Climbing the Tower with Multidimensional Avatars - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12. The Galaxy Divine Temple – Reincarnation (3)

I watched my reincarnation avatar driving home at a normal pace and found myself lost in thought.
“When is it normal for a child to start speaking?”
If I accelerated time carelessly and pushed things too far, I might end up with an autism diagnosis.
While accelerating, my avatar could only follow the commands I’d given in advance, making communication with others impossible.
Could I afford to slow time down moderately until the hundred-day mark?
There shouldn’t be any problems accelerating time while my avatar slept.
The issue was that, being a newborn, my avatar woke and fell asleep repeatedly at three to four-hour intervals, and when awake, it mostly needed formula.
The Newborn Nursery had nurses working in three shifts, maintaining round-the-clock watch, so there were no complications.
Siu, who cared for me, was an android, so she probably didn’t need sleep.
While thinking this, we arrived at the Cheon Family Residence before I knew it.
Siu, cradling me in the carrier, stepped inside, and throughout the spacious residence were several other android robots.
“Welcome back, Siu.”
Unlike Siu, the androids waiting inside the residence looked distinctly robotic in appearance, and their speech carried a mechanical undertone.
“I’m home. Are there any matters to report during my absence?”
“One report pending. There is a message. Shall I display it?”
“Display it.”
Siu and the android robot clasped hands, and Siu’s eyes swept through empty space as if reading something.
“I see. It’s fortunate that all legal procedures have been completed. How did the full-house disinfection proceed?”
“Disinfection completed, I report.”
“Good. Management androids Raiden Units 1 through 12, transition to standard management mode now.”
“Transitioning to standard management mode.”
At Siu’s command, the android robots departed elsewhere.
I learned later that those androids typically remained integrated with the household appliances, managing the residence, only manifesting physically when brute force was needed.
Siu carefully lifted the carrier containing me, met my gaze, and offered a gentle smile.
“We shall proceed to your chambers now, Young Master. Everything has been prepared.”
Siu continued speaking to me even when words weren’t necessary.
Of course, infants needed to hear constant speech to develop language, so it was the right approach.
That is, if I could hear it while sleeping as a newborn.
Carried by Siu, I was placed in a crib in my meticulously arranged room.
“Should I accelerate now?”
I’d been observing at normal speed hoping to glean information about this world, but it seemed there was nothing more to learn from an immobilized infant’s body.
Besides, even now I could adjust my view thanks to the three-dimensional avatar effect and observe my surroundings, otherwise all I’d see would be the sky or the mobile hanging from the ceiling.
As I thought this, Siu removed her gloves and touched various parts of my body, infusing it with magical energy.
Startled, I stopped attempting to accelerate time and looked at Siu.
Unaware that I was watching, Siu explained as she worked.
“This is called the Pursuit of Acupoints massage. It activates the body’s meridians and prevents the accumulation of impurities.”
Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement! That technique from martial arts novels that appears so often!
The one that supposedly gives infants a complete transformation, as if they’ve been reborn anew!
Of course, the mechanics vary between stories, but doesn’t performing Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement require mastery of martial arts?
Whether Siu knew of my doubts or not, she continued performing Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement for hours, elaborating on the technique.
Though her explanation seemed somewhat scraped from an encyclopedia, to summarize Siu’s words: Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement is a grand technique that requires multiple cultivators at the Transcendent Realm or higher to perform, and unlike adults, infants whose meridians and vessels remain flexible experience comfort and beneficial effects for growth.
It appeared to be the same Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement I knew of.
But that meant Siu’s ability to perform Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement alone indicated she had reached the Transcendent Realm or beyond.
Can androids even cultivate martial arts?
More questions arose, but after finishing the Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement, Siu sat beside my crib and recited incomprehensible scriptures as if reading a fairy tale.
“A tree must have deep roots, a sturdy trunk, and flexible branches. In breathing, one must be like a tree….”
As she spoke, she infused my lower abdomen with mana—or rather, qi—and traced her fingers across my entire body, guiding the qi she had instilled.
For a moment, I couldn’t comprehend Siu’s actions, but through my consciousness connected to the three-dimensional avatar as if stepping halfway into it, I grasped something from the qi flowing through my entire body.
“Cultivation Method! Could it be that she’s teaching me a cultivation method from infancy!?”
If that were the case, rather than merely sharing this half-stepped sensation, it would be better to enter the avatar’s body and experience it directly.
I immediately entered the avatar.

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Several days had passed since I was reborn in an infant’s body and returned home with Siu.
During that time, I experienced Siu’s cultivation method training and endeavored to move qi through my own body according to the cultivation method.
At first, the complex movement of qi made it difficult to manipulate the meager qi within my body.
I could sense the qi itself, but the qi within my body was sparse, and drawing qi from outside my body proved challenging.
However, whether the formula had been mixed with spiritual medicine or not, after drinking it, my entire body became filled with qi for a brief moment, and I practiced the cultivation method during those moments when qi was abundant after feeding.
Then, just as when Matan first appeared in my status window, “Clear Wood Technique (淸木功) Lv1” emerged.
The appearance of an ability in the status window didn’t make things significantly easier.
After all, the status window was merely an indicator of my condition.
However, the appearance of Clear Wood Technique in the status window meant I was properly learning it, which was good news.
Considering that what I learned was Clear Wood Technique and my surname became Cheon, it appeared I had been born into the Cheon Family Clan.
Since Clear Wood Sword and Clear Wood Technique were martial arts that children of the Cheon Family Clan learned, my intuition was correct.
When I began cultivating Clear Wood Technique on my own, Siu, who had been teaching it to me, paused in bewilderment.
“Huh… Is it normally supposed to be learned this quickly?”
Siu had introduced herself as a nanny android, but it seemed caring for an infant was her first experience.
The way she fed me formula and changed my diapers seemed somewhat awkward at first.
After practicing a few times, she seemed to have learned, becoming proficient quickly, but initially it was clearly unnatural.
Having become somewhat accustomed to Clear Wood Technique in my infant body, I alternated between my avatar and main body to practice.
My avatar, in its infant form, had natural qi flow perhaps because there were no waste products in the body, but my main body struggled to absorb and circulate qi.
It seemed the avatar consumed spiritual medicine along with formula, but my main body had aged considerably and never consumed spiritual medicine.
Even as I became somewhat proficient in Clear Wood Technique, Siu continued performing Meridian Cleansing and Blood Refinement without teaching me anything else.
“For now, learning ends here.”
I had my avatar repeat Clear Wood Technique practice and accelerated time.

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As time passed, my avatar inhabiting the infant’s body grew.
After a hundred days, I could roll over and push myself forward; by two hundred days, I had gained some control over my body.
As I approached my first birthday, I became capable of basic speech and taking steps.
I hadn’t spent the entire year accelerating time without pause.
I often took time to practice cultivation techniques within my infant avatar’s body.
No matter how much my avatar practiced, progress remained stagnant.
Of course, I felt my meridians strengthen somewhat from the practice, but without truly embodying the cultivation method myself, it held no real meaning.
The subjective time I experienced as an infant was approximately thirty days.
For my main body, only about fifteen hours had elapsed.
As a result, my Tower avatar had to purchase additional sandwiches for my main body to consume and transfer through inventory.
Now that I could communicate with Siu, I decided to reduce the accelerated time and increase the duration I spent directly controlling my avatar.
“Young Master, you’re awake.”
“Mm.”
I rose from my crib and toddled forward.
Perhaps due to my cultivation practice, my body’s growth rate seemed remarkably swift.
“Young Master, before watching television, you must have breakfast and conduct your cultivation training first.”
“Okay, got it.”
My pronunciation was imperfect with my teeth still growing in, but simple words were entirely manageable.
Siu placed me in a high chair, and before me sat infant porridge prepared with spirit herbs.
It appeared that both the formula and porridge I’d consumed thus far were standard provisions supplied by the Cheon Family Clan.
Though the seasoning was minimal to my adult palate, Siu’s culinary skill was exceptional enough to make even bland food delicious.
“Hehe, the Young Master eats everything without complaint—it’s wonderful.”
As she raised me, Siu consulted parenting communities and praised my appetite with a smile.
I did eat well, after all.
Even if my body was an infant’s, my mind was fully grown, so I had no choice but to behave properly.
“All done.”
“You’ve finished everything. Excellent work.”
Siu lifted me from the chair and cleared the table.
Though she was an android and didn’t eat, she occasionally absorbed the surrounding qi as if cultivating, and recharged with electricity.
I toddled into the dedicated Cultivation Chamber prepared for my training and sat down with a soft thump.
Regardless of its structure, the chamber had the effect of gathering and containing qi within its space.
I had only begun using the Cultivation Chamber about two days prior; until then, I’d practiced the Azure Wood Technique while lying in my crib.
Though I’d directly controlled my avatar to train the Azure Wood Technique for only thirty days, I’d practiced it macro-style while lying in my crib, so my dantian had already formed within my body.
According to Siu, my progress was remarkably swift even among the direct descendants of the Cheon Family Clan.
With an adult’s mind reciting the incantations and consistently practicing cultivation techniques, rapid progress was inevitable.
Still, I couldn’t afford complacency. While I held an advantage through mental maturity now, it was common for children hailed as geniuses to become ordinary once they reached adulthood.
To be honest, I knew I lacked talent when it came to physical prowess.
This body is my avatar, fundamentally no different from my own nature.
I harbor no great ambitions.
My bare minimum goal was simply to reach a level where my body wouldn’t be so frail that I’d be forced to flee or face certain death while climbing The Tower.
If possible, I hoped to achieve above-average results in this world as well.
Seated, I began my cultivation practice of the Azure Wood technique as scheduled.
The regular cultivation training Siu assigned me lasted two hours.
I wondered if such practice was even possible for an infant, but since my mind was not that of a baby, I trained diligently.
After the cultivation session ended, my favorite time of day arrived.
It was watching a comprehensive historical documentary produced by a broadcasting subsidiary of the Galaxy Information Conglomerate, the Beggar’s Sect.
Thousands of years had passed since leaving Earth, and the Beggar’s Sect had transformed from a den of beggars into a colossal information enterprise and orthodox sect that dominated the Galaxy alongside the Hao Sect.
I picked up the remote and turned on a documentary displayed on the wall screen, one that chronicled the history of the martial world, Earth, and the Galaxy’s exploration.

(Continued in the next chapter)

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