I am an Eldritch Entity

Eryndor put that question to the back of his mind and continued cultivating.

He still remembered that Dr. Kirchoff had told him he would let him communicate with people back on earth at random times depending on his mood since his phone wouldn't work here.

He didn't have his phone when he landed, so it wasn't as if he could cross check what he told him.

Well, I doubt that a phone made by The Human Federation would be able to have a range till literally another world.

It is already impressive enough that they have a large enough range across several planets and even in a secret realm which is supposed to be an unstable pocket of space.

Eryndor shrugged. Dr. Kirchoff's promise about communication was part of the reason why he was working so hard.

What if Dr. Kirchoff had put some mechanism on him which allowed him to see what he was doing?

If he saw that he was still being a lazy bum, his chances of communicating with people back on Earth would lower, which he didn't want.

Well, since I'll be able to talk with people on Earth, that also means I can talk to him right? Then I can also ask him about how I can deal with the problem of the three energies being almost negligible here.

Eryndor thought of a solution and got back to cultivating.

After about an hour though, he had already run out of the pills he bought with him.

The rest are in the storage compartment in my room.

After a moment, he decided to stop cultivating and practice the last remaining cultivation art.

Azure Tortoise Shell. A defensive cultivation art which could also reflect a portion of attacks depending on the user.

This was the last cultivation art he would be practicing because the remaining two, Internal Fist and Shadowstep which were now at Qi Condensation level, weren't much different than when they were at Qi Refining level.

He already had plenty of practice and even real combat experience with them, so there was no need to repeat all of that again.

After taking a deep breath, Eryndor began controlling his Qi to travel along the route of meridians of the Azure Tortoise Shell.

This defensive art wasn't entirely passive like the majority of them out there.

Like mentioned before, it also had a reflective function.

The principle of cultivation arts was that when being used, they wouldn't consume Qi from the storage, but from the Qi which was controlled through their route of meridians.

Although there was a natural limit and couldn't be abused, the higher the Qi being controlled through the circuit of the meridians of the cultivation art, the more Qi it would consume, which meant higher output.

This was directly related to higher offensive output, higher defensive capacity, higher speed in movement art and so on.

True, the increase wasn't high enough to be categorized as significant, but it was an increase nonetheless.

Here in the Azure Tortoise Shell defensive art, when the user decided to reflect an attack, extra Qi from its respective route of meridians would be consumed.

Now the problem was, if enough Qi wasn't used, then the defensive art itself might deactivate due to insufficient Qi after the 'reflective' function consumed the extra Qi.

For this reason, when one decided to use the reflect function, it was recommended to use extra Qi in its respective route.

Eryndor practiced with this defensive cultivation art for half an hour before stopping.

There wasn't much he could do.

The reflective function needed a second person to fight with him so that he could practice its timings.

In this situation the training dummies of the training hall are a good option.

Eryndor realized that at least for this one thing, he would have to use the training hall.

With that, he concluded that he had finally mastered all the cultivation arts he currently had.

It was tiring, but also rewarding to see your strength and versatility increasing.

Eryndor popped another food pill in his mouth before heading over to the parts of the iron armored anaconda he had hidden at a certain location.

After retrieving his loot, he began walking back to the main building of the Training Camp.

The sky was already beginning to brighten up, the activity of disciples would start increasing once again.

I wonder who left the corpse there though.

Could it be that young boy?

Eryndor found himself thinking of the young boy who invited him to do the mission together when he thought back to his easy mission completion.

Hmm…first he invited me, then he also left a free corpse for me? What is he upto?

Wait nevermind. I shouldn't think too much into it, it isn't really certain that he left the corpse for me.

It could be that he was strong enough to kill both the companion snakes and only needed one, therefore he left the second one there itself.

Only set of back row teeth is needed for mission completion, the rest is simply used to sell for spirit coins.

It might be that he is rich enough and doesn't care for this trivial sum.

Yep, he really might be rich given how he agreed to buy my overpriced information without any hesitation.

It wasn't uncommon for young people to be powerful.

The basis to start cultivating was when your meridians were fully developed and you had enough cognitive capacity to memorize the route of meridians and control the Qi strands through it.

The former depended on luck and your bloodline.

The higher the cultivation realm of your parents or of anyone else in your bloodline, the earlier your meridians would form and mature. It also depended on luck to a certain extent.

As for the latter, if one couldn't even memorize the route of meridians then they obviously wouldn't be able to cultivate, the same if they couldn't control strands of Qi.

Eryndor entered the main building after dodging a few people who were looking to scam him and headed straight towards the counter.

There, he sold the parts of the snake and also retrieved the remaining parts of the six legged scaled monkey from his room before selling them off as well.

He had already learned all the cultivation arts, so there was no need to worry about traces.

Just then, he saw a master head towards the counter in a hurry.