Cultivation: Journey of a Lucky Hero

'Yeah, we did survive, didn't we?'

'I still remember those words.'

[God! Please save us! Just this one. I won't ask for anything more. Please save us, God!]

'Maybe god did hear me and saved us. For what? To remain a coward.

'Is this going to be my life? Life a coward?'

Oak clenched his fist.

He didn't want to be a coward. He didn't want to scream whenever he was hurt.

He could be a man too, just like his father, who would sacrifice himself for his family.

Even if he didn't have any chance of survival.

That was so strange to him. He couldn't remember the time when he was truly brave.

He couldn't remember the time when he didn't ask for help, but rather achieved something on his own.

No, he did remember.

Was it still the influence of a god?

Because he didn't know how he had reincarnated into this world. He didn't know whether it was a result of some god's action.

If it was, then everything he achieved with the Star Dragon Domination Technique was truly his work?

Wouldn't it be a result of god's intervention?

'Do gods even exist?'

When he started questioning himself, Oak came to realize that he hadn't seen a god.

He just believed that god existed because he had somehow survived that encounter.

But he forgot something.

If there were truly a god, and if god could listen to his words, why did he die an unnatural death in his previous life?

This stumped him.

Roar!

At this moment, he heard a roar from his mind.

This made him realize something.

There must not be a god, but there must be a luck. After all, people in this world could awaken Martial Spirit based on luck.

Their destinies were woven into them from their birth.

He was no different. Maybe he also had a certain destiny to fulfill. Maybe fate kept him alive so that he could fulfill his destiny.

But he did know that fate would never choose a coward.

If he couldn't change himself, fate would change its target.

He needed to change. He needed to be something more than just a coward. He needed to become brave just like his father.

This made his eyes glow. The simple thought of this brought him confidence and calmness.

The same calmness he had lost due to pain. The pain hadn't changed. It had barely passed through his chest to his stomach.

This was the process of his bones being merged with the Golden Skeleton.

Now that he was calm, Oak could feel everything within his body.

The pain and the power.

The insane level of power stored within the bone marrow. Those bone marrows began producing blood, and the blood began flowing through his veins, reaching every single cell in his body.

His entire body hadn't been transformed, but the cells of his body were filled with so much vitality that he could start the extraction process.

'It hurts.'

Oak came to a realization, but this time, he kept the pain on the back of his head.

He knew it wouldn't go away, but he needed to focus.

[Sixth Sense]

While Oak had become a bit more fearless, he was still as cautious. Knowing that pain still existed, he entered the Sixth Sense and used it to control his body.

In Sixth Sense Mode, he could do anything he wished, even if his mind wasn't thinking about it.

He was worried that pain would increase intensely and force him to give up his cultivation progress.

So, he used the Sixth Sense early on.

He activated his Martial Spirit, and it started to release a strange command to his cells. Those cells began releasing a new type of energy.

Before he didn't get to see or even feel it properly.

Now that he was using it, he could feel a strange boost in strength.

Like an Adrenaline rush, but much more capable. Every part of his body was producing Internal Strength, and it was being pulled into the meridians of his body.

The meridians were connected by three hundred and sixty acupoints. Flowing the Internal Strength through these points, he could create a pattern.

This pattern was a coil.

But to form a coil, he needed to make his Internal Strength more condensed like a gas passing through a pipe to a stove.

With the stove, the pipe would make it thin, but with his meridians, he needed to be extra careful.

Because this wasn't the only coil he needed to make. There would be more in the future.

So, he must be careful with this process.

If used too much, then he wouldn't have enough space in the future. Putting too little then the coil would easily disperse in the future.

No matter which, he must maintain a perfect ratio.

Using his Sixth Sense, his control over the Internal Strength exceeded normal control. It's like controlling the object with his mind.

But with Sixth Sense, it was much easier. So, he turned the Internal Strength into a thin wire. The wire was so thin that its size was similar to a red blood cell.

After creating such a thin wire of Internal Strength, he began to create more.

He created at least twenty wires within the Meridians. It had almost covered half of the meridian, but he wasn't worried.

Because then, he began to weave them together into a thick wire. This process took him almost an hour.

During this time, the pain had slowly shifted from his upper body to his lower body.

The more it transformed his bones, the more it strengthened his cells.

He could even feel an extra essence in his bones. If he extracted this essence and transformed it into bronze essence, then strengthened his body with that, he would be able to complete the second stage.

But since he was busy with reaching the First Rank, he didn't do it.

He had just woven a part of the coil. There were still five more parts left, but this time, it wouldn't take this long.

Because the more he created it, the more experienced he became with it.

From one hour to forty minutes to thirty minutes to twenty minutes, and finally fifteen minutes.

After using another fifteen minutes to form the last part, he realized that the fastest time would still take him fifteen minutes.

So, within just two hours, he managed to complete the coil.

The moment his coil was complete, he completely transformed from a mortal to a First Rank cultivator.

At the same time, his body could easily use this coil to generate Internal Strength during a battle, and he could recover this coil after the battle.

That's why the role of the coil was so important. It didn't need to go through any extraction process, and it would never disappear on its own.

In other words, as long as he didn't use the Internal Strength from the coil, it would be stuck there for his entire life.

But as soon as he finished his cultivation, he felt an intense pain in his knees.

"Argh!"

Oak couldn't contain himself and screamed.

'Don't be a coward! Don't be a coward! Bear it! Just bear it! Just f**king bear it!'

Oak's eyes turned red as the pain in his knees was getting intense, but this time, he didn't continue screaming.

Maybe due to his personality, he didn't realize that he was just a fourteen-year-old kid.

His mind was that of a coward. His body was that of a child. How could he simply bear the pain of ten if not a hundred times worse than a toothache?

The toothache was possibly the only painful experience he could connect with. Because that's what made his head explode.

It was painful, but when that pain was increased by a hundred times, it became unbearable.

He felt that pain in his head and knees. He also felt that pain in his chest, but during that time, he managed to distract himself.

Now that he wasn't distracting himself, he could only feel pain.

'No, I can't go on like this. I have to pull out that essence, transform it into bronze essence, and strengthen my body.'

'My cells haven't felt any pressure, but I could feel that limit increase several times. That means I can continue to strengthen my cells and possibly reach the Second Rank.'

Oak's eyes shrank rapidly as his breathing became a bit disordered.

Two Ranks ascendence in a single day.

He never thought that was possible, but now he had that chance.

He couldn't just give up. His bones had an abundance of essence.

He could do it. He had to do it and improve his strength. That's the only way.

That's the only way for him to leave this pond and return to the sect.

'Let's do it!'

Oak bore the pain as he sat cross-legged and used the Bronze Body Technique.