Kai took out a black scroll from his ring, it was the Invisible Kings Torture Technique. Now that he had entered a new realm of development, the Cultivator realm, a new stage of training was beginning.
The first level of the technique corresponded to the Warrior, and tempered your entire body, making it a perfect vessel for energy. But now, at the Cultivator stage, continuing to push energy into your flesh was useless. One had to develop one's Energy Center.
When reaching the next realm, one also needed to advance to the next level of Cultivation Techniques. The main condition was that you could only do so if you had perfectly mastered the previous level. That was why Kai didn't forcefully break through to the Cultivator stage. He diligently tempered his body as he perfected the first level of the Invisible King Torture Technique.
What pissed him off was that neither the technique nor Old Man Mo was willing to tell him what realms of development existed above the Cultivator realm. The old man had only mumbled that when Cai surpassed the Cultivator stage and entered the Cloud Sphere, he would need to join the Shadow Sect.
- Hmph, well, there are at least two spheres to go through, get to the peak of the Cultivator stage, and then enter the Cloud Sphere, whatever that means. - Said to himself, Kai continued to look at the scroll.
It seemed that the training methods were changing slightly and the second level was revealed to him. Now looking at the instructions of the second level, they were clear to him, as if the techniques were letting themselves be read further.
In the first level of the Invisible Kings Torture Technique, the Kings took turns torturing you, each in their own realm. It was excruciating, it just hurt like hell, but it incredibly strengthened Kai's entire body, other Warriors would never be able to achieve such hardening.
Although the Torture Kings entered his body, they seemed to only slightly acknowledge him. The Torture stage was as if it was just proving that you were at least worthy of cultivating this technique.
In the Cultivator stage, you had to enter a domain called Asura's Inferno. It was very similar to what Kai had experienced when torturing the last king, the Terror King. But now he could arbitrarily go in and out of it. This was simply an amazing way to cultivate martial arts! You had to constantly fight on the brink of life and death!
The technique said that with constant bloody battles in the Asura Hell, you would fight the five Kings. Which wasn't really any different from their torture together. But through this, you would constantly evolve and learn how to utilize energy in battle. Also, after each stage of cultivation, you would just be squeezed dry. Thus, by pushing yourself to the limit time after time, you'll be able to absorb and control more and more energy. It's like pumping water out of a well to be able to dig it deeper!
Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to completely deplete your energy. It's like trying to hold your breath to suffocate to death. The body and consciousness simply won't allow it. Only when fighting on the brink of life and death can you reach such critical states. But when cultivating the Invisible King Torture Technique, you will constantly fight to the last man in Asura Hell. Thereby expanding and strengthening your Energy Center and the amount of energy contained within it. In short, your well will constantly become much deeper and much wider!
Closing his eyes and beginning to rotate the energy through his body, after a few breaths, Kai appeared in the vast earth. The sky was black, there was no sun, but it was still quite bright, there were various bones scattered around for kilometers. Sometimes they were very large and sometimes they were small, it seemed like countless creatures had died here. Blood was everywhere, it seemed that it never dried up here, in the distance one could even see a whole river of scarlet liquid....
Suddenly blood drops began to rise into the air and merge into a sphere... This was happening in several places at once. They slowly began to take shape, half-meter tall men with horns and fangs. Once their formation was complete, they immediately flew towards Kai. With just a thought, two black daggers appeared in his hands, exactly like the ones he had in reality, and he flew towards them.
- Kggh-kha-kha-kha-kha-kha! Aaaaaf. - An hour later, suddenly Kai coughed. He started gulping air in big breaths, his body was shaking slightly and he was covered in sweat and incredibly exhausted.
- Every time, I'm convinced she's amazing! - With glittering eyes, praised Kai's Invisible Kings Torture Technique.
- I'm completely exhausted, I must quickly restore my energy. - Kai quickly began to swirl the energy inside and use the cultivation technique.
This time, he wasn't entering the Asura Hell. At the second level, the Invisible Kings Torture Technique was divided into two polar functions. The first, fighting in Asura's Hell, the second absorbing energy, they complemented each other incredibly harmoniously. Absorbing energy according to the formula specified in the second level technique, it slowly expanded Kai's Energy Center.
Back in the mountains, Old Man Mo had said that he was incredibly fast at absorbing energy, and shouldn't cultivate in full view of others. Considering this factor, Kai was excited, he already knew that with his rate of energy absorption, he would recover very quickly. This wasn't even anticipated by the Invisible Kings Torture Technique itself! He would be able to stay in the Asura Hell for almost the entire day.
But everywhere had its pros and its cons. To cultivate this technique, Kai would need to exhaust himself to the fullest every time. And with his monstrous energy reserve, and considering that he would get stronger with each cycle... He began to fear that the moment would come when he would need to fight non-stop in Asura's Hell for twenty-four hours.
Pondering this, Kai began to absorb the energy. It was indeed penetrating into every cell of his body very quickly. Quickly digested, it slowly made its way to the area below his navel and began to gather into a small spinning vortex.
Kai had thought before about how he was absorbing it so quickly, and kept coming to the conclusion that it was not a bodily trait of his. Rather, the reason is probably because of the Sphere and how he sees energy! He had inadvertently asked Master Mo more than once about something like the writings in the energy. But after hearing the answers, he realized that only he could see them.
He called it the Essence of Energy, and seeing this Essence of Energy helped him better understand the laws by which it moved, merged, and was absorbed. It was as if Kai understood very well how to process it, what part of it to put into the cells of the body and what part into the Energy Center. The mystery of the Sphere beckoned him, but in all this time, he had never been able to detect it in his body, even when he entered the Cultivator stage.
As he finished absorbing the energy to its peak, he felt that he had actually become a little stronger! The vortex of Energy had even gotten a little bigger! As he was thinking about this, there was a knock and Lily entered the room, she carefully placed the food on the table.
- Kai, here's your food, I hope you like it. - She smiled.
At this point it was obvious that she had already changed and cleaned herself up, and it also seemed that being around him she wasn't panicking anymore. Her father must have explained to her that he was a young lord of some noble family and was at the Warrior stage. It was enough for her that he was human and not some demon in the guise of a human child.
Now when she smiled, an aura of lightness and beauty appeared around her. At this moment, Kai felt the Lust King in his heart stirring slightly, and he quickly regained his composure. Although he was still young, sometimes Old Man Mo would jokingly talk about his former adventures and conquering ladies' hearts, so Kai was no longer innocent in terms of his thoughts. But luckily, for now, it wasn't interesting for him yet.
Lily seemed to see a strange glint in Kai's eyes for a second, blushing she said.
- Brother Kai, enjoy your meal! If you need anything else, come down and I'll run to help my father. - She said and quickly ran out, closing the door behind her.
- S...thank you... - Kai said incomprehensibly. In this world it was not strange for a 14 year old boy from a noble family to already have a concubine. And he looked just like that, from a noble family and 14 years old, even though he was really only 11.
Forgetting that, he ate a hearty meal, sat on his bed in lotus position and entered Asura's Inferno. He decided that tomorrow he would find out more about the gangs and maybe pay a visit to someone. A slight smile hung on his face.