Cultivators, or perhaps any creature who wanted to make themselves stronger, was very sensitive towards purity. This was mostly the reason why almost all of the cultivator Cole knew resort on Fasting Pills rather than eating natural foods. It was because Fasting Pills contain all the nutrients the body needed. It might taste bland but at the least, it contain less impurities compare to natural foods.
It was because just like any other pills, the Fasting Pills was also bath in flames to remove most of the impurities the ingredients contains.
This is also why the grade of the pills is very important to the cultivators mind. The higher the grade of the pill, the lesser the impurities it contain.
Regardless of the level of the pill, there is three common grading system which are low, mid, and high.
High-Grade Pills have to be 90-100% pure and contain no to 10% impurities. Mid-Grade Pills have to be 80-89% pure while the Low-Grade are 70-79%.
Any lower than 70% pure are considered inferior and should not be used by anyone. It was considered as a trash.
And any higher after Higher-Grade Pills are called miraculous pills as beside from it not containing any impurities, its effect was also great. For instance, if the 100% pure High-Grade Pill could recover a 100 points of energy, then a pill with a one mark could recover a 110 points of energy. In addition, the higher the pill, the faster it could be digested.
This was the reason why the cloaked man was surprised when Cole gave him this High-Grade Pills as this kind of pills were priceless. This is the kind of pills which have a very high demand but no supply. It could only be encountered and not sought. And to think that this teen-age boy gave him one jade bottle which contains ten pills... Just how special his identity is? Is he a some kind of illegitimate son of a high-ranking alchemist?
Or did the teen-age acquired this from one of the person he killed since he also look surprised when he open the jade bottle?
The cloaked man shake his head. No matter what the origin of this priceless pills, he needed it to recover his wounds as soon as possible.
He swallowed the Energy Pill. The moment it enter his stomach, the pill immediately melted and send a warm current throughout his whole body. He can't help but shiver a little as it brought his pained body a great pleasure.
He can't help but praise this Energy Pills with a Pill Mark. It was no wonder this kind of pills was a very must sought. Just the ability of it that can be easily integrate as his own was already a great boon for cultivators.
Imagine if a two battling people swallow a pill with a pill mark and a pill without a pill mark amidst their battle to recover their injury or energy... Just a seconds difference was an enough factor to change the tide of the battle.
The energy the Energy Pill contains run throughout the whole body of the cloaked man. After the whole cycle, it flows towards his dried up Dantian. The energy was quickly assimilated as his own.
Although the Energy Pill only provide an energy and was very different at those pills that was specifically for physical wounds which can recovery injuries in severals hours, or minutes, it still help his body to speed up his recovery.
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"I'm going to cultivate Celia. Instruct Greeny to watch for us." Cole said to Celia.
Since he already said to the cloaked man that he will watch him until he recovered, Cole accept the fact that he can't continue his main mission on this forest for the next three days. He just then decided that he'll cultivate for the next three days so that he won't remain idle.
Cole frowned as this was the first time he felt the difficulty of having a multiple number of techniques as he have to level them up one by one. Myriads Beast Soul-Branch Technique, Heavenly Beast God Technique and lastly, Dantian Genesis Technique... All of them needed an long amount of time.
In this cultivation session, he wanted to advance one of his energies, the brimming Space.
Out of all the energy in his Dantian, Space was one of his favorite. It was becuase Space was very powerful, specially in preserving one's life. Its unpredictable movement was the best.
His Space-Energy already reach the standard of Peak Mana Gathering-Stage. He only need suppress it to solidify and it will advance to Core Formation-Stage standards, which he decided that he will do it now.
Although he used a total of four months when he form his Wood-Core, it was not used totally all on forming his Core. He used the first two months on cultivating his Dantian Genesis Method from scratch to the Second-Stage. He then used the next two months on forming his Wood-Core and reached Third-Stage of Dantian Genesis Method.
But this time, since he already knew and experience the process of making a Core, he's confident that he could create his second core for a maximum of a week.
Cole sat down in meditative form and meditate. He make himself calm and focus. Moments later, he arrived at a space that was like the galaxy of stars. It was his Dantian.
Every energy twinkled their own unique color. Water-Energy glow a light blue color, Earth-Energy release a earthy-yellow color, Fire-Energy was like a red ball of blazing fire, and so on...
The most eye-catching of them all was the small but release a much brighter glow and that is his Wood-Core.
His consciousness look for a moment until he found a dark-blue orb, it was the Space-Energy.
He started to run his Dantian Genesis Method and since his focus this time was his Space-Energy, he absorb the corresponding energy this time.
A rich amount of Space-Energy started to flow towards his body. Unlike the main five elements—fire, water, earth, metal and wood—Space-Energy was always plenty no matter where the place. Even in a forest or in the lake.
The Space-Energy flows towards Cole's body steadily but after some time, as if a dam broke, a crazy amount of Space-Energy enter his body.
Cole smile. Although the energy that flows through him was like a crazy river, it was still the maximum he could endure. And the good thing is, since the energy that enter him was many, it speed up the process of his Core making.
When the orb of liquefied Space-Energy was full and brimming with energy, Cole started the second phase and that is suppressing the liquefied energy until it become solid.
Cole send his consciousness and envelope the whole energy orb and started to compress. Just like the process of his Wood-Core, the Space-Energy orb that was like a size of a basketball started to turn small due to the pressure.
Several moments later, the liquefied Space-Energy orb was finally compressed and turn into solid Core.
But the only problem is, no matter what he do, his Core's final shape is... like a crystal shard. It was totally different from his Wood-Core which had a shape of a perfect circle.
In the process of shaping his Space-Core, he thought and did hard to make it a circle shape. But it was as if there is some kind of rule or law that stopping him from creating another round Core.
Cole frown. He don't know what happen, unfortunately, no one he could ask and answer him for the meantime. The only bright side is eventhough his newly formed Space-Core had a strange shape, it can't deny the fact that it already reached the standard of Core Formation-Stage.
Also, the process this time seems only last for less than an hour. The process was very smooth.
Cole was ready on ending his cultivation and was about to take his consciousness out of his Dantian when a new, crazy amount of energy once again surge into his body but this time, it was not Space-Energy, it was Earth-Energy.
A great but tolerable pain once again dominate his body. His blood vessels which act like road for the energy to flow to his body was almost full to brim. Fortunately, despite as if his blood vessels will burst from too much energy, it still hold on. On the contrary, his blood vessels started to addapt to the torrential flow of energy and was actually started to widen up.
Unfortunately, when the blood vessels widen up, the energy also increase. The process then continue to cycle. Adapting, widening the road for the energy to flow and the energy increases.
Cole was about to send his consciousness and pressure the Earth-Energy orb for it solidify and form into Core when the Space-Core release an energy and envelope the Earth-Orb whole. After that, the Earth-Orb started to reduce in size...
The Space-Core released energy was infact like of gravity! It was then used to pressure to solidify the liquefied Earth-Energy!
The process continue with Cole without doing anything. The process seemed already programmed and he only have to watch.
Moments later, shorter than the Space-Core used, the Earth-Core was finally formed. And it also have the same shape like Space-Core.
Cole was expecting that the process was now finished when a new crazy amount of energy flow once again into his body. This time, it brought a cool feeling; it was Water-Energy.
It lasted with the same amount of time with Earth-Energy and the process was the same.
Then Metal-Energy and finally, the Fire Energy.
When the Fire-Energy was finished and form into a Core, a rich aura appear and fuse with the five newly formed Core. It was the aura of the Messiah Tree. It blessed all the Core and it all appear more beautifully, almost like perfect.
After that, all of his Cores' move at once. As the Wood-Core as the center, the five Core—Space, Earth, Water, Metal and Fire—release their corresponding energy and cover the Wood-Core whole. Those energies blend chaotically at first but after some time, as if it found the right rhythm, the different energy started to flow smoothly.
Several moments later, the process was finally done. And the finished product was actually... a colorful sun-like object. It release a six different kind of brilliance which represent the five main elements and Space-Energy.
After the colorful sun was formed, the whole place started to get busy. The five Core started to encircle the sun with a different distance between them. First is the Fire-Core, followed by Space-Core, Earth-Core, Water-Core and lastly, Metal-Core. It then started to orbit the colorful sun like a strange shaped planets.
On the other hand, the other energies that was not yet solidified and enter the standards of Core Formation-Stage, find a spot near the sun. It was then act and look like a twinkling stars.
His Dantian literally look like a little galaxy now.
Unexpectedly, he entered the Fourth-Stage of Dantian Genesis Method; the Solar System Formation-Stage!
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I published Chapter 22 - Core Formation-Stage July 2, 2020 while the Notice, the very first Chapter, August 29, 2020 and I change some things. The nine stages of Dantian Genesis Method was changed. I wrote this note to avoid confusions.
The first three stages are not change and it was still the Dantian Opening, Energy Orb Accumulation and Energy Solidification and only starts from Fourth-Stage to Ninth-Stage. The Fourth-Stage was already revealed. The rest will only reveal along the flow of the story.
And seems I'm already at it, I just wanted to remind anyone that I will also change other some things in the future. Its some things that I think will further improve the story.
Also, thank you for reading my story even with my 'unperfect english'. But don't worry, I think as the story goes, I create some improvement...
...right?