Soon enough all of the elders and the sect master were standing in front of Naath. When the last elder showed up the sect master nodded to elder Gui who then set up a privacy formation around them all. Then he looked at Naath and said.
“Okay Naath. So I think understandably we all have some questions. Let’s just get this out of the way, obviously we all know you’re a reincarnator now. Not just a normal reincarnator either, as is blatantly obvious from that breakthrough! So then, let do an ask and answer session no?”
“Uhhhh, Yes sect master.”
Naath cupped his fist to the sect master and gave a half bow feeling sweat roll down his back thinking he was in serious trouble. That breakthrough had obviously destroyed quite a few things and ended up causing a massive disturbance.
“First of all. How did you cultivate like that?! No I don’t mean your cultivation method directly that would be beyond reasonable to ask about. Especially with your innate body of devour. I mean what way are you doing bone hardening that we clearly aren’t?”
“Oh that, haha. Sect master I promise it’s nothing complex in fact I’m sure everyone here will slap there own foreheads when they hear it. Essentially you shouldn’t just force all the energy in your bones all at once and immediately break through to the next stage. Instead once your bones are ‘full’ of energy compress it all as much as is physically possible. Then draw in more energy until full again and repeat until they absolutely cannot hold any more or compress any further. Then you add on that last little but of energy to your bones to send them over the edge and well there you go. It is worth noting that the more compressions one can get the greater the sound will be. This will tell you roughly what talent a person has for cultivation and how far they can end up going in the future.”
Naath continued on with his explanation for about ten minutes and when he was finished the elders and sect master were all flabbergasted. They never imagined it would be so simple to have greater breakthroughs and a higher energy threshold. Eventually the sect master shook his head and asked.
“So you said earlier to your faction you know how to actually make cultivation methods?”
“Yes sect master, the world I reincarnated from last time was… More than a little bit more advanced than this one to put it lightly.”
“Put it lightly? Well exactly how advanced was it?”
“Well… On my old world we had something called Science, it was essentially a unified effort of the entire world to find the deepest truths of the world in every imaginable category. We had a working understanding of the underlying laws of reality and how most forces in the universe interact with one another. We had weapons capable of destroying whole worlds without using any martial energy at all. Normal people could fly through the sky and travel hundreds of kilometers in a matter of just an hour even less with some methods of travel. To be frank sect master, this world and it’s people to me look like cave men who just found fire and are figuring out how it worked. Knowledge wise sect master I’m confident in saying that we are not just worlds apart but whole dimensions.”
As Naath described Earth more and more all of the elders slowly turned pale, hearing of things like nuclear devices, the sub atomic, about cellular biology, genetic engineering, and so much more they were frightened beyond words! When Naath mentions space travel and the ability for mortals to survive in space and go to other worlds they asked him to stop. The amount of information he was giving was simply headache inducing to all of them. They realized why Naath was able to create cultivation methods now, the foundation of his knowledge to do so was simply unimaginable to any of them. Many of the elders were drenched in a cold sweat looking at Naath less like he was a child just out of bone hardening and more like he was some cosmic horror.
After a short back and forth Naath agreed to leave some cultivation methods for the sect in the five basic elements before he left this world eventually to grow further. Then all of the elders and the sect master left except for elder Gui who stayed to say.
“Well Naath, you agreed that once you reached muscle strengthening you would become my disciple. So lets head back to my little hut shal we?”
“Eld- I mean, Master Gui, I think you are mis-remembering. I said I wanted to do it officially according to the sects rules. That means I will also have to climb the Plateau here and make my way to your hut myself, under my own power.”
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“Cheeky brat, fine you don’t want to be my disciple so badly your going to use this excuse to stall, fine. But expect a harsh training regimen because of this, oh and I will be training Brutus along side you, and you have a martial brother now yes? Baal was it? I’ll bring them along too. I don’t know why you took such a liking to people and creatures from our apparently low level world but I will try to help you raise them up too so they can leave with you. Whatever, I’ll be at the top of the Plateau so get to climbing!”
Naath let out a breath as elder Gui disappeared from in front of him and then looked back at the plateau wall. He turned his head up but he couldn't even see the top from here. It made since considering just how long it took to climb the staircase normally. Naath shrugged his shoulders and walked up to the wall and started to look around for an area where he could get a good foothold and climb up with. Then, he had a thought. He looked through his spatial ring and sure enough he found the rope he made earlier. Seeing this he smiled and had an idea that would help him climb up later on. Or rather help him to not climb later on. With everything planned out he found a good foothold and slowly started his climb up the plateau, at first it was easy and Naath had no issue climbing up, he didn’t even feel the pressure it gave off at all.
But as he kept climbing it slowly got more difficult, his muscles were starting to scream out in agony after only ten minutes. But by this point Naath was already a solid hundred meters in the air. Just letting go and resting was absolutely not an option at this point, he would loose all that progress after all. Also at just this height, the pressure was already starting to make itself known. Feeling his muscles scream at him with ever new lift upwards Naath quickly looked around for any jutting out rocks or maybe tree branches growing out of the Plateau. Soon enough he saw a rock that was out quite a bit and made his was carefully over to it. Then he tied one end of his rope to the rock and made sure it was going absolutely nowhere and tied the other end to board of wood he had left over from building his house earlier.
He quickly made a small hole in the board on one end tying the rope into it and then bracing it against the plateau. Slowly Naath put his weight down on this board and found that it could in fact stably support all of it. Then, he sat down on the board and took a breather. He began to meditate too and slowly adapt himself to the pressure he was feeling, while letting his muscles relax and recover. After doing this for an hour he felt good enough to keep climbing more so he put his ‘seat’ away and continued to climb higher for another 10 minutes before the same sense of exhaustion set in. He had to take out his seat again and find a stable spot for it to rest once more. Then after more rest he climbed higher and higher. Eventually 6 hours had passed and the sun was beginning to set on the horizon, so Naath took out his seat and tied a secondary rope to his wrist and the first rope and fell sleep on the board sitting up.
Eventually morning came and he continued his climb slowly but surely, soon enough in this pattern three full days had passed. On the third night though a harsh wind blew through and Naaths seat came loose, making him plummet to the bottom. Once at the bottom Naath cursed to himself and then went to the nearby woods to grab some more materials and make a few more things. Then he began his climb all over again. Now though, he could climb for almost 15 minutes without needing to rest. With this he made more progress much faster than before but on the fourth night, once again, he fell. Again he began to climb all over again. But it seemed like a cycle, he would climb for a few days and then he would fall and have to start all over again! After falling for the ninth time Naath felt like pulling his hair out, but he stubbornly continued trying to climb.
Finally after three full weeks he managed to make it to a point where he could actually finally see the top of the plateau! But after climbing for six days to get there he found that there were no more footholds to go up with. This made Naath go into a fit of cursing as he jumped down to the bottom again. Then he decided to just wander around the plateau until he walked past a spot and suddenly he felt a light feeling in his stomach. Here he stopped and then looked up at the wall in front of him, then without any hesitation began to climb up the wall. Beyond anything else after all, Naath trusted his instincts. At this point he could climb for a full hour before needing to stop and rest. So he managed to climb halfway up in only a day. As he was climbing this time and the pressure began to wear him down he looked for a place to rest.
He started to look around again for a jutting rock like before to make his bench as he had done many times before. But this time he couldn't see one nearby so he had to climb around and try to see one. After climbing sideways for about five minutes he came across something odd. At the edge of his vision he saw what looked like a smoothly carved surface. Seeing this he grit his teeth and bore with the muscle pain to climb over to whatever it might be. After climbing for another half an hour he felt like every muscle in his arms and chest were screaming, his legs could barely hold his weight anymore and his fingers felt like they were creaking every time he moved to another foothold. But he managed to reach that odd smooth surface, when he looked at it, it seemed almost fake. So, cautiously he put his hand against the wall, or rather, he tried to put it on the wall but it passed right through it.
Seeing this Naath grew even more cautious and pulled his other hand back out and put himself at an odd angle and put his head through. When he saw the other side he almost hollered out in joy, it was a cave! Then, without any hesitation he jumped right into the cave. When he was all the way in, he fell to the floor and instantly fell into a deep sleep, he would check out the cave later.