Chapter 1( New World )

  "Yesterday was exhausting"

  "Errr why does my back hurt?"

  Rubbing his eyes Adam looks around.

  "Huh?.... This is not my room."

  All he sees are rough rocks. Groaning, Adam gets up and walks to the cave entrance to survey his surroundings.

  "What kind of prank is this?, where am I ?"

  "...."

  Looking around he seems to be in a cave on top of a hill overlooking a huge forest.

  While surveying the forest he suddenly hears cracking of trees, turning his gaze towards the origin of the sound he sees them:

  A boar and a snake the size of a semi truck. Adam watches them fight each other in awe. Their brawl causing devastating destruction to the forest around the two creatures.

  "Oh shit..... No fucking way"

  These circumstances feel familiar to a setting found on most novels

  "I.. I have been transmigrated!"

  "....then what kind of world am I in?"

  Redirecting his gaze back inside the caves he sees a dark passage and two books.

  He walks up to one of the them, reading the cover.

  'cultivation: the path to immortality '

  "Damn.. a ruthless cultivation world... Shit"

  He flips to the first page

  ' an overview of the cultivation methods used in the Ebonreich Empire '

  'Note: only contains the information up to the Qi condusation realm if the reader wishes to ascend above, it is highly recommended to join a sect'

  'commissioned by his excellency Siegfried von ebonreich'

  'as the movement to give cultivation opportunities to all this book is being distributed to all Stores '

  'Editor's Note: Due to the gradual decline of ambient Qi over the past 14 million years, modern cultivators should temper expectations when comparing their progress to ancient texts.'

  "Geez.. a lower cultivation world too"

  He turns the page.

  'A Word from the Compiler

  By: Archivist Elric of the Imperial Bureau of Cultivation Affairs

  Greetings, aspiring cultivator. Or... person who picked this book up because it was free.

  Congratulations on taking your first steps toward immortality, glory, or at the very least, slightly better muscle tone. This humble tome, commissioned by His Excellency Siegfried von Ebonreich as part of the "Cultivation For All" initiative, is meant to guide you through the basics of the cultivation path. Specifically, the very basics. If you're hoping for divine secrets, legendary techniques, or how to shoot lasers out of your hands—this is not that book. Please join a sect. Seriously.

  What you’ll find here is a carefully regulated, peer-reviewed, safety-verified introduction to cultivation. We’ve even updated it to reflect modern ambient Qi reduction (see page 3, footnote 17).

  May your steps be steady, your posture correct, and your expectations modest.

  And remember:

  If it starts glowing and no one told you why—it’s probably about to explode.

  Best of luck,

  Archivist Elric

  Imperial Bureau of Cultivation Affairs, Office of Beginner Enlightenment & Community Outreach

  Body mind attunement ( pseudo first realm )

  So, you’ve decided to “cultivate,” have you? Congratulations on taking your first wobbly step onto the Path. This is where you begin to realize your body is not, in fact, ready. The Body-Mind Attunement stage is less about soaring through the heavens and more about not wheezing after light jogging.

  Purpose:

  To get your body and mind to stop arguing and maybe start working together. Think of it like trying to tune a broken zither while it's on fire. Coordination, breath control, basic spiritual sensitivity—you know, the stuff ancient sages mastered in the womb.

  A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.

  What You Actually Do Here:

  Breathe. No, really. Cultivation breathing. It’s harder than it sounds.

  Stretch. Yes, the flexible do live longer.

  Do build some muscle. Just don't build too much to the point that you cannot move.

  Meditate until your legs go numb and your thoughts scream.

  Try to feel Qi. You probably won’t, but it builds character.

  Goal:

  Achieve the mystical state of “slightly above average mortal.”

  this realm is optional. If your that much talented you might not need this at all.

  Body Tempering Stage (Also known as: “Turning Your Meat Suit Into a Weapon—Very Slowly.”)

  Welcome to the first proper stage of cultivation, where you finally get to do more than just breathe and hum softly. Now it’s time to suffer physically, not just emotionally.

  What You’re Supposed to Do:

  Body Tempering isn’t just “get strong.” There’s an optimal order, because of course there is:

  1. Bones – Start here. They're your foundation. Strong bones = less chance of snapping in half mid-duel.

  2. Organs – Next up, protect the squishy parts. Heart, lungs, liver—yes, even the spleen.

  3. Muscles & Skin – These come last. Don’t flip the order unless you enjoy internal bleeding.

  How You Actually Do It:

  No, you can’t just eat more meat and do pushups. You’ll need spiritual pills or rare fruits, ideally the ones listed in ‘The Encyclopaedia of Spiritual Plants’ (Available wherever books are still barely surviving taxation under the Ebonreich Empire).

  Goal:

  Achieve a body durable enough to hold Qi without rupturing like a boiled sausage. Ideally, you'll emerge stronger, tougher, and able to leap over small fences.

  ---

  "That's it, my first priority should be to achieve body tempering so as to have even a chance of surviving"

  "Well according to the 2nd book which just so happens to be ‘The Encyclopaedia of Spiritual Plants’ that I need"

  He skims through the book until finally finding the right pages.

  'Silverroot berry'

  which nourishes and strengthens the inner structure of bone.

  and

  'Titanstone peach'

  Which hardens the outer layer of bone

  These act as a substitute for pills, the only difference being their lower effectiveness. more fruits are needed to have the same effect as a pill. While being relatively safer than the pill'

  With that he starts exploring the forest below luckily there were no beasts trying to attack adam.

  Which might be because of the fight between the boar and snake.

  After foraging.

  He finds all the fruits mentioned in the book and returns to the cave.

  The book said that eating the fruits by specific combination can be substituted for the bone tempering pill.

  So he eats it accordingly and waits to see what kind of effects it's going to produce.

  Some kind of warm energy starts scratching his bones.

  "Damn this is extremely uncomfortable and painful"

  powering through this discomfort he waits for it to end, which the effects subsided after a long time.

  "Finally it's over. This warm energy must be the so-called Qi "

  He get up not feeling that much fatigue.

  "Maybe I should try more"

  tries again after he getting up only to immediately faint, falling down face first and sleep through the night.

  He wakes up the next morning and is already feeling somewhat stronger than before.

  "I feel 50% stronger than before, I might be able to go further outside!" he exclaimed.

  There were still some fruits left inside. With that he thought he should go outside in his best since the fight between the 2 beasts might have come to a conclusion and the other beasts might have come back.

  He tried the fruits again but this time he did not faint but felt very tired.

  During this time he had a sudden thought.

  "since I transmigrated, maybe i have some kind of golden finger like a system"

  "Status!"

  "System!"

  He called every word that he could think of but nothing happened.

  "Looks like only human language has been given "

  After a long rest he got up again.

  "A +10% increase"

  "...."

  "How do I know if the limit has been reached I don't want to waste hours doing this and then discover that eating too many fruits is detrimental to cultivation"

  "...."

  "I will worry about it later Survival comes first "

  Adam went outside and found a strong stick which he used for self defence. There were no big beasts coming to eat him yet but there was a fox trying to pounce at him which he noticed behind one of the nearby bushes.

  "I have to do something about this"

  Adam lets his guard down a bit by ignoring it.

  It was a little too eager to pounce on him.

  "I guess it was too hungry "

  Anyways he bashed its head with the stick mid air. His reaction was too fast. Everything appeared in slow motion as if the world is running 70% slower.

  While it was stunted Adam grabbed it by the snout and growling at him as Adam snapped a vine from a tree and tied the fox to the stick and brought it along with him.

  After foraging more fruits which he tied in his shirt / pouch he go back to the cave

  "Now what will I do with you?"

  Looking at the tied up fox whimpering while being at this hill.

  "Well whatever I'll deal with you later, stay there for now"

  Adam ate the fruits again this time the effects were less than before so he ate twice as much and fainted again and woke up faster than before.

  " it was evening when I ate the fruits but now it's night time "

  "Maybe after a few more times this will not have any effect anymore this might be how I know my bones tempering is completed"

  Adam looks at the fox besides him tired from all the whimpering he decide to tame it. So removing the vines around its jaws.

  it growls at him.

  "Relax I am not going to hurt you"

  Adam threw some of the fruits he foraged. The fox looks at him for a few moments and starts eating them. since it's night already he ate the fruits again fainted and woke up in the morning.

  "I get this feeling that after 1 more time the bone tempering will be finished "

  But looking around seeing that all fruits are gone from eating before.

  "Looks like I have to forage for twice as more.But first I have finished my morning business "

  After taking a fat dump near the hill and covering it up with dirt after using leafs as toilet paper.

  Adam goes back to the forest to forage

  After a few hours gathering everything adam while going back to the cave on the way there in the middle of the path he sees the huge boar looking at him, freezing which the boar senses and starts charging at him.

  "It's fast!!"

  Adam dives to the side, missing by a foot and running back for the caves the boar is still chasing after Adam slowly getting closer and closer. Keep in mind Adam is running 40 mph.

  Slowly getting near the cave

  'Please don't follow me to the cave !, please don't follow me to the cave!'

  When adam reached the hill the boar seemed to have stopped there huffing. looking at the boar from a distance. Staring at each other the boar uninterested goes back into the forest

  ''Huff Huff''

  "Damn that could have gone bad "

  "The beasts don't want to come here for some reason the bigger ones don't want to either, there must be something deeper inside the cave"

  Resting in the cave eat the fruits giving some to the fox. It looks at adam for a moment again and eats the fruits it doesn't growl at adam anymore

  It looks at adam as it awakens some kind of intelligence akin to a dog.

  Adam tries to pet.

  "Grrrrr"

  "Not there yet huh".

  Looking at a dark passage inside the cave.

  "There must be something deeper inside the caves I have to check out"

  "But now is not the time"

  "My bone tempering is completed it has only been a few days. Eating more of those fruits doesn't have an effect anymore."

  "It's time to refine my organs"

  "It's fortunate that I left the specific fruit for this for future use"

  "Let's see here"

  "I have the purging sunfruit"

  "Hmmm..."

  "I have to cook the medicine "

  "....."

  "The fuck am I supposed to cook with.

  Where the fuck am I supposed to find a pot in this wilderness "

  "...."

  "...."

  "Maybe I can make a mortar with a boulder and cook with it. "

  "Hmm...."

  "Yeah I should go with it"

  The next day. With a makeshift mortar and fireplace alchemy begins.