The next day Zhan Shenwei began his formal training.
Literature, etiquette, basic Martial arts, history, knowledge of the heavens and earth, geometry and more, throughout the whole day , he had been taught lessons on these areas.
As he walked back to his quarters, Zhan Wei thought about his day .
Most of his lessons were with imperial princess as his learning partner and the whole day felt long due to strenuous learning but he felt the lessons were worth while, everything about the imperial palace were just different even the basic Martial arts.
Compared to the broad and vigorous foundation of the Imperial family, the Zhan Clan was still lacking.
After freshening up, he went to see the Second Elder, apart from cultivating the Second Elder hardly left their residence, Zhan Shenwei felt it made sense, this was the imperial palace, there was no need or reason to about, and due to formalities and strength as a powerhouse he also couldn't just moved around as he pleased to avoid leaving a wrong impression.
Knocking on his door , he entered after getting a response.
The Second Elder " Zhan Feng " was one of the strongest experts in the Clan and Xiaomei's father.
Looking at the lean middle aged man seated on the prayer mat with his eyes closed , Zhan Shenwei bowed and greeted .
Opening his eyes , Zhan Feng nodded at him.
" What is the issue?" , Knowing Zhan Shenwei wouldn't come to him for no reason, he asked.
Zhan Shenwei cupped his fist ," I'd like to explore the the Imperial Capital, I wonder if the Elder can escort this junior and advice on where to go".
Zhan Feng nodded his head , after all his job was to protect Zhan Shenwei, so his request made sense.
"What exactly is thoughts for exploring the capital?".
" I'm looking for a place in the capital, that sells cultivation resources, rare items and treasures , I could also use the opportunity to explore a bit" replied Zhan Shenwei.
His main reason for wanting to check the city was to see if he could find cultivation resources , he had felt his bottleneck loosen and hoped he could find resources to breakthrough.
After hearing him , the Second Elder replied.
" There are many places in the Imperial Capital where all sorts of treasures or cultivation resources are being sold but there are few that have rare items or resources of high quality".
" Then I'll have to bother the Elder ".
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The Imperial Capital, the heart of Xia empire prosperity was always bustling with people and all forms of things were displayed in stalls and building in the bustling market district.
Zhan Shenwei accompanied by the Second Elder and Xiaomei went around.
After checking some places , he didn't find anything suitable then they came across the Treasure Pavilion.
According to the Second Elder, the Treasure Pavilion extended beyond the great Xia empire and the building in the capital was just a branch.
Looking at the tall magnificent building in front of him , Zhan Shenwei felt the Treasure Pavilion was not so simple, just a branch already dwarfed other places they had been to.
Entering they came a across a luxurious interior, the items in the treasure were each displayed in separate compartments with their names and functions.
A maid came to attend to them and asked what they was looking for and he asked to check around.
This was his first time coming in contact with so many varieties of items , just by looking at the things displayed and their uses he felt his horizons broaden, the treasure pavilion really lived up to the notion the Second elder has instilled in him.
After a while he come to the cultivation technique section , all kinds of manuals were displayed there.
Scrolling through the cultivation technique section, he came across body cultivation techniques , compared to Spirit Qi techniques the body cultivation techniques he saw were few.
In the world most people cultivated spirit qi.
All sorts of legacies and cultivation sects existed that propagated spirit qi cultivation ,Spirit qi was more versatile and with strong and established prosperous paths for seeking the Dao.
As he looked through the body cultivation manuals displayed, he felt compared the qi cultivation manuals they were crude and had limited potential, still he looked through them.
He cultivated the Primordial Chaos God Scripture but he felt he could gain a lot of insight by seeing other body cultivation manuals.
After glancing through, he also checked the qi cultivation manuals, all kinds of qi techniques were displayed with different varieties of abilities although his meridians were crippled and he couldn't cultivate any, it didn't hurt to look through.
Qi Cultivation was wondrous, probably because it was the mainstream, it had numerous strong, weak, strange and all kinds of discipline, he was simply fascinated seeing them.
Looking at the myriad techniques in front of him, Zhan Shenwei felt an understanding touch his spirit as he muttered subconsciously " The Great Dao is wide and encompassing, the myriad heavens and it's inhabitants are aspects, all is Dao, I am Dao ".
He felt a sense of enlightenment, in his Sea of consciousness , his Primordial Chaos God spirit opened it's golden eyes and roared towards the sky , immediately Zhan Shenwei felt the vital essence of the five elements pour into him from all directions.
Above the imperial city, a cloud of vital essence could be seen hovering about the treasure pavilion, unlike Spirit Qi which was ethereal, vital essence was more tangible and although the vital essence of the five elements was scarce in this world , it was still there.
Vital energy from thousands of miles converged together to form a thick cloud of vital essence and poured towards him.
His body was like a bottomless hole as he devoured the vital energy, the vital essense storm was so obvious that every expert and even commoners or non cultivators in the Imperial Capital and nearby could see the vital energy gathering to one point and forming a massive cloud above the treasure pavilion.
In the Imperial palace, the Emperor felt the disturbance and rushed to the sky , looking at the vital energy cloud above the treasure pavilion, he peered through the treasure pavilion with his spirit sense.
Looking at the source of the cloud , he was surprised at the sight, vital energy poured into Zhan Shenwei from above , his eyes closed as he absorbed it into his body.
Those in the treasure pavilion felt the effect of the vital energy the most, although the bulk of it was observed by Zhan Shenwei much still dispersed around and not just the the people in treasure pavilion, everybody in the imperial capital under the vital essence cloud felt some bit of the vital energy pour into them.
The vital energy of the five elements was different from spirit qi , everyone felt the five organs strengthen from the core, as it nourished them , the five organs were the foundation of the body , their strength, vitality, everything increased.
For cultivators although there was no increase in their cultivation they felt their physical foundation improved, even mortal were affected as their lifeforce and span increased.
Zhan Shenwei felt his five organs absorb the energy that poured into him , the faint glow of before became more visible as he felt his body rush towards grand completion of the first tier.
Immediately he reached reached grand completion he felt a boom in his sea of consciousness, this time around as his Primordial Chaos God Incarnation roared towards the sky, Zhan Shenwei opened his mouth and roared too.
The imperial city occupied a large area , yet everyone felt their heart jolt, a primeval and imposing presence rushing towards the clouds scattering the vital essence cloud scattered but immediately gloomy skies replaced them.
Zhan Shenwei opened his , looking at the gloomy skies that loomed above the skies , he knew it wasn't over .
He had an intuition that if the vital energy cloud from before was a blessing, then this one was for destruction, a violent stormy cloud kept gathering above the treasure pavilion, it didn't increase in size yet it kept accumulating energy.
As they looked up and saw dark clouds above everyone felt some apprehension in their hearts, was this a tribulation, even Zhan Shenwei felt fear , it was like the heavens wouldn't tolerate his existence .
Yet within those eyes of fear was hope , desire , the next tier in the Primordial Chaos God Scripture was the primal lightening realm , he had to birth lightening of the five elements in his five organs.
Looking at the looming tribulation above him , he knew he had to leave when he still had time , he couldn't undergo his tribulation here, it wasn't safe, and could cause unnecessary destruction to the area.
He turned towards the maid , I'd have to trouble you to take me to the spirit herbs section.
The maid had a look of fear in her eyes as she nodded her eyes , she knew the sooner
he left the better.
Reaching the spirit herbs section, he scrolled through, all kinds of herbs , spirit fruits and treasures were kept on display, yet Zhan Shenwei browsed through quickly as he mainly decided on checking the herbs section rather than leaving immediately because he needed something to aid him in his tribulation.
The cloud above was still brewing!
As he scrolled through, he quickly paid for several thousand year old blood ginseng and left.
The Second Elder and Xiaomei were with him , first of all what happened, wasn't Zhan Shenwei a mortal, second what was that tribulation cloud above, although smaller in size and momentum than a true tribulation cloud it was nevertheless one.
Although they were shocked and had various questions they would like to ask, they knew the urgency of the matter and just followed him outside the Treasure pavilion.
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