Roleplay As Cultivator
6: Spiritual condensation
On top of a high hill, Tian Jie meditated by sitting cross-legged. His eyes were tightly shut like he was sleeping, but it could be seen from his expanding chest and deflating it by slowly indicating he was performing a cultivation technique.
The sky was still a bit dark but it had started to look reddish lines in the east. The condition of this hill is very quiet even there is no sound of insects. There are only rocks and a little shrubbery at the top of the hill.
Mountain Breathing was a cultivation technique that Tian Jie was currently doing. This technique absorbs spiritual energy using air medium and breathing control. The requirement to perform this technique is to meditate on a hilltop or mountain where clean air exists.
Tian Jie slowly opened his eyes.
“lumayan too, I was lucky to find a location that could be used to cultivate”
“let alone this hill is rich with spiritual energy, just as close again and I will become a spiritual condensation level cultivator”
He opened the level panel on the system.
[Name : Tian Jie]
[Level: Spiritual Cultivator ]
[Next Level: Spiritual condensation ]
[Spiritual Energy: 92/100]
“Two days I cultivate here and the results are very satisfying”
“Because the sun is almost out it's time to use Burning sun art to force a breakthrough to spiritual condensation”
Tian Jie took a deep breath and started cultivating. The temperature on the hill rises rapidly. Tian Jie's body was exposed to the light of the rising sun and looked reddish. His originally dark-colored eyes glowed red on his pupils. He then let out a hot breath in followed by a bit of fire. He began to do a breathing rotation every thirty seconds.
Tian Jie sucked the spiritual energy from the sunlight wildly. The area around five meters away from him was flaming reddish while the hill was darkened as all the sunlight was turned and absorbed by Tian Jie.
The sun slowly comes out of the eastern horizon and rises upwards. Its reddish glow slowly turned bright yellow and illuminated nature. An hour had passed since Tian Jie started his cultivation technique.
The air at the top of the hill became very hot. Tian Jie's current seat was like the heat of a frying pan. Tian Jie's clothes were torn to pieces and there was a black part of the burn mark that could be seen. Reddish smoke shot out from Tian Jie's body.
“Now it's time to break through”
Bing~
[Spiritual energy: 100/100]
[Host can do Breakthrough ]
[ Breakthrough process . 1%]
“Haaaah”
Tian Jie started to breakthrough.
Spiritual cultivators were the beginning of the path of cultivation. Although everyone can cultivate but out of a thousand people only a few can really achieve it. This level focuses on gathering spiritual energy up to dantian and the entire body is filled with spiritual energy.
In order to breakthrough to the next level, a cultivator had to condensate spiritual energy within his body until the concentration of that energy looked like a liquid. The spiritual energy liquid is stored in dantian. Then gradually flowed through the blood vessels throughout the body.
[ Breakthrough process .46%]
“I never thought I would do this process a second time”
A wide smile could be seen on Tian Jie's face even though he was currently enduring the pain of the process of breaking through to the spiritual condensation level.
[ Breakthrough process .60%]
Tian Jie could already feel the concentration of spiritual energy within his dantian had almost entirely condensed into a liquid. He sped up the process because he was impatient for the result.
“Wait a minute, what is this ?”
The concentration of spiritual energy within Tian Jie's dantian arrived - it suddenly flowed and was absorbed by his heart. More precisely Tian Jie magic circle moves the concentration of spiritual energy towards the heart then the heart is like a burning furnace makes the spiritual energy liquid into steam absorbed by Tian Jie magic circle.
[ Breakthrough process .75%]
Tian Jie noticed this incident and was a little stunned. Inside of him that was previously there was a sea of stars due to the spiritual energy present. But now it's like an interstellar cloud is giving birth to a new star. A small light started to appear in Tian Jie magic circle, slowly but surely, the point of light was enlarged and in the end there were two balls of light circling his heart. He had never known an event like this even in his memories.
“There has never been a record about cultivation with results like this”
“Using the heart as the core of cultivation whereas the dantian is only used as the storage space of spiritual energy”
“As long as my heart is safe, even if my dantian is tampered with like before it doesn't have much effect on me”
[ Breakthrough process .. 90%]
After the two balls of light in Tian Jie magic circle were formed, they helped to channel the condensation of spiritual energy throughout the body through the veins. The process was smoother and faster than the techniques that Tian Jie used to use.
[ Breakthrough process . 100%]
[Breakthrough completed, congratulations to the host for having risen to the spiritual condensation level ]
[Host please select one spell to learn ]
[host please select one ability ]
“finally finished also”
Tian Jie heaved a sigh of relief and tried to get up but slightly staggered. Dis needs a little time to stabilize himself and restore his stamina.
Tian Jie then put on a new shirt and descended from the top of the hill. Once he reached the foot of the hill he took out the stored food and then devoured it.
Cultivating was always exhausting, he was impatient to the extent of a spiritual fetus. The spiritual fetal level could allow cultivators to absorb natural nutrients through spiritual energy so food was no longer a mandatory thing to do.
The system panel opens and displays the option of spell.
“I'll use the spell I used to use when being a spellcaster on TRPG”
[Safe , spell “True Strike” successfully added ]
True strike is a spell buff that is used to increase the accuracy and the opportunity of critical attacks. This spell is very flexible and can be used up to a high level.
“In the TRPG true strike rules give target spell a chance of advantage when performing attack”
“Advantage is a condition where the dice will be rolled twice and selected the best result, arguably the attack carried out will always be in its strongest condition”
[Safe, ability “Spell recognition” successfully added ]
Spell recognition is an ability that helps the owner to understand the spell he has just seen. This ability requirement can be used is that the owner must see the spell process is neatened by the user or the owner must see the formation of the magic.
“Ability will help me greatly if I encounter a magic formation from the world, although I am not really sure whether this ability can analyze formations that are not from the system or from the TRPG” world
Tian Jie packed his things and prepared to continue on.
Arrived from within the forest a hundred meters from his current position. It looks like a big creature.
Tian Jie focused his senses to analyze the approaching creature. His face turned somewhat surprised and a little cheerful.
“A-is it ..., woaaaahh“
Not knowing what possessed Tian Jie, he suddenly ran towards the creature with a laugh.
“Let's fight with me beast ahahaha, I've long dreamed of being able to see you”
He took out his kitchen knife from the space ring and immediately planted an arcane infuse.
Bzzt~
Electricity flowed in the blade, ready to be used to slash the opponent.
The distance of the two was thirty meters.
Tian Jie's eyes opened wide as soon as he saw the figure of the creature in front of him. His smile is getting wider.
“This will be a thrilling fight”
“ARCANE STRIKE - Thunder Grasp !!!”
The electricity in Tian Jie's blade was getting bigger. He aimed his slash at the creature.
Boom up!!!
The creature did not have time to dodge and was cut down by Tian Jie's attack. He was pushed back and got quite badly injured but he did not fall. Instead he stood up showing his huge claws. The creature's high posture of about four meters made Tian Jie look short.
Tian Jie stopped and noticed the creature, he seemed to be enjoying the moment a lot. Around it fell brown bird feathers due to the impact of the attack he made on the creature.
“True , like it”
“don't fall with just one attackI'm”
Tian Jie's body let out a small lightning spark. Since he had just used one of the two spell slots he had for Arcane strike, he entered in Arcane stance condition and increased his physical strength for a moment.
“You are indeed the lower level monster I like the most hehehe”
“Let me observe all your abilities in this world .., OWLBEAR !”