“The difference?” no one expected Ye Yingyuan to really ask this question. They thought that since he had laughed together he already understood but from the looks of it, the boy really had not grasped the meaning.

That was why the first reaction everyone gave were similar.

“Alright, alright. To make things clear, let’s just explain it to everyone.” Seeing that the crowd became confused, Theresa who had more knowledge at her disposal then told them.

“Usually, the energy that we gathered will circulate all around our body and this will give some nourishment to every part of the body. But in actuality, this circulation was intended for Qi cultivating.”

Theresa then paused to see the expression on both her subject and the human in the chamber. She had also received the immense pressure from all around her but she could sit calmly on the top of her throne.

“Then the enhancement of the body will be superficial, only slightly stronger.” Li Ling then understood the point.

But for Ye Xiaobai when he looked at Yue, he only saw her face and facial expression showed her agreement towards the statement. In his memory, even the disciple from powerhouses was not knowing this body cultivation.

‘Don’t tell me, the only one who knows about this body cultivation are the people in the past?’ thought Ye Xiaobai.

Because some of the power in the continent itself had the heritage for more than thousands of years, then perhaps some of it already disappeared. As for whether Ye Yingyuan truly knew about it or not....it did not matter.

But another question appeared. Just what is the background of this Yue? Ye Xiaobai clearly knew that his friend’s family, Jiang family did not have such a thing as body cultivation.

‘Forget it, even if she were someone important I will still treat her kindly.’

Then the explanation continued for another session and because they really wanted to hear it from the standpoint of the older generation, the pain they felt really decreased.

“When someone specifically cultivated their body, they have to inject the energy into their body part. And it is because most of the body part are untouchable, it became rather fragile. You can say that this is an auxiliary cultivation to enhance the battle strength.”

-

“They are chasing us now.” And as they expected, dozens of those beasts poured out from the entrance of the wormhole. Hou Fei was in control of the golden dragon and he controlled it with such a high degree despite the short time to learn it.

“And now is the perfect time to let him enter the initial stage of cultivation. I just wondering why she cared so much for him?”

Wang Yu stood directly beside a young man with short hair. His hair was half red and half black and currently, he sat peacefully cross-legged and his breathing had a certain rhythm in it.

Since the beginning, Manstein had tried to gather the energy around him but as soon as it entered his body, it would dissipate fast! Not only that but he failed like that for the dozen of times already.

‘Compared to my experiment, this is nothing. But I’m worried that if I’m not strong enough then I will end up as a weak point, without power to defend myself.’ In the end, Manstein had to gain some power no matter what.

‘I really hope that even if I start late, the chance is still there for me to take. Speaking of the starting point, isn’t Xian Ni also started to cultivating really late?’

The first cultivator, Xian Ni. After witnessing the skies slashed apart, he felt there was a large waterfall leaked from the hole. But what his eyes saw was not the water but rather, the condensed energy that descended from the heaven.

The energy then started to engulf the world, but Xian Ni also saw that the energy even swallowed an entire star cluster above his head.

‘What’s this!?’ his little heart felt restless seeing such a scene right in his face with his own eyes. Then the energy finally arrived and also engulfed him. As Xian Ni came in contact with this energy, he only felt that it was like water flowing through his body.

And when he immersed himself in that joyful sensation, the fun had come to an end when the energy then spread to every possible direction. Some of it was buried, moving deep to the earth.

There were also some that seeped into the plants, animals, even metals and minerals, every possible place it could reside.

‘Huh? It ended just like that?’ the young Xian Ni thought that the event would be extravagant but other than the abundant energy poured down from the heaven, he could not see anything worth to see.

Little did he know that it was a drastic change, an irreversible change in his worlds!

Then he spent his time by farming, cultivating those plants that he had gathered with his hard efforts. And then he also fed those animals that he got as livestock. Other than those two, he would gather some metals because he knew how to make a hoe.

He did all of this every week, then for every week that accumulated become month. And after some month had passed, it became a year. Currently, Xian Ni was a simple farmer that did not have any relation to other intelligent beings.

Then a year became two, and the next year it became three. Even though it felt long but in his view and perspective, all of that had happened in the blink of an eye.

When he saw that event, his age was only twenty! And when he was twenty-three years old that he started to see the change in his environment.

That was the beginning of all the things. From that tale, Manstein then realized the existence of the energy was everywhere. In the air, circulating deep in the plant’s stem, leaves, and root. And also, the energy existed along with the minerals that miners excavated.

“Qi is everywhere. The problem is how dense? In the air, no one could truly feel its existence because it is really dispersed like the composition of the air itself. Then can I possibly failed dozen of times because I lack the necessary talent?”

“Or maybe I need an astronomical amount of Qi just to enter the initial stage?” as he arrived at this kind of thought, Manstein let out a sigh.

“Or is it because my greedy decision to absorb such variant of energy that caused this?” if this was true then Manstein would be crying hard. He satisfied with all of the energy kinds that could increase his affinity but at the same time, the wrong amount of it caused his talent to plummet further than how it was supposed to be.

In his body, he could feel these energy kinds. All of this was called a seed, energy seed that fused itself with spiritual roots, causing the talent at absorbing energy increased.

“But sadly, I already decided and I think I won’t regret my decision even if I have to repeat it once more.”

Then Manstein just focused his full attention to feel this energy. All the time, he could not feel the energy accumulate inside his body as if his body was just a hose because the energy would circulate within but not gather at one point.

‘Then there is only another way..’ in this world, countless phenomena that previously Manstein thought could not possibly exist was happening.

‘Creating a clone, self-consciousness clone.’ When Manstein mentioned this, his face turned darker. Not only creating a clone was really hard but the resources he needed were indeed too much. And just to recreate his body again, Manstein knew that several materials that even Nirvana Rebirth cultivators would covet were used just for that very reason.

‘But I will put this aside, there’s no need for me to ask more.’ From this point onward, Manstein had to pave his own path. He had considered it and he was sure about this decision.

‘And there’s also the conflict ongoing across the continent. Even if I can’t feel, it doesn’t mean the threat has disappeared. The only way and the riskiest part of course to join a sect.’

At this kind of thought, Manstein turned solemn and his memory brought him to that day again. It was when he just reached eight years old, he was just like any other children at his age.

-

“Where is this?” the childish voice from his moth reverberated through the small room. Around him were walls that made from bedrocks and in that very room, there were also several children other than him.

“In a cage! Don’t try to get attention here otherwise you ended up getting shouted by those people.” An older child, from Manstein’s estimation due to his height, said to him.

“Seems like he has just awakened from his sleep. Do you remember the last thing you had seen?” another boy said.

“I only remember that there are so many people with suit~, walking with their groups to me. I don’t know them and I’m scared but they forcefully took me to their vehicle?” trying to recall the last thing he had seen, young Manstein answered honestly.

“Damn! They’re really planning this whole thing.” The boy slammed the ground.

“Yeah, they’re successful. Now that I think about it, we have similarity.” When young Manstein saw the faces of those children, his memories brought him directly to the computer that his grandfather had shown.

In the screen, he had seen the figure of the important person as well as their family. When he recalled it again, he was sure of one thing.

“We are hostage now.” Said Manstein helplessly smiled with his childish face. But this made the rest of them angered instead.

“What did you say!? Is that real!?” the child that older than him turned pale, he had never expected that his happy peaceful life would turn into a complete mess. Not only he was the son of the military official but he also a prodigy types too.

But then two people with a black suit, even they wore the helm that covered the entire face now aimed their rifle at them.

“Just shut up, you brat! Your noisy sounds only make us feel more disgust. So keep your nice mouth tight and when the time arrives, you might be free.” Said one of the black-suited people.

“Ha, doubt it. Do you know the recent news about our leader? It says that he planned to kill some of these children in the future as an example and as a warning. And as for the military officials that lost their child..” the second person then shot to the ceiling, intimidating the children.

Of course, the children would be afraid when some stranger just randomly shot their rifle around, especially when it happened next to them.

But Manstein was relatively calm. He felt strange at this reaction of his at first but he just accepted it as a part of his nature, never to doubt it again.

This only made the two glared at him, feeling annoyed because their expectation was not fulfilled.

As the memories from the past slowly played once again inside his head, Manstein closed his eyes in his own sadness. There was a black history in that memory and currently, in the world where dog eats dog Manstein could not be sure of himself.

“I can feel it, the sensation of the energy staying inside my body. But it seems that the size only increased from a tiny dust to a bean size.”

At this time, what he wanted to do was to force his way to enter the initial stage. Only when he entered the initial stage that he could consider his decision to create clones and split his spiritual roots into each of the clones.

“But then even if creating a clone is possible, how can I find the resources for it?” that was the frustrating part about the plan he had in his mind.

“It’s better to try breaking through the barrier that prevented me from entering initial stage!” after gathering his resolution and confidence, he started to gather the energy when he inhaled the air.

He sat at the top of the large body of the golden dragon. In the wormhole, the stable condition made it suitable for someone to meditate. But it also meant there would be danger from other beings instead.

And that was exactly the condition he had to face. Fortunately, the golden dragon speed was fast enough to leave those chasing beasts to bite the dust.

“He’s starting to do it again?” seeing the relentless effort from the young man made both Hou Fei and Wang Yu stared at him pitifully.

“I know that he will not even surpass the initial stage. And even he knows that he will not be able to...but what is he believing in? What makes him trying despite the certain fact!?”

Both of them did not know what to say anymore. But a seed of possibility started to grow inside their heart, telling them that the young man could do something far more incredible. In the end, it was a possibility and the chance was so small that the weight of a hydrogen’s atom would not suffice to measure it.