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What felt like a short moment for me must have been quite a while, because when I woke up again I was in a bed inside a small room. The ceiling was the same kind of stone as earlier.

Guess it wasn’t a dream, eh?

I quickly got up and looked at the table next to the bed. There was a jade stone and book with a note on top. I read the note:

Good morning, Yu Jian!

I hope you’re feeling better! The book you just found has the cultivation technique you need for your “treatment”. Believe it or not, even though you’ve lost your memory you are quite lucky to get this opportunity. I recommend starting as soon as possible. Last night you passed out so quickly we couldn’t tell you anything about you or this place so here’s a starter:

Your name is Yu Jian, both your parents are deceased… Sorry about that. You are 10 years old, and usually only when at the age of 13, does outer sect members in the Yu Sect get a chance to start cultivating Chi and start on their path to immortality. Any further questions about this world and cultivation is answered in the book on the table. The cultivation technique is in the memory stone.

Good luck.

- Doctor Yu Xiaoqing

I took a look at the book, it didn’t have any title and as I picked it up and opened it I could see it was old, very old. They had taken good care of it and it was of good quality. It seemed to repel the dust in the air.

Interesting.

The book explained of this worlds history. I should have been super clever absorbing all the information from the book like to people from the fantasy fictions, but honestly I got too bored and only read what I saw interesting. There was no appearent name for this world. I didn’t even know if it was a planet I’m on or just a flat endless plane, though I could see there was a sun in the sky shining from outside the window moving very very slowly in a set direction.

There were no countries, kings or something like that. It was only split up in different sects and territories. There was a lot of wilderness too as the different sects wouldn’t bother to clear up the space they wouldn’t or couldn’t use. There were a lot of ferocious beast and dangerous desolate beasts in those areas, so clearing them was easier said than done.

As for the cultivation system, it had a similar system to what I read in some random fiction or it might be a combination of multiple, seriously who knows?

There was the Disciple Realm for starters. As soon as one managed to collect even a little Chi, one could be called a disciple.

The first stage was filling the body with Chi. Through the next nine stages one would compress it, leaving more space to fill with chi and finally form a Chi Star.

After the Disciple Realm came the Deposition Realm. The Deposition Realm was after one had cultivated through all the nine different stages of the Disciple Realm and had managed to form a Chi Star.

The Chi Star was a container for the Chi and seemed to have the same function as the famous dantian in the fictions I’ve read. The name came from the shape of it as it was surprisingly “star-shaped”.

Through the Deposition Realm one would compress the Chi “gas” so it would turn solid therefore “deposition” as the phase transition.

When the Chi Star was completely solid one would go into the next Realm called the Profound Realm. That’s when one would prepare the body for the famous Xiantian Realm. In the Xiantian Realm the Chi Star would have turned completely into liquid through the Profound Realm as this is the most compressed form of Chi. The liquid Chi would then spread out through the body, reinforce it and make it immortal.

Above this Realm one would repeat the whole prosess again with a new element called Yuan Power. Noone could absorb Yuan Power without liquid Chi flowing through your body. The person would form a Yuan Star and start on the path to become an immortal overlord. No one knew if there way a higher form of cultivation after becoming an immortal overlord. I guess I’ll have to find out.

I took a look at the memory stone on the table. How does it even work? Guess I’ll have to figure that out too. If I’m not completely wrong I should get the information by putting the stone up to my forehead.

I reached out for the stone and lifted it up to my forehead. Just as it touched my forehead I prepared for a flood of information coming… Which it didn’t. What did I do wrong? I took a look at the stone again as if it was a puzzle. Then as a gust of wind blew in from the window, the note flipped over and there were more text on it.

Ahh… *facepalm* of course….

I read the first line, which surprisingly was in a different handwriting:

Ps: To use the memory stone, hold it and say: Wha tafoo laiam!

Again I held the stone and said as the note said:

“Wha tafoo laiam!”

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As nothing happened I tried several times, each time a said it out louder and louder:

“Wha tafoo laiam!, Wha tafoo laiam! What a fool I am! WHAT A FOOL I AM!!”

The last time I yelled it I finally realized I had been fooled, real good too!

Please say nobody heard me! Dear good God, If you grant me this one wish, my firstborn son will become a monk!

As an answer to my prayer I could hear some chuckles close by, I had been… denied.

Well atleast my firstborn son is saved… -_-*

“You got tricked Yu Jian, haha! I will remember this for as long as I live! haha Oh! My stomach haHAHA!”

“...”

“Hahahaaa…”

*Awkward silence, cricket sound playing”

“Aanyways… the memory stone is quite special so I would have to help you use it. You’ll need to insert a small amount of Chi to read it, and because you don’t have any yet I would have to assist you.”

Seeing me being so serious must have had an impact because Sister Ling did not dare to waste any more of my time.

A few minutes later I had managed to read the memory stone and had got a grasp of how to start my cultivation. Sister Ling had then quickly excused herself, leaving me all alone.

Lets see if I have a talent for this.

I though as I followed the steps from the memory stone. The first step of gathering Chi was to “feel the world around you”. I think feelings are too personal to be properly explained, but atleast it told me to focus on my breath. From what I understood, the Chi was all around. It was like a gas floating around us similar to air.

The first step got to be breathing it in and not letting it go. Making it float through the bloodstream like oxygen. It might be that all humans breath chi all the time, it’s just transported out again with the carbondioxide. It might even be because the body doesn’t seem to think it has any use of it? They say placebo has one of the strongest effects on the body. You can compare it with a lot of medicine so I guess I got to believe?

I took a deep breath, clearing my mind and focused on the chi. I have use for this Chi. My body needs the Chi. I said to myself.

The first step to be a cultivater are said to be quite tough. Some would need multiple years to get a grasp of it. And for me… it took about… 10 minutes? What?

I felt like I was floating and everything around me was so, I guess the best word would be, refreshing? It was like I had been living in a big city all my life, breathing in all the toxic air, then suddenly I was on top of a mountain with clean fresh air for the first time!

Amazing! I could be addicted to this!

Minutes flew by like hours, and I only stopped cultivating to eat. Cultivating felt so refreshing I didn’t even want to sleep. The Chi was floating around in my body and it wasn’t long before it felt like every part and every cell inside my body had some Chi in it.

I guess it’s time to start compressing it then.

Little did I know how abnormal my cultivation was. Usually, the time spent in the first stage would be about half the time spent in total, cultivating through the Disciple Realm!

I started to get an image in my head. It was my old self when I was 6 years old. I had just started to learn how to swim, taking deep breaths hyperventilating before diving.

Maybe I can use this!

I though. It made sense to take deep breaths then keep it in and let the blood transport all the oxygen where it was needed. If I could do the same to Chi as I compressed it, I might save a lot of time?

Still lost in cultivation, I spent months doing nothing, but cultivating and eating. Sister Ling had left after a week since I got here, saying she had to attend some kind of cultivation school. No one expected anything from me yet, as I had “been sick” as in lost my memory, and usually couldn’t cultivate before I turned 13.

AN:

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