I am an Eldritch Entity

Void Pierce was a little difficult to get used to.

As mentioned before, this cultivation art would directly cause the weapon to 'skip' a certain distance.

The range of skip was based on your mastery, and the timing depended on when you finished controlling the Qi through the loop of the route of meridians.

And at the moment when the skip took place, your hand would be connected to the weapon, right?

You would be holding the weapon when it would directly bypass a certain distance.

What would happen to your hand then?

It would jerk.

It would suddenly move forward.

And you had to be prepared for that.

You would have to keep the momentum going and not get flustered when your hand suddenly jerked forward for a short distance.

That was the difficult part.

Suddenly, Eryndor heard his stomach make a sound.

I already took a food pill before sleeping, and now I feel hungry again?

Eryndor wondered confusedly.

Was it because he was working harder than usual that he was getting hungry more and earlier than usual?

Good thing I brought a few food pills with me.

He had already decided to train here in the jungle, and knowing how long it would take, he had prepared a few food pills.

He popped a food pill before resuming his training.

It took him more than three hours to finally grasp the rhythm of this cultivation art, and also learned how to use it with the dagger.

To date, this was the cultivation art which took him the longest time to master.

He was thankful that his body wasn't that tired though.

It sure felt good to have an enhanced physique which wouldn't easily have sore muscles even after several hours of training.

He could only wonder how strong he would get at higher realms.

Once he was done, he quickly moved on to the next cultivation art.

Iron Mountain Guard.

As usual, to make sure he wasn't going to practice incorrectly, Eryndor took out his badge and input his Qi to read the recorded cultivation art.

Recording was one of the functions of the badge.

Of course, he had no plans to secretly sell these cultivation arts.

Privately selling or sharing of the cultivation art was banned, that is, not allowed by the rules.

Disciples who broke this rule were almost always caught, both the buyer and the seller, therefore overtime people stopped doing it altogether.

If it was a master who was giving a certain cultivation art to their disciple, they would also have to pay a certain price, albeit a discounted one.

After reading through the entire information, Eryndor began his training of the third cultivation art.

Iron Mountain Guard had a higher defense factor than the Crimson Armor.

Yes, Crimson Armor wasn't a Qi Condensation level cultivation art but Iron Mountain Guard could be used in the Qi Refining realm as well.

And in that, the Iron Mountain Guard was better in defense.

However, there was a trade off. By giving a full body higher defense compared to other arts, it made your body quite heavy.

Was Clarence stupid? He uses daggers which literally need high mobility to be used, why would he choose this?

Was he that scared of getting injured?

Immediately after, Eryndor thought of the movement art of Clarence.

It was called Cloud Stride I guess. It makes the user feel weightless to increase their speed and mobility.

Doesn't that mean if he uses Cloud Stride along with Iron Mountain Guard, the weakness of body being heavy will be taken care of?

When he thought of this, Eryndor took back his previous comment of Clarence being stupid.

He had cleverly used the strength of the second cultivation art to cancel out the weakness of the first one.

Of course, the speed while using those two cultivation arts together would surely not be as high as when using just Cloud Stride, and Eryndor knew that Clarence would of course be aware of it and was using it accordingly.

Cloud Stride is such a great choice though. It can counterbalance Iron Mountain Guard and is a great movement art in itself as well.

Once he was done thinking, Eryndor immediately began practicing the Iron Mountain Guard.

As usual, he expertly controlled the Qi and correctly controlled it through the loop of Iron Mountain Guard's corresponding meridians.

Instantly, a metallic sheen covered his entered body, and a heavy feeling descended upon Eryndor.

It felt as if gravity suddenly increased for him alone.

Only his own body felt heavier, the clothes, the armor and the daggers all felt the same as before.

Maybe I should practice this along with Cloud Stride movement cultivation art.

He immediately took action, and activated Cloud Stride as well after giving it another read from his badge.

Instantly, his body felt lighter, even more so than his original weight.

He could feel that he would be even lighter if the Iron Mountain Guard's drawback didn't exist though.

His eyes narrowed when he stumbled upon that train of thought.

Does that mean Cloud Stride is rather variable as a movement art?

Its 'weightlessness' depends on the initial weight of the user?

That was rather good information he got to know early on.

He didn't know what to do with it currently, but extra information about his own cultivation arts wasn't a bad thing to possess.

For the next twenty to thirty minutes, Eryndor practiced Iron Mountain Guard.

For defensive arts there wasn't much to practice because most of them, including this one, were passive defensive arts.

You didn't need to invest your conscious thought process into it to match the timings and everything. You just had to run the Qi through the specific loop of meridians.

After Iron Mountain Guard, he decided to move on to practicing Cloud Stride movement art.

Uh, maybe I should do something else?

Eryndor briefly considered switching to another task.

Yea, I can cultivate for a bit using the pills and let my body take a break.