Chapter 17: Back on Track
After James calmed down and his frenzy was over he decided that he would just take a bath in the opening in the stone he had just created, made specifically for a bath. As James was taking a bath something seemed to have clicked in his mind. He knew what was the problem but at the same time he didn't want to admit it.
James figured that he should take a break so that he could get his thoughts in order. Ever since he had been reincarnated into this world his thoughts have been all over the place causing him to make decisions that weren't necessary.
James felt that he needed to figure out what it was that he really needed to do right now. What he was doing so far was just childish, he was acting as if he was a child that was reincarnated into a new world and just wanted to do whatever came to mind. His mind had automatically gone towards a direction that was childish because he didn't want to admit that his old life was over. Deep down he really just wanted this all to be a dream but at the same time he knew this wasn't a dream.
James needed to take some time to sort out his thoughts so that was what he was going to do. After a certain period of time that James didn't know, he wanted to be able to confirm that he was in another world and that he currently had no way of going back.
After an unknown amount of time James had finally figured out what it was that he needed to do, he needed to get stronger. He was no longer in a world of peace, he was in a world of violence. If he didn't get stronger he wouldn't be able to survive in this world. He didn't just need to get stronger physically but mentally too. If he was going to live in this world and cultivate he was going to face many situations where the answer isn't clear and he needed to have the right mindset to get past those problems.
James currently didnt know how he would go about increasing his mental fortitude so he didnt linger on that idea for long but what he did know how to do was to increase his cultivation. First he wanted to atleast get to the qi condensation realm so that he would have some strength but he knew that that was only the beginning. He was going to have to get much stronger than that to be able to protect himself. The first being that he met in this world that had intelligence could wipe his existence with a simple gaze.
He wanted to get stronger so that he wouldn't be in that situation again, but he knew that it was going to take time and difficulty. Cultivation couldn't be completed overnight, it was going to take him time to gain strength. His first plan of action was to create a plan of action.
As James thought about it he noticed that now that people know where he lived he would have to move. Although they looked like they wouldn't try to do anything to him he had to be careful since he never knew what their true intentions were. He would have to move somewhere else where he could live in peace and quiet so that he could raise his strength.
He knew that it wouldn't be that simple but for the time being there were more important matters. Before he moved he wanted to be able to reach the qi condensation realm so that he could move further into the forest.
From what he could infer based on the creatures around him and the information he has from his past life there was a high possibility that he was on the outskirts of the forest. Usually the deeper into a forest you go the stronger the creatures would be, since he was only encountering very low leveled creatures he knew that he was at the very outskirts of the forest.
To be able to find a place where he could train his skills, get stronger, increase his cultivation, and not interact with humans, he had to move further into the forest. Since his strength was insufficient for even the place he was in right now he had to increase his strength.
As he went further into the forest he would find stronger animals creating an environment that was incredibly dangerous but at the same time very helpful. If he went further in there was the chances that he could find items that could help him in his cultivation journey, usually there were treasures in a forest in the novels he read so he wanted to find some of them. Although he wasn't completely sure if that was correct he figured that he would need to head in further anyways so he would figure out the truth in time.
Now that James figured out what he was going to do for the time being he now needed to increase his cultivation to the qi condensation realm. It would take a while to increase his level so he wanted to use the spirit crystals to speed up the process. Since he had so many of them he would use as much as he needed and he wouldn't run out anytime soon. If anybody saw the amount of spirit crystals that james had they would instantly vomit blood and collapse onto the ground because of his wealth. But since James hasn't interacted enough to understand he didnt know this hence he was going to use as much as he wanted.
Now that James knew what he was going to do he started to commence his plan, during the day he would go out and fight creatures so that he could take their cores and he could gain experience in fighting. After some time James noticed that the spiritual energy he got from the cores and the spiritual energy he got from the spirit stones were different. The spiritual energy in the cores were far less pure that the energy in a spirit crystal. Not wanting to use cores any further after this discovery he needed to find something to use them for.
After some thinking he thought that maybe he could sell them to the system so he tried and figured out that he could. A core from a beast would give him a good amount of points, a first rank body refining would be one point, second rank two points, third three, so on and so forth. Since he could use this method to get more points he was good for the moment but to be able to buy the things he wanted he was going to need more points.
To get more points he would have to get stronger so in the end it was just a never ending cycle, but this still helped him realize something. No matter what it was he would always have to get stronger to be able to overcome the problem. This caused James' determination to increase his strength to grow stronger.
After that he would spend about an hour every day to just take some time and reflect on his fights that day so that he would be able to see what he did wrong so that he could improve upon it. After careful consideration he would decide what he should do in his next fights so that he could solve his faults. But at the current time he had no way of solving one of his biggest faults since he needed to get some fighting methods to improve much further. So for now he would just gain experience by fighting more and gaining an understanding on how to fight an opponent he has never fought before.
After that he would spend the entire night cultivating with the spirit crystals so that he would be able to increase his strength further and complete his goals. The process was still slow but it was much faster than when he would take the spiritual qi from the air so it helped a lot.
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Dopehoda Im very sorry about the long break but im back and hopefully ill be able to post every day, its very hectic for me right now since its coming near the end of the summer and im having alot of family problems but ive done some research and figured that it would be best for him to stop interacting with humans for the time being and just focus on growing stronger. Thank you for reading and im very sorry for the long break again
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