Jack's POV
"Jack, Jane you two come here" grandma Kate said
we approached her and she starts talking
"a few months from now the Military training camp will start and they will be recruiting people from all over the city including here in our secluded village" she said
"what is this military training camp grandma Kate?" i asked innocently as to not get suspicious
"well it is were all people who dream to become warriors train and prepare in order to serve our Kingdom" she said
"REALLY?!! so that's why you also called Jack here after all Jack really wanted to start cultivating and become a warrior" jane said while giggling
"HAHAHA of course that's my dream i mean who doesn't want to become a warrior and serve our Kingdom" i said with a proud voice
" yes that's right so i have to inform you two that you must get this chance to join the training camp, they only provided 5 seats for our village so you have to prepare for 6 months do you get me?" grandma Kate said strictly
"Wait but grandma who will take care of you here if me and jack leave, you will be all alone" she said obviously worried
"what do you mean alone i have my own friends here too you know and also you speak as if you are sure that you will be chosen hahaha" she said while laughing loudly
"hmmmph"jane pouted in embarrassment
"grandma will the camp send someone to fetch us" i asked
"yes also they will be the one who will test if you are qualified to go to the camp or not"
"so now lets all eat before our food gets cold" she said happily
'i should just enjoy it while I can, after all the following 6 months I'd be eating noting but fruit or beast meat' i thought
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The Next Day
'what should i bring? ahh right i nearly forgot there was an iron sword behind cabinet although its not a graded it's pretty much all i have, i can still kill demon beast with....right?
First i should find my base here in the forest after all I don't want to keep searching for a new place everytime
I bid farewell to Jane and Grandma Kate and told them im gonna train in the Mountain areas in order to prepare for the test
after a few hours of walking i finally found a place to say for the rest of months
it's a cave near the river it's also surrounded with trees, that itself acts as a natural shield
after that i looked for dry woods in in order to make fire and also for traps that i will be making
now i should start cultivating, in order to start cultivating you need to temper your body, In order to enter Body refining 1st stage i need to strengthen my skin and also start absorbing qi in the surrounding
the first 3 stages of body refining focuses on strengthening the skin and hardening the muscles, if you reach the 3rd stage you will gain a strength of 15 Boars
after that 4-6 stage is the reinforcing of the bones, if you reach the 6th stage you wil gain strength of 30 boars
then 7-9 stage is strengthening of your internal organs, if you reach the 9 stage you will have a strength of 45 boars
well 45 boars is the limit of the physical strength a Body refining practitioner can obtain
Except me of course the people didn't really know, but in order to reach 50 strength of boars you have to strengthen your skin, muscles, bones, and internal organs with Qi
at the body refining stage you can absorb small amount of Qi, you need to guide your Qi and slowly circulate it in your meridians
right now im and absorbing qi and slowly in order to clear my meridian and reach the 1st stage of Body refining
each human body has 12 major meridians it includes, lung meridian, pericardium meridian, heart meridian, colon meridian, triple warmer meridian, intestine meridian, bladder meridian, stomach meridian, liver meridian, spleen meridian, kidney meridian, gall bladder meridian
as of now i am trying unlock the lung meridian in order to increase my breathing capacity and allowing me to absorb more amount of qi
BANG, BANG, BANG!
I finally cleared my lung meridian now im officially a Body refining practicioner
now i can start cultivating the Immortal Shadow Divine Body it says in order to reach the first stage i should cultivate directly facing the sun and start forming my shadows body
Thank god it's noon and the sun is shining brighter, so i climbed up the cave and stood up there
i felt the heat of the sun spreading around my body
so i started to forming my shadows body, after it is formed it will detach from me making me loose my shadow, so even if the sun is glaring at me they will not see a shred of shadow at my back because if i finish making the shadows body it will be like my clone, it's just that it's made of shadow
as i started forming the body i notice my shadow moving by itself even though I'm not moving, this means im close to accomplishing it
then like some sort of magic my shadow started to detach from the ground and slowly it forms it's real body
YES finally i reached the 1st stage
at the first stage my shadow will only have a black body, no face, and will have a same height and body structure as me
at the second stage it wil have my appearance yet its body is still black
at the third stage it can transform into anything i willed like sword or dagger or spear and etc
Also i can even will it to have my exact appearance, the black shadow body that it is made of will disappear and it will now look like a real human
now that i have formed my Shadows body i can start hunting for Demon Beast
[6 months left before the test]