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After finishing three cycles of Greater Heaven Circulation and opening my eyes, it was already night, and stars were shining through the crude barrier of the giants’ cave.

Enjoying the omnipotence felt in my body, I slowly stood up and began to walk outside.

‘It’s an amazing body, no matter how many times I see it.’

Elves, especially High Elves, shattered the common sense of the Central Plains from the very beginning.

Originally, living beings have a strong sense of rejection and resistance to external energies.

The energies that martial artists accumulate in their dantian are not fundamentally part of a human being.

Although not precisely proven, there was a theory that from infancy, one becomes insensitive to energy like a callus, fighting against the energies of the world.

While impure energies accumulate, the younger one is, the better they feel energy and the faster they learn it, because there are fewer calluses that dull the feeling of energy.

Also, even if one accumulates energy, it doesn’t mean that such energies are familiar to humans.

Meridians that are different from one’s own, such as the Nine Yin Meridians, gradually accumulate external yin energy and harm the body.

The overall situation where the energy accumulated in the body escapes control and runs wild, destroying the body, is called Qi Deviation.

In demonic arts, the side effects of demonic energy invading the spinal cord, destroying various senses, reducing patience, and becoming ferocious is one example.

In contrast, the Elf’s body had a different level of sensitivity to natural energy.

The different human body maps, such as blood vessels and subtle meridians, could be a reason, but something more fundamental was wrong.

Perhaps it was because of the World Tree, which plays a major role in the cycle of stellar life.

The energy flowing through my entire body raced as if it were oiled, and I felt no burden on my blood vessels or subtle meridians.

I achieved Lesser Heaven Circulation, which only one in 1,000 martial artists can do after entering the realm of perfection by opening the Governing and Conception Vessels, only two weeks after forming my dantian.

Moreover, I was able to do Greater Heaven Circulation right away, thanks to my experience with the abnormally open Upper Dantian, the Baihui acupoint, in my previous life.

Thanks to this, Araya Art became a bizarre martial arts that presupposes Lesser and Greater Heaven Circulation from the beginning.

Whether it’s Lesser or Greater Heaven Circulation, it’s fundamentally a process of building a path, greatly accepting and accumulating external energy, and strengthening the inner universe, but it inevitably overworks blood vessels and subtle meridians like strength training, so usually, one would do light energy circulation and take a break every certain period.

However, High Elves, as well as the Elves who were taught by me, accepted it at a much faster rate, although there were differences in the period.

In my case, I could do Lesser or Greater Heaven Circulation several times a day without any major problems, so I thought I didn’t want to misunderstand the meaning of Lesser and Greater Heaven Circulation because I had only reached the theoretical level in my previous life and had never experienced it directly with my body.

Even though it was only a short period of 10 years, there was more energy in my dantian than an duck egg.

Generally, it is said that about 1 Jiazi is achieved when it is about the size of a walnut, and about 2 Jiazi when it is about the size of an duck egg, but I have already reached the realm of more than 2 Jiazi in terms of internal energy without any elixirs.

Moreover, the method of accumulation is not the first half of Araya Art, which is specialized in easily gathering energy for my sect, but the Three Calamities Mind Method and basic breathing techniques that allow slow but pure energy accumulation.

Thanks to the request the family received from the martial arts world, I know all the theoretical roots except for some of the rising demonic arts, but it is because I have not yet decided which direction to go in myself.

Above all, I didn’t feel the need because I could solve all problems with what I had right now.

Nevertheless, this level of achievement.

If it’s an Elf who lives much longer than humans, I couldn’t even imagine what level they would reach later.

Considering that the life of an Elf is beyond the time of ordinary life, they will continue to get stronger as long as they are allowed.

It was said that a Terato could move mountains, but after about a hundred years, they might not be able to move mountains, but they might be able to destroy them.

‘I wish my arms and legs were a little longer.’

For a martial artist who has reached the realm, the length of the limbs is not addition but multiplication.

However, there was no clear answer to this part.

For 10 years, my body had not grown properly, whether it was height or the length of my limbs, not even 1 pate.

Even if I thought about whether it was a peculiarity of the Elf race, when I saw that the newly born children grew to about my solar plexus in a few years and continued to grow, it seemed that only I was unique.

My mother only said that I would grow someday, but she didn’t know exactly…

My chest didn’t swell much, and the characteristics of a woman didn’t appear properly.

As for the chest, the experiences of my previous life have not yet faded, and it is obvious that it will be an obstacle to martial arts, so in fact, I have mixed feelings about this part.

‘I think my mood swings have been a little severe lately.’

I thought about how I couldn’t control my anger and beat up the giants.

There was a part where they insulted my parents and dug into my painful wounds, but I probably would have just ignored it in the past.

To be honest, my personality in my previous life was bland if I said it nicely, and bleak if I said it badly.

Unbearable pain that comes periodically.

A life with a short lifespan.

Poor stamina that made it difficult to even talk for a long time, let alone have a drink and socialize.

Moreover, after the family received several requests for martial arts due to the excellent talent for understanding martial arts due to the development of the Upper Dantian, there was no exchange with people for the sake of the closed nature and confidentiality of martial arts, and even the attendants were periodically replaced, so there was no one to confide in.

I don’t know if my current personality is due to the environment or the process of gradually getting used to the new body, but I honestly think it’s not bad.

As I always feel, this life is fulfilling in every way.

I have a family that loves and gives love, Elves who rely on me and need me, not distant bystanders, and a mission to carry out in life.

The newly received body is unfamiliar from the previous one, but it is a body full of possibilities that can eventually do everything necessary.

What about the world?

It’s not a trivial matter like a small teacup in the hands of insignificant humans.

There are god-like beings, and monsters that humans cannot face with their bare bodies are scattered everywhere.

Today’s events, although there was a minor accident, weren’t they quite like a situation that would appear in myths or folktales?

Everything in the giant’s house was really big.

It felt unrealistic, like a miniature garden of immortals.

Sitting small on the table because there were no chairs to sit on and listening to the conversation of the giant couple, I strongly felt that I was living in the age of mythology in my previous life.

I don’t know how this world will move forward, but I wanted to engrave my name on one side of that history.

‘Fortunately, the humans around here don’t seem to be that great yet.’

When I saw some of the looted items in the giant’s house, there was nothing as great as the giant said.

Looking only at wood processed products, they were barely using metal items, but the quality was not very good, and the cotton cloth was not as good as the Elves’.

The manifestation of the human species itself is faster than the Elves, but compared to the humans gathered around here, the difference in development was not great, and rather, the Elves seemed to be more developed.

‘Is it a racial difference?’

It’s only been 10 years for the Elves, but in fact, the Elf race had no natural enemies in the forest’s natural ecosystem.

In comparison, humans would have paid a great price just for living in the vast nature.

Development is created by the remaining energy of life.

‘Still, I should visit the human forces. There’s nothing as foolish as judging the situation with fragmentary inferences based on just a few looted items.’

Even if humans are only half as cunning as in my previous life, they might have prepared and handed over low-quality items in preparation for being robbed by giants.

As the pensive walk ended and I was about to enter the giant’s cave, I found Rudolph hiding in the bushes and dozing off.

He seemed to be sleeping outside the cave because he was afraid of the giant, but I thought it was fortunate that he followed me without running away.

He was twitching periodically as if he was having a nightmare, and I felt sorry because I thought I had been pushing him too hard since he came out of the forest recently.

As I slowly stroked him and organized the chaotic energy inside, his breathing became stable as if he had finally stabilized.

Thinking about the future, I jokingly thought about creating martial arts for Rudolph before, but I felt a little need to actually create it.

“Sleep well.”

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“Please, Lord.”

“I beg you, Lord.”

While Mrs. Bronya was seeing me off with a look of ‘Is this right?’, and I was leaving on Rudolph, Golb and Silb, who had followed me from behind at some point, suddenly appeared, kneeling down.

While grimacing at the dust flying from the two giants and calming Rudolph, who was trying to back away, I asked.

“Skipping the details and suddenly asking for a favor, I don’t know what’s going on. In the first place, were you and I in a relationship where we would give and receive favors?”

At those words, Golb closed his mouth tightly as if he had nothing to say, and Silb poked his two index fingers at each other with a sullen expression.

I scratched my chin and asked the reason.

“Let’s hear what the reason is, whatever it is.”

If it’s something that looks fun, I might not be able to refuse.