Dive Sasquatch God!

Kimarya laughed as all the exhaustion suddenly set in. The odd substance around her that made up the giant Sasquatch form began swirling around her gently before disappearing.

She turned to the boy, who seemed to come to his senses, dropped her smile, and coldly asked.

"Who are you, and why did you try to share your hyena problem with me?"

Still trying to calm down and return his breathing to normal, the boy answered, "Leerum Epsum."

"I'm sorry about the whole hyena thing. I couldn't kill it safely enough, so I tried to find a better way to kill it or at least seek a more favorable environment. I was doing that till I saw you running. I admit that it was a little shameful of me to force my problem onto you to help me kill it. But I made a big effort trying to make it into my Ancestral spirit Guardian and felt too pressured."

Kimarya huffed, still upset, before Leerum continued in a distressed voice, "I never would have imagined you had such awful luck to be targeted by a Murder Crow! I would not dare run to you even if I had ten more guts. Not even if I knew you had a Demonic Ape as an Ancestral Spirit Guardian."

Kimarya heard an indignant snort in her head. "How dare he confuse me, this great and magnanimous lord, as a pitiful Demonic Ape," grumbled Sasquatch after hearing what Leerum said.

She asked him, "What's a Demonic Ape?"

Leerum, thinking that Kimarya recklessly got a creature she couldn't identify, said, "It's a Grade 5 Spirit Beast; its species reproduce fast and are incredibly powerful and annoying due to reaching this level of strength immediately after becoming adults. The only downside is that their potential is so abysmal that the best possible scenario only transcends up to a grade 1 creature, which is not terrible strength. It has incredible strength, but after reaching a certain level of attainments in cultivation, you lose the advantage of its strength, and it could even lower your innate potential. The power that, at best, would allow someone to have a limit of a low general. Many people looking to reach incredible heights of power too quickly pick these as Ancestral Spirit Guardian forms but lose out in the long ru-" Leerum lowered his voice and averted his gaze awkwardly after accidentally saying that.

"Ok, I understand," Kimarya responded, thinking about Sasquatch's response. Thinking herself lucky, she asked, "Sunny, do you have more information on this Spirit Beast grading system?"

Sunny responded," Yes, I do. The Spirit Beast system is essentially like this:

(First stage) Animal Grade (1,2) ----> (Second stage)Beast Grade (1,2,3,4,5)

For example, the Hyena from earlier is a Grade 2 Beast, and this Hairy Intruder is a Demonic Ape, a Grade 5 Beast.

Kimarya heard a sarcastic tone at the end of Sunny's assessment before feeling the anger and indignation of Sasquatch rumbling over before it loudly interjected, "You dare call this great sir a Demonic Ape?!? I am an Existence that transcends all of your mortal understanding! I've witnessed events and things you could never imagine!!"

Sunny coldly interrupted with more information.

"(Third stage) Creature Grade (1,2,3,4,5) -------> (Fourth stage) Broken Existence Grade (1,2,3,4,5)"

Leerum looked at the quiet Kimarya, who was seemingly in a daze. He thought that his unfiltered response had upset her before asking, "What's your name?"

Kimarya ignored the still upset and grumbling Sasquatch and paused Sunny's prompts. She looked back at Leerum, hesitatingly answering, "My name is Draeneoy Stormblood, but please call me Kimarya."

Leerum was about to continue before he choked on his next breath and, in an unsettled tone, quickly asked, "That family—So you're chosen....wait...You're that Draeneoy?!? The supreme warrior body and holy daughter of the Stormblood family?!? You can't be her! She-" He stopped continuing as Kimarya fiercely glared at him.

Leerum again realized he was being extremely rude and also said too much. He fell to his knees, kowtowing, "I'm sorry! I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to say that. Please punish me for my transgression!"

Kimarya felt a headache coming in as she grabbed Leerum, trying to get him to stop kowtowing and stand. To her great alarm, she noticed she couldn't make him budge a single inch. Finally, she yelled, "Stop that. I know you didn't mean it. Let's just get back to the village before another Murder Crow or something comes and kills us."

Leerum stiffened after hearing this and got up, saying, "Thank you, Holy daugh-I mean Kimarya."

Kimarya awkwardly smiled before following Sunny's instructions to return to the village with Leerum in tow. The journey was made easier by the increasing light from the rising sun.

After traveling a day and a half before finally bumping into a guard station letting them know the location of the slain Murder Crow and Hyena as Kimarya and Leerum received medical treatment and were led to their own personal waiting rooms to wait for the conclusion of the trial.

After waiting a few days, she heard knocking, only to be surprised by an awkward Leerum with an odd bag in his hands at her door.

"I wanted to give you these for saving me as well as compensation for taking the Murder Crow's core... I'm sure you know how important it is for stabilizing and completing the Ancestral guardian forms," he said as he handed her the pouch.

He continued, "This is a spatial pouch, the only one in my family. Inside it is everything usable of the Murder Crow except the core... I desperately needed it to finish my Ancestral Spirit guardian form. But without a Murder Crow as an ancestral spirit guardian, the core wouldn't help you, even if you found another one. Its benefits would be less.. but please know that its flesh is considered a cultivation treasure. It is a creature that has absorbed and amassed an incredible amount of natural energy, so it will greatly help your cultivation. Its feathers could be used as weapons and even as a resource to build a formidable cloak with great defensive strength."

Sunny said, "Spatial pouches are incredibly valuable. As the name suggests, they are a lot bigger inside than the outside. They are built using a fantastic technique and unique ingredients.

Kimarya was shocked and held onto the spatial pouch before replying, "I'll give you the pouch back when I'm done with it. I can't accept it; it's too special to give it away!"

Leerum shook his head before saying, "Thank you for your assistance, Hol-Kimarya!" Then, he immediately sprinted away.

Kimarya, with an amused smile, closed the door. After a few days alone, she and Sunny digested and comprehended more and more of Draeneoy's knowledge and had a more complete understanding of this world and cultivation that is so important to everyone.

They learned that cultivation is the sacred process of power that improves health and increases longevity—the very path to power! This is done by cultivating and comprehending natural ambient energies known as Qi as you advance on your path to building your Dao foundation.

The Dao is the path in your heart, principles, hopes, goals, emotions, and everything that makes up who you are. There are no wrong paths in the advancement of your Dao. This is what makes up the base and foundation of your cultivation. The growth of your comprehension of the Dao is what allows your cultivation to grow. Comprehension of the natural laws is required; otherwise, you risk Qi deviation. A correct balance of these two, plus your innate talents, determines how fast you can have cultivation breakthroughs and how far you can go.

When determining someone's attainment, better known as cultivation base, one's aura gives distinct impressions.

The cultivation levels she was aware of so far are as follows: