Two days later, from the opposite side of the crystal comes two voices, one clearly of an old man and one younger.

Submerging my body completely on the liquefied ki, i stay still, praying for them to not notice me. The pressure of the ki sends waves of pain through my body, but the thickness of my meridians and toughness of my scales and skin make it bearable.

I feel a wave of energy pass through me, from the direction of the elder.

Given how, on these two days, I managed to tune all my skin and scales to the earth ki, my body blends in perfectly on the ki surrounding me.

As they get close, I can finally understand what they are talking about.

“Here we are, you will have one month here to attempt a breakthrough, after that you shall do your final preparations before the descent into the third layer.” Says the older voice.

“You are a once in a hundred years genius, our sect only ever had three others on your level, you shall guide our future to a better place, deepening our cultivation. So do your best and don't forget, your family is counting on you.” The older voice finishes.

“I am honored, elder. I shall do my best!” Says the young male voice.

Already feeling the call for oxygen in my body, I send a thin layer of ki up, and create a tube connecting the exterior to my nose.

Hearing a set of footsteps get far and one closer, I imagine the elder has returned from the place he came, and the young man got closer to the earth ki vein.

Apparently the young man finds a place to meditate on the opposite side of the earth ki vein, and in less than a hour must have entered a deep meditation state, given how slow his breathing is.

Now I only Have left five sets of organs to tune. Liver, lungs, intestine, brain and heart. They act as a set, with the brain consisting of eyes, brain and the nervous system. And lungs consisting of lungs, throat, mouth and the muscles involved.

The pressure that the liquefied earth ki is giving my body, as well as the pressure of needing to do it quickly before being discovered makes my cultivation extremely quick.

On the seventh day when I've not moved even a little muscle, in order to not be discovered, I finally finish tuning my brain. The last set that remained.

Finishing with the last cells, my body is enveloped with a mysterious light, a powerful wave of energy is contracted and expelled at the same time from every cell in my body. And all the cells start to multiply frenetically.

Everyone that cultivates the Earth God Body Technique to the completion of the first phase, the foundation of the god body, gains an initial god body of fifty meters tall, and as the cultivation continues the body will only grow. The Earth God himself had a body many times bigger than this very planet. And rumor says that if someone can cultivate this technique to the same level as him, they shall have such a powerful body as well.

As the amount of cells on my body keep on doubling and doubling multiple times, my body naturally starts absorbing the liquefied ki from the pond as if a black hole had encountered a cloud of gas.

Powerful waves of ki are expelled from my body, a clear sign of a breakthrough to the core formation stage. And if the gods are on my side, the elders shall think that the one breaking through is the young man, and not an intruder on their sect grounds.

As my body keep growing, it quickly passes the fifty meters mark, probably for the richness of the earth ki in the surroundings, and the already predisposition if my body to being giant, at the end of my breakthrough i am left with a body of a hundred meters tall and a hundred and fifty meters long.

Every aspect of my body has grown exponentially. The power that my fleshly body gives me is extreme, but the richness of the ki running through my meridians is even more shocking.

The feeling of power is intoxicating.

Looking inside my dantian, I see a brown crystal spinning quietly in place. My earth core has been created successfully.

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Remembering of the young man that certainly has been expelled from his cultivation, I look around to find a trail of blood leading to the way he came.

“Sorry friend, I cannot let you leave.” I say as I naturally expel some ki, form a set of runes that create a dragon construct that grabs the weak body of the young man, and brings him to me.

He was in a deep meditative state, and was caught off guard by the sudden explosion of power my breakthrough had caused, and got severely injured.

Taking out some of my old scales, I inscribe a quick array on four of them, and place him inside the two by two cube of force field that they create.

Walking to the edge of the cave, to the place I've entered, I start to ponder how to get out of here.

The way I used to get inside previously is not possible anymore, given the size of my body.

At that time I just molded the edge of the array guarding this place, but now, given that I am almost the same size as the cave, with my horns almost scratching the ceiling at some points, I need a new method to get out.

Taking a little crystal from the ground, I inscribe an Essence Rune on it, to see the effects.

To my delight, the essence that is created is a perfect example of earth ki.

“This should be enough to pass through the barrier.” I think out loud.

Taking out the Bottomless Worm's core formation stage dantian, I modify the runes a little, and add a part to create and expel the essence of earth ki, which should make it invisible to the cave’s protecting array.

Placing the core in the liquefied earth ki, i activate the absorbing part of the array, there's no place to fill this dantian better than here.

Some minutes later I take out the dantian, hold it in my chest and activate the full array.

As the body of the giant worm takes form around me, I send it digging up.

The protecting array of the earth ki vein doesn't seem to even react to me, so I continue going up.

Given my size now, I need to unleash the full body of the Bottomless Worm, but thanks to that, the speed that I travel is many times faster than when I was descending.

As the heaviness of the earth above me suddenly vanishes, the head of the worm breaks out of the surface of the desert, sending sand to all sides.

Deactivating the array, I take out the compass, and make my way towards the Divine Sky Sect.

Anchoring the little cell with the dwarf on one of the scales on my lower back, I start running.

The power in my body now feels endless, every part of my body exudes an incredible power.

With every step my hooves compress the sand on the ground into stone. Allowing me to run at incredible speeds.

Getting out of the desert and into the forest makes the way even harder. My size makes it impossible to pass through some parts of the forest without cutting some trees, but if i have to cut every tree in my path back to the sect, I'll transform the five day trip into a one year trip.

I take out the Moon Chaser Ray Array to see how big I can get it, but the array is limited by the Moon Chaser Ray, and even the biggest specimen of its race is not big enough to fit me.

Taking out my map, I search for an alternative path.

Seventy kilometers south is a river that flows from the direction of the sect.

My body is so powerful now that even sprinting by the shore of the lake for days is not enough to tire me.

Seeing the mountain where the sect is located in the distance, I tighten my pace.

Arriving at the gate, I hear a disciple yell “Halt!” At me.

“Where do you think you're going on this size? Get back to normal sizes or you won't be allowed inside the sect!” The disciple says with an angry tone. His diminutive form was flying in front of my face.

“And how would I do that?” I ask.

“What do you mean? Just use the technique, don't tell me you don't know it.” He says.

Stopping to think of it, everyone that I saw could get bigger and smaller. But I don't record the Earth God Body Technique having this part.

“I am new to the sect, I don't think I have a technique to get smaller.” I explain.

“How new can you be? You've already reached the core formation stage.” The disciple says with a questioning face.

“I believe I am the only Durkan in this sect, it should be pretty easy to check my information.” I say.

“Ok, just stay here, i'll go check with an elder on what to do.” The disciple says.

“Oh, when you do, please tell the elder that I have a captive here from the Kiliu Sect.” I remind the disciple before he departs. He just looks at me, then at the dwarf locked in the array, and departs.

Not even half an hour later he returns.

“The elders are waiting for you at the elder hall. You may ascend the mountain, just take care to not break anything.” He says with a placid tone, and flies away.

As I ascend the mountain I see that above the elders hall is a group of ten elders flying in place, just waiting for me to get close.

Given the size of the elders hall, there's no way I can get inside, so they've chosen to wait for me outside.

As I get close I bow in greetings and say. “Disciple greets elders. Sorry for having to make you come outside for this disciple.”

“You may rise. You've said you have a disciple of the Kiliu Sect, is that the dwarf on your back?” The grand elder asks.

“Yes elder, I've captured him inside an earth ki vein in the desert.” i say.

“An earth ki vein… That explains your sudden jump in cultivation, go over everything that happened for us.” The elder says.

“I went to the desert to hunt for Bottomless Worm's dantians, and while fighting with a five hundred meters worm, he took me thousands of meters in the ground, when i won the fight and relaxed a little, i started to feel the abundance of earth ki, and discovered the earth ki vein.

After getting inside, I cultivated till reaching the core formation stage. And on the last days, he and an elder entered the cave. I managed to stay hidden long enough to get him by surprise and captured him.

And as they entered and talked, the elder said something about descending into the third layer of clouds.” I explain.

As I finish saying this the eyes of all elders shine brightly, and their eyes stay fixed on the dwarf on my back.

“You did well Ragurr, we will ask our little friend and if the passage to the third layer is confirmed, you shall receive a bountiful reward. For now go to the technique library and learn the Size Controlling Technique.” Says the grand elder as he swipes his hand and controls the cage to free the dwarf and send it flying in his direction.