John planned to build up his tolerance.

He told the lifeguard that he was actually a competitor for a world record in the longest person to ever hold their breath.

The lifeguard looked it up online and found nothing on him. He thought John was just bragging to not feel embarrassed that he couldn't swim.

"I said a competitor. I never actually attempted it. I'm just letting you know, I'm going to be training. I won't be drowning."

"Ok..."

John blew out all of the air in his lungs as he jumped into the deep end of the pool. He then sunk to the bottom of the pool.

Why was he doing this? He was attempting to use aura like how he had used Qi as a cultivator. Once someone becomes nascent soul. They can generate Qi from their consciousness alone. So they can exist in places with no atmosphere.

They can exist fully off their own Qi generated.

John hoped to be able to substitute Qi with aura. He hoped to create a network in his body.

John had no idea what the properties were for aura. But he could feel a tiny bit in his 'dantian' right now. But what he was manipulating earlier to walk on water wasn't the reserves in his dantian. It was instead external aura.

He was attracting it like a magnet and manipulating it that way. But this process was exhausting.

So why was he under the water?

He planned to kill himself in a less weird way. It wouldn't do to blow himself up repeatedly in this area with other people.

But drowning? It was far less explosive and would draw less attention.

When he died. His body could respawn at his peak state.

This was even more advanced then his past immortality. As back then, his immortality failed to restore Qi reserves. But his system could reform him with full energy including the supernatural.

Why was there such a difference?

Well, he originally had a special soul that was the source of his immortality. While his current golden finger was created by a concept. A entity above laws.

In other words... his system operated on a higher level. Even with the restrictions of reality.

He sat peacefully as that familiar feeling of hypoxia and then carbon dioxide crossing the blood brain barrier. He passed out.

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John respawned in the same spot. He was back to his peak health.

He then held out his hand and tried twisting aura. He was out of breath really quick.

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John tried creating a whirlpool using aura. He didn't move his hand. He simply held it out and caused a whirlpool to form.

It was extremely small at first. But after a few hundred deaths.

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The whole pool was spinning to everyone's surprise.

John was standing at the bottom of the pool soaked but not submerged in water.

The whirlpool was essentially moving as he moved, creating a space for him to walk instead of swimming. He left the pool satisfied.

Name: Johnathan Time

Age: 19

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 6

Constitution:20

Perception:10

Energy:50

Skills: ["Lvl3 Iron Finger", "Lvl1 Body Tempering", "Lvl4 Fitness", "Lv3 Meditation", "Lv1 Cultivator"]

Not much had changed. His cultivation skill was still at the first level.

But when he looked into the white circle. He saw 8 vortex's of aura.

John noticed that he wasn't actually using the aura in his dantian. No, instead he was still using external aura. It was just as the amount in his minds eye increased. So did his control of aura.

John focused the aura on his feet as he began to slowly walk across the pool.

People were amazed...

Some people thought there was a platform underneath him. So they swam over to check. But they soon found that he was the real deal.

"How did you do it?"

"This? Just some simple manipulation of energy."

"Can we do it too?"

"Experiment. It should be possible."

"How do we start?"

"Meditation."

John then stopped walking on water. He used aura to eject all of the water off of him. He was soon dry.

"I wonder..."

He focused aura on his feet again. This time creating a suction force. He then began to walk up the wall. His core muscles were tested a bit. But his fitness was quite good.

He eventually was walking on the ceiling and hanging upside down.

This ignited the fighting spirit of everyone else.

"This isn't just an apocalypse! This is a chance to evolve!"

Others had noticed aura as well.

Soon the pool area was crowded with people trying to run across the water. Some were even trying to run up the walls.

Nobody was having success.

Soon, John had people constantly asking him questions. They wanted to know his process. He really didn't have much advice. If it wasn't for him dying. It would've taken him months to reach his current level. It really helped that he could respawn at his peak.

John then tried to make himself fly using aura. He was sweating profusely. It was an entirely different level of power needed to make him fly.

He gave up on this for now. He instead tried to create wings using aura. But they weren't strong enough to let him fly.

But he found something that could be useful.

He could create platforms of aura. Basically steps, like how he walked on water. He could walk on air. He could basically fly, although it looked rather awkward and wasn't fast.

His stamina wasn't infinite. It took a lot out of him to stay in the air on an aura platform.

John didn't ignore the fact that aura was circulating through his body now. He began to attempt trying to store the aura in his muscles.

He failed.

John thought back to the time he had turned his body into a formation. How he had set-up seven seals that restricted his power. So that he could handle the explosiveness of Qi.

He could now control aura. What if he used it to power formations? Although... His actions had attracted a lot of attention. Someone was now watching his every move.

He hugged his stomach.

"I'll be back. I have to use the bathroom."

He walked into the bathroom and into a empty stall.

He set a waypoint. Locked the door...

He then blew up shocking another person in the bathroom.

"Man... what an explosive shit!"

John appeared outside the shelter with his special disguise.

He was on a clock. He figured he had around 30 minutes to experiment before somebody came looking for him. He didn't wish for people to know he was 'Destinatus'.

John began to draw a formation into the air. The material? It was aura!

A bright light blinded him as he saw a reaction occur. He had tried to use a flight spell. The runes however reacted. But he didn't gain flight.

"It seems the runes behave differently. But this means my idea has some merit."

John spent the rest of the time experimenting. He was able to have a few different reactions. But the runes reacted differently then what he was used to. It was like he was a blind man trying to see.

He could only make due by trying many attempts.

He blew up and respawned in the bathroom.

He then walked out...

Somebody called out to him.

"Dude..."

Had he been found out? Would he need to get rid of this person? Many thoughts flashed in his mind.

"You didn't wash your hands!"

"Oh... alright."

John sighed. He was really close to killing this person.

John went back to his bed and sat down on it.

"Perhaps I can become some sort of rune warrior..."