The Human Giant



[Name: Regil Regil]

[Age: 105 years]

[Talents: Flavor Selection (Grade 3), Spice Mixing (Grade 2), Crystal Veins (Grade 4), Water Spells (Grade 3), Plan Maker (Grade 5)]

"..."

Yoze looked at Regil's age and felt astonished by how incredibly old he was. It should have been possible for him to be so active with him being so old. 

His father is in his 60s but he didn't have as much energy and capability to move so easily as he was decades younger. Turning his attention toward the talents Yoze was able to guess how this could be possible.

Regil must be an immortal cultivator and someone who has reached a high level as well. Just like how practicing martial arts could make people look younger than they generally are and live a little longer the same went for immortal cultivation.

Immortal cultivation below the crystal brain stage doesn't add much to a person's lifespan generally only allowing them to increase their natural lifespan up to 50 years. So if a person would naturally live to when they were 100 years old then by reaching the peak of the Crystal Skull realm they could live to 150 years old.

However, this was the least important benefit for immortal cultivators as it didn't matter if they could live for so long if they couldn't stop their muscles and brains from degenerative decline. They would slowly lose their ability to move and think so for immortal cultivators the increased lifespan was good but not worth it without the other benefits that immortal cultivation brought.

One of those benefits was increased control of their muscles and flesh and this was possibly the most significant. As a person progressed in their immortal cultivation their control over their body would increase but the most significant barrier was the Crystal Spine realm where they gain the ability to stop their muscles from degenerative decline.

That meant that regardless of how long they lived they could have their bodies at peak condition like they were still in their younger years. As for brain decline, it was a lot harder and couldn't be fully stopped, only slowed down. 

For Regil to be still so active at his age meant that he was at least in the Crystal Spine realm and possibly even in the Crystal Skull realm nearly becoming immortal. Yoze put his caution up even further and hid his facial expressions so that Regil couldn't tell if something had changed with him.

With how much of Regil's intelligence must have been boosted, it was difficult for Yoze to figure out what could happen if Regil figured out his identity. So he did what he could and copied a talent to make the danger a bit more worth it.

[Grade 4 talent Crystal Veins has been locked on. Grade 3 Crystal Veins has been added.]

As soon as Yoze saw that his Crystal Veins talent had been upgraded he felt a warm tingling sensation all over his body as he felt as if he could think and process things much faster. He couldn't help but savor the sensation of his intelligence increasing by another large margin and wanted to try cultivating with this increased speed.

"Yoze as a scholar what do you do?" Regil asked suddenly.

"What do I do? I'm a scholar who is working at the Martial Courtyard so I just advise the martial artists who are running the place. But I haven't been called in for quite some time, which is normal, so I have spent a lot of my time studying and practicing martial arts." Yoze responded.

"I can tell that you place more importance on martial arts compared to studying from how big you have gotten. Drew said that just a few years ago you were not nearly as big before you became a martial artist." Regil smiled as he looked at Yoze's strong body with interest.

"That's what happens when the money from being a scholar is used to support my hobby as a martial artist. I could eat as much food as I want and be able to get martial art books much easier compared to before." Yoze continued.

"Grandpa Regil, you should help me convince Tiki and Dreyer to practice martial arts. I have been wanting to convince them but they are reluctant." Yoze said as he looked at Tiki's and Dreyer's skinny bodies.

"You two should listen to your younger brother, having a strong body is very important. It allows you to have a lot more opportunities to improve your lives."

"If I could go back to my youth I would have definitely tried to practice martial arts. You three would most likely be calling me Muscle Grandpa if that happened." Regil chuckled at his own home as he agreed with Yoze.

"I don't know, why do we need to work so hard to train our bodies when we can just study and become a scholar like Yoze? Plus I don't want to become as big and muscular as Yoze." Tiki waved her hand to dismiss the idea.

"I agree with Tiki, why work so hard and come back sore every day when we can just mooch off of Yoze instead," Dreyer said right after Tiki.

"Hahaha, I guess that's true," Regil laughed, hearing both Tiki's and Dreyer's responses.

The atmosphere lightened up as everyone felt more comfortable with each other and chatted. River and Jewel bounded over talking about their travels and their experiences, to River's surprise she found out that Jewel seemed to have traveled everywhere.

"How do you have so much time to be able to travel around so much? You not only have visited three different regions but even seemed to know more about the regions than locals?"

"That's the perk of being a travel guide, I get to have people pay me to travel with them. The more I travel, the more people will want to hire me, and the more expensive I get." 

"That's how I tricked Yoze into hiring me since I was the only available person who was familiar with both regions. Of course, I made sure to make him pay a premium for my services." Jewel smiled as she showed River her money pouch that was filled with money.

Meanwhile, Dreyer and Timothy bounded over the fact that they both loved to fight when they were younger. Dreyer even asked Timothy to show him some moves to take down people.

"You can try a move like this if you are fighting someone smaller than you. Or this move if they are around your size. Or this if they are much bigger than you." Enjoying his time showing Dreyer some takedown methods, Timothy didn't notice that Dreyer was rapidly tapping the ground to show that he gave up.