"AL, how does a beast phantom work? and what are the normal ways of getting one? "
[Beast phantoms are the corporal form of your physical body's strength, and are created to protect your mind and soul. ]
"So, I'm at a disadvantage to other body cultivators until I form it?"
[Pretty much... Host is recommended to start practicing mind and soul cultivation to alleviate the problem temporarily. ]
"I'll start with Mind Cultivation first then."
En searched through the book and found 'World Tree True Thought' technique from the 'Realm Immortal' chapter. He then began reading.
"The first beings to obtain cognitive thought are believed to be the trees. They possessed the ability to move towards prosperous energy areas and with time, capacity to cultivate to immortality was born."
The technique introduced various patterns in nature. They required to be memorized and understood in order to form the foundation of Aura Gathering Formation created by the technique in lnside the cultivator's mind. This would provide continuous and constant sustainable cultivation, rather than having the Mind Cultivator actively gather all their experiences and memories. This process would simplify the cultivation, instead of sorting in the conscious mind from Level 1 (conscious mind) to Level 2 (subconscious mind),and eventually Level 3 (subliminal mind).
The goal for this mind technique is to form a tree at the scale of the world with a hope for ascension. The technique allows for the world breaking power of Dao amplification but that is just a byproduct in the end. It's true purpose is worth much more compared to that.
"Compared to other techniques that use a different level, stage name, and a somewhat different processes, which forms a different Dao entity. The 'World Tree True Thought' can be considered one of the greatest mind techniques in all the realms not only for its future prospects but also due to its core skill that make all the cultivators not practicing this technique, envious of the enormous increase of thinking capabilities that other techniques simply don't possess. It allows cultivators to train their True Mind Thought allowing for sudden inspiration in martial techniques, questions, treasure locations, and even the future."
"Damn, another OP cultivation technique!!"
[Host, you need to understand the hardships and time it takes to reach such a level. Especially during turbulent times such as these]
"OK, ok. I'll continue reading then"
"After sorting them out, the experiences are compressed by psychological energies such as killing intent, faith energy, emotions, an even in extreme cases life force. Due to the fairness of the universe, those with little memories and comparatively smaller aura orbs, face the same struggles in cultivation as the larger aura orbs. In order to enter the Sprout Stage from seed stages, they need to break through all 3 barriers of compression in their aura orbs: Due to advancing to the sprout stage not being based on the size of an aura orb, compression is based on the amount of power that can be compressed in the direct size of it. To enter the Sprout Stage they need to pass all 3 barriers, then you need to manifest your Dao Spirit from the fully compressed aura orb."
"Step one starts off with a large list of symbols 9 for each level of aura accumulation. Those 9 symbols need to be placed in 9 places inside each of 3 'Minds', totaling the needed symbols for Aura Accumulation Stage at 27: this is the first stage in mind Cultivation that then moves on to the compression of the aura orb in the compression stage. The book said to first arrange all the memories in the Conscious Mind before memorizing the 9 symbols to implement."
"Interesting... let's get started... AL how do I enter my conscious to organize things??"
[Host needs to concentrate on an old memory of a recipe or notes he once had to consciously remember and then follow the stream of similar memories to a dark and blank space]
En slowly remembering the skills his father taught him and followed his memories until he eventually found himself staring into a dark space with him looking into it from all angles.
"How do I enter it and form my memories into a sphere? "
[Focus, imagine yourself inside the space. When you are done, I will provide further assistance inside. ]
Ed appeared inside the dark space as a floating wisp then he began imagining a multifaceted sphere. After taking his time he ended up making a wonky sphere shaped object with an uncountable amount of asymmetrical faces.
"AL! I made it!... well... Kinda. Get in the sphere and let's get started "
[Host needs to allow my entry into your conscious so that you don't need to talk outloud to communicate with me. To do this you need to imagine a door in the space and then I can flow through it and become the object you made for my assistance ]
"I'm attempting that right now but I can't keep a door open for long so just come in now."
After another process of imagining, a door formed and a small light flew toward the wonky sphere forming the conscious body of AL.
"Since we're both here, I'm guessing I just need to remember all my conscious memories and then have them all appear? I then join them together as the core of the aura ball for this level, am I right? "
[Host can be considered half right. The cultivator needing to do all of this while instead of forming some half assed sphere, you need to make it almost perfect. You need to keep in mind that you still need to incorporate the nine symbols to complete the 1st step of this technique]
"Since you can appear here with me, can you also help me form the sphere into perfection?"
[Yes, I can help with this. You still need to remember all of your conscious memories and then hand their control to me, this way I can place them correctly ]
"If that's all then let's begin!"
Once again practice makes perfect. On En's first day, he managed to uncover 8 memories of his school time on earth and the number of memories he extracted daily grew by 3. On his last day of Conscious Mind organization, a total of 3 months 25 days passed of his 6 month training. In his last bit of conscious memory he remembered, were the times his father taught him skills and explained something to him.
Feeling happy that he gets to reminisce on those good times, he finally finishes his first part of the Accumulation Stage and now he just needed to learn and implement the 9 symbols. The first part of the sphere was completed. En wasting no more time, started learning the first of the symbols.
Sorry for the late release if there even is someone reading this. Thank you for reading and please leave tips on any plot hole I forgot to patch, future plot developments, writing mistakes and anything constructive!!!! TRULY THANK YOU!!
The DarkRay edited this chapter for me and I would like to thank him. If anyone else is reading this go read
Limits by DarkRay