The Ancient Order - Chapter 3 Cultivation

Tang Yu’s face showed obvious confusion and so Master Tian continued his explanation “I am a drop of blood that my master, the Ancient God, has blessed on the Heavenly Jade Talisman. I am a very small part of his intent or his ‘soul’. I will be leading you down your path of cultivation.”

Tang Yu’s showed that he understood the basic situation but he still had to ask “So you are a part of his soul? How does that work? Will I be able to do that in the future.”

The concept of having ones a part of one’s soul attached to an object was unheard of in the lower plane that Tang Yu lives in. Master Tian seemed to understand this and explained: “Only a person who has reached the Divine Transcendence Realm can attempt to attach an intent on an object. Can you tell me what you know so I can explain and fill in the holes of what you don’t know.”

Since he received the 3 Godly Items he knew that his life wouldn’t be normal anymore and so he quickly adapted to the situation “There are 3 types of cultivation: Body, Qi, and Soul. Each type has 6 different stages for Body Cultivation there are Muscle Refinement, Blood Condensation, Tendon Transformation, Bone Forging, Meridian Opening, and Body Immortal. For Qi Cultivation there is Qi Sensing, Qi Condensation, Qi Movement, Qi Revolving, Xiantian, Qi Immortal. For Soul Cultivation, there is Soul Opening, Soul Refinement, Earth Soul, Heaven Soul, Soul Scryer, and Soul Immortal. Each stage has a lower, middle, and upper stage and a talented person can follow one path fully and gain minor achievements in the other two.”

Master Tian nodded his head “Almost everything you said is correct, do you know how a cultivator would reach Martial Transcendence?”

Tang Yu shook his head, he has never even heard of the Martial Transcendence Realm.

Master Tian started explaining “A person can reach the Martial Transcendence Realm by becoming an immortal in all Types. There is a different cultivation system for those who train in all Types: Martial Apostle, Martial Master, Martial Grandmaster, Martial Ancestor, Martial Monarch, and Martial Venerable. Like normal each stage has a lower, middle, and upper stages. After one breakthrough after the Martial Venerable Stage, they reach the Martial Transcendence Realm which is the start of true cultivation.”

Tang Yu was shocked, it was a set rule that a person could only follow one path of cultivation but this notion had been turned on his head by the words of Master Tian.

Seeing Tang Yu’s shocked face go away he continued “You now have talent in all 3 ways of cultivation. We will be beginning with your inborn talents, your Reverse Spiritual Meridians are special because they allow one to have massive attack power but a person with these meridians cannot make Qi flow from their meridians to their Dantain like normal cultivators but must directly take the Qi inside of their Dantain. I will teach you the method when we start cultivating. Your second inborn talent is your Soul Dao Bloodline which isn’t awakened yet. It will only awaken when you reach the Martial Transcendence Realm and start cultivation the Dao. Now I will talk about the 3 inheritances of the gods that have merged with your body. The Golden Skeleton gives the strongest foundations for Body Cultivation and its special properties will appear once you start cultivating. The God Eye is a Soul Cultivation Treasure and allows one to attack a person soul directly, it also has the ability to memorize and scriptures and allows you to analyze formations or martial arts. The Jade Talisman is the last treasure and it is the one that links to this Soul Dimension. The Jade Talisman connects the person to the world itself allowing one to merge with the Qi making cultivation many times more effective, it also stores the Libary of Scriptures which is that building over there. If you need anything tell me and I can get you the book from the library.”

Tang Yu kept tabs of all the key points Master Tian just spoke about and he nodded his head showing that he understood.

Master Tian smiled a little “Good, now due to your immense talent I obviously have to give you the best cultivation technique. Now one thing I am going to say now is you are not allowed to share any scriptures with anybody, my 2 objectives are to teach you and protect you. If you teach someone the techniques from the library you will put yourself in unnecessary danger.”

Tang Yu nodded, he wasn’t planning on telling anyone about this, based on all the context of Master Tian’s teaching, there were probably stages above the Martial Transcendence Stage and this little world was not even close to the limit of cultivation. There is always going to be danger lurking around even if he got powerful so it was better if no one ever learns about his secrets.

Seeing Tang Yu agree Master Tian summoned 4 books in his hand “These are the 4 books I want you to start with: The Divine Mastery Cultivation Technique, the Divine Beast Martial Arts, the Soul Lightning Eye Technique, and the Illusion Shadow Step. For now, you will practice the 4 techniques in this Jade Soul Dimension and once you reach the Lower Stage Martial Apostle Realm and reach the Lower Completion Level of each technique I will let you go outside.”

Tang Yu grab the books that floated in front of him. When he saw the grade of each technique his eyes bulged out “HOLY RANK TECHNIQUES?”

The level for Martial Skills are Lower, Middle, Core, High, Peak, Holy, and Divine. The Divine Beast Martial Arts, Soul Lightning Eye Technique, and Illusion Shadow Step are Holy Rank techniques. The Divine Mastery Cultivation Technique is at the Divine Rank. The levels of understanding are Completion and Master, the levels are split between Lower, Middle, and Upper.

Tang Yu sat down under the tree near-by and started reading each technique.