A man sits cross legged in front of a stone alter. On the altar is an ancient scroll called the Devine Heavenly Cultivation Arts. A weird red and white wind like energy was swirling around the man. This energy seems to be coming from the scroll on the altar.
The man just kept meditating with his eyes closed as this energy that swirled around him was absorbed by his body. That's right this man was cultivating an ancient art thought to be long lost. This man's name is Theodore Wilson or Teddy for short.
To know how Teddy got here we must go back fifteen years ago. Well fifteen years in the outside world for he has been here much longer than that. Almost one hundred years to be exact. Though his body still only aged to his early to mid twenties. And Teddy also never kept count of how long he was here.
So our story starts with a little boy named Teddy. This small gray eyed, red haired boy always found himself in trouble. Today wouldn't be any different. However this time, the trouble would change his life forever.
Teddy was sneaking along the back of his neighbor's house. He thought he would get a sneak peak at his neighbor's daughter getting changed. That's right, Teddy was a peeping Tom.
As he walked around the corner of his neighbor's house, he could hear noises coming from the garage in the back of his neighbor's house. Before he could get a good view, a man walked up behind him and scared him.
"What are you doing little boy?" The man asked in a deep voice.
Teddy was scared out of his mind. He had a hard time replying, stumbling over his words.
"S, s, s, Sir. N, nothing. N, nothing at a, all."
The man let out a deep laugh. He said indifferently, "Is that so? Well boy, looks like you stumbled onto something that's none of your business."
The man grabbed ahold of Teddy by his collar and yelled into the garage, "Get decent you two before I come in."
A minute later, the man holding Teddy by the collar dragged Teddy into the garage. There was a tall, muscular, handsome man standing there with a beautiful woman with perfect curves.
The tall, muscular, handsome man yelled, "Baxter, what's the meaning of this? Why did you interrupt me just now? You know how I get when I'm interrupted!"
The man named Baxter who was holding Teddy by the collar replied nervously, "Snake, boss, I'm sorry. It's just this kid here was snooping around."
The tall, muscular, handsome man now identified as Snake responded with a snort and said, "Well, well, well. Kid it's not nice snooping around. And as you heard, I don't like being interrupted. Tonight just isn't your night."
Snake paused for a moment almost realizing something and then asked, "Isn't it late? Shouldn't you be in bed kid?"
Teddy didn't respond. He couldn't respond. He was scared out of his mind.
After waiting a few moments, Snake roared, "Answer me damnit! Why were you snooping around? Aren't you supposed to be in bed?"
Teddy became pale at this and still couldn't speak.
Snake back handed Teddy across his face and yelled, "Speak!"
Baxter nervously said to Snake, "B, boss. He is only a boy. He can't be more than 8 or 9."
Before Baxter could continue, Snake yelled ferociously saying, "I don't care! This kid was snooping around late at night when he should be in bed! Either he is a rebellious child or he works for someone! If it's rebellion then this will keep his mouth shut but if he is a spy..."
Snake intentionally left this statement open. He wanted it to sink in to that this small of Baxter. Baxter is his right hand man after all. He needs to be able to think things like this through.
Anyways this event led to Teddy going missing. What no one knew was Snake and Baxter had thrown this snot nosed kid, as they saw him, off a cliff outside of town.
Their hope would be that Teddy would die from the fall. The fact he never showed back up and the authorities never found Teddy reinforced their hopes. What they didn't know was Teddy somehow ended in this cave without a scratch on his body.
Teddy was shocked at where he ended. You see Teddy had passed out on the fall off the cliff. So when he woke up he fully expected himself to either be dead or seriously injured. He did not expect to be unharmed in this cave.
While in the cave he was confronted by a spirit. This spirit made a deal with Teddy. As a result of this deal Teddy was given an ancient cultivation technique lost to humanity for over two thousand years.
What was the binding deal that allowed Teddy to cultivate this ancient technique? Once Teddy had broken through to the ascended stage of cultivation, he promise to take the spirit with him out of this cave, freeing the spirit.
This spirit just so happens to be the last cultivator of the Devine Heavenly Cultivation Arts. His name was Jupiter Aries. Yes the same as the ancient gods. In fact, the ancient gods were modeled after ancient cultivators.
Back in the ancient days, cultivators were viewed as gods. The reason was simple. Because of their talent and abilities, ancient people thought they saw gods in action.
That brings us to today. Teddy has been cultivating for one hundred years in this cave. But because of the difference in how time flies in this cave and the outside world, only fifteen years has passed in the outside world.
Teddy has been missing for fifteen years in the outside world and thus everyone has assumed him dead. They even called off the search many years ago. No one would've guessed he had been in this cave all this time.
The best part, he is fit like he has a regular workout routine but hasn't had a bite to eat since that night he was thrown off the cliff. That is another aspect of this cave. It nourished him this whole time so Teddy could cultivate uninterrupted.
Lastly he hasn't slept a second since that night either. The reason is the same. This cave supplied him with all the energy his body needed. This way he could cultivate uninterrupted.
Suddenly a sonic boom rank out across the landscape. It reached local towns and cities. Shattering windows and waking people from their slumber. This sonic boom was the result of a cultivator breaking through to the early ascended stage of cultivation.
Now this hasn't happened on over a millennium so normal humans didn't know what this meant. However every cultivator knew what this was despite not one cultivator being above the late earthly stage of cultivation.
There hasn't been enough world energy for someone to break through from the late earthly stage of cultivation to the early ascended stage. That is why no one has in over a millennium. And the last one has long been dead and forgotten to everyone but those in the cultivation world.
This sonic boom was immediately investigated by both local and federal law enforcement. While they were looking into it, the cultivation world was doing their own investigation. And lastly news agencies sent reporters out to get to the bottom of the sonic boom.
Though investigators came up empty and the best that the news agencies could do was speculate, the cultivation world was able to almost pinpoint the location of the sonic boom. The problem for the cultivation world was though they found ground zero for it, they couldn't find any signs of who caused it.
While all this is going on, Teddy is finally awakening from his meditation. Cultivating the Devine Heavenly Cultivation Arts wasn't easy. It took the equivalent of one hundred years to go from an average Joe with no cultivation to someone in the early earthly stage of cultivation.
There are three levels of cultivation. Each has it's own rules and stages within them. The lowest level is called to earthly stage. At the earthly stage, one can call on spiritual energy to fight.
The second level was the ascended stage. At this stage one could condense spiritual energy into a dense state making it more potent and efficient.
At the heavenly stage, which was the third level, one would become almost unstoppable.
There was a rumor that there was a fourth level. But this was only a rumor or legend. There has never been recorded in history that anyone reached this level.