Tens of thousands of miles deep into the Great Wildlands Forest, A boy who looks to be around 13 years of age with a face so beautiful that even immortals pale in comparison was seen cultivating underneath a 2000-meter-high waterfall, while birds and animals of all sorts were playing around the forest underneath the waterfall. The boy was in terrible shape at the moment as he was bleeding out of every body part imaginable with no hints of the blood stopping anytime soon.

'Argh!...'

Azmond was seen grimacing a little with a pained look on his handsome face

'That makes the 11th time I have gone through a Cultivation Base Condensing Cycle in the 2nd stage of the Quantum Qi Condensation Realm.'

A small smile appeared on Azmond's now terribly pale face as he thought to himself.

He has been cultivating for a total of 3 months now... He never once stopped his torturous way of cultivating, except when he needed to consume or drink something when his body demanded it, something which rarely happened with Azmond's growing cultivation base and body transformations. He also needed to relieve himself every once a while, but far less often than a normal mortal would need to.

'I will attempt the 12th Cultivation Base Condensing Cycle now! Then I will proceed to advance into the 3rd stage of Quantum Qi Condensation with yet another perfect foundation!'

Azmond thought to himself with a small grin.

He continued to cultivate for a few more days until he reached the peak of the 2nd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation for the 12th time! After which, he prepared for a few days to attempt his breakthrough into the 3rd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation.

After 5 days of preparing...

....

Azmond began his breakthrough into the 3rd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation with a completely bloodied-up body. The Qi surrounding the large waterfall began to be attracted toward Azmond's breakthrough as it swirled around him in large amounts with a beautiful array of colors being produced... It was an even more beautiful view than when Azmond was breaking through to the 2nd stage of Quantum Qi Condensation. A view that any mortal would agree 'was the most beautiful thing' they had ever seen... besides Azmond himself of course... His beauty had already transcended the mortal planes!

Along with loud sounds of Qi colliding and lights flashing, was Azmond finally able to breakthrough into the 3rd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation.

*Pant* *Pant* *Argh-*

He was in terrible shape at the moment as blood was flying out of his mouth in every direction, and his body was similar to that of a corpse's, with no spot left unscathed... even his face was almost unrecognizable with all the blood covering it.

Luckily for Azmond, he soon went into another galaxy-shaped cocoon as he fell into the world of unconsciousness.

....

60 days later...

Azmond emerged from the cocoon with a body like that of around a 14-year-old. His Body was slowly becoming more and more developed as he was being chiseled in all the right places, almost as if he was the result of a God of Blacksmithing's entire life's work. He still had his long raven black hair and Beautiful blue eyes as well, but his face was more defined than before as an almost mature godly look starting to appear on his already divine facial features. Azmond stood up at around 5'11 now, with plenty of room to grow in the future...

".....Mhmm...."

Azmond got up and stood outside of the cocoon with a groggy look on his slightly mature face.

"I really need to stop waking up like this... I always get the biggest headache right after going through another transformation..."

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Azmond spoke out loud with a small frown on his pained face.

"Whatever, let's just check on my recent gains for now."

Azmond spoke with an expectant smile on his countenance, as he proceeded to inspect the inside of his body with his divine sense.

'Looks like it is the same situation as last time...'

Azmond thought to himself as he looked at the 2000 larger and 1000 smaller Qi Cyclones inside his dantian space. The 2000 larger Qi Cyclones were 2 feet in diameter while the 1000 smaller Qi Cyclones were a far smaller 1 inch in diameter.

'Looks like I need to cultivate those smaller ones up to the limit as well... a limit which should be higher now that I have reached the 3rd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation!'

A small smile appeared on Azmond's face as he began to sit down and start cultivating again.

15 days later.....

Azmond managed to increase the size of all 3000 of his Qi Cyclones to 4 feet in diameter, as his total energy storage capacity was exactly 3 times higher than it was before.

'They are slowly but surely getting bigger and more numerous the higher I increase my cultivation realm! I wonder what size they will have reached when I achieve the peak of the Quantum Qi Condensation Realm or even the realms above that? I can't wait to find out!'

Azmond thought to himself with a small smile on his insanely good-looking face.

'I am around 20 times stronger in the 3rd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation than I was in the 2nd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation with no Condensation Cycles completed. It seems like my gains this time around were far smaller than they were when I first broke through to the 2nd Stage of Quantum Qi Condensation... The first breakthrough must've been some sort of milestone or something? That seems to be the case.'

Azmond pondered over his recent breakthrough gains with a quizzical look.

Azmond was indeed correct about the first time he went through a transformation in the Quantum Qi Condensation Realm. His breakthrough from the first stage of Quantum Qi Condensation to the second stage was a milestone of sorts or an introduction to a new way of cultivating. The normal increase in strength from the Qi Condensation 2nd stage to 3rd stage was usually a mere 2-3 times strength boost, with that increase being an even larger 4-5 times strength boost for Heavenly Qi Condensation Cultivators and 8-9 times for Divine Qi Condensation cultivators. The reason why Heavenly Qi Condensation and Divine Qi Condensation Cultivators are so revered, and are recognized as being so much stronger than normal Qi Condensation Realm cultivators is because those multiplicative strength boosts increase exponentially with each further realm they advance.

For Example: Regular Qi Condensation Cultivators --> 1st stage Qi Condensation = 1x strength boost --> 2nd stage Qi Condensation = 2x total strength boost --> 3rd Stage Qi Condensation = 4x total strength boost --> 4th Stage Qi Condensation Realm = 8x strength boost... and so forth until they reach a total of 2048x strength boost at the peak 12th stage of the Qi Condensation Realm when compared to the 1x at the 1st stage. A peak Qi Condensation cultivator is roughly 2048 times stronger than a 1st stage Qi Condensation Cultivator. A regular Qi Condensation cultivator's strength is multiplicative... while Heavenly Qi Condensation cultivators and above have even higher multiplicative increases.

For Example: Regular Heavenly Qi Condensation Cultivators --> 1st stage Heavenly Qi Condensation = 1x strength boost --> 2nd stage Heavenly Qi Condensation = 4x total strength boost --> 3rd Stage Heavenly Qi Condensation = 16x total strength boost --> 4th Stage Heavenly Qi Condensation = 64x total strength boost... and so forth. A normal Heavenly Qi Condensation cultivator will have a multiplicative increase in strength of 4 for each realm they advance further in for a total strength boost of 16,777,216 at the 13th realm of Heavenly Qi Condensation. An absolute insane boost when compared to the normal strength base stat that Qi Condensation cultivators have when they reach the peak of the Qi Condensation realm. An average Heavenly Qi Condensation cultivator at the peak of the Heavenly Qi Condensation Realm is roughly 8192 times stronger than the average Qi Condensation Realm Cultivator at the 12th stage of the Qi Condensation realm. 16,777,216 divided by 2048 gives the result of 8192.

This boost is made even larger in the Divine Qi Condensation Realm, which is one of the main reasons why Heavenly Qi and Divine Qi Condensation Cultivators can leapfrog whole major realms when fighting. Azmond, who is in the Quantum Qi Condensation realm has an even more insane multiplicative strength boost, especially his first strength boost from the 1st to 2nd Quantum Qi Condensation Realm. A strength boost that allows him to fight multiple Great Realms above his own!!

"I have plenty of time to test my strength later... Even though I was really looking forward to punching some mountains that keep on getting in my way, but... gaining more strength is more important to me now! I am now only able to fight evenly with someone half a step into the Peak-Golden Core Realm... That is far from good enough to fight the Goblin King! I need to continue cultivating no matter how painful or how long it takes!"

The mountains were practically sweating buckets of relief when they heard what Azmond said.

'What Did We Ever Do To You??? You Monster!!'

The Mountains wept tears of blood.

Azmond continued to cultivate underneath the huge beautiful waterfall above him as he had a determined and slightly insane look on his divinely beautiful face.

'Don't let me catch you lacking Goblin King, because I will have already surpassed you before you even knew what happened!!'

Azmond's smile got even more distorted as it nearly reached up to both of his ears.