It's been a few months since I've transmigrated to ATG and I've been doing well for myself. Ok, not really. I've gotten myself a job though so it's not all bad. I'm the glorified Janitor-Farmer-Servant of the Xia clan. I clean, cook, take care of the clan grounds and wipe pet profound beast shit. It's certainly not glorious. Not to mention that the other servants look at me with mocking and disdain for being unable to cultivate. Even the lowliest crippled wastrel garbage trash is at least at the 1st of elementary profound and in a world where strength reigns supreme...
I haven't let them get to me though. The whole time I've been here I was formulating the best path for me to get stronger on and today, I've finished. Multiple worlds throughout the multiverse use life force as a power system which is what Ki is. However, there are multiple types of Ki. The first is Sei - ki. Seiki is pure and unrefined life force that is produced by your cells every second you are alive. You can imagine it as a light gas that floats throughout the body unrestrained. How those worlds use Ki is different which is where the different types and uses come from. The residents of Dragon Ball world gather and concentrate Seiki into the bottom half of their torso's and refine it into Genki which then allows them to fly, teleport, destroy planets, and other crazy shit. The residents of the Naruto world use a mixture of Seiki and spiritual energy flowing through pathways and channels to perform superhuman feats. In Hunter X Hunter the residents also gather and concentrate Seiki, however, unlike in Dragon Ball they don't concentrate it into one big ball, instead, the concentration is spread out on multiple spots throughout the body called aura nodes they then manipulate that aura in a certain way known as Nen. There is also Senjutsu. In DxD Senjutsu is controlling the freely floating Seiki to instead flow in another direction, thereby increasing power and deadliness. In the Naruto world, Senjutsu means becoming one with nature by accepting Natural energy into your body, becoming a Sage, and empowering yourself many times over.
I've gone through all the methods I know of from multiple worlds and combined them all into one ultimate supreme cultivation path. It covers all the bases. Soul, body, and mind are all taken into account and it doesn't require any super special organs or constitutions to use and it is incredibly powerful. The first realm is the Energy Control Realm. It takes heavy inspiration from senjutsu and is an essential foundation-building component of my future strength. Over the course of the months working in the Xia clan compound, I've been training hard. I've been doing basic strength and fitness training otherwise known as the Saitama Training Method. One hundred pushups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred squats, and a ten-kilometer run every day.
My fellow lowly servants were slightly confused but mocked me fervently when they saw me training. The people here definitely don't train and also don't understand anatomy at all. They stopped mocking when they saw the results. My body is now incredibly toned with well-defined and proportioned muscle. All the men from what I've seen are all lanky and feminine. They don't really see the need to train the body because even the first stage of Elementary Profound makes them massively superhuman, being able to carry and throw weight equivalent to a car. The result, however, is people who are lazy and arrogant. The sad part is that profound energy enhances the muscle and bone so if you have high cultivation but weak muscle you're not even at the peak of that realm. If they trained they could probably improve their strength a fold or two. Very sad.
It doesn't change the fact that people are still really strong even without training. A passerby True Profound practitioner could probably kill me with a fart. Today is my last day of training and when I unlock my latent energy. I was resting in a comfortable position on my bed in the dorm looking at my body through my mind's eye. I was observing the energy in my body as it floated around in random directions freely and unrestrained. Every time before bed I would observe and try to familiarize myself with my Seiki. Until now, my body was too weak to utilize my energy.
Slowly but surely I rotated the energy to my will. It flowed throughout my body in a uniform manner, energizing me. I leaped out of bed and ran outside. I was disoriented by my newfound speed. I was incredibly excited! The day I was working up to had come at last. Feeling the urge to test myself, I began doing my routine. I breezed through 100 pushups like nothing. It felt like I could run fifteen marathons non-stop and keep going! In my elation, I skipped over the fact that it was the first time using my energy. I crashed. Hard. I was suddenly so exhausted that I collapsed in a heap. I dragged my sorry ass back to bed and fell asleep immediately.
The next day after waking up, I began training my energy in earnest even finding ways to experiment and train while on duty. My control was growing stronger and stronger by the day. Soon, I was doing 200 pushups, then 300, then 400, etc. I began unlocking different abilities such as sensing the Ki in the environment and the Ki of others. My control over the energy was growing rapidly. In other news, Canon is quickly approaching. The young mistress, Xia Qingyue's wedding with Xiao Che is coming up in a few months. To be honest, I don't give a rats ass about Canon or any of the characters, Yun Che's harem included. Yes, they might be incredibly beautiful or whatever but I don't consider myself a lustful guy, at least not as lustful as the people in this universe. Growing up with the Internet and being able to look up porn whenever I wanted to desensitized me to beauty and sex a long time ago. Besides, my wife would have killed me if I coveted another woman, that's beside the point though.
My training came to a point that I was beginning to step into the threshold of influencing the energy of the environment. I would sit for long hours by a small stream, trying to influence the Ki in the water to flow in the opposite direction or try to influence the Ki in the air to make a gust of wind.
My internal energy is now like flowing water instead of free-floating gas. Using my Ki sense, I am able to guesstimate that my battle power is around 50 by comparing my internal energy to others. This means I'm about as strong as someone in the 5th stage of elementary profound Which is about average for the youngsters in Floating Cloud City, the city the story starts out in. In other news, my fellow bums are now starting to suck up to me after them witnessing my power first hand.
It was a sunny spring day. At that moment I was working as a field hand for the farmers, hoeing the soil while the farmers planted the seeds when out of nowhere, some of my public dorm 'buddies' came strolling up like they owned the place. Their eyes held nothing but disdain for me.
"Foreigner trash, I hear you've been causing problems for my junior brothers. Get on your feet and let this daddy give you a beating!" I will never get over their weird way of talking. I shrug in response and stand up tall. I have never even really even talked with any of these guys before so I'm pretty sure they are just making up excuses to try and bash my face in. They must feel threatened by my muscles or something.
This 'daddy' guy sneers at me before abruptly throwing a haymaker right at my mouth, probably trying to break my teeth. I narrowly dodge his attack and sweat a little from the speed of the blow and the gust of wind it caused. I take a deep breath in and out all while keeping my eyes on my opponent. I raise my fists and enter a fighting stance. While I do have extensive knowledge of martial arts, I don't have much experience, so this bout is actually pretty serious and in turn, I'll bring my all in this fight. This time he threw a kick, aiming toward my right leg. I stepped back and countered with a left jab at the liver; it connects, knocking the wind out of my opponent. I follow up with a kick to his left side. He dodges and steps back, looking at me with a more serious expression.
He gets into a modified Taijiquan stance. I grimace a bit at the stance. His hands are too far from his face to defend. I capitalize on this and send him a right cross. He tries to deflect the blow to the side but misses. It connects and sends him flying. He flips in the air and lands on his feet. He grits his teeth and rushes forward with a palm glowing with vital energy. I sidestep to dodge. He changes the trajectory, grazing my guard and leaving a future bruise. I counter with a knee to his right side as he barrels past. He trips as a result and faceplants into the ground. I rush to get on top of him. We wrestle a bit and he tries to use his superior strength to land blows. I dodge most blows but a few land. Eventually, I get him into a triangle leg choke and use my leg muscles to subdue him. I capitalize on his non-protected head and start to batter his cranium. It was at this moment when he called for help.
"Junior brothers, help me!" he manages to choke out. Seeing them rushing forward with weapons, I quickly let go of the 'daddy guy' and start running the fuck away, of course, not before kicking him in the face one last time. Even with the weapons, I could probably take one or two of them on but not four. Each of them has strength and speed equivalent to me being at the 5th stage of Elementary profound not to mention that other guy I beat up who was at the 6th stage and is probably really pissed. At this point, it's a battle of endurance. All of us are running at top speed, burning through our stamina.
It was quite the spectacle as the farmers and our colleagues stopped working to observe what we were doing and bet on whose stamina would let out first. My stamina proved to be superior as one by one the opposing team's members dropped one by one. The last ones running were me and the guy at the 6th stage.
"I, your father, swear to give you the beating of a lifetime when I catch you, you coward!" Yelled the guy behind me, whose blood vessels were apart to burst apart from anger. I swear the insults of the Chinese are weird. He basically indirectly said that he fucked my mom by calling himself my father. At least I think that's what he meant? Feeling quite annoyed with his persistence, I waited for the perfect moment to strike. It was a few minutes later when I noticed that he seemed distracted by his thoughts. Perfect. I used this opportunity to sidestep and stick my foot out. Him being distracted, he did not notice and tripped over my foot; making him faceplant and losing him a few teeth.
I cautiously walked up to him and stopped at around 2 meters. I picked up a stick from the ground and started poking him in the head to confirm if he was truly down. When I saw no movement, I relaxed and walked away back to the dorms like what just happened had nothing to do with me.
Over the next 2 months, I steadily increased my control over energy to the point I could now seamlessly control the energy in the environment. As a result, I gained control over all the energy in my body, making my battle power raise to 100 or equivalent to the peak of Elementary Profound, the tenth stage. A side effect of this is that my lifespan and time in youth increased. When someone ages some of the energy in the body escapes, accelerating the aging process even more. Now that I have complete control over my energy, none of it leaks out into the environment.
I have also started noticing a strange phenomenon. Whenever I would get past a milestone in control and thereby increase my power some kind of weird warmth leaves me. After the first time and every subsequent time after, I would check everything. My soul and mind are untampered with, and so are my body and energy. Even though nothing would happen to me, it still felt like I lost something important and profound. Weird.