Xavier went back to his dorm room and activated the noise isolation system and took out his spirit stones. Just as he was about to absorb the energy and begin cultivation, he got a reminder.
[Please stop host. You should not absorb energy directly from the stones.]
"Why is that? Don't people usually do the same?"
[Host, do you know how spirit stones are formed?]
"Aren't they normal stones, when they get exposed to a high enough level of spirit energy, they get transformed into spirit stones?"
"Yes that's true and that's the reason why it's not suitable to be absorbed by host. Because the stone is an ordinary stone, the spirit energy inside the stone has been tainted by the impurities inside the stone and absorbing that energy will result in impurities being accumulated slowly inside the body.]
[While it's of little consequence for people in this world, it will be a huge hindrance to host when he advances further into the stages of cultivation.]
"Then how do I solve this?"
[The system will give you a furnace which will purify the spirit energy inside the stones and convert it into a crystal. These crystals are devoid of impurities and will help the host in the long term.]
As soon as the system said this, a purple portal opened in front of Xavier and he saw a small 1 foot sizes metallic drum like thing which looked like it was made from bronze and was covered in rust as if it had been kept in a bad condition for a very long time.
As soon as Xavier touched it, he got a message in his head.
[The Spirit refining furnace.
Level : 1]
"Why is it level 1?"
[The systen has sealed its power to keep it at a level such that host can use it with his current cultivation level. As host advances in cultivation, the furnace will also be upgraded. Best of luck in cultivating host.]
"How do I use this?"
[Figure it out yourself host.]
Xavier was stumped by the system's attitude. He put this in the back of his mind and started to explore how to use this furnace.
From outside, this furnace looked just like a large bronze drum. It didn't have any engraving or patterns like he expected, instead it had patches of rust which seemed to corrode the whole furnace and make it seem like it was about to fall apart the moment someone touched it.
It has a lid which didn't have a handle on the top and had three legs for support. When Xavier tried to lift it, it wouldn't budge. He was a little surprised. This was just the lid and it was so heavy even though it was so small. The material it was made of seemed not to be bronze.
He tried to lift it a few more times and after half an hour, the furnace didn't even budge. Xavier for very frustrated and grief his teeth and put his all into lifting the furnace.
He held the sides of the lid, crouched onto the ground and with his utmost and using the whole of his strength, he managed to make one side of the furnace move a little and motivated by it, he pushed on and soon flipped open the furnace lid.
Overjoyed, Xavier looked into the furnace only to find pitch black darkness. It was as if other than that darkness nothing existed in the cauldron. Xavier couldn't see the walls or the bottom of the furnace and as he kept staring at the furnace, he felt his consciousness slip away from him.
Just as he was about to go unconscious, a jolt was felt throughout his body and he wrote up. He was so scared that his while body was drenched in cold sweat and his arms were trembling while holding onto the furnace lid.
'Damn, that was one hell of an experience!'
'Well let's see how this furnace works.'
He took out one spirit stone and put it inside the furnace and closed the lid. After waiting for a few minutes, he couldn't feel anything from the furnace. He opened the lid and saw nothing, just the pitch black darkness.
Xavier felt like his heart was bleeding. It was one of his 10 spirit stone for this month and he still hasn't earned any credits with which he could buy more. Seeing 1 of these 10 going missing hurt him like someone had kicked his balls.
While lamenting over his loss, he thought of an idea and said aloud," Well even if I lose all the spirit stone, I can atleast get more after I complete the missions. It's time to go all in."
He opened the lid and put on all the 9 spirit stone inside and closed it. Immediately his mind buzzed and the furnace also buzzed as it came to life and just a moment later, the lid loosened and a ride grain sized colourless crystal flow out.
Xavier eyes widened and his jaws fell to the ground. A rice grain sized crystal! It was fucking rice grain size. it would even fill the gaps in his teeth.
"Ok, ok, deep breaths, deep breaths. Calm down, let's see what this crystal can do."
Xavier picked up the crystal and started circulating his cultivation technique.
As soon as the Chassis Origin cultivation technique circulated, Xavier felt as if he had shot up straight to heaven.
It felt like his body was finally given what it had looked for for thousands of years. A soothing cooling sensation took over him as it spread across his meridians and a change which was heaven defying started to happen unknown to Xavier himself.
While cultivating with the Chaos Origin technique, the qi stored inside the crystal flooded his meridians and settled into his cells like water in desert sand.
Each of his cells cried with joy as they experienced the first input of spirit energy. They circulated in all the meridians mentioned in the first level of the Chaos Origin technique.
After one cycle, the spirit energy reached Xavier's dantian and slowly aggregated within it. This qi then slowly formed a Whirlpool of energy.
Looking from the outside, it just seemed like any other normal Whirlpool, but on closer inspection, you could see countless stars which were rotating around a vague silhouette.
This silhouette on a closer look, appeared just like Xavier.
As he cultivated, Xavier forgot the time. As time passed on, the Whirlpool got condensed more and more and finally reached the size of a fingernail.
It was very small in comparison to others but the amount of energy compressed as well as the purity of the qi stored was unparalleled in the same state.
As the name suggests, the Chaos Origin technique was created from Chaos.
Chaos is one of the ultimate in the universe. The whole of the universe revolves under the cycles of Chaos.
When a universe is born it is from Chaos. The Chaos organises into cluster to form the stars and the stars give birth to life.
When the life of stars itself end, they will return to Chaos awaiting their rebirth from the grand Chaos itself.
Chaos exists before everything and when everything ends, is the one remaining. The amalgamation of all yet the purest of them all, that is Chaos.
When Chaos is present, there is nothing which exists and when Chaos thrives all laws are crystal clear.
Just like in Chaos, Xavier's body was also undergoing a few changes.
Wisps of grey gas we being formed inside this body. Each cell contained this has which were in the form of the primordial clouds of Chaos.
When these clouds entered the cells of Xavier, these cells also got a grayish tinge and each of these cells have a feeling of being the ancestors of all life.
Just like the body, Xavier's soul was also undergoing a startling transformation.
There were veins in his soul. The once immaterial and ethereal soul now has veins like meridians throughout its whole albiet they were very faint.
While these wisps of grey gas were strengthening Xavier's both body and soul along with his cultivation.
As Chaos was where the laws were born and destroyed, all the laws were in their past form. One could observe the birth, the maturation and the death of the laws inside Chaos.
While this will not be of much use for now for Xavier, in his higher stages of cultivation where laws are of utmost importance, his Chaos Origin Art will help him tremendously.
Suddenly Xavier's aura changed rapidly and her finally stepped into the 1st level of the foundation stage. It was the the stage where there was the refinement of the skin.
His skin brightens and his already feminine appearance turned even more beautiful. Cracks sounded as a black sticky substance oozed out from his skin.
Xavier didn't notice the as he was still concentrated on consolidating his cultivation. After half an hour, he stood up and found out that he was drinking badly. He went into the shower and ordered the cleaner not to clean the floor. After cleaning up, he quickly went to the training facility and entered the strength checking room.
These training facilities were open for all the academy students all the time. While there were many departments in the academy, each one focused on how to increase the combat capabilities of the students and the easiest way was to increase their strengths.
In the strength testing room, there was a huge glass pillar. While this pillar looked like glass, it was made of a special material which could vibrate according to the strength with which it was launched and measure it.
Xavier came near the pillar and casually punched the pillar.
It showed the numbers 1016.
Xavier was surprised. A normal human after absorbing spirit energy could exert a strength of 100 kilograms. A 1st level foundation stage cultivator can exert a strength of 300 kgs at the maximum. But a casual punch from Xavier had more than 3 times the Power.
Xavier's heart thumped with excitement. He got ready to punch again and this time he exerted almost all his power.
3156.
Xavier's strength was about 10times more thana normal cultivator of the 1st level. This was absolutely mind boggling.
Completing his goal, Xavier went back to his room and slept soundly.
The next 2 days he again went to the class, talked with Clara a bunch of times and almost go out into a fight with the cocky bastard Richard.
Today was the day of the examination for the concocters inthe Medicine hall and Xavier was standing in front of the Medicine hall right now.