Chapter 6: Training

//It can't be, is that really Menti ?!// When Nie heard that name he Immediately recognized the Name "Menti" and the Title, it was the title and Name of a Friend who he built a Sect with in a game. // if that is really Menti should I help him?.// While Nie thinks about it the Person that called himself Menti does somehow notice him.

" You there behind me, if you don't want to end like those weaklings in front of me I would advise you to run away, or do you wanna become a Follower of mine ?" he says while chuckling " Then I would need to disappoint you, I don´t need followers but I could use a demon pet. Do you want to become my Demon pet?".

While he asks this he turns around and Looks Straight at Nie, doing so makes him able to see his face and that scares him. The Face of the 4th young master was quite pale and cold. He has two pairs of gray eyes that give the impression that he can't see and the truth is he can´t. But still his two gray eyes do look straight at Nie and that gives him the chills.

At that there are two strange marks beneath his eyes that have a blackish gray color. They have a triangular shape and are reverse, that means the wide path is at his eyes and the tip of it is further down his cheek which causes that he looks somewhat demonic and his build and hair does not make it better.

He has a thin lean build with Long white hair that grows until his back . At that he wears a Black robe with a hood attached to it, on the robe there are some silver markings and the crest with the wolf head has red glowing eyes.

//He looks horrifying. I think I should escape and find out more about him to find out if he is the true Menti" Oh no I just got lost 4th young Master, I should get going now bye !" Nie bows a bit down and then quickly runs out of the Martial Hall."Puuh, that was close. His appearance gave me a shock and this aura that he gives off is so scary I almost wet myself"

While Nie passes through the area towards the Dormitory he remembers something// Senior Azur, can you tell me if the 4th Young Master Menti is someone like me and if he is the Menti that I know ?//.

*Awkward silence* it seems like no one is there.

//Did I imagine things ? Am I getting crazy ?!?// but then // I can confirm that he has similarities with you but at the same time he is different, other than you whose body got turned back to a six old did his body got turned back into a baby and fused with the body of a woman and she gave then birth to him.//says Azur in his head

//Eeeh, I didn't need that detail Senior Azur but good to know that I am not turning crazy. So with that there is a high possibility that he is the true Menti that I know but still I should wait a bit before I approach him.//replies Nie and Azur begins to talk after it. //Yes you should wait first and didn´t you forget something else too?//

Nie begins to think as he hears that question // Oh right I forgot the Techniques, Senior Azur would you be so kind and show me the Techniques that you wanted to show me earlier ?// // Sure I can do but you should first get to a safe place where you can read them in peace// Nie agree with what Senior Azur says and begins to walk into the Dormitory and then passes through all the floors until he reaches his room and enters it.

" We are now in a safe place, " Nie says and waits for Azur to reply. half a minute passes and nothing happens " Senior ?" Nie asks in a worried tone and then suddenly a strange light exits his body and forms a light ball. " I am here, I just needed a bit of time to exit your body Now let me show you two Techniques.

Burning Purification Art:

The Burning Purification Art is a Peak Elite Grade Technique. The Burning Purification Art is an Overbearing Dual Cultivation Technique which will cause a lot of pain for the User because when the user begins to cultivate it he will draw Heat essence to him. This Heat essence will concentrate on the impurities in his body and Soul and will burn them away while releasing an energy called Purification energy which will purify the areas where impurities were and heal them. Which will give the user of this Technique an almost impure Free body and Soul in the Body Forging period and will allow him to build a Great foundation.

But be warned the Purification Energy has its Drawbacks, if The user Does Not reach the 4th Stage of this Technique he will only be able to use 40% of his powers because the Purification energy will restrict his Muscles.

Ice Soul Path Manual:

The Ice Soul Path Manual is a Peak elite Grade Technique. The Ice Soul Path Manual is a Calm Dual Cultivation Technique which will not cause much pain to the user of the Technique but it will let the user experience a Bone Freezing Cold all the Time when it is Cultivated. This Happens because the User uses the Freezing essence of the Night to Temper his body and Soul. The Ice soul Path Manual will allow the user to Create a Close connection between body and soul until it reaches a level of fusion which will allow him to react faster than others and gives him greater perception. This Technique will help users to acquire a Great foundation for the Stages after Body Forging.

But be warned whoever Cultivates this Technique he will lose all his powers if he is in an area filled with fire energy and in an Ice region you will lose control of your powers until you reach the 4th Stage of the technique .

"Mhm Both are great Techniques and have one or another benefit. But the Drawback of the Burning Purification Art is worse than the Ice Soul Path Manual with the pain and that I will only be able to use 40% of my power if I Cultivate it. With the Ice Soul Path manual I only will lose control in an Area full of ice and will lose my power in a pure fire region. Mhm with those I think it would be better to choose the Ice Soul Path but… I chose the Burning Purification Art. So Senior would you be so kind and give me the Burning Purification Art Technique ?"

His eyes almost popped out when he heard Nie say that " Wait, what why would you choose this technique? It will make you suffer in body and soul and will restrict your powers to 40% if you could take a technique that would only take away your control and powers when you are in specific areas ? isn't that better than a Technique that restricts your power and makes you suffer ?"

Nie looks at him and smiles " Yes it is but Senior Azur, the Ice Soul Path Manual just doesn't suit me and I think if I don't suffer now and strengthen my will with it, what will happen if I face great danger ? with my willpower now I will probably break and give up and I don't want that so I want to use the Burning Purification Art " With that he looks directly at the light ball and Azur sees that his eyes are full of determination "Okay here, but don't come later to me and cry because it is too difficult "

With that did a light beam appear that flew into Nies head.

Burning Purification Art:

Grade: Peak Elite

Type: Dual Cultivation (Body Forging & Soul)

Stages: 5

Stage 1: Red Flesh:

Stage 2: Burning Bones:

Stage 3: Pure Fire Blood:

Stage 4: Purification Veins

Stage 5: Burning Union

// So that is the Burning Purification Art, truly an overbearing Technique with 5 Stages and with that great restriction of my body, but it will help me more than the Ice Soul Path Manual because a body with lesser Impurities is better than a body fused with its soul, because of those Impurities will hinder me if they are too many in my body so it will help me when I have a technique that will help me to get rid of some // Nie clenches his fist and begins to Cultivate according to the Art to purify his body and soul with the Heat essence.

Only a few seconds after he started "AAAAAAAAH" he falls screaming to the ground. "This… is truly hellish.. pain, was I too quick in my decision ?" he looks down on the ground and his eyes lose the glance of full determination. "NO " He stands back up and begins to Cultivate again.// I need to hold on, is there no other way to make it easier… wait// He begins to smile and then changes his position.

Nie begins to absorb the heat essence again but this time he doesn't do it like the manual or Tamer Lang said. This time he collects a small film of heat essence on his skin and slowly pushes it into him not like before where he collected a great amount of Heat essence at specific points and drew it in there. His Skin color changes slowly from a Pale with tone to a more reddish tone and his expression slowly turns into an expression full of Pain.// F*** that, it's hard and it hurts so much but it is way better than before, and now I will start by the soul too //

Again only a few seconds pass after he decides to start by the soul and he again cries out in pain" AAAAA" and he begins to struggle to stand but this time he Catches himself and continues to stand.

30 minutes pass and he feels a loud sound on the Ground.

"Fuuu, that was hard��. Senior Azur how much time passed at least an hour right ? " he says in an exhausted expression. Then the light ball responds " half an Hour but that is still quite impressive you had now Cultivation and I didn´t tell you an easy way to cultivate but you still somehow managed to hold on for 30 minutes, this should have bought you a few steps closer in reaching minor success in Skin Tempering." when Nie heard that he looked like he was about to cry

"Only 30 minutes and only a few steps closer to minor success I thought it at least brings me halfway to Minor success, oh right what is with my Soul ? and what are the different Realms in Soul Cultivation ?"

"Oh, you don't know the Stages for Soul Cultivation…. uff I think I need to teach them to you then, but i will only teach you some of them not all.

The First Realm is the Mortal Soul Cleansing realm: In That Realm you would Begin to Clean your soul From Impurities and stabilize it. so that it turns from an Unclear, unstable und grayish Flame to stable transparent Flame.

After that comes the

Mortal Soul Compression Realm: in that Realm you will compress the now Clean soul until the Flame turns into a small ball.

After you finish Cleaning and Compression you will open a Gate with your Outer Soul as Foundation to your True Soul or True self however you want to call it, this Realm is called "Gate Forming Realm".

This would be all the Realms that you should concern yourself about for now oh and your Cultivation effort already cleansed your soul by 1.5 %." Nie listened carefully to all what Azur said, which caused Nie to understand a bit more of what he should do.

"Thanks senior Azur, I will continue my Cultivation" and right after he said that, he stood up again and began to cultivate again. This time he changed something again and that was to absorb the essence everywhere on the skin but to move it around and not let one fire essence unit stay at one place for too long.

This made him look even more reddisher and caused some wounds on his body, but because the fire moved around it closed some of his wounds by burning him and he wasn't concert about getting scars because in the manual stand that the strange purification energy would heal everything that it touches perfectly. The same goes for his Soul.

10 Minutes later, he continues to stand and his face reminds unchanged

20 Minutes later, his face begins to change for a moment but then returns to the same casual look as before

30 Minutes, his face begins to show signs that he can't suppress the pain anymore but it is still bearable

40 minutes…

50 minutes

1 Hour later. Some of the wounds are not closing directly after they opened and his legs begin to shiver.

1 Hour and 30 Minutes later.

He notices a strange energy in his Soul and body rising up and suddenly he sees a strange gray goo coming out of his skin and he begins to puke gray slime. "bleeeeh… what .. what was that ?" "How, how did you reach the 10% purification of your soul and Minor Skin Tempering so Fast ?!? even with your Primordial grade Talent you shouldn't be so fast "

Azur says in a shocked tone and the hand moves around Nies body. " I didn't find anything wrong in your body but why did you reach those stages so quickly ?"Azur says while he begins to sigh " Maybe Senior Azur it happened because some of the energy that turned my body into my 6th year old appearance was still there and I used the energy that was left of my former body ?"

The Light ball again creates a hand and it moves again round Nie " Yes, your assumption was right Nie your energy that was stored up in your 19 year old body wasn't erased but stored for you so you can cultivate a bit quicker without endangering your foundation but there wasn't much energy in your body left when I rescued you so this was probably the only time that you could reach this level so fast "

Nie Shrugs " Who cares, if there isn't anything left it still boosted my confidence and Cultivation But now… I want to go and get a Shower " he says while laughing.