Inside the void, all Kraven could see was his master as they were traveling a voice echoed inside the boundless void.
"Such a pure Fire Spiritual Body it would taste excellent as a snack how about you give him to me, if you do I'll let you live little human," the horror which looked to be a massive mass of tentacles with magma coating its body like slime.
Elder Silverstorm responded by covering Kraven in Qi to protect his mind and body, as looking at a void beast much stronger than you would cause a total mental collapse.
"A mere Void King wants to threaten me, I guess I'm getting too good at concealing my Qi if you can't even sense it," Elder Silverstorm said complimenting himself on his Qi-concealing ability.
"A MERE VOID KING, HOW DARE YOU, YOU PUNY HUMAN INSECT, I WAS GOING TO BE NICE AND LET YOU GO AFTER YOU HANDED THE BOY OVER BUT NOT ANYMORE!!!" the creature said. Still, before it could move, Elder Silverstorm released his Qi, feeling the Lightning Qi fill the void and completely suppress the Void Kings Qi.
"You, you're a Peak-Tier 9th stage Martial Emperor, please forgive me I'll give you anything just let me live," The creature that arrogantly said he would kill them seconds ago was now begging Elder Silverstorm for his life pathetically.
"I didn't reach my level by letting those threatening me live," Elder Silverstorm said as storm clouds formed above containing potent silver lightning.
Before the creature could react it was struck by the silver lightning reducing it to dust.
"I wanted to keep the core but I only broke through to the 28th layer of the
Kraven felt his senses betray him everything disappeared he could not see a centimeter in front of him, he could hear nothing, feel nothing, smell nothing it was as if all of his senses were cut off for a few seconds before appearing inside a room with his master next to him.
"Master what happened everything was fine then suddenly I couldn't see you anymore," Kraven asked worried.
"Don't worry it was just that a Void King attacked us to eat you but I made short work of it, so don't worry my youngest disciple," Elder Silverstorm said with a smile despite mentioning that a creature wanted to eat Kraven.
"Why would something want to eat me," Kraven said oddly calm likely because he was used to people wanting to kill him.
"Your Fire Spiritual Body is the reason it wanted to kill you," Elder Silverstorm responded truthfully.
"Why would it want to eat me because of that," Kraven said beginning to feel like his Fire Spiritual Body was a double-edged sword.
"Eating a Spiritual Body vastly improves the elemental affinity of the creature that consumes it, it's one of the main reasons that becoming strong with a Spiritual Body is difficult without protection, chances are if you entered the sect without becoming my disciple a higher up inside the sect would definitely have discovered your Body especially after now because you've undergone your first awakening, so anybody in the Martial realms can tell just by looking at you," Elder Silverstorm confirmed what Kraven thought, Spiritual Bodies are a double-edged sword they both make you a genius but also a target.
"Master could a Martial Soul 9th stage tell that I had a Spiritual Bodies before my first awakening," Kraven asked to confirm a theory he had after hearing what Elder Silverstorm said.
"It would be difficult from far away but if they could inject their Qi into your veins they definitely could," Elder Silverstorm replied not understanding why Kraven would ask that question but then he suddenly remembered.
"Your Father is a Martial Soul 9th stage isn't he," Elder Silverstorm said understanding what Kraven meant.
"Yes he is and now I finally understand why he kept me alive despite hating me so much, either he was planning to eat me or give me to someone who was," Kraven said feeling the rage building inside his heart after realising that his Father was just treating him like a pig he had to fatten before sending him to slaughter.
"Kraven control yourself, fire is easily influenced by emotion so you must learn to control your emotions or it will be your doom," Elder Silverstorm told Kraven about his main weakness.
"Also from the information I got about your Father from the sect your father cultivates wood affinity techniques so I doubt he wanted to eat you but the sect master of the
"You got information about my Father," Kraven asked surprised.
"Yes I got it after you piqued my interest, do you want to see it," Elder Silverstorm said as a sheet of paper appeared in his hand.
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"Yes, I need to know more about my future target," Kraven said as the sheet of paper flew towards him, grabbing it Kraven began to read.
"Benjamin Evergreen age-6000 Grand Elder of the
"What don't you understand," Elder Silverstorm asked.
"The sect and cultivation parts like it says he's a Grand Elder and he cultivates a Mid-Tier Soul Cultivation Technique I don't understand any of that," Kraven asked genuinely confused.
"I'll explain for you don't worry, first a Grand Elder is the second highest rank of Elder in the sect system used by every sect but not every sect had the same realm requirements for the rank, for example, to become a Grand Elder in the
"Wait why is a Mid-Tier Cultivation Technique bad," Kraven asked.
"Sorry, I should explain Cultivation Techniques from the start how much do you know," Elder Silverstorm asked to get a baseline of where to start.
"I know that cultivation techniques and martial arts are divided by realm as well further by grades, the grades are Low, Mid, High, and Peak that's pretty much all that James explained to me while taking me to the first test he said I would find out more in the sect," Kraven said recalling his conversation with James.
"Yeah, that's probably all he could be bothered to tell you since he didn't know if you would become a disciple so he didn't want to waste his breath," Elder Silverstorm said while chuckling.
"I'll start by explaining Martial Arts, Martial Arts are divided as you said before the difference between the ranks is simply the amount of Meridians that are used for the flow of the Martial Arts Qi, the more Meridians the higher the Qi efficiency and the greater the power the Martial Art can erupt with, you do know the level of learning a Martial Art right?" Elder Silverstorm questioned Kraven.
"Beginner-Adept-Expert-Master-Perfection-Intent, that's what was written in the
"Correct, each level uses a certain amount of new meridians, for the Body Tempering realm a Peak-Tier will use 7 Meridians when at the Intent realm, High-Tier 5, Mid-Tier 3, Low-Tier 1, foundational arts don't use any, at the Intent realm you gain the ability to use intent but I don't need to explain that to you now do I Kraven," Elder Silverstorm looked at his newest disciple with pride.
"Yeah I can use intent but it completely knocks me on my arse when I use it, "Kraven expressed his frustration at being unable to use intent freely.
"That's simple it's because you have absolutely no cultivation, so the intent consumes an insane amount of your already limited Blood Qi," Elder Silverstorm explained.
"What exactly is Blood Qi it said in the
"Blood Qi is simply the Qi carried by your blood as your Qi is not concentrated inside an Energy Center yet, and yes while practicing a Foundational Martial Art can slightly increase Blood Qi its effect is less than 1/100th of a Low-Tier Body-Tempering Cultivation Technique," Elder Silverstorm explained.
"Less than 1/100th," Kraven exhaled completely shocked by this revelation as Kraven felt a massive increase in his Blood Qi by practicing the
"You no doubt felt a massive increase but that can be explained by your malnourished body to make it easy to understand a normal boy your age would have let's say 5 Blood Qi when they trained a foundation art to the Intent level their Blood Qi would become 7 but you had 2 Blood Qi and when you reached the Intent realm your blood Qi also reached 7 so instead of a 2 Blood Qi increase you experienced a 5 Blood Qi increase, understand," Elder Silverstorm tried to explain as simply as possible.
"I think so I guess but does that mean my body is normal for my age now," Kraven asked.
"Not exactly your body is still starved of nutrients that it needs to grow so when you enter the sect I'm going to have you eat nutritious meals in the food hall every day to have your body fully reach the standard level for your age," Elder Silverstorm explained his plan to tackle Kraven's malnourished body.
"Now Cultivation Techniques in the Body-Tempering realm mainly focus on increasing the Blood Qi inside the boy but also refining the body and making it stronger and faster but each technique focuses on different aspects, Peak-Tier Body-Tempering Techniques have 4 layers Low-Tier only has 1," Elder Silverstorm explained but Kraven suddenly asked a question.
"What's the difference between a cultivator who has reached the 2nd layer of a Mid-Tier Technique and someone who has reached the 2nd layer of a Peak-Tier Technique," Kraven asked.
"Nothing they would both technically be Mid-Tier Body Tempering cultivators," Elder Silverstorm explained.
"If that's the case why doesn't everyone cultivate Peak-Tier Techniques since they have a higher limit and even if they only reach the 2nd layer they are still Mid-Tier," Kraven asked because he couldn't understand choosing a technique with a lower limit when there is no disadvantage to choosing the higher limit one.
"Simple because it's harder to reach the 2nd layer of a Peak-Tier Technique than the 2nd layer of a Mid-Tier Technique it's often said if you could reach the 2nd layer of a Peak-Tier Technique you could've reached the 3rd layer of a High-Tier Technique so people try not to overestimate themselves and choose a High-Tier Technique," Elder Silverstorm explained the flaw in Kraven's logic.
"I guess that makes sense, should I choose a High-Tier Technique when I can choose," Kraven asked his master's advice.
"No someone as talented as you shouldn't cap their talent at High-Tier," Elder Silverstorm gave his advice.
"Cap," Kraven asked
"Yes, cap, you cannot cultivate a higher-tier technique than the one you cultivated in the previous realm, so if you cultivated a Low-Tier Technique you can't then cultivate a High-Tier Technique in the next realm," Elder Silverstorm explained the cultivation system rather well.
"I see," Kraven said still digesting what he had been told about his Father and Cultivation.
"Sorry to interrupt your contemplation but all the Groups have done their tests so it's time to go to the gathering hall for the ceremony," Elder Silverstorm informed Kraven
"Okay let's go get 1st place," Kraven Said confidently with his Master smiling in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, they appeared inside a hall.