Chapter 6

Another morning has come where the humming of birds, the gentle light of sunshine, and the chaotic sound of the alarm clock awoke me. As I do my stretching I just realize that it's been 3 months since I was transmigrated here. What I do is cultivate, play games, eat, and sleep which is great because I don't worry about things such as paying rent, food, electricity and many more. Such a blissful life and speaking of cultivating I'm super close to filling my whole dantian of ki which is it took me long and I thought it is easy when I read some comics. As I finish organizing my stuff I go to the outside kitchen to eat breakfast.

Upon arriving at the site I was greeted by Uncle Tom while he cooked our breakfast.

"Good morning Ayaka"

"Good morning also Uncle. By the way Uncle, where is Grandpa Bing and Herbert?"

"They are patrolling as of now in our territory and probably they're running right now."

"Eh? why now?"

"To start their morning also to change their routine, lately they reminisce about their youth when you are not around."

"Well nostalgia really hits you when you are older right Uncle?"

"Yes, that is true you just eat, play, sleep, oooh.. I also wish to be a kid again.. Haah.."

"Why not make potions or cast magic to turn into a kid?"

"Well we can make that happen but it is not the same when you are in your world and I miss my family.."

"Oh..."

".. Why are we talking about this stuff? Our day just started! Change of topic! I think another couple of minutes those two will arrive here."

[20 minutes later..]

"Oh! They are here."

"Gran-"

"*Huff* *Huff* H-H- HELP US!.. *gasp* *gasp*

"[What in bloody hell happen?!]"

"W-W-WATER!.. *Huff* *gasp*

"Ayaka, grab some water in my magic pouch and keep an eye on our breakfast. They might burn, I'll just grab these two real quick."

Just like a wind, Uncle Tom reaches the two with no effort and the look of the two it feels like they're gonna die any second and when they got here I gave them water with salt.

"Hey, you two what're you guys doing that you guys are out of breath?"

"*gulp* *gulp* Wooo... wait let me activate my ki first.. *wooosh* Aight I'm feeling good now!"

" So, what happened?"

"When we do our rounds our ki is activated therefore our energy consumption is low but we tried to deactivate it and use our mortal body to run and also we don't use any kind of magic also. This way we rely on our body only and have a thrill round but we underestimate our age and body and that's how we ended up in a pathetic state. HAHAHAHAHA!"

" [Crazy..]"

"[ This two idiots are fucking crazy..]"

" So, you see Ayaka, this is one of the importance of ki in our body. It can generate power in a low cost way."

" Yes and adding more, the only way you consume more ki is by using martial arts, think of the games we play which can be the same in mana."

"By the way Grandpas, how you guys can turn off and on your ki? Isn't ki a passive energy if we see it in a normal way?"

"Yes but you see because we master a level of controlling our ki we can just turn it on and off without any problem. Just like some high power in murim, only few can master it like top 10 martial artists but most of those old geezers spend most of their time in isolation and some of them achieve it when they are in their 30's and 50's.”

"Ooooh!"

"But you know if you are on the same level, you can have a chance to defeat those monsters and also many factors will come into play like experience, luck, ki, environment."

"That is why you need to finish your ki gathering to have a chance. It will be your last ace in the sleeve."

"Also having a high quality ki can make you look young! If you introduce this in the real world, this will affect the medicine and cosmetic industries. HAHAHAHA!."

"Well even if I introduce ki or something like breathing technique the people who have money and power will shut me down or worse, make me a guinea pig to experiment me and spill anything I know.. and that is troublesome on my part."

"Well yeah you have a point there."

"Oh speaking of breathing technique, is my first cultivation a form of breathing technique Grandpas and Uncle?"

"It is more like a meditation, sure breathing techniques are synonymous with meditation but to me it is just only a meditation and I think breathing techniques are more prevalent in using martial arts techniques such as qigong and strike. Just like other martial arts that require breathing properly to maximize your skills and endurance.”

"It is like you need a certain amount of air in your body to perform such acts like punching how much air you need? if you are giving all your might you need more air or just poking you need a small amount of it.”

"In my world we don't have breathing techniques and I think the closest we have is to take a deep breath and chant as fast as you can and at the same time to improve concentration..."

"But in the end it can vary on how the rules of the world are just like breathing technique here or in your world it is just how you conduct to control your breathing and in others is a form of high mastery."

"Oooh I see I see.."

After we talked about this topic, we start to eat our breakfast and I just notice that we have many food than usual and also both Grandpa Bing and Herbert start eating like they are hungry for at least 1 week after that we cleaned the table and packing some items because Uncle Tom will go the nearest town to gather intel about what happening in this world and for the two grandpa, both of them go in their respective cabin/cottage because they are tired. I guess they turn off their ki.. and as for me I go to the cave for my cultivation training. Also my path now has some spells which makes my path easy to walk and it thanks to Uncle Tom, which he installed.”

When arriving on my spot I began to cultivate.

"[I'm so close to filling my dantian and after this my first assignment will be finished!]

At first when I started my cultivation it was really slow even though the environment synchronized with me but as times went by it got really fast. I realized that every time after I eat and straight up go here and cultivate it makes my ki gathering go faster. I suspect that because it is part of my body it needs a lot of energy to gather. Grandpa Herbert also informed me that month that to be able to gather more faster and efficiently I need to eat more.

Noon is approaching and now I'm heading to the site to eat. After arriving I see Grandpa Herbert cooking some soup based meals and steaming some fish. A couple of minutes Uncle Tom arrives with some ingredients and news on what is going on in this world. According to him the elves defend their land against the horde of wild beasts which has been alarming because it just happen instantly which mean someone has capabilities to summon such horde, now they’re closing their borders to recuperate their self and all the people aiding now the elves by sending materials to them. On other hand no activities have been seen on the demon side. The last news is they found a lost civilization near the kingdom of beast-people but they can't enter because of some barrier and it will take a decade or more to explore this lost civilization. After the news we ate our lunch and after that I went back to the cave to train.

[Few hours later..]

"This is it right?! HAHAHAHA! I can't wait to verify this!"

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As I feel full on my dantian I think my first task is complete! After that I go to Master/Grandpa Bing and to verify if I completed my assignment.

"Master Bing! I think I've already completed my first cultivation."

"Wait, let me see your energy by using the Eyes of the Energy.."

"How is it?"

"Oho! You really do it! Congratulations to you Ayaka! let me tell this to others via Mind Transmission."

[Couple of seconds later..]

"Attagirl! Congratulations on achieving your first step of cultivation!."

"Same here Ayaka, congratulations!."

"Hehe.. Thank you!"

"Now Ayaka, you have reached the first step now we are gonna do the second step."

"Yes!"

"Which is destroying your own dantian."

"Yes!.. HUH??"

"You heard it right Ayaka, the second step is destroying your own dantian."

"WOAH WOAH WOAH! so I really did not misheard it! So you asking me guys to be a paralyzed person?! and why it is the second step?!"

"Then what is the name of this cultivation? and besides, you will benefit in the long term."

"How?"

"Who will tell her the story? Me or you guys?"

"You got this old man."

"I agree, take the stage."

"Ok Ok, I will tell you why this is beneficial. At first when we conducted research about ki, your Uncle Tom talked about different literature in their world on martial arts genre. Now most of the martial arts genre revolves around the quality of ki they have. The more you have good and high quality of ki it also improves your power and martial arts just like leveling up. Same concept of cultivating, we gather first our ki on our dantian now upon we gather, we try to refine it mostly this is the route you will go but we have different approach. Upon you fill your dantian with ki it's time to break it and we know that when a dantian is destroyed it is equivalent to death of your martial art and yourself as a martial artist. Not only that but you will turn into a normal person but in the worst case scenario you will end up as disabled person. Now how can we prevent it? This will enter the different types of medical technologies and this will get your chance to recover!

"I see.. but how can you heal the dantian and how about our qi?"

"Good question, Since the dantian is the storage of our ki, now we have a thing called meridian where it connects to our dantian. This passageway is extremely important because without this we can't use our ki to perform a move. When meridian is compromised, likely the dantian also since it was connected to each other, then you can't use ki it will likely escape to your body or disappear and also it is hard to heal just like dantian. But what if we focused first on the meridian to heal?

"Uhm.. it will make a path?"

"Exactly! Since the meridian is restored now , the ki have a way now to the dantian but still the dantian is still destroyed. Now we can introduce the different types of healing from acupressure to ki itself to restore the dantian."

"Huh? Can ki do that?"

"Yes, the ki can do that because it is still part of the body meaning just like our body it has a way to heal itself. Now I mentioned that if the meridian is destroyed we have leakage of ki in our body just like our dantian but meridian also act as storage in our body and the only downside of it is there is still leaking of ki. Now to take advantage of a special feature of meridian the ki now has a way to restore the dantian by coating it around it, but ki alone will take time to do its job to heal it. Here comes to play with the supports which are herbs and elixir, this will act as boosters with their special characteristic which will merge in our ki and the ki now have medicinal properties to properly heal the dantian. When restoration is successful we have now a strong storage with extra layer of protection from the herbs and elixir now the dantian has been level up. Whereas the ki will also level up, now when you start to cultivate again your qi will now enter the newly restored dantian which it automatically refines itself with different types of energy coming from the herbs and elixir. Still even if you don't have this kind of medicine or boosters it is still possible to restore your dantian and get the new feature which is to automatically refine your qi as long your meridian is not severely damaged. What if your meridian is broken and you don't have the luxury to buy some herbs and medicine? The answer is if the heaven is real, your chances are if somebody is willing to help you like hunting herbs and make into elixir or a super crazy rich friend who buys you elixirs and herbs. Another note the more you don't heal your meridian on time the more it will be hard to restore.

"Oooh.. more or less I understand what you said Master."

"I'm glad somehow you understand what I'm saying. By the way, when destroying your dantian not only once, twice, or thrice, but as long as you are breathing you continuously break it."

"But.. why?"

"To achieve maximum benefits of course the more you break it the more it will be easier for you. Like us we've been breaking our dantian for like a thousand times. At first it was hard but gradually it became like fart.."

"Eeeeeh?.."

"Also according to our calculation, at 1000 times of breaking your dantian you can achieve something like the origin of origin in the martial arts world."

"What the heck is that??"

"Just only the Apex tier of the realm in Martial arts like transcendence or something similar. Even though we are on that realm and end this quest or shit once and for all, we just want to be chill and pass our teaching to you."

"Why do you do that? Isn't it practical to just end these things?"

"Well we can do that like I just said a couple seconds ago but different worlds have different rules. That is bullshit if you think about it but it is what it is, but we know that fact is you can carry our legacy and carry over to another. That is why we are willing to give you the best we can have. Also the fact that we can't really carry over this knowledge we have and share it to our people in our world. Like starting from zero and teaching this again it will really take really longer, probably we will die in old age and wait a second. Why are we discussing this kind of topic?! It's not been a year since we met. We should save this when we depart, you idiot!"

"WO-WOAH! I didn't start this kind of topic Master, I just only asked why you did not end this thing! You suddenly turn real quick and get emotional."

"Oh... I guess being old really gets me sometimes, HAHAHAHA!"

"Crazy old man, getting emotional in the middle of discussion, HAHAHAHA!"

"I agree that we should save this moment when we depart from this world, HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Anyway back to the topic, it is a really good method if you combine this with your existing powers because facing an opponent that can pierce your powers will likely confuse. Also when your dantian break mid battle will likely good for you because you will get more stronger so don't afraid to engage in battle unless you break your dantian a 1000 times if not then don't get fight you might be one shotted by your enemies."'

"Speaking of one shot by enemies, how will I prevent the external damage?"

"Don't worry because in the near future we will introduce to you the second cultivation you need to learn."

"Sweet!"

"Now you need to break your dantian now."

"WAIT WAIT WAIT! I'm not ready for this and also is it me the one to break it or you guys?"

"Of course you are the one who will break your dantian and not us. The reason for this is when we are not around who will try to break yours? None, because they have no idea why you are doing that. Also as I said earlier that the more you break it the easier your dantian and meridian to recover. From the feeling of ripping and punching from the inside to feeling like fart to nothing."

'Okay okay but I will have to prepare mentally."

"But you survived when we did some experiments on you.."

"Now and before is different, Master."

"Okay okay, take your time."

[ A half hour later..]

"Uhmm before we start I have just one question."

"Hm? Okay what is?"

"Most or all of the people have many dantian and not only here in the lower part right? Then why do we only use the lower part and not in other parts? Like from head or something?"

"The lower part of the body is safer than the other parts. Usually people who sought easier and convenient power tend to do this with high risk and high reward but in reality there are little to non benefits. Only people who do this are either blessed by the heavens or total cheat (plot armor), just like your ability it is a cheat if you are immune to internal damage! But yeah same for use three but it only turn in that way because of long time of discovering things."

"Oooooh.."

"So are you ready?"

"Yes Master, I'm ready and one more thing can I die doing these things?"

"Nope, you will not die but you only harm yourself. So brace yourself for the pain."

I position myself in a meditation form and both Master Herbert and Master Tom both on my sides while Master Bing is on my back and ready to guide me. Master Bing starts to guide me to my dantian and he demonstrates on how to inflict damage inside and when he does that I feel the pain it feels like I'm having my menstruation. This makes my form go in an awkward position but luckily my two masters assist me quickly but still the pain is lingering.

"That is how you inflict your dantian by having your ki to take form. For me I form it like a lasso, so imagine any form that is convenient to you. and don't complicate some things, just make them simple! After that you should move your ki that has form and don't worry you can recognize your ki from the form one. Do the moving in a gentle manner, don't be panicked, take your time."

"O-okay Master!"

I follow what Master Bing said and I create a simple characteristic which is a ball. After that I slowly moved my ball of ki up and down which was quite difficult at first but after only a couple of minutes I already managed to control it which surprised me. Now I have the control, I try to hit my dantian downward and when the time it hits it bounce to other directions.

"AAAAARRRGHH!"

It hurt like fucking really hurt! It feels like someone punching you inside and at the same time someone poking you with a sharp object! I'm trying to maintain my form even though it is hard to concentrate between my pain and dantian. Then minutes pass the ball of ki I create becomes more sturdy and the pain becomes worse!

"!!!!!"

"HANG IN THERE AYAKA! YOU CAN DO IT!'

As of now my hearing is fading away and I barely hear what my Master Bing is saying and It's been only 20 or 25 minutes since I started this. It feels like a 2 hours of fucking pain and agony. I also notice that some of my ki is merging with the ball and the other leaving my body.

"AYAKA! YOU CAN DO IT! YOUR DANTIAN BARELY HOLDING!"

"FOCUS AYAKA! ANY SECONDS YOU CAN ACHIEVE THE SECOND STEP!"

"TOLERATE THE PAIN AYAKA!"

I know they are giving me mental support but now my hearing is completely out and I think they also notice that my dantian now is in the state where it can be nearly broken anytime soon. Now the bouncing is more aggressive and my qi is out now which indicates that the only ki I have is this ball which is wreaking havoc inside of my dantian as if I am a tin can that has stone inside and shaking it vigorously by a kid... If I hold more I can survive this but even my consciousness is fading out.."

"Whew.. unconscious before she sees her dantian broke.."

"Look, the ball of ki is still rampaging inside of her!"

"Wow, this is the first time I see a dantian that is so hard to break.."

"Yep, you are right there."

"Oh, why are you here?"

"I'm just taking a peek if you guys are progressing now and from the look of it this girl has incredible pain tolerance than you guys."

"Is it because of her power?"

"Nah, no power is involved in this even though it feels like her skill is activated right now."

"Eh? I thought her power was a passive one?"

"So meaning.. she really took all of the pain.. Incredible!"

"Honestly I'm hesitating if she needs healing or anesthesia.."

"Yeah, me too but she was way better than us."

"Anyway guys her dantian will be broken in 5,4,3,2,1.. and poof it's broken now and also as you can see the ball of ki of her instead of leaving from its body it goes back to the meridians and stored there.. but if we see her inside now all of her meridians are now destroyed damn this is unexpected as if her ki have a conscious.. Welp at least the healing of her will be faster in theory I guess?"

"You guess?"

"Yeah I am omnipotent, not omniscient."

"Fair enough."

"The theory I have now is that the stored ki act now as a seed where the parts heal its own where the ki settled."

"Hmm.. interesting even you made the fuck up this."

"You know me Tom, I got this one in the bag. But for real, Ayaka is a special case. Is it because of the ki and mana system you made in her body? Her powers or the body of her is a special one? What if other factors? It is worth it to monitor her so that you can help her in the future."

"Yeah, we will do that but first we need to first aid her."

"Don't worry I already cast some healing spells when the dantian is broken."

"Thanks Old man Herbert."

"Now we should go to her place and treat her more there."

Four of them go to the place of Ayaka while transporting her gently because now the body of this girl is so fragile and sensitive.

"How many days do you think Ayaka will wake up?"

"One week."

"One and a half week for me."

"Realistically this will take about one month or two but right now I think three days will be enough for her."

"Me too 3 or 4 days will take to wake her up. Also, who will be the one who is nursing her?"

"All of us duh!"

"Aight, where is the schedule?"

"We should discuss this after we treat her and grab some food in the kitchen."

"Oh! I like pudding and coffee."

"Okay okay, I want some noodles and I feel like ice cream will make my body happy."

"Tarts and tea for me."

"Damn you guys! It will take time to make these foods, you know?"

"Yeah we know and that is why you will make this food faster than before Tom because our work will become more difficult."

"Alright, as always I got your back guys even though you guys are exploiting me!"

Chapter 6 End