Chapter 41 - Strengthening The Foundation

At the crack of dawn, Li Jie woke up from his sleep, he felt pleasantly refreshed, it was as if he was invigorated with strength, he sprung up from his bed.

The first thing that he did was to sprint which helped him in loosening up of his muscles and after that, he would perform various physical exercises, which were mentioned in the "PERFECT PHYSIQUE REFINEMENT Technique".

After Li Jie completed his sprint, he then started to perform various body movements which were peculiar, and to increase the difficulty, he will have to wear weights while performing those special exercises, and after every completion stage, he will have to increase the weight as he will be handling this in a way, to absorb more and more bloodline energy which is collected in his chest and only after every upgrade of his realm, will the difficulty of the exercises as well as weight increases.

Li Jie performed those special exercises mentioned in the "PERFECT PHYSIQUE REFINEMENT Technique", without the use of weights, yet he looked to be in a high amount of pain and he was sweating buckets.

While performing the exercises, Li Jie at first found it to be easy, which made him feel that he should be using weights, but there were time limits mentioned in the manual for each exercise, which Li Jie had to follow.

It was only after some time that he started feeling pain while performing these exercises, and it was hard for him to fathom, how can such an exercise with weird movements hurt so much.

After completing his physical exercises, he was utterly exhausted, where it was hard for him to even move, let alone standing up, so he dragged himself through the floor and went to wash himself, as he was reeking of sweat.

After washing up he felt refreshed and flexible, he then went towards a punching platform, which can be used to test a person's strength.

Li Jie punched at the metal plate, which was to be punched, for checking of a person's strength, which showed 5000jin!!!, this punch of his was comparable to that of master stage.

He felt accomplished and good towards his increasing strength and now he wanted nothing more than to improve more and more and also officially start his path in essence energy cultivation.

According to his master, while body refining gives tremendous strength to a person's physique it is still not learned by many in this continent, it is due to the tremendous benefits as well as the most popular choice of cultivation is that of essence energy path because it is an expansive and wonderous path to be upon, for example, cultivators can fly starting from the Essence Refining stage while those of the same stage in body refinement cannot, many mysteries have been discovered by many and is still being discovered and improved, whether it be various techniques or cultivation techniques, the only sad part is that the path of cultivation is restricted by bloodline, while bloodline gives a tremendous boost to a person's talent and fighting power, it has it's own shortcomings, one of which is that a person cultivating a fire type bloodline cannot learn a cultivation technique of any other element.

It is the same with other elements as well, except for those bloodlines having a variant affinity, like gravity control of the Li clan which resonates most with the earth element, for example, those who have bloodline with an affinity of gravity control can also train in earth elemental techniques, as well as those of earth element bloodline, can also learn gravity control techniques.

Whereas for Li Jie who has no bloodline and also has no affinity, for which his master mentioned to him about creating an affinity for himself, which of course won't be easy and he will have to have patience and work hard for it.

Mr.Teacher told Li Jie, that he will have to learn a thing called sword intent, which Li Jie wasn't able to understand as to what it is, according to his master, when the time comes he will know and that will be when his journey into the essence energy cultivation will start.

Li Jie recalled when his master taught him about the stages of cultivation in detail where, from student to grandmaster stage, a person will keep increasing his body constitution and perfect his martial arts, by having a strong body which also means having a strong foundation helps a cultivator in absorbing more essence energy efficiently, whereas those with weak constitution might get crippled on the path of cultivation or they might get stuck at the same stage for the rest of their life, that's why those with higher grade bloodlines are preferred considerably more, as higher bloodline apart from providing strong abilities and talent also provides an increase in body constitution, the higher grade a person's bloodline, the higher body constitution they have.

Which is the reason why Mr..Teacher was happy that Li Jie was able to get the "physique refinement technique", which has the highest body constitution in the same stage of cultivation, by practicing this technique, he can have the strongest foundation one can ask for in a cultivator.