I am an Eldritch Entity

In the complete darkness of the jungle, a young man lay on the ground with his eyes closed, as if unconcerned if anyone would sneak attack him.

It was Eryndor, who had been cultivating since the past two hours.

Empty bottles lay by his side, signifying the amount of pills he had gone through.

He was currently at the peak of stage two of the Qi Condensation realm.

A bit more and he could break through to stage three.

Well, it was clearly not just a 'bit' more, as it took him another hour. He miscalculated the estimated time.

Once he broke through to stage three, Eryndor popped in another food pill before the feeling of hunger crept back in. It was almost time anyway.

He ate it earlier than usual because the next cultivation art he would be practicing was a movement one.

These arts had one of the highest if not the highest energy consumption.

The energy being talked about here weren't the four energies or the Energy of Consciousness.

The energy mentioned here meant the general energy of the body which had relations with stamina, the feeling of exhaustion, the feeling of hunger, and so on.

This energy was closely related to the Internal Energy of the four energies, which corresponded to the domain of 'body'.

Wow, this feeling is almost addictive.

Eryndor thought as he activated Cloud Stride. The feeling of weightlessness, although difficult to control, was quite easy to have a favourable impression of.

It felt like his body unlocked another level of control.

Maybe I can even use this to increase my efficiency while fighting.

Just like other movement arts, one had to continue running the Qi through the specific route of meridians if they wanted to maintain the movement art.

After he got a feel of it, Eryndor began practicing the various ways in which he could use this movement art.

He tested the maximum speed, the speed at which he could comfortably change directions quickly without any help, the time it took for him to come to a complete stop, and so on.

After testing those parameters, he went on to imagine himself in various situations and began practicing accordingly.

After more than an hour, Eryndor finished mastering this art and switched to another one.

Clear Sky Pupil.

A visual surveillance cultivation art.

He had much less enthusiasm for it than the rest. One could even say that he was looking forward to it the least out of all the arts he was about to learn.

Because it was the most useless of them.

Its only use was to act as a substitute. A rather lousy substitute at that.

He had already read the description of this cultivation art.

It would only give you a rather low resolution but colorful display of your surroundings with a range which wasn't even one tenth of the range of his Spatial Sight, and even that was a very generous estimate.

He completed it within ten minutes, as learning such a basic surveillance skill needed no talent, extraordinary control or timing of any kind.

Next, he learned the Nine Suns Palm.

This one brought him a bit of trouble, because he was practicing in a lush green forest.

Eryndor was quite afraid of the fire spreading quickly.

It wasn't that he was worried about the flora and fauna or the disciples and masters, but that he would become the center of attention.

If the forest was of significant importance, then even his life might be in danger for setting fire to such an important landmass.

Eryndor didn't doubt that they wouldn't be able to deal with it though.

He was literally just at the initial level of the Qi Condensation realm.

Any kind of fire caused by him wouldn't be threatening or troublesome enough to truly powerful people. Even the disciples at the leaderboards would easily be able to deal with it.

The problem was how quickly they would be able to sense that the forest had been caught on fire and then deploy related measures to contain it.

Well, no matter what, I'll be in the limelight, which is quite bad for me at the moment.

Eryndor was already practicing in a relatively large clearing, with sparse trees at the edges.

It wasn't the trees he was worried about, but the grass below his feet.

Hmmm…

Eryndor narrowed his eyes, and switched to his eldritch form.

This will be a good way to test the limits of what is possible.

The very next moment he learned that it was indeed possible.

Through Telekinesis, he was able to uproot all the grass in the clearing within a few minutes.

Apparently his Telekinesis could control multiple objects at once as long as his focus and control on each one of them was sufficient.

I'd have to test how many things I can control at once in my normal form later.

After deciding that, he began practicing the Nine Suns Palm.

The core fundamental of Nine Suns Palm was follow up attacks, or chain attacks.

In this cultivation art, the burn and physical damage inflicted increased with each palm.

But the problem was that the user could only dish out a single palm at a time while the cultivation art was active. Which meant that one couldn't use two hands simultaneously to quickly increase the damage output.

Also, the attack needs to land on something. Eryndor tested it out, and it turned out that even hitting the ground would work to keep the chain going.

That is, after hitting the first palm, there was only a limited amount of time left in which you had to dish out the second palm as well, which would give increased damage.

The situation would repeat after landing each palm, till the ninth palm, which was the last one.

If you failed to land a subsequent palm in time, the next palm your cultivation art would dish out would have a damage and burn intensity of the first palm.

It would reset.

Eryndor's brain immediately began working to generate battle styles which could easily incorporate this cultivation art.

Hmm…that could be done.