Its dark now. The rained stopped a while ago, and night has fallen. I lay there in the ally soaking wet, bloody, bruised, and broken. I can't do anything in this state except use my qi, and I have a lot of qi. No one has ever tested my qi reserves or cultivation base, they haven't even thought to test someone so young. But because I have been working so hard to manipulate my qi, I have grown my reserves and filled my dantian to the limit. My dantian even started to radiate qi into my body on it's own, this qi then started to draw channels into my metaphysical self, meridians. These meridians are like the fingerprints of cultivators. They are created by the combination of someone's dantian, internal qi usage, external qi usage, guidance, body structure, etc. No two cultivators share the same meridians or meridian path. However, even then my meridians are special, not only have I filled my dantian but I changed the essence of it to convert all qi into the special spacetime qi. Surely it has done before with people with special bloodlines, in certain affinity environments, etc. But I doubt anyone has had this much knowledge or talent with spacetime at this young of an age. Essentially, I have specialized my meridians to use spacetime qi and have pathways only available to that type of qi. These meridians are extremely unique in that they manipulated the small space of my body and metaphysical self to become extremely long, allowing my qi to become completely tuned to spacetime. However, I can still transfer my qi instantly across my body by my meridians separating the spacetime to allow my qi to flow across space extremely quickly while having time move extremely quickly as well, causing my qi to spend ages inside of the meridian traveling, while the outside world only spends an instant.

This then gives me an idea. If I could separate the space and time of my body and then reverse just the time I could maybe repair all of my injuries without flopping around on the street and getting reverse beat up. To do this I first flood my body entirely with my 100% spacetime qi. Then using my will I create a sort of shield against outside influence, making it so my qi is the only factor affecting my body's spacetime. Then using my will I can sort of force the space and time into two separate planes. Interestingly this also separates my qi perfectly into two halves, both equaling the same amount as my original qi but without the opposite complimentary element. Using my newfound time qi I build a bridge from one point in time, now, into another, before I was injured. Unlike when I first sent that rock flying back in time at the orphanage, I don't create a sort of bubble vessel to send it back but instead send every single part back at the same time using the same bridge. This of course used a lot more qi and required a lot more to jumpstart but doesn't require any upkeep, as well as being instantaneous. Without even a pop my entire body is healed to my state before those kids started to beat me up.

However, the good didn't last long as I instantly felt drained. Although I still had my entire space qi pool I still spent almost all my time qi. Pushing my space qi back into my dantian made it so every breath slowly gained more and more time aspect and reverting it back into spacetime. Standing up was so easy now that I wish I could forget the pain I felt and the inability to use my body after that beating. Unfortunately I can't, and I don't think I'll ever be able to forget. I need to find a way to fight back and take what I need without ever having to actually fight. I need some way to kill and steal without ever being caught. I need to use my qi to become a thief and an assassin so I will never have to fight or be hurt again.

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First thing on my agenda is to find a place to stay, second is to learn how to use my qi in order to teleport using the same method as time but with space, third is to find where each and every one of those kids live, teleport into their room, stab them, and teleport away. Its revenge time.

~two weeks later~

I learned quite a lot in these past two weeks and am in a much better mood. For one I learned that qi acts like friction when used. However, unlike how friction creates a force pushing an object backwards and thermal energy or heat, qi usage creates what I will call anti-qi. This anti-qi flows exactly opposite of the path the used qi takes. However, unlike the orderly qi used, it moves erratically proportionally to the speed it travels and can damage meridians and physical beings. This can be a major setback for most people as the anti-qi will damage their meridians, or their body if they do not have meridians yet, increasingly the more and faster they channel qi. However, I have another advantage in which my meridians are unaffected by this. Because of the time difference between my meridians and the outside world every particle of anti-qi is relatively extremely far apart in time. In the outside world the anti-qi seems to be a constant stream; However, in my meridians there is enough time between each particle to completely heal. Further more I learned that if you spin qi into a spherical motion it will draw qi to fill in any gaps until the rotating qi becomes almost exactly a perfect sphere. FURTHER MORE if I create a time dilation I can spin my qi extremely fast which draws in even more qi than there is ambiently. I hypothesize that qi is being summoned from the spiritual realm to fill in the gaps as the ambient qi is not quick enough to create balance and thus the rotating effect becomes strong enough to bridge the gap between realms and pull qi in. Though refilling your qi reserves does have a drawback, it creates anti-qi... WHICH I AM IMMUNE TO. MUAHAHAHA╰(*°▽°*)╯. This then allows me to constantly and immediately fill my dantian, apply the spacetime affinity, and channel the qi infinitely.

This discovery proves to be insanely useful as when I sent my body back in time I used all of my qi to do so and was left drained and week. However, now I can instead channel my qi and fill my dantian at the same time and effectively have infinite qi in order to flood and surround anything in order to manipulate the spacetime of the object. Although doing this to any living thing, like a rat, will force me to completely overcome its inherent qi and force it outside of its body before I can do anything... so its kinda useless unless I have a much greater willpower than the victim, and I doubt power hungry murderous cultivators have a week will. Theoretically though I could force the enemy to channel so much qi to combat me that they become overwhelmed with anti-qi and die from the destruction caused by it.

Anyways I didn't only experiment with how qi works I also learned a bunch of useful techniques that I can use to assassinate my bullies. I now can separate bubbles of spacetime from the outside world, preventing anyone from seeing or hearing what happens inside, unless ofc they can push through my infinite qi with much stronger qi, which I find is the best way to counter all my techniques, to just be at a higher cultivation. I can cause the time inside that bubble to travel at different speeds, have different gravity, i can carry one around as an inventory, use one as a shield which slows all projectiles before they reach me, use one as portal, and a lot more. I can teleport and send myself back in time. I can also create extreme spatial distortions along my hands to create a sort of space blade which forcefully cuts apart something by quickly sending it in two opposite directions around my hand. Basically, killing a couple kids who can barely move qi should be super easy.