Primordial Dimensions

A faint herbal aroma filled the whole room, while Shane sat within the nutrition solution which opened his pores.

Absorbing the nutrition solution subconsciously, Shane felt full of energy when he controlled the mana radiating from the mana stones in addition to the high energy supply within his body, towards the different segments in order to refine them.

Body refining was consistent of refining one's internal organs, bones, skin, tendons, blood, cranium, and so on.

With this in mind, there were millions of refinement techniques and the higher the grade of a body refining technique was, the more concentrated the body refining would be.

Shane's physique already reached the 4th Mortal stage but he would have to once again refine his whole body in order to receive a better result...

This was the case with every technique with a few exceptions that would continue the body refining on top of the older foundation.

If Shane's physique were to reach the 3rd Apprentice stage he would have to change his body refining technique to a higher grade and additionally refine his whole body once again to fill the small flaws, lower grad technique innately had.

This Re-refining would require fewer resources or time than the first refinings, but Shane's uncles and aunts told him that he should rather purchase [Perfect] body refining techniques because the time and resources one had to pay in the higher body refining stages would only increase substantially.

Purchasing a [perfect] body refining technique would be Shane's final goal but the costs and requirements were too high for him to handle at the moment.

All [perfect] body refining techniques were at the [Mythic]-quality and the requirements were not only pricey but the missions one had to accomplish would also be extremely difficult and dangerous.

Manuals, Techniques, and skills above the platinum rank always required the one who wanted to purchase them to accomplish missions that are sometimes even harder than upgrade missions to increase the star rating of occupations.

The main problem with perfect techniques was that one had to purchase these techniques while being at the same stage as the equivalent grade.

This meant Shane could only purchase a [Mortal-(Mythic)] body refining technique as long as his physique and cultivation didn't exceed the 10th Mortal stage.

Shane already took a glance at the requirements for the [perfect] mortal body refining technique and one requirement was that he had to accumulate 1000 gold coins by himself in order to purchase it in the end.

Everything Shane gathered, plucked, and killed was automatically calculated together according to the prices he sold them, as long as the system detected that it was proper business and not fraud or a sly trick.

As such he already accumulated more than 200 gold by himself but he initially wanted to breakthrough fast, instead of wasting time with a perfect body refining.

However, he wasn't sure about this decision anymore when he remembered his uncle and aunt telling him to give it a try.

Furthermore, Shane would be stuck in the basic dimension for quite some time in order to achieve the goal in his mind.

As such he was pondering what to do...when he remembered that he was sitting within a nutrition solution which's effect would slowly diminish.

Shaking his head, Shane had more important things to do right now and he focused on his body refining once again.

Body refining focused mostly on tempering and cleansing one's body, while the mana refined all body parts from the inside out, in addition to the high amount of nutrition flooding his cells.

Umbra looked at him from outside the basin and coiled itself together next to a fist-sized common quality mana stone to absorb it, while Shane operated the mana gathering technique before his mana pool was completely filled.

With the mana inside his body and the nutrition streaming every cell in his body, Shane started practicing the body refining technique to fill the flaws of his first four ranks at the mortal stage.

Time passed slowly and Shane's pores excreted a black and terrible reeking liquid which were the impurities within his body.

Not only would cultivation itself cleanse a cultivator's body but body refining would do the same.

However, while cultivating the mana pool, would only cleanse one's mana channels, mana pool, and everything that belonged to mana innately, body refining would cleanse the impurities within his veins, skin, organs, and so on.

Both cleansings were important for the body and would cause one to have a longer lifespan as the surrounding mana in addition to the innate mana were able to renew older cells within the body.

Because Shane already achieved a physique of the 4th mortal stage, he refined his physique, before he continued to absorb the mana in his surroundings which already lessened by a noticeable amount, only to continue to refine his physique once again.

Apparently, he would have to use three to four fist-sized (common) mana stones for a single sitting while body refining, and Shane would probably have to purchase a few more of them in order to be prepared for the next three weeks of strengthening himself.

In total six hours passed when Shane the mana stones were completely dried up and crumpled.

This amount of time was enough for him, to re-refine his already existing body constitution, and black reeking liquid floated on top of the water, piercing his nostrils as he smelled the stench.

Drying his wet body, Shane saw his physique and could only nod his head in admiration.

Comparing his old body constitution on earth with his current physique, there was not even the need to consider which was more enticing and admirable.

His muscles were thought and distinct, while his skin could be considered fair and smooth.

One might think that everyone with a high physique would have a nicely shaped body shape but that was not the case because working out was still important.

If one had a high physique but a bad body constitution without working out and training the body consistently, one couldn't use the refined physique perfectly.

As such, Shane learned from a young age how to workout and remain fit in a short amount of time, and keep everything fully occupied in order to not waste a single 0.001% of his combat prowess.

This was definitely something Shane was thankful for because otherwise he probably wouldn't work out as much in his freetime as he did now.

Dumping away the accumulated impurities into a special bin, the water was thrown into the pipe connected to the mana water treatment plant before Shane shifted his gaze toward Umbra who looked at him with the desire for more mana stones.

Taking out a bunch of two fist-sized (common) mana stones, Shane wouldn't make the same mistake as before and waste two fist-sized(uncommon) mana stones.

While Umbra coiled around one mana stone, Shane took the other one in his hand when he closed his eyes with the desire to get stronger, when he began gathering the mana particles within the mana stones.