*There's been some updates with the previous chapter, I suggest re-reading the part about the Limit-Breaker realm if you already read the last chapter before this chapter was published.*
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Looking at his parents, Cyrus cannot help but be happy.
"Mother, Father"
"Sit down," said Cypher.
Seeing their son so happy, they already know why he's so happy.
"Cy, how was your lesson?"
Asked Elena.
"It was fun mother," said Cyrus as he sat beside his mom.
As Cyrus talked about all the things he had learned, many servants brought food to the table in front of them.
The 'table' is a floating round flat surface with beautiful designs.
As all the food is placed on the table, a blue light flashes from the bottom of the table and covers the food.
If one looks under the table, one can see different arrays working together to keep the heat trapped in, so that the food can remain warm while enhancing its aroma.
As they eat the food, Elena asks Cyrus.
"When are you heading to the library?"
"Right after dinner Mother"
"Cyrus, after you learn the basic knowledge of cultivation, I plan to teach you in the way of the spear"
"But father, I don't want to learn the spear"
"Like I said husband, he'll learn the way of the sword from his mother."
Elena said smugly before anyone could say anything.
As Cypher looks angrily at his son, Cyrus responds.
"I don't want to learn the way of the sword or any other type of weapon."
As his parents look dejected, Cyrus continues.
"Only when my body is the strongest weapon and I can use all my body skillfully can I truly feel strong"
Since he almost died on the day of his birth, Cyrus knew only through true strength that belongs to him can he stay safe, anything else is just an accessory and temporary.
"Sigh"
"You're grandfather and uncle will be very disappointed, they wanted to teach you the way of the saber"
"I plan to fight only with my body and self-cultivated power," Cyrus says determinedly.
As they eat their food, they converse about Cyrus's plans and the past five years.
As soon as they're finished, Cyrus heads to the library.
The Magnus family library is one of the tallest structures in all of Primal-1. It is 35 light-years tall and divided into 11 sublayers, with each layer getting smaller. For a family that has existed since the beginning of the universe, they have collected an enormous amount of books, scrolls, and other objects that contain knowledge. In addition, the Magnus family has cataloged and written many documents.
The first layer is the largest. It contains knowledge from all walks of life and civilizations.
Only starting from the second layer does one gets detailed explanations about tier one. Be it cultivation notes from many beings about their experiences in the Limit-Breaker realm, or information and knowledge about tier one level professions such as Alchemy, Forging, or Arrays, all until the 10 layer which contains information regarding tier 9, whilst layer 11, only Great Perfection Law Body Realm Monarchs can enter that level. The library itself is a half-step divine artifact so even Great Perfection Monarchs can't force their way into any floor without the right access.
Two years passed in a flash.
For the past two years, Cyrus has spent most of his time in the first and second layers of the library. Learning all he could about the universe and the first realm of cultivation.
During this time, Cyrus is sitting in a large room. This room is surrounded by many arrays that cause no sound or information of any kind to flow in or out while increasing the density of cosmic qi.
Cyrus sat cross-legged in the middle of the floor with a scared look on his face, people who have seen him over the past two years would often notice such a look on his face. After a couple of hours, he calmed down and had a determined look.
Cyrus is now seven years old and it's finally time to start cultivating.
For the first realm of cultivation, there is cultivation technique, although certain knowledge is required to successfully go through each grade without any problems or damaging one's foundation.
The limit-breaker realm is divided into three stages.
The Awakening stage, the Limit-Breaking stage, and the Meridian Opening stage.
The awakening stage makes up the first 3 grades.
The Awakening grade, Inner Tempering grade, and Sense Awakening grade.
To enter cultivation, one must first awaken their blood qi.
Blood qi is a special energy that exists in one's blood and nourishes one's body. The stronger the blood qi, the stronger the body's overall abilities. However non-cultivators blood qi are in very small amounts, even for the strongest non-cultivator it is hard to sense their blood qi.
To sense one's blood qi, one either got to have a strong soul or a strong body nourished by cosmic qi and medicines throughout their younger years which only top powers can provide in mass, otherwise, like most cultivators in the universe, they spend most of the time strengthening their body through exercises before sensing blood qi at the peak of their physique between the ages 14-20.
Cyrus' soul is innately strong and unique, and he could've started cultivating the moment he was born if he knew how to, not to mention the large amount of innate energy he absorbed during his time in the womb and constant medicinal baths his mother and Sarah gave him every day, only with some low tier one herbs and the large amount of cosmic qi constantly nourishing his body.
Since the birth of the universe, Cyrus' amount of bloody qi before starting cultivation is top 10 and not on the low end, those other beings are those who either had one of the top 3 physiques or experienced some lucky adventure before starting to cultivate, the innate energy he swallowed played a large part in that.
Thinking to himself, Cyrus can't help but shake his head,
He thought about cultivating similar to how he did in the womb but looking at it now, he is sure that he would have exploded if tried.
To sense one's blood qi, one has to calm their mind of all distractions, for some, it's simple while for others it might take days, weeks, or even months.
Sitting down, Cyrus takes in a deep breath, closes his eyes, and calmed his mind.
Seconds later he felt as if he was back in the womb, calmed and relaxed with no worries.
In this state, his mind descends into his body as he senses red color dots in different areas of his body flowing in his blood. Sensing those blood qi, Cyrus knows that he's only halfway there, next, he must pull all those red dots into his heart so they can all combine into one.
As this part usually takes the longest when breaking into tier one and one must be extremely careful.
Cyrus has to pull each blood qi dot into the heart, this process length is longer the more blood qi one has but more benefits always require more work, one cannot stop until the blood qi dot they're pulling is in the heart otherwise they'll suffer a minor backlash from moving the blood qi, which will cause breaking through to take longer.
As Cyrus pulls each dot of blood qi through his blood vessels closer and closer into his heart, he has to stop every couple of dots so he can eat and restore his mind to tranquility.
Five months later.
Feeling the last blood qi dot flowing into his heart, Cyrus is ever so careful.
As all the blood qi dots are combined into one round ball of energy in his heart like a dimly glowing red sun, Cyrus felt a shackle break as he feel like he is now able to control the ball of blood qi to flow blood qi throughout his body, of course, he won't do that yet.
Now that he has all his blood qi in his heart and broken to the awakening realm, the next step is to strengthen said blood qi through eating, preferably meat, and use the blood qi energy ball to absorb nutrients and strengthen itself. After it has strengthened to a certain level then he can break through to the second grade, inner tempering.
Being in a room all alone for five months will take a toll on anyone doing it for the first time.
As Cyrus leaves the room, he plans to relax his mind, talk with some other people, and read some books as he strengthens his blood qi energy ball.