As Mara tried to wield the axe. She felt the heaviness and the scorn from the axe. She knew it was unprofessional and unproper to be weak and seen as trash.
However, she was guided like a child. Each step, each motion, each gaze like none other. If many body cultivators had a fraction of this training. Many would easily become Ninth Realm Cultivators, and Rex could have entered the Heavenly Realm as a body cultivator.
One day outside was nearly twenty days inside this training room. As for why that is, no one knows even the temple builders and the people who painted the corridors and rooms could not fathom why that room was so strange.
As almost the twentieth day came upon the group. Mara had successfully gained an advantage on the axe wielding. It was still far from enough. Her new Master, the New Demon King would split mountain ranges without their training and yet, she found the desire to be like him.
"Missy, may I ask why you chose the axe to start with?" The dummy who had spoken to first asked the night of the nineteenth day.
"My new Master, the Demon King is said to be able to split mountain ranges with just a casual swing of an axe. Yet, he never trained with any of you. If he had, he would not have become the Demon King."
Those words struck like a lightning bolt to the dummy. That meant the new Demon King was far superior to all body cultivators past and present. This made for an unexpecting and desirable form of training from the dummies.
"You must bring the new Demon King inside here before facing Strom God. We, no you and I need to evaluate his strength to the grandest form." The dummy cut her off.
Mara was shocked to hear that. She knew she had to continue her conversation.
"His respect towards all people is great. Even when mocked and cursed upon by them. He does not care. When that same mocking and cursing is towards people he cares about, his wrath is equal to Strom God's."
The dummy could not fathom two Strom Gods in the same universe yet in the same Nine Realms. This made him want to fight and test him even more.
"We dummies have infinite lives inside this room. Once we step out, we will only have the one life. Perhaps living for so long can dull our senses but our knowledge and techniques are priceless.
If you want, we have one way to change the room. It will cause you to feel great burdens and probably kill you multiple times. If you accept this change, we can do this. If you do not accept this change, we will not force you.
The changes inside you will always haunt you. You will become a body cultivator and a normal Qi cultivator. It is a special ceremony within the Heavenly Realm. As for why the new Demon King can do such much already is only but one reason.
That is he was blessed with multiple lives. He probably already mastered the spear or axe first, the latter was second. Now he is seeking to become a True Qi cultivator and Swordmaster.
If you wish to embark on the journey like your new Master. We will fulfill your wish. It does take time to set up but the desire is what we need to know."
Mara hung her head low, deep in thought. Focusing on two different paths of cultivation is hard. Not just for normal protagonists and antitagonists, but for average people themselves.
Building yourself one way, then stopping to focus on the other. Hurts most people, yeah the duo group above may not be affected by that due to normal blessings or curses. It does genuinely take a lot to do both without losing the either.
"How do I cultivate both?" Mara asked.
"The new Demon King may have an answer. As for us, we always intended to focus on strengthening our bones and muscles while the Qi feels our nourishment in our organs and Dantian.
Normal body cultivators are always in Qi deviation due to low Qi. Their Qi is always so low that most measurements are used by First Realm technology and techniques. That makes them harder to deal with because their normal breakthroughs are weird because of the techniques they use."
Mara understood a little more about body cultivators now. She was not readily available for Body Cultivation but she wondered how long the technique took to set up.
"Let me ask you this. How long does it take to set up that technique to allow me to body cultivate?"
The dummy was surprised by this response. It seemed like she did not want to cultivate her body like normal people would in the Heavenly Realm.
"For those of us here, since we used to always keep it active for months on time. The most now would be one full day and your body within ten minutes would activate Qi Deviation within thirty before you either die or accept the changes.
Since we became dummies and this place is now probably in the Demon Realm. My personal guess is that most Heavenly Cultivators no longer practice both Body and Qi cultivation. I would guess the Deathholder Family still does due to their innate strong bones and fluid motion for both. The Heavenly Judges, Saints, Soldiers, and Guards all have to be able to wield any and all weapons. As for normal Heavenly Cultivators, most of them lack the patience and training to do both.
Your body becomes stronger, your reflexes better, obtaining new swords and spears are nothing. One does not have to cultivate with an axe to body cultivate, it is simply pushing your body to become stronger. Mortal Realm Cultivators cannot do both. The Mortal Realms are not equipped for people to become that strong nor able to fight against such. That is why your new Master is someone worth putting your faith in and mastering all weapons."
As Mara listened, her heart was glad. Yet, she wanted to see first hand how powerful her new Master, the new Demon King could be.
"I want to see the Demon King fight before I try to full become a Body Cultivator."