While the world was moving as usual, with mortals that were going alongside their own plans. The night in the camp was becoming rather unsettling as words from the guards had been delivered to the villagers, to be ready and to go at any time.

But while the villagers and the guards were anxious about the upcoming crises on their heads, a certain someone appeared to sigh as though his own crises had just passed away.

“I thought they were never leaving.”

[Kid, now that no one is here to get in our way, you can take a break. But speak using your mental consciousness. You don’t want anyone to overhear you and think of you as mad or strange don’t you?]

[Ah, yes, yes, you are right. Now that I have done three times a hundred of the small personal strands of energy, I can finally relax.]

[What? Sorry, you said three times a hundred, you mean three hundred?]

[That's what he said.]

[Yes, that's what I said.]

[Wait. Just to confirm with you, do you know how much is a thousand and a billion?]

[Yes, it is many times a hundred.]

[Oh, poor me, what have I got myself into.]

[ [Ahahah, yes my disciple, today a hundred tomorrow thousand and billion. Hahaha, fate is indeed in love with irony, a smart old man with an ignorant child for a disciple. Hahaha this is not about teaching him the hardship of the cultivation, but making him realize, or maybe you, about ignorance.] ]

[ [Shut up, if you're not going to help.] ]

[ [What is there to help for, just tell him to use his personal energy to steal the energy of the world, if he's too slow to arrive there. If he becomes drunk on arrogance, we just need to smack him on the head a few times, that's all.] ]

[ [Alright, I give up, this is unbecoming of my status.] ]

As the voices were talking between themselves, and little Levis was just enjoying his free time off the constant pain and boring regime of a cultivator, a bad premonition took him, as the voice began to speak with him once more in the same tone as before starting everything.

[Kid, question time! You know about the body, consciousness, and dantian but, how are you going to cover for these, when you are going to show feats that only a cultivator can do?]

[I-I don’t know. Am I not going to hide away from other cultivators if that is the case?]

[No, I told you what a cultivator is, but since you'll show enhanced physical strength and physical reaction, a strong mental consciousness, and in time energy usages from the element classifications, if you don't show up as one of them, you'll just be like a corpse attracting butterflies, so you need to show a mental sea of consciousness, a body that's strong but not too strong, a weak regenerative ability and a dantian that acts as your energy core of power.]

[Alright.--- How do I do that?]

[First, use the strands of energy, and form a dantian linked to the lower part of your heart and make the energy follow the movement of your blood.]

[But I will lose all the strands of energy!]

[It doesn't matter, do it! Make a ball of energy and then constantly send strands to follow the blood circuit.]

After being rebuked by the voice, little Levis did not have any other choice but to follow the orders. As he took the strands of energy and made them move toward the warm and forever beating organ that was his heart. While the strands of energy were arriving, he began to put all of them together at the base of his heart as per the instructions of the voice.

[Good, now send strand by strand, to follow the blood out and then in, this is how cultivators normally circulate their energy to enhance their body.]

As the strands were moving following the blood, pumped through the arteries and then returned via the veins, into the ball of ethereal energy that could not be seen, but just sensed as a form of mysterious and unknown force.

[Good, now you can pass as a cultivator if anyone were to inspect you. Well with the amount of energy you have it can’t even be said that you are a cultivator, as the amount is so minuscule that is ridiculous. Now, as I don't want to begin spouting curses, take a strand of energy and return it to your lungs, and then use that strand to hit the intake of the external energy.]

[Ok.]

As the sequence of actions took place inside the body of little Levis and as the strand hit the energy, to his surprise the amount of energy returned in double.

[This.!?]

[Continue! ---Again!]

But as the second round took action, the amount of energy returned became almost double again, surprising him to no end.

[There is no need to act so surprised, this is what I had anticipated your cultivation to be originally, I was just waiting for you to arrive at, but who could have predicted that you would go in the opposite direction. The method to grind your personal energy using your consciousness is just to start cultivating, even normal cultivators would arrive at the conclusion of that being a bad approach once they would have gone at it for ten times, but you had to go for three hundred times like a dumb bull. Well I’ll give you some points for your stubbornness.]

[Ah, that I—, a— I had no idea.]

But embarrassment was the only thing on little Levis's face as he had nothing good to say in his defense.

[No need to get embarrassed. It was me that overestimated your capabilities and knowledge. From now on I'll think of you as nothing more than an undersized pup.]

[What?]

However, all the embarrassment was drained away at the insult of the voice, as a placid look took its place on his face.

[Now continue, and also resume crashing your whole consciousness at the external energy, this will toughen your mental prowess.]

[But-but there is no need, it will just be more pain, now that I can expand faster the absorption rate of the energy.]

[No, you need the pain to remember that you are no different from yesterday, just as vulnerable and weak, you need to be always prepared for what’s to come.]

[What's to come?]

[If you are thinking of taking revenge you must also be thinking of what will happen when you’ll be injured, if you keel over the first hit you take, you can forget about taking revenge.]

But as the word revenge came into their conversation, resolution ultimately appeared on his little face.

[Alright.]

[You know---, most cultivators start cultivating because of their needs and wants, regardless of being forced or not, after all, as long as there is something that you want to achieve, you’ll need power and influence. Ultimately words can only take you so far. You are innocent out of your ignorance, but in the world of the strong, you are a sinner for not wanting and searching for more power. Especially, in the world of cultivators, where the strong can indiscriminately kill the weak without any repercussions in doing so. After all, what are the ants at your feet when you walk over a mountain?]

As the words began to circle in his head, while starting to slowly understand their meaning, solemnity and seriousness was the feeling he was having as though a simple boy receiving his first-ever true teachings.

[Do you understand?]

[I think so.]

[Well it matters not. You will learn as you’ll grow and meet more people. Now with a dantian formed, you only need to put all your consciousness except your head dormant or make it all of it gather up in your head, to give the impression you have a normal sea of consciousness, as for your body, if it starts to heal itself rapidly, just force it to slow down or stop it completely, as long as you have someone next to you or you need to make it for appearances. That should cover you for the moment, as for tribulations will talk later as you are barely a cultivator.]

[So now I can start to take revenge for grandpa and grandma?]

[Take revenge? Kid tell me. Don't you feel like you are a leaf.]

[What? What do you mean?]

[Hmm, just because of a little snow and wind your life has been pushed in ways that you couldn't even rebel against. So don’t you feel like you are a leaf? You are not even an ant. Just the whims of a random cultivator had turned your life upside down, and had your grandpa and grandma killed as a consequence, while you are still talking about some weak bandits when you are not even looking at the root of your problems here.]

[What are you trying to—.]

[KID! The time of ignorance is over. Let me tell you what you still don’t know or are just blindly ignorant, this is what I heard and deduce when I eavesdropped on that little soldier boy. The “snow” that this region had suffered, it is more likely to be the cause of a cultivator and not a natural disaster.]

As the information hit little Levis, his mind became confused as the murders of his grandpa started to be associated with the snow that he had seen months ago and with a mysterious figure that he had yet to know.

[ [Are you sure this is a good idea telling him all of this? Are you not putting too much on him?] ]

[ [Killing some bandits that are not even at the Immortal stage doesn’t even count as a goal.] ]

[ [For him it is.] ]

[ [Exactly because it is, I need him to look further than just the bandits.] ]

[ [ You said not to control his life, but aren’t you pushing the way you want by doing this?] ]

[ [This is not control, but merely pointing the way for him to take his revenge.] ]

[ [If you believe this is useful, then alright. But if things will start to go in a bad direction then I'll intervene.] ]

But as the voices in his head were communicating, little Levis was contemplating over the new revelation that had been given to him, as the figure of somebody so powerful and distant was created in his mind, that he had no idea of how to begin to think of getting his revenge and express all the emotions from all that he had gotten thru ever since the day of his most close relative dying. In the end, he had no choice but to address the only person or thing that could help him.

[So---. Can you help me kill him?]

[I can.]

[When?]

[If I understand it well about whom is that you are trying to go after, I think in twenty years you can most likely do it without any problems.]

[That's too long. I want to do it now.]

[Kid, I will not do it for you. And if you start absorbing energy at a fast rate while not taking some time to get used and to control it well, you have no idea what can happen to you, in the best-case scenario you’ll become a mess as your body will destabilize and parts of yourself will just explode randomly, In the worst case a total explosion out of extreme instability, this is something even normal cultivators have to deal with, as the instability of a dantian can put at risk their life as a cultivator.]

[T-this—.]

[Scared? Well, ---hmm, this is something I was going to tell you later on as it is something you need to do, but there is a special way for you to do it. However, this is something that I truly don't want you to do, because this could backfire and have you killed or even worse—.]

[When can it be done, the fastest and most safest way? It's not like I want to die either. It does ---not matter, as long as I can do it, I’ll do anything.]

[--- I’ll tell you, however, not now. You have to arrive at a decent level of power before we even speak of it and you have to arrive at it while in the human society. This is not anything difficult as I’ll be with you, but if you make any big mistakes I'll just let you grow normally. The time limit is one year, I’ll decide in one year's time if you are prepared.]

[Alright, one year and you’ll tell me.]

[I’ll tell you only if I think you can do it.]

[Yes.]

[Now sleep, tomorrow will be a big day, and continue to steal and refine more energy using only your personal one, you can cut the mental consciousness.]

[Alrigh—.]

But just as he received permission to sleep, he fell onto his back as he begin to automatically refine more energy. As he was sleeping, his posture and face were a mess of laziness, as the mental fatigue had been stressing him non-stop with things that never stop and constantly hit him without a break.

[ [You really want him to—.]

[ [I will not let him be put in danger if things go out of control. If you try to do anything, do not wonder why—, I will not let him become like — .] ]

[ [I understand—.]

While in deep sleep and with a mechanical repetition of breaths, little Levis was having a weird dream as the two voices in his head were speaking to one another but the phrases were incomplete as some words were too far to hear. But as the dream was fast, his sleeping time was just as fast, as he found himself being wakened, as someone was shaking him.

“Wake up, Levis. It's time to go.”

“Who—? What?”