John got dressed and looked for a weapon. This person didn't have any good weapons unfortunately.

"I suppose, I'll have to make do with my hands."

He found a knife in the kitchen. He grabbed a backpack and went to fill it with food. But the fridge was empty.

He then grabbed his keys and locked the door.

He left and wandered.

"First things first, I need to start cultivating."

"I likely lack spiritual roots. So I won't be able to awaken them"

As soon as John stepped outside of his house.

A missile blew it up. The military was fighting the invaders of reality!

He was lucky to have left his home when he did.

John was trying to figure out how he would cultivate.

He had tried to circulate Qi through his body. But he couldn't feel it.

He needed do something a little crazy.

He then had an idea, what if he ate the meat of the mythical creatures? Then used the energy to forcefully unblock his meridians?

He may lack spiritual roots. But he was extremely familiar with the human body and knew that the dantians still existed.

Those in the army were using guns and missiles to blow the mythical creatures up.

Obviously those that were killed by the military were just drops in the bucket. They were also the weakest of existences.

Reality continued to mutate and new creatures would show up.

John ignored the blockades and snuck up to a dead creature. He had to use all of his strength to barely cut off a few pieces of meat.

He retreated and then ate the weird meat.

The energy ran rampant in his body. He was about to explode! He luckily had great will power and controlled this weird energy.

He then went on a trip. It was as if he had done some weird drugs.

But his experience in the dream realm was far more bizarre, so it didn't affect him.

He could feel something similar to that time he drunk the special tea from Yuanle.

A weird energy that wasn't exactly Qi was gathering in his middle dantian.

The outside world's chaos seemed to not effect him as he went into deep meditation.

John hadn't awakened his nonexistence spiritual roots. So he had to fabricate an entirely new power system. He lacked a body sense, so he couldn't feel his meridians in the traditional way.

But John was a monster in his comprehension of cultivation.

Even with such restrictions. He had a unique control over his body. Even without his immortality, this feeling remained.

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He first unblocked the meridian in his lungs. With every breathe he was now gathering some Qi. He then unblocked the meridian for the circulatory system.

After that... He unblocked those in the feet and hands.

He was now a Qi Condensation cultivator at the 6th level.

He felt acquiring his spiritual sense was of utmost importance as he felt uncomfortable without it.

He had run out of that mysterious energy from the mythical creature.

"Time to go hunting."

There was rubble all around him. Many buildings had collapsed. There were all sorts of creatures all around. Corpses were everywhere.

A tentacled creature picked up a car and threw it at a family running away from the chaos.

John jumped in front of the car as it flew towards him.

He formed a pose and struck at the car using Qi.

It split in half.

The creature was mad.

"I suppose it is time to have some calamari."

He rushed at the creature.

John's use of Qi was far more skilled then in the past. Not only was he able to liquify organs with a punch. He was able to form blades of Qi and use it to slice up his enemies.

Soon the tentacled creatures was just a mess of organs and parts.

John began to eat the raw creature to the astonishment of others around him.

Somebody whispered.

"That's it! Eating the creatures can allow us to acquire power!"

Somebody ate meat directly from a corpse of a monster.

They then blew up.

A group of police officers came up to John.

"How have you acquired such strength? Bullets weren't even able to damage that monster."

John shook his head.

"I am just a bit stronger."

The conversation was interrupted by screams as someone had all of their limbs ripped off.

The officers ran up to the monster and shot at it. But the bullets did nothing.

They looked back at John. He sighed and ran at the monster cutting it into pieces.

The mysterious energy unblocked all the meridians in his body.

He unlocked 14 meridians in the body that he was familiar with.

He had his backpack full of monster meat.

Unknowingly, John had a crowd of people following him. They thought it was safe as long as they stayed near this 'hero'.

John admittedly felt a little guilty knowing that this entire event was likely caused by him. So he didn't say anything.

John continued to practice 'Baohan Rules' as he was most familiar with it and had established a foundation using it in the past.

John had to hold off on forming a foundation for a few key reasons. He didn't have his immortality, and he planned on forming a perfect pillar. He would likely die due to the tribulation. He needed to strengthen his body somehow.

He also cultivated weirdly so far, and even lacked the most basics of a body sense.

If he broke through to foundation establishment. He wasn't even sure if he would get a spiritual sense.

Not to mention if he failed. He would truly be crippled without his immortality and might even die.

John left a path of carnage in his way as he made his way through the city. All sorts of monsters that people were struggling to deal with were easily handled by him. It wasn't that he was necessarily strong, it was just his ability to use his current level of power that was impressive.

Soon he had a group of a hundred people following him.

John just needed a peaceful place to restore his power. He knew formations would likely work here. He just needed to not be constantly bothered by these monsters.

He turned to the group of people following him.

His voice boomed.

"I am sure you are wondering how I acquired such power! The world has changed and we must adapt to the changes if we want to survive."

John then realized something quite important.

He knew how to make his formations use his mental energy spells.

He tried to look into his sea of consciousness. But he lacked one! He couldn't even build another source in this body...

If he could make a formation that could use his tier 7 spell immortalize...

He would be able to survive the tribulation and become a foundation establishment cultivator.

Not to mention he could make artificial spiritual roots using a formation as well.

With his comprehension he could quickly boost himself to core formation and then possibly nascent soul.

He needed his soul field though to use a part of his processing power.

John took out some of the monster cores from his backpack as the crowd following him watched in confusion. They had no idea what he was doing.

John then used Qi to inscribe a formation into the core. He planned to make a tier 7 formation that would cast immortalize on himself.

Due to the materials. It would likely only be able to be used once.

It was also a huge project and with his dwindling processing power, it would take him a few weeks to inscribe the entire formation.

He could change his soul later when he reconnected to his private consciousness. He could then disable the immortalize spell at that time and rely on his old immortality that was more flexible.

He was currently working on the components, in other words. He was making artifacts and not the actual formation yet.

"I need time and peace. Both things I lack."