Essence of theVulcanism

Drinking this magmatic liquid, you felt something changed within you… Mostly because you are still alive after drinking a fucking lava.

• You have obtained the chance to alter your form quite easily. Mostly because you are made out of malleable liquefied minerals. Outwardly, you still look the same as the form you chose.

• You are a Vulcanist, a being who studies the Path of the Volcano to achieve enlightenment through an explosive process of containing their emotions and releasing them all out to produce greater yields of energy. This is a Cultivation Method derived from the natural elements, and as such, this Path is considered part of the natural process. This will make it so that the Heavens will not interfere with your Cultivation and Ascension. There are Seven Acts of Vulcanism, and you will learn from them below.

• You generate immense amounts of Thermal Energy that stops the Entropic Stagnation of the area. This Thermal Energy vents out from your hair, making it look like it is set ablaze, although your eyes will also vent it out should you lose control over your emotions.

• As a being beholden to Molten Minerals, you generate immense amounts of Yang Qi, even if you aren’t a man. This process will not alter your body development, but it will include some muscular traits. If you are a woman or the feminine gender, this means you are that tomboy GF that people want to be their Bro for Life.

• You have achieved the First Act of Vulcanism, the Way of Liquefying Minerals. This allows you to generate liquefied minerals and shape them into your tool. This tool, however, is not cohesive and temporary, making it lose its shape unless you achieve the Second Act of Vulcanism. The liquified minerals you generate are extremely receptive to Yang Qi, and you might end up burning a forest if you’re not careful.

• To achieve the Second Act of Vulcanism, the Way of Solidification, you must compress the liquefied minerals into their most stable state. This will petrify them into a black, glassy material whilst leaving behind magmatic veins that channel your Thermal Energy to it. It isn’t very stable and can cause it to fracture and explode if you’re not stabilizing it continuously. If you further stabilize it, this will lead to the Third Act of Vulcanism.

• You may coat yourself with this material to make yourself more durable than before.

• You may use the material to strengthen yourself internally to make yourself very durable and stronger at the cost of reduced flexibility and increased rigidity.

• The Third Act of Vulcanism is to press down Emotions into the solidified material you made during the Second Act of Vulcanism, the Way of Smoldering Stillness. This will change the solidified material into any form of minerals based on your current emotions. To get to the next act, you must press down the material with all of the emotions known and unknown to you.

• An example would be diamond, which is apathy, and gold, which is greed.

• The Fourth Act of Vulcanism, much like what it says above, is to press down all of the emotions known and unknown to you into the material you’ve made. This is the Way of the Scalding Chamber. Doing so will change the material completely into a quasi-energy state. Then you must absorb it into yourself. This is the Core Formation Stage of those who undergo Vulcanism. You will not just generate Thermal Energy and Yang Qi now, but also any form of energy. This is further signified by your flaming energy emanating from your hair and your eyes gradually taking on other colors, with darker colors appearing last.

• You may or may not have the means to use the energies you have gained now. This will be a problem if you wish to get to the next Act more easily.

• You are now outright immune to the negative effects of any form of energy, even the ones you produced.

• The Fifth Act of Vulcanism is to stir the emotions you sealed away inside your Mineral Core, the Way of Stirring Quakes. By stirring the emotions, you are able to create bursts of energy fields that are affected by the emotion you have used. This is the starting representation of your Dao being formed slowly and might not even be fully formed even if you get to the Sixth Act of Vulcanism.

• Anger is the most common and is associated with heat. Sorrow will cause you to cool down and seem to weigh down upon everything.

• The Sixth Act of Vulcanism is to let everything slowly build up, the Way of Dormant Conduit. From the emotions you sealed away to the energies you produced, to everything that you are now experiencing. By achieving total Stillness despite everything trying to escape from you, you will now be ready for the final Act of Vulcanism.

• If your Dao isn’t fully formed yet, then it will be fully formed at the end of the Sixth Act.

• The Seventh and Final Act of Vulcanism… is to let everything go. Pour out all the emotions you have experienced to the Cosmos. From the Sadness that you experienced from the relatives or pets you have lost to the Joy you received as you are praised. You must let it out, for letting out your Mortal Emotions isn’t to become just the Dao you have made, but to also be something else other than that Dao, a Bonafide Human Being. Once you let it all out, you will be changed once more, a living White Hole whose mere presence emanates the very Dao you have formed.

• You have achieved the Seventh and Final Act of Vulcanism, the Way of the Self-Erupting Nirvana.

• You have transcended to Immortality and, in turn, let your Dao become not just your puppeteer but also a part of you completely. You are truly a Vulcanist, a Cultivator who achieved their very own form of Heavenly Enlightenment even though they never left their Mortal Affinities behind. The Primordial Dao will weep at this miracle, so do all the Immortals who became nothing but puppets to their Daos after shedding what makes them Mortal, for you are Freedom in the Vastness of the Cosmos fully realized.

• You are no longer beholden to Destiny, Fate, and the Intricacies of the Cosmic Laws. You are freed from the constraints of Mortality and the Duties of Immortality laid down by their very Dao. Chaos? Order? No. You are no longer part of them now. You are Free as what a Human should be.

• You may teach Vulcanism to others, but they might be slightly delayed in getting to other Acts compared to you due to this Essence allowing the process to be slightly streamlined.

• This Essence, and all its aspects, can’t be destroyed, erased, forcibly changed, removed, or stolen. This Essence is yours forevermore, as if someone wants you to always have it.

• Fanwank responsibly.