“Ugh…”
Waking up Maha sit up and looked around his surroundings. The sky is just a white space while the ground is a grassy field full of grass, trees, and vegetables. There is nothing else accept bookshelfs upon bookshelves of books behind him, where they are situated on a sleek wooden floor.
‘Lets go to those bookshelves and check them out first I guess…’
Thinking such, Maha walked towards the infinite number of bookshelves that is set next to each other like dominoes. Then when he set foot in the sleek wooden floor a table made of an unknown wood appears with paint brushes, papers, and an ink tray. Then with a flash a letter of sort fell on the table.
When Maha went and sat down at the table it gave him a feeling of extreme comfort and relaxation. He close his eyes and enjoy the feeling that he have never feels before. An unknown amount of times later, he opened his eyes and decided to picked up the letter to examine the content.
[Hello Maha, I’m glad to tell you that you passed the test that let me decide on fulfilling your wish or not. Close call though, however Guan Yu got blown up before you did, like point two seconds you know? Anyway, the main reason why I decided to actually fulfilling your wish in the first place is because I'm dying. Yes I know what're thinking ‘oh you are God so why're dying- yada yada yada’ well let me tell you what kid, the only reason I die is because I did not completely conquer time. That goddam chicken is the death of me. Oh yea its a chicken that controls time...yea I know. So uh yea, I made that room you're in, took me like a million year, anyway you will be stuck in there for the next 300 billions years kid. Oh and the reason why I did it is because I want you to become the next God, don't know why i choose you out of all people but uh yea, all the instructions are in the random golden book teaching you how to conquer time and stuff. Good Luck kid]
[Oh PS: Kill that chicken for me if you can, thank.]
‘Well, wish fulfilled but for 300 billions years...ah whatever, no point crying over spilt milk, these books will keep me company in the meantime.’
With his mind made up, Maha got up from his seat and start to look for the golden book mentioned in the letter. After about 30 minutes Maha finally found the golden book. It was actually in the envelope of the letter...well anyway Maha flip to a random page in the book.
Shlak (Book opening sound)
“Hard Body Mantra, Fast Feet Footsteps, Serious Punch Routine...Mh? Golden Rock Balls…? What the hell? Hard Abs Crun- ok what the f*ck are these titles?” Feeling like these names are scam, Maha keep flipping the book. “They're all the same! Good lord this Almighty being dude have no naming sense.”
Maha is sweating bullets from these names, but worrying about things is not his strong point, thus he just ignore it and move on with the introduction. Instead of instructions however, he only found more rabble of the Almighty one.
[Maha, you will have to learn these skills that I leave behind. Well if you want to anyway because like, it give super strong powers, move worlds and stuff...anyway there are sections in this book that tell you where to find where to find specific topics of study. Oh, and one last thing, you will have to build your foundation up using the Mortal Ascending Manual first, if you decided to do anything else.]
[Ps: Really, if you can kill that damn chicken do it for me, didn't even realize I was dying before it was too late...good luck champ]
“So it was a slow acting poison huh...a poison time chicken, sounds legit, well at least I have something to do.” Maha then do as instructed by the Almighty one, by using the Mortal Ascending Manual near last few pages of the golden book. “Hm, open your mind and try to feel a spark of energy around you before it fade away...sounds easy enough.”
Mimicking the lotus sitting position of the monks, Maha try and let go of his mind.
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‘Ok, try not to think, try not to think, try not to think…’ chanting in his head the line like a mantra, he is trying hard to feel if there is anything around himself. It did not take very long for him to feel a spark, or rather it's a fiery sun that he felt.
‘Yes! I did it! Well rather than that, why is it a sun? Mm, maybe I'm like those natural born genius in those Xianxia novels. Hell Yea!’
Sadly for Maha that was not the case, he is mediocre as mediocre can be. The only reason why is because the amount of concentrated energy of the space is so enormous that he was able to feel it in just minutes of trying.
‘Alright lets see...imagine that the energy of the spark you feel moving through your body in a circle. Heh this is so easy, why is it that when I read Xianxia they have such a hard time?’
If anyone from those world was able to hear him they would tear him a new pee hole. It is not due to it being easy, but the amount of energy in the space allowed for him to do such with no precaution because it is the purest of the pure type.
After about 2 hours of meditation, there is a mystifying ring behind Maha’s head hovering. It looks like an old gear of a giant clock full of runes, it spins clockwise with a calming hum that cause those to hear it to relax.
‘Aye, I have a breakthrough. Let see what's next...after you have successfully made a breakthrough to First Gear, you are ready to study into ways to ascend. Go find a book from section 1-547 to see if there are any specific ways you wish to ascend.’
“Huh, this is easier than I expected, let's sit a little more...man this feels so comfortable.” Maha face is in pure bliss, his face is intoxicated from the feeling of rejuvenation and fresh that he have never felt before.
After about one hour, another gear that was equally majestic like the first pop into existence from behind him.
‘Oh sh*t, better go study these books first before I f*ck up somewhere. Man that shelf looked so far...hope it would just fly to me to something.’
Maha stood up and walked towards the bookshelf with a giant 1 on it. However, he did not make it very far before the bookshelf itself fly out towards him and set itself down before him.
‘Uhhh, huh? Maybe this stuff is controlled using the mind? Let's see...I want the first manual of bookshelf 1 to be set on the table.’
Bewildered, Maha waited for the book. He did not have to wait long before a clean paper book that is almost as thin as a paper, to appears out of thin air on the table.
‘So that's how it work. Well that save me a whole lot of time...hm I guess that is ironic, 300 billions of it. Welp, let's get to reading, these books not gonna read themselves.’
Read, summon, read, summon, read, return… the process of reading took Maha about 2 years, he however did not feel that any times have passed, and that he did not need to eat or sleep. Oblivious to all these things, Maha who was reading regularly picked up a super reading skill that let him read at 1,000,000X the speed that he is reading at.
It works by using the energy to strengthen his brain to that of indestructible materials, and then split it into multiple working sections that work by themselves. It sound horrendous but there is no change to his appearance, however his brain on the inside is so complicated that it is incomparable to the human brain. It is like the comparison of a Einstein kind of mind to that of a fish, and a supreme mega military grade processor to a rusted mouse wheel.
He found that such a godly technique should have a name more befitting than ‘Thinking Manual’, so he renamed it ‘World Reader’. After learning the technique in a few days, Maha have done nothing else but read and remember for the last 2 years. Oddly enough he did not feel tired or bored in any way, more like he felt more excited, the scattered manuals before him let him envision the perfect technique for himself.
After reading over 9,000+ books he have finally grasp it, the perfect way on how to go against the heaven, but sadly there is no heaven where he is at. He have named the technique ‘Heaven Defying Ant Manual’ and they way that it is practice is very strange.
The first stage is called, ‘Egg Fried Rice’...he got hungry, but anyway, in order to cultivate this manual you will have to bond with a Ant. Any will do as long as it likes you enough that the manual glows when you put it near the Ant.
The second stage is where you will finally get to fight, ‘Worker’. If successfully cultivated up to this point a regular person strength will be multiply up to 100X of the norm. Digging rocks is like playing with flour, crushing obsidian is like playing with clay.
The third stage however, is weird, ‘Soldier’, incomparable to the name it only enhances the senses of the cultivators many times over...and that's it.
The fourth stage is where it gets fun, ‘Royal’ this is the stage where you can fly through the air unobstructed, shoot beams out of your eyes or wherever, and the more people near you the stronger you are.
Fifth stage, ‘General’ you command powers that is so fake it only happen in Xianxia, you can move mountains and split the sea like it was soft tofu.
Sixth stage, ‘Ant-Steppable’ you have transcended the mortal skin and ascend to a higher realm. The next stages are as such ‘Saint’, ‘Sovereign’, ‘Overlord’, ‘Ant Hill Lord’ and lastly ‘Can't Touch This’.
Where did the ant at the beginning go you say? It was just you paying tribute to the creature that help you transcend. It did not matter, step on it if you want.