'Wait, this book said spiritual energy but we need to cultivate cosmos energy. System, what is this?' Yuki asked a doubt.
'It will cost 10 angry points to explain to your understanding, 50 angry points to understand it completely,' the system notified.
Yuki got curious because of superpowers and said, 'Use 50.' Yuki already had a little idea about what was cosmos energy, she was curious about spiritual energy.
'Successfully purchased,' system notified, 'the cosmos energy is the energy of the universe, the consciousness of the universe, everything in this universe is constructed with cosmos energy. If you can control even a fist size of it you will become a god.
It means you have a universe of fist-size, you can manipulate anything in that fist size, for example, you can make gold from thin air and you can absolutely do anything. You will be integrated into the universe and get eternal bliss.'
Yuki got freaked out and said, 'No, I don't want to,' as she felt her individuality would be lost if she got integrated into the universe.
'Listen to my full explanation,' the system continued, 'only a few million beings were able to achieve that, so don't worry, you can't do it. Here integrate means not erasing yourself; you will still be there with your own personality.'
'That hurts,' Yuki acted as if her heart ached, 'I am not even a 1 in a million person?'
'Host, I am talking about all the living creatures in this universe,' the system explained, 'there are infinite living creatures in this universe. Taking a few million from infinite will still be infinite. Those people are what you call gods. Even though humans exaggerate about them, it is still nonetheless true.' Yuki got relaxed after hearing that, as she believed she would accidentally become a god.
The system continued, 'spiritual energy is an energy that normal living creatures can harness easily. It is an infinitely simplified version of cosmos energy. The people in this continent are just ignorant fools. What they use is spiritual energy. One of the minor reasons why they can't improve above solar plexus chakra is that they address the energy with the wrong name.
Different worlds have different kinds of energies like mana, aura, haki, reiatsu, chakra, etc. This world has spiritual energy. I suggest learning the yoga meditation breathing techniques to feel the spiritual energy, feeling the spiritual energy is different from cultivation. cultivation need to store spiritual energy inside you, so cultivation technique won't help to feel the spiritual energy and people waste several months like that.'
'Wait! Before you said this world have different kinds of energies like solar energy, cold energy like that, what are those?' Yuki asked.
'Spiritual energy getting the property of heat, cold, poison such things are called sub energies. Like how ice cream has different flavors. The cool and sweet are spiritual energy, the vanilla, strawberries, chocolates are solar, cold and poisonous energies. I am just comparing for your understanding.'
'Ho! Thank you,' Yuki was thankful for the system's help, 'did you purposely give these books to me?'
'I am not in charge of the shop,' the system continued, 'but you mostly get relevant things in the shop. As this is the first time, you got exactly what you need.'
Yuki said, 'Ok,' and took out the yoga book by putting the other book inside. She checked the book and got wondered because there were hundreds of breathing techniques.
When she saw them she felt like an ignorant fool for believing what her mother taught him was all the breathing techniques in yoga until now.
Yogis always admit their weaknesses. Their priority was inner peace not to know what people think about them. So they didn't mind being a fool or stupid as long as they get inner peace.
In regards to weaknesses, Yuki always explored her weaknesses to overcome them. She started to practice.
After 1 hour, Yuki started to feel warmth in her body that gave comfort to her, her face glowed with joy, she got the motivation to do anything with her full efficiency. The reason was that whenever people explore new things, they would always get excess motivation.
She rubbed her palms to generate heat, then put them on her eyes by running her palms downside of the face and slowly opened her eyes.
She was surprised to feel spiritual energy so soon when the system notified that she only took 1 hour, normally people would take months if not years.
Yuki continued to cultivate by using the beginner cultivation method. After a few hours, Yuki went into tranquilize stage where she couldn't hear or feel anything with the 5 senses.
Cultivation means harnessing the energy outside to make it their own.
The cultivation technique was the way a person passes the energies through nadis. Nadis were not fully open to anyone. They needed to be forcefully opened and if the energy was not continuously passed through it, they would get contracted again.
So even if they were the strongest people in the world, they still needed to constantly pass the energy through nadis to not regress.
Each cultivation method had certain ways to do it, some methods had ways to pump more spiritual energy into oneself and some had ways to channel them in different ways. A person with the best method would be stronger than a person of his talent.
Chakras were the points where their energy was stored.
The talent of stars was only to show how fast a person could grow and with fewer resources. If given resources and time, even a 0 star talent could reach pinnacle but such people would just get themselves killed because in this world cultivators always kill other cultivators so that there would be more resources for them.
Akira woke up in a dark place, he looked around in surprise because he could only see his body but there was no light source and said, "What is this place, if it's dark, how can I see myself? And this, my original body," then he realized that 4 pink petals symmetrically were around him at his belly level.
"What are these?" Akira self inquired, then he realized, "don't tell me these are the lotus petals of root chakra that system mentioned but I just started cultivating. Just how much time has passed, the system said a genius needs a year to see the 4 petals. Did I meditate for a year unconsciously? Anyway, I need to think about 4 ways for my life. Well, for now it is one.
The first way is obviously related to strength, I want to become the strongest in the world," then he got self-doubt, "No, I want to defeat all strong people," he got self-doubt again, "No, I want to…" he started to say a bunch of ways to confirm his goal but he always felt those goals were empty and had no weight.
After some time Akira realized he was deviated and shouted *argh* "first calm down," he calmed himself with the shout, then he thought properly and organized, "I will fight and become strong. Then my aim is to defeat strong opponents, no matter how many times I got defeated, I should win the final battle that is the way for me to become strong. As long as the man who defeats me is still alive and kicking, I will defeat him one day." He felt that goal was realistic.
Then he noticed golden lines started to appear on the petal in front of him, he got wondered of who might be writing such beautiful words. It was written, "Conquer the world. No matter who it is, fight him and defeat him. If you fail, then try another day. Like this, you have to become strong while conquering all the strong people. Conquer means defeat. If you ever completely lose the will to fight another day, you will be punished."
Akira got astonished to see the universal laws for the first time. He got overwhelmed to know that the universe itself gave some laws that were his own, he self praised with arrogance, "Are these the universal laws system was talking about? I can't believe my aim is so dominating."
Then the petals moved anti-clockwise, so the written petal went to the left and an empty petal came in front of Akira from the right.
It was morning, suddenly all the cultivators around felt huge waves of spiritual energy. All the elders, guards felt the energy was going in the direction of the garden, so they came to check it in curious.
Elder was a position in the family, as soon as one becomes powerful they could ask for the elder's position. Generally, elders would take care of business and other things in the family and be well respected.
Everyone's faces were shocked by looking at the girl that they thought to be waste was about to open 1st petal so soon after she said she was going to become a fighter.
Yuki was wrapped in a blanket sitting with her eyes closed and Aya was next to her, Aya looked after her the whole night in the garden.
Some people couldn't accept it because from then she would rule (here rule means everyone should listen to her) not only the house but also the entire kingdom as she was the youngest cultivator who opened 1st petal. That meant she could become the most powerful person.
"How can this waste (referring to Yuki) create such movement?" "Is someone playing tricks on us?" "Wake and ask her what happened," said some elders who couldn't digest the fact that she could cultivate. If they woke up her at that moment, she would get disrupted and she would get permanent damage to her nadis and chakra.
"You fools," a shout came from their backs, everyone turned their faces in respect, as it was Akihiko Hoshi, the family head of the Hoshi family, 'say another word and I will..." he stopped there because they already understood what he would do. The jealous elders got nervous as he might punish them for those words.
Some elders were feeling fear, as they didn't support her when she was a waste, some felt happy that they got a genius married into their house, some felt jealous, as she would get more cultivating resources from then on from family.
In this world, people value talented people and give them more resources to grow strong quickly so that they could use them to increase their family's reputation.
A huge amount of energy was gushing into Yuki, which no one around her felt before, Yuki opened her 1st petal and the energy suddenly stopped coming as her body hit the limit. The energy was already greater than anyone else was when he or she opened 1st petal.