C003 — CULTIVATION
Once Zayne was alone in his room, he decided to start his first cultivation. The main cultivation art in the Primordial Chaos Scripture was the Primordial Chaos Star Swallowing Art.
It was a cultivation art of the highest grade in existence. One of its two unique aspects was that one could cultivate all three branches of cultivation at the same time.
The second unique aspect was that one with the lowest talent could also cultivate it. The cultivation art slowly transforms the user into a Primordial Chaos being, completely transforming them into the highest existence since the birth of reality.
Zayne decided to use this art simply because it was the best. Also, from the synopsis of the web novel, it was clear that he was supposed to have a pitiful talent for cultivation, but this art, along with the 10x boost from his Traveller title, should be more than enough to make up for this fact.
After sitting in the lotus position as instructed by the art, Zayne started to follow the steps.
The first realm in Qi Cultivation was the Qi Gathering Realm. In this realm, a cultivator must temper and unlock their meridians by absorbing Qi from the air and making it flow through their meridians.
A cultivator can break through to the next realm once they have unlocked at least 9 meridians, but this would create more bottlenecks in future breakthroughs.
According to the Primordial Chaos Star Swallowing Art, a cultivator has a total of 108 meridians which could be unlocked. This art will not only unlock them but also transform them into Primordial Meridians.
It would be quite the time-consuming process, hence the reason why Zayne felt the urge to start his cultivation early, even though normally children here would start their cultivation at around the age of ten.
Next was the Spirit Cultivation. The first realm was the Spirit Gathering Realm, in which cultivators, like Qi Cultivation, have to temper their spirit consciousness with spirit energy, so that they could transform it into a Spiritual Lake.
But the goal of Primordial Chaos Star Swallowing Art was to develop a Primordial Spirit Ocean, which again would be quite time-consuming.
Last was the Body Cultivation, the hardest of them all due to the pain associated with it. The first realm, Body Tempering Realm was all about tempering their body through either Qi or special medicines.
With the help of the Primordial Chaos Star Swallowing Art, Zayne would develop a Primordial Physique. And since Zayne would also follow the path of Qi Cultivation, he could simply use Qi instead of special medicinal baths.
After understanding the cultivation art, Zayne started his first cultivation. And surprisingly, it went impossibly well. He immediately entire the Return To Zero state, a state of mind with complete emptiness.
Immediately, he could sense the Qi in the air, and when he tried absorbing it, the Qi followed his guidance without resistance.
After absorbing enough Qi, he willed it to move through the first meridian stated in the art, and surprisingly, that meridian opened up with no trouble. After releasing the absorbed Qi, Zayne moved on to Spirit Cultivation.
Just like Qi Cultivation, Zayne did not find any trouble as well. He could easily sense the Spirit Energy and will it to his heart's content. After tempering his Spirit Consciousness slightly, he easily entered the Spirit Gathering Realm.
After that, he moved on the Body Cultivation, and the moment when he encountered his first huddle — pain. It wasn't the unbearable pain that was depicted in stories, but more of an annoying type of pain. It was like scratching your skin with a blunt nail, but on the inside of the skin.
But within minutes, Zayne finally broke through to the Body Tempering Realm and stopped. Since he was in the first realm of all three cultivation paths, Zayne decided to focus only on Qi Cultivation until he reached perfection, before moving to the other.
Thus, Zayne spent the next three hours, purely cultivating Qi, during which he unlocked another 11 meridians. After which he opened his status panel.
— — — | STATUS | — — —
- NAME: Zayne Morningstar
- AGE: 4
- RACE: Human
- BLOODLINE(S): None
- TITLE(S): Main Villain, Traveller
- CLASS: Cultivator Lv.1
—— (Secondary)
—— (Secondary)
—— (Secondary)
- CULTIVATION: Qi Gathering Realm (9.996%)
—— Spirit Gathering Realm (1%)
—— Body Tempering Realm (1%)
|> ABILITIES & TECHNIQUES
- INNATE ABILITIES
—— Celestial Semen
—— Absolute Potential
- CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE
—— Primordial Chaos Star Swallowing Art
- COMBAT TECHNIQUE
—— (None)
- AUXILIARY ABILITIES
—— (None)
|> EQUIPMENT
- Primordial Manifestations, Ananta
—— Bow Form
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The first thing Zayne noticed was the class Cultivator Lv.1. After checking the description, he understood that at level 1, it increased his cultivation proficiency by 2x.
Another change was the Cultivation section. It showed that he was in the first realm of all three paths of cultivation, and he had even reached almost 10% in the first realm of Qi Cultivation.
After stopping his cultivation for the time being, Zayne searched through the Primordial Chaos Scripture, this time, looking for a cultivation concealment technique. It was better to conceal his current strength to prevent any trouble. Zayne had already decided the way he wanted to reveal his secrets to his family, but it was a long way in the future.
After a few minutes of search, he found a quite suitable technique named Void Veil Art. The art had multiple stages and the first stage allowed him to conceal his cultivation from others. Once the first stage is mastered, no one could see through his cultivation unless they inspected through physical contact.
Zayne quickly started practising the Void Veil Art, and the effects of his title and talent were already showing.
After practising for another two hours, Zayne got used to the Void Veil Art and could easily conceal his cultivation against Qi Condensation Realm cultivators. And fortunately for Zayne, the highest cultivators in his barony were only at this realm.
Just like that, Zayne continued cultivating whenever he was alone, and only within a month, he managed to unlock all 108 of his meridians. Now, his Qi Cultivation stood at Qi Gathering Realm (90%). Still, Zayne was only at 1% in the other two paths.
After completing the initial step, it was now time to start the conversion of his meridians into Primordial Meridians. Due to the Primordial Chaos Scripture, Zayne could access the Primordial Energy to nourish his meridians.
But before starting, Zayne drew various privacy and blocking arrays around his room. During this month, except cultivation, Zayne also began learning about arrays. Unlike cultivation, his speed in learning about arrays was way faster. In just a month, he became a Rare-grade Array Master. Zayne also got a class Array Master (Ordinary) which upgraded to Array Master (Rare).
Once he was done with the array, Zayne sat down in lotus position and started accessing the Primordial Energy, which was easier than controlling Qi. But the thing he realised was the Primordial Energy's instinctive resistance towards his body.
After a few moments, Zayne understood that due to his weak mortal body, the Primordial Energy could not be stored inside him, hence why the Primordial Energy rejected his body.
Despite that Zayne still commanded it to flow through his meridians, nourishing. It might be that Zayne was hallucinating, but he felt his meridians expanding unnaturally, and the first one was even glowing.
Two hours passed by, as the first meridian that Zayne unlocked was now glowing like the starry sky. Its size felt as vast as the galaxy, despite it being situated inside Zayne's tiny four-year-old body.
Feeling a presence just outside his door, Zayne stopped his cultivation and removed all the arrays. After activating the Void Veil Art, which had now become more like a passive ability, Zayne opened the door, only after hearing the knock.
There, he found a cute little blonde girl, along with an equally cute maid with black hair in twin tails, who was holding a baby girl with wolf ears.
"Young Master, we came to play~" The young maid, who looked about ten years old, said in a mischievous tone. She was Emma, one of the three maids of the house.
"Brother!" Unlike Emma, who was holding the baby, the blonde girl, who was none other than Ava, his sister, rushed towards him, tackling him into a hug. If not for his cultivation, Zayne's tiny body would have been pushed down due to the recoil.
Ava wrapped her hands and legs around her brother's body like a koala. The baby girl also extended her tiny hands towards Zayne, as if saying, 'Pick me up!' But only babbles like 'Yun Maser' escaped her lips.
Looking at the three and their actions, Zayne could only sigh at the trouble his future self would be facing. It was clear the House of Morningstar wouldn't be so quiet when all of them, especially Zayne, grew up.
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'Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.'
— B. R. Ambedkar