William's cultivation continued for an hour and another strange thing happened. As he continued to absorb the raw Ki energy from the lake water of the 3rd floor, refined Ki in his heart also began to gather portions portions of Water intents in the surrounding.
He was still unaware that his heart was currently comprehending the water intent as he continued filling his every cells with refined Ki energy.
After another half an hour, he reached a state of fullness from every fibers of his body.
"Little mouse, don't stop. Keep pounding those Ki and break the invisible wall." The Dragon's voice echoed.
William also felt the feeling that he was a step away. So, he chanted nonstop and the pounding of his heart became even more coherent and profound.
His every cell were already full but the heart kept suppling a large amount of Ki energy forcibly feeding them. It continued. At that very time, the level of pain spiked multiple fold. And the next thing, those cell burst. Rapid cell division happened and a brand new evolved cells began to give birth.
Only then a large amount of Ki energy were absorbed.
At that moment, William had finally succeeded and ascended to the second realm of the cultivation ladder 'The Blood Manifestation Realm.'
The extreme pain was replaced by extreme pleasure from his body. After absorbing Ki energy for the foundation, he halted his chanting and stood up.
His body felt so blissful that he even moaned and punched out using all the energy as he made a war-cry.
Bang!
The energy released from the punch created a loud impact on the surface of the lake, causing a loud explosion.
"Haha… I have grown stronger." He began to exercise a set of free style martial as he kicked, punched and flew doing acrobatics kicks.
Only after stretching his body enough, he stopped and was preparing to start studying the water intent around him. But to his surprise, the water intent which was already imprinted on his heart responded as his body was covered with water without wetting even a bit.
"What the…"
"Why are you so surprise? Little mouse, Like I said earlier, you have the Primordial Spirit Foundation body. It's only natural. Alright, stop wasting time and ascend the next floor." The old dragon instructed.
William gave a slight bow and walked over the surface of the water. Just as his feet landed on the surface of the lake, the water intent surrounding his body reacted according to his mind and turned into a shaped of surfboard.
In his previous life, after every mission he completed he would go with his mentor to the beast and surfed to enjoy his time.
Surfing was an enjoyable hobby in his past life. So he naturally, activated his water intent into a surfboard.
With a thought, the surfboard began to sail and the speed picked up quickly.
It took him just a few minutes to passed the lake.
He floated up in the air at the end of the water and passed through a water intent film ascending the 4th floor. Then he quickly dissolved the water intent.
Flipping three times in the air he landed on the foot a mountain. Now he was currently standing inside the space of the 4th floor.
Just as he landed, he felt an extreme heaviness pressing upon. Like nothing before. He was trying to pick up one of his leg. But failed.
"I believe this much be the Earth Elemental intent. What a heaviness? I believe this much be an intrinsic property of Gravity at the core" He muttered as he was experiencing the heaviness of a mountain.
"Little mouse, I sense some faulty earth intent portions among in this floor. Stop comprehending all of them. Or it would cause future problem for you." The dragon instructed, "I'll pin point the good portion for you to comprehend. The spot you are currently contain a good portion. Let's start from that."
William had no doubt that the old dragon would misled him on this. Unlike before when the old dragon would use any means to take advantages of him, now they were Master-discipleship relationship between them. In other word, even if the old dragon went insane one day and told him to go hell, he would gladly walk inside without much second thought. That was how much he trusted his master. It was the same for the old dragon, if there were situation here he would have to sacrifice his life to save his only disciple, he would gladly do without much thought.
This was how much they trusted each other.
William sat down and began adjusting his breathing first then he continued comprehending the Earth intent portion.
It was not even a minute pass, he succeeded in comprehending and already absorbed it and a misty mark appeared in his heart.
He was so astonish that he almost cussed, "What the…freak?!"
"Little mouse, what are you freaking about." The dragon said, "Like I said before you have the rarest Primordial Spiritual Foundation. And your cultivation is barely in the passable stage. So comprehending such a teeny tiny intent is child's play at your current stage. Alright, move and I pick a better spot for the next portion intent."
After comprehending the first portion of the Earth Intent, the unbearable heaviness due to exponential increase in the gravity become lighter to him as if he was one with the earth law of the place.
Although the extreme heaviness disappear, he still felt his weight, certain heaviness. So he ignited the Wind intent levitating himself in the air and hovered forward.
"Stop! There is a better one." The old dragon reminded.
Like before, he landed and began the same routine. Like that he continued from one spot to another, learning and comprehending one portion to another.
Comprehending become smoother and smoother as he kept going.
Now he was almost at the end of the mountain passage.
It took a few minutes comprehending the last portion of the earth intent and he succeeded and passed through the last barrier.
He walked out entering the spatial space of the 5th floor. It was a flatland world with hard black ground.
He looked around and not a single blade of grass was grown in the place. The space of the 5th floor was smaller considering the other floors which he had ascended until now.
At the center-most region of the 5th floor lie a single tree. More like a giant tree.