Many things changed in the following 3 months and finally, it is time to go exploring with my mother.
One of the things that have changed is my status screen:
Name:
Kuma Zhao
Race:
Prodigious Ursus Arctos
CULTIVATION
Qi
Middle stage Dantian Forming realm
Mental
Early 1st stage Spirit Sense realm
Physical
Awakened
SKILLS
Spirit Sense (Lv 1) - Murky Mind Lake (Lv 2) - Bear Cub’s Combat Style(Lv 4)
TITLES
Genius
I decided that, since I changed in both life and body, I might as well change my name. So I picked up the family name Kuma, which means “bear” in Japanese, and the personal name Zhao. which means “claw” in the common language of this world.
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I learned the local language thanks to the “Language Understanding (Lv max)” skill. As I was studying the status panel, I concentrated on it to understand what it meant and, in response, an influx of knowledge about the local language entered my mind; then the skill disappeared.
My mind cultivation art also had a breakthrough. It took me a month to form a muddy lake inside my consciousness and another month and a half to transform it into a murky lake.
The last change is the body cultivation label that from none went to awakened. It happened when I completed the “Meridian Cleansing Stage”, so now my body is stronger and healthier than a regular bear cub.
Speaking of cubs, I bonded with my siblings: I named them Star and Bob. I prefer my sister, sue me. They started joining me a month and a half ago during my attacking and defending bear practices. This not only helped me in combining the actual stances but also provided some fun and bonding experiences.
My Qi cultivation was the fastest: in these 3 months I have not only unlocked the 12 normal meridians and the 8 secret ones, but I have also almost finished combining the latter in a ball that will become my dantian.
I also inspected my title:
Genius
A title given to those with a much higher spiritual base as opposed to his peers. It gives a slight boost in mental cultivation and gives access to the System.
‘Finally, I can come out of this little cave. As much as staying put and cultivating, with the feeling of constantly improving, is not bad, there is so much time that a person can spend without going out at all.’
‘We live in a coniferous forest. By the relaxed stance of mother and the marks of bear claws on the trees, I assume that we are one the top predators of the area, despite the presence of demonic beasts and cultivators in this world. Otherwise, mother would behave more stealthily and there would be no marks on the trees because they would draw the attention of some predators.’
We spend the day outside, learning what to eat and happily messing around. An entire day of total relaxation.
As the days pass, they become weeks until almost another month has passed. Mother has shown us around our territory, and it’s enormous. Apart from the north where the forest climbs up to the mountains, which is the territory of a pack of gray wolves, we have traveled pretty much all of it. A whole month of travel!
Today is the day. I have almost finished condensing the 8 secret meridians in one big ball now it only needs the final push. I start focusing and, while making a constipated expression, I compress the meridians in an attempt to make them merge into one dantian.
‘Push. Push. PUSH!’
With a popping sound the meridians join together forming a cavity in my abdomen seamlessly connected to the other 12 meridians: my dantian.
While I am feeling exhausted, I know my task is not complete and, by taking control of a strand of raw Qi from the air, I start moving it through the meridian channels and by doing so I continue to refine it until it arrives at the dantian where it is deposited.
After having finished this process, and thus having stabilized my cultivation, I began happily hopping around, startling my mother and my siblings who were still thinking that I had eaten something wrong due to my prior expression of constipation.