Ankit began to connect pathways to his root core.
In the beginning, Ankit faced difficulties in connecting them, but after he got familiar, he easily connected the rest of them.
But this process took 10 hours straight. Ankit didn't mind this and continued his cultivation.
Ankit then began opening his energy pathways. First, he tried to open his small pathways because they could be opened faster compared to big pathways.
There were 1,000 big pathways and 5,000 small pathways, totaling 6,000 pathways for the root core.
All these energy pathways would take some days to open.
After opening 100 pathways, Ankit got tired because he had previously connected them, and now opening them was very tiring. He was completely exhausted.
He just wanted to rest but was so tired that he quickly fell asleep.
Ankit slept for straight 5 hours. Then he woke up.
He didn't make dinner for himself and began cultivating.
His desire to eat was many times less compared to his desire to become stronger now.
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On the other side, Ankit's family was having dinner while watching news.
Then the news showed that scientists researching the mountain destruction (caused by Ankit) had detected an unusual energy that was unique and new.
This energy was many times more powerful compared to existing energies.
When Ankit's family saw this news, they immediately wanted to call Ankit because Ankit had told them to inform him about this kind of news.
But Ankit's phone was not connecting, so they waited for Ankit to call back.
They then continued to watch the news. The news also said this energy's origin was unknown and mysterious.
The scientists were conducting research. But they had only found this energy's existence and hadn't used or known about this energy.
Scientists were planning to develop technology for finding and capturing this energy to use.
But it would take a minimum of 3 to 4 months.
News also said that this energy very likely would enable Earth to usher in a revolutionary period.
And further space exploration could be achieved with the help of this energy.
The name of this energy would be known after knowing its uses.
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Ankit was cultivating substage 5 when he noticed his phone ring, but he couldn't spare his focus to the call, so he didn't answer and cut off his senses to the outside world, giving his full focus to opening his small or secondary energy pathways.
Next, Ankit awoke from his cultivation state. He had opened 600 energy small pathways with his night cultivation.
Adding the previous 100 and now 600, he had opened 700 small pathways in total.
But he had only opened them but hadn't filled them with essence flow. This would have to wait until he opened all his pathways.
And this wouldn't create any new substage. All this process of connecting pathways with the root core, then opening them, then filling them, was going to be under substage 5.
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Then Ankit turned his gaze toward his phone. There, he saw the missed call from his parents.
And he quickly called them back because he didn't want to hear his parents' nagging.
Ankit's phone call was answered, and both Kamal and Neelam's voices came at the same time: "Where were you? Why didn't you answer the call? Didn't I tell you to always answer our phone calls? We are just on our way to beat you. Just you wait."
Saying this, they cut the call. Ankit got panicked and thought he should quickly run from this place.
But after some thought, he removed that idea because it would cause his parents' anger to rise.
He extended his senses and saw his parents' car rushing toward his direction.
He waited for them.
Meanwhile, he thought of his strength: his senses could now be extended for a 15 km radius, and he thought this would increase with opening pathways.
His lifespan was also more than 700 years, and this would increase with the opening of pathways.
His strength, defense, jumping power, destructive power, and speed had also increased. But he hadn't tested them and couldn't tell correctly. He would wait until he completed substage 5, then try to estimate his strength. Or he would go to test his strength in the ocean, but oceans were very far, and even with his speed, it would take some time. Also, there was a danger of discovery.
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He collected his thoughts because he saw his parents had already come 5 km away from him.
Ankit got an idea to ease his parents' anger.
He started preparing.
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On the other side, Ankit's father, Kamal, was driving his car and muttering, "This kid is so irresponsible. Even if he comes from the future, his habits haven't gone. I will definitely beat him when I reach his hut, huhuuhuh..."
Kamal was very angry because of Ankit. He and Neelam had been panicking, and they wanted to confirm if Ankit had been harmed.
But when he saw Ankit's call and heard his voice some time ago, his panicking turned into anger.
Neelam had the same reaction.
But Sanya didn't understand why her parents were worried about her brother. Her brother was stronger and could easily kill an elephant or lion with his hands.
And bullets couldn't do much to him. He was also very capable of surviving or dominating this mountain range, so there wasn't any danger for Ankit.
While she was thinking, Ankit's family quickly reached Ankit's location.
But what her parents saw after reaching quickly melted away their anger.