A strong mental will sturred the profound energy in the surroundings, causing a sound akin to a gust of wind to resound in the room, with each moment, copious amounts of profound energy were absorbed by the figure sitting in meditation on the centre of the room,
within him, the energy was circulated and refined inside his vein and later stored in his dantian,
With a mental strength far proceeding cultivators in the same realm, the young man used the mental will of the True Origin realm to cultivate in the Mortal awakening realm achieving unfathomable results as his cultivation rose but the moment!
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Hardly an hour passed when his aura jumped to a new minor realm as he exuded the aura of the 9th Order, few hours later, Arthur's aura was at the peak of the 9th Order, with the naturally richer amount of energy in the surroundings, his cultivation speed increase noticeable, unlike when he was in the village,
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" One step and we start. " He muttered,
Closing his eyes, Arthur returned to continue his cultivation session, to reach the Martial Spirit realm.
Not long later, the energy in the room pulsated as the profound energy started condensing around Arthur's body! covering his figure in a glowing halo.
A til-tale of reaching the Martial Spirit realm.
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In the Martial Spirit realm, the cultivator's strongest means and their special ability is the energy cloak!
Covering their whole body in profound energy causes their strength to multiply. as they break from the power exuded by their physical bodies alone to a union of the physical bodies and the Profound energy. As cultivators climb this realm their energy cloak increases in density and strength, forming stronger attacks and defence at the same time.
After breaking through, Arthur opened his eyes, his gaze examined the energy oozing from his being in satisfaction,
" Not too slow! and much stronger than I used to be in the same realm. ".
Soon, he closed his eyes, and his focus went to his mind-space, as he looked around,
" I'm now at the initial state of the Martial Spirit realm, I will consolidate my cultivation at the 1st Order then decide what to do with my spirit cultivation. ".
After consolidating his cultivation Arthur looked within his spatial ring, at the resource he had for spirit cultivation, expectedly, he didn't have much,
a singular spirit crystal, an ancient dust-covered book about spirit cultivation he salvaged from some ruin, and a sealed scroll containing a spirit cultivation art which was gifted from Davina.
Alas to cultivate it, he had to reach the Spirit Origin realm, which was the equivalent of the Minor Origin realm in profound cultivation.
" I Want to Breathe some air first, cultivating continuously like this is still not my thing! "
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Walking down the commercial route, Arthur strolled peacefully while observing the people in his surroundings, how they talked, interacted and even what they talked about,
Slowly he came to know things like names of famous families in the city, names of people whom others spoke about with fear and others whom they spoke about with respect.
among them was the new city Lord...
" I heard that Lord Denakun had reserved the whole Starlight Hall for his new guests, What evil do you think they would do this time..." said a passer-by woman to her companion.
" ..Tsk " Annoyed, the man replied, " This Denakun is nowhere near our city lord he is mu- "
" You mean the previous City lord " the woman cut him off.
" I will never recognize him as one, he is much weaker, and is not fit to take such a role, it won't take long before he is replaced by someone else from the Blue Feather Sect! "
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" Interesting! " Arthur thought to himself, I didn't know about that, a change of the city lord, and the existence of sects, although it's pretty obvious.
The surroundings were relatively peaceful, but a well-hidden anxious cloud hovered above almost everyone's head,
" This new city lord is a core formation cultivator for sure, and since this city seems to be under the Blue Feather sect...." At this moment Arthur thought of the amount and levels of cultivators entering and leaving the city,
" This should have tens core formation and few Soul-Formaiton Experts, I doubt any of them would have reached the Nascent Soul stage...."
" Well, this doesn't affect me, does it? asking powerful organizations for help might be the right action but they might just kill me out of greed and I'm not strong enough at the moment, I better just get stronger~ ....."
" where should I go? " Arthur asked himself,
" Oh, I remember " he spoke to himself, " I should visit that spirit guild and see what they have! ".