middle of a river.

Other than the sound of the river flowing that brought peace, no other sound could be heard.

This stream of water repeatedly touched Zen's consciousness and eroded it as well as forged it.

Finally, in just under a month, Zen had completed the first stage of the First Realm.

Thanks to the high-level meditation technique, he felt very calm and fresh.

Now both his Blood energy and Mind strength were ready to practice any Martial technique!

After traveling the world as a Loose cultivator, Zen had gathered over 20 Martial techniques of various levels. Zen himself cultivated 5 of them.

One of those 5 Martial techniques is [Flaming Punch Technique.]

This technique is a punch technique that can be practiced from the First Realm to the Ninth Realm. This is a technique that almost touched the law of eternity.

Zen obtained it from an old man he found meditating in a cave when he was about to be killed at the hands of a Demon cultivator.

Zen at that time was already in the Fourth Realm, but according to the old man, only someone who practiced this technique from the First Realm was able to unleash the maximum potential of [Flaming Punch Technique.]

Therefore, Zen chose [Flaming Punch Technique] this time as his initial Martial technique.

In just 2 weeks, Zen had successfully completed the second stage and would prepare to advance to the third stage of the First Realm.

But this is where things start to get difficult for Zen.

The third stage of the First Realm/Martial Realm, the Spirit body formation stage, was a stage where a Cultivator, who had mastered their initial Martial techniques, would burn all their Blood energy to maximize their Mind strength and Martial techniques, and then continuously practice them for 3 days and 3 nights, without rest, to achieve a synchronized state between the body and mind to form 'Spirit Body.'

In other way, this was the moment when Martial Realm Cultivators first to exert all their abilities, try to break through the boundaries of body and mind, to sense a new energy source that was stronger than Blood energy, which was is the Spiritual energy.

Although the First Realm Cultivators were still too weak to use Spiritual energy, they were able to extract a small amount of Spiritual energy in the air into their bodies with the help of Spirit body to begin the process of converting Blood energy into Blood Qi, which was the first stage of the

Second Realm.

However, the Spiritual energy in this world felt extremely weak and little when Zen felt it as he tried to form a Spirit body.

The number is so small that it can almost be called non-existent.

Therefore, Zen was unable to convert his Blood energy into Blood Qi.

Zen immediately stopped his 3 days and 3 nights Spirit Body Forging the moment he realized that.

"Lack of Spiritual energy... Huh..."

In the library, Zen fell into contemplation.

If this was Earth, he could look for a Spiritual Vein or buy it, but in this world where Spiritual energy was very little... Can Spiritual Veins even form?

He had to cultivate to eliminate the worry of losing his sanity, but for that, he needed a steady supply of Spiritual energy. However, this world lacked Spiritual energy, so it was impossible.

"Fucking vicious circle..."

There were Runes that could gather Spiritual energy to a place to increase the Spiritual energy density of an area, but without True Qi, which was a higher form of Blood Qi, a Cultivator would practically be sucked to death when they tried to play with any type of Rune.

In order to convert his Blood energy into True Qi, Zen had to be a Fourth Realm Cultivator and had formed his Golden core.

But... He couldn't even ascend to the Second Realm, so how could he possibly be able to ascend to the Fourth realm?

In the end, Zen still had to postpone this matter first and find another way out.

With his strength in the Martial Realm, Zen already had physical strength surpassing every ordinary Humans, so he had a certain level of protection now, as long as he didn't encounter a powerful Magician from this world.

And since he had to stop cultivating for a while, Zen began to become interested in Magic.

"Should I learn Magic?"

The more Zen thought about it, the more feasible the idea became.

With that, Zen immediately pulled out a book about Magic and began to study it.

***

At the same time, in the sky near the Town where Zen was, a Flying ship slowly flew closer to the Town.

"How's it going, Boss?" a thin man asked a tall woman dressed in bright black-red jacket.

The woman smiled while glancing ahead.

"We should be close to Frincaal town."

The woman fixed the wide-skinned hat she was wearing.

"Let's land there and loot some items before head to Floating City Magnel."

The Lady's crews immediately nodded at her.