Rook City, Sun Sect, Outer Court.
In a small training field, a stone pillar stood, a crowd of young people and two elders are looking at a bare-chested muscular young man that is ostensibly gathering some sort of energy in his fist because of a faint white glow that it emits.
The young man took a step back and rotated his upper body while his glowing fist aimed at the stone pillar.
He ran forward in a flash and punched the pillar with all his strength!
Bang!
The ground near where the pillar stood vibrated weakly, and a small crack formed on the pillar where the punch landed.
Dust fell from the site of impact as the young man retracted his fist which now lost its glow. Concurrently, the cracks on the pillar also healed quickly, rendering it in an unharmed state.
As he retracted his fist, an elder shook his head while frowning, feeling disappointed.
"What a waste!" The disappointed elder snorted and said.
"The quality of talents is really going downhill..." Another elder next to him said while smiling bitterly.
The young man who just punched the pillar heard this while looking at the elder, embarrassed.
"Ceceada Apex. Low Mortal Physique, Level 1 of Body Refinement realm." The disappointed elder said this while looking at the weak cultivation of the young man.
Just level 1 of Body Refinement!
Ceceada, labeled with Low Mortal Physique, lowered his gaze, while black shadows formed on his sweaty face.
'As expected, after 3 years of training in the sect, I still didn't gain much improvement.'
"Trash, move aside, look me show you what Level 4 is capable of!" A lofty voice resounded behind Ceceada whose eyes are showing despair, breaking his train of thoughts. He then looked behind him to see the disdainful gaze of a young man who looked similar to him.
It's Jerald, his sixteen year-old brother, two years younger than him.
Ceceada gritted his teeth and hid on the mob of young people under their condescending and disdainful gazes.
He heard murmurs around him, but he didn't listen to them as he watched his brother, Jerald, who is sneering and looking at the pillar in front.
A white light emanated from Jerald's fist, obviously much brighter than Ceceada's fist earlier.
As the people around saw this, some students couldn't help but gasp.
"Jerald's cultivation really did improve a lot! In just a year, he jumped from level 0 to level 4!"
"A year!? Isn't that too fast?" A student sighed.
Ceceada heard this, and couldn't help but nod and agree to the people around him.
His little brother who just awakened a year ago surpassed him multitude of times! even forgetting their brotherhood due to the arrogance that formed throughout all these years.
'This is the power of High Mortal Physique,' Ceceada thought gloomily in his heart.
When Jerald heard these, he couldn't help but look at his older brother hiding like a threatened turtle in the group of students, 'I don't deserve to have a trash like you to be my brother.'
Jerald thought indifferently, his fist glowing a bit stronger.
He didn't even step back neither did he rotated his upper body for extra force, he just punched the pillar with all his strength!
Swoosh!
Bang!
A loud explosion sounded that made everyone in the field cover their ringing ears!
Dust rose into the air after Jerald punched the pillar, blocking everyone's view of the pillar. Simultaneously, the ground where the pillar stood shook for a while.
"Too strong!" A young man next to Ceceada shouted while closing his eyes, afraid dust will get into his eyes.
The dust scattered away, revealing the 'anticipated' result.
The pillar leaned back from the punch of Jerald, A hole that can fit a big watermelon can be seen! Reaching the center of the pillar!
The two elders saw this, and couldn't help but laugh in exultance.
"This is great! Looks like someone is about to get promoted to inner court!"
Typically, most of the time, only the level 5 of Body Refinement cultivation stage can enter the inner court!
But for Jerald, exception can be considered because he just displayed a strength that only level 5 of Body Refinement stage can exhibit!
"Ahh! So handsome!!!" A young girl with glistening eyes looked at Jerald and felt like that she is about to faint due to hysteria. She just like strong men so much!
In this world, being strong is equivalent to being handsome. Afterall, what can your pretty face do in this world full of strong cultivators?
"Jerald Apex. High Mortal Physique, Level 4 of Body Refinement realm!" Elder Mino, the first to show dissatisfaction to Ceceada's talent, shouted in excitement.
"A junior who can leapfrog a level... this is a bit rare," Elder Rene, heard this and smiled.
He then continued, "It's not that bad anymore even if some students can't catch up, at least we can focus on such a powerful student."
Jerald looked at the jealous and envious gaze of other students around him and smiled indifferently while arrogantly saying, "This is nothing. If I want, I can destroy this pillar in half."
The two elders heard this and nodded even though it sounds arrogant,. After all, they never saw Jerald taking a step back or even rotating his body for increase in force, and just used the force of the punch.
The strong have the right to be arrogant. Especially, when he can backup his words.
Jerald looked at his brother, Ceceada, who can't look at him back, thinking that he is just jealous.
But what he failed to noticed is that Ceceada is looking at something else... something that will change everything!
In front of Ceceada, a holographic panel appeared!
[Ding! The system found a suitable host! Do you want to fuse with the system?]
Ceceada narrowed his eyes at the panel, his skepticism evident. "Is this for real? Systems like this only exist in stories," he muttered under his breath. But deep down, a flicker of hope refused to be extinguished.
Ceceada did not originate from this world, he came from earth, that's why he is aware of systems that transmigrators get when they cross another world. He only came to this world three years ago when the host of the original body died when awakening, he still remembers all the experience and memories of the original owner though. At that point, he thought that he will get the golden finger immediately. Unfortunately, years came by without the hint of the system appearing.
'But now you're telling me I got a system?' Ceceada doubted, thinking his mind is just desperate to keep his sanity, making him hallucinate.
Can anyone else see this?
He looked around, but nobody seems to see the holographic panel except him.
He perused what's written in front of him again...
"Do you want to fuse with the system?"
Fuse with my body?
"Yes..." He subconsciously muttered under his breath.
Whoosh!!!
In an instant that Ceceada agreed, the panel in front of him crumpled like a paper and entered his forehead!
An inexplicable feeling of euphoria exploded in his body, washing away any feeling of discomfort, definitely much, much better than orgasm.
[Plethora of cultivation breakthroughs will be given to the host as beginner's gift.]
Ceceada saw this information appear in his mind, but didn't understand as he is too focused on this euphoric feeling.
Bang!
A faint explosion sounded from Ceceada's chest, specifically his core near his heart!
Thud!
Ceceada couldn't help but fall to his knees!
The feeling of euphoria is just too heavenly...
Everyone around Ceceada heard a thud and turned their neck towards the source of the sound.
They saw a suction force around Ceceada, and an outline of thick mana can be seen around his body!
"You are finally having a breakthrough after all these years, huh?" Jerald just said lightly without much care.
Unexpected Breakthrough... it's like putting drops of water in a coin, eventually, the surface tension couldn't keep the water anymore and will just fall to the edge of the coin, thus a breakthrough to another realm, but this new realm is like another coin below the last coin but bigger!
Thus, the road of cultivation gets exponentially harder and slower as they move forward this path.
"It's expected that even if you have slow cultivation, you will eventually have a breakthrough." Jerald said further.
Considering the fact it's just level 1 where breaking through is easier, then it's really nothing out of the ordinary.
"Thank you for enlightenment, brother Jerald! I knew he just got lucky!" A suck-up student said in a hurry. He is initially surprised at first, but the words of Jerald cleared up everything.
"You're absolutely right, Jerald... I taught you correctly." Elder Mino said, obviously reminding Jerald that he is once Jerald's teacher, but since there is a huge chance that he might get promoted to the Inner Court, then it is better to have a connection with Jerald now.
He will be certainly rewarded by the sect if they found out that a rare talent like Jerald is under his care!
You know... It is expected that cultivators with High Mortal Physique can reach the peak or the level 9 of Body Refinement, While they, Elders, having a physique of only Mid Mortal Physique, already reached their plateau at only level 7 with no chance of breaking through anymore.
But at this moment...
Bang!
Ceceada broke through another realm!
Two times in a row breakthrough!
Suddenly, all eyes in the training field gathered at where Ceceada is, absolutely shocked!
What?!
Elder Mino, Elder Rene, and Jerald couldn't believe their eyes, their respective mouth are wide agape!
"How in the he-" Just as Jerald about to utter these words they suddenly heard another series of explosions from Ceceada again!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
"Ahhh!!!" Some people around Ceceada ran away madly from the explosion.
Everyone blocked their ears in shock, because the explosion just kept getting louder and louder!
They slowly opened their eyes once again, and looked at the source of the sound!
They saw a 5 meter wide pit where Ceceada is located and saw that some dust are still scattering...
Some students are still running away while screaming in panic!
Everyone tried to breathe heavily, but coughed heavily because of the dust...
Fortunately? For Elder Mino and Elder Rene, they can still breath normally since they have high cultivation.
After a while, all the dust slowly scattered away and what happened is revealed.
Elder Mino, Elder Rene, and Jerald simultaneously got bamboozled when they tried to check Ceceada's cultivation!
What!?
They couldn't check Ceceada's cultivation level... could it be...
The two elders cultivation are high, so their attention to details are good. They recalled how many times did the explosion occurred, and when they realized, they both almost fainted!
9 explosions!
At this point, under everyone's curious gaze, Ceceada finally got used to the euphoric feeling and stood up from his kneeling position, feeling absolutely light!
Crack!
His bones made cracking sound crazily as his body had undergone a tremendous change in a single moment!
He opened his eyes and looked around him, feeling confused.
"Did anyone tried to bury me?" Ceceada asked everyone faintly in confusion when he noticed that he is in a wide pit.
He is not aware that he just broke through several realms at once, because he is too focused on the heavenly feeling!
Elder Mino, Elder Rene, and Jerald looked at each other, not knowing what to say when they heard Ceceada's question.
This guy...
Unconsciously, the aura of level 9 Body Refinement was released by Ceceada.
Everyone saw the thick aura of a level 9 and couldn't help but be shocked and envious at the same time.
"Oh? I broke through?!" Ceceada is exultant is he jumped away from the pit, feeling absolutely strong.
"I just broke through the level 2 and it already feels so heavenly?" Ceceada said in a carefree manner, making everyone not knowing whether to laugh or cry!
F**k! Do you not know a level 6 can't make a pit when breaking through?
Everyone thought simultaneously and wanted to laugh at his ignorance.
But they also couldn't blame Ceceada, as they knew that this is the first time that he broke through, thus, he is completely unaware at his strength now.
Level 9?
They can only dream reaching such realm. Level 9 implies that Ceceada can now be considered as the main disciple of the Sun sect patriarch!
Level 1-4 for Outer Disciples, Level 5-6 for Inner Disciples, Level 7-8 for Core disciples, and level 9 for the Main Disciple!
The elders that they are respecting now? Elder Mino and Elder Rene who are both level 7? They are nothing in front of a Main Disciple!
'How do I not make my aura leak?' Ceceada wanted to stop the leakage of aura, not wanting to waste any amount of mana that he worked hard to get for years.
As if his core can listen, the leaking aura disappeared innately.
"That's convenient!" He shouted, but when he saw the scared face of two elders and his brother, Jerald, he couldn't help but look behind him.
'It's odd, why are they so scared?' Ceceada thought in his heart after seeing that everything is fine around him. Well, except for the giant pit behind him.
"I don't believe it! This must be fake! How can you suddenly become level 9?" Jerald shouted in jealousy and anger, his arrogance is being shattered at this moment.
Ceceada looked at Jerald, absolutely discombobulated, not knowing if Jerald just misspoke.
"What do you mean I became level 9?" Ceceada laughed at Jerald's 'joke.'
Jerald's jealousy got triggered more, his fist is shaking, while the intensity of light emanating from it is stronger than when he punched the pillar.
"Sun Fist!"
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Jerald suddenly disappeared from his initial position!
The two elders saw this and didn't stop Jerald, thinking that this is the best way to test whether Ceceada actually got stronger.
They still doubt everything that happened, thinking that all of this is hallucination. No one can blame them as have never heard anyone breaking through that many times in a row.
Ceceada looked at Jerald who is seemingly in slow motion, slower than a turtle. At least, for his point of view.
He waited for a few second when he realized...
'Why does everyone seems to be in slow motion?' Ceceada felt like he is being pranked when he saw that everyone moves very slowly.
'Did I really break through?'
If this is true then...
He waited till the glowing fist of Jerald touched his bare-chest.
Bang!
Everyone saw that Jerald flew back 5 meters away like a ragdoll, while Ceceada's face is filled with eureka!
He didn't even feel a single thing!
"I really did break through 9 levels in a row..." Ceceada felt that his body is very different at this moment, filled with too much strength!
"Ahh!!! My arm!!!" Jerald screamed in mid-air while falling.
Thud
Everyone saw Jerald breathing heavily on the ground, coughing blood heavily, A pond of blood is forming under him, his arm that he just used to punch are now protruding with bones like a blooming flower!