"Grandpa manish, i have remembered all the letters and their pronunciation."
Shiva didn't even take full hour to learn all the letters and their pronunciations.
"What??!!! remembering all letters in one hour is quite easy, but even learning pronunciations is way difficult. Are you telling me the truth? let me check whether you are telling me the truth or false."
Butler manish is quite startled by shiva's claims and started questioning shiva with different questions, to check whether shiva is telling the truth or not.
As he asked, shiva didn't even take time to think before answering. This made butler manish quite surprised by shiva memory.
"Looks like you are quite intelligent, i think it will take around 2 months for you learn how to write and read. Now, it looks like, it won't even take 2 weeks huh?!!"
He once again quite marveled by this child's intelligence and sighed.
"Let's start with your body training session. Before we start i will explain different levels of cultivation and how we can achieve them."
Saying that, he looked at shiva who's eyes fully concentrated on him and his ears are perked up to listen carefully, seeing this he couldn't help but chuckle by this child's curious nature.
"First of all, human body potential is limitless and god created human's with intelligence even though we didn't cultivate. Unlike other creatures, like magical beast before they reach certain level in cultivation, they are like normal wild animals. This is god's gift to humans, as we can't reach apex of power like animals."
Before butler manish said more, shiva interrupted him saying,
"Why can't we reach apex of power like animals and what is the difference between animals and human cultivation."
Butler manish looked at shiva intently and said, " Shiva, animals can reach apex of power by just eating precious materials and powerful beasts carcasses. Unlike humans, nature gave animals powerful bodies. while human gets intelligence, balancing the power."
"Oh"
Shiva let out a 'oh' understanding what oldman manish said,
"Let me explain cultivation levels to you, before we start cultivating we have to refine our body so that it can reach limits of what a normal human could do, this sort of cultivation is called body refining or mortal level of cultivation. This is where you start strengthen your body through various rigorous exercises. Mortal level only five levels, with each level you reach you can a strength of 100 kg. By the time you reach apex of mortal level, you can gain 500 kg of strength. I will teach you all the stances that can make you to reach apex of mortal level."
Butler manish took a short breath and continued to say,
" After you reach the apex level in body refining or mortal level five warrior, you have to cultivate your body using cultivation manuals, where you can reach ascending realm. When you reach ascending, your strength will directly rise from 500 kg to 1500 kg, not only your strength will rise but also your lifespan will increase to 200 years. That is why, ascending realm is called the first step of cultivation to reach immortality, but not the mortal realm. After the ascending realm comes transformation realm and after transformation realm comes Sea formation realm. Until now, i only knows up to that realm, some people said there are still more realms above that."
Shiva nodded his head, indicating that he understood.
"In short, cultivation levels included mortal realm, ascending realm, transformation realm and sea formation realm. First of all, i can only teach you up to mortal realm and cannot give you my cultivation manual, as it is prohibited by my sect, i can't teach others without sect's permission."
Shiva understood this and said, "Then how can i join a sect grandpa manish?"
"You can join a sect as long as you can reach mortal level 3 before you reach 19 years. As you are only 15 this year, if you work hard enough, you can easily reach level 3 mortal realm by the time you turn 19 years old. For a normal person, it will take around 1 year to reach level 1 mortal realm and 2 more years to reach level 2, to reach level 3 that needs 4 years and to level 4 it will take 8 years. For level 5, it again needs 16 years. In short for a normal person, who train by himself needs around 30 years to reach apex in mortal realm. But for you, i will train you in different manner than them, so that you can reach mortal realm 3 by the time you turn 19 years. If you are more talented and trained even harder you can reach level 3 mortal realm even before that. Can you able to endure my endure my training?"
As he said that, he waited for shiva's response.
" I will definitely able to endure grandpa manish. I will also reach level 3 mortal realm before reaching 19 years old."
Shiva eyes shows his resolution and his manner of speech shows his determination to gain strength. Looking at this butler manish nodded his head in approval.
"Before we start with your training, we will test your strength first. So that i can determine your training schedule. lets go to the training grounds of Viscount manner, there is a strength gauge Stone pillar is present."
As he said that, he started moving towards the training grounds of viscount manner. Shiva also followed him.
" Grandpa manish, you will definitely be amazed by my strength he he he..."
Looking at shiva actions, butler manish is puzzled and amused. After walking for around ten minutes they reached the training grounds. As it is evening time, no one is present in the training grounds, Training grounds is only active during morning time. Reaching the stone pillar, manish looked at shiva and said,
" Use your full force and hit the stone pillar. Don't hold back any power, as i needed to know your strength to prepare a training schedule for you."
Shiva also know that if he hold back his power, his training will be limited by his power. So, he used his full force and struck the stone pillar. The stone pillar shuddered slightly, before showing the result.
'310 kg'
"As expected."
Looking at this shiva was satisfied. But butler manish stood there like the stone statue, bewildered, surprised. Finally, he looked at shiva saying,
"T-this, t-t-this..., h-h-how is this possible?"
He stuttered for sometime before saying with some amazement in his voice.