True Cultivation!

Hou patted Tianmo on the shoulder, "I'll give it to you yesterday, thanks."

The rest of the meal was quiet, everybody ate and talked about some insignificant things. Hamar and Lan Qiang were talking about weapon fighting in their own little world.

Hou flopped down on his bed, with his hand on his stomach, "Shouldn't have eaten so much...but real food tastes good."

He groaned as he sat up and stretched, taking out the privacy disk from his to es. He threw it down and activated it, "Now time to start cultivating. I'll cultivate two hours with laws, two hours for mana and then sleep."

He sat down in the middle of his room and started to absorb laws, firstly normally but then he activated his techniques. He used the power of the Celestial Law Amplifying Physique to improve absorption.

Then he used the power Flowing Divine Script to help target the laws he wanted. He wasn't aiming for any specific laws, but the ones around he wanted were fire, air, atmosphere, fog and cognition.

He would of course absorb all the laws around him with with Flowing Divine Script he could focus on absorbing those he wanted, limiting those that he did not need.

"I'm absorbing more water laws than I would think, is it rain or is there more water laws in fog than I thought..."

Two hours past and Hou let go. All the tension in his body released and he sat up for a few minutes. He stretched his whole body, even making a blood sword again to swing it a little.

"And now mana cultivation, I still have a while to go before making my first circle."

He sat down once more and this time removed his thought patterns that focused on laws, instead he looked to a different 'fold of reality'.

He focused on the undiscovered mana in this world and started to absorb them into his body, but they were not bound to his body. Without a circle binding it the mana was only loosely 'his' and could be easily transferred from body to soul.

After two hour once more he expended a lot of the cognition laws he gained from cultivating laws, he used these to create more mental energy to continue absorbing mana.

He felt the fatigue and with his remaining time he flopped onto his bed and dozed off instantly. Then as he was falling asleep he jolted back up and took down the privacy bubble.

"Need to make sure Master Sheng can contact me," He yawned and jumped into bed again instantly falling asleep.

The next day Hou woke up early to sort out his deal with Tianmo. He woke up just as the sun came up and he saw the red light enter his room.

Yaaaaawwn

He rubbed his eyes then quickly threw down the privacy bubble once more. It covered the room in miasma, shimmered then disappeared.

Hou pulled out another thing he got from Mo Huai before he left. He pulled out a small box, he placed it on the floor then opened it and sat back.

Wisps of thick miasma crawler out of the box, slithering across the floor. Then they stood up, curling together then merging. They turned into an illusory form of Mo Huai.

"Yes?"

"Greeting master" Hou bowed lightly.

"Good good, it is peculiar to see you with that form...what was your name again? Hu Li?"

"Yes master, that was it," he smiled and shook his head then continued, "I have a question for you,"

"Ask away."

"Can I trade the Vast Eyes technique? You said I should use my own skills and what I have to grow stronger, right? Well the technique is mine now, and I want to trade with it for another technique."

"Hmm, I did say that. And this is the kind of scenario I was wanting but I have to ask...what technique, or who from?"

"Tianmo? I don't know any other name..."

The figure closed his eyes for a moment then it flickered and he opened his eyes. A smirk rises, "That's alright, you may do the deal. I won't reveal everything but Tianmo isn't the kind of person to do anything bad, you may deal with him and be sure you won't get cheated."

Hou squinted but realised Mo Huai would not answer his questions and relaxed his brows. He stood up and put his fists together, bowing.

"Thank you master!"

The miasma stretched out and Mo Huai put his hand on Hou's head, "No need to thank me, I'd always take time to help you" he riffled Hou's head and then the miasma collapsed.

It turns into a pile of thick tendrils which wound back into the box before closing itself. Hou picked duo the box and gave it a light kiss before placing it back into his robes.

He picked up the privacy bubble again, the miasma around the room returning. He stretched and thought, 'Still a few until the start of lesson, I'll do some practice then.'

He opened the door and used the blood transformation enchantment, as he learned the term, to go to the training fields.

He walked out to where his fight with Jin was and saw the small footprints in the middle and squinted, 'The place is undisturbed except footprints...'

He looked to the sides before closing his eyes. He activated the Vast Eyes technique and expanded his intuition to as far as he could.

He used whatever method he could to look in the area around him. He saw that the footprints followed his path, once again he squinted.

'Somebody was following me?...They're not here though...I'll note this but for now I'll get back to what I was doing'

He shook his head and deactivated the Vast Eyes technique, placing this matter to the back of his mind. He drew blood and transformed it into a sword.

He used healing laws to stitch back the wound he drew blood from and held the sword in his hands, he tossed it to each hand. Saying aloud, "Should I get a sword, a real one...?"

Without expecting an answer he dismissed his own question and held the sword in the grip he knew. But then from behind him and answer came out,

"I would suggest leaving a blade for later, for now the blood creation is suitable, especially with Hamar's technique you use."