Having completed his assigned task to get the first rank, Red went to the old beggar's garden to get the mental cultivation technique. The old beggar was surprisingly not present.
instead, Red found a note stuck on the door of his shabby shed. When Red touched it words began appearing on the note asking him to go to Sakura Nation to investigate the events of the Auction Hall in the black market involving the man from the Chiba clan.
Chiba Clan was one of the foremost noble families within the Sakura kingdom and were somewhat mysterious. For Red to go and investigate them would be risky and he decided to cultivate qi before he went. inwards he grumbled about the old beggar, who didn't leave the mental cultivation technique for him.
Now having unlocked his 7 chakra points Red began reading further into the text and deciphering the Profound Asura Scripture. What he read surprised him. The steps he had taken so far were simply setting the foundation of his physique. His true cultivation journey following this scripture actually began after this step.
His body had integrated chaotic qi with a domineering intent so that it could be able to deal with the chaotic nature of Profound Asura Scripture's qi cultivation technique. While most qi arts relied on carefully guiding the energy of the heaven's energy into the dantian to condense into qi gas, Red's scripture required him to absorb bursts of domineering chaotic qi and let it run rampant within his body, letting the strength of the body compress and hold the energy in, pressuring it to form a gas to condense within his dantian.
When Red learned this he was shocked. This technique was very different from any conventional modern qi technique, there was no pathways or cycles to pass through, just using the body as a vessel to compress the heaven's energy by force alone. He started fearing that this technique might really not be suitable for humans like him, but designed for the much stronger bodies of the Asura. He could already anticipate that this technique would be very painful.
However, Red wasn't one to back down. He had clearly seen the value of this cultivation art and he wouldn't miss out on it. Taking a deep breath to steady himself, Red started allowing the vast energy in the heaven's to gush uncontrollably into his body to run rampant.
As the energy rampantly ran across his body, Red could feel a searing pain rip through him, however he gritted his teeth and held the pain within. He could see that as the energy began running around in his body, his body began swelling up like a balloon as more and more energy filled him up with no means to leave the confines of his body.
As Red's body began swelling up, the physique he trained so hard over the past few months suddenly leapt into action. The body started to tightly release a pressure inwards. This deadlock within his body made Red realize that he couldn't move at all. If he tried to move his body would give way and explode. Yet, at the same time the energy was running rampant and he was hurting from the inside lile he was being pricked by millions of needles.
Despondent, Red remained frozen in place in the old beggar's garden, cultivating Profound Asura Scripture's self torturing qi method. After five days, Red suddenly felt a change within his body. The pressure inside him felt like it had reached a tipping point and then suddenly with his dantian, the formless energy began slowly transforming into a red colored gas. The red gas was the qi gas condensed particular to this method. It had a powerful domineering and chaotically violent attached to it.
Eventually Red reached an equilibrium within his body, where he was under constant peak internal pressure from energy, while at the same time the excess energy beyond the limit would form a gas within his dantian. He had finally entered qi condensation stage.
With the constant pressure, Red found it difficult to move freely, but once some qi gas had formed it had become easier. Now he was constantly practicing his art as he prepared things to leave for Sakura Nation to investigate about the Chiba Clan.
Going to the Redmond Planet's black market, Red looked for an information broker before encountering him and finding out information about the Clans in Sakura Nation.
The political situation within the nation was currently very complex, with the current king at his deathbed and his three sons and one daughter vying for the throne. Many of the clans had sided with a particular prince as it would happen in such situations and the nature of interactions between the clans was thus very tense. The information broker predicted that the nation would soon end up in a bloodbath when the king passed away leading to an open fight for succession.
The Chiba clan was particularly supporting the third prince and the daughter of the clan's leader was married to him. They had also been moving behind to scenes to orchestrate events against other families and were particularly vindictive and scheming in their ploys.
When Red heard all this information he sighed. He inwardly cursed the old beggar. "Beggar you made me rush school and now you want me to dip my hands in a succession war? Once I become stronger than you I'm going to whoop your rear!" Even though Red grumbled, he still decided to go and do the work asked off him.
As Red left, the old beggar was sitting on the top of a large oak tree in the garden. He had been following Red around the past few days and hand't really gone anywhere. "Stupid kid, you must be dreaming to receive any benefits from me before I work you to death, hahahaha!"
However, the old beggar had his own reasons for sending Red to investigate. "Sakura Nation is about to become very chaotic. If that lad manages to siphon any loot I'll have to ask him for a guidance fee!" Suddenly he saw a young female teacher from the school walking by and disappeared from the tree and appeared kn front of her. "Hey babe, got any free time tonight?"
The teacher saw an old goat bearded beggar suddenly appear in front of her and say such words and got so frightened that she fell unconscious from shock.