The Story Never Ends
Chapter 27 - The Foundational Body Tempering Art

Before imparting the art, Isla asked Davion, "What do you know about the body tempering state?"

Davion thought for a while and replied, "Body tempering state is the first phase of cultivation where you strengthen your bones, muscles, and internal organs. So that your body can sense and take the energy from Heavens and Earth in the future easily."

"It looks like you are quite knowledgeable. Every sect has its own body tempering art. Our sect focuses on using this dark energy to strengthen your body. The stronger your body becomes, the better your foundation and the probability of reaching the Golden Core Stage is also higher. I heard that the middle and upper-grade sects use the precious materials of Heaven and Earth to forge the body of their disciples. So, the disciples of these sects will always be stronger than us even if we have the same cultivation base." Isla explained.

Immediately, Isla took out a scroll from her space ring and began imparting the steps of this art to Davion.

As he saw the scroll and listened, he could roughly understand how this art worked. According to this art, you had to follow the breathing technique as shown in the scroll. You had to breathe those dark elementary particles inside to stimulate your body. As a mortal who has not cultivated, this process will be painful. But those disciples who have an affinity with dark elements can breathe and hold on much longer and the process will not be so painful. This is also the reason why the sects accept disciples based on their affinity.

"We have a cultivation ground and a battleground in our sect. In the cultivation ground, there flows a river that contains strong dark element particles. This place contains strong corrosive energy, which is too much for our body to handle; that is why we can only go there once a week. This is also the reason why disciples having no affinity to elements can cultivate our sect's technique. They can stimulate their body with this strong corrosive energy. As for the battleground, there are puppets with whom you can battle and stimulate your body. But you have to recharge it with spirit stones. Junior brother, you can slowly start to cultivate. I will also go back." Isla said and she went back to her mat and started to cultivate.

Davion thanked her and thought, "I don't have a spiritual root to cultivate. But I got the art. I don't know whether my panel can record this."

So, he closed his eyes and focused on the panel. There was Foundational Body Tempering Art recorded just below the Mind-Eye technique in red color. He was about to smile and laugh out loud but thinking where he was, he controlled it.

"It looks like I don't have enough experience to level it up. I have to think of ways of obtaining experience points later on. If I just leave like this, it might be suspicious. I will just close my eyes and show them that I was cultivating." making up his mind, he started breathing according to a certain rhythm.

Thaddeus was looking at everyone and guiding them if they had any problems. He also saw that Davion had started cultivating and smiled, "It looks like this kid has better comprehension capabilities even though he might not have better spiritual roots."

A couple of hours later, Thaddeus tapped his finger on the table and all the black smoke returned back to where they came from. "This is all for today. You guys can leave."

Everyone bowed and left silently. Seeing that the door was closed and the room was empty he stood up and sighed, "The new disciple couldn't even breathe a single dark particle. Looks like he joined here only because his talent was poor."

After finishing the morning lecture, Davion went straight to the library.

Seeing Davion leaving to the library, Isla thought "Junior brother is really hard working."

Hendrix was smirking looking in that direction, "Hmm, I thought that you were here for the Secret Art, but who could have thought that he was just a normal disciple having no talent. He couldn't even take a single dark particle. I wasted my time observing him."

On the way to the library, Davion could finally relax. "Wew, it is really difficult to pretend. I wasted a couple of hours. But it is not that I didn't get any benefits."

He crossed the bridge in the same way and took out a book from the shelf and started going through one by one. Only the old man was reading a book and staying there as usual.

Time passed by and only the flipping of books could be heard in the library. The bells rang as usual and Davion returned to his cave.

"This sect deserves to be a middle-grade sect in the past. Even though a large part of it was destroyed, there were still a lot of important books."

"When I have time, I should go to the Dark Moon City. I am tired of eating dry foods along the way and I want to see the city too." Davion sighed.

As he was about to take out dry food from his ring, he saw a shiny green-colored ring with a symbol of a sword on it.

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