After Bai Xiang escaped from the situation with his parents he returned to his room to continue understanding the new cultivation technique that he decided to call The Guidebook for short.
By the time he finally used all of his mental focus the sun had set and his room was bathed in darkness, he had a few days before having to leave to meet up with Miss Amanda to keep his end of the bargain. In theory, he would have liked to be able to cultivate by the time he needed to begin his repayment, unfortunately, progress with the mental book in his mind was extremely tedious.
"System I need to know this entire thing to be able to cultivate at all?"
In response to his query, a mechanical voice responded.
Upon being enlightened Bai Xiang sighed in relief, 1/10th was still a large amount of work but it was much more manageable.
"What happens if I learn the Immortal method now and try it?"
An immortal cultivation method is that powerful? And one had to assume that the divine realms method after had a similar increase in power, did the system give him one of the strongest cultivation methods in all the heavens? His attention also focused on one other thing.
"Can the system tell the cultivation of Miss Amanda?"
Bai Xiang was shocked, what was someone like that doing in a weak world like this? She was way too strong, and if logic is used one would realize that according to her there were at least a few dozen other elves working in other Aquae Vitae's across this world would, and other worlds of the same size and larger. Did that not mean the Alchemy God essentially had an army of high-ranking immortals?
Bai Xiang in some ways understood what the system meant, didn't that mean that the system was in some kind of symbiotic relationship with him, one where in exchange for help he assists the system in evolving?
As if to respond to his thoughts the system interjected.
Suddenly feeling like a weakling Bai Xiang resumed his cultivation learning with renewed vigor.
The next two days went by with minimum distractions, he ate slept and read his new book. In the past few days, he had read the mortal realm cultivation method twice since he did not have a good understanding after the first time.
Now finally after reading more than a fantasy addict reading a new addictive r-18 book he was finally ready to cultivate for the first time. Since he had to meet Miss Amanda tomorrow morning he had to go to sleep somewhat early, since he needed to sleep to cultivate it all worked out fine.
At first, it was impossible to fall asleep when he was so excited but thankfully The Guidebook had some tricks to help someone fall asleep, and once he performed them he instantly such into a deep sleep.
While in the realm of sleep, Bai Xiang was in a dreamy state, he felt like his body was wrapped in a nice warm blanket that made him feel comfortable and safe, it was extremely similar to when his mother gave him a long hug.
Speaking of his mother, in the past few days she had tried to hire male escorts to come to teach him the ways of the trade but thankfully his dad stopped her, he was already beginning to regret the scenario he told her. If word of his excuse made it to Miss Amanda it was a sure thing that she would cripple or kill him.
In truth, the past few days he had been getting more and more worried about it, but for some reason as he was in a barely conscious state, he felt those worries melt away as they were replaced by a single thought.
'None of those are a problem if I become strong enough. Yes, strength is the answer.'
As he fell into an even deeper sleep and progressed in the REM cycle his thoughts entirely melted away comfort overwhelmed him.
Suddenly without warning, he woke up, upon realizing he was awake Bai Xiang felt strange, he had definitely slept and he could not remember any dream but for some reason, it felt like a long time had passed.
Suddenly his system's voice spoke in his head.
When he heard that he instantly tried to feel the core in his chest, and he quickly felt a slightly warm ball-shaped lump in his chest. His core got stronger!
Now that he thought about it he still did not know the different cultivation realms inside the broad categories of mortal, immortal, and divine. He would definitely need to learn those as soon as possible so he could better understand the relative strengths of people.
Hearing the explanation Bai Xiang was interested.
'So when you enter a realm you unlock a new aspect and as you progress that realm you grow that until it is complete, that makes more sense than just making body parts marginally stronger over and over.'
He was only thinking for a moment before realizing he had to go to Aquae Vitae quickly, he did not want to be late!