章 10: The Fallen Immortal
{I wanted to post 3 chapters today since I got 100 Power Stones, but I ran into some personal matters. So I will try and post 2 chapters today and tomorrow.
Thanks for the Power Stones, and for leaving comments they are my motivation. I know I drop a lot of novels, but thats normally because I feel like people lose interest in them...}
"Damn... everything hurts." I opened my eyes to find myself lying on a straw bed. Body, mind, and soul. everything was in pain.
"Don't move," A cold and emotionless female voice entered my head, which I ignored while trying to stand up. This annoyed the speaker, leading her to tap forward, hitting my pressure points. instantly, my body went paralyzed followed by my face twisting to unimaginable levels of pain.
"If I tell you not to move, you will not move. I'm not going to heal your dumb ass again." the cold voice sounded, while I just lay there, unable to say anything from the pain. but after some time, the pain slowly died down.
"You're so ruthless... no wonder you remain single," I said while breathing heavily, the world went quiet for some time. it took a second, but soon she tapped me again, although I tried to use Infinity, she easily got through it, as if space was meaningless before her. She touched my pressure point once more, leaving my face twisting in pain once more.
"Tell me... after a few months of not seeing me, did you grow balls of steel?" She asked coldly, to which I said nothing thanks to the pain. As soon as the pain disappeared, I was left breathing heavily.
"I bet you felt them for yourself," I said with a smile while turning to look at the old man who was emotionlessly looking at me. She glared at me, before just turning away to mixing herbs. I looked at her for a moment, before just laying still as she asked.
"You keep this up, and the damage will one day reach a level that it can't fully be healed." She said not bothering to look at me.
"but I have my fallen immortal to always come to save me. I knew you would come to get me as soon as I touched the continent." I said with a smile.
"I will not always be there to heal you, and one day I will not bother. For the next few months. no year, you're not to do anything. your mind and body are to rest." She said to which I frowned as a year wasn't good, many sects and powers would be coming to the continent looking for answers as to why their young masters died... I didn't want to miss out on such fun.
"Can't you just heal me up?" I asked with puppy eyes, which she ignored,
"the stronger and more capable the physique, the harder it is to heal. No one told you to temper your body to such a degree. you need the same amount of resources someone at the nascent soul would need to recover." She said while I frowned deeply
"But your dumb ass looks down upon outside resources other than for healing. you didn't think of taking the spoils of the people you defeated, so you want me to do what?" She asked while throwing me a death glare, which I avoided by looking away.
"Are you not trying to reach the stage where you can turn anything under the heavens into resources? I thought everything was equal?" I said in a low voice,
"Question my skills and you can just forget to get my help." She said coldly, to which I sighed before apologizing. snorting, she ignored me.
"Why are you not married yet? you have no friends and no lovers, is battle the only thing on your head?" She asked to which I was about to shrug, but as she glared at me, I didn't move.
"No girl is worthy of me... but there is you. but you kept rejecting me, destroying my self-esteem." I said with a sigh, to which she paused lightly. she looked at the bowl which had herbs within she was mixing for a second.
"Like I said, i'm old. go after someone your age." She said to which I sighed.
"Anyone my age? Who would be worthy? Age, beauty, or whatever nonsense. I don't care for them, I like you, thats all I need to know." I said to which she said nothing. I said nothing as well, leaving the air quiet.
The only sound that filled the place was the birds from outside, and the sound of her mixing her herbs. A few hours passed, and while all of this was happening, the old woman couldn't help but think back to the first time she met me.
That day, the village she was overlooking was being attacked by bandits. As she had someone within the village she wanted to protect, she didn't leave and instead made a move. With a wave from on top of the mountain she called home, the life within the bandits was blown out like kindle flames. but this caught my attention as I was rushing over here to do a mission from the sect.
With my 6 eyes, I was able to somewhat make out where the attack came from... and the 7-year-old me quickly realized I saw a monster. While I was looking toward where she was, she also sensed me and looked back toward me,
I went on to walk towards the mountain, and holding out my palm which I punched with my other hand, I bowed lightly to show my respect.
"I came all this way to destroy the bandits... but since you stole my battle, you owe me a battle," I said with the flames for battle burning bright in my eyes. I wasn't dumb, since she protected this village I took a gamble that whoever it was wasn't a bad guy or whatever... and thats how I made my first friend.
She took an interest in my potential seeing as I was a Black Grade talent yet I was so capable, and I took an interest in her power. But she wasn't a fighter, but a doctor. an immortal doctor, who came to the mortal realm seeking a breakthrough... at least thats what she told me.
She was old and looked like she had a foot in the grave. but when even someone like Xia Qingyue didn't move me, it was clear I didn't care for beauty. She understood this well, she might be the person who understood me best.
She also understood my creativity and love for battle. I also realized I couldn't fight recklessly without a doctor in my life. so when I was injured I started popping up here, which annoyed her, but after I kept coming here dozens of times, she grew sick of saying anything... and yes, in a year, I came here dozens of times over.
You thought I could be so freakish today without pushing myself? Growing up, I threw myself into many life-and-death battles and improved upon my techniques and abilities many times over. But she was the main reason why I could make such huge growth.
"I always had a question about alchemy... can't you take the atoms that make a herb to recreate anything? Equivalent Exchange is what I call it, so long as you have the right amount of atoms, then you can turn dirt into gold." The 8-year-old me said making her pause her actions while looking at me in shock. These words sent her on a path to try and put that theory to the test...
"Drink this, and get some sleep." After finishing mixing the herbs, she had me drink it. I drank it and went on to do as she asked... I didn't want her to poke me again.
'you are so annoying...' She thought while fixing the blanket over me, she fixed my hair lightly before she sighed while getting up. She got up, and her body twisted slightly in pain. she felt her stomach, if she were to lift her shirt, one could see a large hole in her stomach.
With such an injury she should have died, but for the price of old age, she was able to live for this long. She should have died long ago, but she lived long enough to ensure that the future for someone was ready. this wasn't me, but the young man within the village. her nephew and one of the last surviving members of her clan.
She stepped outside, just in time to see a handsome black-haired young man walking up the mountain, with a smile. He was only 13 years old, 3 years away from when he could start his cultivation journey.
"Aunty," he said with a smile, to which she nodded lightly, before sighing. the task on this boy's weight was great, to avenge the whole clan.
"Qin Wentian, is everything okay?" She asked with a gentle smile, to which Qin Wentian nodded slightly, he was of course in a good mood. He was just with his soon-to-be wife, they would be married on their 16th birthday, which happened to be the day he would recreate his shattered meridians, and following a cultivation art, he would recreate new and more powerful meridians.
"No, I just came to see you." He said to which she smiled slightly. this nephew of his was so kind. He never forgets to come to pay her a visit, which warmed her heart but made her heartache at the burden on his shoulders.
Qin Wentian had a huge burden, among them was saving his parents who did everything in their power to ensure she could escape with him. The day Qin Wentian was born, the immortal realm was shaken by a talent that didn't just rival the son of heaven, but went a step above. Their enemies couldn't allow such a genius to live, so they had to kill him.
They would have found them sooner, but thanks to his meridians being destroyed, it made sure that they couldn't find him. Once Qin Wentian recreated them, they would be new and stronger, so their enemies wouldn't find them.
"there was a storyteller who came to the village to tell us about what happened at the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament." Qin Wentian said while coming over to sit next to her. This caused her eyebrow to raise as she wanted to know what happened.
"The Blue Eye Emperor was someone called Wu Xian. he was from a small sect called White Cloud sect..." The kid went on to tell her everything he heard, leaving her eye twitching in annoyance hearing how I killed everyone from different continents. She was annoyed, was this not going to bring war to Blue Wind?
She fled to this trash lower realm, yet here she was hearing this nonsense. She was of course annoyed. She thought for some time about what to do before first waiting for Qin Wentian to leave. once he was gone, she disappeared. it was like she teleported as she appeared thousands of km away
She appeared in Raging Wave City, where she collected the destroyed resources from the destroyed city. Her face twisted lightly in pain, but with a flash, she disappeared, appearing back in Blue Wind continent, where she went on to use the herbs to start to try healing me.
'He is a genius. His body is like that of a dead tree, an inner world that holds power for him to draw upon, and now he is cultivating even his very blood. with every breakthrough his body makes, the more power he can draw from his cells.' She thought while sensing how my blood was slowly transforming into cultivators, becoming mini cultivators whose power I could draw upon. it wasn't limited to my cells as everything down to my bones, hair, eyes, and so on were seemingly becoming cultivators.
I got this idea, from a cultivation novel where the MC reached a realm where he created inner worlds within his cells. He was able to draw power from these inner worlds. he was even able to fill these inner worlds with life and draw mental power from the life forms within.
'His Sea Qi... the density of his Qi is already equal to someone at level 4 Qi Condensation, yet he is at level 1 Qi condensation. Such dense and rich Qi, adding his powerful and abnormal soul...' She sighed while putting her palm on my chest.
'How did I end up falling in love with a brat millions of years younger than me?' She thought while sighing. She was about to leave but paused as my eyes twitched, before I awakened, and looked towards her. I blinked for a moment before a smile grew.
"I knew you loved me, going so far to save me," I said to which she just coldly looked at me.
"You brought trouble to this continent, unable to control yourself... I expected more from you." She said while leaving, leaving me quiet. I watched her leave, but I didn't move as I lay on the bed, lost in my thoughts... her words hurt. As a person who prides himself in control, losing control of my ego and rage like I did... well, I saw it as a weakness.
I closed my eyes for some time, just thinking about it. I wanted to gain absolute control over everything, from body, soul, and mind, to my energy. But it looks like my emotions are something I had to fix, my addiction to fighting was a problem I couldn't ignore.
I thought for some time, before slowly getting up. everything hurt, but it wasn't going to destroy my condition if I didn't overdo it. I went outside, where I found the old woman sitting out, mixing herbs. I sat next to her and did nothing while looking ahead, my eyes not focused on anything.
"Do you want to know of the peak of martial arts?" She asked, to which I looked at her in confusion. She looked at me slightly, before looking at the work in her hands. She sighed softly, for the longest she had waited for me to ask such a question, yet to think she would be the one.
"the peak of martial arts is... well, complete control." She said making my eyebrow raise for a moment.
"All limiters on both body and mind are removed, you can gather all of that power into one point without overloading your body and damaging it. from the power of your heartbeat to your breath, everything gathers, focuses, and fuses to make yourself thousands of times stronger." She said while I nodded lightly. I had stopped trying to master the limiters on my body, I had only wanted to master the ones in my brain.
"As for self-movement, thats something even new for me. But I have heard of people who had cultivated their instincts to a level where they can just know stuff on instincts. I heard there was a person who was just able to feel the way to victory, move on instincts to fight those stronger than him, control energy to the highest of levels on instincts, and so on. but that was a story from the primordial era, I don't know if it's true." She said while I nodded. I was able to do something like that, and on instinct, I was able to tell where others' weak points were. but this needed to be refined, I should create levels to it, and create a cultivation art around it.
"... oh, my blindfold doesn't work anymore," I said with a smile, to which she sighed while giving me a new and improved blindfold that could seal my eyes.
"How do you plan to protect this continent?" She asked to which I shrugged.
"Is there another way than through battles? although I would need you to keep healing me as I fight." I said with a smile, to which she shook her head.
"your body cultivation art is missing a healing boost to match its great power boost... cultivate something you can form to heal you, or create ways to heal yourself, or do both." She said while I fell into deep thought.
I closed my eyes for a moment, quickly coming up with the basics of a healing technique. using blue, I pulled a stick into my palm and went on to draw on the ground, while she watched.
"I don't have a high understanding of healing and such things. but this technique would be simple. As cells divide, cells grow weaker. this causes one to grow older and weaker past their prime. So, what if you can feed the cells power, keeping them at their prime while at the same time boosting division speed, which in return would boost your recovery speed thousands to millions of times." I said while her eyes widened slightly,
"At basic levels, one can only boost their recovery speed, and at later levels, one could regrow limbs. The peak could allow one to regrow the heart or even the brain." I said while she blinked, speechless that I came up with this on the spot.
'He came up with this concept at the moment? Truly a genius.' She thought.
"I also am thinking of creating a seal which can store energy, and feed it into this technique, allowing one not to run out of energy from this. I will call it... 100 healing, as one could come back from the blink of death 100 times or maybe more. I don't know." I said with a smile, I was such a genius.
'Now that I think of it, if I unleash Qi into something on the moment of contact... wouldn't my attack power increase many times over?' I thought with interest. By storing Qi into a body part, and releasing it onto the target with perfect timing, the damage done should be many times stronger. But things don't simply end there, if I unleash my force and Qi while fusing them, the damage I could do with be unmatched.
"Not bad..." She said while tapping my forehead, sending knowledge of cells and other such things into my mind. I frowned as I didn't ask for this, I would have done my research to do it.
"Hurry up and go fix your problem, maybe this way, you won't bother my peace." She said softly, making me pout. She pushed me away to create the technique, and I knew that this technique would be extremely useful.
'I should also create a soul recovery technique...' I thought with the hunger for battle burning in my eyes. So, I got to training. Time passed, and in a matter of minutes, I got the basics of the technique down. The rabbit I had captured was healed, I was even pushing it to a step higher as I cut off its leg, and was able to regrow it.
To say the least, with this done, I was able to quickly heal my body. of course, compared to a rabbit, my body needed more energy and quality of healing. The best way to think of this is HP from games. My HP was high, what would fully heal someone else would do nothing to me.
Others' max HP is like 10, mine is like a million. of course, low-quality healing was not going to do anything to me. but with my skills, energy control, the quality and speed of healing I could do was fast. with a blink, my body was at 100%.
"Now, my mind," I said while thinking of a way to heal my mind. I was using Qi to use the healing technique, so I tried to use my spirit, with my mind being the target. Luckily, my knowledge of my mind was more so than that of the body, so after damaging the soul of a rabbit, I was able to heal it after a few tries...
"So, what do you think? your future husband is cool right?" I asked with a smile, to which the old woman just gave me a deadpan look. I smiled, before leaving as I didn't want her to poke me. Since I was at 100%, she would not make the pain as light as before...
I left, not knowing that the old woman had bought time for me. 1 day was more than enough time for the many powers in this world to make their move... yet they didn't thanks to her.
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