"As the Elder Says. ", All of them voiced their obedience with the expectancy of the Auction in their eyes.
They rested for a while & were called down to have some food along with the Elders.
There was already a sense of familiarity growing among them, so the teens ate the meal haphazardly without any manners as they had been starved & finished all the packed food from their Guardians.
Elders also didn't bat an eye towards these Children but still they were more reserved while having lunch.
There were many delicious & enjoyable foods filled to the brim with spiritual energies. There was even a meat of Wild-Boar & Three Crowns Pheasant & other meats from different Houtian Earth Grade Beasts.
Sargon & others didn't had such luxurious food in their whole-life, there was an added flavor to these Meats perhaps due to the Spirituality of these Beasts.
Rockarna Hanim & Arjumon Sinek were perhaps the only normal -behaving teens among them who were eating it as if it were Normal food.
Rockarna Hanim, however was the peculiar one of the two , as this Fatty even added some knowledge about the taste of Chickens , the positive & the Negative in the Menu, acting as a Food Connoisseur Youtube Celebrity, as if every words out of his mouth was gold & valuable.
Nonetheless, the Food event was finished. The Elders reminded them of certain dangers in the city & not to go to Ghost Markets or any other Shady areas & left off to do their own things.
Sargon meanwhile went inside the Room to plan & strategize his Future,while others went outside . It was not that other kids didn't invite him, but he simply refused to go together despite Rockarna almost pleading with him, but he remained stone-hearted so others went.
Other Kids were mostly from Normal background & had not explored anything beside the capital & they had been basically aware of the Story of Rockarna & Arjumon traveling to the Capital , so they willingly made them their Guides.
The Duo was elevated to such positions, which was rare in their Home-Turfsso they were naturally enthusiastic & were willing to be the Bigger Guy & take such a responsibility.
Rockarna took the role of leader & advisor among the group of Teens acting almost Bully-like while Arjumon acted as Goody Two-Shoes rebutting some decisions & sayings of Rockarna & together the group went out to explore the city.
It seemed these Duo were accustomed to play the Good Cop & Bad Cop Orchestra.
Meanwhile in the Room,Sargon was alone pondering about an issue that he had been pondering for a while, but still hadn't Made a Decision on.
Which Body Cultivation Technique to Choose ?
No matter what one says in Nashirah, Sargon knows that even Sages who had perfected their own Dharma emphasized in the Body being the Centre of All Foundations.
Body Cultivation used essence of the Physical to mold one's Body to give it special effects. Contrary to Body Refining, which barely used some Qi [LifeForce mana] or some other energies to simply Forge & refine a body akin to refining an artifact.
This low-level Refining of Body by Mana would have restrictions on Body's growth & inability to use Essence Strength & sublimate it to use some Amazing Techniques to manipulate the essence in body to perform some special moves, like a Blazing Fist.
Sargon's Master DarthNorth Reliance had limited his Mana Cultivation with ALL-Body Cultivation Sutra, and Immortal Art of Thunder Blazing Saber restricted his Ultimate skill with , which perhaps has something to do with the Main Inheritance of DarthNorth.
So, understanding the importance of a strong body & knowing that the technique he would choose will greatly limit & effect the Essence Techniques, which unlike Qi Cultivation Scheme , were more restrictive & interlinked one's Cultivation Technique, he went on contemplating the best Body Technique among the available books Library of his Mind.
To be honest, He was in slight haste perhaps due to entering Sect he had recently promised himself to hide his Skills & buy some Martial SKills in the City so as to best neutralize & hide the aura by Masking it with the Aura of techniques of Nashriah, so any well Visioned Elder will not be enticed by his special Inheritance Wealth.
To copy one's technique he had to at least choose a technique, that was what he was doing now & he had finally with careful deliberation came to choose Shura Sekhmet Sutra .
He practiced the exercises put on the Scripture , got a feel of it, sat down on lotus position , took an Essence Gathering Pill that he had got from his Grandma & started to be aware of & slowly absorb the rich Essence & its strength & slowly guiding it to be absorbed by the Viscera of his body as per Shura Sekhmet Sutra .
Although nothing notable happened , he repeated this process for an hour before getting close & almost half-opening Stage of the Viscera Tempering Phase.
This was a very quick sudden increase of realm in the concept of Nashirah, as entering Viscera Tempering Phase if one does deliberate training supplied with resources it would take 3 months minimum to Fully enter the Phase of Viscera Tempering Phase.
Sargon for a time was in an indescribable Bliss, thinking perhaps he had a Good Aptitude with regards to Body Cultivation, but soon after adjusting his breathing & calming down he dissected & analyzed the whole process.
He had help from the top perhaps a Perfect Quality Essence Gathering Pill that was bestowed upon him by his Grandfather secretly, a High Senator, so the Pill must also have additional efficacy.
Nonetheless, 3 months time to Temper Viscera is a time for the average & Poor talented people of the Republic.
Considering that in this vast world filled with Spiritual Energies in every corner the Food products it produces like Spirit Rice,Mana-Wheats, Spirit Fruits, Mind-Calming Teas , Intoxication Wines, meats from widely available Semi-Copper or Copper Grade Domestic Beasts, all of these things are rich in Essence which can slowly be gathered by Physical Training to temper Viscera.
That was also one of the reasons why most people if they work hard no matter their poverty could at least Fully Temper their Viscera & the next Pulse Condensation was the only thing that was a Hurdle, not of talent but of wealth as if one wants to promote without any hidden injury one needs Blood Coagulation Pill.
Sargon, who had descent background & stayed at Capital could was effortlessly supplied by Semi-Awakened Beast Meat & Sprit Rice & Breads made from Mana-Wheats in some regular intervals & he had been focusing on his Physical Fitness & practiced some Kung-Fu regularly.
So, coupled with High Class Otherworldly Technique of Physical Cultivation it was no wonder he could half-step into the Viscera Tempering realm.
Nonetheless Physical Cultivation demands more Time & Patience , Hard Work & Diligence from every one & Sargon thought if he trained for a week continuously he could fully enter the Viscera Tempering Realm.
Sargon practiced diligently for an hour more.
He then too got refreshed from monotonous style, went outside to tour the City with the goal of obtaining many Low-level Techniques in order to Camouflage the aura & smoothen out the oddities of his Otherworldly techniques.
The Vibe outside was even more lively,children prancing around & jesting their parents to buy them some toys, some Old Foxes were busy arranging a Blind-Date for their Childrens to get with each other for future marriage plans, some Performers showing some weird Mana Techniques for some applause & few coins.
The Streets were filled with Joy, Hope & Strength of endurance. There were some Story-tellers of Folklore narrating the story with their Puppet & Illusion arts. Some were the Myths of Prometheus, some about other spirits, some about Ghosts & Beasts & some about the Push & Pull Romance.
After asking some pedestrians around, Sargon finally got the answer he wanted, & he was busy choosing some decent well-known Pavilions & Guild Markets in search of some techniques. He was disappointed as the techniques from these places were full-of holes & couldn't be known of their Authentic Status.
Nonetheless, from these weird places excluding the Ghost-Market which he didn't visit out of cautiousness, he did buy some well-circulated preliminary Books of Martial Spells.
It was Five Animal Hands, Bone Disguise Technique, Turtle Breath Sutra.
Five Animal Hands was the most widespread Palm technique that could be used by Cross-Dimensional Mages i.e. it uses both Essence Strength cultivated & supported by the Essence and also uses Mana Technique. It was a Palm Technique that focused on Mid & Close Range.
If one was generous, it is said that it is a Complete & whole Technique that focuses on Volume of Fire, Structure of Earth, Strength of Lightning, Languidness & Versatility of Water & Character of Air. But if one was perfunctory , it was the most common Art found in the market almost like cabbage accessible to all.
Similarly Bone Disguise Technique discusses practical tools as well as tools of Aura & Mana manipulation to appear as others & change oneself completely. This was a Common Street Art that was mostly used by Story-Tellers & Performers of the Stage.It also involved some restructuring of bones after mastery , so it also had some elements about Body Cultivation.
Turtle Breath Sutra focused more on hiding one's breath & suppressing or exaggerating one's cultivation , whose ultimate goal lay on total invisibility of Spirit & Body, which of course this common technique is far from achieving.It was more of a simple easy technique that is used to filter the trainee assassins in order to gauge their talent in Art of Assassination.
Five Animal Hands, a Silver Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade Spell, was the most expensive of the trio, perhaps due to its immediate impact on combat prowess, costing about 600 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones.
The Bone Disguise Technique he chose was a Iron Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade Technique , the easiest to learn & hardest to master, cost him about 200 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones.
Turtle Breath Sutra he chose was also a Iron Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade Spell,which was apparently the hardest to have entered some proficiency but was relatively mild in difficulty till Mastery, cost him about 300 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones.
In total, it already cost him about 1100 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones if converted to 11 Mid-Grade Profound Spirit Stones. Sargon for the first time felt how easily one could spend money in the Cultivation Market.
These were just miscellaneous methods, he had yet to focus on cultivation techniques of Mana,Essence & SpiritForce, some movement skills, some Sword skills, some manuals about Alchemy,Talismans & Spirit Planter.
Unfortunately, among the previews of many techniques he searched through, either they didn't possess the same characteristics like the original DarthNorth's Technique he would practice or some had future problems & to even research these techniques were useless & could distract him or some were more local & secret techniques that even if he had twice the guts couldn't buy.
That was among the reasons that all 3 sutras he had chosen , all of them were wide-spread techniques which guaranteed that there were no consciously included detours or wrong & misleading parts about mana circulation.
After all, who could guarantee that these couldn't be done to deceive the customers , one could sell the incomplete flawed technique & keep the original inheritance intact, while at the same time earn a huge amount of money.
Those twisted parts were mislead by some clear encrypted & esoteric words that could mean thousand things from the same word, so even if some dissatisfied customers , who were brave enough to complain, they would written empty handed with their grievances unsolved, as the seller could now use any gibberish to be free of that charge.
After more searching around the techniques he couldn't find anything he searched for, so he went to his Final Destination, " Scripture Mountain Pavilion ".
There he saw a Pavillion unlike any other in the city, its' elegant Curves & Designs like a soaring Phoenix, while intricate carvings of Serpents around its' Wooden Facade, standing tall & giving off the air filled with the cents of Mountain High above.
Soon as he entered he could smell the mesmerizing & calming air of incense along with faint murmurs & whispered chants.
This was indeed the 1st Class Scripture Providing Organization in the City. Even Sargon, although virtuous, wanted to rob this place clean , but it was common knowledge that backer of this Pavillion was a Foundation Paragon who had established his Immortal Foundation the longest in the City.
Even if he had 10 lives he wouldn't do such retarted things.After all he would have offended both the Paragon & the Foundation-Family behind him. Foundation paragon could let alone him,could even kill Outer Elder Aaisha as an adult could kill a Child, almost like an ant.
As soon as he came , he saw a beautiful young Miss , wearing a short skirt coupled with knee-high Socks.She had the charm of the girl next door, letting any man be entrapped by her sweet words.
"Young Guest, what service may I be to you ? what kind of scriptures are you looking for?"
He spent almost an hour & almost bore the young Miss Shop-keeper from the lower Hall.
Domineering Fire Speed Saber Sutra, Sun & Moon Mana Condensation, Wu-Wei SpiritForce Sutra, Mountain Forest Body Tempering Art,he finally came to his conclusion after much contemplation & back-to-back debate within his mind.
Domineering Fire Speed Saber Sutra, Golden Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade technique, which cost him about 1,200 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones. This was the most detailed, mathematical & scientific Sword saber which focused on Lightning Speed.
Sun & Moon Mana Condensation, Silver Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade technique, which cost him about 1,000 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones.It focused mostly on the all-accepting nature & was even the most common accepting every spirit root but also not having any speciality , contrary to its unique name, it had one Neutralizing Aspect & Higher Meridian Strength that was the only advantage it have.
Wu-Wei SpiritForce Sutra,Silver Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade technique, which cost him about 750 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones.It was somewhat of better quality & used the active duality & utilized both Forceful Tyrannical Force as well as un-forceful letting-go Soft Force. It cultivates duality of SpiritForce which would greatly help in Offense & Defensive potentiality, only down-side being slightly chaotic in nature & slow in growth.
Mountain Forest Body Tempering Art,Silver Ranked Houtian Mortal Grade technique, which cost him about 950 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones.It was just a decent body cultivation technique, which was relatively rare as it contained the attributes of both stability of Mountain & Vitality of Forest. It was something that even talented individuals could take, the only downplay being it is too resource consuming.
This Body technique was the one Sargon was the most pleased with. But since this was the only Body Cultivation Avenue, which relatively rare , wild or rich people choose it was relatively cheaper
Despite the dangers of SpiritForce Cultivation Avenue, where slight mistakes in training can lead to some Mental Faculties being impaired, it was nonetheless cheaper & many poverty stricken people will choose it saying Cultivation is going against Heaven.
In Total, the amount piled up to a whopping 3900 low-grade Acquired Spirit Stones converted to about 39 Mid-Grade Profound Spirit Stones.