Chapter 95 - You Have To Read This Book
Hearing his mother mentioning about his metal-manipulation for the second time, Leon knew it was not his imagination. His mother really did have her own way for him to awaken his metal-manipulation abilities.
"Mother, I haven't heard of anyone being able to become dual-attribute awakeners. How can you be so sure I will be able to awaken the metal attribute after training the technique?" Leon couldn't help but ask.
"How can I be so sure you say? Hmm..."
Elizabeth repeated the words and hummed mysteriously with a smile. Her answer was purposely drawn out in a way that made one curious like an itch needing to be scratched.
"My son, you must always remember that just because you have never heard or seen it, you must never rule out the possibility that it does exist. The world is so vast and boundless, to say that we have seen and heard everything life has to offer would be too conceited and arrogant. You must never become conceited or arrogant. Only with an open mind, would you be able to walk far on the path of cultivation."
"Awakening cultivation is the way of comprehending the world laws and transforming their power into our own. A narrow-minded person would not easily accept new ideas, perspectives and thoughts. How can one learn new things if they believe they know everything? This is no different to shutting off the endless possibilities opened to an awakener. The reason mother is so sure is because mother is a dual-attribute awakener."
Having said that, Elizabeth demonstrated her fire abilities. The flames dance freely on the tips of her fingers like it was alive. However, the flame was small and flickered with a weak light, contrary to the image of a powerful awakener Elizabeth was viewed by the people. Evidently, her fire abilities were not up to par with her metal abilities. In fact, there was no need for comparison between the two. One was the heavens and the other was down to earth.
"Mother seldom uses fire abilities, so not many know about it." Elizabeth explained.
'More like no one knows about it at all right?' Leon doubted. If anyone knew about his mother's dual attribute with fire, the breaking news would no doubt spread like wildfire. That is of course, unless the person was personally ordered to keep their mouth shut by his mother.
"So, it's true that awakeners can have multiple attributes, but why does no one else have it?"
Hearing her son's question, some pride swelled up inside Elizabeth. "This is the difference between natural awakening and forceful awakening. As mother has said, awakening cultivation is the way of comprehending the world laws. The greater your understanding, the more power you can draw from the world. If you can achieve a preliminary understanding of the element, you will be able to form the elemental seed. Therefore, mother stressed the importance learning the characteristics of each metal. How can you expect to control it if you don't understand it, right?"
"But this is exactly the case for forceful awakening. Forceful awakening through the awakening pills will trigger the elemental baptism and the elemental seed formed is decided by their body's affinity to the element. Their abilities will naturally come to them like muscle memory, but they will not understand the intricacy of their ability. This would result in basic control and 9th step is the absolute limit of their cultivation."
Listening to his mother's words with apt focus. He finally understood why his opponents only used basic techniques now that his doubts were cleared. Leon put on a strange look and asked, "Do you think triple attribute is possible, mother?"
"Theoretically yes." Elizabeth answered. She was confounded by his question and continued with a question of her own, "But why do you ask, son?"
"Because…"
Leon didn't finish his words. He judged that demonstrating was quicker than explaining. A ball of flame appeared in his right hand and a weak frosty mist rose from his left.
"This is… ice attribute!? Wait… why did you make mother explain everything, if you already know everything, you little rascal?" Elizabeth was briefly shocked by Leon's second attribute, before realizing that her son may have already known the intricacy of the awakener cultivation system.
"Uh… I didn't know anything, mother. Your son gained his second element through… a different method." Leon answered awkward.
"Oh? There are other methods? Hmm… Is it possible for a natural awakener to reawaken through the forceful method? No… that doesn't seem possible. A normal person can only have affinity to one element. Quick, tell mother what method you used to gain your second element."
Elizabeth mused to herself. She wrapped her head around the possibility of gaining dual attribute outside of hard work in studying the elements. She didn't notice her son's awkwardness and soon asked with keen interest.
"Err… well… alright."
Leon found it embarrassing to openly talk about his love affair, but he ultimately steeled himself and explained his matter with Lynne to his mother and how his ice ability naturally came as a result of their copulation. When he finished explaining to his mother, his face was covered with shame even though he had only briefly talked about the deed.
Cough*
Elizabeth also found it awkward. She hadn't expect such and answer from her son, she took a moment to recover herself.
"Although you already have a fiancée, mother won't care too much about this matter. Powerful men are destined to have more than one wife. Just find some time to bring that Lynne girl to meet mother in the future, okay? We would need to set a wedding date, so you can quickly deliver a grandchild for mother to hold, but that can wait until after your father is cured."
Elizabeth was happy to see her son have multiple wife. It goes to show how excellent her son is, and she would be even happier if she could have a grandchild to hold. She didn't have much chance to hold her son when he was a baby since he was taken from her, but she at least still had chances to hold her son's child.
Elizabeth's attitude towards her son was clear and did not extend to her husband. If her husband ever dares to look for other women after he wakes up, then she would break his legs, all three of them if she had to.
"Err… yes, mother." Leon answered perfunctory. Inwardly, he thought he wasn't ready for children. It was an unforgiving world. He wanted to at least create a stable environment. As such, it was too early for him to consider it for now.
…
When the serious talk about her son's love life was over, Elizabeth put on a serious face and move back to important business.
"Mother believes you have a special body constitution; however, it isn't exactly good news."
"Why is that, mother?"
Leon hadn't found any problems with his ice ability so far. He still planned to awaken the other 3 attributes to complete his five-element cycle.
Leon began listening to his mother's reason why having many elements was not good. The reason was quite simple. It was better to focus wholeheartedly on a single elemental ability than to be a jack of all trades and master of none. His mother's fire ability wasn't strong because she only focused on cultivating her metal ability. That was why she was so powerful. If she had cultivated her two elemental abilities equally, her cultivation might only be half as strong.
Unfortunately, becoming a jack of all trade was precisely what Leon intended to do! He had no choice but to do it since the 5 elements were required to compliment his [Hegemony of Primal Chaos] technique.
Leon began to lament that he may have made a mistake in choosing to cultivate the [Hegemony of Primal Chaos]. The technique required a bottomless pit of energy.
However, while there was bad news, there was also good news. The world had boundless amount of energy of the 5 elements. If he can comprehend the 5 elemental laws through awakening cultivation to a high level, it would boost his divine cultivation speed drastically and increase his mastery over the [Hegemony of Primal Chaos] technique, which was still at the initial success of the first stage.
"Alright, with all that out of the way, mother can finally teach you the [Great Sky Refining Art]."
In the present age, the [Great Sky Refining Art] might seemed like an incredible breathing technique, but to Leon, who came from a world of cultivation, the technique was actually incredibly low level. It was comparable to Energy Condensation level techniques. It simply used a set of different pathways through the meridians to absorb and refine the energy of the world. When his mother finished imparting the technique to Leon, he was so surprised he was slack-jawed.
"T-That's it?"
"Mm, That's it, but not all."
Not all?---
Before he could continue his line of question, Elizabeth grabbed him. His vision blurred with a strong gust of wind and before he knew it, he was in front of a building with a plaque that says, 'Royal Library'.
Elizabeth quickly entered the building and came back out shortly with a very thick book called [Myriad Metal Compendium Vol.1/10].
"Son, you need to finish reading this book and learn all its content by heart, before attempting to use the [Great Sky Refining Art] to form your metal seed."
The thick book had at least two thousand pages and there were 10 volumes to it. Leon's eyes were like saucers and wanted to faint.
His road to the top of the world was bound to be a long and arduous one.