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In an instant, two days silently passed by.
Within the place seemingly forgotten by time—filled with glowing grasses and small animals—the thin figure of Araw could be seen staring at the horizon in satisfaction and hunger.
His stomach releases a low rumbling sound as he forcefully puts a blade of grass to his mouth, grinding it with his teeth as his face can't help but distort due to its bitter taste... Soon, after gulping it, Araw then hurriedly drank the water beside him, washing the lingering taste within his mouth.
Huff~
In an instant, after the water entered his stomach, a faint warm energy started to course throughout his thin physique—slightly reducing the hunger and tiredness that he was experiencing.
"It's finally done; I already laid out my future foods!"
Looking at the cubs in the far distance with hunger, silently watching them devour the grasses, Araw couldn't help but gently pat his stomach—still hesitating whether to kill the cubs and cook them right now or not.
Fortunately, his eyes soon regained their usual calmness as he immediately shook his head—ridding the unwanted thoughts inside his mind.
Other than the grasses, saplings, and small cubs, Araw also brought a small wooden house and types of furniture that he needed, spending a total of 4 teaching points in the process.
Due to that, his 100 teaching points were reduced to 78.
He spent the other 10 teaching points buying different types of cubs that heavily relied on grass as their main source of energy. As for the beasts that consumed meat, buying them never crossed Araw's mind.
(There are no mature animals available in the shop.)
"I could finally focus on cultivation! It's finally time to buy a good cultivation technique!"
With eyes filled with excitement, Araw hurriedly opened the system shop. His eyes immediately trailed where the cultivation techniques were assigned before focusing on the Body Tempering techniques that cost 10 Teaching points.
Since the opportunity was presented directly to him, Araw would surely pick the best!
"System, remove the items other than peak body tempering techniques."
With a light command from Araw, the hundreds of items within the panel instantly become blurry, vanishing afterward and only leaving the peak cultivation technique related to the Body Tempering realm.
Surprisingly, even though he has already removed the things that he wasn't looking for, the panel still shows hundreds of related items, making Araw's eyes bulge just by staring at the almost infinite list of peak body tempering techniques available within the system.
"Any of these techniques could cause a bloodbath within the clan. Yet, I can simply buy them here..."
Falling into deep thought, body trembling due to pure anticipation, Araw began to carefully read the descriptions of every Body Tempering technique within the shop.
Reading them one by one while listing those suitable to him.
It could be said that some of the peak body tempering techniques that he had read so far could only be cultivated by women, while some of them had great restrictions—only allowing a cultivator with a unique constitution or needing some precious materials to cultivate them.
Other than that, he even read a cultivation technique that needed someone to bathe in magma just to reach its early stage! Making Araw immediately excluded it from the list.
Even if he purchased it, he wouldn't be able to cultivate it in this kind of place!
"No wonder these cultivation techniques reach their respective peak...
"Not only that the advantage they could give to the cultivators was folds higher compared to the normal body tempering technique, but the difficulty to cultivate them was also higher."
Soon, after an unknown period, Araw finally picked a peak cultivation technique that he deemed suitable to his current situation.
Ding!
[ Consuming 10 teaching points to buy the Body Laying The Foundation Tempering Technique. (Accept/Declined)? ]
"Accept."
Without hesitation, Araw immediately pressed the accept button, instantly causing his teaching points to drop to 68... as a thick book with a cover made from the thick hide of an unknown beast magically materialized in his front.
The pure brown book floated within the atmosphere for a while, gliding within mysteriously before the system finally retracted the unknown force shrouding its object, causing the book to fall toward the ground in an instant.
Bang.
Finally regaining his senses, not expecting that this system would materialize the book in front of him instead of placing it inside the inventory, Araw hurriedly picked the book from the ground, carefully removing the dirt that stuck within its thick hide before caressing its rough surfaces with a wide smile on his face.
If someone could see him right now, they would surely label him as a pervert due to how his hands slowly moved toward the rough surface of the book, as if carefully sensing the body of the book...
Furthermore, his smile is also disturbing to one's eyes.
"Although the name of the book wasn't that domineering, this body tempering technique was the most suitable to me."
Other than that, it took a lot of time to cultivate this body tempering technique compared to others; its requirement to practice isn't that hard—it could even be practiced by cultivators with weak talent!
Due to that, although it was a peak cultivation technique, some of its aspects fall short of its grade—it's neither domineering nor special!
If other peak body tempering techniques distributed 50% of the energy to physical strength alone upon advancing by stage and the other 50% would be equally distributed to speed, defense, stamina, and the domain of mind—the "Body Laying The Foundation Tempering Technique" equally tempered the overall aspects of one's body upon advancing...
This caused the cultivator who cultivated this technique to have no specialty, but their overall body aspects would be extremely balanced.
This means that even if Araw doesn't have an advantage over others who cultivate a peak body tempering technique, his overall strength would be more perfect compared to theirs!
Hence, laying a strong foundation without noticeable weakness!
"If I met a being who cultivates a high tempering technique, I might not necessarily lose."
Closing the thick book in his hands and placing it inside his inventory, Araw's eyes couldn't help but release a faint glint of excitement.
Stretching his body for a while before starting to follow the instructions that he had memorized from his cultivation technique.