For the next two days, Axel spent most of his time researching and reading about cultivation, and soon after, he came to a conclusion: if he wanted his cultivators to be strong, he would need to create a complex cultivation path.

Until now, his cultivators became stronger by strengthening their bodies, dantians, and seas of consciousness. If he wanted, he could continue with that path, adding more and more energy to those parts until they became as strong as they could be, but that didn't sound enough for him.

Instead of aiming toward a quantity upgrade, he would go for a quality one. That meant the next rank of the cultivation path inside his world should add something new. Something that would be helpful to the cultivators and could later evolve into something even better.

Having said that, he still had no idea what to do.

There was the possibility of using the path of corruption that some cultists speculated about, but he didn't want to make every cultivator in his world corrupted. It was true that the appearance of life-energy had made corruption much less dangerous than before, but even if that was the case, he still didn't want to limit the possibilities of the breakthrough to the use of a single type of energy.

He could expand the way of breaking thought to the other types of energy, but that also had its problems. According to what he knew, common corruption wasn't enough, as it needed to be very pure for a cultivator to advance.

Because corruption had appeared from outside his world, there were a few ways to get such pure energy, but that wasn't the case for the other elemental energies. If he wanted to use them, he would need to figure out a way for cultivators to get that pure energy for the breakthrough.

Another thing that he realized during those two days was that his cultivators' techniques and attacks were too simple. That happened because they needed to directly control the energy they used each time they created an attack, so it was more efficient for them to use straightforward attacks than complex ones.

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Even if this didn't seem like a huge problem at first, it may end up limiting the combat style of his troops in the long term, so it may be better for him to do something about it as soon as possible.

The only ones that managed to avoid this problem were the Guburg, who created powerful tattoos that only needed to be fueled by energy before manifesting powerful techniques. Despite this, the tattoos still have their weak points as each tattoo only reproduces a single technique, making them less versatile if the user only had one.

'Maybe I should create an add-on to strengthen the tattoos and then popularize them in the rest of the villages.' Axel thought.

With those thoughts, the day of the convention soon arrived, and Axel still had to decide what he would do with his add-ons.

In the afternoon, he left his house and walked to William's to meet his friends.

"Hey, man. How's everything? How was your first experience at a rift?" William asked him.

After that, Axel explained to his friends how they had cleared the rift and how he got the convergence gem.

"Not bad. You definitely got lucky with that deal." William said, surprised." Even if you had to take part in three rifts without getting any loot, it would still be worth it."

"Convergence gems are great, but if you don't use that empty slot to create something interesting, it will be useless in the end," Adam said.

"Don't you worry. I already know what I need to improve in my world. I just need to get some ideas on how to do it." Axel said.

"Then it is your lucky day," William said.

"Why is it?"

"Because at the convention, there is going to be a tournament, and the winners will be allowed to talk with the professional worldbuilders that attend it, so they can ask them for tips about their worlds," William said.

"Oh, that sounds great."

"But that's not all. Cedric is one of the pros that is going to be present." Adam said.

"Cedric? The one with a world that only contains a giant dragon?" Axel asked, surprised.

"Exactly that. He is one of the best worldbuilders in the world, so if anyone can give you ideas, it is him." William said with a smile.