Chapter 11 - Fundamental Force

A/N A shorter chapter here. I had a bit of a writer's block this chapter so please bear with me.

I received a massive scolding from Wu Zhangkong when I got back to the academy. I had to make up an extremely well-crafted lie in order to appease him.

In the end, I was punished with having to go ten ŀȧps around the academy on my hands while wearing a 100kg metal shirt. To me, it wasn't even considered a punishment. It felt more like an inconvenience than anything else.

After I was done, I headed to my dorm room. Cheng Yan had dropped out of the academy after suffering from Wu Zhangkong's hellish training so I was the only one in that dorm room right now.

Entering the dorm room, I locked the door before sitting down cross-legged in the middle of the room. When I had opened the gate of wisdom, my third eye was hit by a horrible pain. I didn't know why I had to suffer so much for the sake of 'wisdom' before but I did now.

Simply put, it was the process of ȧssimilation. In that strange space, my third eye had to withstand the pressure as the 'wisdom' rushed into it. Another way to say it was that my eye was absorbing a law.

Now what was the wisdom I gained? To answer that question, it was the comprehension to make use of one of the four fundamental forces of the universe.

As for which force, it was the force produced by electrically charged particles. When one hears this explanation, they should know the name it goes by-

Electromagnetism

And it's completely broken.

Why? Well that's because other than things governed by gravity and nuclear forces, literally everything else one can think of is governed by electromagnetism.

Friction manipulation? Inertia manipulation? Repulsion and attraction powers like Pein from Naruto? Did I mention controlling the EM spectrum?

With electromagnetism, it can all be done and even more.

Opening my third eye, I could sense the electrically charged particles in the atmosphere. I summoned my martial spirit, Sharp Blade, before placing it on the floor.

I created an intense localised electric field and used it to lift my martial spirit. At my beckoning, it slowly began floating off the ground shakily. Slowly, It floated to a height of just over two metres before I ran out of stamina.

The blade fell to the floor with a clang as I sat there drenched in sweat and my breathing heavy. Although I had complete knowledge on how to manipulate electromagnetism, I didn't have proper control.

My ability to use my 'wisdom' depended on two factors: how much stamina I had and how much of the power my body could handle. I needed to practise control in order to reduce my consumption of stamina and reduce the burden of the power on the body.

With my body now out of stamina, I couldn't continue practising. However, what I could do was cultivate.

Although I wanted to jump straight into bodily cultivation, my recent experience had shown me that spirit power was actually quite important. If I didn't have spirit power inside that strange space to recover stamina for vital energy, I might have really gone insane.

As I absorbed spiritual energy, I quickly neared the peak of Rank 11 before easily breaking through to Rank 12. By this time, I had already recovered most of my physical vigour.

I took a look at the time, noticing that it was almost 6PM. I closed the third eye before leaving my dorm. I needed to go get another bandana. The previous one had disappeared with the wind.

Going back to the same stall as before, I purchased a bandana that looked exactly the same as the one previously. I had grown quite fond of the colour orange since I started wearing the bandana.

I handed the amount required for the item. When I did so, I noticed that I was actually running quite low on money. Although I didn't really need lots of money right now, it was better to find a source of income in case of a rainy day.

I walked through the market as I thought of how to make money. There were quite a few possibilities in my head.

Maybe I should go apply to work as a blacksmith? I'm sure with my analytical skills I can quickly become very proficient in that line of work. I've heard the pay for each refinement is really high as well.

But earning money through blacksmithing is really time-consuming. I have to put away time for practising my 'wisdom', cultivating my body and my spirit and practising martial arts. I really didn't have enough time to do so.

Not only that, I'm not particularly interested in hammering metal for hours at a time. For some reason, a part of me abhors having to do so.

Maybe I could steal some? Not from good people of course, only from the bad ones.

However, that was a bit far-fetched as well. The bad people worth stealing from in this city were all quite influential. They definitely had really strong security that I couldn't bypass at my current level.

Though, that might not be the case in two months.

I decided to head back to the academy after this. Before I could do anything, I needed to obtain information about those people I would be targeting.

I guess I'll be having my hands full for the foreseeable future.