"I am finally a cultivator. Mother, Mei-Mei, can you see me? I am no longer the weak boy who gets sad over everything, nor am I powerless to think of suicide instead of revenge."

"Sigh! If there is an afterlife, I hope you stay happy there, and please don't worry about me anymore." Kai Ren spoke in a sad voice as the memories of his peaceful life flashed before his eyes.

He remembered how his mother died when he was just nine years old.

He remembered how, on her deathbed, she asked him to take care of his sister.

He remembered how devastated he was when he returned after the hunt in the jungle and found his entire village destroyed.

He remembered how he rushed to his house to not even find his sister's corpse there. He remembered how heartbroken he was when his only reason to live was gone.

He remembered how helpless he felt when another villager, who was also returning from the hunt, told him that his village had been destroyed by two strong cultivators.

Pat! Pat!

As Kai Ren remembered, all these tears unknowingly started to pour down his eyes, waking him from his memories, and he quickly wiped them clean.

Then he took a deep breath and spoke in a deep, hate-filled voice.

"I don't know who you were. I don't care what your reasoning was, and I don't know if your actions were intentional or not."

"All I know is that I will find you even if I have to scourge through the entire realm; I will find you, and when I do, I will give you the most painful death you can imagine, for you have taken what was dear to me. I. Will. Kill. You."

While he was rambling all this, Azarion remained silent, as he knew that sometimes hatred is the key to unlocking one's potential.

You must have a goal to achieve. Otherwise, even if you have the most outstanding talent in the entire realm, it will be wasted if you do not have any ambition.

After Azarion saw that Kai Ren had calmed down, he told him,

"Kid, you should go somewhere else as the residual energy from the previous fight is still there."

"And it is interfering with your cultivation speed, and I didn't interfere before as you were still grieving your sister's death."

"Still, now that you are somewhat stable, you should find a place with higher Qi concentration to cultivate more efficiently."

Hearing this, Kai Ren was shocked. Even if his current cultivation speed was slowed because of the interference from the residual energy from the battle, what would happen if he were to cultivate in an environment filled with spiritual energy?

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Kai Ren became even more shocked as he realized that he had just comprehended five hundred verses, which were the bare minimum for using the technique, and if it was this powerful at this stage, what would happen if he understood the entire technique?

Even if he knew that the Celestial Genisis technique was the most powerful, it still shocked him with its power, as hearing something and experiencing the same thing are two different matters.

Just like how we hear about someone being killed almost every day, yet we don't realize what the victim's family feels and just go on with our day.

After reeling from the shock, Kai Ren looked around him but couldn't decide which direction to move.

Hence he turned toward Azarion and asked, "Elder, which direction should I start moving in?"

"You should start heading north as I sense a large amount of Qi there," Azarion replied in his usual Celestial voice.

Hearing this, Kai Ren started moving toward the north without hesitation.

As he continued moving north, he came across many beautiful and weird things, like a forest that looked like it was on fire due to a special type of tree dominating the ecosystem there.

Or a swamp filled with poisonous gases released by the toads that lived there and the weird-looking spiritual beasts that fed on those toads.

He continued towards the north for two weeks until he finally came across a meadow and felt his body getting rejuvenated from the Qi in the surroundings, he looked at the beautiful view and took a deep breath feeling the fresh air around him.

He decided that this spot was good enough to finally continue his cultivation that had been stuck at the beginning of the Qi apprentice stage for the past two weeks.

He has been constantly on the move, and whenever he stopped at night, he immediately fell asleep without a worry, as Azarion has told him he would wake him up if something happened.

He sat down and started cultivating using the Celestial Genisis technique.

As soon as he started cultivating, the serene Qi around him started to go haywire and started getting sucked toward him.

His cultivation, which had been stagnant at the low Qi apprentice stage, started to increase at a speed that was never seen before.

Mid-Qi apprentice stage

High-Qi apprentice stage

Peak-Qi apprentice stage

BOOM

With a loud sound, he broke through the Qi practitioner realm.

After breaking through, he stopped cultivating because he had lost too much energy from his body.

As for why he could continuously cultivate three minor realms and one major realm without getting exhausted, well, he had not wasted the entire two weeks and had been training his control over Qi.

As a result, he could guide the Qi in his body to replace the energy he lost while expelling impurities with every breakthrough he made.

After Kai Ren opened his eyes, he once again found himself covered in black pus and sitting in the middle of a puddle formed from it.

He pinched his nose as hard as he could to stop himself from breathing any stench around him.

The scene around him stood out like a sore thumb, as the area where he sat looked like a blasphemy to the beautiful meadow around him.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the meadow,

Two men could be seen standing in the direction Kai Ren had left, with stunned looks on their faces.

Suddenly one of them spoke, "Old Liu, What do you think about what we just saw right now?"

"I don't know that kid is a freak of nature. We must have him join our sect, and if we can't do that, then..." He stopped speaking after that, but his partner understood everything from the glint in his eyes.