“There's no such thing as a person void of 'qi'. Every living person is using a certain part of their inner energy to live, work and move. That's why everybody can be a cultivator.

Being a cultivator means that you are a person aware of your inner energy who is pro-actively increasing the quantity and quality of your qi . The most common way to do that is meditation, which is a state of concentration during which you unite with the energy of the world and assimilate it into you. Studying martial arts helps you in increasing your control over your energy ...”- A cultivators basics by Anathol , the monk , a 100 year old cultivator .

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The first thing I remember is the overbearing heat which spread all over my body. That was the reason I opened my eyes. What came into my view was a big plain where nearly no plants where growing. It seemed to be a wasteland... What's a wasteland? Why do I know words I never heard ? Wait…

...What are words? While I was thinking stuff like that something unravelled from the ground and attacked me. Argh it hurts!!!!!!!!!

I can't think about some random stuff I need to concentrate on this creature. It reaches to around my waist and looks like a snake with the scythes of a mantis with which it attacked me. Suddenly while concentrating on this monster I noticed an odd thing surrounding it as if a mist was covering it. While looking in the mist I could see some odd scenes as if I was looking at a red-haired naked giant, which is glaring at me and suddenly I bite him on his right thigh. After half a second I noticed the snake wanted to bite me. Interesting, he was aiming for that place, huh, let's check if it was a coincident that it was aiming at the same place as I was in that scene...

After around fifteen minutes from meeting it, once I confirmed it's always attacking in the same place I see in the view, I stopped only dodging it's attacks and decided to smash it since it started to get annoying. After seeing that it was going for my left left I sidestepped to the right and stomped on it with my left leg. Unfortunately it bit into my foot, but somehow it didn't leave even a scratch.

For the rest of the day I wonder about a bit and met a myriad of monsters a cross between a bear and a gorilla , a lion with a scorpions' tail and others. They were easy to defeat since altough it was painful to get hit, I didn't get hurt at all...

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Surrounding all of those was a similar mist and in all it seemed like I saw a red-haired man(nude) so I think it probably is my image. Now that I think about it I don't have any clothes on me...

Well there's nobody around so it's probably no problem. But what if somebody saw me like this...

Yep it's better to make some clothes soon but for now what will I eat and drink? I'm hungry and thirsty. Well that lion was eating these snake/cicadas so they are probably edible, right?...

I'll omit all the details about how I needed to bear the pain of chugging the sharp as swords scales and scythes of the snake and how much stomach pain digesting it caused me, the important thing is I am full, but I think I won't eat it anymore unless I'm at the end of the line.

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It's already a few days since I have awakened(or at least that's how I refer to opening my eyes for the first time). During this time I learnt quite a bit. The first thing is that if I take of the scales or skin off from a monster before eating it, it tastes better and I don't feel like shoving knives down my throat. Another is that the mist surrounding all these beings doesn't only show me pictures sometimes I can hear growls and other times I can feel fear and hostility , although I'm not sure how it works I think this mist is connected to those beasts...

Except for that I can survive with just drinking the blood and eating the innards of these beings. Although I feel thirsty all the time, I can still walk so I decided to head straight since maybe I'll find some better place there.

At that time I never knew I would meet Her for the first time because of that decision.

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Wow it really worked!

That's quite shocking.

Hmm I wonder how he's feeling now that I directly shared a piece of my memories with him. It turns out I'm not limited to stealing and intruding into others souls I can also show my own thoughts and memories to others it will be useful in making The Jewel for Melanie.

*sigh* I wish I could spend more time with her...

Well I'll just have to make a connection with the Jewel and meet her trough it.

I wonder if he'll figure out what happened by himself that Laitz guy. For now I'll check Melanies bandages, feed her and make a barrier, so that no intruder disturbs me.

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