Grand Trial

One's Origin

Anthony ran the possibilities in his head as he considered the power of the various support arts as he knew they were only back-up for His family's real cultivation art.

The Frost breath Immortal art was subdivided into 5 stages of frost; white ice, deep frost, absolute zero, Subzero, Heavenly frost. He was on the level of white ice, It would allow him to cause almost fatal harm to anybody within his level of cultivation which in itself was not much but it was also influenced by his possible battle power to come so His thoughts on its power were still up in the air.

The Zwitte flare Immortal art was sud divided into 7 stages; Orange fire, red fire, blue cremation flame, Hell singe flare, Black cremation flame, Sun flare, and Zwitte immortal flame. The orange fire level had similar effects to the white ice level of the Frost breath immortal art except it had healing properties and could be used in the cauldron for brewing elixirs or used In the isolation chamber when making medicines and enhancement pills to prevent the normal fire from destroying some of its natural properties, a factor Anthony discovered when he was preparing his herbal bath after training earlier in the morning.

The Irokman Defence forms were just barriers of energy that varied In power depending on the stage with some special effects, The first stage that Anthony was on could withstand an attack from someone 5 ranks above himself and had a slight healing function while also being shock resistant. That just being the first of Ten forms, he was excited to see what the art held for him In the Future.

The Irokman Defence was also influenced by the Immortal foundation as The immortal foundation Increased ones physical strength drastically according to your level of attainment being scaled equally to the defence.

(Authors note: In simpler terms If He could resist an attack he could deal one back with equal or even more force with the help of the Immortal foundation art)

The Phantom god's steps is a movement skill that was so powerful It was considered a Cultivation art, It had only 3 phases each one being vastly different, The first stage Anthony was on allowed him to move at speeds equal to those 2 realms above him while having a side skill within itself that utilised the shadows to move and at night it could even grow to allow one attack with shadows while moving so Anthony thought it to be very useful even if he couldn't hover with it.

Lastly was The Esper cauldron. This cultivation art Is like the Phantom god's steps In one regard, It was a Creation skill that made a white cauldron out of the single most powerful energy in the Universe; Esper energy.

Amongst the millions of Known energies, there were six that were publicly recognised as the greatest, they were ranked as so:

6th- Qi energy ( Can be corrupted to become Chi)

5th- Spirit energy ( Can be corrupted to become Corrosion energy)

4th- Runic energy ( Can be corrupted to become Degen eradit)

3rd- Aether energy ( Can be corrupted to become Destruction Qi )

2nd- Rustal energy ( Can be corrupted to become Death Qi)

and 1st- Esper energy ( Can be corrupted to become Niform)

The purpose of the Esper cauldron was to help cultivators get used to manipulating Esper energy without harming their Cultivations, But for Anthony, he didn't just want to prevent self-harm, to him all the other arts were negligible compared to this one as it concerned who he was as a living being.

Along the years George had informed Anthony of many things and taught him well, and among those things was a depressing and unreconcilable fact that would likely have gotten him killed, and That was the fact that He was not a Human, Calling him human would even be an Insult compared to what he really was, and even he didn't know what he was, all he knew was that he came from a race of existence that could bring empires to the ground and grand race that has seized number one in the universe and beyond, a Race that is rank on equal footing with the Origin gods of the universe.

It was also because he was a part of that race that he needed the Esper cauldron art more than everything, His race could only cultivate with Esper energy or Niform otherwise they would be weaker than domesticated animals a Fact that Anthony found undeniable, even though his race was invisible at the top of the universe even though he knew of methods to forcefully awaken his cultivation from them, they would be useless without Esper energy, an energy that filled all things that lived and was the only thing the universe had no balance for.

He needed the Esper cauldron for its other purpose that only people of his race knew of and could use. It could extract and gather Esper energy from the air, mature and even another living being, it was the only solid way they could get the Esper energy they desperately needed as such he would trade anything for a Full mastery of the art otherwise he would have to gather the energy manually.

Anthony was now within view of the training camp. He looked down from a waterfall at a Beautiful valley that seemed Isolated from everything as it blent in with nature itself, But Anthony could sense the life brimming from within, he also knew that the valley was a special Isolation formation that led to the actual camp, as for how he could tell at a glance It was another technique his father taught him from his real families Ancient texts, one he had mastered The previous year.

Anthony stood at the edge of the waterfall cliff looking down at the setting pondering something before he finally called out "If you guys were going to tail me you should at least do a better job at it,". For the first few seconds, nothing happened but Anthony said, " So it seems the Martial division is truly filled with cowardly trash as the rumours said" Anthony mocked with a smirk as he turned around to the forest 100 metres behind him.

"If you don't come out I might be tempted to tell the world that the Martial division the 17th Martial division is truly turtles who don't dare to come out of their shells" He continued to mock as he slowly approached the forest, "While you may have thoughts of silencing me I'm sure you are aware that there are three unknowns tailing me as well thus you don't dare to act yet," Anthony said once more looking In the direction of the forest.