'Take All as One Art'

Before Daniel passed out, he sent a message to Lily, Sarah, and Julie, that he was successful. Right after pressing send, his body fell horizontal and his mind turned off.

When he awoke, Daniel found himself in an unfamiliar bed. The first hint that this was not the guest room he was staying in, were the flowers decorating the walls, floor, and stitch art of the blanket covering him. For a second, he thought he woke up in a flower garden.

As he completely came too, he noticed that Lily was sitting at a writing desk in the room. She failed to notice that he was awake, and continued her work with her back facing him. Feeling a bit awkward at the whole situation, he cleared his throat.

Jumping at the noise, Lily swiveled her chair around and saw that Daniel was awake. She hurriedly got up and walked to the side of the bed and said, "You're awake! It's about darn time."

Daniel could only smile wryly, "How long have I been out?"

"It's been almost a full week! Do you know how much work I had to do? I didn't even get to sleep in my own bed." Said Lily. It seemed like she was really put out by the whole ordeal.

Daniel exited the covers, and got up from the bed. He felt rather good. He realized that his nano-cells must have kept his muscles from atrophying.

Lily looked at him in surprise, then showed an angry look, "How are you gonna repay me for taking care of you? I missed a lot of my favorite TV shows."

Daniel stared at her. She had her hands on her hips, showing a, 'I mean business face'.

He gave her a big smile, then put his hands over his heart and said aloud, "Thanks Lily. It was very kind of you to take care of me, knowing I'm super poor, and wouldn't be able to repay you in anyway whatsoever. You have such a generous heart."

Understanding the sarcastic nature of the response, Lily could only stomp her foot on the ground and yell, "Get out of my room! You're super stinky and smell worse than the homeless man you are."

With that, Daniel gave her a deep bow and said, "Yes your majesty." The quickly sprinted out of the room. He sighed in relief, that you evacuated the danger zone in time.

Daniel took a shower, then headed to the kitchen.

Sarah was by the stove, cooking up some macaroni with cheese. When she saw Daniel enter the room, her face showed a touch of surprise. "I thought you might decide to pretend to be sleeping longer, so you could stay in Lily's room, pervert."

Daniel nodded to her, and said, "It's nice to see you too. Alway's a ray of sunshine."

He walked toward the pan she had cooked the food in, and served himself a bowl.

Seeing what Daniel just did, Sarah was about to yell at him, but decided against it. Instead she asked, "How did the path creation go? Did it work?"

Daniel sat down at the table across from her, and started eating. After a few bites, he looked up at her and said, "I think so. I still need to check the details once I'm done eating. How about you? Did you start practicing yet?"

Sarah nodded, "That's good. I'm glad your head didn't explode." She took a sip of her water then said, "Yeah, Because of my Sun Core, I already completed the hardest part about forming the galaxy. Now I just have to feed my sun fire energy, and I'll be an Awakened 3 Level Life soon."

Daniel congratulated her. A period of silence filled the room, as they continued. When Daniel was almost done eating, Julie came into the kitchen. She grabbed a bowl of food, and surprisingly gave Daniel a nod in greeting. Of course she didn't initiate a tantalizing conversation, so the room stayed silent.

Daniel left the kitchen, and returned to his guest room. It was finally time to go over the details of his created path.

Sitting on his bed, Daniel found the book floating in his mind. As he stared at it, a feeling of pride filled his chest. This was something he created.

Opening the first page, it read, 'In the Universe all paths carry two similarities. First, all practitioners use energy. Thus, the strongest path needs the strongest energy. The second similarity, is that practitioners always use the energy, to build or strengthen their bodies and soul. Deciding the choice of energy, and the path of utilization of said energy, is the fundamental building blocks of the path of cultivation.'

Daniel nodded in agreement, then flipped the page. It only had one sentence, "Absorb 'Take All as One Art' Yes or No'

It was an easy choice, as he mentally clicked yes. A flow of information entered his mind. When Daniel created the cheat, his mind was shrouded with energy, thats why the details were fuzzy to him. However, when the information about this art entered his mind, he was shocked speechless.

'Take All as One Art'

'Take from others and all things. Change it too fit and improve my path. When all energies are at hand, rip and absorb reality itself'

Stage 1- Absorb Reality Energy and strengthen all 30,000,000,000,000 Nano-cells

Stage 2- Locked.

Daniel was ecstatic. His path was domineering and one of a kind. The creator must have been a genius with no equal!

After stroking his own ego for a short amount of time, Daniel snapped back to reality. He was thankful that he spent so much energy on increasing his Neural Firing Speed, or he wouldn't be able to practice this cheat.

A prerequisite to practice, is being able to sense the very fabric of reality itself. With his enhanced brain, he could barely sense it.

The next step in absorbing Reality Energy, it using his Nano-cells to rip through the tiny faults in the spacetime structure that holds reality together. Because of how weak he currently is, he could only absorb minuscule amounts at a time. A faster method is converting other forms of energy into Reality Energy.

Daniel sat cross legged, and started to operate his Nano-cells in a unique way. While he was practicing his body was vibrating so fast, it looked like he was fading in and out of existence. In a sense he was. When his Nano-cells break into the tiny gaps of spacetime, they exit reality and then reappear, thus absorbing energy.

Daniel kept up his practice for 6 hours, until his body was too tired to continue. He decided to check out his stats to see how much he improved. He felt immensely stronger, so he hoped for a pleasant surprise.

Status:

Name: Daniel Grey

Cultivation Level- Awakened 2nd Level Life

Path- The Nano Path

Cultivation Art- Take All as One

Stage 1- Absorb Reality Energy into Nano-Cells. Progress: 0.1% Complete

Strength- 5.1

Agility- 5.1

Physique- 5.1

Special Constitution- Error

Special Soul- Error

Innate Talent- Reality Mind- Increases the IQ, Brain Development, and Neural Firing Speed.

Progress- 1st Stage: Able to slightly sense the fabric of reality

Daniel noticed some big changes to his Status. He advanced to an Awakened 2nd Level Life, as his stats all broke through the 5 point mark range.

One detail that was a bit disappointing, was the fact that after a 6 hour meditation he was only able to absorb enough Reality Energy to strengthen 0.1% of his Nano-cells. Seeing this, he felt that he might be stuck at the first stage for a while, unless he found some new energy sources.

Another interesting change, is that his Innate Ability evolved from Energy Brain, to Reality Brain. Instead of having to strengthen the three traits of IQ, Brain Development, and Neural Firing Speed separately, they have been combined together. Now when upgrading the brain, the three traits will increase as a whole. This will then increase his understanding of reality.

Daniel was happy with the results of his training. He now had a clear path to gaining strength.

Three weeks from now, Daniel would have the opportunity to enter the first floor challenge. If he wanted to be successful, then he would have to utilize the rest of his time wisely. Of course, Daniel would not enter if he felt he wasn't ready, but he had confidence in himself that three weeks was plenty of time.

He decided that he would cultivate for 6 hours each day, and then work on sword and movement skills for 2 hours each. That would leave himself with an hour to mess around and have fun with the three girls. Another couple hours needed to be used to study. He wanted to learn the new advancements in science and technology. If you can build it yourself, you can bring it into the Tower. This could bring him an advantage at some point. The rest of the day was left for eating, sleeping, and miscellaneous chores.

With his schedule all planned out, Daniel headed to get something to eat. He scarfed down the meal in record time, as he was rather excited. With his food all gone, there was nothing holding himself back. It was time to practice the sword!