Shen decided to follow his original plan for today and chose to just cultivate however now that he was in the third he had to find a way to submerge himself in a mixture of resources and water to cultivate his body so he went to the pavilion to ask one of the elders if they knew of a place that the body cultivating disciples would use once they reached the third level "Well a few of the disciples of body ask to use barrels and others find small water holes outside and use those although that method is relatively dangerous to use the other disciples of body collectively go to one big spring and each add resources for permission to join the others its the most common choice for the disciples of body to use yet some people suffer from this method since the energy from the resources has no chance of being spread evenly amongst the disciples who decide to participate in such a strange method But if you want to use that method then you'll have to go behind the dedicated training area and then if you go far enough you'll see a large pool with many disciples of body trying to concentrate on getting as many of the energy in the pool but don't think that because they are focusing on their own cultivation that they won't realise if you try to join in with out contributing some resources" explained the Elder to Shen seeing that he had no idea where to cultivate after reaching the 3rd level.
Shen considered all of what the Elder told him and then decided to try to join the group cultivation efforts of his fellow body cultivators of the lightning path at the large pool. Shen decided to add half of his scales into the resource pool to be allowed to cultivate along side the others. He walked through the training field on his way to the group cultivation area when he saw Bei Luo trying to learn to swing his sword with his other hand and couldn't help but give a smirk in his direction. Shen recounted their fight and when Bei Luo noticed he sneered but did not look Shen in the eye nor did he attempt to pick another fight. Shen was satisfied with how quickly that issue had been resolved and then walked until he reached the cultivation pool and decided to add his resources to the pool before he climbed in along side the other 30 or so body cultivators.
When Shen enters the water he feels that there was so much energy from body resources in the pool that he believed it would be hard to suffer from this method at least so early on in his cultivation so after assessing the energy in the pool he began cultivating and noticed that he was devouring the energy from the resources at an incredible pace and could feel his cultivation rising at an incredible pace and then he recalled that voice speaking of a gift and was drawn ever so much closer towards the demonic Dao but had yet to truly follow that path he would only follow that path if a chance to learn it from someone powerful presented itself he promised him self quietly as he felt himself rushing through the 3rd level and quickly reaching the 4th level he even believed that if he could cultivate for another hour that he would break through
He felt that such a thing should be impossible but it clearly wasn't since he was the one doing it and so he had to accept that this was an incredible reality that he would now be living so he continued to cultivate greedily for as long as possible and then he felt him self break through to the 4th level and was astonished by such terrifying cultivation speed but when he thought about it there really was a lot of resources in this pool since all of the disciples had provided something or other in order to enter the pool and with his higher than average cultivation speed which he now knew was better than others but wasn't as insane as he believed it to be since it had only became monstrous because of the amount of resources in the pool but had it just been him and the few resources he has he would have emptied his water source of all it's energy in a very short amount of time so he went home and decided that he would use that communally available cultivation pool whenever possible but to join it he must contribute some amount of resources.