Protagonist?Antagonist? I Reject Both

Chapter 295: Heavenly Realm

" As per how strong it is..."

Leon felt a shiver sensing a dangerous glint from Stephen.It wasn't fear rather his body quivering in excitement.

"I can kill a Martial Saint with the flick of my finger."

"..."

For a moment, a deep silence lingered, startling Stephen.

"Aren't you guys going to clap?"

"We have already seen brothers doing that, "Gwen answered, crashing when Stephen hoped to get praise.

"Do the initial stages of Cultivation differ from Martial Arts?"

"Huh!" Stephen made a surprised expression as he heard the question coming from Sophia.

"You don't know?"

Sophia's brows befuddled, "Is it something that everyone should know."

"Never mind, "Stephen waves his hand.

'It might be because she is the girl that her family didn't teach her.'

"Cultivation stages differ from Martial Artists."

When Stephen started explaining, Leon clenched his fist tightly in anticipation.

'If this guy said that Martial Saint is equal to Qi refining stage, I swear I am gonna commit suicide. Fuck! Which guy with screw loss will chase after 30-40 realms.'

Thankfully Stephen's next words prevented the death of a crucial life.

"Cultivation stage consists of Qi Refining, foundations realm, golden Core, Nascent Soul."

"The Martial Saints is synonymous with the Nascent Soul Realm."

"Now the crucial difference between Martial Artists and Cultivators lies in the usage of Qi, perception, and use of Soul."

Stephen took a step back and assumed a scholarly stance and started explaining.

Everyone's eyes lingered on him and as they listened carefully, they completely forgot about the chaos in the background.

Arthur who saw this spewed venom from his eyes. If not for being in a crucial step he would have rushed and given each one of them a slap.

'These bastards instead of caring about my well-being are playing around.'

"Shut up and concentrate."

"Yes Mam!"

While Arthur engulfed voracious Qi and started to prepare for a breakthrough Stephen's lecture went on.

Martial Artists get stronger by training their body. The qi is inhaled by the respiratory system, mixes in the blood and goes all over the body. The blood bathes through the veins which absorb the qi and store it.

The process was highly inefficient and there was a lot of waste. The body cultivators who have low-tier veins train in this process.

In cultivation, they use the breathing method and others to open median pores and acupoints on the body. The acupoints are directly linked to veins and qi was directly stored in the veins.

Since there was no medium, the wastage is less and it's a highly efficient process.

So why do martial artists do this?

The reason was that they didn't have proper breathing cultivation techniques. After all, what they were doing was something that began with their ancestors who were martial arts and this process kept on improving.

The second key point was perception and consciousness.

When the cultivating realm increases, the consciousness or soul also increases greatly unlike the Martial Artist.

That's because of the Golden Core realm, where they form the core of their life soul which took the shape of their figure in the Nascent Soul state producing a copy soul.

The secondary figure or copy soul wasn't restricted to the body and is highly perceptive. Using that, one can see outside the body with eyes closed. The stronger cultivar one became the greater the distance his consciousness covered up.

"I understand the advantages the cultivators have and understand the risk we were taking still wouldn't it be good if you and Mother had told us about this prior."

Irina asked with sharp eyes.

At that moment she felt embarrassed and distressed. Many people used to call her a genius but knowing this made her feel like a dumb naive girl who was growing up on lies.

"Uncle, what you did is very bad? I feel I wasted a lot of life," Gwen sulked and looked at her palms. She had several callous.

'If I had cultivated I would have made beautiful hands.'

"Stop thinking unnecessarily."

Leon's voice cut everyone's thoughts.

"Being a Martial artist isn't necessarily bad. Grandma knew what was going on and it was beneficial to us wasn't it?"

"As expected of my nephew, "Stephen shouted with a clap flashing a smile.

"Though cultivators are great even if they have a flaw.90% of the cultivators are static. They are just on their ass for years while we train our bodies. At a lower stage, a Martial Artist can beat the shit out, cultivator.."

"Until he awakens his consciousness as after that it would be easier for him to dodge unless you are faster than him. Secondly, after the Martial Emperor, one can directly step after Nascent Soul like a shortcut without going through the arduous process of building core or integrating the soul and so, etc, etc..."

"What comes after that?"Leon asked curiously.

"After that comes the Divine realm, Heavenly realm, Heavenly Star realm, and Celestial realm. After Martial Saint comes Martial Sovereign but that is just equal to the early stage of Divine realm or peak of Nascent soul realm…It depends…"

"In Dimensional zones, you are a powerhouse if you are in the Nascent Soul realm however Hehehee..."

Stephen cast an evil smile

" I am at peak of the Heavenly realm. As for mother..."

"I don't know…"

Stephen just shrugged his shoulders.

Hearing this everyone's eyes widened.

"You are so strong yet you don't know Mother's realm."

"Uncle, stop lying and tell us."

"I am not lying. I am just 43 years.I only managed to reach here because of my mother 's brutal training and the treasure that she used on me. Mother took me off and threw me into the forbidden zone of Dimensions with all the knowledge. I have to fight every day to get stronger…"Stephen started narrating the events with his moist eyes.

"It was so harsh…I feel so sad…sniff…sniff…Sniff…"

Stephen made a pitiful face as if asking for pity but contrary to his thoughts.

"Your acting sucks Uncle…Polish it first and then act like that."

Leon voiced cold water on Stephen and he glared at him.