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Chapter 237
Gravis had been punching boulders for over a day by now. It was exhausting, and Gravis had wanted to take a break multipletimes already but always forced himself to do one more. At some point, punching "just one more time" had become ingrained inhim. He just continued to punch without stopping.
This whole experience was something that he had never gone through. He never had to train since everything always camenaturally. His physical strength increased with pills. His Realm increased by simply pushing lightning into his mind. His battle-strength increased by fighting. His Will-Aura also increased by fighting. Nothing had ever needed him to physically train like thisbefore.
The only time when something similar happened was when he was training Martial Arts with William, but that had been different.He only had to learn the movements then. It hadn't involved pushing his body to his limit.
The punching of boulders increased his control over his power substantially and also somewhat increased his physical power.However, the increase in physical power achieved by training was different than when taking pills. Of course, taking bodytempering pills increased his power many times faster than this repetitive punching, but the training still achieved something else.
‘The physical power of my whole body is not increasing very fast. On top of that, not all my muscles are becoming stronger. Thebiggest increase in power appears in my upper arms, back, and chest. My lower arms and legs don't get a significant increase. |know that in a proper punch, my legs and hip need to work with me, but | can't use my full power here since that would justdestroy the boulders.’
Gravis thought about many eventualities regarding this training. 'Even though those muscles are becoming more powerful, assoon as | take more body tempering pills, everything else will easily catch up. Then, all the increase in muscles that | haveachieved right now will disappear.’
Yet, Gravis continued punching with fervor because he realized something else. "Yes, my progress will disappear, but that's onlyrelatively speaking. If | take some body tempering pills, my other muscles will catch up, but what about my currently trainedones? There is only a finite amount of medicinal power inside a pill, so if it doesn't need to strengthen my currently trainedmuscles, there is more left for the other ones.’
‘All in all, increasing the power of those muscles saves me some pills in the future.’ Gravis then laughed bitterly. ‘Of course, | stillneed to train the other ones if | want to reach the next level of my body without pills. If | were to do that, | would need to traineverything for probably three years."
‘But if my goal is only to cut the pill consumption down by 50%, | would probably only need to punch for like a year or so. Ofcourse, | won't do that since | have better things to do. Right now, only my control is important,’ Gravis finished his thoughts.
By now, he was pretty good at controlling his physical power. Fitting bricks appeared more and more frequently. There was stillsome chance involved, but the frequency of the bricks appearing increased. That meant that his control had increased.
Anormal human wouldn't be able to gain such fine control over their power this quickly, but Gravis was a cultivator. He knew hisbody incredibly well, and his Spirit allowed him to keep track of everything. With the Spirit always giving perfect feedback everytime Gravis punched, his control was bound to improve rapidly.
His Spirit always kept watching over his body and the boulders. He saw how the power coursed through the boulder and howmuch power he used. After a while of watching, Gravis was entranced by the slow image of the boulders breaking and by thepattern that his power created while punching them.
The boulders always broke differently, and Gravis saw the pattern of the breaks. He saw how his power hit only one spot yet shotthroughout the boulder in the shape of many rough lines. Not every line managed to break the boulder, but that didn't mean thatthe power didn't affect them.
After some more hours, Gravis had lost all feeling in his body. It felt like he was an outsider looking on, and it felt like his bodywas punching without him. Of course, that was only an illusion. When someone worked steadily, their brain and Spirit woulddisconnect after some time as everything became automatic. Of course, this could only happen if someone was very familiar withwhat they were doing.
As Gravis’ Spirit disconnected from his body, he started getting entranced by the shapes that his power created when punchingboulders. By now, he was fully concentrating on these shapes and even tried to manipulate them.
BANG!
Aweirdly shaped boulder appeared this time, which surprised Gravis. This was the shape that he had wanted to achieve. He hadonly played around with this thought, but the shape actually became real. Like an onlooker, Gravis looked at his body, whichdully continued to punch. 'I think | know what just happened,’ he thought.
"Until now, | was only punching with my body. | was only trying to gain control over my physical strength, yet why is thatnecessary? Why should | ignore my other tools?" he thought.
Gravis realized that he hadn't used his Spirit until now, except for watching. He had only focused on his physical control and hadtried to ignore everything else. Yet, wasn't the Spirit and the mind the controller of the body? After all, his body was only a toolthat followed the orders of his Spirit. How was the body supposed to know what to do if the Spirit and mind didn't give an order?
With this newfound way to control his body, Gravis started experimenting. He willed the lines in the boulders to move intodifferent pictures and patterns. Not everything followed these patterns, though. As soon as the lines started growing into complexshapes, his body wouldn't be able to correctly release the appropriate amount of force.
‘| only need to practice and further refine my control!’ Gravis shouted in his mind.
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Gravis completely lost himself in manipulating the force lines going through the boulders and started creating more and morecomplex objects with only a single punch.