Episode 2 - The path of the strong

Chapter 2 - The path of the strong

After the light showered down on Archer for about 5 minutes, multiple changes on his body can be seen, such as his increase in height, he grew from 3 feet to 5 feet in 5 minutes, his skin tone was the same but shine in the morning sun. His white hair grew down to his neck, and his muscles became more defined. And not only did he Awaken at 6, due to his blood, organs and bones being refined under the divine light, he broke through all the way to Awaken Body 9th stage. The Awaken body is about refining the body, one must refine the blood, organs and bones to surpass the limits of a normal human. Passing  through this realm can take years, decades and for some people their entire life, but Archer did it as soon as he awaken, although it felt as though he was being burnt for 5 minutes. Archer fell to the ground passing out immediately after the light stop. Who wouldn't have, with everything he had just been through physically and mentally.

Archer woke up around 6 pm that day confused but relieved, his grandpa told him that he can only see him if he became a saint at the age of 20 expecting him to awaken at 12 but now he had awaken at the age of 6, after calming down he was happy but yet sad at the same time. But although he was a child his grandpa had read him thousands of books about Awakens. So he immediately went to work on his journey to become a Saint. Whiles packing he came across a black book that was the size of a toddler's body. Archer then remember his grandpa saying that he didn't know how to open it and what exactly its about so he tried to open it, with his increase in strength he tried to pull it open but failed on all his attempts. Frustrated he  started punching the book, but it was actually stronger than any other material he had ever come across, and before he new it his wrist was bleeding and when a drop of blood drop on the logo of the book which was a golden gate, a bright light came out and the book turn into a gaseous form and entered his head. What the 6 year old Archer saw were wars, bloodshed, it seems as though it was the a record of every major and minor event related to Awakens, all of this information flowed into a 6 year old's brain, if his body was not yet refined he might have turned into a mad man, but luckily he was at the 9th stage of Awaken Body realm. He saw how the geography of the Earth change, how kingdoms roused and how kingdoms fell, location of treasures and even unknown ways to cultivate that might be unknown to other humans. Archer started to scream, his cries can be heard throughout the forest, his eyes turned completely white, the veins on his faced started to pop out and suddenly everything stopped, Archer shucked his head a couple of time and said, " so that's how it is". It was cleared that with all he had just seen his state off mind would not be the same, but instead he had just grown more intelligent far beyond his age, not only that, he also looked like a 10, 12 year old, but his state of mind had matured to that of a veteran warrior with all the death and destruction he had seen for the last 2000 years. Since he had gained the knowledge from the "Heaven Gate" as he soon came to learn was its name, he had learned about the different methods to cultivate as fast as possible, but after looking at the history of the two thousands years of Awakens he realized that he needed a strong foundation. inside of his head was as though he was in space with billions of books floating around, so he floated out deeper and deeper into the space looking for the method he wanted.

Cultivation methods can decide how far someone will reach on their path to ascension, and that is why they are broken into 5 levels such as; Human level, Earth Level, Sky Level, Star Level and Heaven level. And there is also the rumored God level method but according to Archers Knowledge it is only a myth but considering this books ability it won't but impossible. Just as that thought came to mind Archer heard a voice in his head, "I am what thou seek" and then the entire place suddenly started to collapse, a black hole appeared out of no where and started to suck in all of the methods, Archer instead of floating away floated towards the black hole and got sucked in with all the other books. Then by the time Archer realize it he was back in the real world with a method already chosen. He had no idea what method he had chosen because of the confusion, so as he nervously looked at the book he saw that it was only an Earth Rank method which means that he will at most only reach Soul Realm, and since you can only chose one method your entire life, tears slowly flowed from his eyes knowing that saving his grandpa was know impossible. But then he heard the voice again saying "why hart thou weep, are thou not satisfied with a growth level method ". Archer's crying face changed knowing what a growth level method meant, as he get stronger the method also get's stronger, although it will be hard for the first few realms as he gets stronger cultivating will get easier. He soon learned that the name of the method was 'Heavens Ladder', this helps to purify essence and make it easier to cultivate while make the body stronger physically.

Archer decided to try out the new method and as soon as he sat in meditation, essence started to pour into his body, the gold gaseous energy flowed into his body faster than before from all direction, after about five hours,

boo-om,  before he new it he was Awaken Body 10th realm, know Archer was sure that he could safely exit the forest on his own by avoiding beats of 2nd tier middle stage and above. With that Archer walked out the house he had lived in for 6 years looked around, and using his knowledge of  geography walked to the left of his house in the direction of a town called 'sea-field'. It was already midnight but Archer just wanted to start his journey right away, midway through his journey he finally came Across an Awaken Beast. It was a Tier 2 Initial stage Jaguar, it was 6 feet tall and about 5 feet long. Archer was not yet able to produce essence outside of his body, he could only strengthen his body using essence to make him self stronger and faster. But just before he could activate his essence the jaguar launched forward, since its specialty was its  speed it grazed Archer's harm as he barely avoided it. Normally in this kind of situation he should be terrified, but he witness countless battles and deaths over a time span of 2000 years, so he instead grew calmer, using his knowledge he found its weakness which was its neck. Archer poured all of his essence into his legs and launched forward faster than the eyes can see,the only thing visible was his shadow, he suddenly pop up in front of the jaguar and poured the last remaining essence he had into his right fist and Ba-mm, his fist connected with the jaguar's necks sending the jaguar flying 7 feet away into a tree. As Archer walked over in the dark night of the forest a purple light started to glow from the Jaguar's neck. he pick it up from its bloodied body, and  sat down with his legs crossed and the stone turned into a gaseous purple energy but when Archer activated the Heavens Ladder method the purple gas turned gold and interred his body.

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