Chapter 34: Chapter 34 - To Live
After Kyle dropped unconscious, he got transported to a realm that he has never seen before. In this realm, there was nothingness, only black earth that stretched as long as the eyes could see.
There, in the far distance was a man that looked like he was walking on earth, but if one looked closely one could see that he was, in reality, walking just above it, gliding on the air. He was carrying two buckets of water in both hands, one was white as milk and had lighting in it, the other was white and yellow with small dragons roaring and swimming in it.
The man was walking very slowly, it seemed as if he was trying to go slow, but in reality, he was travelling at unbelievable speed.
The man suddenly stopped and looked in the Kyle direction before a second has passed. He was already standing right next to Kyle. Kyle was unconscious, and he was standing there, blankly with closed eyes.
Kyle was not able to understand anything right now. He was still recovering from the pain that he has just experienced. All of this was just like a dream for him.
The man looked at Kyle and said, "Finally, a good seedling that inherited my Dominion Technique." The man smiled warmly as if he was looking at the grandson or a child of his that he dearly loved.
"I see that you got recruited from earth… Even better. You now finally will be able to show the world who you are." The man gave Kyle another look and suddenly gasped in shock. He placed his hand onto Kyle's stomach directly where his dantian was and closed his eye.
"So you somehow managed to get the Sky Seizing Pearl? All the gods have been going crazy for the past trillion years trying to find it. It has been regarded as lost and forgotten, and it has finally appeared here?" The man's eyes were looking at Kyle's dantian and the treasure with lust and desire in his eyes. But after a second, he went back to normal. "Ahahah," he started laughing, "to think that a junior of my, To Live, world of Game would get as lucky as to find a Sky Seizing Pearl! This is simply fantastic."
The man stepped back and regained his composure. He put his hands in the clapping motion and said, "Now I understand why you are here. This is Sky Seizing Pearl beginning its awakening. I will be waiting for you, Kyle Lin here on heaven. I hope that together we can finally accomplish my goal." With this said, he waved his hand and Kyle suddenly lost connection to that world.
He woke up at the same place as before. His body was still numb, and every cell was hurting. When he opened his eyes, it was as if he had the world's worst hangover ever, and everything was hurting. His head was spinning, and he wanted to vomit.
Once Kyle reopened his eyes, he couldn't understand what exactly happened here.
The vast green range that was surrounding him and the beginning of the forest where he hunted was nowhere to be seen. The only thing that surrounded him was a crater of earth and rocks with Kyle being in the middle of it. 'What the hell happened here? Was I transported to somewhere?'
Of course, the tent that Kyle had was disintegrated as well. Nothing was left of it.
Kyle climbed up to the top of the crater to see where he was and what he saw really made him gasp in shock. He was at the same green land, but the crater the size of 10 kilometres in diameter suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Plus the forest that he was exploring also got hit, and most of the areas that he explored were already gone.
Kyle remembered that there was a trap door the last time that he revealed using his lucky charm and the trap door was just on the outskirts of the explosion, still intact.'I don't want even to think about what I could have possibly released from there if the explosion hit it as well. I really wonder what happened here.' Kyle looked around and couldn't really get any clues. Then he sat down in the meditation position to see if he suffered any damage from the explosion. The only thing that remembers now was him losing consciousness due to the extreme energy pulses of the pearl.
Kyle looked around again after he remembered the violent orange energy that pearl was radiating. He blinked a couple of times, "No way! That is impossible!' Kyle didn't want to believe that something inside his body could create such a huge wreck.
Just as Kyle thought about meditating to check his insides, it is when it hit him.'I have to run now! I can not stay close to this place. The explosion of this size might have been seen from the flying rock city that passed, maybe one of the cultivators that could fly could come. Then this would be truly the end of me!'
Kyle fast checked if he could scavenge anything and started running as fast as he could in the direction of another forest that he got recommended to explore.
After running for an hour at the fastest speed, Kyle saw someone on a flying sword drop in the distance to the place of the explosion. After 10 minutes, another person came, and suddenly more huge explosions and sounds of battles resounded. Kyle was already at least 20 km away from the side of the crater, but he could still see and hear the battle sounds. That meant that those that battled were really strong and much stronger than Kyle.
After 5 more hours of running, Kyle finally arrived at the forest that he wanted to explore. This forest had the same level of power as the previous forest, which meant that he could experiment with his new power here now.
The forest itself was rockier and had lots of ravines and caves. Kyle chose one that was on the green grassland to make as his base. His tent, after all, got deleted from the world. Kyle went into the cave, and after making sure that it was rather clean and with a bonfire at the front, he started to meditate.
Kyle's spiritual consciousness flew started in his head and flew down towards the dantian. The whole experience seemed very foreign to Kyle. As if it was not his body but someone else's. The bones were for some reason, orange in colour as if it was copper. The meridians were white as if they were made out of jade, and all of the organs were reinforced with a protective layer of some orange tissue.
The dantian was the one that changed the most. It now was not only perfect in shape, but it also had 3 defensive layers with the last layer resembling a beehive structure that radiated power and strength. It was also orange in colour.
Next Kyle went into the dantian, and suddenly he heard the voice.
Chapter 35: Chapter 35 - Sky Seizing Pearl
The voice that resounded was coming from somewhere in the dantian, but Kyle's spiritual power could not really feel anyone inside.
The voice as it turned out was coming from the pearl. As Kyle consciousness drifted to the white space, he saw the same pearl that he always saw.
"It is nice to meet you finally. You must have a lot of questions. Kyle." The pearl talked very slowly and methodically.
"Yes, I have too many questions to ask you. What are you and why you are acting as my system? This is not recorded in any of the manuals, nor anyone has the same pearl as I do." Kyle was eager to know what was different about him and his system.
"I don't have enough power to answer you just yet. I have only awakened thanks to your power increase, but you are still, far-far too weak for me. Reach level 5 and soul formation realm. Then I will awaken." The pearl spined in the air couple of times."You need to know now that when I entered your body in space/time crack that appeared when you transferred to this world, I consumed the system you had and replaced it with myself. What you can do with me goes far and beyond anything else." The pearl spined couple of more times and stopped completely, "I hope you enjoy my gifts. See you soon." It said, and Kyle got forcefully pushed out of the white space.
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Kyle was now sitting inside his cave that he chose, and everything was still. The orange energy that caused the explosion was still travelling inside Kyle's body, slowly adjusting all of the meridians and little imperfections that were left. Sometimes the energy entered his bones. Sometimes it would travel inside his meridians.
The orange energy was fully powered by the pearl, and Kyle couldn't will it to do anything.
'I can still hear the explosion sounds in the distance, how much of a ruckus I have caused.' Kyle was too scared to check what was happening at the newly formed crater as there might be some suspicions.
Kyle knew that a newly levelled level 2 could be killed as an ant to high-level masters.
Kyle continued to check his body, and now he wanted to see how his qi was. At the current moment, the qi was still touching the pearl and every time Kyle moved. The qi would create a wave that would touch the pearl and enrich it with qi.
The waters seemed to be untamed and wild, just like the lakes that were rushing from one point to another.
Kyle breathed out, 'It seems that the qi didn't experience any shocking change, it was mostly my body that has changed so much. I am also glad to see so much qi in my dantian. Still, I can see how hard it will be for me to advance from this point on…' Kyle knew that in order to grow in Foundation Establishment, a normal cultivator had to constantly refine the qi that they had inside into purer qi with different, sometimes wild methods.
The qi would become much more concentrated and would start to reduce.
In order to break into the Golden Core realm, a Foundation Establishment practionist had to fully refine all of the qi in the dantian and make the density of the qi as hard as stone while still keeping it in the fluid form.
That was the hardest and the most profound step so far. Only one out of 100 000 cultivators would ever be able to touch upon golden core realm and even less would advance.
The cultivators and adventurers all knew that either level 3 or Golden Core realm singled a completely different hero than those below that level. The qualitative change was too much to ignore, and nearly every cultivator would have to spend at least 10 years in reaching that realm.
Kyle has now been in this world for around 3 months, and he was getting more and more used to this life. If anyone knew that Kyle has reached level 2 and Foundation Establishment in 3 months from being unlevelled and never practising cultivation, they would go green with envy and would try to kill Kyle. That was too heaven-defying.
Kyle only had the first layer of Dominion technique that taught him how to assimilate and move qi into his body from the surrounding ambient qi. The same movement and breathing techniques could be used to control the qi inside his body to improve the quality of the qi that he already had. The Dominion Technique second layer was most likely focusing on even higher realms that Kyle had no access to just yet.
His number one priority was still getting hold of the lighting element and lighting element affinity to train the Lightning Step and advance further in the Dominion Technique.
The forest in front of Kyle was the type of forest that would get struck by lighting during the rainstorms and even on the sunny days. There were many cases when adventurers travelling through the forest would be instantly killed by random lighting that was sent from heaven. It was the most stupid and unfair death, so practically none of the adventurers ever came here.
For Kyle, though, this was a great opportunity. First, he can observe the lighting. Second, beasts that had lighting affinity in that forest as surroundings and environment contributed the most to what element the beast can control.
Kyle checked his body last time before moving out, and the last difference that he spotted was the pearl itself. The storage area has nearly increased by 5 times, now being 20 metres(cubed) and the exp tank now had golden incrustations on the sides with a vial at the sides. 'I am not sure what it is and to be honest. I don't see a reason that I would want to let EXP leak out from the experience tank.' Kyle was confused.
Another area that has now opened up for Kyle was a crafting room with workbenches and sawmills everywhere. At there he could summon any item from the storage area and work on them here making them into whatever he desired. The most amazing thing was that the number of workbenches and different types appeared to be made of some unknown material that felt to the touch as steel and was incredibly tough. But, the material looked like black jade and was glittering.
The workbenches themselves were of many different kinds that Kyle never saw in his life. Starting from something that looked like a kiln to something that more looked like a witchcraft potion-making toolset. The system seemed to consider any possibility that Kyle would want to craft.
Kyle finished looking and decided to try crafting something.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Simvolick
Simvolick
Kyle the small witch incoming?!
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