The burning energy made numerous circles inside his body and gathered in his heart following the Calm Mind sutra. It was a cultivation art from the organization he was working for in his past life.
Neon needed to condense the internal force in his heart as it was the most vital organ of the body. Condensing it there would allow the internal force to reach all parts of his body by following his blood circulation. Each of the cycles will continuously strengthen his physique allowing him to release intense physical strength.
With rhythmic breathing, the vital essence all over his body started to stir. Converging in his heart following his breathing, then spreading all over his body. In the misty cave, one could only hear a faint but strong heartbeat. After a while, the vital essence condensed into a wisp forming the first strand of internal force. As soon as it appeared, the mist dispersed and an unbelievably powerful aura spread out from Neon.
In his heart, the wisp of internal force was moving along the path of his blood slowly strengthening his bones and his internal organs. He breathed out, his breath was like an arrow that pierced the opposing wall with a crack.
"Finally! I stepped into this realm once again. Since this is a new world of magic, I will change the name of this stage of cultivation, from now on I'll call this realm, grade one Magic knight realm." he said excitedly.
Examining his body he nodded.
'As expected, I am a lot stronger than I was at this stage in my past life. My conjecture about mana affecting my way of cultivation turned out to be accurate. The internal force in my heart is stronger by a huge margin.' he concluded rapidly.
He circulated his internal force and his bones released a popping sound, stepping forward he punched at the rock he was previously sitting on.
*BOOOM!!*
The rock turned into pieces of pebbles. His fist, on the other hand, was intact. He marveled at the inhumane power.
"Now even if I can't slaughter this grade one beast, we can duke it out for a few hundreds of rounds," He said with a smirk.
He looked at the pond and his smile became bigger. When he hadn't step in this realm he couldn't absorb much of this milky essence. Now he could absorb it and use it to cultivate his internal force even further.
This time he didn't jump in the pool but sat next to it. Taking a deep breath he activated the Calm Mind sutra. Wisps of milky essence circled around his body before being absorbed by his pores.
In a few minutes, he entered the perfect state of cultivation, with no thoughts and no self.
He stayed in this state for three days, not moving like a thousand years old mountain. When there was no more milky essence left in the pond and its water became clear. Neon opened his eyes, a brilliant ray of light flashed out for an instant before disappearing. The aura he let out at this moment was as monstrous as the beast who had been pursuing him before.
After he retracted it, he stood up, looking around he found the clothes he had taken off before jumping in the pond.
'So dirty!' he thought, using the water from the pond and washed them. Circulating his internal force the clothes dry out very fast. He wore them.
There were a lot of holes and tears on them but at least the blood and sweat was gone.
He felt that it was time to come out of this cave. Who knew three days ago that he would have such luck, finding this treasure. Following the tree path, he got out. Standing on one of its branches he looked down. He only saw an abyss covered by darkness so thick it looked like a huge inkwell.
Looking up, there was only a bit of light, it indicated that the peak where he fell from was a bit far up. It seemed he would need to climb. Luckily he had formed his internal force, thus could use his Wall Climbing and Water Walking art. With this art, he had roamed everywhere in his past world, even those complicated environment.
Directing the internal force to his foot he jumped as high as he could, then started walking on the wall like it was flat ground. Like this, a weird scene could be seen in this dark abyss. A youth running on a steep Cliff wall at an unimaginable speed, leaving afterimages wherever he left his previous position.
It took a while to reach the peak of the Cliff, Neon now knew that he had fallen deeper than he thought, at least 1km. Which made him wonder about the true depth of this place.
He took a deep breath after he got out of his predicament feeling like he went through a rebirth. Then he noticed something shocking. The corpse of a magical beast was laying on the ground, a hole pierced in the middle of its skull.
'Hey isn't it the beast that had relentlessly pursued me, forcing me to jump? How could it be dead? From the look of it, it couldn't even resist. The attack was unavoidable.'
He sucked a deep breath in surprise. Who could be strong enough to one-shot a beast like this? At the very least he must be one that surpassed a Grade 1 Magician. Now that he had become more powerful he could clearly feel the level of power of the beast. It was at least at the peak of grade 1. He now felt that he was a bit arrogant in challenging it.
'Well, whatever at least I don't have to worry about it anymore.'
He crouched down before the beast and took out his sword, with it he dug a hole in the beast and retrieve its core.
He launched his movement technique and disappeared from the spot. While jumping from tree to tree, he thought about how worried Mary and Nick would be, he didn't come back for three days. With that in mind, he sped up and turned into a shadow.