Somewhere in The Great Wildland Forest, thousands of miles away from the SunBurn Kingdom, in the depths of an unnaturally large underground cavern, a confused baby awoke next to a Huge White Wolf.

'Where am I? Who am I? Why am I here?'

The little prince questioned with a confused look on his tired face.

'Oh, that's right. I reincarnated into a world of cultivation, a world where people can fly, destroy mountains, and erase seas with a wave of their hands. A world where I can acquire all the power I want.’

The little prince regained his unusually large smile on his face as he remembered what he desired so very much.

'That hurt like a mother fucker, but if what this transmitted information tells me is true, then all that pain was worth it.'

The little prince's smile only got wider as he went over the knowledge he just received.

'A Secret Cultivation manual... I just knew touching that weird stone was the right call to make. Let's see, it is called the Divine Devil Arts. What a cliche name... What a glorious name to call the first key to opening up my path to power!'

The little prince's smile practically reached his ears after hearing the name of his first cultivation manual.

'Time to put this baby to use. It says I have to first sit down in a lotus position to begin practicing the technique. Hmm... how do I do that with this infant body? I guess I should try wobbling myself upwards into an upright position. Being a baby is hard....'

The little prince began to rock back and forth as he tried to give enough momentum to push himself upwards, and after the 16th try, he finally succeeded.

The Giant White Wolf was just looking at the little creature before it with a quizzical look in its eyes.

The Giant Wolf thought for sure that the little creature he found in the woods would die after touching that red stone, just like all the other creatures did before it.

Even the original owner of this cavern, a 30-meter large bear. A bear many times stronger than the Giant White Wolf, died mere seconds after swallowing that red stone. The bear first started to decay, and then it just... disintegrated... not even ashes were left of the once mighty beast.

'Now it says that I have to focus on sensing the qi in the air. God... this is really getting me excited for what's to come. Anyways, back to the matter at hand. Sensing the qi huh? I wonder how I should go about doing that.'

'The Divine Devil Arts say I should just think about something that calms my mind, and going about beginning to sense qi will come naturally to me.'

'Something calming, huh? Power, I want Power. I want so much Power that I am capable of splitting planets in half with just a mere finger swipe. So much Power that even the vast starry skies above can't escape my grasp. I want so much Power that even what lies BEYOND those stars is incapable of hiding from me.'

As the little prince was thinking of the only thing that was capable of calming him, something unbeknownst to the little prince was happening all around him.

Qi was gathering in massive quantities heading towards the cavern, specifically towards the little prince.

The little prince didn't even realize that he wasn't just sensing the qi; he was absorbing it into his Dantian.

Something that shouldn't even be possible mere minutes after beginning to cultivate.

It usually takes months for a person with average talent to start sensing qi, and weeks for geniuses.

Even the most talented heaven-sent geniuses need at least a couple of days to begin sensing qi, and yet the little prince was able to sense qi and begin absorbing it within a few minutes on his first cultivation session.

That is not even mentioning the fact that you can't begin cultivating until you reach the age of 7, and yet... the little prince was capable of cultivating not even a few hours after being born.

This is an impossible feat by all standards, something that should never have been, and yet it has.

'Hmm? What is this blue-looking stuff floating all around me? Is this the qi in the air? Does that mean I succeeded in sensing qi? But why is all of it coming towards me? I'm not actively pulling it all in, and yet it surrounds me as if it wants to enter my body.'

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'The Divine Devil Arts mentioned something about opening your dantian to allow the spiritual qi to come in and temper your bones and flesh, but... It said that it would take weeks for even a Supreme Genius to reach that stage, so what is happening around me right now? Maybe I should try to open my dantian? No harm in trying right?'

The little prince began to actively try to open his dantian to allow the spiritual qi entry, something he decided to do out of pure curiosity and the desire for power.

And as if a floodgate had opened up, all of that qi began swarming into the little prince's body with no sign of it stopping anytime soon.

All the little prince had to do was sit there, and the qi was absorbed into his dantian of its own free will.

The little prince had successfully opened up his dantian and officially stepped on the first step of cultivation, Body refinement stage 0 (A special state not part of the Body Refinement Realm).

A very unique state that very few experience when they first enter the world of cultivation. A state where a person has absorbed so much qi all at once that they need to keep it stored away to prevent premature breakthroughs and an unstable foundation.

'This is the best feeling I have ever felt in both lifetimes!! Better than a 5-star massage, better than sex, better than any other heavenly pleasure out there. This is Power!!! I finally have a way to acquire more power, but this is far from enough to satisfy me!! I will keep absorbing qi until I can't anymore, then I will start to digest my gains.'

The little prince thought to himself in utter bliss.

The Divine Devil Arts informed the little prince of a few useful things.

The Divine Devil Arts is split into 7 sections, and each section requires a certain cultivation base to be able to unlock.

The little prince was only allowed to read the first section of the Divine Devil Arts because of his lack of a cultivation base…

The little prince did, however, learn of the first few realms of power this world has to offer. The First Realm is called the Body Refining Realm, a realm where you have to absorb the qi in the air and refine different parts of your body to advance. The Body Refining Realm is split into 14 minor realms, where each minor realm is harder to achieve than the last.

The minor realms, in order from 1st to last, go like this ---> Body Refining Major Realm: 1. Strength Training --> 2. Flesh Training --> 3. Viscera Training Small success --> 4. Viscera Training Large Success --> Altering Muscle --> Bone Forging --> Early Pulse Condensation --> Middle Pulse Condensation --> Late Pulse Condensation --> Peak Pulse Condensation --> 20% Tempering Marrow --> 40% Tempering Marrow --> 60% Tempering Marrow --> 100% Tempering Marrow.

The Divine Devil Arts also states that there is a special 15th Minor realm that only a select few heaven-sent geniuses can unlock a realm where it is unknown whether even a single person in all of Asterion has achieved this state.

It is called The Heavenly Gate – a state so grand that even the Heavenly geniuses of old craved it with every fiber of their being. But, as for all things related to gaining power above everyone else, a sacrifice has to be made.

This sacrifice requires you to temper every part of your body ten times over.

This might seem like no big deal, but spending ten times the amount of time and more on progressing through the body refinement stage can mean life or death for some geniuses.

An amount of time where your peers can easily surpass you in realm and suppress you…

There is barely any difference in power between refining each of your body parts once like everyone else or refining each body part ten times over; it is only when you unlock the Heavenly Gate that your combat power soars exponentially.

Most geniuses won't even be given the chance to completely refine their body ten times and open The Heavenly Gate before they are eventually suppressed by those around them, and in more extreme cases, killed by those they called their peers.

The qi storm finally started to calm down as it appeared that the little prince had reached his limit…

The qi still had the urge to come closer and closer to the little prince to be absorbed, but it knew on some natural instinct that the baby could absorb no more... for now, that is.

'Aiii~, it looks like my limit has been reached. It took hours to reach this point, but that time spent will all be worth it once I begin absorbing all the qi I just gained.'

The little prince then began to actively use the qi he just acquired to temper his muscles. He first tried to learn how to control the qi to go where he wanted it to, which he soon achieved after a few attempts.

He then directed the qi to go toward the muscles in his arms, and it worked. His arm muscles started to heat up and gain a slight glow as they got stronger and stronger.

Although he couldn't test this strength just yet due to his small infant form, he could still savor the fact that he was getting stronger. What the little prince has wanted since the end of his past life is finally starting to come to fruition.

The little prince then began to direct the qi he had stored to all muscles in his body to get an all-rounder strength gain.

He doesn't want to end up like those insane gym bros with huge arms and twigs for every other part of their body. The little prince shuddered at the mere thought of developing a build like that.

'I have managed to fully temper every muscle in my body, but one round of tempering is not enough to satisfy me, now is it?'

The little prince sported his usual wide and creepy grin as he thought of gaining even more power.

The little prince began to temper all his muscles once again.

Do note that this is not a painless process. Going against the norm to achieve something more will never not come without a price, but the little prince could hardly care about the pain when he was so looking forward to the power he would gain after this experience.

The Young Prince Stopped caring about the pain he had to go through to acquire more power after the terrible things he went through in his past life; he was willing to pay any price.