5 Days Later
Finally, everyone had achieved enlightenment and knew the true potential of both techniques they were using.
Lu Wei had taken 3 days more than Yuzhi, Lu Yin 4 and Liang Lei had achieved enlightenment today.
Yuzhi also clearly felt that Lu Wei wasn't happy with him, which kinda annoyed him, but he solved this in his mind by repeating that he was just a child and that maybe his parents put extreme pressure on him.
3 Days Later
In one of the more luxurious houses within the village
"Father, I'm sorry I put shame on your name by letting some nobody achieve enlightenment before me." Lu Wei had an angry and disappointed face.
"HAHAHA, Son, didn't I already tell you to not worry about it? No matter how long you take, as long as you put in the effort, I will always be proud of you." Lu Bei said joyfully. He had never cared about if his son was the best. The most important thing to him was that he did his best.
Lu Wei, hearing this felt slightly angry, but the rest of his heart was filled with warmth.
'Don't worry Father, I will be sure to achieve Purple Qi Channeling Realm first.' Lu Wei ignored his father's words and kept this competitive spirit inside him.Lu Bei noticed it but didn't say anything about it, after all, it was good for young people to have a competitive spirit. It was how he had beaten his rival.
Back To The Present
Unlike the other days, now that everyone had achieved enlightenment, there was no time given to train the 3 Autumn Fallen Leaves Gathering Technique, but instead, everyone got something more interesting.
"Today you will be learning your first technique which helps attacking. It is called the Entangeling Leaf Web Technique. And just like its name, its job is to create this web of leaves which will not only entangle your opponent but also cut them." Xiang Xin used the technique, and immediately Yuzhi saw a flaw with this technique.
The time to create this web was quite long, Xiang Xin took several seconds. Which meant he would need much more than that.
But when Xiang Xin used the technique on the tree, which had a trunk that was quite large, everyone was left speechless.
The web, which had a diameter of around 20 centimeters did its best to hug around the tree, its leaves deeply rooted in the tree.
There were now several deep cuts in the tree. And everyone couldn't help but imagine.
'If it works that well on a tree, how well would it work on flesh.' This thought scared everyone but also made them excited.
Soon, Yuzhi and the rest started by trying to create a web covered with leaves.
Due to them already having experience in creating leaves from Qi, it wasn't hard to create 1 leaf. But the hard part came after that, they needed to maintain their control over the web while also creating a new leaf.
So for the next 3 hours, all of them tried to get as many leaves as possible on their web. But the record was 3, which only Yuhzi and Lu Wei were able to do.
When they fired off their web, its speed was considerably slower compared to Xiang Xin, and when it was able to connect to the tree, the leaves were only able to make a slight cut in the tree; But this didn't diminish their excitement, because a tree was much harder than the flesh of a human body.
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And now Yuzhi also realized why Xiang Xin had taught them the 3 Autumn Fallen Leaves Technique. This could help them gather Qi more quickly, which they needed to train the Entangeling Leaf Web Technique.
The only drawback was that this required a lot of mental energy, and soon, everyone was exhausted. So they received a 15-minute pause before they would start cultivating.
A few hours later.
The sun was still high, and Yuzhi had the desire to leave for the beautiful lake in the forest nearby.
'No, I should focus on cultivating, soon I will be able to breakthrough the Purple QI Channeling Realm. If I don't focus on cultivating, how can I be faithful to my parents.' Despite the strange desire Yuzhi had to go to the lake, he remained here to cultivate. After all, according to his calculations, soon he would have fully tempered his Qi Channel and will be able to breakthrough.
5 Days Later
Just as Yuzhi had said, his chance to breakthrough was close. After constantly cultivating, Yuzhi made his White Qi Channel into a Purplish Qi Channel.
But to truly be a Purple Qi Channeling Cultivator, he needed to breakthrough which happened once he started gathering as much as possible and then violently rotating this Qi while pushing it against the walls.
How exactly this caused the breakthrough, Yuzhi didn't know, but he guessed that it had to do with the reaction between his Qi and the walls of his Qi Channel that had reached their current limit.
So Yuzhi started doing his best to gather Qi in his Qi Channel, which already wasn't very easy because he needed to stop it from leaving while also gathering more.
But Yuzhi still succeeded before going on to the next step, which was pushing the Qi against the wall of his Qi Channel, and then he immediately started violently turning his Qi like it was inside a washing machine, while still pushing the Qi against the wall.
Sweat was dripping from his forehead, and a throbbing pain in his mind, but he continued.
His Qi rapidly disappeared from his Qi Channel, but he didn't give up hope.
And just when he thought everything would be lost, there suddenly seemed to happen something.
It felt magical like heaven and earth were puzzle pieces that had just clicked.
Yuzhi felt incredibly happy. While breaking through to the Purple Qi Channeling Realm in itself wasn't anything special. The speed he needed showed that he was talented. This meant he would be able to provide a good life for his family and a peaceful one for himself.
He looked at his Qi Channel, all the color on his face disappearing.
He hadn't brokenthrough. He hadn't achieved the Purple Qi Channeling Realm, what he felt just now was something that Xiang Xin had called a Quasi-Breakthrough. After going through this, you couldn't be called either of the realms, and he was now in the Quasi-Purple Qi Channeling realm.
'Fuck.' Yuzhi cursed, something he hadn't done in a long time. 'Fuck Fuck Fuck, why did it have to be a Quasi Breakthrough.'
Just like the saying, the higher someone is, the bigger their fall.
Yuzhi, who just felt like he was a genius who could grasp his fate, suddenly felt like the biggest waste in existence.
'No, calm down Yuzhi. Having a Quasi-Breakthrough isn't something bad.' Yuzhi said to himself, trying his best to cease his anger.
And while a Quasi-Breakthrough couldn't compare to a real breakthrough, it was better than failing.
Now, the next time he tried to breakthrough, the foundation would already be laid and it would become much easier.
And while Yzuhi wanted to immediately try to break through, using his last rationalty he didn't do that.
Breakinghtough cost a lot of energy, which he had just lost. Meaning his chance of breaking through was much lower if he tried again.
But most importantly, this slightly hurt the foundation he had built over these past few days to break through.
While not as much as it would have been had he failed, he still had some setbacks and would need some time to reach the peak of the White Qi Channeling Realm again.
And to please his angry heart, he started inspecting his Qi Channel, which due to him now being a Quasi-Purple Qi Channeling Cultivator was larger than before, although slightly.
2 Days Later
Yuzhi had now reached the Peak of the Quasi-Purple Qi Channeling Realm. But he had told no one about him having a Quasi-Breakthrough, partially because he was a bit embarrassed.
But now that he had more experience and a stronger foundation, he felt very confident in breaking through.
So just like the previous time, he followed every step, and unlike the previous time, he had much more Qi left when he felt like Heaven and Earth became one, when his soul and body got closer than ever.
He had done it, he had achieved the Purple Qi Channeling Realm.
"Elder Xin, I have achieved the Purple Qi Channeling Realm". Yuzhi said not being able to contain his emotions, and also partially to anger Lu Wei.
He didn't know why, but the more he got to know Lu Wei, the more this kid annoyed him. Even though it wasn't like he did anything to be extra annoying.
"Congratulations, take this pill as a reward. Its name is Reverse Qi Channel Pill, and it can make the holes in your Qi Channel smaller for 1 hour." While its effects weren't something very profound, Yuzhi was still excited. "Train the Entangeling Leaf Web Technique more while the rest of the class tries to achieve the Purple Qi Channeling Realm."