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Drake's eyes flickered with dark glow light as the sticky snot of David touched his skin. The cold and sticky feeling of it caused him to shudder in anger.
As if it was still not enough, David grabbed Drake's tattered clothes and blew his wet nose towards it.
Greatly angered by David's action, Drake's body trembled slightly as he took a large deep breath to forcefully calm himself.
Pushing David slightly to separate his skin from his snot, Drake stared at David's pig head seriously.
"Senior, I can't really understand you... Although I don't understand you, I know how painful it is, however, senior, you should please watch your manners..."
Drake said as he made his way towards the stream at the back of his house. Planning to clean the unpleasant smell coming out from his body after breaking through the first stage... And at the same time clean the sticky snot on his skin.
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"This is the 1st stage of the Body Reinforcement realm?"
Drake muttered in a low voice as he put force on the sharp arrow that he picked yesterday on his hands toward his palm. After a while, slightly increasing the force of the arrow on his hand every time it didn't manage to wound his hand. Finally, a small and visible wound appeared on his hand.
Drake, who finally saw the small wound on his hand grinned excitedly. The defense of his muscles and skin after advancing, really increases drastically. Drastically different from before.
It felt like he was now wearing leather armor... no, literally his muscle is comparable to leather armor!
"Is this the advantage of having a physique? Yin - Eater huh?"
Drake asks himself. Although others might not notice it, Drake, as the owner of the body knew that something was different from his body compared to other cultivation.
It seems that increasing his cultivation brought much more advantages compared to normal cultivators. If he summarises his current strength, it is equal to the normal cultivator at the 3rd Body Reinforcement realm!
That much!
"System did I get it right?" Drake thought, focusing on sending the message to the system. After a few seconds of waiting the familiar emotionless voice echoed inside his head.
Ding!
[ Host is half right and half wrong. Although physique brings an advantage after breaking through, it is not that much since your physique is currently still at its lowest level!
The things that make your strength comparable to the 3rd of the Body Reinforcement realm are the Cultivation Technique and Talent! ]
[ Of course, your physique also plays a significant role in increasing your strength. The reason mortals first entered the Body Reinforcement realm before cultivating Qi is to allow the body to be strong and used enough to contain the rampant Qi inside them! ]
After explaining this new knowledge to Drake, the system again fell silent. Entering its original form.
Sigh...
Drake falls silent upon hearing the explanation of the system, as he starts understanding the deeper meaning of how vital the Body Reinforcement realm is to him.
"Cultivation Technique, Talent, and Physique, all of them are vital for the next stage... Missing one of the three would give him a huge disadvantage, weakening the prowess he could gain in the next level of advancement."
Having a Physique would allow my body to quickly adapt to Qi and at the same time increase the Qi my body could contain.
On the other side, Talent would allow my body to fasten the process of my advancement toward the next stage. It also allows me to quickly have a solid foundation.
However the Cultivation Technique... Although I already have guessed about this I'm not confident that my answer is correct.
If I'm correct Cultivation Technique grade is similar to how quality works! The higher the quality is the stronger and milder the body could contain Qi! On the other hand, the lower lever Cultivation Technique could only allow the body to contain Qi crudely.
It is just dangerous and would damage his future prospects!!
Of course, Drake has currently no idea that the grade of cultivation technique symbolizes the limit of cultivation level they could achieve if they cultivate it. The higher the level of the cultivation technique is, the higher the limit the cultivators could achieve using it!
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After taking a long time cleaning himself and at the same time thinking about his plan for the future Drake dragged his drenched body toward the old house. Planning to fill his empty stomach.
With great familiarity, Drake reached the meat of the Qi foundation beast from yesterday, the pot, and other condiments from the corner of his house before starting to cook food for him to consume.
As he was waiting for the food to cook, Drake inspected his body to a deeper level. It didn't contain any form of mystique art or anything, he just closed his eyes and began to breathe slowly to feel the subtle changes that were happening to his body.
As for why he was doing this, he noticed some problems in his body when David's sticky snot touched his skin.
It might sound like absurd that he noticed a problem with his body when David's sticky snot touched his skin... Well, it is actually not.
With how high Drake's self-awareness of himself and the surrounding area is, and how high his usual guard is. David with an unknown injury managed to touch his body without giving him time to evade!
The worst is that David approaches him face-to-face! Although David doesn't have malice or malicious intent toward him, with how Drake usually acts, he would instinctively evade David who was approaching him at that time.
However, Sigh...
Sighing deeply, Drake's focus deepened as he checked the situation of his body carefully. Entering a deep focus, Drake noticed something subtle happening inside his body. Something that a normal cultivator would not notice.
"This!" Drake exclaimed inside his head upon noticing the root of the problem.
"Indeed, how did I not think of that...
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