After breakfast, Neid stored all of their valuables in his space ring. As Neid was going to start his cultivation it was no longer feasible for them to stay at one place. Especially near the defenseless mortals.
Neid handed the castle to the servants he had hired temporarily and informed them that he would not return after this journey and that they were free to do anything with the castle. Money wasn't a problem to him anyway.
"Master, where are we going now?" Neid asked while following behind Sadre.
"To the port." Sadre replied without stopping. "As you are going to refine your bones, a huge pressure is essential when the medicinal effects of the pills kicks in! The pressure would bring out the hidden potential in your bones and helps you in digesting the medicinal effects of the pill more efficiently!"
"Oh!" Neid nodded his head. "As you say, master!"
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Three hours later Sadre and Neid reached the nearest port. They bought a rowing boat at the harbor and ventured into the sea in search of secluded island. There, Neid would start his cultivation.
After half an hour of rowing into the water, the port was no longer visible. Endless water seemed to occupy their surroundings until the horizons.
Sadre was bored of the sea travel when he thought of the newest treasure that his uncle Litz had sent him.
As soon as he thought about the Fortune Storing Rock, Sadre felt a jolt in his mind and the Rock's information reappeared in his mind.
[ Fortune Storing Rock ]
[ Abilty 1: Steal fortune from Heaven and Earth ]
[ Ability 2: Store fortune; Max: 1,235,954 units ]
[ Ability 3: Imbue fortune to the host ]
[ Fortune Stored: 1,235,954 units ]
Should I test it?
Sadre closed his eyes and tried to manipulate the Fortune Storing Rock that was in his mind space. As Sadre did not cultivate yet, his control over his mind space was very low, almost negligible and he had to concentrate for a long time just to activate the Fortune Storing Rock.
Sadre had wanted to imbue himself with 1 unit of Fortune and observe what changes it could bring him. But as he could not control his mind space completely yet, he accidentally imbued himself with 1000 units of fortune.
Anyway what's done was already done. Sadre did not stagger on the accident and looked for the changes that the 1000 units of fortune could bring him.
And the 1000 units of fortune....brought him a twenty hour journey until they could find an island.
Sadre was extremely depressed and bored by now!
When they had bought the rowing boat at the harbor, the seller had assured them that there were countless secluded islands in the waters which took less than three hours to travel from their port!
Yet, they had to travel 20 hours just to find a island. Sadre did not doubt the words of the seller of the rowing boat. After all, they had brought him a huge profit by completely buying his boat!
This could only mean there was some problem with the 1000 units of fortune that Sadre had imbued into himself.
'Was it 1000 units of misfortune instead of fortune?'
This doubt appeared in Sadre's mind, but he soon discarded his thoughts as Neid docked the boat on the shore of the island.
Neid soon found a place to settle down and summoned a treasure house from his space ring.
The house was small but it was built with high quality metal on the outside and coated with soft jade on the inside which made lying inside it quite comfortable. Moreover the house was a treasure with both offensive and defensive properties. It was gifted to Sadre on his 15th birthday by his father.
Sadre immediately lied down in the house and accompanied the warm and soft jade as soon as it was summoned. He was tired from 20 hour journey!
Seeing that Sadre was resting, Neid, who wanted to start his cultivation as soon as possible pushed the rowing boat back into the waters and rowed away from the island.
10 minutes later he stopped rowing. Feeling that the water was deep enough at this distance, Neid took out a underwater breathing technique manual from his space ring and read its contents.
Once he mastered the manual, he divided down and swam to the bottom while using the underwater breathing technique.
He dived and dived and the pressure got bigger and bigger.
When he reached a depth where his body could no longer bear the pressure and blue veins appeared distinctly on the side of his head, he immediately swallowed a bone refining pill and started refining his bones following the methods of a widely popular bone refining manual, the Diamond Refining Manual.
The Diamond Refining Manual was one of the best widely spread manual for the bone refining stage. When one practiced according to the Diamond Refining manual, his bones alone would be enough to withstand blows from mortal weapons. Upon a successful completion of the manual, the bones would emit a crystal like lustre which was similar to Diamonds. Thus the name Diamond refining manual!
Neid, under the uniform and heavy pressure of the sea water, and the refining methods of the Diamond Refining manual quickly digested the medicinal essence of the pills. In a short span of one hour Neid was forced to take a second bone refining pill.
After two hours his body was so weak that he could no longer continue refining and had to swim up to the surface.
After two hours, the rowing boat had been carried away by the sea waves to a far away place from where Neid left it. He had to exhaust all the strength left in him just to reach it.
"Later when I come here to refine my bones, I should place the boat into my space ring before diving down!" Neid called himself stupid for not thinking of this previously. He took a rejuvenation drink out of his space ring and drank it.
A hour later he slowly rowed back to the island and entered the treasure house. He took out a seasoned duck out of his space ring and prepared a main dish with it along with some other side dishes.
He then woke up Sadre and they had lunch. After lunch, Sadre took Neid to survey the island. The island wasn't huge and they could cover its whole surface by just walking for two days.
They found some coconuts close to the shore. They also found various wild herbs on the island. As for wether the wild herbs contained spirituality or not, Sadre and Neid weren't able to identify as they weren't cultivators yet. Only when one reached the Soul Suppression Stage would one be able to sense the spirituality in his surroundings.
Cultivation was divided into nine realms in the world of Nirvana. The first realm was called the Body Refining Realm.
The Body Refining Realm was further divided into three small stages.
The Bone Refining Stage, The Soul Suppressing Stage and finally the Vitality Condensing Stage.
And one could only sense spirituality when he reaches the second stage of Body Refining Realm, the Soul Suppressing Stage.
Other than the wild herbs, Sadre also found some wild bugs and some wild mushrooms.
The two of them did not venture deeply. They returned to their treasure house one hour before the sun set.
Neid prepared dinner with the ingredients stored inside his space ring and they had dinner before drifting into sleep for the night.
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