"Don't worry mom, this must be a misunderstanding on her part. Remember Mom, even though she can process complex thoughts like an adult, she is still a child, both in body and soul unlike me. It would take some time for her to understand her own feelings." He paused before grinning.

"If she can't then I will just have to make her realize."

"I knew I can count on you, Davis. You're the best." She quickly embraced him.

"Hehe!"

...

After spending some time with his Mom, he returned back to the Study. He had nothing to do except cultivating, so he thought that he will use this chance to teach Ellia about cultivation.

"Ellia, I said before that I will teach you cultivation." Davis walked up to her.

"Hmm" Ellia nodded her head. It would be a lie if she said she wasn't interested in it.

"Before that, what do you know about cultivation so far?" Davis wanted to know her current knowledge.

"Erm... I only know about Meridian Refinement Stage, I haven't been taught any more than that." Ellia shyly said.

"Then try explaining that to me." Davis said.

She gathered her thoughts before explaining. "Meridian Refinement Stage is where we refine our meridians by absorbing heaven and earth energy from the air. It is almost impossible to absorb without an Essence Gathering Cultivation Technique. The heaven and earth energy in the air is also impure making it difficult for us cultivate by that method. So we have no choice but to rely on refined pills to make it through this stage quickly, otherwise we can only advance slowly by absorbing this impure heaven and earth energy. Later, we refine all the meridians in our body till we are able to start storing energy in our meridians for the next stage."

"Right, you have a good grasp of the Meridian Refinement Stage." He nodded his head in approval.

"Hehe" She smiled innocently, happy at being complimented by him.

"Let me explain to you about the next stage, Energy Condensation Stage. As the name implies, we start gathering energy and store it in our meridians. This causes our meridians to undergo a qualitative change depending on the element of the energy we absorb. The pureness of the stored energy depends on the Essence Gathering Cultivation Technique we cultivate. The more pure it is, the more powerful we will be. Our meridians become more powerful, capable of storing more energy when we break through the next level in that stage."

"Oh." She could understand his simple explanation. She thought it was way easier to understand his explanation than reading through books which really like it to make cultivation mysterious enough that she couldn't understand one bit of it.

He explained it's concepts to her for some time before moving on to the Body Cultivation System.

"Let's move on to the Body Cultivation System. It isn't anything difficult to understand and doesn't require much comprehension, but requires more resources than the other two Cultivation Systems. We just have to absorb the energy from those certain resources and circulate it into our body, meridians, bones, tendons, inner muscles, outer muscles and organs, making our entire body stronger in the process. Body Cultivation System in the early stages is organized by the aura we emit after cultivating it. After we keep cultivating and strengthen our entire body continuously, the aura we emit changes in colour, indicating that we have broken through the next stage."

"In the Copper Stage, we emit a reddish brown aura that envelops our body when we use the Body Cultivation System. In the Bronze Stage, we emit a pure brown aura, and so on and so forth for the next stages."

Ellia kept nodding her head....

After that, he explained on how to circulate the energies from the absorbed resources into the body efficiently. He also explained about the dangers of cultivating in Body Cultivation System.

"One wrong move, and the worst is that you end up crippled or even dead!"

Ellia gulped, but now she felt like she could now confidently cultivate with his help.

"Leaving at that, I guess I could explain Soul Cultivation to you later. You are not ready for that."

"Okay." She was taking in all that he said previously, so any more knowledge is useless since she will get confused.

'Oh man! How do I explain Soul Cultivation to her? It is the most mysterious and involves a lot of complex intricacies out of the 3 Cultivation Systems.' Davis had a headache. He was no teacher material, and he couldn't teach her what he didn't understand perfectly.

...

In the Cauldon Family Manor at the Royal Capital.

"What? The Prince said that he will cancel the marriage between him and my daughter?" Evan Cauldon who was in his room suddenly went wide eyed at the news.

"No, It's not like that Family Head" George came to report about the previous event.

"Then what?"

"The Prince only told that Evelynn has her choice to make and that he won't force her to become his concubine. If she doesn't want to marry him, then he said that he will cancel the marriage with the help of his father." George said.

"Hmph, the Loret family won't go back on their word. We helped them cross the rebellion and also the war. The marriage will happen as planned."

"Even if they don't go back on their word, what if Evelynn refuses? Then they will stop the marriage from happening on having a good reason on their part."

"This… did Evelynn say anything?" Evan anxiously asked.

"She didn't say anything and also didn't back out from the marriage."

"Hmm?" Evan couldn't believe his ears. He knew his daughter best but for the betterment of his family, he had no choice but to sacrifice her.

"It looked like she was hesitating for some reason. This is also a good news." George happily smiled.

"Hmm? Did she fall for that little brat? No way! She was adamant about revoking this marriage arrangement when she was a child and even yesterday! What had happened?"

"Even if you ask me…" George had a wry smile on his face.