Walking up to the candle in the room. Vali contemplated burning the book. He knew that to start cultivating this technique he needed to first burn the book. So the words of Gold Parchment will then be ingrained into his body. The thing is doing so will come with an immense amount of pain.
"Fuck it. If I'm this afraid of pain. I'll never make it far in this world" he had just fused with the template of Tatsumaki who had incredible willpower.
Placing the book over the flame. He dropped it and watched as the gold words appeared on the floor. He touched the words as they crawled up his hands. Until it was all over his body.
The words "Highest Refinement Method. Ancient First Refinement Method" appeared in his mind.
"Using the flesh as the medium and the soul thoroughly tempered. Rinse thy body and turn it into natural energy. This refinement method turns the body into a magic weapon" Vali said as he felt his body start to burn up.
"Here comes the hard path" Vali walked into the corner of the room and took off his clothes. Entering the bathtub the water immediately started to evaporate.
Closing his eyes a green cauldron with nine dragons imprinted on it appeared in his mind. The dragons as if enraged at him rushed forward from the cauldron in an imperfect white smoke form. Spitting blue fire at him.
"Ahhhh. This shit doesn't hurt that badly" Vali started to scream just to realize he was overreacting.
While it certainly wasn't pleasant. It wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. Vali decided to simply keep calm and wait until the process was over. After a while, the dragons and fire disappeared. As the technique finished refining his body for the initial stage.
Opening his eyes. Vali got out of the bath and sat with crossed legs. He started to cultivate Heavens Path Devine Art.
The next day stepping out his ran down room. He decided to practice for now until The Lou Clan training day. From what he could remember from the original Luo Zheng memory. Just before he took over. Luo Pei Ren the current young lord of the Luo clan had taken The Scared Heaven and Earth Pill and demonstrated his martial arts to Luo Zheng to crush his spirit and humiliate him.
Vali retrieved Yoru from his inventory and started practicing his swordsmanship until the afternoon. Then he could do physical training. For now, he did the Saitama basic training. Consisting of 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10 km run. But the training was too easy for the current him. So he simply did it until he felt exhausted. Taking him until nightfall. He would occasionally practice Particle Style.
According to the system. Other than the power of Tatsumaki and Almight. His other techniques required True Essence. This was because the fusion card granting him the full power of Tatsumaki without requiring True Essence and Almight One For All granted him pure physical strength as he did not have the version Young Midoria had.
Like this Vali spent almost the entire month repeating this process. Leaving only one week until the training day of the Luo Clan.
Sitting crossed leg in his courtyard the system voice prompted in his mind.
Ding! "Congratulations host for breaking into the Sky Realm and unlocking the system store. You've received 1000 system points for your efforts"
"Open up the store" Vali said excitedly.
He had been waiting for this ever since the system informed him of its functions. He learned that upon reaching the Sky Realm the store would be unlocked. Which motivated him to train diligently.
A holographic screen was displayed in front of him.
On this screen, there was a list of many different categories. There was a category for Cultivation, Murim, Magic, Technology, Anime, Comics, and even Mythology. Inside each category were different sections.
For example inside the category of Anime, there was a list of various verses consisting of Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball, One Piece, and many more.
Vali clicked on Bleach and saw various skills. Right now he wanted to focus on training his soul. As he knew how important having a powerful soul was in this universe.
Soul Reaper Prowess: Awaken the power of a basic soul reaper who has yet to awaken a Zanpakutō. Price: 100 SP
Zangetsu: The Zanpakutō of Ichigo. Price: 500 SP.
Reiatsu Control: Spiritual Pressure Control. Harnessing and regulating one's spiritual energy. Meditation to enhance spiritual awareness. Energy suppression and enhancement. Learning to resist or apply pressure with one's soul. Price: 300 SP.
"Why are the prices so low?" Vali couldn't help but think scrolling through the store.
He had received 1000 SP from opening up the store. He had expected the prices would be higher. But this wasn't a bad thing as long as the prices stayed the same.
Ding! "The prices are low to keep things simple. But it is extremely hard to earn system points. You can earn system points by completing quests which will reward you with points depending on the difficulty" the system answered.
"So the only way for me to gain more points is by completing a quest" That made sense as depending on the difficulty some quests might take a long or short time.
He had to spend his points wisely.
"System if I bought Zangetsu can I infuse him into Yoru? Also, will I become a hollow" Vali asked curiously.
"As you don't have the complications of Ichigo. You'll only gain the one Zangetsu. Which is the one with the appearance of Yhwach. You will not become a hollow. The host can indeed infuse the spirit of Zangetsu into Yoru" the system answered.
Hearing that Vali retrieved Yoru from the inventory and bought Zangetsu, Reiatsu Control, and Soul Reaper prowess to awaken his power as a soul reaper. Bringing his SP down to 100.
Infusing Zangetsu into Yoru. Vali continued to meditate to train his power as a soul reaper.
A week later he opened his eyes. If one looked closely into his eyes. A flash of blueish and slightly green energy could be seen before disappearing.
Ding! Quest has been triggered: Dominate The Luo Clan Training Day.
Reward: 50 SP
"Haha," Vali laughed viciously.
Though he is no longer Luo Zheng. He intends to make them pay for what they did to him. That and rescuing his sister was the least he could do for taking over Luo Zheng's body.
"I'll kill you all," Vali said walking out of his courtyard.