4 chapter 4

Five days passed quickly, and Archean found himself on the ship

The ship was much larger than he thought, it was comparable in size to a cruise ship, but according to the crew smaller ships cant make cross continents due to sea beasts

The sea was extremely beautiful, Arc watched the the entire first day, and once that sun set appeared he decided to draw it

He thought it looked amazing, it was sight, that he hasn't seen even in his time on earth, or at least he hasn't seen such a sun set in person

Other than occasionally making some drawings, there wasn't much to do in the journey, but he managed to entertain himself for those 10 days

After finally making it to shore Archean and the 2 others who took the mission headed towards the country capital

" jeez this is taking longer than i thought"

Maven spoke

He is one of the people who cane on the misson

"Definitely"

Arc spoke

' it was really nothing to do on the ship other than practice eagle claw, and draw or write,, the only game thats popular in this world is chess, and i suck at it, mabye i should make some playing cards'

"Naturally, we aren't qi cultivators yet, if we were we could've flow there"

A person named aven spoke

"Why you think i took this mission, so i can have the spirit stones to break through"

Maven said exasperated

While they chatted a group of mortals came of to them and their leader spoke

"Esteemed cultivators thank-you for making the journey here"

"I was sent here by the king to lead you to the capital"

"Whats your name mortal"

Maven spoke arrogantly

'Your barely not a mortal'

Archean thought to himself

but didn't say anything as this was far to common,

as long as it didn't disturb the mission he will just ignore it.

"esteemed cultivator, i am baldric"

He spoke respectfully while bowing

"Lead us then Baldric"

Maven spoke authoritatively

With a native guide with them it was much simpler to reach the capital, they reached it in just 3 days

During this time period, the group had more fun, as Arc ultimately did create some playing cards, and they played go fish, and once they understood the concept, he taught them poker

"This game sinks"

Arc spoke annoyed

' I literally just taught them how to do it, why are they better than me?, Even baldric beat me!'

"Ha, someone is a sore loser"

Aven spoke happily, of all those introduced to the game he was the one to enjoy them the most

He even fought a mortal's forge and "borrowed it"

And made a set of metal cards as Arc's were made a tree bark weren't that great to used

After arriving the found tents set up they knew it wasn't time to joke around anymore they were representing the Black mountain sect today

Archean spoke clearly out to all the mortals in attendance

His voice shook the air

"The Black mountain sect has arrived"

Many fell to the floor in awe, his voice alone was this powerful

This actually shocked his team members too, as they hadn't expected him to have reach body tempering level 15

That would be the only explanation for such a powerful voice with the use of ki or qi

What followed next was nothing special, they had everyone line up, and take turns putting there hand upon a special stone

Its tests the affinity to sprit energy

Example If you have affinity for fire it glows red, it glows brighter the greater the affinity

Only 13 were chosen then came a young boy, he was scorned the moment he appeared making Archean have one thought

'This kid is main character material'

"Whats the bastard doing here"

"I have every right to be here!"

"Ha, your just the bastard of the Lavier family, your right is to die"

'Damn they're having a full face-slapping chapter, while this is fun to watch. I need to remind them that this isn't a joke'

Arc giggled to himself before speaking with a voice that shook the air

"Cease your bickering, or i will have all your heads"

"Yes how disrespectful to speak like that in your presence"

Maven responded clearly feeding the fire

That brought all those who were arguing to a cold sweat as they began apologizing

Then the potential main character put him hand upon the stone

'The sect bear minimum that the sect takes, definitely main character'

Other than fun outburst, not much more happened, and they stayed there all day and the next day, as people from the surrounding country's finally arrived aswell

"Thats the quota, lets head back to the ship in days, i want to do something before heading back to the sect"

Arc spoke

"Yeah thats fine"

"Yeah the ship is pretty boring, so this time ima actually pack some more things to do"

The group had similar views allowing arc to head off on his own without suspicion

Arc went into the forest and found a secluded area, and prepared to break through

First he placed down the ki condensation array, it increases density of ki making it comparable to qi

In a normal breakthrough,

they would slowly replace the compressed ki with qi, and open up the dantian

But Arc began to take all the ki, and fused it into his flesh and bone, tempering his body beyond what should be possible

'Now step 2'

Arc used his spirit ring to bring out the spirit stones in his possession

And began absorbing the energy and using ki to guide the qi into his flesh and bone, further tempering it

His meridians began to swell, and his muscles began to vibrate

His bone changed in color

'This really freaking hurts'

Arc mind has been tempered by his painful body tempering art allowing him to continue even though he was in massive pain

At one point his body felt full, as if a hungry he didn't know existed was for-filled

And the access energy was then used to open the dantian, exhausting all his spirit stones

"Jeez that was freaking painful, but it was worth it"

'My physical power alone has increased more than 10 times, and now that i have spiritual qi, im incomparable to how i was yesterday'

'Within my dantian i can see the gaseous spirit qi, i can also see a almost liquid spirit qi, it seems that I've purified the qi in my body to such a extent that it almost directly turned liquid'

'I won't face a bottleneck, to reach foundation establishment realm'

"Ima try to cultivate spirit qi"

Arc then began to use a spirit qi technique that he read in the library, an earth element technique called Earth Qi body

Energy began to flow and he felt the qi within his body grow

"Thats incredible i can feel the spir….. im in the outer continent….. WHATT!!!!"

Arc was taken to his feet, and realized what had happened, his body could absorb world qi.

World qi and spirit qi aren't very different

One is the energy that exists in all things, and

the other is a spiritual manifestation of that energy, simply put it is the soul of the world

Arc is basically a nuclear reactor that can absorb energies such as sunlight, radiation, the things he eats, and convert it to spirit qi of the highest purity.

'This is good but this is also dangerous'

Arc stood leaned his back against a tree and began to think what he should do.

'Should i remain in the sect?;

i no longer require spirit qi or spirit stones,

but the sect has the library filled with cultivation books,

i only know the books of the first floor ki martial arts, and the basic qi techniques.'

'But if it gets revealed i can do this, that won't end well, maybe they'll try to recreate what i did, and if it doesn't work for them?

Then they might just kill me or try to possess me '

' I think I can go back to the sect, but not for long,

i'll head back to the library, not as a worker but as a qi cultivator and read ,

since the libraran is nice to me, he might let me stay all day,

if I do that, I should be able to memorize most of the books,

and if I prioritize would elemental techniques and spells,

i should be able to take the techniques that are suitable for me much quicker.'

'After that, perhaps i can fake an injury during a mission,and leave the sect.'

Arc organized his thoughts before heading back to the ship, they agreed on 3 days before heading back

So during this time he would think, and find out the best course of action

' if i leave the sect, where should I even go?'

'since I don't need an energy requirement, I could hide in the very depths of the outer continents, so far out no cultivators is gonna be there,

And no mortal will be strong enough to fight me'

Archean, kept thinking about his next step, and time passed quickly, soon maven and aven arrived with the new recruits and prepared to depart.

It seemed that during this time Aven was playing poker with everyone who was interested,

Arc worried that he created a monster.

The 10 days trip back was much more enjoyable as everyone played all sorts of card games, and made bets

Arc only won 1 time in the ten day stretch and that was because his opponent felt bad and held back

Time passed quickly and they finally arrived to the sect

"Finally back"

Arc spoke clearly tired of losing