The dawning mist descent throughout the verdant valley, carrying with it the moist scent of grass. From time to time, through the mists, people could be spotted journeying throughout the valleys on the grey rock stone roads anchored onto it.
Further down the valley, a building could stand out, giving a vibrant atmosphere to the morning.
“This is how we can write the phrase ...” an amiable matron seated on a chair, slowly and methodically talking and pointing with a stick to some character on the plank board, in front of her, there were about twenty-seven or teenagers, some of whom shrunk their face struggling to understand, some dazing off, and few of them may be said to maintain their focus all the time.
Amidist the crowd of teenagers, was Zhang Chang, and from every once in a while, he would write something down like most of the rest.
In a blink of an eye, three weeks was gone by, Zhang Chang's illiterate days passed slowly. By now, his progress could only be said to be that of a genius. Even the teacher couldn’t help praising his learning progress.
Promptly an hour went by and the morning class came to an end.
[Beep! . Zhang Chang - Strength: 0.42, Agility: 0.51, Vitality: 0.4]
After weeks of good nutritious food, Zhang Chang body had improved a lot compared with before, even his chin had started gathering a little fat.
In these weeks, Zhang Chang also happened to understand the underlying situation around. Now he was on the servant branch of the Xianggong Sect, they are given cultivation methods and can freely practice without many constraints. But if before the age of 25 one was not able to reach the 4th stage in cultivations of Qi Refining, they could kiss goodby the opportunity to advance to the Outer Sect of Xianggong and become an Outer Door disciple.
Although as one gets older and older the chances of progressing their cultivation get faint and fainter, ones that cannot make progress in cultivation are still not abandoned, after all the higher realm still need resources and the lower ones are the best workers to farm it.
The other thing he learned was about the legend and origin of the cultivation of immortals.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there were many wonders of heaven and earth, and those wonders were said to possess all kinds of amazing abilities.
For example, some could release thunder and lightning all day long, some seem to have no gravity in them, some seemed to float in the sky creating other worlds inside it.
In some other legend, the ancient human race used to worship these great miracles, taking them as tribal totems of faith, and in the process of worshipping totems, some people slowly started to have supernatural abilities.
After countless years of development, the human race created countless magic techniques from the initial tribal worship, which is the origin of immortals.
[Beep! Writing-Reading database completed]
Zhang Chang was disrupted halfway through his thinking by the Chip.
'Great! chip start translating the Fa Cultivation method'. Probably one of much expected moments in the recent day for Zhang Chang had come.
Zhang Chang had tried to have his teacher read the Fa Cultivation method for him, but it was right away refused on base that the first understand of cultivations are crucial and that any influence might ruin its further journey into it. After being refused after several tries, Zhang Chang could only use his time on learning how to read.
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By now Zhang Chang had arrived at his cabin, storming directly into his room when a bing tune rang in his mind.
[Beep! Translation Completed! Loading the translated Fa Cultivation method]
'Chip transfer Fa Cultivation method' After adjusting cosily on his bed Zhang Chang quickly ordered the chip.
When a stream of information flowed in his mind Zhang Chang could but help to twitch a bit. The cultivation method wasn't long, in its entirely, it was only about 20 pages.
"Chip starts data gathering and monitoring my vitals" Zhang Chang ordered the chip as he started to take his first steps into cultivation.
The first step in cultivation is to sense the Spiritual Energy, it has been said that Spiritual Energy was everywhere between heaven and earth, but the distribution of Spiritual Energy is not uniform, and where the Spiritual Energy is comparatively strong, most would regard it as a treasure area.
Zhang Chang in silence recited the Fa Cultivation method, and gradually entered the state of "Mind Emptiness" that was said in the cultivation method.
When in trance Zhang Chang sense to touch something, it was like the wind but he could feel its weight against his skin. As if it was the first time that he realized that he was always living in an ocean, it was just that instead of water it was Spiritual Energy.
It was just from time to time he could feel himself distracting and interrupting his state of mind, at the same time he could feel like his mind was been overworked with exhaustion. The cultivation said till he at least could maintain his state of mind for a breath time to not attempt diving deep into cultivation.
Deciding to take a break and relax a bit, Zhang Chang took a look at the chip data and saw no anomaly before he started again.
....
In a blink of eye two months went by, Zhang Chang still didn't go further than sense the Spiritual Energy, he was treading every step carefully and analysing and recording everything. Although he was eager to dive deeper, yet the dogmatism of slowly probing and analysing things had unknowable started to influence how he cultivated. Still, he was delighted with this new sensing feeling and couldn't help hypothesizing and modelling.
Consequently, he was able to maintain his "Mind Emptiness" for more than an hour and now he was preparing to further dive deeper and start the next step into practising.
Again, he effortlessly entered his "Mind Emptiness" state while reciting the Fa Cultivation method and imagining a colourless barren rocky land in his mind.
Not knowing when a small black reddish cloud started to form upside the barren land, and then the cloud started to rotate in a twist spiral pattern.
Not knowing when the cloud had become a storm and at the eyes of the storm, a colourless mist seemed to begin to amass, and from it, a drop of liquid fell on the barren land.
The barren land quaked slightly, and a little vitality seem to start emanating throughout the land.
Zhang Chang body quiver a little, and his eyes shot up in a flash.
"What's going on" Zhang Chang was a little confused.
"No" Zhang Chang sensed his body, as if there was a new thing flowing alongside his blood, although it was very weak, it had shown a sense of presence.
Isn't this Spiritual Energy?
"Chip, scan my body" Zhang Chang without delaying called the chip.
[Beep! Scan complete. Zhang Chang - Strength: 0.51, Agility: 0.54, Vitality: 0.59, Spiritual Energy: 1.0]
"What's going on here?" Zhang Chang was surprised, according to the general case, although it is not difficult to get started cultivating, an average person would spend from two to three months in sensing Spiritual Energy so as to swimmingly refine Spiritual Energy in one fell swoop, and then spend seven or eight months to accumulate the Spiritual Energy in the body, and finally refine the Spiritual Energy is own, which is the first step into cultivation and the 1st stage of the Qi Refining.
"This is unreasonable, I don't have a special physique, don't have a strong soul, so how can I get started so swiftly?" Zhang Chang has already undergone a second test in Xianggong Sect, proving that he is a normal physique and has lower qualifications. Normal to enter the 1st of Qi Refining it would take in average one year, and if you count the total time he started cultivating it would at most amount to 3 months.
"Is this a glimpse of the true meaning?"
Countless thoughts went across Zhang Chang mind, some make sense, some were ludicrously
There is certainly the spiritual energy in his body, but it has a negligible amount, that if it wasn't for the chip he wouldn't be certain that it was there.