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Another week has passed and nothing sensational happened. Curt is living a nice and simple life while still trying to figure out how to advance his strength further. He has been stuck with his strength and has not improved further so far.
Somehow as he continues thinking he seems to not find any answers. Without any other choice, he began browsing the internet for ideas. He focused on espers and how their powers evolve and function. Through almost a thousand years of research, Curt discovers how LEP energy is being used inside an esper's body.
Though has already read this article before, but this time a piece of new information was added which he has never seen before.
It seems that this information was deleted in those newly published articles due to its mysticism. He knew that science does not condone mystic arts hence it was removed.
According to the article, the crystal behind the espers and those monsters' hearts is the accumulation of LEP energy. And through that crystal espers can use LEP to control nature. However, it is not that efficient because the crystal does not grow hence the amount of LEP energy that an esper could use would always be limited to the size of the crystal.
For an esper to be able to hold more power they should form another crystal either on their forehead or a place just below the navel.
As Curt continues reading he was amazed at the theory of the writer of the article. And realized that the reason why this article was removed is because of this seemingly ridiculous theory. However, for Curt, there are some truths about this theory. That is because the three positions that the person is talking about are called dantian points, the head, the heart, and below the navel.
Those are the three basic positions of a dantian according to his memories. However, he knows why he could not form one. That is because he doesn't have the physique of a deity, or what he calls an immortal cultivator's body.
However, as he continues reading, Curt's suddenly had an idea. According to the article, there are many who tried to fuse their body with the crystals hence trying to make an artificial esper. But this process and operation always ended up in a failure.
This is because the body would always reject the foreign crystal and causes the person implanted with it to either get really sick or lose control of the LEP energy and in the end would eventually die.
As Curt mules about this, he suddenly had an idea. Of course, he knew that the reason those people died is that the location where the crystals are put are all in the wrong places. Plus, the people who receive the crystals do not know how to absorb the LEP energy or control the LEP energy in their bodies.
However, these things are not a problem for Curt. So an idea was formed in his mind as he began to plan his next move. His goal is to be able to implant a crystal core in his body. He knew that if he can get a crystal core, then he would be able to have the power and proper strength to control LEP more efficiently.
Plus with a core, his physique would grow exponentially.
His first goal once he already has a core is the LEP Condensation stage. That is his first main goal. But of course Curt needed a lot for preparation for this. He needs to prepare a series of arrays to control everything, as he didn't want to trust his own life to a doctor.
With that in mind, Curt began working on his project to put a core inside his body. Plus he also plans to make a multi-colored core. Though in his past memories, having a multicolored core is like a person who jacks of all trade, master of none. According to the elders of the sect, those who have multicolored cores are considered trash.
However, he begs to differ. That is because he is a multi-rooted cultivator. Though his cultivation path is the most difficult, yet in the end, he still became the strongest in the sect. Curt wanted to repeat the same path just like in his memories.
And so, days went by and one month has already gone by.
Kor City once again became peaceful. For one, many of those who wanted to commit heinous crimes fear the presence of the so-called masked man who would appear whenever the city needed his help. And that figure was a great deterrent for those bad guys.
And the other is that the new super esper was introduced to the public. After being trained for more than a month, she was officially introduced to the public. She received the code name Tempest Queen and was officially acknowledged as the second most powerful esper in the country.
In the meanwhile, Curt and Jenny Mae's relationship within this month has developed a little bit (That is according to Curt's feeling as she would now sometimes reply to his messages.) which is already great progress.
After the whole day of working, Curt immediately went home and enters his room. He immediately activated the protection array and excitedly prepares himself for the core implant procedure.
"Alright, I think everything is ready." Curt thought as he feels his hands sweating.
He didn't know why, though in his mind he is already 100% sure that everything will work, yet he still feels scared.
"No pain, no gain… I guess this is the only way…" Curt muttered as he clenched his fist.
He walked towards the headrest of his small bed and pushed his palm on a circular disk design. After a few seconds, it immediately lit up. Then a clicking sound was heard an opening suddenly appear under the bed.
Curt pushed the bed to the side and descended through the opening.
He has now entered his secret cultivation and laboratory spot which is almost the same size as his house above. It took him 2 days to gather enough LEP energy for the array so that he could displace the huge amount of dirt towards the direction of the first layer of the city wall.
After doing some crafting and designing, he was able to create a secret advanced laboratory and cultivation space for himself.
Curt walked towards a glass-covered healing vat which is already filled with his newly created concoction which he called Liquid Nutrients.
He immediately took off his clothes and directly jumps inside the healing vat. Then without a second thought and with determination, he activated the array.
He could immediately feel a strange power that slowly held his body firmly. Then he found that he could now even breathe inside the liquid-filled vat. Curt felt elated however when he suddenly felt a slight biting pain in his stomach he knew that the process is already starting.
Curt didn't think of anything else and just waited. He waited with closed eyes but didn't dare cultivate. This is because once he cultivates before the cores are implanted then it would be a failure and he would suffer a dangerous drawback.
When Curt feels that his stomach is being closed, he immediately knew that this was his long-awaited chance. So without a second thought, he immediately rouses his body and began circulating the LEP according to his memory.
Curt immediately saw 4 colored crystals. Then with a thought large amount of LEP began cruising through them. The 4 colored crystals suddenly started melting. Curt knew that this would happen so he didn't panic.
Then all of a sudden due to his urging, the melted colored crystals suddenly began to mix together. Soon a crystal core began forming below Curt's navel as is slowly hardens and turning into a dark gray crystal.
As Curt observe what's happening in his body he was a bit surprised and amazed at the same time. The theories in his mind turning into reality are something that he truly appreciates.
After a while, Curt began to feel the LEP energy around him and he absorbed them all greedily.
With the formation of his core, he knew that he would not worry about wasting this precious LEP energy anymore. And so with that, he absorbs them into his core as much as he could.
He didn't know how long has he cultivated, but when he opens his eyes, he already found himself sitting in a lotus position under the bottom part of the now dried vat. Then a cracking sound could be heard as he suddenly discovered that his body is covered with hardened dirt.
He knew that those are the impurities inside his body being expelled by his core.
"So this is the dantian huh…" he thought as information about it filled his mind.
Curt didn't dawdle but decided to stand up. However, as soon as he exerted an effort a shattering sound was immediately heard.
The glass vat which he expected to be sturdy was actually shattered. Curt just looks at the scene in stupefaction as he didn't know what just happened. But soon he realized that his strength has suddenly increased by leaps and bound. No, not only his strength but also the sturdiness of his physique has actually improved.
Curt walks out of the hidden room after cleaning himself and everything in there. While inside he had already discovered that he has been cultivating for two whole days. Luckily the Nutritional Fluid he concocted was enough to sustain his body.
As soon as he walks out, he immediately saw his phone on the table already out of juice. When he charged it and turn it on, he immediately saw multiple messages. Most of them come from Boss Lan. However, one message caught his attention, because it was a message sent by Doctor Agnes Lim.
The message was short and simple. And from the timestamp of the message, it looks like the message was just sent about 30 minutes ago.
But this simple message actually baffled Curt with many thoughts running through his mind. Yet he knew that this message is important because that woman would not just casually message him like that.
He looks at his phone again while muttering the message written on the screen.
"Need you here, ASAP…"