In the depths of an unusually active cavern within the Great Wildland Forest, a scared 10-meter-long White Wolf and an 8-year-old-looking boy, with looks that could make even a rock say 'Awww! How Cute!!', are situated.
"So I have been transformed into some sort of Gigolo boy now, huh?" The Little Prince starts questioning his very existence but soon regains his focus when he remembers his goal of acquiring absolute power.
"Welp, it is what it is. No point in dwelling on something so pointless... especially when I can be spending my time gaining more power right now, Hahahahhahaaahhaha!!!" The Young Prince starts to laugh like a madman again, the only difference being that the whole world could hear his insanity now.
That was until he remembered something quite important that he had to do first…
"Wait just a second Me! I have a fully functioning body now with arms and legs that I can use. So that means I can test out my power now right?? Right?!? How exciting!! Let's test my newfound power on that wall that kept on hitting me in the face earlier!"
'What The Hell Did I Do To You?!? You Crazy Bastard!!' - Wall just minding its own business.
"Alright now, how do I punch properly? I never was much of a fighter in my past life so I have no clue how to go about acquiring proper form when throwing a punch.” Azmond started to contemplate.
“Hmm... Maybe if I just pull my arm back like so, take a right step forward like this, and then punch forward with all the strength in my right arm like this then..."
*Wststttstttttttoooooshhh*
*BOoOOooOOOooOMM*
As soon as The Little Prince threw his first punch in this New World of his, aimed at a wall that didn't recall offending such a monster, the wall and everything in a 30-meter straight line just…
Disappeared…
There was no suspense, no silence before the storm.
The wall just disappeared with a loud whistling sound and an extremely loud bang at the end as the force from the Little Prince's fist collided with something extremely tough.
"Holy shit! That was pretty damn cool if I do say so myself!" The Young Prince shouted while standing like a kid who found a new toy to play with, with a haughty look on his God-like face.
"Well, I already know I can go pretty damn fast, and now I know I have the destructive force of a Huge Railgun, so I think that concludes testing out my new strength, right? Time to get back to cultivating then…”
“Although this strength is beyond anything I could have achieved in my past life, it is still not enough for me.”
“I want to reach heights that no one ever has or will reach; I refuse to settle until the day I perish or achieve invincibility.”
“That is my sole goal in this new life of mine. Even If I die, I will just come back to life to achieve that goal… So it's time to get back to cultivating."
The Little Prince went back to cultivating without a moment's rest to even support the idea of taking a break.
In actuality, the Little Prince just didn't want to admit that he only knew how to cultivate...
The Young Prince achieved the 11th refinement for every minor stage of the Body Refinement Realm after he emerged from the cocoon; now he is starting to approach the 12th refinement round, and he won't stop until he reaches a point where he can't continue any further.
"How long was I out this time…?”
“Let's see... add the 3, subtract the 8, carry the 9, and we get a Grand Total of a Year and a half!”
“A Year and a half to reach the 1000th refinement cycle of the body refinement realm!!! Did I take it a little too far I wonder??”
“Hmm…”
“Nah~ there is nothing wrong with aiming for a perfect foundation. Although I do wonder where the Big White Puppy went off to this time... she said something about finding a less scary home, whatever that means?"
The Young Prince gained a new ability a few months into his year-and-a-half-long cultivation session; he gained an ability that the Divine Devil Arts Scripture called the Spiritual Sense or Divine Sense.
An ability that enables the user to see every little thing around him for a certain distance, along with it came the ability to communicate directly into the mind of any being the user wished, as long as the being receiving the message allowed it of course.
So the Young prince was now capable of directly communicating with the Big White Puppy; he wanted to name the Big White Puppy that had been with him all this time, but every time the Young Prince brought it up, the white puppy would get scared and start to run away.
'Speaking of names, I should probably get one for myself huh? Since my shitty pigsty parents in this life decided to abandon me before naming me.’
‘Tch! I get pissed off every time I remember those assholes! Whatever... I will decide on a name for myself later, no reason to rush the subject now when I have no one to talk to anyway.'
The Young Prince thought to himself without a hint of loneliness on his handsome face; he didn't mind not having anyone to talk to when he had a way to gain more power.
He was a very simple being, wake up --> cultivate --> talk to Big White Puppy for a while when she comes by --> sleep for an hour, rinse, and repeat; he didn't need much else in life, for now...
Anyways, You are only able to use your Divine Sense when you have achieved at least the First Stage of Foundation Establishment, (The Young Prince's Divine Sense has a radius of 100 meters) A feat that makes absolutely no sense considering that the Young Prince hadn't even stepped into the Qi Condensation stage yet.
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He makes impossible feats seem like they are normal and treats them like normal things that any average Joe should be able to accomplish as well.
The Young Prince has been cultivating for a total of 1 year and 9 months now, which also corresponds to his age.
He awoke 2 months prior to his 1 and a half year-long cultivation session as well. That was when he reached the peak of the 100th refinement cycle of the Body Refinement Realm.
He underwent a transformation when he attempted to break through to the 101st refinement cycle, just like when he broke through to the 11th refinement cycle, which made his already perfect face even more perfect, and it gave him the body of a 9-10-year-old.
It seems like every multiplication of 10 refinement cycles gives another transformation and reformation of the body. With every Transformation being 10 times more painful than the last transformation as well.
"Now I just need to reach the peak of the 1000th refinement cycle and proceed to break through to the qi refinement Realm; let's get back to it then..." It took the young prince half a day to reach the very peak of the 1000th refinement cycle.
That is when he attempted to break through into the qi refinement realm…
The young prince was very curious about what would happen when someone broke through to the qi refinement realm with 1000 refinement cycles on their belt.
He could practically taste the new level of power he would acquire after breaking through.
Little did he know that he was about to attempt something that was never before seen in the entire history of Asterion: he wouldn't care, even if he knew.
His way of thinking was like this—' Hmm? So what? So what if nobody on this planet has ever done this before? There are other planets out there, aren't there? I am sure someone has done exactly what I am doing now on one of them.
And even if they haven't, there is always something higher, always something further to reach for…
So even if no one on this planet or even this universe has done what I am doing now…
SO WHAT…?
There is no way in hell that not a single being in existence has done something similar. I am not special; everyone else on this planet is just too ordinary.'
A very harsh way of thinking, but that is just who he is—he will tell it as it is directly to your face.
He doesn't care how special you think you are; he doesn't care how special you think he is.
He believes there is always something higher.
He believes that if you think you have reached the top, then you just haven't pushed the lid open far enough to see a new top above that.
Settling for being the strongest in an area when he knows he can go further is something he would never do.
"A few more minutes, and I will have officially reached the absolute limit of the Body Refinement Realm. I thought there would be something beyond the 1000th refinement cycle, but I know for sure that there isn't…”
“I stopped getting stronger after the 950th refinement cycle, and my foundation was incapable of becoming any more perfect after the 969th refinement cycle.”
“There is no foundation more perfect than the one I have right now, a foundation so perfect that it could support a universe, HAahahahaha!"
The Young Prince seemed quite proud of the fact that his foundation had achieved perfection in the Body Refinement Realm.
The Giant White Wolf felt a shiver go through her entire existence thousands of miles away as she turned her head towards the direction of the Young Prince when he started laughing like a maniac again.
'Little Monster... Scary...'
'Need to run away... Faster.'
As the Giant White Wolf, already very far away, started to run faster, the meditating Prince was on the verge of breaking through to Qi Condensation when it finally happened, a breakthrough!
A second that was like any other second passed within the large cavern as a boy with black hair and blue eyes with features so divine that even the Gods would look on with envy sat down in a lotus position at the very center of the large cavern when all of a sudden...
A droplet of water fell from a hanging stalactite with an echoing—
Drip~*
And then a loud explosion was heard not even a millisecond after that droplet of water fell.
BOOooOOOOOoOOoOOoOOoOoOOom*
An explosion of goldish-purple energy so large that it enveloped the large cavern in its entirety erupted from the handsome boy sitting in the center.
WHooOOoososhHhhhHhhhh*
Qi was flying all over the place in a stunning mirage of colors and sparks as all of it swirled toward the handsome boy in an orderly fashion.
The Qi began to create a large tornado of sorts inside the cavern…
Even as the boy was absorbing it all without a single drop wasted, the large tornado was only growing in size…
It kept growing until it enveloped the entire cavern, and it didn't stop there; it grew so large that it was enveloping the forest outside of the deep cavern.
The Qi tornado destroyed everything in its path, which included the cavern the handsome boy who summoned this natural disaster is currently breaking through in…
The boy was surprisingly unscathed, buried underneath millions of tons of rock and stone, which was evidence of just how strong and durable he became after gaining a perfect foundation.
The Qi Tornado didn't just stop there; it kept on growing in size until it reached a staggering tens of miles in height! If The young prince wasn't currently within the depths of The Great Wildlands Forest, then other lifeforms would surely come to investigate this disturbance.
Three days passed as the Qi tornado finally began to shrink in size…
The boy within the rubble was absorbing everything that came his way with all his might, and his effort was finally beginning to bear fruit.
Another two weeks passed as the Qi Tornado was completely absorbed by the handsome young boy beneath the rubble.
The Young Prince had an ashen look on his face, a look that almost made it seem like he had gone through hell and back.
Taking in so much Qi at once took a huge toll on his body. He never did make clothes for himself, for he saw no need to, but if he did, they would surely be in tatters by now.
"Is it finally over?"
The Young Prince asked with obvious relief on his tired-looking face as he began to emerge from underneath the millions of tons of rubble he was buried under.
"I thought that Qi would never stop coming in; it seemed almost endless even with my insane absorption speed."
"Time for my favorite part, time to check on my breakthrou—"
The Young Prince was gonna continue to check on his gains brought about by the breakthrough, but his mental exhaustion caught up with him first.
It shouldn't even be possible for a human to absorb Qi in such large amounts for such a long period of time.
It is the equivalent of drinking 10 jugs of water every hour only to empty yourself out without dying first, and then repeating that process every hour for the next 2 weeks…
Something impossible...
So naturally The Young Prince’s mind let itself go once it knew he was done with the breakthrough.