At the edge of a large forest sat a single unremarkable farming village. The most remarkable thing this village had was a fourth stage 100 year practitioner. All of the villagers were even less remarkable, staying at the first to second stage. This village had a population of under a hundred people, without even a doctor. When people became sick, the villagers looked in books to find the cures themselves or bought a medicine from the general store, and when no cure was available they had to send a messenger to the closest town, which was three days away.
A single boy sat in a falling apart hut at the edge of a forest, inside the hut was only a single bed, table, chair. Underneath the bed were a few boxes, inside one of them was a carving knife. In another box were various plants, nuts, and a bowl for eating with. The last box had a few books which were labeled, the basics of practice, monster encyclopedia, and lastly, basic medicine. The bed itself seemed as if it would fall apart, as the wood had signs of excessive wear and age. The table and chair were in the same situation, and had been kept together by newly added pieces of wood to keep them together.
On top of the bed sat a seven year old boy named White, he had long ebony colored hair that was tied into a ponytail that fell onto his back and reached his waist. His face was slightly handsome and seemed to signify an intelligence greater than his age. His eyes which were slightly opened, revealed silvery-white irises which seemed as if they saw viewed a scene other than the broken down walls of the hut he lived in.
White always had wanted to travel the world, fight monsters, and create his own martial art techniques that shattered rocks and the ocean. And he was about to step onto the first part of his path.
This boy was well known in this village for being a once hopeful boy. When he was born, everyone believed he would become a great practitioner because of his blindness. However when he turned three years old, it was revealed that he could not taste anything, so they realized that his blindness was a normal defect and not part of his inheritance.
When people are born, they have a defect which represents their future inheritance. Each defect refers to a tier of inheritance, taste which is the weakest layer of inheritance, is classified as “one finger”. Smell which is the second weakest is classified as “two fingers”. Touch is “three fingers”, hearing is “four fingers”, and sight is “five fingers”. When White was born he was believed to be five fingers, however when he had learned to speak and had mentioned that he also could not taste anything, it was known that he was a one finger.
Each classification also has ten levels which refers to the mark that they are marked with when they reach the age of eight years old. When they reach eight, there inheritance appears on their right hand, showing the classification and stage. The level is identifiable by the size of the mark on the finger or finger’s. A barely noticeable single line on the finger/s is the first level. While having the whole finger covered is known as level 10. The classification refers to the practice speed, while the level represents the base density of energy.
White sat patiently in a meditation position on his bed, waiting for his soon coming inheritance. Twenty minutes later, a slight tingling feeling could be felt on White’s hand. As time passed, the tingling feeling grew until it was similar to holding his hand over a flame. The feeling centered itself over a single finger on his hand as the feeling intensified. Quickly, White’s face showed slight signs of pain as sweat appeared on his face.
Over time a black mark appeared on his finger, it was a very thin line that went straight from his finger to the edge of where his finger met his palm. White’s eyes quickly radiated excitement as the pain disappeared. He started to attempt to move his energy, but before he could start, another tingling feeling appeared, but this time he could feel it all over his left arm. White’s eyes contained traces of confusion.
White is very intelligent, and quickly deduced based on the feeling and hints, that his blindness indeed held a second inheritance. On his left arm, the tingling intensified faster and more intensely than before as it quickly focused on a single finger, and then focused on his other fingers in turn. As the inheritance passed to his fourth finger the pain became too great for him to bear that he passed out.
As White was passed out the mark grew in size and quickly covered all of his fingers showing the emergence of a five fingers tenth level inheritance. However without stopping, the mark suddenly grew onto his palm and then his arm itself. It kept appearing until it reached where his shoulder blade met his chest. It then slightly grew towards his chest in a shape similar to tentacles of some sort, from the outside it looked as if some sort of parasite was growing towards his chest from his hand.
This process took around two hours for the right finger, and an astonishing twenty six hours for his left arm. After these processes finished, inside of White’s body amazing changes were occurring. Inside of White’s body, right above his pubic region and below his belly button which is known as his core, two gaseous planet like energies appeared which orbited each other. One energy was a silvery-white color similar to White’s eyes, while the other was a blackish-gray color. The silvery-white energy was much denser than the blackish-gray energy.
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A few hours after White’s body had completed the inheritance, he re awoke. White instantly could tell that his body had undergone a massive change.His body felt stronger and more relaxed than before. He sat down in a meditative position and felt through his body for traces of his energy. He quickly focused his consciousness at where the gaseous energies were located in his core.
Seeing the two energies, White quickly realized the significance of the second feeling of inheritance. White was excited and confused at the same time, because as far as he knew, there was no cases of someone having two inheritances. However there were people who had more than one energy which they achieved through the use of 100 billion year monster core, being absorbed. Quickly pushing these thoughts out of his head, White attempted to manipulate his two energies.
While trying to manipulate the silvery-white energy, White realized that his power was insufficient to manipulate it. White, who is very intelligent quickly realized that the problem was that the energy was too great for a 100 year first stage practitioner to control. Quickly giving up, White started attempting the manipulation of the blackish-gray energy. After an hour passed, White realized that he could indeed control the energy.
White’s belly rumbled alerting him to a previously forgotten problem, the fact that he had not eaten in over 30 hours. He pulled out the box with plants in it, gathered some, and put it in a bowl. While he ate, White went over in his head what he should be doing to increase his cultivation.
From what White had read from the single practitioner book he had, White would need to work on cycling his energy through his body to purify it in order to progress in strength. He would also need to create techniques depending on what his type was. As far as White knew, there were ten types which energy could be separated into. The ten types were, time, space, light, dark, fire, water, earth, air, lightning and ice.
In theory, all types are equal in strength, and depended on your own techniques and abilities. However each type is known to have its own strengths, fire is powerful, water is adaptable, and so on.
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After White finished his meal, he went back to his bed and started his meditation practice. He gathered as much of the blackish-gray energy as he could, which was around 0.01% of all of the gas, and started moving it through his meridians and reaching every corner of his body. Wherever the energy went, a minuscule amount of impurities were removed from his body and fed to the energy. As the energy collected more impurities its color slowly changed from a blackish-gray towards a pure gray color.
‘Amazing, This energy seems almost twice as powerful compared to when I removed it from the core!’
As the energy slowly headed back towards his core, the once blackish-gray color had completely changed to a pure gray color. When the separated energy returned to his core, it fused back with the blackish-gray energy. A minuscule change could be seen in the color of the energy, this showed the evidence of the practice. When the whole energy reached the pure gray color, White would than be able to enter the second layer of practitioners, known as a 1000 year practitioner.
As White awoke from his meditative state he was tired and hungry from his first practice. Unbelievably, White’s first practice session had taken around 15 hours. For White this whole process felt like minutes, this was the reason why he was already tired and hungry from his practice. White ate a small meal and then went straight to sleep.
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As White awoke the next morning, he routinely got out and ate the last of his food which he had stored in his house. He put on his only set of clothes, a pair of dirty and worn down leather boots which reached around half of the way towards his knees, a pair of green cloth shorts which also were evidently worn down, a long sleeved cloth shirt from the same material as his shorts however the shirt was a beige color, lastly he put on two leather gloves that covered his hands and were his only new clothes.
‘This should hide my mark, best to hide things that shouldn't be know...’
White’s job, was something of an aspiring doctor or herbalist. When a doctor from the town had come to their village for a week while looking after a few patients, White received some basic medical knowledge and a book on medicine from him. White mostly spent his time taking care of his small herbal garden and looking for herbs in the forest to make medicine from, then he would sell it to the villagers for food.
Normally the forest would be dangerous for people, not mentioning a seven, now eight year old boy. However without the use of sight, White’s hearing and other senses were on a level unimaginable by normal people. He could easily hear any monsters within 100 meters from him, and would then avoid them, in turn gaining a somewhat invulnerability towards danger in the forest.
White stepped out of his hut, and walked a few meters towards his small herb farm. Inside were a few common herbs which could be found in the forest if you knew what to look for. Beside the farm was a small shed which held the tools necessary for maintaining his farm, he took out a wooden bucket from the shed and then watered all of the plants for the morning. Usually White would water the herbs twice a day, however the past two days had been using for practice and acquiring his inheritance. Luckily there had been a slight rain while he was passed out from accepting the inheritance. After returning the bucket to the shed, he took out fifteen small bottles filled with green paste. Putting them in a small leather bag which was set on the table inside of his hut, White headed towards the village to sell his medicine for food.
Where White appeared at the edge of the forest, was also the edge of the villagers farming grounds. White was quickly seen by the villagers and he could hear their movements of waving their hands towards him. He waved back and then walked through the fields towards the village. In the eyes of the villagers, White was an extraordinary boy, he was blind, eight years old, an orphan, and could still provide for himself despite these major shortcomings.
The villagers houses were slightly larger than White’s hut, and most of which were of much better quality which seemed to be recently rebuilt. White followed a well traveled path towards a slightly larger building, that held a single sign which read “Ware’s”. Quickly entering the building, White walked up to the counter where a man who looked fifty years old was. He had a slightly bulging belly, and a kind face that quickly smiled when he saw that it was White entering his store.
“Hey White, you've got some medicine to sell?”
“Yes Mr. Lein, I would also like to purchase some plants to eat.”
“Haha, sure thing. I’ll give you a bit extra!”
“Thanks Mr. Lein, here are fifteen vials of Ier medicine.”
“Okay, in exchange I will give you a month and a half of food. Sound good?”
“Great! Have a good day Mr. Lein, I will be back in a month and a half or so.”
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“See you then White.”
White placed the food he had gotten from Mr. Lein into his bag, then headed back to his hut. As White returned to his hut he went through the math concerning his practice. Based on the fact that he could only purify 0.01% of his energy at a time, and that it took 15 hours to do it, White calculated that he would need around 17.1 full years of practice. Or, if he did one purification a day, 27.4 years to reach the level of a 1000 year practitioner.
27.4 years, for practitioners this is an amazing speed. It is estimated that based on the level of practice you are at, you will need half of your life to achieve it. In other words, for a 100 year practitioner, the average age that they will upgrade into a 1000 year practitioner is 50 years old! White is currently eight years old, adding 27.4 years, that equates to becoming a 1000 year practitioner at age 35! However in the world of practitioners, the heirs to great martial arts clans can become 1000 year practitioners at age 30 on average, but this is only through the use of monster cores and other means to enhance practice speed! This is an amazing speed considering he has no backing and is on his own with no guidance.
When White reached his hut again, his mind had new found determination. First, White was thinking that 27 years is a long time just to become a 1000 year practitioner, however this is an amazing speed. It is even faster than most martial art family practitioners anyways. How can White expect to be given the speed of the heir of a martial arts family who are using practice enhancers, especially when he had already been gifted with two inheritances and an amazing practice speed, which has never been heard of before.
White quickly sat down again on bed again and got to practice. Again looking into his core, he quickly identified the blackish-gray energy. Again he tried to separate as much of the energy as he could, however something amazing happened. As White separated a segment from the energy he realized that he had gathered a larger amount than before.
Immediately bursting into thought and calculation, he measured the amount of gas and equated it to about 0.012% of the planet. an increase of 0.002%, this also equated to a whole fifth more than his first practice. White quickly realized the reason for this. It was similar to when he started working on medicine. When he first started he would take a long time to measure everything and would still make many errors, lowering the quality of the medicine. As time passed and he made more and more medicine, his accuracy and speed increased. Thinking of this White quickly realized his potential for improvement.
Considering when he started medicine, it took him over fifty times of making medicine to truly grasp how to make the medicine and increase his speed. How many times had White practiced so far? Only once, depending on the amount of improvement White could make, he might have potential to become a 1000 year practitioner in less than 15 years!
Again White moved the energy through his meridians, this time at a rate even faster than before. However, White noticed that the amount of impurities the energy could absorb was comparable to before, if calculating the extra amount of gas this time. This fact made White slightly sad, but then he realized his mistake. The amount of impurities he could absorb with the energy would not change because it had already been completely purified.
As White opened his eyes, he quickly calculated the time spent in practice. Compared to the 15 hours from his first practice, White had spent only 14.5 hours this time! This itself, is an increase in 5% the speed of practice, adding to the 20% speed increase from the amount of energy able to be gathered, this equated to 25% faster than his first calculations!
‘This is incredible! 25% faster speed from my second meditation, seven years of training are gone!’
Recalculating from his original answer, White realized that the 27.4 years had shrunk to 20.5 years of practice! In an instant White had bypassed an extra seven years of practice! However White quickly realized an error he had made in his calculation. There was a missing variable he had forgotten to include. The existence of the second energy.
Assuming that this was White’s maximum practice speed, he would need to spend 20.5 years to completely purify the blackish-gray energy. However the density of the silvery-white energy was much greater, meaning that the volume of the planet was in turn, much greater. White estimated based on the his observations of the density in comparison to the blackish-gray energy, that it was around five times as dense. This would in turn equate to another 102.5 years of practice, time which White would not have in comparison to his 100 year old lifespan. Adding these together, White would need to be 131 years old to become a 1000 year practitioner.
White slightly cringed at the thought that if this was his maximum practice speed, it would be impossible for him to become a 1000 year practitioner and live past 100 years old. However White had hope, this hope lay in the fact that he could potentially have not reached his maximum practice speed, and the use of monster cores to speed up his practice. Pushing these thoughts out of his head, White ate his breakfast and went to water the herb garden.
As White sat down on his bed after watering the plants, White realized he still had not bothered checking what his type’s of energy were. White entered his core and set to attempting to use the blackish-gray energy. White focused his mind on the energy, and slowly attempted to integrate it into his soul, this process is known as fusion. When the soul and the energy integrate, than the person gains the ability to use their energy.
Attempting to integrate his soul into the planet gave White a weird feeling, it almost felt like he were slowly entering into a large lake, that seemed to seemingly repel him. The fusion gave White a slight tingling feeling in his head as the process went on, almost as if his soul was taking the energy, and fusing with it, similar to making an alloy of metal. In actuality this was correct, the fusion process is similar to taking the soul and the energy and making an alloy of the two, which allows the soul the power to manipulate the energy.
As time passed the soul and energy fused together. The whole fusion process had taken only half an hour. However for White, the fusion felt like hours, or even days. Excitement could easily be seen on White’s face, and in his eyes. Focusing, White imagined a small amount of the energy taking form outside of his body, on top of his finger.
Immediately a small bubble like existence appeared above White’s finger which seemed to bend space around it. As this bubble appeared, White felt as if he could sense the area where the bubble was. White’s eyes could be seen gleaming, from the time that White had learned of the types of energy, White had already wished for the type of energy that he wanted.
‘Space Energy!’
Space energy is known for being somewhat mysterious, it can be used as a weapon, such as affecting gravity or slicing through space, or it can be used for scouting by spreading the control over a large distance to sense everything in the area. For White who had blindness, this was a godsend, even with White’s extraordinary senses, nothing could beat the ability to actually feel where things were. Space control could be used to feel things which was in essence, an even higher level of vision than sight! However with White’s current energy power, it was impossible to sense further than a foot away from himself.
White quickly manipulated the bubble and spread it out similar to a shell within a range of a foot away from himself. From stretching the bubble so thin it was impossible for others to see it disappeared and formed a sort of field. What this field represented for White, was the area in which he could feel everything in. For White, this was the first time he had ever felt an actual grasp over what the environment looked like. Previously White would make a three dimensional map in his head and move according to his past observations, however when unexpected situations arose it was hard for White to cope because he was relying on old information.
However, twenty seconds after White opened the space field, his energy ran out and the field disappeared. From exhausting all of his energy, White felt as if he had been using his mind for hours. White started meditating to recover his energy faster than passively waiting. While meditating, White realized that using his energy had actually purified his energy a minuscule amount, this would enhance his practice speed a small amount as well. Around five hours later, White’s energy had been fully replenished.
‘Some sort of attack technique… The only thing i can think of at the moment is some sort of space blade. I guess I will try that for now.’
White again summoned the small space bubble, this time instead of expanding it he tried to flatten it out similar to paper. This process is much harder compared to expanding the energy. The reason for this is because White has to keep the basic size of the bubble in order to compress the energy instead of flattening it. Flattening the energy would just produce a thin layer over a large area, but if it is compressed, it will form a thin layer in a small area. Which in turn, grants the energy toughness and the ability to be used for other things, such as a blade.
Sweat quickly appeared on White’s face as he attempted to compress the energy. The energy seemed to flatten in size, and on White’s face a sign of happiness could be seen. However instantly the compressed energy spread out into the thin layer which showed failure.
‘I shouldn't have assumed it would be so easy, especially when I have only started.’
White immediately calmed down and tried the compression a few more times, however each try resulted in failure. But within each failure, White had made progress, although minuscule. This progress made an impact on White, showing that in the future it would definitely become a success after practice and repetition.
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A month later White was sure he had reached the speed limit for his practice speed. After calculating the time to become a 1000 year practitioner, the result was 108.3 years old at the time of success. But even with this result, White remembered his earlier thoughts. Firstly he had the chance to use monster cores to speed up his practice, and secondly was the type of his second energy. Depending on the type of energy, his speed might increase which would allow him to become a 1000 year practitioner earlier than expected.
However for White, both reasons could not be applied currently, for he had no monster cores, and could not use his second energy. White had considered going into the forest to find a monster, but realized without any sort of technique mastery he would just be food for them. So White set down a plan, firstly was to practice every day and work on space compression. Secondly was to, after space compression completion, form a space blade, and finally kill monsters for their cores, in turn speeding up his practice.
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Three and a half years later, White is now 11.5 years old. He had finally achieved space compression after trying again and again. This demonstrated White’s great patience to wait for success, most would have given up after a single week, not to mention three and a half years. White smiled happily as he manipulated the compressed space, flying it around him. However for White to use this compressed space as a weapon was impossible, this space was only around 3 by 3 centimeters wide! The small compressed space quickly spread out and then disappeared.
White summoned a much larger bubble above his hand, this time with a diameter of around two feet. The large bubble quickly seemed to be compressed into a 2 by 2 foot wide square, than it was seemingly forged, into the shape of a short sword. For outsiders this space sword seemed as if the space was distorted to form a blade in midair. Manipulating the sword, White made it move towards a nearby tree and slash into the trunk.
The sword seemed to encounter minimal resistance as it easily sliced through the tree, leaving a weird cut line. The cut line was perfectly straight, but the wood itself looked almost warped, as if the space had split apart in the middle of the tree.
However this space sword had one glaring downfall, the speed. Cutting through that tree took 2 whole seconds, not including the time it took to move the sword to the tree. Thankfully White quickly found a counter measure.