"so..... When I arrived suzaku told me congratulations you're the person number one thousand to arrive so I'll make a contract with you without making your life miserable. I accepted and so the trial was easy." - Kei

"So lucky? That's not very believable" - yato.

"I know but I don't feel like making up a believable story and the real scenario is more unbelievable than this one so.... I'm saving energy. Anyway enough of staying in the treasure room. We won't take anything anyway as everything here is cursed" - Kei

"Nooooooooooo! I'm not hearing it. Don't say that. You just ruined my dreams of becoming rich." - Andy started crying

"hey man we already have one crybaby. Our group is gradually falling. People are starting to cry left and right." - kei

"I'm not a crybaby my concerns are valid concerns" Jimmy said while tears were rolling down his cheeks. "Yeah whatever. It's time to go." - Kei.

They arrived in front of a door that had a smiling sun painted on it. They tried to move it for a while till they discovered that they can press the left eye. The door opened after they pressed the eye and they went into a long hallway. The hallway led them into a circular hall that had doors on all sides.

They decided to check them out one by one. They started chatting while doing so. "I made some fire Spotify play list. Wanna listen to it? " - Andy

"what's Spotify" - kei

"welp I don't how to break it to you.... Have you been living under a rock?"- Andy

"Actually no. But you're very close. 1 cm away from a bull's eye. I've been living under my bed. There is no problem with my bed. I just like to act retarded. I basically place a blanket under the bed. Then I place a sheet above it and take my pillow and sleep there. " - Kei

"..... That's..... Not how you use a bed"-Andy

"you know I asked my parents for the bed's instruction manual. But they gave me nothing. Now I'm using it wrongly. It's all their fault." - Kei said in a wronged tone.

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Finally one door opened. Going through it they found another circular chamber. "oh man not this" - Kei. "what is this? Is it another labyrinth? You had some good tips about the last one." - yato

"I don't know there are several possibilities and we have to try them one by one. For now let's just keep doing what we did in the last hall in every hall. I know it will take a long time but it's an ideal time to clear some things up."

"You have been wondering how far are we from actual cultivation. You see the reason we are even bothering to go through all of these advancments, from I energy to flame energy to aura and so on, is that we need to prepare our bodies for cultivation. All of the recorded history so far, ever since the nomad lifestyle of human is actually the modern Era."

" Entering the modern Era was one of the great losses for humanity. Before the modern Era there was the cultivation Era. Everyone was born capable of cultivation. Sure some had better talents than others, and not everyone was able to reach certain realms, but at least they aren't like us who need to do all of this work just to start. "

" The major difference between us is that back then humans were born with a spirit root. That is needed to sense your internal qi and condense your dantian. That's also the major reason qiqong masters of the modern Era never achiev any strength. They don't have dantians. They know where it should be, but it's simply not there. "- Kei.

" Well it's not that bad. Sure it's unfair that we have to do a lot of work, but we aren't really doing some impossible work. "- Yato

" Actually no. We still have a lot of advancments left before we can make a spirit root. By the time we can actually make a spirit root you'd be cursing the guy who caused this great loss. When I constructed this path I had to do it backwards. "

"To make a spirit root I needed to use spirit energy. I can't use spirit energy. After developing a method that can make me control spirit energy and allow me to increase its potential, so that I can make the best possible spirit root, I found it also unusable for the current me. "

" With this as my starting point I started making a trail. With one method causing me to develop another method. Till I reached the flame energy. I found out that I don't have any flame energy and I made the I energy cause igniting it would make flame energy. Obviously everything was built upon methods other people already did from various eras. My hard work was adjusting them and making them into a ladder that would lead me to the start of cultivation. "-Kei

" Bro, just how many advancments do we actually have? If it's not something exaggerated then it's fine. It's not like we have to risk our lives. We can just train at home. " -Andy

" Actually each advancments has tons of variations and stuff in it. Starting from the next advancement you guys will have to start discovering your Dao path and stick to it. Not to mention that you will constantly need pressure and fights to temper your wills and make your Dao heart stable. As for how many advancments.... It's a number I still didn't learn. "- Kei

By that point they had already lost count of how many halls had they gone through." By the way I'm sure the halls we've passed are already larger than the building was from outside. Either it's a spatial thing. Or we are going in circles. I have my own way of dealing with these stuff" - Kei smiled evilly.