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"Thank you, young lord, it's really important to me.", said the young maid Sara in a very emotional voice as she held back her tears
"Don't worry about it Sara, it's fine.", said little Ihan as he consoled her, now if someone witnessed such a scene they would be dumbfounded of how a 4-year-old talked like a grown-up consoling a young girl that looked to be at her teenagers acting like a kid instead, it was a very confusing scene to even describe.
"Alright I'll go now, keep your necklace safe.", said little Ihan before leaving the kitchen.
"Yes young lord, thanks!", yelled Sara in her gentle voice after the leaving little Ihan.
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The door to the library was locked right after little Ihan entered he now had 2 goals he wanted to achieve, one was to reach a Disciple Crafter and the second was to explore the unknown underground, he went over to a corner in the first floor of the library where there was a room in which he made his own, he went to the desk and sat in his chair in front of him were 3 books which his Master had given him, he picked the first one that had the title 'The Truth of the Craft', as it looked logical to start with.
He opened the book carefully and started reading because reading was already something he enjoyed a lot he finished it in an hour while sweeping the pages fast yet memorizing everything.
The Book talked about how like cultivators, crafters was also a path of power and strength and it searched for the truth of the world, like how cultivators had realms and advanced alongside it, crafters had their own too and these realms each had their levels, they were: Craft Seeker(Levels: 3), Disciple Crafter Realm(Levels: 3), MasterCrafter Realm(Levels: 3), Grandmaster Crafter Realm(Levels: 3), Supreme Crafter Realm(Levels: 3).
Each Realm was equal to a realm in cultivation, but there was one thing that made little Ihan shake with excitement it was a level above of Supreme Crafter Realm, which he didn't see in the books when he read about cultivation before, it was called the deity realm, its name was: Immortal Creator Realm(Levels: Unkown), little Ihan tried to calm himself down and sort the information from low-level realms first and how each one advanced.
The Crafter Seeker Realm was the realm he was currently in, it said that in this realm one needed to make the white jade sand Absorbation Formation to be counted as a first level of the Crafter Seeker, white jade sand was considered a must because it was the liquid that was used to write magic formations and enhance magic crafted equipment/items.
As a Craft Seeker, he needed to remember the ingredients in the book that his Master given him which would make him a second level Crafter Seeker and to reach the third he needed to learn 3 or more magic formations from the third book he was given, he needed to make a magic formation from the ones he learned and a one that had the power to attack or protect against at least one attack of the first level of Life Foundation Realm that'll make him able to break into the Disciple Crafter Realm.
That's how Crafters advanced in their realms, they needed to make magic formations that could attack and injure or protect a level in the respective cultivation realm, while they also needed to be proficient in crafting magic equipment/items and had large amounts of knowledge about herbs, items, cores... etc, anything that had to do with their Craft.
This all was only up to Grandmaster Crafter Realm because to advance to a Supreme Crafter Realm one needed to be able to make treasures that could injure or kill a Divine Spark Realm and protect them from an all-out attack of this realm, and according to the power of their treasures they were graded in levels, if the treasure could injure a late-stage Divine Spark Realm then the Crafter is graded as a Top-Tier Supreme Crafter Realm.
Since each realm of Crafters had only 3 levels they were named Low-Tier, Medium-Tier, Top-Tier.
Now that little Ihan understood all the realms below the deity realm he was looking through the information about the Immortal Creator Realm, but unfortunately for him, it was all vague information that said Crafters of this realm can make themselves into immortals and live forever and they could kill deities/protect from attack of deities, but that didn't let little Ihan excitement any lower it only was raised by a notch and his 2 goals suddenly became 3 with the third in the dreams of reaching The Immortal Creator Realm, although his thinking abilities were of a grown-up he was still a kid on the outside and inside.
He decided to read the book of ingredients he swept the book fast and memorized everything in 6 hours, again this was a speed that would make his Master vomit blood as he took months to memorize the whole book, the book talked about how to extract ingredients and how to know which ones to mix with which, and then there was the shape of herbs and how to pick them and how to know each one and how to grow them, then talked about items and objects used in crafting..., it had a lot of such information.
But the most eye-catching thing that little Ihan read for the first time, was that it explained there was pure Life Energy that was used to make magic formations/equipment/items that had to with healing or light attack/protection, and there were non-pure Life Energy which talked about how one could mix Life Energy with a Secondary Energy, and it becomes Secondary-Life Energy like: Fire-Life Energy, Water-Life Energy, Wind-Life Energy, Earth-Life Energy, Ice-Life Energy, etc..., any energy could be used as a Secondary Energy in crafting magic formations/equipment/items with a specific attribute.
And this caught his attention because he asked himself if this was possible in cultivation too if cultivators could cultivate non-pure Life Energy as long as they used some Secondary Energy, but he stopped thinking about it and reminded himself to ask his Master about it.
He decided to take some rest and try to memorize this information then read the magic formation book later, he spent 7 hours to read 2 books and remembered them while people spent months and more to do the same thing, he went to have something to eat then got back to the library as he had already gotten used to sleeping in there.
In the morning little Ihan had breakfast with his family and after that went to pay a visit to his Master to ask him some questions.
Knock
"Master!, your disciple has come to pay his respect!", said little Ihan respectfully with his head bowed.
"Come in", came the sound of Urna from inside of the small villa.
"Yes Master!", replied little Ihan as he opened the door and went inside, he found his master sitting in the living room with tea on the table and book in his hand.
"Sit!", said Urna.
"What is it little Ihan? did you get stuck with something ?", asked Urna first after he put the book on the table.
"No master!, I've already read the 'The Truth of the Craft', and the ingredients book, and I understood everything in them and memorized them but there were some things which I am curious about.", replied little Ihan after he sat down.
"W-What did you say? you not only read them and understood them you even memorized them ?", said Urna while he lost his composure as if he heard the most absurd thing in his whole life.
"Yes, Master! I already memorized everything and understood them as well, the only book left is the magic formations you gave me.", replied little Ihan respectfully as if it was a natural thing to read and memorize a book that would take months for one to memorize and that was by hard work.
"Hahaha Very Good, come let me test you, How does one make Life Fluid?", asked Urna suddenly to test little Ihan.
"Master to make Life Fluid we need to first make an Absorbation Formation and draw it on White Jade Stone, after the magic formation turns on and the white jade stone absorbs Life Energy it will turn into sand that has Life Energy, and the second thing we need is purified life water, which we make by placing it into a glass bottle that has pure water and an Absorbation Formation that gathers Life Energy into the bottle and purifies the water gradually, then we can mix both the white jade sand and purified life water and it becomes Life fluid, the quality depends on the quality of the ingredients used.", explained little Ihan without breaking a sweat as if he was reading it off the book itself, this in itself already impressed Urna.
"Hoh very good, then how do we make the magic talisman paper?", asked Urna to confirm his disciple knowledge.
"Master to make magic talisman paper..."
And so went their conversation for 3 hours until Urna was left dumbfounded with how precise his disciple was about the answers.
"You're are Genuis, I may be able to achieve it at this rate if little Ihan can reach MasterCrafter Realm.", muttered Urna to himself while looking at little Ihan who wasn't tired even after all the answers he gave.
"Alright you came to ask me something, as a reward I'll answer all your questions, ask away.", said Urna in a delighted voice from the surprise his disciple keeps giving him.
"Yes, Master! I read in the book of the 'The Truth of the Craft' it said there is a deity realm called 'Immortal Creator Realm' but there wasn't anything specified in there about how to reach it, can you explain to me how one does reach the 'Immortal Creator Realm'?", asked little Ihan his question with great expectations.
"Hoh I expected as much, who doesn't want to reach the deity realm, well little Ihan I don't know much about it myself, I only have heard rumors like everyone else, it said that for one to reach the 'Immortal Creator Realm' one needed to craft something to make his body immortal first and that thing is difficult to the point that only a few in ancient times achieved it, other than that one needs to be able to have the power to injure or kill a god or protect against attacks from a god to be considered one, otherwise achieving immortality is only half the step into the 'Immortal Creator Realm', at least this is the most trusted rumor Crafters belive in, but becoming a deity in only a dream us Crafters have because achieving 'Supreme Crafter Realm' is nothing to scoff at itself.", explained Urna while giving a feeling of reminiscing as if he was explaining all this to himself as well.
"Master you said to injure or kill a god, so gods do exist?", asked little Ihan about the most thing that caught his ears after the information which he memorized it all.
"Oh yeah, I guess they hide this information these days, well there are realms above the last mortal realm which is the 'Divine Spark Realm', they are: 'False-God', 'Half-God', and the rumored 'True-God'.", replied Urna as he was lost in thought.
"Then Master, my other question is can cultivators cultivate a non-pure Life Energy like I read in the ingredient book with Fire-Life and other Secondary-Life Energies?", asked little Ihan the other questions he kept wondering about.
"Huh Of Course they can, there is no pure Life Energy or non-pure Life Energy its all the same, those are just names we Crafters use, its just those fools of the Church Of Light that believe there shouldn't exist any cultivation of 'non-pure' Life Energy and only 'pure' Life Energy should be cultivated, the thing is Life Energy itself is a supportive Energy, it accepts all and any other Energy and supports it, Life Energy main focus is healing and its attacks and protection are weak, so people use Secondry Energy to add to its power or protection and other uses, and it becomes Secondry-Life Energy like how Fire-Life Energy has better attack power, and Earth-Life Energy has better defence each attribute of Secondry Energy adds a different attribute to cover for the lack of Life Energy, of couse one cannot add alot of attributes and only certain rare characters have bodies which could handle 2 or more Secondry-Life Energies, its the same for us Crafters it becomes hard to add more Energies in our crafting unless one is talented enough or has some good materials that could handle such things.", explained Urna about all he knew of Life Energy and Secondry Energies.
"Then Master why does the Church Of Light cultivate Life Energy without any Secondary Energy if it's so weak.", asked little Ihan confused as to why cultivate it if it's weak.
"Well you see little Ihan the Church Of Light cultivates pure Life Energy and believes in such thing because they have a deity realm cultivator who reached it without any Secondary Energy, and when people see that they believe them and join them to cultivate pure Life Energy, as for why they don't like cultivators of other Secondary Energies is unknown, of course, it's easier for pure Life Energy cultivators to advance in realms unlike Secondary-Life Energy cultivators because one needs to first absorb Life Energy then turn it into Secondary Energy which is harder unlike how pure Life Energy only need to absorb Life Energy and it becomes a part of the cultivator.", explained Urna sounding a bit tired.
"Your Master is a little bit tired that's enough questions, for now, you go study.", said Urna to little Ihan after the tiredness got heavier in his voice.
"Yes, Master! Thank you, please take care of yourself Master.", said little Ihan as he stood up and bowed to Urna then carried himself to the door.
"*Sigh* The time spares no one, I couldn't even keep up a conversation for more than 4 hours, oh where are good old days when I gave lectures for days *sigh*.", sighed Urna and muttered in his tired voice as he got up and went to the bedroom to have some rest.
*Author's Notes*
A lot of stuff is explained in both this chapter and the previous one about how the world works I hope it was explained in a way everyone can understand, Please DO tell me if it wasn't.
Read this for a further explanation:
In this world there is Life Energy everywhere and people could cultivate, those that do cultivate it are called pure Life Energy cultivators and their people who want to cover for a part due to the lack in Life Energy as its main focus is the healing part and its attack power is weak as well as its defense, unless you were a deity where that doesn't matter(lol), anyhow one can add a Secondary Energy and cover for the weakness in Life Energy and then it becomes a Secondary-Life Energy cultivation, while some rare talented people could more than one Secondary Energies and cover for more and more lack but instead it becomes difficult to cultivate and advance in realms.