In one of the houses of an old street, Jeffrey was sitting quietly contemplating and understanding how to breakthrough. Unfortunately for him, the methods of breakthrough ranks were not widespread and were limited only to sects and martial families, so it took him a long time to deduce the best method of penetration after asking many people.
The world possessed a hidden energy called Origin Energy, and once humans learned to use it, they became powerful and the entire world hierarchy changed.
Breaking through to the upper heavens from cultivation required gathering a huge amount of origin energy, fusing it with the body, and having it settle in the abdominal area to form what could be described as a reserve.
Jeffrey sat on the ground and took a deep breath. He began to sense the origin energy around him with intense concentration. After a short while, he began to feel dozens of strange points circling around him despite his eyes being closed. Jeffrey tried to absorb those points, which made them move towards him and merge with his body and enter all his organs.
At first, Jeffrey felt intense numbness, but as he continued to absorb and direct the origin energy to his stomach area, the numbness gradually disappeared and was replaced by a comfortable feeling full of warmth and strength. After about an hour, a light white vapor spread around the place, exiting Jeffrey's body, and he finally opened his eyes.
"I can't believe the breakthrough was that easy. Is my imagination that good?" Jeffrey felt happy and strange at the same time.
Jeffrey closed his eyes and began trying to summon his ability.
"Rule: The air I hold will turn into strings that I can control."
As soon as he listed the rule, the air near his hand began to change and turned into dozens of transparent threads circling around him. This made Jeffrey very comfortable.
Jeffrey was not satisfied with one rule, so he tried to give two rules at the same time, but as soon as he listed both rules, Jeffrey fell to his right knee and almost fainted.
"Ugh... one rule in total, two rules at the latest. As I expected, applying the rules in reality requires a huge amount of original energy. At most, I can do three rules in a row, but I cannot list two rules at the same time." Jeffrey concluded.
"But compared to the first time, the difference in strength and control is very obvious. It seems that the higher heavens of cultivation you break through, the stronger the ability becomes. This is perfect!" Jeffrey was shocked.
Jeffrey tried to manipulate the strings calmly. They quickly began to spin around him, forming a light tornado. He quickly began changing orders and making the strings spread everywhere.
"It's a very useful ability. I can place a base as I want. I can change the density, material, and even shape of the thing I touch. I can use a base and create a shield or sword without problems. I can encase my body and make my defense strong. Was he the owner of this body?" Was he that stupid? Or was he so frustrated that he didn't try to get her out? Jeffrey sighed.
Jeffrey was a cunning and genius schemer in his previous life, and by the logic of this world, he was considered an excellent talent who could reach the advanced heavens in the future from cultivation, so breaking through to the first heaven was not something difficult for him, or so he thought.
It may seem easy, but many may not become trainees just because of this stage, but for Jeffrey, who is highly intelligent, his breakthrough was expected.
"My abilities include attack, defence, healing and detection. I cannot apply them perfectly, so I need experience and training. If I can control all aspects, it will be impossible to defeat me. What I really need now is combat experience!" Jeffrey spoke arrogantly.
"I will complete my isolation first and see what I can achieve now." Jeffrey sat back in the meditative position.
Following the same previous steps, Jeffrey continued to absorb the origin energy present in the air and brought it into his body, then continued to rotate it until it settled in his stomach area, but the more he continued to absorb, the more and more surprised he became until he felt the shock.
First Heaven Initial stage, middle stage and then the peak of First Heaven within three hours, this made Jeffrey take a deep breath.
"This is strange. Even after all this absorption, I don't feel any fatigue or exhaustion, as if I didn't do anything. In addition to such a crazy speed in training... Have you perhaps gotten a four-pointed shamrock?" Jeffrey smiled very happily.
But his smile did not last long, when he tried to break through beyond the peak of the First Heaven and move to the Second Heaven, no change occurred.
"Sigh~... It seems that I got too excited and forgot many factors. It will never be as easy as I imagined. To break through the heavens, I need to do something that I don't know what it is at the moment, so I have to wait until I join the curved Moon Sect." Jeffrey sighed lightly.
After Jeffrey finished his training, he found himself unbearably unpleasant, so he went directly to one of the shared bathrooms nearby.
In contrast to the crowded outside, he was the only one in the bathroom, relaxing under the streams of hot water. After some time had passed, Jeffrey turned off the tap and went to the towel rack. By chance,He saw his reflection in the mirror.
The changes in his body were subtle, but noticeable. seemed his pale skin was healthier, and his muscles seemed more defined.
Graceful and slender instead of gaunt and weak, as he had been before.
There is a slight luster to his dark black hair and a shine to his dark eyes.
However, it was still rather insignificant. Not exactly picture of a handsome male, average to say the least.
"Little boy, right?" Jeffrey thought and laughed heartily.
Then he suddenly froze when a strange idea came to him. He went down to the bottom where his shadow was and touched and then gave a rule: "The shadow will separate from my body and go wherever I want." Immediately after stating the rule, Jeffrey felt very tired while his shadow became more disturbed and then quickly separated from him. Jeffrey was amazed and then tried to control it. It was like moving your feet and arms, but when he tried to take the shadow's perspective, he couldn't do anything. He could only control his shadow and nothing more.
"This makes sense for a one-dimensional base. I need more training, but at least I understood the general context of my ability." Jeffrey canceled the rule and got out of the bathroom and got dressed.
As much as the rule's ability seemed very powerful, it was not perfect and had many loopholes. Jeffrey had to think about the rule first and study all the possibilities, then touch the specific thing and then throw the rule. The rules were divided into single and compound. He did not have Jeffrey had a problem throwing one of them. The difference was only in the percentage of energy consumption of the original, but for multiple throwing, Jeffrey could only barely throw two bases at the same time, after which he would fall down tired.
Jeffrey returned tired to his house and lay down in his bed. After a while of looking at the cracked white ceiling, he finally fell asleep and fell into a deep sleep. Tomorrow would be the day of the long-awaited test.
For the first time in a long time, Jeffrey was finally able to sleep peacefully.