The Old Demon heard what Leo said and tried to change the subject "Oh right, you've been cultivating for a month now. Let me check your progress, you've reached the limit of just using most of your skills and so you are probably around 60% mastery", Leo sighed and just walked closer to him.
Leo's progress appeared again and the Old Demon was surprised, well he wasn't surprised with his overall progress. What he was surprised was the fact that Leo's Fire Manipulation was higher than 60% "Leo you should go back to the Martial Skills Building, you'll be surprised once you check your compatible skills once again".
'He's just trying to dodge my question, well if he tried to do it. That just means he did not want me to know yet, well as the clan successor he will tell me when the time is right. For now I'll check if he didn't lie to me and go to the Martial Skills Building'.
Leo left the Rewards Hall and the Old Demon had a smile on his face while thinking 'That was close, I just had to forget that his...'
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Leo stood on the blue platform and pressed the weird button once again, the voice said [I will now scan for compatible martial skills]. Leo was surprised that unlike before, it already went straight and scanned for compatible skills.
Five seconds passed and the voice could be heard again, it said [Scan complete, please check if there's any new skills you can learn].
Two new skills appeared, one of them being 'Crimson Fury'. It's a skill connected with Fire Manipulation, It's a set of punching and kicking skills that needs fire to work. Leo thought 'This might be really useful, maybe I can learn how to do proper martial arts'.
Leo had always been fighting like a madman, using all the energy in his body and making useless movements. Thus this skill is really important for him.
The second skill that Leo found out to be compatible with him was called 'Dance Of The Red Dragon'. The name sounded cool to Leo, but he thought 'Why is it called Dance Of The Red Dragon? Whatever I'll just ask the Old Demon later'. Leo heard the instructions from the voice again and found the two martial skills, but he noticed something weird when he went to get the second skill.
The second martial skill was on the top most floor and there wasn't much books on it, most of them had numbers beside it. When Leo took the book, the number decreased from [926,768,538] to [926,768,537].
Leo thought 'It seems that the ones that are here have a limited amount of copies, wait does that mean the ones on the bottom floors are being renewed?'.
Leo went for the cultivation building, he thought that he was an idiot for not cultivating in it for one whole month. He opened the skill scrolls and was greeted with a weird sentence when he opened the second one.
[Become one with the world, the flames and everything that comes with it]
Leo couldn't help but say "What the hell does this mean‽", he sighed and said "I'll just ask the Old Demon". He cultivated for about an hour or so before doing a full stop, he said "Why does my body feel like it can get stronger, but something is stopping it from doing so".
Leo went out of the building and went straight to the Rewards Hall, he then asked the Old Demon "What is this weird feeling, I feel like I can reach new heights and yet at the same time I can't?".
The Old Demon answered straight away "Cultivators have what they call bottlenecks, imagine a bottle with a cap. With the cap being the limit of the body, what it means to breakthrough is to become stronger than humans. To be able to achieve a breakthrough, we must make the bottle overflow with world energy and make a hole in the bottle cap. This is also the reason why it's painful for everyone to make breakthrough, except for some people at least".
Leo pondered about what the Old Demon said and made a conclusion 'So I have to control my World Energy to put a hole in the bottle cap'. He then remembered the Dance Of The Red Dragon skill, he asked "Then I have another question, why is it that I got a sentence when I opened the skill book for Dance Of The Red Dragon?".
The Old Demon looked astonished when he heard what Leo just said, he answered "That skill is a skill that can only be learnt by understanding the world, the flames, and you yourself. Once you learn how to use the skill, you yourself will understand that I will not be able to help you. Some get the ability to cover their body with flames, while some can obtain the power of the dragons themselves, and what do you know. It might just become a skill that give you the ability to summon a Red Dragon with it".
Leo wondered what he meant in the last statement, he himself knew that Dragons had vanished from the whole universe. He asked the Old Demon "What do you mean by being able to summon a Red Dragon?".
The Old Demon laughed and said "That's why I said you must learn it yourself, who knows that might not even be the ability you'll get. Just go and continue your training, oh right. To breakthrough from the Dragon's Leap into World Energy Fusion, you must keep compressing your world energy until it's as small as a marble".
"Huh‽ it isn't like how you just told me?" asked Leo.
"That was just an example for people in a higher cultivation realm, when you can reach the highest cultivation realm possible. That's when you'll need to use what I just said, but for now stick to doing what I just said.
There's nine levels in World Energy Fusion realm, but you can go even further beyond that. By doing so you will become stronger than those in the same realm, but you'll have to keep strengthening them once you reach higher realms.
That's why, while it's a good way to be stronger than most. It is also a bad idea to do, the higher the realm the more you'll need World Energy and so it'll take you a much longer time to reach even higher realms" Said the Old Demon.