Dual Cultivation

I felt refreshed. That was the first good bedtime in my life. From childhood, I remained guard against those so-called clan members. After getting kidnapped and experimented I never had a good sleep. 

I looked greedily at the bed which raised my impression about sleep. But I glanced at reality and sighed. I can't carry this precious bed with me anywhere without someone noticing the craftsmanship of this top tier bed. 

" Daddy, you liked this bed? " a cheerful voice said in my head.

" What were you doing when I was sleeping? " I asked curiously. She might be getting bored doing nothing when I was sleeping.

" When you were sleeping, I was using my abilities in different ways to increase their proficiency and find different ways to help you in future," she said proudly while showing her hardworking nature.

I felt ashamed. My daughter was working hard for me and here I am sleeping like a log. Hmm, I will start cultivating immediately. 

" But Daddy, you know the most amazing thing I found tonight?.. The exact moment you received the inheritance one of my abilities also got unlocked, which is the most amazing one." She said excitedly while trying to get praise from me. 

" Well, congratulations. I'm happy that you are progressing in unlocking your abilities. So what is it about?" I said with a happy smile but inwardly I was sullen. It felt like the universe was telling me that I'm more useless than my daughter. Hmph just wait for me to start my cultivation, and then I will show her how amazing her father is.

" Hmm, the ability helps me to store non-living items in a separate realm of my own. It won't get stolen or controlled by anyone except me. It is named Inventory." Sera explained her ability. 

I was shocked at the use of her ability. It was more efficient and better than a space ring.

" You are the best Sera. I can guarantee that this ability will be very useful in future. Can you tell me its limitations? " 

She hummed at my praise happily and said, " For now I can store a weight of 100 kg. But the limit will increase by ten times as your cultivation increases. So work hard Daddy. " 

I chuckled at her way to cheer me up. But first I had more important things to do. I sat in the meditation position and read the cultivation technique which is attached to my soul by the unknown expert. No, I can't call that, it is a little disrespectful. Hmm Yes, I will call him Father-in-law. As the fiance of his daughters, it is the correct way to call him my Father-in-law. 

I closed my eyes and read the information which I could access because most of it is sealed as I had not started my cultivation. As I read through the technique I was surprised. I had thought that it will be filled with techniques of inter*course or how to pleasure women, but with the little information through which I read, I could say with confidence that this dual cultivation includes much more than s*x. 

I calmly read the vague explanation given in the technique. Even though I don't understand the whole technique, I got little insight with the help of the memories from the Earth. For now, I could only use the technique in the passive form. It vaguely said that I have to do two things of opposite traits but the same rank together. If I follow the instructions given, then it will increase the process of the things which I do. 

I think I got a rough idea of its mechanism. I closed my eyes and took a slow and deep breath of the qi-filled air. The secret realm made by my father-in-law is rich with qi so I didn't have to worry about it. I used qi as the medium and used the devouring ability - which I got from that mortal - to devour the broken pieces of the Angel's and Demon's Heart which were destroying my body. As I started to devour, I simultaneously healed all my inner wounds with the energy from devouring the Hearts. 

At the start, I felt pain, a lot of pain but I endured it. But after a few hours of agonising pain and healing at the same time, the pain started to reduce while the whole process speed of it increased. And in a matter of time, all the pieces of my special physique got devoured to fully heal my body. 

I grinned and thought of different ways to use the dual cultivation. So without hesitating, I started to pour qi into my body to start my first step of cultivation. Mortal Refinement, in this realm the cultivator has to refine his body with qi to nourish it and make it ready to form a foundation. As I started to circulate in my body, at the same time I started to comprehend the Law of Truth. 

In Mortal Cultivation realms, one can comprehend one or many elements to form intents which help in battles. When you enter Saint Cultivation realms this intent can be further comprehended to know laws. After interpreting a law one can control an element to use it in different ways. Similarly, when one enters the God Cultivation realm his/her law gets assimilated into his/her soul to form dao. But nobody has ever comprehended a law in mortal cultivation except for me. I had learned truth intent when I was born and in a few years understood the Law of Truth.

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Sigh.

I reluctantly looked back at the place where my father-in-law's secret realm vanished. If not for Sera's timely reminder I don't know what would have happened to me. I threw away my gloomy mood and cheered myself. Yes so what if my qi-filled realm is gone, I have stored my lovely bed in inventory to get refreshing sleep every night. 

I grinned at my amazing rate of cultivation and comprehensive talent. Because in a few hours I reached the peak of the Mortal Body Refinement realm. To people of lower worlds, it might take a few years to months to reach the peak of this realm, and geniuses from upper realms took from a few months to a few weeks to reach the peak. But I just took a few hours to dual cultivate to reach the peak of the refinement realm. 

My grin widened more when I thought about my speed of comprehending the law of truth. I can say with a promise that I might be able to assimilate my truth law into my soul in a few years. If anyone heard about this in the upper realms there would be an uproar because it normally takes hundreds to thousands of years to assimilate a law, but I am going to do it in a few years. 

I gritted my teeth when I remembered my race. It's not that I'm distinguished from everyone just because of my race. Those psychos sealed my race and affinity with the holy element. They forcefully transformed my body into a human which somehow is dominating my angel powers and my wings in my body. Now I'm a half-human and half-angel. Furthermore, my angel powers are dormant and require an external catalyst to awaken them. This just increases my to-do list. 

Now I looked at my body and sighed. I'm currently looking like a street beggar. I'm just in the tattered clothes which I used to wear when I was being experimented on like a.. a guinea pig. 

I looked in front at the incoming pack of blood wolves who had ranks ranging from low refinement realm to high. I grinned and started to fight them with my bare hands. After all my life troubles I have now gained a sixth sense which helps in battles and other times to avoid troubles. With its help, I was somehow able to slaughter them and increased my hand-to-hand combat skills. I looked at the small stone sized blood cores and thought of an amazing idea.

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(A/N: Well I'm not good at writing fighting scenes so a small reminder that I will fast pace through mob fights and will write in detail about boss fights. A quick warning, this novel will not contain r-18s and will mostly focus on romance and how Orobas struggles in his life to achieve his goals.)

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I closed my eyes and concentrated qi around the small blood cores in my palms. Soon the cores started to vanish and simultaneously clothes started to appear on my body. It is a battle suit in black and white colours which covers my whole body. 

" Wow! Daddy, you look cool in this dress. How did you do this?? " Hearing Sera's voice I smiled and explained.

" With the help of the Law of Truth, I could convert qi to form the illusion of clothes around my body. And in the future, I might be able to make things from thin air with its help. " 

With all the preparation done I ran in the direction where a rare herb was spotted by Sera with the help of her Scan ability. Even though she can't tell what that herb is, she is sure that it is a rare and beneficial one for me. But when I reached the area where it was located, what welcomed me was a large view of plain red grass spread everywhere. Hmm, this is how it remained hidden through those bloody beasts and other humans. The herb was able to camouflage as normal-looking red grass to hide from its predators. Due to blood sipping in the soil, most of the plants were in the red.

After a few minutes of thorough search and under Sera's guidance I was able to grab a plain red grass. But when I plucked it I noticed a large amount of blood qi present in it. This might be a rare herb for unorthodox people. 

 Orthodox and unorthodox are just names which are used to distinguish between people who are good and evil. In reality, very few people follow the rules of their faction. Most people choose one of these factions to satisfy their greed or to get fame to do crimes openly. I stored the herb in the Inventory and kept my guard up against any sneak attacks. Even though I had Sera's Scan, I didn't start to depend on it too much because it won't work against people who are three realms above me. 

After checking my surroundings and erasing my trace I started to run out of the Bloody forest before night fell. I don't want to spend a night in this creepy forest that most of the time reeks of blood. Under Sera's directions, I was able to come out of the forest safely if I ignored a few fights I had with a group of blood monkeys. 

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