She learns the Basics

A few days later, Vanessa wakes up in her bed. Perhaps calling it hers isn't the most accurate of terms. The bed that she wakes up in is the one in the room in which she chose to sleep since entering The Hidden Hall. The Hidden Hall was basically a new home for her. It had all that one could want for training cultivation-almost.

For the most part, the base could be laid out as a giant T-Shape. From the entrance chambers which Vanessa had previously fallen from, there was one hallway. This hallway held the most basic necessities for recovering an injured person. It held the Medical wards, the food storage rooms, the kitchen, and the cafeteria. After passing by all of that, the library was reached. It stood at the intersection of the T-Shape. From there, the hallway branched right and left. To the left was the training rooms and alchemy rooms, used for making medicine. This wing was where one trained their skills as a cultivator. The right wing was where all the medicines were stored. It also held the storage rooms where medicinal ingredients were stored, and it held the underground farms where medicinal herbs were grown. At least, where those whom's growth weren't reliable on external things, such as the spiritual power of the sun, were grown.

The right hall wasn't in the best condition. Years of abandonment left almost everything in that hallway dead. The pills were expired, the ingredients mostly gone bad, and the plants were dead. All that were left were a few seeds, and some special rare and ancient herbs that were stored using special means-mostly medicinal herbs that had grown for more than 1000 years before they were harvested. Vanessa had no doubt that those would make for some incredible medicines once she was skilled enough to use them. The basic alchemy book she had read stated that older herbs had absorbed and stored more energy, making for more powerful medicines. It was only a shame that they only absorbed energy while they were actively growing. If they had done so while in storage, each of those materials would be more than 11,500 years old. Vanessa knew this because after checking the dweller vine in the library, she had discovered that The Twisted Desires Sect had died out ten and a half millennia ago.

At the ends of the right and left wings of the base was a massive spiraling staircase. If one were to go up, they'd find several floors of rooms. These rooms were for sect members and their cultivation vessels (A/N: For those who don't know what a cultivation vessel is, read the Alea storyline). The second, third, and fourth floors (the first ones with rooms) held the cultivation vessels of all futas in resolve condensation or foundation establishment levels. The fifth, sixth, and seventh floors held the members at the resolve condensation and foundation establishment levels.

The eighth, ninth, and tenth floor held the members at the Core Formation level. Those rooms were much bigger, as there were much less members at that level. Those rooms also directly connected to many smaller, extra rooms, used by the cultivation vessels of those members. This was presumably because such high ranking futas were so constantly cultivating that they needed to be able to work with their cultivation vessels without disturbing any others. It also protected the vessels of those cultivators, as it was very easy to know whose cultivation vessel was whose in those rooms.

The eleventh floor held compound suites, like small houses. The rooms on it each had two floors, extending up to the twelfth floor. The rooms here were for the exclusive use of the futas at the Nascent Soul level.

The thirteenth floor extended above the library, so the room on that floor where the other floors had the library was also added to the living space of the suite on that floor. Said suite was the equivalent of the base's penthouse suite. The one "Room" consisted of the entirety of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth floors. It had it's own private training chambers and storehouses, and hundreds if not thousands of offshoot rooms for cultivation vessels. This area belonged exclusively to the sect leader, Lady Delphini.

The memories of the higher floors were ones that Vanessa only had because of the information gifted to her by Lady Delphini. It was impossible to access the eighth floor without having reached Core Formation Level, and Impossible to access the Eleventh floor without having reached Nascent Soul. There were barriers preventing one from doing so.

Meanwhile, below the first floor, which held all the training chambers and such, was the darkest area of the base. This was the prison chamber, used to store captured enemy futas, prisoners and slaves, other cultivators, etcetera. Basically, everyone who was used as a sex-toy by the Sect, that wasn't a specific member's cultivation vessel. Also in this area were several **** chambers for breaking in new or defiant slaves, or for sexual play for the cultivators of a more sadistic nature. There was even a dedicated ball-busting room for destroying the alpha statuses of powerful cultivators. This area extended for five floors below the first floor.

Currently, Vanessa was staying in a room on the fifth floor, one of the rooms used by a higher layered Resolve Condensation futa. Although she was just at the first layer, Vanessa was currently the only living member of The Twisted Desires Sect, having been named so by the remains of Lady Delphini's soul, and as such, was the rightful leader of the sect. So she had the rights to stay in a Tenth Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator room if she wanted. But Vanessa chose to stay on only the fifth floor, so as to reach the first floor with the food and library faster upon waking up each day. Having said that, even she, who just started her cultivation journey, would never stoop so low as to stay on a floor below that, in a room meant for cultivation vessels.

Waking up in the nude, Vanessa quickly got out of bed and left the room. When she first learned the layout of the library, Vanessa read as much as she could about the basics of cultivation and resolve, wanting to learn as much background information as possible before getting into specific cultivation techniques and methods. This was something that Vanessa had no regrets towards, as she found lots of tips and tricks on ways to improve one's cultivation slightly faster. One book mentioned that a person absorbs the natural energy of the world around them through their skin. While even people who don't cultivate do this, it is often expended towards their daily lives. However, as one cultivates more, their absorption rate increases. Now-here's the kicker: The more skin that one exposes, the more surface area that they have with which to absorb energy through. As such, in the past, cultivators would often not bother with clothes, and walk around completely naked so as to absorb more energy. This very much reflected the red haired cultivator who had chased Vanessa and caused her to stumble upon The Hidden Hall. Said cultivator had worn only a thong, and nothing more.

Although she had been a little uncomfortable in wearing no clothes at first, The Hidden Hall was completely empty, and so it didn't take long for Vanessa to adjust to the state. So with her 10 inch dick swaying side to side, and her E-cup breasts bouncing up and down, Vanessa quickly descended the stairs and found the storehouse. It mostly held preserved fruits, vegetables, and grains. So a salad was all Vanessa had before she went down to the left-wing training rooms to begin practicing cultivation.

Early on, Vanessa read that the first level was known as Resolve Condensation. It's name was self explanatory. The purpose of the level was to build one's levels of resolve, the internal energy that a person held within themselves, created and stored in the spirit roots, and which allowed cultivators to achieve superhuman feats. Having only just achieved the first layer of Resolve Condensation, the primary thing Vanessa should be looking to do is increase her resolve as fast as possible. There were several ways to do this. Fucking another futa as an alpha was possibly the fastest method. However, Vanessa was smart enough to know that in the cultivator world, the more powerful a person was, the more attention they attracted. And the worst possible state to be in was somebody who just attained a cultivator status-more powerful than the masses, but still weak enough to be easily taken advantage of. So she had no intention of leaving the base while still in the first layer.

This also removed the second fastest method-increasing one's cultivation through pills. With the reserves of medicinal supplies and pills in the base destroyed by age, Vanessa would also have to leave the base to accomplish this, something she had no intention of doing.

Aside from these, one could choose the harder and longer path of training. In order to train one's resolve, they could train their mind, body, or spirit. Or ideally-all three. With twenty rings of bookshelves inside the first floor of the library, the two innermost rings of that floor were dedicated to scrolls and books on the basics and getting started, or techniques to be used and learned as a first-layer cultivator. Among the techniques started on these shelves were where Vanessa had known she would have to start her cultivation. So yesterday, she had spent the whole day looking through those shelves to figure out where to start. Eventually, she decided on one technique for her mind, one for her body, and one for her soul.

The technique she chose to use to train her mind was Lust of Corruption. This technique focused one's willpower and resolve through their lust. While dangerous and risky to those who are unable to control their own desires, the technique was one of the more formidable ones usable by the first-layer cultivators. More importantly to Vanessa, it was one created by one of the members of The Twisted Desire Sect, and so through training in it, she could represent the strength of the sect.

The technique for her body was Body of Base Desires-a technique used more as a prelude to learning other martial arts. It would be relatively ineffective in increasing her resolve early on, but would pay dividends into the future. It was a risky move to take this as her first body technique, but Vanessa was very confident in her current physical state. With the exception of the injury to her ribs, she had been in peak physical form for a non-cultivator, and after ascending to the first layer, she felt better than ever before. Her broken ribs were even healing much faster than she had ever thought possible, due to the increased stores of resolve within her body.

Her spiritual technique was called Mixing of Spirit. It was undoubtedly the most important of the techniques she was currently learning. Not only was it above average for first-layer techniques looking to increase a person's resolve, but it was the foundation of many other techniques of The Twisted Desires Sect. The Mixing of Spirit Technique allowed a person to mix the impurities of their spirit and heart with the purer and untainted parts of their spirit, helping them to embrace their inner darknesses is part of them, and to accept that they have such desires as lust. It also helped practitioners to accept the idea that just because they had such desires, it did not mean that they were evil beings. However, this technique to accept one's darkness had been frowned upon in the past, and it was the fact that much of the Sect's cultivation could be based from having learned this technique that got them into some of the trouble that they got into later on down the Sect's lifetime.

Reviewing the practicing methods of each technique in her mind, Vanessa finally reached one of the lower-layers Resolve Condensation cultivator training rooms of the base, and opened the door.

It was time to train.