Arc asked around the sect, and until he found someone who knew were the bear went
"It's been sitting by the inner disciple cafeteria, i heard someone is feeding it"
An inner disciple with short black hair spoke
"I see thankyou"
Arc handed him 100 spirit stones for his troubles, and he was overjoyed as he thought to himself
'Core disciples really are rich'
Arc headed for the inner discipled cafeteria as he thought to himself
'Ehe, i directly skipped inner disciple so this will be my first time going there'
Arc laughed at himself as he walked, after arriving all he could hear were to people arguing over who would keep the bear
A man who had long hair, he looked extremely arrogant, and a girl who just radiated 'rich and pampered' energy
Arc turned and saw them arguing and the bear seemingly watching with interest
Arc lightly spoke catching the bear's attention
"sorry i took so long, seems you've been busy"
"Yeah i don't even know how this started, after you left i went to get something to eat, and while eating here these 2 started arguing"
"I don't know what they are saying, but its funny to watch them"
"They are discussing which of them gets to own you"
The bear gasped, "how rude"
The arrogant man, hearing this conversation turned his head to tell Archean to mind his business until he saw the robes
'Shit, were we arguing over a core diciples pet'
The girl either didn't notice or care, as she spoke
"That bear is mine, and if either of you have a problem with it cry about it"
Arc laughed lightly, and translated to the bear as he walked away, the bear followed behind him, seemed annoyed, it turned back to look at her seemingly remembering her face
This action annoyed the girl, and she went to go find the someone to take the bear by force
Unfortunately, that person never came to help, what did come is her getting grounded, as he found out from someone else what she was trying to do, and then she tried to lie to him to pin the blame on the core disciple
As for the guy, he decided to into "closed cultivation" until the heat died down, he would rather not be a enemy to a core disciple , he is arrogant not dumb
Arc explained to the bear that since they both cultivation the same system they should work together
The bear had no problem with this, as it was beaten by Arc, it was very curious of his source of power
"By the way, do you have a name? I forgot to ask"
"No, i haven't picked one yet, i'm still thinking about it, i haven't been a spirit beast long"
"Okay, let me know when you have finished picking a name"
The bear nodded and spoke
"By the way, where are we going?"
"A store, unlike you i didn't receive a memory inheritance, so i'm going to buy spirit beast technique's"
Arc said with a sigh and began thinking
' I've saved up 20,000 spirits stones, and at any moment I could go pick up 1 million, but it would be a waste to get it before reaching golden core, so let's hope this is enough to buy several techniques'
They descended the mountain and headed to the same bookstore Arc sold his book at, they not only sold fictional books, but cultivation techniques, spells,and martial arts
"Hello sir, how are you doing today"
"Im great, i just wanted to know if you have spirit beast cultivation manuals?"
"Yes we have a wide variety of them" the store checked the jade 'computer system', before speaking again
"Yes we have a total of 134,564 spirit beast cultivation manuals"
"I have 20 thousand spirit stone, i like to purchase as many earth element techniques i can afford"
"Yes you can purchase a total of 293 techniques, would you like physique copies or a jade copies, if you want physical you will have to wait a few weeks for us to print them out"
"I'll take the jade copies"
Arc's heart ached, he would've loved to add those books to his walls
The attended nodded seemingly understanding his pain, and handed him the jade, as Arc payed
After receiving the jade Arc headed back home with the bear
"We are heading to my house now, I'll ask Aurora where you can stay"
"Okay"
Once they made it to the first peak, arc went into the house knocked on Aurora door and she opened
"Did you need something?"
"I was just going to ask, where should the bear stay, if it okay if he stayed on the first peak"
"That's no problem, he can stay in the woods between the first peak and the second peak"
Aurora answer camly, before turning her attention back to her work
'Managing a sect isn't easy'
Arc thought to himself, as she and the other grand elder's seemed to alway be on the first peak, working and the only breaks they take are to cultivate, or teach their students to cultivate
Arc wanted to get stronger, so he could help Aurora, so after he told the bear where it would be staying, he immediately went into his room and began to read the jade copies
"Dragon, bear, lion, moose, deer, all sorts of different beasts, let's find out which one is closests to me"
"Lets see this one looks promising, eh no, i don't have a tail"
"This one looks cool, nevermind it need wings"
Arc slowly read and broke down the techniques, he brought out the "perfected" layered photo of himself and began making drawing of each cultivation practice to see how it would affect his body
He did this for a few hours before stopped, and he decided to draw, pushing himself beyond his means always would only cause injuries or uneeded stress
He must learn to balance work and breaks, and so he began to draw Aurora,
He found himself happy, and continued to draw for the remainder of the day
'This brat'
Aurora felt her face warm, as she could sense very clearly someone thinking about her, and she could tell it was coming from Arc's room
"She is so beautiful, i could do this forever"
Arc felt peace in his soul, and it resonated within his body
Arc realized that painting was too a form of cultivation, and he had constantly been using it for such, so now doing back to his normal paintings the quality was much higher than before
Aurora who was working suddenly felt a line of karma form, she followed the line with her qi, and found that she could see through Arc's painting as if it were her own eyes
When Arc drew it, it was resonating with the soul, he who could understand the shape of the soul, drew the shape of her soul or at least as well as he could see it
As for why Arc isn't able to do this when he drew his soul, its very simple, she is a golden core cultivator, she is fundamentally a different type of being, as to cultivate is to evolve into a higher being
Once he gaines that cultivation, he too will be able to something similar
Arc looked at the painting and found that Aurora's head turned and faced him, his eyes went wide, as he spoke
"Did the painting just move!?"
The painting seemed to have enjoyed his reaction and laughed lightly, before speaking
"Come to my room and bring the painting"
Arc realized that Aurora was speaking through the painting, and grabbed it quickly before heading to the room with it
After arriving Arc handed over the painting and Aurora started analyzing it, then something magical happened her qi flowed into the painting at an alarming rate and a second Aurora appeared out of thin air
"That is incredible"
Arc spoke
" it's just as I thought, by giving the painting a "soul" it could take physical form, but since it's only a drawn copy of my soul, it can only act as an avatar"
The Aurora's looked at him as they spoke
" if you draw a new soul, you could give life to your paintings, for now try not to paint people, this sort of power can be dangerous"
The second Aurora, the painting, sat at the table and began to work, while the real Aurora spoke once more
" now with an avatar, I can work more efficiently, is what I want to say, but the energy absorption is crazy"
" I can only maintain this for five minutes"
Aurora spoke bitterly, she finally got an avatar form but its not sustainable
"Okay"
Arc was to say somewhat disappointed, now he had a limit on what he could draw
Aurora seemed to have noticed his mood and said something to cheer him up,
" say how about we go to the forge in a few days and you can be my aid, i will be forging a tool to help my breakthrough soon, you can help me"
Arc eyes lit up, and he spoke excitedly, "yes let's do that"
They spoke briefly and then the avatar disappeared into thin air, after that happened Aurora had to go back to work, and Arc left back to his studies
Arc found that while spirit beast cultivation manuals are cultivable to him they are not optimal, some parts of certain technology work well, while other party's wouldn't be possible for him
So he began recording all those compatible parts from each technique, as well as marking which techniques contained the least amount of "inconveniences"
"Turtle techniques, specifically dragon turtle, is the most compatible to me, the main issue being i don't have a tail, you would think not having a shell would be a problem but since that's part of the spine, it would still work well"
Arc muttered out-loud as he researched
"Since the tail part correlates with the lower body, I could replace the tail portion of the dragon turtle, with the earth dragon lower body portion that was compatible to me"
Arc ponderd, creating a technique isn't a simple matter even with all the references he now has available