20 Realisation and new memories?

I couldn't believe it, three hundred times? that is incredible! The natural ability that people have can be placed nowhere near as strong as what is gained from cultivation tools. I almost jumped up and down in joy until the stone spoke up.

"Hmm, so only three times better than the cultivation tools given to inner disciples…" it muttered.

I stood there, shocked, "Only three times better? Your saying tools are given to us?"

"Yeah, I hear a lot of things around so I know about it, everyone has a similar speed to you with tools, your only in the lead because you changed the runes, otherwise none of it really matters" It told me, and then continued on, "this world isn't the same as before, you should know that by now, I even gave you the memories of this, due to the world being able to cultivate even faster, we were able to take over land, with this place being the smallest, and weakest nation."

"Oh, so there's so much more for me to discover then…" I muttered, knowing that I had to catch up on the on the memories that the stone gave me.

"However, there is hope for you here" The stone continued, "If this is the weakest nation, than that means you can get so much more than you could have here, if you end up travelling through the nations, although I'd advise you not to not to go until you complete each checkpoint on the map."

"Wait, why? Wouldn't it be good for me to gain more things to grow in strength so I can acquire the points faster?" I asked.

"Well, you see…" The stone paused for a second, until it continued once more, "I don't have all my memories, I was down there for a long time, possibly since the beginning of this planet, wouldn't you think someone else would have found me down there? I must have just emerged, all I can really remember is that if you complete this map, you'll get another, with each part of the map unlocking my memories, and even giving you something."

"That's incredible! But you still didn't explain on why I shouldn't go to another nation first?" I asked once more.

"Oh, sorry about that! Each nations strength is far stronger than the previous nation, at least ten times that, actually, there are only really basic sects here, with a couple second level sects, but sects go all the way up to the tenth level! And each sect level is like each nation, ten times stronger than the previous level, so be careful!" The stone explained.

"I had no clue, you really have forgotten stuff," I muttered, "But I have one more question"

"Shoot, kid" It replied.

"How come you're awake so much more often now?" I asked, "Before you told me to complete the map, but you're awake?"

"Ahhh… Well, your qi was far more pure than I expected, so I expected that after you gained the map reward you could keep me awake, however I already have enough functionality from your qi, which is suspicious…" The stone went on, "How come your energy is so pure? Who was your parents?"

"I… I have no clue, I was an orphan, on the streets, until a cultivator came by and noticed that I had a deep motivation, I was working three jobs at only nine years old, all paying me only ten silver a month combined, yet I still fed the elderly who were also on the streets, I cared for others… but they betrayed me" I told the stone, bringing up sad memories.

"I'm… I'm sorry kid, I didn't mean to bring those memories up again, you might have access to my memories, but I have none of yours, I'm completely in your possession, unless forcefully removed, just know that your parents most likely already knew about bone frames and spirits, and possibly some sort of extra force as well" The stone told me.

At first I was shocked, but after everything that's been happening here, I calmed down quickly and analysed everything I've been told, I constantly ran through the stones memories, looking at how the nations were formed, and how we managed to grow so quickly as a whole. The people who awakened high level spirits and bone frames quickly grew, and decided that they would take back more territory from demon beasts, until a whole continent was formed, although other possible continents were still flooded with demon beasts, stronger than us all, even the cultivation king who just recently hit the fifth stage of the martial highness realm.

There was only one thing I couldn't get my head around. How could my parents have known about spirits and bone frames, and even the possibility of some sort of extra force? I knew that they were studying that, due to the fact the even if people had the same bone frame and spirit, and cultivated the same time, in the same area, one grew faster than the other, at almost double the pace than the other.

After analysing for maybe another hour, I went into the contribution point stand.

"It's finally time to work on mental cultivation!" I said to myself.

I walked in and spent a hundred points on mental pills, and the other hundred on some herbs for rune making. After purchasing all of this, I would be a target, thankfully I could rush home quickly since the sect's market was so close to the residential area for inner disciples. I immediately opened up a bottle and grabbed a few pills, swallowing them, and then drawing the qi from the environment into my head, expanding my martial consciousness. Mental cultivation was a very expensive path to go down, due to each pill having a limited time of use, and you can only cultivate whilst using those pills, you could say that it was some sort of special cultivation for the rich, also known as the strong.

After swallowing the three pills, my mind almost instantly entered a mental state, thus immediately entering the world of mental cultivation, when images flashed through my heads. People holding me when I was young, studying on me. I heard things along the lines of, "it's too dangerous!" or "we can't do this!" with the other voice saying "it's for his own good!" and "we have to seal it!" after hearing all this, it was too much for my mind to handle, eventually till it all disappeared, giving a splitting headache.

"Was that… My parents?" I muttered.

Cultivation: 2nd stage qi collection

Mental cultivation: 1st stage soul realm

Bone frame: 4 star morphed bone frame

Bone frame configurations: venom

Martial spirit: fifth grade yellow tier mimic spirit - ??? grade ??? tier ???