His soul, he could feel it at all time, no matter whether he was cultivating or not. It felt neither strong nor weak. If a he punched it at full force, it would not brake but cracks would appear on it. It felt weird being able to see his soul, it was inside his whole body, every movement he did, the soul would reflect. All around the soul was darkness with no source of light nearby him. Wherever he tried to see was darkness. He stopped gazing outward and focused on his body to examine it. It was shining dimly in a golden color.
He continued examining and only found out that it was exactly like his body, down to the minimum details only in golden color. It felt exhilarating watching his soul. After a while, he sat up from the lotus position and went to sleep, it was already nearly 3 in the night, even though he was a cultivator, he still needed sleep at his realm, the need had decreased but it was still there just like eating.
The next day, he decided to only cultivate today. After eating breakfast, he told Anastasia that he would only cultivate today and only make lunch. When he started to cultivate, he felt that he was already at the early stage of level 1. Every level was divided into 5 parts- new, early, mid, high, peak. when someone broke through into the next level, they would be at new. It was quite a good thing that he reached early in a single day since cultivators would nearly take 1 week before reaching early in level1. As the level increased, so did the difficulty to break through, increasing the time required to cultivate.
After 5 minutes of cultivating, he felt fluctuations appear, he did not know what to do so he repeated what he did before, he let it come toward him. When the fluctuations appeared nearby him, they would decrease, so would his mind gain clarity. Those fluctuations were mind fluctuations. Whenever his thoughts, feelings, emotions would change these fluctuations would appear. As soon as he could understand these fluctuations a eight-sided prism started forming in his heart. It was forming slowly but surely. It would take him 3 or 4 weeks before it fully formed without any cultivation. If he cultivated everyday, it would form in under 2 weeks.
He cultivated till it was time for dinner, after which he slept, he was going to go hunting tomorrow alone for the first time. He wanted to get as much sleep as he could get.
The next day he went to the forest early in the morning as he felt fully rested after he slept for 6 hours. He had ventured many times into the forest but always accompanied by his father, never alone like today. After he became a cultivator, his father that he could take care of himself in the forest.
The forest looked more vibrant today, he was able to discern more things about the forest than before. The change in his eyesight was discernible as he was easily able to discover track of monster that would have took some time. He followed the track for about a 100 meters till he saw a wolf resting in the cover of a tree. He waited for a few minutes to check the level of the wolve. It was a level2 wolf a newly ascended one at that judging by its aura. He decided to take a risk and fight the wolf head on.
The wolf raised its head to see the presence it detected nearby. It was a level1 human walking towards it with calm and steady steps holding an old sword in his hand. It judged him to be an easy prey and meal. It rushed towards the human with a fast speed instantly closing the gap, the wolf slashed his paw towards the chest of the human. The human dodged it easily by bending his body easily.
The wolf was surprised by its reaction speed but didn't give him time and tried to bite his arm, the human blocked the mouth by his sword and punched the stomach of the wolf by his other hand seeing the gap in its defense. The wolf tried to distance itself but failed. The punch connected and it felt a bone break, accompanied by the sound. It distance itself from the human and growled at him. The human rushed this time to finish it quickly, he moved with grace and unpredictable footwork and before the wolf could react he slashed down, severing the head of the wolf.
"I definitely became a lot stronger, my movements also became so much better, and fluid. My reflexes also improved drastically otherwise I wouldn't have been able to dodge that swipe so easily." Max talked to himself to review his battle and changes as he went deeper into the forest for another beast to hunt.