"Elder, why can't I learn more from the information you provided?" Kai Ren asked Azarion in a confused tone.

"Kid, even if you have access to all that information, it will do nothing other than overwhelm your brain, but don't worry; after you reach the Ascension realm, you will unlock the rest of the information as your brain will be capable of processing all the complex information by then."

Azarion said and continued,

"Instead of wasting your time on this, you should instead focus on comprehending the Celestial Genesis technique and start your cultivation journey."

When Kai Ren realized that without cultivation, knowing everything there was to know about it would be useless because he would not even be able to defend himself against the weakest cultivator, he decided to look at the details of the Celestial Genesis technique and start cultivating.

As he started to read the knowledge in his brain, it looked like random gibberish at the start, but as he focused, he began to understand the first few verses of the technique.

But as he progressed, his understanding became slower and slower until he couldn't comprehend a single verse in more than twenty minutes.

This might not seem like much, but you should know that the technique had more than one hundred thousand verses, and he had just comprehended around three hundred.

One needs to understand at least five hundred verses to start cultivating with the technique.

As he tried to increase his progress without success, he turned toward Azarion and asked,

"Elder, why can't I understand it as fast as I understood it at the start?" Asked Kai Ren in a somewhat confused and interested voice.

"It is because the Celestial Genesis technique is the culmination of all my understanding about cultivation, and it can help you reach the top of the cultivation world."

"Understanding it will naturally take time, and it would be weird if you kept going at the same pace you had at the start. After some time, your understanding of the technique will go so slowly that it might take over a hundred thousand years to understand a single verse." Azarion said in a deep voice.

"But that's a thing for the future. Right now, you should focus on understanding the first five hundred verses, as they will be more than enough to help you reach Qi Adept realm."

Hearing this, Kai Ren suddenly realized that he had just asked a stupid question.

Even though it was a stupid question, Azarion still decided to entertain him, and this made him a little warm in the heart, as no one except his mother and sister had ever shown him any kindness without a motive.

Yes, it could be said that Azarion also held a motive. Still, as he previously mentioned, anyone who treads on the path of cultivation will eventually have to face him to reach the true top of the cultivation world.

So he decided to return to the village he lived in, or what remained of it after two strong cultivators fought nearby.

The village had to bear the force of all their missed attacks, which killed everyone. He would focus on comprehending the technique until he could start cultivation.

After looking at the destroyed houses and dried blood, he sighed and said in a deep voice that oozed with bloodlust,

"I was going to join Mother and Mei-Mei in the afterlife because I was too weak, but now that I have hope for revenge, I will not stop until I have my revenge, I swear on it!"

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Kai Ren stood there for a few moments, rage flooding every single part of his body.

Just as he was about to lose himself to his rage, Azarion's voice sounded in his head. “Calm down, child! lest your rage become your heart demon,” Azarion asserted.

Hearing Azarion’s words brought Kai Ren out of his reverie and he realized that he was indeed losing himself to his rage, so he decided to take a few deep breaths and calm himself down.

With that, he went to his old home, found a somewhat intact corner, and sat there with closed eyes, trying to comprehend the Celestial Genesis technique.

Just like that, three weeks went by with Kai Ren doing nothing but eating, defecating, sleeping, and trying to comprehend the Celestial Genesis technique.

Three weeks later.....

In a destroyed village where everything was in ruin, at a house that looked like it had been hit by a storm and caught on fire, in a somewhat intact corner, sat a boy who looked around 14 years old with his eyes closed.

There was an air of calmness around him as though he were not sitting in a place that would make anyone think of carnage. The boy was Kai Ren.

Suddenly, Kai's dark brown eyes shot open, and a smile appeared on his perpetually calm face. The reason behind the smile was that he finally comprehended the five hundredth verse of the Celestial Genesis technique.

But he again closed his eyes right after opening them. He started practicing the Celestial Genesis technique to achieve a breakthrough into the Qi Apprentice realm and start his cultivation journey.

As he closed his eyes and tried to sense the Qi around him, he started to sense some shining particles floating calmly around him, which he presumed were Qi. Thus, he activated the Celestial Genesis technique.

Just after he activated the technique, it was like there was a sudden storm started rampaging in the previously calm and serene Qi particles, and he was like the center of the storm where everything was getting sucked.

When Kai Ren first sensed the change around him, he was shocked, but then he remembered that he was cultivating with the strongest cultivation technique in the universe, and this much should be expected.

Thus, he again composed himself and focused on guiding the gathered Qi into different parts of his body to strengthen them.

Ordinary cultivators would take at least an hour to reach this step, as the gathered energy wouldn't be enough to benefit them in any way, but with the Celestial Genesis technique, Kai Ren was able to start refining his body just moments after starting to cultivate for the first time.

As he cycled the energy into different parts of his body, impurities in the shape of dark black pus started to seep out from his entire body via the pores in his skin.

Ordinary cultivators will only start to expel impurities after reaching the peak of the Qi apprentice realm.

Still, with the Celestial Genesis technique being the strongest in the universe, he immediately began to experience them, and he would experience them every time he broke through a minor realm in the Qi apprentice stage.

As he continued to cultivate in silence, the black pus kept increasing until it formed a small puddle around him. Only then did he open his eyes.

It wasn't that he didn't want to continue; rather, it was his limit for a single cultivation session.

Even though the impure substances he expelled are normally harmful to his body and are also a part of it, expelling them in great quantity would lead to making him feel weak, even with the assistance of Qi.

He couldn't do much as he was just starting on his journey, and his control over Qi was not good enough to replace the energy that was required to keep cultivating.

After opening his eyes and getting out of the trance, the first thing Kai Ren did was pinch his nose as hard as he could because the stench was coming from the pus he had expelled.

After that, he immediately ran to the river to wash himself. It took him almost an hour to remove the stench from his body since it was his first time experiencing it and the quantity was significant.

After getting rid of the stench, he started to feel the changes in his body. He felt terrific and could easily defeat tens of his former self.

Sensing the strength coursing through him, Kai Ren said in a melancholic and sad voice, "I am finally a cultivator."

"Mother, Mei-Mei, can you see me, I am no longer the weak boy who gets sad over everything, nor am I powerless to think of suicide instead of revenge Sigh! If there is an afterlife, I hope you stay happy there, and please don't worry about me anymore."