CHAPTER 7: CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES
The night passed with relative safety. The wolf pack in the nearby forest of the city. They were sleeping, but at a precise moment the leader of the pack.
He could feel like something had died.
At that moment his eyes filled with vicious thirst, sending a howl towards the sky.
When they arrived at the place where they were looking, they did not find the wolf, the leader of the pack let out great howls, while trying to look for the person responsible, in the end he reached where Adrian had been badly injured, he searched throughout the western part of the city, destroying several shelters in the following days, before giving an order.
He retired at that moment. But he ordered all wolves to kill any human who appeared.
At that moment even with his body on the verge of collapse, Adrian escaped and entered deeply, in one of his temporary shelters, he had done many in this part of the city. It was also good at hiding its trail, but this time it wasn't enough so before it could absorb the wolf, it had left its scent in more than ten shelters.
He understood that the wolves would be furious, but he didn't know what was more important, revenge, or what they were doing in the place where they were looking. Adrián confided that it was the latter. And it was the right thing to do. This time he was able to escape.
But he was in his worst physical condition, even missing much of his forearm and left hand.
When he was sure he was out of danger. Adrian's spiritual vein opened, but this time with the bone of his other arm, although it was difficult, now it was stronger, so at that moment he began to absorb the entire body of the wolf.
This took several minutes, until Adrián could feel how his whole body began to burn.
Seeing this sensation immediately strike a new pose, closing his eyes, and starting to cultivate. I had seen these images many times, I knew I was about to make a breakthrough.
The entire spiritual vein began to be flooded with great force. The first opening resounded with his whole body, as it burned like fire, he could feel his entire right arm burning, as well as all his flesh.
This lasted for several hours, before Adrian opened his eyes again.
"This ... this is the first level of Qi condensation" – The Qi began to travel throughout his body at a great speed, he could feel how strong his flesh had become, if he fought the wolf again, he could feel that he could kill it several times.
It was as if he was a different person, to achieve this, he had lost the entirety of his forearm. But in the cultivation technique manual, it said that if he was lucky, he could recover part of his body, of course when his cultivation is high enough. Or he could also look for miracle pills. Or ancient plants with a large amount of life essence.
Adrián did not know much about these concepts. For the moment I could only enjoy that I had finally managed to cultivate. At last he was entering the world of cultivation. But when he was congratulating himself. Suddenly a great pain hit his stomach, forcing him to vomit.
"What-what is this?" – Adrian could see how his vomit transformed into a black and viscous content, which smelled bad, and burned the floor, he also felt great pain all over his throat.
At the same time, several bruises began to appear all over her body. These hurt too much.
"What... what's wrong with me?" – Adrián wondered, he didn't believe what was happening to him, soon his body began to tremble, as if he were intoxicated, he could only calm down after several hours.
After calming down, Adrian realized that the bruises were still all over his body, Adrian thought a lot about this event, and could only relate it to what he felt every time he absorbed a living being. He could feel that aside from the coldness of the Qi there was something else mixed in. At first he didn't think much of it. But now he could feel its effects.
If it wasn't for his guesses, he knew that there was a great danger if he kept cultivating, there was something wrong with all the energy in heaven and earth. Adrian knew whose fault it was, it was enough to look at the sky.
Adrian knew that this would be a big problem, and he didn't know how to solve it, when he read the manual, this only explained to him about some pills that could remove the negative essences in the absorbed energy.
But there weren't any all over the End Star City.
Adrian thought about it very carefully, before nodding.
"Perhaps, I can find pills elsewhere" – He looked into the distance, he knew that his End Star city was only a small city compared to the others, but he was a child and had never left the city.
Before there was no problem, but now, if he didn't want to die, he needed to venture to new frontiers. There was no one left alive here.
But before leaving, Adrian started training, his body was already strong, and when he broke through to the first level of Qi condensation. He knew he could use a technique, too.
"Crushing Mountain" – According to the description of the cultivation manual, this technique allowed the user to release an amazing pressure, which could even crush low-level living beings to death.
But, this was also determined by the strength of his body, if he was very weak, using such a technique would be counterproductive. So Adrián wanted to know what such a technique did. I had to be sure, I was very cautious at all times.
When he goes outside, he controls the first opening, followed the steps explained in the cultivation manual. Before punching forward.
"Crushing mountain!" – His first opening burned as a great pressure descended in a radius of five meters around his body. This only lasted a few seconds before Adrian removed it.
"Fifteen seconds" – It was the time he could keep such pressure on. He could feel great pain all over his body, even a new bruise appeared on his back.
He knew that aside from his body, this technique of his could surprise any enemy. It was a second trump card apart from his traps with ropes.
Adrian also looked at the wooden sword. I didn't know if I could use it more easily now than before. But it seemed like that wasn't the case, he could just inject his energy inside, and wait to use it like he used against the wolf.
Adrian looked at the city, he had come to this place, just to get the cultivation technique, from a destroyed sect, now he was leaving. He looked at his home, which was in the north of the city of End Star.
He bowed, before leaving this city.
On his back, a small bag was seen with a pair of ropes, and arrows.
At his waist, he carried an iron dagger, and in his hands a wooden sword.
This was Adrian, and he was beginning to leave a desolate city. A city that received God's judgment.
As he left, he couldn't see that in the distance.
The wolves which they had been looking for for a long time. Suddenly the leader of his pack began to howl desperately, while leaving as quickly as possible. But from the rubble, a large black hand came out, catching all the escaping wolves.
Only the sound of bones being chewed and eaten could be heard. Then a golden glow came out into the sky disappearing into the horizon.
After he left, everything was calm.
By that time, Adrián was already very far away. Entering the forest, so he couldn't see any of those events.
The night was very cold for any human being, for Adrián who had just begun was also cold, but he still felt comfortable.
"I must find some shelter" – Adrián said, as he advanced towards the unknown.