For an entire day I listened to a detailed explanation for what Sith prepared for my cultivation.

In fact what I listened to was a real eye opener for me.

“Wow! I never imagined such a thing could be done!”

What he proposed here was a different way to cultivate other than I initially thought. I didn’t think deeply about this before, but I already had a few ideas that I planned to consider.

One of them was to try and use the classic pyramid stepped way approach of other races’ cultivation. The classic cultivation of the races I knew about would consist of nine main steps, with each step having around five to seven smaller stages.

Another idea was to just treat it as building another body of mine. The idea came to me when I first opened my shadow world. Having a clone, a real clone that could let me survive if my real body died was tempting.

But what Sith proposed was something different. He spoke about my shadow, giving me new insights about this.

According to him, my shadow wasn’t just a dark clone to me, but it was an entire world. He said that shadows had their own rules, connected together, and even considering shadows living in a universe of their own wasn’t an exaggeration.

What he proposed was that I work towards gaining control over this neglected shadow universe. That would work by working towards expanding my shadow using my cultivation.

He said that my two energies I gained from the old man and Hilary didn’t have any significant attribute towards any specific direction. They weren’t considered light or dark energy, so it wasn’t bad to use my dark cultivation energy to complete this merge.

He said that my cultivation energy was destined to be a black or dark energy. First of all I got my cultivation opened from that dark realm monster.

Also I had a dark side class. In addition to the blessing I got from his death shrine… everything I had belonged to the dark side.

So it was logic to merge all this and use all this to expand my dark shadow world. According to his words, this wouldn’t be the first attempt from someone to do this feat.

Yet all the previous attempts failed. He didn’t tell me exactly what caused such failures, but he promised to tell me at some point in later records.

Sith spent a lot of time studying these attempts before my arrival. So he was the best one in the entire universe to guide me here, or that was according to his words.

Anyway, according to what he explained later I could say this god dude had really deep insights into this issue.

The cultivation process would be aiming towards expanding my shadow to become a mighty shadow. According to his words, the dark universe was a cruel place where power wasn’t the only thing to determine your rank there.

Dark energy was! So according to his plans, I should first work towards establishing a strong foundation of my dark energy as the first cultivation step.

As for the other six steps, they would be directed towards expanding and refining this energy, aiming to form something unheard of before.

Of course he didn’t forget to warn me that this process would take a long time, hard effort, and lots of sacrifices. It wasn’t just a tourist tour inside that universe, as I’d be faced with many challenges.

These things wouldn’t stop me or even make me hesitate. I overlooked this point and started to study what he talked about later in deep concentration.

“So he is asking me to seek such dark realm monsters… That’s insane!”

The first step was divided into thirteen steps. Each step required three things to be completed. The first would be absorbing one bone from a dark realm monster with no grade lower than the grade of the bone I used in opening my cultivation.

I already had many bones from that dude, but they were all grades weaker than the red graded bone I used at first.

According to his words, if I tried to use any grade lower than this, then I’d need more bones and much more time and effort. Of course that wouldn’t be the perfect plan for me, but at this moment I couldn’t find any dark realm monsters around here.

Besides, the fight against that bastard was something I didn’t want to voluntarily seek. Not while my personal strength wasn’t that good yet.

So for this point, I could just resort to the current stockpile of bones from that dark realm monster. It wouldn’t get me so far ahead, and would only help to secure the energy needed to open the first two small stages in my cultivation, but at least I’d start cultivating.

The second step needed was spiritual energy. According to Sith, my current energy was silver white, a low grade form of energy.

I had to work to absorb and refine all the energy I could from the world. That process would take a long time indeed, but he advised me to start doing this any moment I was free at.

The third step would be a mind task. He thought about stages and steps for my cultivation. But as he described it, breaking through a step would require me to think about the shape of the next step.

It was like building a city. I had to prepare a blueprint for its buildings, streets, districts, and even important facilities.

This was also the case in my cultivation. For each process I had to fully understand the purpose from it, try to imagine how my energy would gather inside my shadow, how it would expand and in what form.

Sith gave me his advice, to try and consider the honeycomb structure of beehives as a base. I got his general idea but this step would take time for me to complete.

So three steps each cultivation small stage, thirteen stages in each one major stage, and totally seven stages… This was what my cultivation path would look like.