Chapter 485: [ Teach me Cultivation ]
“One more thing, master… before I leave, please don’t gamble your life again like before. No matter how much luck you have, it won’t be enough to save you from time to time. You might avoid dying but some sort of irreparable damage might occur if you run out of luck…” Maria advised, her voice deep with worry.
“I know, I will keep that in mind…” Allen smiled bitterly. This woman…
Did she eat something bad? How come she now acts like she was some sort of a mom to him?
However, he didn’t say anything as he found being cared for by this beautiful distant fairy extremely pleasurable.
“Then, that’s *yawn* fine… master, please be careful…”
With that, Allen finally managed to understand his situation and sighs a relief. However, when he raised his head, he was instead greeted by a pair of eyes that were looking back at him.
"Are you okay?" Si Mulan was sitting on the bed with a doubtful gaze and looked at Allen.
This girl is not only beautiful, but she also had a pair of deep eyes that could take one's breath away. With her eyes closed, she looked very pure and innocent. However, when she opened her eyes, they had a glint in them that suggested otherwise – her intent gaze was one that felt as if they were capable of hooking one's soul away just from a simple gaze.
“Ahaha, sorry about that. I tried contacting my friends so they should be here soon… though I don’t know when…” Allen said honestly.
“Contacting? You can do that…? How? Spirit Sense?” Si Mulan let out a doubtful yet surprised gaze. She had never heard something like this before… well, she couldn’t possibly know something like telepathy without using Qi or Spiritual Sense. After all, she had never yet trodden a foot outside of the Divine Martial Continent.
“Some kind of ability, yeah…however, can you tell me about this land?” Allen asked genially. “You should have realized it by now but I’m not a cultivator like you…I came from the outside of the Continent by accident…”
“… …” An Outsider…?
Si Mulan has some suspicion but since Allen indeed didn’t look like a cultivator as well as the sorry amount of Qi coming from his body, she can confirm that this guy indeed didn’t cultivate any kind of Qi techniques…
So the only reason was that he was not from the Divine Martial Continent and from the outside instead.
The magic elements of the God Continent…
And judging from Allen’s attitude and behavior up until now, he shouldn’t be a bad person…or so she hopes. Because with that monster outside, no matter how much she struggles, it would be in vain…!
After going through so many experiences, the two had finally gotten familiar with each other.
Knowing that this mysterious youth was not a cultivator and should probably possess such a good character, Si Mulan’s heart was at ease.
“This is the Divine Martial Continent… A cultivator realm. I think I don’t need to explain what cultivators are since you should know them already. In any case, this place is the Passing Cloud Labyrinth, the inner forbidden ground of the Passing Cloud Sect…”
And so on, then Si Mulan started answering Allen’s question one by one.
After talking for a bit, Allen finally had some sort of understanding as to what his current situation was. The most noteworthy actually was that Si Mulan was in an examination to enter the Sect and was accidentally(?) sent into a weird and strange place within the Passing Cloud Labyrinth.
The examination only lasted for a month and they would be forcefully sent out after that time limit. In this sense, he would probably send out as well… though that kind of thing has some low probability since he was not a registered examinee.
Even still, one would still need to prepare for such a possibility—and that would be a problem for him if he was caught—he currently has no ability to resist.
Allen frowned for a moment before taking a deep breath. His eyes shined with resolution. “For saving me as well as for the information, I can’t let you go empty-handed… I can give you something to pay my debt…”
“No, no, you don’t need to. As I said, I had just paid my debt for saving me…”
“That I can’t allow.” Allen smiled bitterly. “If I’m not mistaken, Xinghong only saved you because of me… she wanted to find someone who can help me and you are the best candidate there is…”
“Even so…” Si Mulan, of course, knows that. A Holy Beast like it wouldn’t save her without reason.
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“It wasn’t enough for saving me…though, I can give you something of value but please, can I ask for a favor?”
“Favor?” Si Mulan was startled… what favor?
“Hmm, it’s actually simple. I just want you to accompany me for a period of time." Allen said. "After that, I will generously reward you."
“What do you mean by accompanying…?”
“Actually rather than accompany… I want you to guard me for the time being… and of course, teach me how to cultivate…”
“What?!” Si Mulan stared at Allen in shock. She unconsciously sprung up from the bed and looked at Allen in disbelief.
It wasn’t that simple... cultivation possesses the secret of a family or a Clan, especially like her… it involves the secret cultivation of her family. And Allen was an outsider…
It would be a problem if an outsider was imparted with a secret cultivation thoughtlessly…
However, Allen has no choice. Although he can cultivate Chakra rather than Mana, but it wasn’t enough. He needed to recover his magic power quickly and cultivating Chakra alone was not enough!
He wanted to try cultivating both to quicken the process of his magic recovery.
... And he had thought of a way to cultivate both at the same time!
"Why?" Si Mulan was completely stumped at his request.
"Actually, I still haven’t completely recovered yet. I was struck by a personal enemy and was severely wounded, almost unable to move and even lost my previous power level.”
“… …”
“Right now, you should have felt something wrong with me. Right… at this moment, I’m more or less crippled… but that wasn’t the most important, to completely recover my body, I needed something and that can only be done through cultivation…” He answered in a straightforward manner. “At this moment, I can only fight to some extent but not really enough to go against stronger opponents…”
He still has his [ Goro Goro no Mi ] but sadly, although he can use it, not too much extent. Allen feared he would worsen the damage in his Magic Organ if he would fight in a battle like he did against the Monster King Hanjin!
As for his Ninja level… he was still at a Chunin Level. He wanted to at least breakthrough Kage Level, in that sense, he wouldn’t have to fear anything against him.
“I need your help,” Allen bowed at Si Mulan. “Please help me…”
Si Mulan looked at Allen silently, then lowered her gaze to the fruit in her hand. After a long moment, she took a few steps back to sit on the bed. She put the fruit in her mouth and ate it. A smile appeared on her face.
"Fine, I'll stay with you." Si Mulan sighed. "However, I can teach you cultivation but you can’t use it to do evil…Do not take me lightly, just to let you know that I have the means to save you but also the means to kill you."
“… …”
“I don’t care how powerful you are in reality but if you dare to use my family techniques to do evil, I can destroy you how much I wanted to…you understand?”
Allen’s mouth curved up slightly. He then nodded and said, “Thank you,”
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“... When one begins to train their HouTian Qi, their main focus is to build muscle and strengthen internal Qi paths so that they have a foundation for when they materialize their Qi within their body. Truthfully, your HouTian Qi would be better if you start first at your childhood but we don’t have that luxury… your HouTian Qi is a bit low too. I don’t know how you're gonna end up with but I don’t think you wanted to learn Cultivation because you wanted to ascend through cultivation till the end of your time—” Si Mulan with a serious face said: “Thus, I’ll just teach you the basic… I’m going to teach you a chant. You must recite it from memory. I will test you.”
Si Mulan stared at Allen, if a stranger were to ask her to teach him her cultivation technique, she’d feel that they’re simply trying to swindle her, but she, after seeing Allen’s expression begging on her, couldn’t help but feel a sense of trust towards him in her heart.
Finished speaking, Si Mulan recited the heart law Allen had chosen to practice.
“Sister Mulan, can you repeat it again, I need to remember what you just said!” Allen said while his mind was working at its peak.
“Okay!” Si Mulan slowed her speech, repeating the heart law for the cultivation technique.
After becoming a God, Allen got the ability to memorize anything without forgetting it, and even though he could only comprehend some of the words stated, he still managed to memorize what Si Mulan said in just a matter of second. And the more carefully he looked at it, the more he realized the strange fluctuation of energy around him.
It seems like he was finally stepping on the starting line!
The heart law was shaky and hard to pronounce. Although it had probably over two hundred words, there were several that Allen had never even heard before. However, with Allen’s super eidetic memory, he immediately managed to memorize it faster than many people, greatly startling Si Mulan.
This bastard… he’s basically a monster!
If people possess at least 30% of his memorization ability, then are there still even people who can be considered trash in this world…?
This guy is just a heaven-defying genius!!
At this moment, although Allen’s age was almost the same as her’s, with him being just a bit older, but Si Mulan realized that there was a wide gap between them.
Because of this, for the first time, Si Mulan regretted teaching Allen cultivation and was now starting to hesitate whether to continue or not. Not because she was scared of Allen using it to evil... but because of jealousy…!
How can people like him be born…?
She had just recited it four times and this bastard had already memorized perfectly? This monster of a genius can make people drink a hundred bowls of vinegar in distress!
If her sister was considered a true genius while her being an elite—then, this guy must be a monster!
While thinking like this, Si Mulan suddenly had a thought—just how strong was Allen at his peak…?
Well, considering his age, the most conservative estimate would be, his strength would at least at King Realm—but with a servant beast like that monster, his power would be at Peak Emperor Realm or at most, Ancestral Realm—of course, that’s already exaggeration.
Si Mulan tried to evaluate Allen’s power but never in her wildest dream that Allen was already a God and on his way to being a Mid God…!
His power had already transcended immorality into the realm of impossibility…!