Drake was running around the compound that he had lived in his whole life with the exception of when he had been born. Drake had fully excepted the life he had now. He had also stopped cursing whatever those things were that sent him here, he no longer felt that he got ripped off.
Now the only thing he cursed was his parents and his grandpa's. At five years old he had already made it to the low mortal grade 9. He had no one to compare himself to because nobody would let him go outside. Also his grandpa's wouldn't allow him to learn any techniques because they didn't want him to seem abnormal when they let him go to his first academy with other kids.
Once Drake had got the hang of opening meridians, it took him no time at all to open all seven main meridians. In fact he had done that once he had taken the low mortal grade 1 pill. After that he had opened the 8 support meridians, by the time he was just about to turn 4 he had opened the other 75 small meridians.
Drake could feel every part of his body now that he was five and since his dantian exerted a harsh gravity on his body he was in a constant state of training. While other five year old kids were just learning how to open their main meridians, Drake was already modifying his body with energy from his dantian. To progress from being human into the low mortal grades every cultivator had to learn how to do this. Drake had already become low mortal grade 9. This may be only the entry level for cultivators, but most kids wouldn't enter till they were 11 or 12, genius' would be able to enter at 9 or 10 and once in 100 year prodigies would be able to do it at 7 or 8. Drake wondered what that made him.
Most people in cities the size of Solgard could easily become cultivators, only people who were stuck in tiny remote villages had a hard time transitioning from human to the low mortal grades. It had shocked Drake to find out that not everybody in the world was a cultivator. When he had asked his mom why this was, she had told him that it was because they lived in a low level spirit area. With out proper resources most people born in those areas didn't have the talent to progress, of course there would always be exceptions.
What shocked Drake even more was that both his grandpas were in the demi mortal grade 1. They were two of the strongest individuals in the country outside of the capital. In fact even in the capital they were considered to be quite powerful. From where Drake was they were 2 full planes ahead of him. Each plane consisted of 9 levels so he was actually 26 small planes behind them. Drake had been in the low mortal grade 9 level for just over a month, unfortunately he was having a hard time progressing.
"Drake, Drake where are you?" Elder Drake had just entered the compound and wanted to talk to Drake. "Drake come here I have something important to tell you." Elder Drake always had something important to tell him. Most of the time it was just stuff like don't go outside because it was dangerous and he might get killed." Drake I want to talk to you about your dantian."
"Grandpa I was hoping you would come by today, you know I think your the best right." Drake stopped refining his body and hopped up right away a big smile on his face." So what exactly are we gonna talk about?"
"Well against your grandpa Neim's wishes I'm going to instruct you on how to examine your dantian, every cultivator at your level should be able to do this. It will help you learn how to integrate techniques into your own power. You'll also be able to find out if your dantian has any unique qualities. You also be able to find out if you are a dual cultivator. You see other cultivators can help you form your dantian or even help repair it. However no one can tell you what your dantian can do or if it represents an animal or spirit. My own dantian represents the Fire Dragon spirit. Hence I am both a sorcerer and body cultivator. This gives me an advantage when I'm in battle I have more options on how to defeat my opponent, do you understand?" Elder Drake waited for Drake to nod.
"Alright now to examine your own dantian I want you to close your eyes. Concentrate on your Prime Meridian." Drake had been already finding each meridian in his body as practice so he soon found his conscience in his Prime Meridian. " Once there you should be able to find a link in the center of the meridian that seems to flow like water into the meridian. Follow that flow and it will take you to your dantian."
Drake was now following the flow however it was extremely hard to do, his conscience was having a hard time going up the flow like time was slowing down. Drake was struggling, so he decided to try to look around the flow to see if he could find out why he was having such a hard time. What materialized in front of him seemed like an infinite amount of space compressed all into a little black ball. Is that a black hole? Is my dantian a natural disaster? Drake noticed something then that seemed to be revolving around his dantian. He wondered if he could reach out and touch it. Once he touched it he noticed that it became very heavy and slowed down immensely.
"Drake what are you doing, you need to stop!" Elder Drake yelled at Drake. Drakes eyes snapped open and he stopped what he was doing. "What were you doing, the space became heavy and my perception seemed slow down."
"I think I'm a dual cultivator there was some black mass that had something revolving around it. Once I reached out to touch it I could feel the same gravity that affects me all the time start to expand from my body as well as a feeling of time start to slow. I think that if I had wanted to I Could have made a separate space with those qualities like a spell of sorts." Elder Drake smiled.
"Wonderful, it would seem that your dantian is a representative of gravity and time. However, this once again puts us in even more danger and less. Would you marry the princess? It would solve a lot of problems. With your talent, I think the royalty would welcome you to their family fast. Why are you giving me that weird look. You better not act like your mother, I want this for your safety more than I want a connection. You don't understand how dangerous you are. We need to find someone stronger to rely on." Elder Drake could only sigh." Well, for now, let's see if you can learn to put that feeling from earlier into a spell of your own making since it seems like you were close to doing that anyway." Elder Drake started thinking about how they could get a meeting with the royal family without seeming suspicious.