Snake Spirit Form Tactic
This was the technique written on the scroll. It contained body postures you had to make, it explained that the postures would help the body open up its pores on the enabling a beginner warrior to absorb spiritual aura into the body.
That is why the body refining stage began with refining the skin, the skin was full of pores that were used to absorb the aura.
'Eeeeh, these postures are hard.' Wesley commented as he continued reading. One would need to make body movements similar to that of a spirit snake but beasts and humans had differences making it harder for a human to actually start with the technique.
If one had seen a spirit snake before, it would make it easier for him to start with the movements because one would have observed its movements, but not for Wesley. He felt it was going to take him some time to actually get started.
'I have never seen any beast in my entire life so how am I going to start training. Let me just hope that my body can actually make these difficult poses.' Wesley worried.
He placed the scroll down and made the first pose, he lied down and forced his head to touch his toes with his hands stretched out making his back tight as a full bow and the skin stretch tightly over the rest of his body.
He could feel the muscles and tendons in his body being stretched to their limits and the bones in his body felt like they would break if he added a little more force.
'Hmm'
He found that it was actually easy to make the difficult pose although it was somehow straining and felt uncomfortable for him. This was due to him having a better control of his body.
One minute, two minute, five minutes, he actually did not feel anything. 'The tactic said that I could start feeling my blood increase its flow and my skin would turn reddish due to its speed forcing the pores to open on my skin, but I I actually feel nothing.' Wesley thought as he kept up with the pose.
Wesley had forgotten that the starry body technique was also a body refining technique and not a normal one so if he wanted to train other techniques , it would be a hundred times harder.
Some of his pores had started to become blocked since one of the benefits of the starry body technique was to make the body seamless with no loss of energy.
Within thirty minutes, he felt a slight change in his blood flow. There was an improvement but it was minimal.
'How long am I going to be in this pose. No I have to do something about it if I want to see progress.' Wesley lamented in anger. He took the bull by its horns and using his fine control of his body made his heart pump faster which made his blood move faster through his veins.
As the blood flowed faster and faster, his skin started to become reddish gradually and one by one, the pores on his skin opened but it was painful since some of them had closed up. He had to force them open and this would to some damage.
When a certain number of pores had opened up, it was like the spiritual aura around him found something delicious. It swarmed into his body and infused into the skin.
'Hmmm, some parts of the skin are already tempered. Haaha' he let out a joyous laugh but had to stop since the posture he was did not allow one to talk or laugh as it would put a strain on the lungs.
'If I do this for like two days to my limits, I can actually temper all of my skin' Wesley smiled confidently.
He kept on training for two hours straight and when he felt himself becoming faint form the strain, he stopped.
His body was releasing steam as the sweat from his body was evaporated by the heat emitting from his body. His entire body was aching and he was panting like a dog, Wesley could feel that some of his blood vessels had ruptured since he had forced his blood to flow faster and forcefully opened up some of his pores.
Wesley forced himself to sit on the the stone bed and calmed his mind. He conjured a fruit from his storage ring and popped it into his mouth. A refreshing sensation flowed through his body as the energy from the fruit healed the ruptured vessels and also made them more resilient.
' If I take the fruit and train, I will get double the rewards.' Wesley came to this realization when he felt the new wonders and effect of the fruit.
After a few hours of rest, he felt his body was in tip top condition and could train again.
He made the pose again and forced his blood to flow in his blood vessels faster and faster. This time he ate two fruits before he started training and found a difference this time, fewer blood vessels ruptured and he trained for almost four hours, double the time before taking the fruits.
'whoosh' Wesley breathed out and touched his skin and felt it hard become somehow compact and leathery.
'I will continue tomorrow.' he smiled in happiness as he sat cross legged and meditated on the starry body technique even though the spiritual aura belonging to the destruction rule of the earth element was dismal at best around him, mosquito meat was still meat.
And as Wesley was progressing in his practice, some one was having a very bad day.