-Six months went by in a flash-
Within the Thousand Acres forest, in a cave, a youth could be seen cultivating. A qualitative change was happening. This youth who looked barely fifteen was breaking through to the 7th realm of Body Refinement. He then got up and walked out of the cave, as if sensing something.
Outside, a beautiful girl could be seen coming out of the bushes and she seemed to be heading towards the cave. The girl was around fifteen and was very pretty.
These two youths were our two young heroes, Li Tengfei and Lu Mengyu.
Lu Mengyu projected the aura of someone at the 8th realm but also showed signs of 'growing up'.
She was going through puberty and was becoming more and more attractive everyday. Even Li Tengfei, who claimed he wasn't lustful at all, started having such thoughts.
Li Tengfei ,as for him, looked more matured and even projected a manly aura.
"Hehe... Li Tengfei you've broken through already? See, you are now officially handsome and talented!"
"Of course, coming from Goddess Lu, it must be the truth. My goddess, you are also becoming more and more beautiful and you are also talented. Don't worry, you'll definitely catch up to me soon!"
During those six months, Lu Mengu and Li Tengfei grew closer to each other as they both had to endure An Zihao's constant blabbering. At some point, they started teasing each other whenever they met and this 'tradition' stayed.
Meanwhile, An Zihao was silently approaching. From his point of view, he could clearly see Lu Mengyu blushing like a teenager in love when Li Tengfei was complementing her.
'Why do they have to be like that? Just get married if you like each other. Don't just act like this when you see each other... I'll even be the best man!'
Of course An Zihao would never say it out loud. But he was right, those two looked like teenagers in love.
"I'm back and I've even brought you two some meat. Look, I've gotten an entire deer for us to eat."
Night fell and the little group lit up a fire and started cooking. Unlike what you may have thought, Li Tengfei was the one cooking while both Lu Mengyu and An Zihao watched the food, trying their best to maintain their manners.
In fact, most of the time, An Zihao did the hunting, Li Tengfei did the cooking while Lu Mengyu did most of the eating. It was truly a wonder how she hadn't put on any weight after all these years.
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Back in the cave, Li Tengfei started meditating. His friends always wondered why he meditated so much but he simply said it was good to keep a calm and sharp mind. However, in fact, he was entering his... subconsciousness? He still did not know what it was. Ancestor Li said it was like a small world inside his body or something like that...
During all this time, he did not relax at all. After six months, he had already comprehended most of the second level of the techniques in the first level of the tower except for the movement techniques where he was still stuck at the first level. Well, actually, he still had to use them in reality instead of practicing only in his subconscioussness... world... thing...
Actually, the first level of his techniques enabled him to easily win against An Zihao who was even stronger than Lu Mengyu. Considering the gap in cultivation, that was astonishingly good! As for An Zihao, he was kind of traumatised and probably still was to this day.
This time, upon entering, Li Tengfei had the urge to ask his Ancestor more about cultivation. Of course, if he knew of the long lecture that awaited him, he would have kept his mouth shut.
"So, as you already know, the Body Refinement is about absorbing the world energy around you to strengthen yourself. The next realm is the Manifestation Realm.
In the Manifestation Realm, you absorb the Qi energy around you and make it your own to form True Qi. You also form your soul lake which is where you store your True Qi. You then use your True Qi to interact with the elemental particles present in the air to manifest a certain element, this is why it is called Manifestation Realm. In the air, there are the Metal, Earth, Water, Wind and Fire particles. Actually, there are mainly Light and Dark particles present in the air while the rest are like complements. Water and Wind are more compatible with light particles while Fire and Metal are better paired with dark particles. Earth is kind of neutral. During this realm, you will need to master one of the five particles to then use the light or dark particles to manifest such element.
The next realm is the Fragmentation Realm. During this realm, you form chakras according to your chosen element. There exists the Metal, Earth, Water, Wind and Fire chakras. Most people form two chakras while geniuses can even form 3 chakras!
Then comes the Origin realm. In this realm, you form your own path and merge your comprehension of the elemental particles to form your own element. Some form the storm element for example. This realm consists of two levels, Origin King and Origin Emperor, each having the beginner stage, early stage, mid stage, upper stage and peak stage. You have to form your own element in the Origin King Realm. The Origin Emperor level is where the stuff's at. You'll have to merge your chakras into one massive whole to support your element. After which, your soul lake will shatter to pour True Qi into your chakra and form Elemental Qi. Your 'chakra' will be known as a small world.
At this point, you'll be at the Primordial Realm. Upon breakthrough, your soul will undergo the tempering of the nirvana fire to become a True Soul which can now move about, leaving the body.
Your small world will also act as the foundation to form your domain. Well, in your case, you've already formed it while using the mysterious cube as your foundation. It's just that you are too weak to use it... I think it is the first time in my long old life that a human has fully formed his domain but is too weak to use it...
Anyways, this should be more than enough to satisfy your thirst for knowledge, no?"
"Err... yes. Yes of course. Thank you very much. I've understood most of it... I think?"
And then the flurried and disoriented Li Tengfei exited his small world to walk out of the cave to find An Zihao and Lu Mengyu fighting for the last piece of meat remaining. Of course, despite having greater battle prowess, An Zihao had to abandon the meat in fear of having his manhood removed.
He then watched Lu Mengyu gulp down the meat like some wild animal that hadn't eaten for days.
'Aren't you a girl? Where is your femininity? Did you eat that too? It's not like we're starving you here, are we?'