Kneel

EP = 620,850/86,360

Shield Of Perseverance = 98,000EP

7th Layer = 33%

The two brothers walked outside the cave and saw a multitude of Cultivators, from average recruits to top recruits, to elders and their disciples, however, they all had one thing in common, they all sported a pissed of face, "Well Adam, do you wish to blow off some steam.", with a bloodthirsty smile, not belonging to that of a normal eleven-year-old, Adam replied with a "Yes".

A massacre ensured, after he collected a sword, Adam owned the battlefield like the grim reaper himself, however unlike Aryan who liked to use pure, unadulterated strength, Adam preferred to save his strength and was able to not waste an ounce of strength, whether it was when killing someone or looking for the next target, he was perfect, however, there was a still a limit to his ability and after 30 minutes, he had begun to tire, but not without killing his fair share of Cultivators, Aryan collected him from the battlefield and sat him against a wall as he caught his breathe, however, it was at this moment a figure from afar, riding a large crane, arrived with an extremely powerful pressure, the temperature began to rise as he came closer, however, Aryan stayed emotionless and waited for the Cultivators arrival, "What do you think you are doing to my sect?.", Aryan ignored the question and asked one of his own, "Was it you who ordered my brother to lose an arm and be imprisoned.", "So what if it was, you think because you can kill some regular recruits, you can kill me?", the heat rose to immense levels, causing the weaker Cultivators to have to back off.

"Kneel."

Overwhelming weight fell upon all the Cultivators in a 1000 metre radius, pushing them all to their knees, with a screech the bird also fell from the sky along with its rider, pushing them both to their knees, "Who are you?", asked the leader through gritted teeth and fear, "Someone who's little brother you shouldn't have touched.", Aryan unleashed his full power and phased next to the leader, clenched his hand and punched, "Begone", a godly power erupted from his fist as he connected with the leader's body, a repulsive force annihilated it and the surrounding area, disintegrating the eagle-like bird and decimating all nearby Cultivators, luckily Adam was far enough away to not feel the full force of that attack, the shockwave was still felt for miles as animals shot up with a startle. As the dust settled, a massive pit was left in the ground, where Aryan and his steaming fist were at the centre, he slowly walked out of the pit, step by step, until he reached Adam, upon which he picked him up and chucked him on the pillow and flew away.

1 week later.

Deep into the Forgotten Forest, a small wooden hut was situated by a river that flowed through the entire forest, inside the hut was a small wooden table, and two handmade chairs, that sat 2 teens, these teens were obviously Aryan and Adam, they were eating a scrumptious meal consisting of mainly meat and some plants they found, although Adam was taking a bit longer as he was still missing his arm, which Aryan had offered to heal him, but Adam replied that he was used to it now, and would rather keep it missing, "I think it's time I explain what happened to me after our parent's death. I was saved by an old man who cared for me and trained me for a year until I was about to reach the Absorption Realm, however, it turned out I had no Seed and therefore no talent, however, the old man had a technique that allowed me to create my own Seed and a multitude of other things, and that's how I ended up here.", "Woah, that's incredible, well, I guess its only fair I describe my experiences as well, After arriving at the sect it turned out l had a rather high talent and it wasn't long before I reached the peak of Body Perfecting, however, I overheard the man who brought me here describing how he murdered you and our parents, so I killed him, however, that kinda wasn't allowed which ended with me losing an arm and being sent to the Forgotten Cell. Although that was more of a blessing as it allowed me to contemplate and reach a higher state of mind and allowed me to enter this state of perfection, which I like to call Sage State, which you saw a week ago during the fight, I also entered the Absorption state and created my core around my Seed, and since then I have reached 20% Saturation of it.", Adam finished proudly, however, Aryan was slightly confused, "Does that mean you only have 1 layer on your core?", "Well yeah, it's just one thing.", "Oh, fair enough. Well anyway, what should we do now?", "It's up to you.", "Ok then, what do you think about exploring the world?", "Sounds rather fun, but before that, I think we should improve our strength.", the two brothers then spent the next couple of months advancing through the Absorption Stage, luckily it turned out that Aryan could make the pillow's ability to speed up cultivation speed, also work for others, albeit not as effective, at the moment he could speed up Adams cultivation speed by 25x, they also made sure to hunt any beast in the surroundings to improve their fighting speeds, this also improved Aryans strength and EP Storage. After 3 months of training, Adam had reached 60% saturation of his core, while Aryan had reached the 8th layer granted him access to another move from the Sovereignties Stances, named Shrink, this gave him the ability to shrink his size, with every half his size doubles his speed, however, it also halves his strength, it also requires a lot of control, so at the moment his limit is decreasing his size by 4 times. His bodily strength had also increased with it now being EP = 1,204,350/99,999, after his strength reached 99,999 he was unable to increase it any further without destroying his body, causing him to have to store any EP gained, and he knew how to break through this bottleneck, however, it required a lot of time, it required Aryan to pool all of his strength into a strength node in his body, after doing so Aryan would be able to make another one containing 99,999 EP and then another, with the location of the Strength nodes would increase the strength of that place, so if he was to form it in his left arm it would give him access to the same amount as before but it would also strengthen his arm to higher levels.