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In the courtyard of the Chen Family the children started to work out .
Some runned around , some lifted weights , other meditated or shadow battled .
In the corner Chen Long meditated in order to increase his Qi level with no success .
Meditating in order to absork Qi from the surrounding ? It may sound easy for modern people , however Chen Long experienced the utter truth . Each speck of Qi has to submit under your control before you are able to absorb it , each time you have to battle the small specks for victory and defeteat .
Not only that , if you lose you gain nothing and it drains you from your energy .
It wouldn't be as bad if one could concentrate on weaker Qi specks however each speck of Qi is on a different power level while looking the same as every other speck !
It may sound useless to try to gather more Qi since he haven't an inborn martial spirit , however it is still possible to invoke mighty martial arts so it is possible to even beat inborn spirits .
Besides it is possible to "feed" a spirit , though the inborn can do the same . So to prevent the talents from being too lazy most familys force their talents by pressuring them with people who can replace them . Though it won't happen often there are always cases in which a not inborn family member shows high Qi potential . Thus the family only have to buy or get a strong object/beast and thus a genius may be born .
However Chen Long has nothing of those , none inborn spirit neither Qi talent .
Slowly trying to absorb the surrounding Qi Chen Long breathed in and out .
Ignoring the sudden uproar caused by the arriving inborn talents Chen Long tried to absorb as much Qi as possible , maybe he will one day be able to pick up the technique to choose the weaker Qi specks for himself .
Why is it so important to choose the weaker Qi Specks ? Because every Qi Speck got about the same amount and the amount of each Qi speck would only increase in special places .
Since he meditated in a corner no inborn talent got offended by his "rudeness" and the supervisors are pleased with hard working students , thus the supervisors/teachers always want that nobodys is annoying hard working students even though they have no chance of becoming strong .
However today is a special day , it is the day after Chen Long got his first martial spirit . At first he wanted to brag about it , after all he felt quite happy about fire being his martial spirit .
But as he heard the dialogue of the inborn talent he felt as if he stepped on Poop , how can they reach 4th or even 5th stage of Qi Stage with only being at the same age of him ? Some of the older ones even reached 6th stage .
Sighing he only could refrain from telling them that he got a martial spirit since one couldn't even fuel his martial spirit with the little amount of Qi he has .
Trying to feel the Qi Specks he picked the next best out , sending his mental power to battle against the Speck .
Like in an arena both of the Fighter , Chen Long and Qi Speck stood in front of each other .
Abruptly Chen Long charged and tried to wrestle his opponent onto the ground , without success : a single move of the Qi Speck redirected his attack into the void . Like a ice cube the speck slipped through the mental grabs of Chen Long .
Depressed Mike could only feel how the Specks floated around .
Mhm ... maybe he can appraise the power levels of the Specks ?
Trying to appraise the Specks he could see a window appearing :
[Qi]
Feeling wronged he turned to another Speck .
[Qi]
Sighing he could only give up . However he felt something unusual , each time he used appraisal on the surrounding specks he couldn't feel how his Qi got drained , instead it is something else .
Trying to find out what this "fuel" is he used appraisal again , only to feel some power other than Qi .
"Is this mental power ? After all in those wuxia novels there are always two types of energy ." thought Chen Long while trying to control the mental energy which outed to be quit easy .
Playing around with it a while he felt an excited feeling soaring through his body , so useful !
He could look at his own body with it , he could even "look" at his surrounding .
Though the radius he could "watch" with his currently amount didn't even reached 1mm .
"Let me hope that his mental power thing is something rare and useful . Normally the Mc would get the second type of power while cultivating it with the main power . However since i am pretty bad with Qi i hope that at leas i would have a decent mental power talent ." thought Chen Long while trying to increase his Mental power capacity .
How he can do this ? He spammed Appraisal on everything he could . Though he stopped if he felt that his head started to hurt .
You think that he is pretty much the lazy bum only to discover the mental energy with 8 years ? Well , try to use 10k+ appraisal while you always get an pannel which describes things you see .
It ain't that easy like in novels where you only have to use appraisal 10+ times till it levels up to godlevel .
Soon months passed , Chen Longs 9. birthday soon passed away withou any great ceremonys .
His Mother cared about his younger silblings , a girl at the age of 5 and a younger brother at the age of 3 .
Even though he has elder silblings the bond between them is quite cold , after all he didn't even talked to them after it appeared that he has no inborn martial spirit .
Meditating in the corner like alway he spread his mental energy out which already reached 1meter .
He thought over a year how he could increase the input of Qi , after all he couldn't identify which Qi would obdiently be sucked into his body and which not .
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So he tried to use the mental energy to increase his surface with the mental energy , after all if he couldn't pull them in then why don't wait till they come to you ?
So he imagined something like a fishing net , thus if he walked around he would collect the specks of Qi immediately .
However he failed , he couldn't collect much Qi with his "Fishing Net" .
After that failure he tried many experiments on the question : What is Qi ?
He could feel the specks of Qi as solid mass , however he couldn't touch them .
Thus he tried many things on it , like if it is some kind of small particles floatin the air or if it's some kind of liquid in condensated form .
Everything failed , it wasn't until half a year later he found his solution .
After a year Chen Long felt pressure , he didn't advanced much , still at the peak of the 1th Qi Stage .
The problem is that all of his peers are at least at the 2th Qi stage and if he doesn't advance soon there may be a chance to be a disgrace for the Chen family .
So he stopped his experiments on Qi completely , he couldn't even find the use of mental energy except observing his surrounding .
After a few weeks of hard work he finally reached 2th Qi stage , he could feel how his Qi Capacity tripled .
Before reaching the age of 10 Chen Long finally found the solution to his problem , out of boredom he played around with the so called Mental energy , changing it into different forms like a sword , a ball , a staff etc. .
However as he formed a bag he could feel how something got stuck in it as he commanded it around .
Astonished he closed his mental around it to form it into a mental-ball prison .
Collecting the Mental Energy he felt the mass of Qi stored in the so called Prison .
After digisting the Amount of Qi Chen Long gulped , even as a modern person he would always expect that there are no shortcuts .
However he soon felt that it is logical , after all he could reached 3th or even 4th stage if he worked hard and didn't went for his experiments on Qi . But as soon as he achieved a result , the wasted cultivation time can be replaced in a shorter time frame .
Not only that , if he cultivated with this mental-prison method wouldn't he become extremely strong after a while ?
It's just like scientist , they waste their time thinking over something . However once some results can be seen then their work will be easier than before .
Look at Stone words and metal swords , even though both of the are swords metal sword is birthed from people who tried to discover something thus creating a sharper , harder and overall better sword than before .
Feeling excited Chen Long couldn't but repeat his mental-prison method .
With ease he brough through the 3th Qi stage . Causing his Qi Capacity to increasone 9x the previous stage .
At first he believed that everyone would face this bottleneck sh*t from those light novel he read , however as soon as he cultivated he realized that there exist no bottleneck . The only problem is the fact on how to gather Qi , it may be easy to say : Just collect them !
However doing it is quite hard , they wiggle like slimy fish .
Using something like cultivation Manual ? Well he never heard of anything like that in this world .
But Chen Long didn't want to be arrogant , after all there may be cultivation manuals out there in the world as well as bottlenecks .
Though the Qi stage , also the first stage is quite simple . Gather the Qi in body and with each Qi Stage your maximum capacity will increase .
Stretching his body he wiped his sweat away , it seems like the breakthroughts don't remove all of the impurities of his body . Maybe later on or they don't exist at all .
Nobody cared about him in the past few years , he only trained , ate and slept .
After he got his first martial spirit , the flame , he stopped going out and focussed in his experiments .
"Hey Chen Long , do you wanna go out and play ?" asked another boy seeing that Chen Long finished his training .
"Sure ." replied Chen Long in a friendly voice .
The boy asking him is Chen Zheng , 11 years old at the 4th Qi stage . (Mc is almost 10 years old)
Naturally Chen Zhen only asked Chen Long because he wanted to gather some followers .
Naturally Chen Long couldn't deny the invitation , or else he would be scorned by his so called parents .
It seemed that Chen Zhen started a little bit late gathering followers since his group only consisted out of 3 members , Chen Long , Chen Zhu a young fatty and his younger sister Chen Mei .
Although Chen Zhu only walked with Chen Zhen because he has a crush on his younger sister .
"Hahah , so where do you want to play today ?" asked Chen Zhen in a happy voice .
Chen Long didn't replied , while rolling his eyes : it's always the same are since your father didn't gave you more money .
"Okay , lets go to the little sea restaurant eating a meal before we play near the sea shore ." said Chen Zhen without even waiting for anyone to reply .
Arriving in front of the sea restaurant Chen Mei smiled a while causing little fatty Chen Zhu to look at her with a happy expression .
Walking in Chen Long yelled : "Usual please ."
Sitting in the table corner Chen Long waited for the dish to arrive .
To say the truth , Chen Zhen fawned upon Chen Long because he is one of the last remaining people to be without a boss .
Thus he invited Chen Long for a while to the sea restaurant wishing to get a good impression on Chen Long before asking him to follow him .
It wasn't Chen Zhen idear to invite Chen Long to the restaurant , it was the idear of his father since he sighed on the bad abilitys of his son .
However today something different happened . Chen Zhen walked out since somebody called him out .
Ignoring it Chen Long ordered another portion of rice and roasted meat .
After all this sea restaurant owner is one of the Chen familys members , Chen Zhen isn't even any special kid so why beat him up or do anything bad to him ?
Seeing how the fatty Chen Zhu ate two portions of his Chen Long smiled , dumb but happy .
He envied the fact that people could enjoy the moment without worrying about the future .
As a modern people the future couldn't be ignored and thus people always thought about the future .
Just as he wanted to order another portion of food the waiter suddenly appeared : "Young Master , the bill already is over 2 silver coins . Can you afford it ?"
With a surprised gaze he looked at the Waiter : "Chen Zhen said he would pay , didn't he only walked out to talk to somebody ?"
"No , please pay for it ." said the waiter before whispering something to Chen Long .
Frowning Chen Long asked : "Really ?"
Nodding the waiter stretched his hands gesturing he shall pay .
Giving his entire savings Chen Long felt quite bad . He couldn't even pay everything , however the waiter said he would direct the rest of the cost to the father of Chen Zhen .
Clenching his fists Chen looked at the innocent fatty and the younger sister who looked at him with frightened expression .
Even though both of them are younger than Chen Long , both of them felt the aura of anger in the surrounding of Chen Long .
Chen Long wanted to punch Chen Mei in order to get revenge for this act of paying , after all fighting is not prohibited and even supported . Even between males and females , after all a male shouldn't take a weak woman as their wife . She should at least be able to control the male a little or the male would do bad things like flirting with other womans or even impregnate them .
However he glared at the fatty for while before walking away .
Even though it seemed to be only payment , however for a member to recruit this move is a lethal one . How should he a poor person get a few silvers ? After all Chen Zhen received ressources from his parents .
After this move Chen Zhen could forget to recruit Chen Long without a proper excuse and payment .
Feeling the anger boiling in his heart he decided that only a fight would help him to recover .
However he controlled the anger before walking back to the Chen mansion while meditating on the training field .
The following week Chen Zhen didn't appeared to recruit Chen Long , the week after that he didn't appeared as well .
However he received some news , that one of the elder brothers of Chen Zhen gave him some followers who are at the 6th Qi stage as well as at the 7th Qi Stage .
Laughing inwardly Chen Long judged Chen Zhen as a guy not to be trusted .
Concentranting on his mental-prison ball absorption he soon reached 4th Qi stage without any problems .
Testing his powers by using his martial spirit he summoned a fireball on his palms while judging the energy consumption .
Not bad , he could at least shoot 50 Fire balls .
Living comfortable in his room , training with his mental-ball-Qi-prison and eating the daily meals of the canteen 2 months passed in the blink of an eye .
He reached the peak of 4th Qi stage . Though he experimented a little bit with the mental energy , appearently if he uses more mental energy to appraise a thing then more information would appear .
Using his entire mental energy he tried to find out what his martial spirit is :
[ Low Mortal Flame ]
Following the train of though he deemed the flame to be upgradeable .
Smiling he found the use of appraisal , though he tried something with the AI he owned , nothing special happened . With no choice Chen Long could only use it as a clock .
However he already got a plan on how to use the AI , as a huge library .