Isn't this just cheating?

After figuring out the process for one, it was pretty easy to figure out how to create the repective techniques for each mythical beast. A ritual for the vermilion bird, a dance for the white tiger, an offering for the black tortoise, and a sacrifice for the qilin. The ritual and offering where basicly the same as the prayer for the azure dragon, the dance was just that, a ritualistic dance.

the 'sacrifice' was just him giving 10 years of his life span. But considering that with all his traits, techniques and the effects of his body forging added up, he had about 300 or so years left. All these techniques gave him

[Blessing of the vermilion bird: tier 1: the vermilion bird has seen your ritual and as such has decided to give you a temporary boon. minor boost to vitality, minor increase in fire affinity.]

[Blessing of the white tiger: tier 1: the white tiger has seen your dance and as such has decided to give you a temporary boon. minor boost to dexterity, minor increase in metal affinity.]

[Blessing of the black tortoise: tier 1: the black tortoise has received your offering and as such has decided to give you a temporary boon. minor boost to strength, minor increase in water affinity.]

[Blessing of the qilin: tier 1: the qilin has received your sacrifice and as such has decided to give you a temporary boon. minor boost to constitution, minor increase in earth affinity.]

These also interacted with his [five elements organs] trait that was fused into [transcendent phisque] it gave him [azure liver] which greatly increased his phisiscal regeneration, [vermilion heart] which gave him a beserk power, [white lungs] which gave him greatly increased stamina, [black kidney] which greatly increased his resistance toxins om general, and [gold intestins] which greatly increased his digestion. As [five elements organs] was fused with [transcendent phisque] they where also inherently fused with it, and as such got a power up. Other then that, he made the new four blessings permenent, and fused them. He also fused the five techniques, but that was done solely by him, that gave him.

[Blessing of the five elements: tier 2: retains and upgrades all effects of fused traits, vastly increases affinity to all five dao elements and four base elements, Slightly increases affinity to mutated elements, minorly increases affinity to yin and yang, the five beast's are watching you with interest, your blood becomes more malleable.]

[Five occult circles: tier 2: this technique is the collection of five different occult methods of contacting higher powers and beseching their aid. It has been modified to support many diffrent forms of power, including the self.]

The first one was self explainitory, just a better version of the five difrent blessings. The five dao elements what the already explained, wood, fire, metal, water, and earth. While the four base element where air, earth, fire and water. Mutated elements where things like ice, poison, lightning and such. Finnaly yin and yang was self explanatory. Same as the five beast's watching him, what he couldn't understand, was 'your blood becomes more malleable', he had no clue what that ment.

And his new technique was just a better virsion if the five fused ones, along with the added bonus of him being able to 'beseech aid' to himself, effectively giving himself a permemnt buff so long as he was alive. He had already giving himself the buff but as it was technically just more of himself, it didn't count as a trait. All this left him with 13,000 exhcnage points.

'Alright, guess it's time to start the body forging phase.' Sitting cross legged and breathing in, Alex focused on drawing in 'five elements energy' which was a very, very, very, diluted version of qi, basicly like taking one drop of food colouring and putting it in a Olympic swimming pool of water. But as his body had never been exposed to actual qi it had to be slowly introduced to it, otherwise he would get 'qi poisoning'.

The body was exposed to a large amount of qi, and it can't prosess it. Therefore the qi begins to run around free in the body crashing all around it, damaging it in the process. Slowly introducing a diluted version alowed the body to understand and become used to outside qi, kind of like how a vaccine works. Slowly more and more concentrated versions of qi are introduced untill at the end of body forging, to break through to qi absorbing a very, very small sliver of pure qi is introduced.

If the body can handle it, congratulations, you've made it to qi absorbing. It not, it will run around freely in your body until it either runs out or you die. Of course, dying is a very small possibility, and if body forging is done properly, even with the lowest level cultivation method, the very worst should just be a major injury needing a few months of rest.

Of course, this was all for normal people. Pretty much the moment Alex started to draw in five elements energy, it began to flood into his body, and his body adjusted to it just as fast. In fact, the more energy pored into him, the faster it was drawn in. Untill a single strand of qi was drawn into his body. All of a sudden it was like a flood gate had been opened, his body began to voraciously pull more and more Qi from the air into his body, which continued to drink it up like a man who had been stranded in a desert all his life. None of this qi was actually used to progress his realm, it was just fed to his body. More, and more and even more, untill a small storm of qi had formed over him and was being pulled into him.

Untill, just as fast as it started, it stoped. His body had seemed to hit a limit, and no more Qi was being drawn in. 'What the heck was tha-' and just like that another storm began around him, this one twice as big as the last and growing faster still. After an hour and enough qi to have brought him to foundation building thrice over, the second storm calmed down, the last dregs of qi being pulled into him.

Just as alex started to calm down his door was thrown of its hinges as his father came crashing in. "What happend?! Where you attacked!?" Before he could even respond the cheef advisor followed behind him saying "my lord! It had finnaly shown its true colors! That vile demon must be slain!"

Turning towards his father Alex said "Firstly, I'm fine. I just started body forging and all of a sudden my body started sucking in qi, but I'm fine." Turning towards the chief advisor he said "and secondly, what do you have against me? I've done nothing to you as far as I can tell. And it's been proven i am not a demon on three diffrent occasions."

"I do not care what the tests say, I am sure you are not the same child that was in the third mistresses womb. you, you vile demon spawn, must have killed and replaced the real second young master in the cot, and poisoned the mistress and third young master. There is no other way to explain how she, who had the first young master and was fine after the second young master, would die in childbirth to the third young master. And the poison must be why he was so weak!"

Slightly taken aback at the sheer conviction in the chief advisor's voice, Alex said "prove it then. How am I a demon? And how have I hidden in front of my father, who is a foundation building powerhouse, for about 3 years now? Are you saying that I am somehow this almighty demon capable of hiding from someone at foundation building but not capable of fighting even the weakest maid? Or capable of poisoning my own mother under the watch of my father and you?"

It was the chief advisors turn to be taken aback this time as he did not expect the 3 year old child to have such a comeback "I will prove it, and i will be the one to banish you, vile demon, when I do prove it."

"Enough! Dinner is in three hours, both of you will have calmed down by then. As Alex doesn't seem to have any problems, I will brush off the anomaly as a sign kf his talent. And advisor, my wife died in a tragic accident, not because if anyone's meddling, especially not my sons." After saying this both alexes father and the adviser left alexes room.

Alex set up a basic sound proofing ritual for his room before yelling.

"Fuck! That rat basterd! First he poisons me in the womb, and then has the nerve to blame me for my mother death. I fucking swear, I'm gonna learn demonic methods just to fucking kill him."

Taking a breath Alex paused for a moment, "wait, why am I so worked up? Logical I shouldn't care this much. I mean sure, I should be sad my mother died, and angry that that basterd tried to kill me and blame me for her death. But I shouldn't be this emotional. System, any answers?"

[Scaning host... Anomaly I'm host's soul found. Analizing... anomaly confirmed to be remenent of host bodies original soul. Host does not need to worry, soul remenent is simply the fractured will of the unformed soul from the hosts body before host inhabited it. Said fractured will has the possibility to trigger certain emotions in host in certain situations, such as your dead mother or the advisor Atempting to kill you. Do you wish to remove remenent will?]

"Well. thats, interesting. So I killed a baby? Shit. Ahh, i guess, sure. Remove the remenent will."

[Will removed]

"Huh, that was easy. Guess I'll go back to cultivating now."