A Failure's hopeful Journey

You Xi Wang was using the spirit energy stored inside his dantian to cover up his body and found some relief from the pain. The amount of spirit energy he had was higher than that of the normal cultivators. The system wanted to say something but if he was to cause a disturbance at this movement, that will be spelling You Xi Wang's death. 

The system used soul force to manipulate all the shredded flesh on the ground. The flesh of a cultivator was tempered by the spirit energy. The whole world was made up of spirit energy, well cultivation was already defying science, this was only a perception of the cultivators. It was not without any base to it. 

As the people progress on their path of cultivation they will all be outlasting the life span of a common human. Even the hospitals used spirit energy manipulation for the treatments. When the people were injured with physical injuries they would be provided with spirit energy directly to restore the wounds. 

What the system did just now was something similar to this treatment. Even if You Xi Wang had a higher amount of spirit energy in his body, it would not be sufficient for him to recast the flesh to cover his body. Thus the shredded flesh will be recycled. The system used the soul force to squeeze the flesh. 

The cave was filled with spirit gathering arrays, but the amount was filtered and refined a lot many times to get them the purest of the spirit energy. The process was slow and the requirement was now. So what the system did was to not leave any single resource at his expense.  The system would have cursed this guy for not keeping any elixirs around him at such a time and they had to resort to recycling. 

Putting the emotions of the situation aside, the system worked with all diligence. The flesh was squeezed of every single wisp of spirit energy inside it and discarded in the form of ash. The spirit energy was then transferred to his dantian. 

You Xi Wang was in a semi-conscious state, he focused on only blending his elemental spirit energies into a mix to form something like a flesh coating on his body. Everything in the world had its formula. 

The formula for flesh was also unique, it needed to be handled precisely. You Xi Wang will be moving inch by inch and condensing flesh on his body. He did not dare to do anything too big. Once he messed up the condensation he will be having a patch of the mutation on his body, like a chink in the armor to be pierced through with the heavenly lightning and burn him to ash.

The progress was slow but the result was evident. The system foresaw that the spirit energy will be running out so, it took the initiative and used some spirit energy to cast a rune. A spirit rune was much more efficient than that of the high-level arrays. What's more? Runes collected better and purer spirit energy. 

You Xi Wang did not notice all this but kept on using the spirit energy fed to him silently. It took him a week to shed the skin on his body and the time to recast it was even slower. Cultivation was a test of will through and through. Every step was harder than the previous one. This was the way of heavens. 

To achieve Dao, one must test, their strength, ideals, resolve, and even weaknesses. It was not that the invincible was the only one to achieve dao. But it was that you must be aware of all that you were to achieve Dao.

You Xi Wang was getting aware of all the limits that he had to exceed to reach his goal of ascension, he was getting aware of all that his people will have to deal with to follow him. The boy did not regret anything he had done in this life. He had been living far exceeding his expectations. 

His previous life had taught him a lot and so did this one. He understood that cultivation was not only a constant test but also, a constant class to learn all that you can and use it to move forward. The pain he was suffering lessened bit by bit as he cast himself the flesh. The system was doing a hectic work of casting veins and capillaries through the flesh. 

The process was not a smooth one-go thing, but it was divided into condensing the spirit energy into muscle fiber, ligament, and tissues, then the lower epidermal, the upper epidermal, finally Hair. This was going to take him a lot of time and patience. 

When the human mind performs one task constantly, it will become sluggish. So You Xi Wang did things differently to keep his already exhausted mind alert. He would sometimes completely deal with the inch of the area, like condensing the spirit energy in all the forms needed. Then in another instance, he will just do the base layer and move on with the next inch. 

Throughout the process, he was very patient. He covered his eyes as soon as he started the recasting because when he saw himself as a skeleton with live organs, he was a little creeped out. After a whole month of tedious work, he finally finished recasting the flesh. 

At this moment, he sat on the boulder with skin glowing like jade. The system spoke in his mind, "Finally, finished." 

You Xi Wang nodded, and said, "Thank you for the improvisations. It would not have been possible."

The system snorted and said, "Finally some conscience. What now?" 

You Xi Wang said, "Go out, what else?" 

The system paused and said, "Do you not know that a thunder tribulation is gathering at this place?" 

"Oh damn." sighed You Xi Wang.

As soon as the recasting was finished, he triggered the heavenly tribulation. The reason was that he had a five-elemental body. This was strongly opposing the shackles set by the heavens so it had to go through the trails.