The next day, after some hours of training, I arrived in front of the elder again.

“Just go up, you can pay when you come back down.” Says the elder, after only looking at me briefly, and going back to read his book.

The second floor is a lot different from the first one. The first floor had thousands of books with thousands of different knowledge.

Here you can clearly see a decrease in the amount of shelves, with hundreds of cubes of a type of crystal that I've never seen before.

Each shelf has a title, so probably these crystals are organized by type.

Looking around I spotted a shelf with the title “Formations Material.” Taking one of its crystals, I try injecting a bit of ki, and immediately feel a long stream of knowledge being injected in my brain.

The knowledge is an explanation and amalgamation of thousands of array materials, going from where to find them, how to identify, to their known uses.

Even though the knowledge was infused into my brain, I get the feeling that it is so superficial that as soon as I stop injecting ki into the crystal, the knowledge would vanish. So I start reading it properly, in order to memorize them.

Coming back to myself, I place the Jedite back on the shelf, and look at the clock. Two and a half hours had passed.

Going back to the first floor I spent the rest of the day reading the variety of different types of runes knowledge collected by the thousands of years of the sect.

One month later, after spending every day cultivating and learning as much as I can on the first, and occasionally second floor of the Array Hall, all the ki in my dantian is finally purified into earth ki.

Looking for the cultivation instructor in the training grounds, I found him teaching a knife technique to a young woman.

Waiting for him for a few minutes, I finally got to talk to him.

“Good morning instructor. I finished changing my cultivation, can I get the techniques now?” I ask with a clear light in my eyes.

For weeks I've been admiring all the ki techniques all the disciples have. Some control the earth like playing with dough, others become giants, with powerful bodies. And all of this comes from ki techniques.

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I couldn't practice any, given that my cultivation was flawed, but now that I managed to change it fully, I can start.

“Oh, that's good Ragurr, as you probably know, all new disciples get one technique for free, but the next ones you need to exchange for sect merits.” He says with a calm face. “You need to choose wisely, the first one is normally the most important one. Let's go to the technique library.”

To one side of the training grounds is a one hundred meters tall, seven floored pagoda.

As we get close, I notice that the pagoda has no doors or windows, looking like it was sculpted out of a single dark crystal.

On the place where a door should be, is a small pedestal.

“Place your hand there and inject some ki, the pagoda will automatically inspect your ki and show you the techniques you can purchase.” The instructor says.

Doing as he said, my mind is immediately infused with the superficial knowledge of hundreds of different ki techniques.

Given that my ki is purely of the earth type, all the abilities that appear are earth related. Some are unique ways to infuse your ki into sword techniques, making them stronger, while others are how to infuse ki into your body to heal or become stronger.

The variety is huge and it takes me hours to go through them.

But I've already decided even before seeing the techniques here. Some days ago I saw two elder disciples fighting, their bodies were incredibly strong. With every punch the pure shockwave would send tornadoes to all sides. If not for the protection array on the stage, probably the aftermath of their fight would be enough to kill me.

They both used the main technique of this sect, the body refining Earth God Body Technique.

It is said that the gods that created this world were immortal giants, aspects of nature. And this technique was created to achieve a body as powerful as the Earth God.

As one cultivates with this technique, his body starts to evolve, becoming one with earth, the power of the body is elevated to a godly level, and even the whole body starts to grow into one of a giant. If one manages to cultivate it to the max, he would become as big as this planet, with the power to create and destroy worlds at will.

Of course, no one has achieved this level of cultivation, but in theory they could.

Choosing this technique and doing my best to memorize it fully, I immediately start cultivating beside the pagoda.

The cultivation of this technique consists of infusing earth ki into each part of the body, from skeleton to muscles, organs and Brain.

After that you break into core formation, and need to learn a minor Dao.

But looking at my dantian, which is barely half full yet, I know I'm far from core formation. So I focus on the start of the technique.

Simply pushing the ki into the bones is not enough to fuse it, the body is resistant to the change, so one needs to chant a specific mantra to create a resonance of one's bones to the earth ki, letting the ki accumulate on the bone’s structure.

After finishing the bone tempering stage, one needs to start the muscle tempering, and finally the tempering of the organs. Only them should one break through to the core formation stage.

Even the mantra is difficult to chant. You need to keep a steady flow of ki into the vocal cords, vibrating it into a specific frequency that changes with every second to a total of ten variations.

After a whole week of training, I am finally able to chant for more than an hour without losing the pace.

As I chant the mantra, I feel a deeper than ever connection with the earth ki in the surroundings. And by following a specific path through my meridians, I start to infuse the ki into my bones.

The ki that is being used is the one from my dantian, for the ki infused has to be your own.

The technique also comes with a cultivation technique that helps in bringing the ki from the atmosphere and circulates it in the body to make it become yours, but using both techniques at the same time requires a level of ability in meditation that I still am far away from achieving.