Money is KING
As some time passed Lu Feng could now extend his arms fully and move them around. Now his arms had such freedom he tried to start reading his encyclopaedias while cultivating, his goal was to make it so his body could draw in spiritual energy while he was focusing on something else, in everything he read so far no such method was in those books. Still, he pressed on. He realised after a while it stopped like it had a cap on how much he could absorb.
Another week had passed on and now he could successfully read and focus on other things while drawing in spirit energy, that week he also broke through to the fifth level. This monstrous growth was only possible due to his huge meridians and also his space affinity had a slight pulling effect on the spiritual energy around him, speeding up absorption speed.
He only had to break through this one and the seventh then he could begin attacking using spiritual energy. He deeply wondered what he would be able to do with us his space energy, he knew when it came to his water energy with was going to be a little like Katara except not crying about a dead mum all the time, and being like Elsa for ice.
Elemental affinities in this universe truly could be controlled freely but this was incredibly difficult, those who could just will and shape the element were about 0.8% of the population and were said to have godly talent in this world. These were called mages in this world. This is why techniques were so prevalent in this world. They were just myths in most parts of the world.
Hardly anyone was able to control their element freely without the use of a learned technique as a medium and pathway for spiritual energy. Though Lu Feng had read this in the books he stole he hadn't realised he was already showing signs of being a mage.
His space affinity pulling in spiritual energy like that was him subconsciously freely using it to pull in energy. Mages were said to have the greatest soul power of all as the strength of the soul was what inherently controls a person's potential in almost everything. This was a law of the universe that was only known to very few.
Of course having travelled through space and time into a different reality and survived not only the travel but the impact of crashing into Lu Feng the fool's body, Lu Feng's soul was not normal.
Another week had passed and now Lu Feng could move his entire body while drawing in spiritual energy, all the running from his shed to his cave every night really strengthen his legs. Out in the village, as planned, news of a mysterious young master was beginning to be spread from a few household members to their servants and instructed by their family heads.
He'd decided he needed to start training how to fight, and later on he would go hunting for spiritual beasts on the other side of the mountain. He had to learn those formations first to achieve this though, between the basics books and what he saw he figured out that formations were using soul energy to create a geographic pattern, these geographic patterns then embodied the power being the meaning of the patterns.
Lu Feng tried his spiritual beast trap formation by placing his hands on the ground and guiding soul energy into the shape of the pattern on the scroll outside where he saw a small bunny. Thud, the small bunny shrieked as it smashed into the ground and could not move. It was a GRAVITY trap!
The force instantly killed the small bunny, its head which hit the ground first and made into a paste. This scroll made increased the force of gravity in that given area. What Lu Feng didn't know at the time was that really he should not be able to use this formation as in his excitement to try it out he had forgotten to read that this formation should be activated using eight people of the manifestation realm, but his soul many times stronger than other people because of his transmigration.
What made the gravity formation even easier to use was his space affinity but he would not know this for a very long time, by that time he would stop being surprised at his amazing fortune.
Now with those appearance-changing pills, Lu Feng changed his hair and eye colour to black and some more features so he could not be recognised. This would make things so much easier for him. He did spend quite a few silvers on them so really nobody should see past his disguise easily, especially since these had been bought from a store meant for those wealthy families with good cultivation.
Lu Feng had been in this new world for almost two months now, he had gone back to the village centre and had paid a man there for private lessons on martial and another man to teach him how to handle blades. He had simply told the two men who were brothers that he was a disgrace and his young master said he was not even worthy to learn the fighting techniques of the Silver Phoenix as he was too weak.
Seeing his flimsy body and constitution the brothers believed it and started teaching him well and they were being paid well. They were also surprised that Lu Feng requested to learn without using spiritual attacks, in reality, this was because he couldn't. As they had higher cultivation than him they could sense his cultivation level but he told them his young
master gave him a ring that would make it seem like his cultivation was lower than it was to trick enemies, otherwise, how could he have the cultivation of a child which a young master with so many silvers to throw?
The silvers they were receiving were much more efficient than the classes they gave to those who came to their training centres plus this young man was a fast learner and needed only to be corrected once and would never make the same mistake again. A true genius.
This made them wonder what kind of master he had who said such a genius was trash. Unknown to them Lu Fengs superior soul made it easy for him to memorise things and gave him good control over his body.
Lu Feng also kept the brothers on the line and told them if they did a good job, his young master would send more 'trash' here to be 'fixed'. Both brothers saw silver coins falling from the sky.
He practised in his cave in preparation for when he would start hunting beasts. Lu Feng was really putting his body to its limits every day. No matter how gruelling and exhausted he was, he would not give in for he knew how important it was to improve as soon as he could.
He had thought to himself to wait until he was in the seventh level when he could use spiritual attacks but he thought it would be better to spread his learning out so he's not overwhelmed as on top of his training with the Cai brothers, he was also practising his BAH and CST method during the night and reading up on alchemy and spiritual beats in the evening.
His cultivation wasn't as much of a problem now as he could do that even when reading up on alchemy and spiritual beasts. His memory was pretty good now thanks to his soul. He could pretty much read things once or a time and was very unlikely to forget them after that.
He was getting quite good at handling the blades although when he practised alone at night in his cave he remembered how sharp they are he had always practised with the sheath on.
He also now could completely draw in his aura, which he realised made his footsteps and lot quieter and eliminated some of his smell. If he wasn't in such pungent clothing all the time he thinks the smell could probably go. Scent cleansing powder only worked on clothing and not on him.
He swung and slashed and jabbed his blades while heavily sweating. Lu Feng was really pushing himself to the limit every night. He thought he might be ready to start beast hunting now. It's better to start now without spiritual attacks he thought to himself, to learn how to fight without relying on spiritual attacks. This was a wise decision that he would be forever thankful for himself for making in the future.
Before this, however, he had a few things to do. Lu Feng ventured to the village centre once again after the Lu family servant had taken away his bowl of the last meal of the day. When he got to town he asked around for the top ten restaurants in the village centre. He scouted them all very well.
None of them were completely suitable for his plan so he continued looking. At last, he found a huge restaurant that was only 10% filled with customers, the waiters there looked completely dejected and so did the customers. BINGO!
Lu Feng boisterously walked in and demanded to speak to the head chef and store owner. At first, one of the floor waiters asked him to leave but after saying his master was the Silver Pheonix he remembered the store owner had said a friend told her this was a name that should never be offended she hurried to the back to report it.
"Young sir, ah welcome to this establishment, what can we serve young at this Mountain Peak restaurant?" the restaurant owner politely asked with the head chef who was an old man was also listening intently. The business had been going so horribly for a while now and they wouldn't be able to last for much longer if things didn't improve.
Hearing that a subordinate of the village's new mysterious power was here, maybe if they left a good reputation they could have a complete turnaround, such was the power of influential people. They were barely paying the rent for the land the restaurant was on, they were only still operating as the workers had agreed to be paid less for a while as the restaurant owner had always been good to them and had said he would find a way for them. Had God answered his prayers?
Especially if they could get Lu Feng to come back again, his restaurant would be flooded with people who wouldn't even come for the food but would keep coming in the hopes of a 'fateful encounter' with the Silver Phoenix subordinate and for good relationships. This is what the Mountain Peak restaurant owner was praying for.
"Hmpff, is the restaurant floor a place to speak of my young master's business proposal?"
The restaurant owner's eyes widened with hope and excitement, "Please right this way to our most prestigious private booth" as he ushered the waitress from before to show Lu Feng the way. He quickly grabbed one of the other waiters and started diligently instructing him on what to tell the other waiters.