The next morning, Ram woke up before the sun rose and started his morning exercise practises. After learning from the system that yoga and meditation could also help him in this world, he was not ready to drop his habits of yoga and meditation. He felt these practises were the only thing that made him still care and connect with his family. It was just an emotional, sentimental thought of him, but it just made him close to who he has always been.
After the morning practises, he began his physical cultivation exercise with physical poses and breathing patterns along with the mantras to attract the prana as per the scripture. After an hour of cultivating the physique, he stopped with sweat dripping from his body.
The moment Ram sat on the ground, he felt some kind of breeze connecting with him; some kind of small current was felt inside his body.
"Wow, what is this refreshing feeling?" I feel relaxed and refreshed." Ram said it out loud.
Ding!
"Host, congratulations on attracting the prana of nature with your body. There has been an update in the status window. Please check."
Ram was not too surprised; he did feel some kind of breath enter his body. Now he knew it was the prana that got attracted to his body.
"STATUS."
Name: Ram
Age - 21
Talent: 7
Bloodline: Human
Level: None
Physical Cultivation: 0
Mission: Stay in the village for a month.
Reward: Lucky draw
Ram saw the transparent blue window and asked
"So my talent is 7. What are the types of talent?" "And how many levels are there?"
"Host, the talent scale goes up to 9. Levels are also 9."
This was not what Ram had expected; though he was not a gamer or ready for any novels, he still felt that levels up to 9 were way too low. Anyone could reach these levels in some time. So he asked.
"Isn't it too less? Shouldn't there be something like 100 levels in cultivation and talent, like supreme heaven or something divine to be the highest?"
Though what Ram asked was a very basic question from his end, the system was speechless.
"Host, please be realistic. Reaching level 9 is not as easy as you think."
System further added, "Though the basic life expectancy of humans in this world is 200 years, most of them are not able to progress beyond Level 3 in their cultivation."
"What, it's that difficult to progress? I was thinking it would hardly take 1 or maximum 5 years to reach level 9."
System - "..."
"Host, there are only a few in the whole world whose talents go up to 6. Most humans have the talent from 1 to 3, and anything above it is considered once in a century genius in this world. The world has not seen any talent in humans since 1 billion years. And as for the talent 8 or 9, it's just considered a myth in the human world. No one has ever seen it."
"System, I noticed that you mentioned the humans as being less talented or going far in their cultivation, so is there any other intelligent species?"
"Yes, host, there are many intelligent species; in fact, humans are not even considered the majority on this planet. As for humans not going far in cultivation, it is because of many reasons, the talent and age factor being one of them. Most talented humans somehow leave their humanity to progress further in cultivation."
Ram was surprised to hear about the other intelligent species occupying most of the planet, and what surprised him the most was the humans leaving or rejecting humanity and progressing ahead.
"I just don't understand why they would reject being human for progress." Maybe one day I will find the answer to this."
"Okay, system, I get it; I am really talented then. So what about the levels? Why are levels limited to 9? Is there something above Level 9?"
"Host, there are other stages above level 9, but you will not be able to grasp their depth before reaching level 9, so it's advised to only focus on what is ahead but not too far ahead."
Ram could understand the system's answer to not looking too far into the future and forgetting to take the next step. He knew it was better to stop asking and stressing about things over which he had no control at the moment. So he decided to let the thought of level and talent fade for the time being and concentrate on evolving his physical cultivation.