"It seems that my cultivation path became much more complicated and thorny."
Abel just sighed at this thought, before shaking his head and perking up a bit.
"Forget it, it is not that it has no benefit, after all, thanks to this seal I will never run out of celestial qi, even if I end up in an inhospitable environment, in that aspect, I can launch my strongest attacks and techniques without any qualms."
Not surprisingly, the more powerful the martial technique executed, the greater the amount of spiritual qi required, so for such techniques, cultivators kept them as their trump cards, only using them in specific or desperate moments.
This is because the rate of consumption of their spiritual qi when executing said techniques exceeded the speed with which they replenished their spiritual qi, ultimately leaving them completely absent of spiritual qi at some point, turning them into a pig for the slaughterhouse.
"Besides from what I can tell, the large amount of celestial qi that I possess at the moment is like an immense sea, of which I have barely used a few drops to cultivate, practically insignificant."
"And although I don't know if it will be enough for me to reach the peak of cultivation here in this lower realm, I should at least reach until I manage to find the inheritance of that unknown senior and then return to Kunlun, where my hope of obtaining celestial qi is much more likely."
With this thought, Abel relaxed a bit, before resuming his cultivation, his goal was to reach the 4th stage of refinement of the body for his own self-preservation as soon as possible, after all, only by reaching that level could he correctly execute his double sword technique, not to mention that you could request the 3 cultivation manuals that Elder Grant promised you.
Thus Abel continued to cultivate for the rest of the night, as he already had previous experience in the following advances in his cultivation, in addition to possessing a large amount of celestial qi at his disposal, along with the manual of "Divine Assimilation of 9 Elementals", Its progression speed was extremely fast, as if it was being carried away by a rocket.
It was only when the first rays of the sun began to appear over the waterfall that Abel, who was still sitting cross-legged, breathed out some cloudy qi and opened his eyes, which at this moment shone like stars in the dark sky.
"I never believed I would advance so fast, in just one night, I went from a common mortal all the way to the peak of the third level of body refinement, just 1 step away from reaching the 4th, I think only the geniuses of those sects here in this kingdom can match my progression, though not necessarily my strength."
Sensing the powerful heavenly qi circulating by himself through his meridians, Abel couldn't help but smile a pleased smile, after all, with his current strength he calculated that he could defeat another cultivator at the 1rd level of martial disciple, though someone on the 3th level could give him a lot of complications.
"Well, this is mainly because of the problem with my equipment, if I had two good quality and suitable swords, crushing a medium martial disciple would not be a problem, only one in the late stage would be a good opponent."
If another cultivator knew what Abel was thinking right now, he was most likely branded an arrogant madman, after all, a late-stage martial disciple's power differed too much from that of an average martial disciple, being very few, even Among geniuses, being able to skip a few levels of cultivation, not to mention that Abel was already skipping an entire stage.
"For the moment I will return to my cabin, in case someone comes to ask or watch what I do, although I doubt that is the case, it is better to be safe than sorry."
With this in mind, Abel started to leave the cave when he remembered the fish he had recently obtained, leaving them lying there would be a waste, so after thinking about it for a moment, he decided to take them with him.
"Forget it, I will take a few in my hands, as for the rest, I will leave them here submerged in cold water, at least that way they will take a little longer to decompose, and I also think that it is also time to explore the village a little more thoroughly."
In this way, Abel wasted no time and with his dagger he created a small well in the cave where he left a few fish submerged in water, as for the rest, he carried them in his arms while he left the cave.
"Very well, it shouldn't take me too long to get back to the village, although I don't have a proper movement technique yet, it shouldn't take too long now that my cultivation is at the peak of the third level to get back to the hut."
Thus, Abel ran downstream moving quickly, even for cultivators at the peak stage of body refinement, they would only see a shadow pass by, which spoke volumes of his speed even without any movement techniques.
It was only after 2 hours that Abel returned to the cabin, who, despite being in constant motion during that time, by the time he arrived, was not at all tired.
"What a benefit of having a powerful body, I think that even if I wasn't required to use a body strengthening technique, I would still look for one, after all, that whole race was only with my physical body, without resorting to the heavenly qi in my body."
You had to know that a cultivator could move at high speeds due to his movement technique, which obviously used up spiritual qi.
This was where cultivators were differentiated by using their physical body, they only relied on the power of their physical body to defeat their opponents without using spiritual qi, some being even stronger than their counterparts who cultivated spiritual qi at the same level.
Although this might sound attractive, the reality was that the difficulty of moving forward using the physical body was much more difficult and torturous, in the first place, a complete manual was needed to guide you in the right way, which, even in Kunlun, was extremely rare, there were very few families or sects that owned them, the only one Abel knew of being the Kur family.
In addition, the cultivation of the physical body ends up many times creating internal injuries, which, if not treated properly, would end up exploding killing its cultivator, this is why the practices were accompanied by different healing herbs, which is a extra expense and not small for the grower.
"Now that I remember, only the main line of the Kur family allowed to use the main physical tempering manual, due to the costly requirements to promote a new physical cultivator."
Remembering all this, Abel became a little concerned, but quickly pushed this thought out of his head, entering the hut to put the fish on one side of it.
"Forget it, I know some herbs and fruits that were not very rare in Kunlun that help to strengthen the physical body, in the worst case, I will have to go even further into the forest, I am sure that I will find something that will benefit me."
"For now, I should go to the village and explore further, not to mention that it is time for me to learn more about this county and its sects."
Reaching that conclusion, Abel was about to leave for the village, when a sudden thought stopped him at the door of the hut.
"You will be foolish, if I return to the village now, everyone will notice that I am no longer a mortal and that I am at the 3rd level of refinement of the body, all in one night."
Banging his head with his hand, Abel couldn't help but curse his stupidity.
"Abel, Abel, you want to keep your profile low, but you almost go and tell everyone that you went up 3 levels, one step from the room, in one night, you really are an idiot, *sigh*, so what should I do?"
As Abel racked his brain for a solution, he soon remembered the techniques he asked the librarian at the time.
"I almost forgot about them, since most of them can only be used from the martial master onwards, I totally put it aside, but if I remember correctly, I asked for a qi concealment technique between them."
Although Abel at that time prioritized the techniques of attack, movement and illusion, for the moment they were still out of his reach, but there was one that did not, moreover, if he had wanted, he could have cultivated it together with his technique of double sword.
"Well, I didn't cultivate with her at the time because that technique was meant to be used when I went out on missions there in Kunlun, when I thought I could cultivate with the other children my age."
At that time, Abel had thought that a qi concealment technique would be useful when he went out on missions for the family, so he did not practice it immediately, but would wait for the right moment when it was necessary, although that moment came a little later. and a completely different situation than what I expected back then.
"Fate is really unpredictable, well, it seems that the time has come to practice with this technique, at least, I must hide my cultivation until the first level of refinement of the body, so it will not look so strange."
As its name suggests, a qi concealment technique served primarily to disguise their qi and make it undetectable to others up to a certain level of cultivation and was widely used by cultivators as they could surprise their enemies when they least expected it.
Especially, the qi concealment technique that Abel chose was one of the best the Aegis family had, not only could he disguise his cultivation level to appear lower, but even at his late stage of achievement, he could avoid any detection, making him invisible to the senses of his opponents.
"Divine Void Concealment Technique huh, it has its own mastery stages, for now, I only need initial success to disguise my cultivation, any lesser cultivator of the martial master stage will not notice anything strange about me, quite surprising."
This technique of hiding qi had few requirements to learn it, but if you wanted to reach the last stages of mastery, its difficulty became much greater, even needing the help of certain beasts to be able to cultivate it successfully.
Thus, without wasting any more time, Abel sat cross-legged while circulating his qi in the order indicated by the technique.
Soon, his aura as a 3rd level body refinement cultivator was decreasing, falling from peak to entrance, then to second peak level, medium...
In just one hour, Abel looked like a cultivator who had barely managed to take his first step in cultivation, ranking himself at the first level of refinement of the body.
"This really is an amazing technique, with this, even if the village chief comes and examines me, he will only believe that I have just reached the 1st level of body refinement, now yes, it is time to go to the village."