Chapter 5: Cultivation Monster!
"Problem? What problem?" said Shinso, confused. It's not that he wasn't smart enough to figure it out, it's just that the idea of it was simply impossible to him, so it never once passed through his mind.
"Well...," began Issei, seemingly unsure of how to say it. "I have a little more than fifty four Profound Entrances..."
"What?!" exclaimed Shinso in disbelief. "You are kidding, are you?"
Issei then shook his head, "No, it's true. Is there some way for you to see it?"
Looking at the child in front of him, he couldn't help but to be suspicious. Although it was small, there still was the chance that he counted wrong. Given that, he decided to investigate it himself.
"Yes," nodded Shinso, "There's a way," And with that, Shinso stood up and walked until he was in front of Issei. When they were apart just by a few centimeters, he placed his hand on Issei's head.
"Consciousness Invasion," muttered Shinso as he used the rank 5 Martial Skill, Consciousness Invasion. It was a rather simple Skill. For it to be used, the target needed to have a cultivation much lower than his, by at least 3 realms. After that, one would be able to send their consciousness inside the target's body. This Skill was normally used by doctors who possessed high-cultivation.
Just as he said that, the world in front of him blurred. The next second, what entered his field of vision was the inside of Issei's body. Once inside, he quickly moved his consciousness over to Issei's Profound Veins, intending to investigate it.
When he finally reached them, he couldn't help but to open his mouth wide. Issei's Profound Veins... were simple littered with Profound Entrances. Tens, no, hundreds of them!
He just couldn't believe it. In all his wide and immortal life, he had never even heard of such a thing. It was basically a law of the heavens to have fifty four Profound Entrances. What Issei had... was simply breaking the law, stepping all over it and then pissing on it!
But, it wasn't a mere one hundred, nor two hundreds, not even five hundred. It was a full eight hundred and sixty four Profound Entrances! It was roughly sixteen times more than a normal person!
As he watched the sheer massiveness of Profound Entrances, Shinso almost felt dizzy. The sight in front of him completely broke his understanding of the world.
Shinso immediately then tried to regain his breath that he had lost. After about two minutes, he managed to calm himself. Now, with a clear mind, he looked back at the Profound Entrances with an objective in mind! It was to determine how many of them were opened!
After a quick analysis, he came to the conclusion that twenty six out of the eight hundred and sixty four were opened. Seeing that, he couldn't help but to be slightly disappointed. To have so much and to be able to use so little... it was basically like having a lot of money but everything in the city you are living in is shitty. Furthermore, you are unable to leave the city!
But, after remembering the fact the people who were born with sixteen opened Profound Entrances were regarded as geniuses, and people with twenty opened are considered peerless geniuses, he couldn't help but to lose his disappointed expression. Issei, although only being able to use so little of his total, could already be considered above peerless geniuses. An existence that this continent had never before seen!
After collecting his thoughts, Shinso stopped his Martial Skill and went back to the real world. After going back, he sat down in front of Issei and looked at him earnestly.
"Although I have to say that I'm surprised that you have eight hundred and sixty four Profound Entrances," Although Shinso said that, he was far and above surprised, "Only twenty six of them are opened, and since the maximum number of Profound Entrances that can be opened is five, and to even do that is unbelievably hard, there won't be much difference to consider yourself to have fifty four in total."
Nodding his head, Issei said, "Yes, I understand. Also, I never should reveal the fact that I have over eight hundred Profound Entrances, right?"
"Yes," begun Shinso, "Under no circumstances whatsoever."
"But what if someone tried to investigate me just like you did?" inquired Issei curiously. Needless to say, he was in sharp mode.
"Ah..." muttered Shinso, slightly surprised, "Let me think."
After quickly going though his minds for some methods, an idea appeared in his mind.
"I know!" Shinso exclaimed. He then placed his hand on Issei's head and muttered, "Seal."
Just as he said that, Issei felt a surge of power entering his body, and then congregating in his forehead. Soon, the feeling disappeared.
"Done," said Shinso, slightly satisfied with his deed, "With the seal I placed on you, no one with a cultivator lower than mine will be able to send investigate the insides of your body. Also, for the person to be able to trespass the seal, they need to have a cultivation of at least an entire realm higher than mine."
"Really?" Issei said, slightly happy, "What is your current cultivation?"
The moment Issei said that, Shinso's face turned serious. "Issei, once more, I'll have to ask you to keep this a secret." began Shinso, "My cultivation is much higher than the normal of this province's experts. The person with the highest cultivation, other than me, should be around the later levels of the Earth Profound Realm. I am half-step into the Emperor Profound Realm."
Issei's eyes couldn't help but to widen, "Half step?"
"It means that I'm almost on the Emperor Profound Realm, just a thread remaining to me breakthrough, so I'm at the absolute top of the tenth level of the Sky Profound Realm."
"Wow..." muttered Issei. Shinso was basically an entire realm above the person with the highest cultivation is the Azure Province! That was rather amazing!
"Now, enough about me," Shinso said, "The important part is that for the person to trespass the seal, they need to be at least half-step into the Tyrant Profound Realm, and believe me, there is no one in this country on that level."
Issei then nodded his realm. Apparently, his secret was rather safe.
"Now, we should begin cultivating," said Shinso as he said cross-legged at Issei's side.
"Okay," said Issei as he awaited for further instructions.
"Take this," Shinso said as he handed him a scroll. "This is the rank 4 Cultivation Skill, Heavenly Energy Absorption. Study it for the week. Given your sharp mind, you should be able to understand it," said Shinso. Although it seemed like five days was the normal period of time to learn such a skill, it was far from it.
For normal people to learn a trifling rank 1 Cultivation Skill, such as the Heaven And Earth Spiritual Absorption, they normally take a couple of months. Peerless geniuses from great sects all over the country are able to do it in 1 month.
Now, it's obvious that to understand a rank 4 skill is infinitely more difficult than to understand a rank 1 skill. Geniuses from the Jiang Dynasty are probably able to learn a skill of that level in months.
To actually say to a six years old child that he should probably take one week to learn a rank 4 Cultivation Skill... was basically something impossible. Thankfully, Issei isn't any six years old child. Given all the surprises that he had given him, and his extremely sharp mind, Shinso believed that he would be able to pull it off.
After handing him the skill, Shinso cultivated for a couple of minutes before he got up and walked to the door of the room. Looking back at Issei who was reading the info on the page with extreme attention, he said, "I'll be back later to call you for lunch," and then closed his door,
After walking five steps away from the door, a sound of faint explosion could be heard. At that moment, Shinso's face dropped, "You must be kidding me..." he muttered as he ran back into the room.
The moment he entered, the first thing he saw was Issei sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed while meditating, the scroll by his side. Casting his Spiritual Power into Issei, he saw that he was already at the first level of the Elementary Profound Realm.
"There hasn't even passed ten minutes since I handed him the scroll..." muttered Shinso in disbelief.
Not only did he learn in less than ten minutes a skill that geniuses take months to learn, he actually broke through the first level of the Elementary Profound Realm in less than five seconds. Normally, after learning the skill, even geniuses would take a couple of days to gather enough energy to breakthrough into the first level of the Elementary Profound Realm, but Issei... he took a trifling five seconds!
That meant that Issei's ability to comprehend techniques was above otherworldly, something never seen before. Furthermore, it also meant that his cultivation speed was huge!
"Just what kind of monster did I bring home?" Muttered Shinso in utter disbelief. He then turned back to the door and walked over to it. At that moment, he needed to go to his room to carefully think about the cultivation abnormality that Issei was. Just as he was about to open the door...
Bang!
Shinso immediately looked back and saw that Issei was now at the second level of the Elementary Profound Realm!
"What the hell..."
Bang!
"Third Level?!
Bang!
"What is this?!" Shinso exclaimed in disbelief. In less than five minutes, Issei went from no cultivation at all to the fourth level of Elementary Profound Realm! That was simply... even more surprising than the fact that Issei had an absurd number of Profound Entrances. He was simply... A monster!
At that moment, Shinso sat down on the floor in front of Issei, carefully paying attention to his cultivation. Two minutes later...
Bang!
"Fifth level..."Muttered Shinso in disbelief.
And it continued on for the next hours...
… Sixth level of the Elementary Profound Realm!
… Seventh level of the Elementary Profound Realm!
... Eight level of the Elementary Profound Realm!
… Ninth level of the Elementary Profound Realm!
… Tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm!
When Issei reached the tenth level of the Elementary Profound, it was already night.
Throughout the entire day, Shinso's face was of complete disbelief. He had seen countless geniuses... but never before had he seen such a monster! Issei couldn't be described by any other words. He was undoubtedly and thoroughly a cultivation monster!
Five minutes after reaching the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm, Issei's eyes opened. Within them, a happy glint could been. "Ah~!" Issei exclaimed in happiness as he stretched his arms.
"That felt good!" He continued. Only then did he noticed the wide eyed Shinso in front of him.
"Shinso?" Asked Issei puzzledly. He couldn't understand what made him so wide-eyed and left him with his mouth agape. "Did something happen?"
Only then did Shinso come back to his senses. "A monster..." He muttered. "Simply a monster..."
Seeing the words muttered by him, Issei couldn't help but to be more puzzled. Looking around the room, there was no one else aside from the two of them.
"Hmm..." Issei began, "Shinso?"
Shinso, in turn, took in a deep breath and collected his thoughts. He would have enough time to be surprised later on.
"Issei..." He began carefully. "Do you know what level you are in right now?"
"Hmm?" Issei said, puzzled. "I feel different in my body... First level of the Elementary Profound Realm, I guess?" No matter how smart Issei was, he could not feel what level he was because he had never cultivated before. Hence, he had no idea as to why Shinso was so surprised.
Shaking his head, Shinso said, "You are in the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm!"
At that moment, Issei's calm demeanor couldn't help but to be overwritten by one of complete surprise. "Is cultivation really that fast? I expected it to take more time..." He muttered. From what Shinso had said before, it seemed that cultivation was a complex thing. He had never thought that it would be that easy.
All he had to do was to read the scroll and then absorb the Spiritual Power in the atmosphere. Furthermore, it was quite enjoyable, since every time Spiritual Power entered his body, he felt replenished.
"Easy?" Shinso muttered. "Easy? Simply a monster!"
After that, Shinso explained how amazing what Issei had done was. After carefully explaining it to him, he sent Issei to his room to sleep.
Upon reaching his room, Issei was undoubtedly extremely excited. He discovered that his talent for cultivation was immense! Who wouldn't be excited?
After laying on his bed, Issei didn't sleep and instead spent the entire night cultivation. Because of the Spiritual Energy that came from the atmosphere, when cultivating for a couple of hours, Issei would feel even more refreshed and energetic than if he slept.
When it was around eleven in the morning of the next day, a loud bang sounded from Issei's room.
When Shinso who was reading in his study heard it, he immediately dropped the book that he was reading and rushed to Issei's room. After entering, he immediately noticed that Issei was already in the Nascent Profound Realm. Because of that, the Grim Reaper's Symbol appeared on his right hand.
After that, he spent his time either cultivating or studying. After one more month, he broke through into the second level of the Nascent Profound Realm.
After breaking thorough, Issei continued cultivating, but even after four months, he felt that he was still far from the third level.
Feeling surprised at how much he was taking to reach the third level, Issei examined how much more time cultivating was required to breakthrough. Much to his dismay, from the last time he made a breakthrough to the current time, the amount needed multiplied by forty times! Since he needed a month to enter the second level...It meant that it would take forty months to enter the third level!
It was with that that Issei's unbelievable boost in cultivation ended, only to be replaced by a difficult and quasi-insurmountable obstacle.
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