"There's one problem though…" she said, not sure of how she should tell him about his realm. "Brother, you're really talented for your age but your cultivation, well it's a bit lacking for this secret realm"
"I know" he said before stopping, causing the atmosphere to be a bit awkward.
"Erm… is there a problem with your cultivation?" she asks as worry starts to appear in her eyes.
"What makes you think that way?" he asked, surprised that this is the first thing that come to her mind.
"I mean, given that you're already at the pinnacle of Qi Refining Realm last month, you're supposed to be only a week, if not a few days but you've been stuck for a month or more already" she said as she scrutinizes his whole body, looking all around as if a lecher.
"Well, I heard that there's a different way to break through the Pedestal Establishment, so I'm searching for the most suitable one for me"
"So that's your problem huh… well I can't help you with that but I can lend you some books" she said as she had taken out multiple books from her spatial ring, explaining its origin to him.
"Apparently, these are the compilation of knowledge of my elders with regards to their breakthrough to every realm, ranging from experience with breaking through Qi Refinement to even some Ascension realm elder's break through, well, that turns out to be quite the help for me so I guess this could be of some help to you as well"
Hearing the range of experience, her elders have, Wu Xiaotian now starts to wonder just what kind of background Hua Xian'er have. However, he doesn't let it bother him for too long before thanking her for the help and leaving for his room, telling her that he will enter seclusion for a while.
Arriving at his room, he impatiently entered the Infinite Qi Dimension. Going inside, he appeared in the boundary between the eighth and ninth layer. Looking at the ninth layer, his body still has some lingering fear when he recalls how the energy of said layer overwhelmed him and popped him into a balloon when he first entered.
Shrugging the thought out of his mind, he sat down as he focus to start reading the records, perusing all of the pages in the Pedestal Establishment part, hoping to find an inspiration, if not even a bit of clue to find out how he should build his own pedestal to enter the next realm.
The book is quite thick, being the thickness of a hand, and its size enough to cover a small table. Despite the Pedestal Establishment being only a small part of it, approximately five percent of all the content, it still took him so long because he's analyzing and comparing his thoughts to each and every one of the documented experiences there.
After about twelve hours of studying, he comes across someone's experience that struck a chord with him the most. Albeit being a theory, an elder of Hua Xian'er hypothesized the possibility of going beyond just changing the form of the pedestal to the one most suited to the cultivator but going as far as changing the place where the pedestal resides, going as far as placing the pedestal in the skull, as they theorized that this could potentially increase the quality of the cultivator's soul, given how the quality of qi increases when the pedestal was established near the location in which cultivator forms their core.
There are various notes in that particular page though, each one of them of different handwriting from the author, telling the author how senile they have become, while warning the younger generations reading the book to not try such act of foolishness.
While it is true that even him found it foolish to move the location of the pedestal, this idea inspires other thoughts in Wu Xiaotian's mind, something that will eventually set him for a completely absurd way of cultivation, moment of genius that he will look back to when he reached the peak.
"Why not make my entire body a pedestal… It doesn't break the rule that my pedestal requires to be near where my core will form right? It's just too big that it encompasses my body" he muttered his absurd thought and even he thought himself to be crazy, but once that thought was in his mind, he couldn't get rid of it and how it will change his cultivation.
Gathering his will, thinking that he needs to be strong enough to free his mother and grandmother from the Extreme Martial Sect and to protect them as they roam the continent, he decides to proceed with his crazy thought "Let's try it" he thought to himself as he started circulating the Pedestal Establishment method of the True Transcendence Body Art. Feeling the torrent of qi entering his body, it was just now that it dawned upon him that there's no going back. Decisively, he starts shaping the qi and turned it into a mini figure exactly the same as him, trying to keep its shape with sheer willpower as qi continues to flood towards him.
In fact, just forming a pedestal as detailed and life-like as a small figure of oneself, is already enough to throw the entire continent into chaos, as it is widely known how difficult it is to establish a pedestal with intricate details, being so difficult that the less talented ones will only be able to make pedestal with basic shapes, their only measure of comparison being the number of sides their shapes have.
Wu Xiaotian doesn't know anything about it though, nor will he care even if he find out right now, as he continues absorbing more and more qi causing his body to bloat a bit, cracks emerging everywhere in his skin, beneath it are deep wounds that goes down to his bones, despite all this though, he remains in position as he multitask skillfully as if not in pain, drawing massive amount of qi in the surrounding as he guides them towards his gradually forming pedestal, all while keeping the unstable figure of his pedestal from collapsing.
Keeping himself from distracting thoughts, he presses further and further, after toiling for more than two hours, the figure finally reaching as big as his entire torso, however, it is getting harder and harder to maintain the shape, and the surrounding qi is already starting to show less and less help to his progress.
Considering all the factors, Wu Xiaotian decided to take a gamble, splitting his attention even further to manipulate the qi in the surrounding to make himself move towards the ninth layer. Arriving at the ninth layer, the feeling of suppression causing him to fall to his back as the mountain like weight of qi force him to remain down, all while it invades his body as the cracks in it starts to grow larger, making him appear like a terrifying mangled pile of flesh.
This state was maintained though as his body is rapidly healing itself through the help of the very qi that is currently destroying it. Enduring the hellish amount of pain he's enduring, he continues to focus on his pedestal, now growing quickly again as their figure gradually overlaps.
The moment the two figures were of the same size, wondrous changes start to happen in his body as he hears an obscure bell chime, before feeling so good as if a world class masseuse is massaging his body, only this massage is performed on the cellular level.
As this massage continues, his cells are vibrating in a weird frequency, forcing impurities that he has never known exist out of his body.
As the process finished, he felt that his senses are extremely clear compared to his previous state, and he doesn't feel the 'oddness' that the book Hua Xian'er lend her said, something about the pedestal still settling in and the body getting used to the new 'organ' formed from spirit qi, instead, he felt lighter and more comfortable than before. Feeling the changes, he couldn't help but look at the status window, the results completely surpassing his expectation.
[Host: Wu Xiao Tian]
[Age: 12]
[Cultivation: Entry State Pedestal Establishment Realm]
[Qi: Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi]
[Physique: Grand Desolation Transcendent Body]
[Soul: Extreme Origin Transcendent Soul]
[Universal Coins: 250,000,000]
[Stats]
[Strength: 60 innate strength (Each point of innate strength is equivalent to 100,000,000 normal points)]
[Agility: 60 innate strength]
[Intelligence: 30 innate strength]
[Stamina: 30 innate strength]
[Vitality: 60 innate strength]
[Aptitude: ???]
[Techniques]
[Chaotic Order Weapon Art (Self-derived, from Order Chaos Contradiction Sword)]
[Info: Interpreting the chaos hidden within the order and the order hidden within the chaos, as well as how they complement each other through weapons. A perfect battle technique capable of suppressing any opponent under the same realm]
[Progress: Perfection State (Capable of increasing combat power by two states, no matter the realm)]
[Transcendent's Heavenly Touch (Self-derived, from God of Pleasure)]
[Info: A transcendent's touch is the most irresistible! Capable of bringing anyone underneath the practitioner's control even with just as much as a gaze. A technique that will definitely make the practitioner garner hate from every man in existence]
[Progress: Perfection State (Able to make anyone feel whatever the practitioner wants so long as they're no more than nine realms higher than the practitioner)]
[Systems]
[Infinite Qi System (Lvl 5)]
[Info: Transport the user to a dimension that generates infinite amount of qi. Time of stay in is measured and converted into Universal Coins that can be used to buy everything in the main shop. While cultivating, time outside stops.]
[Daily available entry: 5/5 (Upgradeable, need to reach Pedestal Establishment)]
[Rate of Conversion: 10 Universal Coin for every minute cultivating inside (adjusted based with the increase of the layer the user is cultivating in)]
[Martial God System]
[Info: Allows one to automatically cultivate, upgrade, and derive techniques, allows entry to an independent space that increases martial comprehension, the space is capable of generating enemies for the user to practice with.]
[Techniques currently being studied: 0]
[Martial God Space (Lvl 3): entry available, increases the comprehension of any techniques by 1000 times]
[Shop]
[Inventory]
[Myriad Transformation Orb]
[A mysterious orb made by transferring the inherent trait of a thousand transformation ape to a celestial star ore. Transforms to whatever form the user want, indestructible under the mortal level]
[Compass of Fate]
[Points the user to the things he desires, might be faulty sometimes and point the user to a twisted interpretation of their desire]
"Damn…" his mouth let out the only thing in his mind as he looks at his current stats.