"release" A vacant voice, devoid of all its energy proved them wrong.

BOOM*

Worldly energy exploded from her body. Even the guards needed to shield themselves in retreat from the pressure, while the closest inmates were sent flying a meter or two.

"Argh!"

The dust settled.

The newly re-awakened cultivator stood in place and slightly flung her limbs as if she just woke up from a long sleep after pulling the needle out of her heart.

"Finally. This long-awaited feeling is back." Luo Si had finally stepped onto the path of cultivation attaining the first martial rank out of many and becoming a first level Martial learner.

She took a breath, feeling qi enter her body and released it as she breathed out. A cultivator's body of the Martial learner stage felt akin to a small tee cup, while qi acted as water that could be held by the cup for a short time. The number of meridians opened would decide the dept of the cup, which was why Luo Si felt that her cup was more akine to a thin well.

She picked up the red and silver covered book and opened it nonchalant, not paying any heed to her physical state.

"I still have half an incense of time." Luo Si read the black painted title of the book, which she could not read before 'Qigong: Wu Ji Quan.'

"Wu… Ji… Quan, Wu Ji Quan… never heard of it. Let's see, it says 'without ultimate'. Hopefully it has some fighting technique."

'Hm, the time is too short and I don't have a mental skill to develop a mental brain. Guess I have no other choice.'

She sat down into her well-known cross-legged position, while blood still leaked out from all over her body. Yet, it didn't seem to bothered her at all.

She touched the center of her forehead with two fingers, while the fingers on the other hand ran down the written lines.

Information started to infiltrate her brain. Qi symbols were forcefully engraved inside her head.

What she was doing right now was impregnating the context into her mind. In her state, this was very painful, stressful and highly dangerous. However, Luo Si's face told others that she was just reading a book in annoyance.

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If she had more time, she would do it in a slow pace or just read it until she understood the whole book. But time was short.

After over 90% of the last incense burned down and the rays of light emitted from the exit had reached a deep orange, did she breath out a cloud of impure air. She had managed to engrave the content into her head in record-breaking time.

"So, it is like this. Gladly the old man doesn't know its true value or else I would never have had the chance to read it. My body is still weak. If I don't do something, it will all have been for nothing."

She stood up after a minute of contemplation and moved in a slow and flowing way while breathing the same breathing technique. Qi ran in her body in an all-compassing way.

The players woke up from the sudden event and looked at Luo Si with puzzling faces.

"She really succeeded, but how?"

"Tse, I still hold on to my bet. Don't you see how much blood she has lost. She will probably collapse any second. Ascended or not, dead is dead. You will see."

"What are those motions, can one even fight with these?"

"True, it would be to difficult fighting so slow and these movements are also too simple." The trolling boy scoffed.

"But it looks so elegant. I also want that book." A beautiful girl with voluminous curled up hair pouted.

"The air also feels somewhat emptying."

Nevertheless, they were met with an even bigger surprise. The wounds on Luo Si's body started to closen up visible to the naked eye and a tint of lively color reappeared on her skin.

She stopped her exercise after 3 sessions. Her wounds were all closed up but did not vanished. A thin crusty layer of impurity was excreted from Luo Si's skin and fell into a trillion dust.

"Wu Ji Quan truly deserves the position of king rank foundation technique." Luo Si looked at the book in hands.

"It might be a slow and simple looking technique, but if they knew its true power, they would lick anybody's feet their whole life without asking to stop. Not only is the fighting style levels above others, Wu Ji Quan also has two more strong points that make it different from other techniques. And one already came inot use."

Luo Si had run a certain type of qi flow mentioned in the book with her exercises that could heal one's body by absorbing the surrounding worldly energy. The thing was, not only did it heal the body but also the soul.

"As for the other," she closed her eyes and felt the rich energy in the air moving into her body and leaving again in a natural flow.

The other point that Luo Si mentioned, was that one developed the ability to have a higher level of sensitivity towards the worldly energy as well as a higher compatibility with it. This led to a better absorption rate and perception of the practitioner's surrounding.

Luo Si exited the cage again. This time taking the initiative, making her way towards the refined mana core.

"If you are Chinese, shouldn't you help your fellow country man." A young long faced Chinese yelled.

Those able to understand him nodded in agreement. "Yes. Chinese. Strong. Together."

"China number one!"

The words fell on deaf ears. Hong Luo Si, unfazed by the words shouted by her ethnic group, stretched out her hand. "I just want to confirm one last thing."

A light particle quickly formed, just like the previous time. Except this time, a second one promptly followed suit and 7 more popped into existence. Only after the 9th particle appeared did the run come to a stop. But it did not end there. The 9th particle continued on growing, turning from an early 90es light bulb into a 20-megawatt powered light tower.

A blinding light filled the tomb.

'As expected.'