Chapter 5 - Different Paths

1. Spirit Cultivator: Uses spiritual energy to strengthen the body and create powerful phenomenon that goes against logic. This is the most common and has the most variability.

2. Body Cultivator: Siphons an overwhelming amount of energy to reinforce and strengthen the physical body beyond all known limits. In the same realm, body cultivators will be physically superior to others but lack variability.

3. Mind Cultivator: Similar to a mage or wizard mind cultivators focus on improving their minds to weave intricate spells with unparalleled destructive ability. With the least defensive and evasive ability, they bring overwhelming offensive power far exceeding other types of cultivators.

Choose a path and the system will provide a suitable cultivation technique.>

After the system finished talking Bai Xiang was completely dumbfounded, normal cultivators and body cultivators were to be expected, but he was not expecting mind cultivators to be a thing though. It was tempting to want to become a complete offensive powerhouse but glass cannons would die easily so he decided against that. Since he also was not a muscle head he decided against body cultivation as well, leaving the only spirit cultivator path, this was what he had thought earlier anyways so he was not worried about it.

After making the decision the system instantly responded.

Within the spirit cultivation path, the system has 2 main cultivation techniques to offer.

1: Hell's Nine Fire Compendium: An active cultivation technique that requires extreme focus and willpower in exchange for an extremely fast cultivation speed. This technique enhances the body's affinity for fire and after the immortal realm makes the user immune to any fire from weaker sources.

2. Mind Wanderer's Guidebook to a Dreamy Night: This is a passive cultivation technique that once learned will activate anytime the user sleeps and after passing the limit for medium worlds the user will have the ability to enter their mental space during dreams to train techniques and learn information.

Please choose the most suitable technique for you.>

Upon hearing the names and descriptions the system gave him for the Bai Xiang became dazed, these cultivation methods sounded so incredible! This was surely the start of the cheat abilities the system could provide.

As he thought of what path to take he was very tempted to take the Hell's Nine Fire Compendium but the requirement of extreme focus and willpower seemed pretty stringent, since it sounded like a very high-rank technique it could be assumed that you needed to be more than simply willful and focused. As much as he was attracted to the sound of "extremely fast cultivation speed" he would not overestimate his own abilities, it also helped that the Mind Wanderer's Guidebook to a Dreamy Night also sounded very useful and convenient. If you got stronger while he slept that means that during the day he could do other stuff, such as find a way to make money to pay back Miss Amanda quicker.

When he was about to choose the second option he suddenly thought of an issue.

'How would my cultivation increase when I am in a much higher realm and no longer need sleep? Do I need to sleep just to cultivate then, it does not sound like the worst thing but it would be inconvenient.'

To his surprise, the system heard his worries and responded.

Bai Xiang let out a hearty laugh when he heard the system, what a supreme technique! It should be known that not many people can meditate constantly without end, this is why most people do not exceed the first few realms in their lifetime, but this technique means that even someone with absolutely zero focus can become extremely strong.

After confirming his choice to the system his mind was flooded with information, it was not painful and in fact, felt euphoric.

After his mind digested the information he was stunned by the amount, he could suddenly feel a book in his mind the size of a dictionary, it was the kind of book that if your teacher assigned it for a summer reading book you would definitely just read the first and last five chapters and wing the rest.

Even with the mechanical voice, Bai Xiang swore he could feel the system mocking him, hadn't he said that the system was a supreme cheat? He instantly realized that even with such strong assistance he would still have to work very hard, this large book was proof that no matter how much luck someone had it would all be useless without effort.

Suddenly feeling boundless resolve he opened the book in his mind and started reading with a strong determination.

'Once I learn this I will never need to do this again and cultivation will be easy!'