Capítulo 4: who cultivates martial skills (rewrite)
The way the group started treating me took a 360 all of a sudden, man I felt like a VIP in the group, wolfing down a good amount of food and wine in stock. I was shameless and didn't care, and the group didn't complain one bit either so why should I?
I'm still finding the whole thing bizarre though, it makes me really want to know more about my said family. I took a cultivation technique from the group leader known as Andrew.
Wanting to give cultivation a test, after a few tries on how to copy the technique I succeeded and I've gotten the hang of it.
But no matter how hard I cultivate this technique, the eternal qi never enters my body. The technique has been mastered to the peak thanks to my martial spirit but still, I couldn't gather any eternal qi.
It has become a burden on me these past few days as we've spent a week here in the dark forest and my countenance had returned brightly and full of vitality.
My worries didn't escape Andrew's eyes, he passed it on that I'm bothered over my injuries or something, or the amount of time it would take to recover.
At the moment, we are almost at the point where they are to hunt the beast they came for, a silver-tooth cheetah.
I don't want to lag around when they are fighting that beast. It may just be a rank one beast but its speed and precision aren't something one would joke about. I can't rely on the blood charge skill either, so my head hurt from too much thought.
After running many hypotheses through my head, I decided to call Andrew and excuse him to the side, away from the resting group preparing for tomorrow's battle. I asked him to sit in front of me and run his cultivation technique for me to see.
He's cultivating a neutral element cultivation technique, as he doesn't have a martial spirit so he relies more on the versatility of martial skill, best fit for a neutral element eternal qi cultivator.
He found my request confusing but still did what I asked of him at the end, I watched him cultivate quietly in front of me.
Still, I couldn't get what I was missing so I stood up and drew close, watching his expression and all, taking in everything so I can see where I'm doing something wrong.
After watching for a while, I decided to give it a second try with the determination to cultivate eternal qi.
I touched the manual on Andrew's hands, which I've passed back to him the moment we arrived at first, as I was asking him questions about a few things in it.
Wanting to copy it once again, since it always disappeared when I'm done using it, just I felt a strong vibration in my soul.
I didn't bother to look inside my soul, I sat down and focused to cultivate. Within a minute I felt stuffed to the brim, the eternal qi gushed into me nonstop that I almost screamed out from excitement. I had to bite my lips to stop that stupid action as I focused more and more.
I didn't know how much time passed in that intoxicated mood I found myself last night, all I knew next is daylight penetrating my view. I breathed a sigh of relief while attempting to cross-check my body to see the changes, I could already feel a huge difference from the way I am currently compared to before now.
"Brother you've been hiding your strength all along," Andrew's voice distracted my action. I turned to look at him, only to see his red eyes like he hadn't slept or rested all throughout the night. "What's up with you, Andrew?"
At my question, he felt like crying. One minute he was deeply cultivating per my order, the next minute a wave of third elementary stage warrior hit him from nowhere all of a sudden.
As if that wasn't enough, all the eternal qi around was greedily sucked dry by the person beside him who he thought to have a problem with his cultivation.
He could only watch in shock and horror at the truth that had hit him, he seemed to recall the words this same person told him, "you all can't stop me if I truly want to leave and that's something I'm sure of."
He could only sit quietly at the corner he had been blasted to, watching things from there. In his very presence, a new wave of rank one nascent realm expert surged forth and hit him once again.
He got his mouth opened wide, thinking he had seen it all. A wave of second stage nascent realm expert hit after a couple of hours and just a few minutes back before now, a wave of third stage nascent realm expert hit him, causing him to cough out blood.
How the hell is he supposed to be OK in such a situation? First, he suffered the brunt impact of an uncontained breakthrough. Secondly, he saw someone who looks so much like a nobody in the group reach his level and surpassed him all in one night.
Isn't that a mockery to all his struggle in the journey of cultivation? Fine, he gets it that I might have gotten to this level before now and was just hiding it or my injuries are completely healed, granting me my previous strength. But why make him suffer for it? "Big brother, you could have just told me you want to get back at me for my big mouth," he struggled to speak.
Only now I knew why he was looking so drenched and pale. My losing aura is still pressing down on him. It was at that moment I noticed his veins popping up on his forehead.
I quickly withdrew my aura by will. "Sorry about that. I was a bit carried away," I lied again, clenching my fist as I could feel the power and energy running through it. I felt too glad at the moment I forgot someone was beside me.
"I never knew you are a third stage nascent realm expert," Andrew spoke up after gaining his freedom from the oppressive airs pressing him down, having recovered a bit of his countenance back.
"Third stage nas...! Cough, cough. Yeah, sorry I never told you. I was a bit injured before now, but I've recovered a bit now," I replied shamelessly, having made a quick recovery from the nonsense I wanted to spit out due to shock.
"I'm a bit exhausted and can't be in full strength to fight the silver tooth cheetah. Please, big brother, can you help us out by joining hands? You don't need to give your all. You alone can take on a rank one beast now, so please just help," Andrew pleaded with me. I felt sorry for him because I was the one that put him in such a position, so I agreed to help.
"Do you have any spare martial skills you've trained or aren't training on anymore? I can buy it if you want," I asked him before he could walk away, leaving me to rest a bit before we march into the beast territory. He turned to look at me if I'm serious or joking with him, seeing my serious gaze, he opened up his bag, tossing three martial skill techniques manuals to me. "You don't have to pay, big brother. It's on the house. Secondly, I found those martial skills a bit difficult. I couldn't cultivate it more than the first stage. If it's going to be of any use to you, then keep it. I've given up on them anyway," done with his speech, he left.
Me, on the other hand, had the biggest gain so far. With my martial spirit, who needs to cultivate techniques? Boy, I'm a heaven-defying existence with this martial spirit. Checking out the first skill, it's called lightning rain. At the first stage, you can channel the eternal qi in your body to stimulate the environment to rain down a single lightning on your target, one at a time. On the second stage, you can rain down up to ten lightnings at once or in succession, depending on how much your energy can carry. On the third level, you can rain hundred in one go or succession, depending on how many your energy can carry, while if you perfect it, you would look like the lord of lightning, like you have a lightning martial spirit.
"Good skill." I kept it in the little bag made out of clothes and continued checking the other two out. One is lightning dash, empowering one to use the force of lightning to run. Perfect it and you would be as fast as lightning. The last one is lightning strike, stimulating your qi to have the force of lightning. Every of your strikes carries the force and property of lightning. Perfect it and light arc would be crawling on your body, anyone's strike would receive both the force and shock of lightning.
"Seems like this guy loves lightning and would have wished for a lightning martial spirit," I said to myself as I arranged all skills in a way I can easily access them by touch. Now isn't the time to go test skills out.
It would drain a lot of my qi. I needed to rest for now, though cultivating is relaxing, one still needs to rest a bit once in a while. While doing that, I checked my body, and it was filled with eternal qi. It has strengthened not just my essences but my body a bit too. "Maybe I should find a body cultivation technique when I get back," I muttered seemingly to nobody.
Moving my consciousness to my mind, I saw the same bubble orb but a different color, rotating there peacefully. It was a purple bubble orb with a spiral pattern on it.
Also, it didn't disappear like the others. More importantly, the energy sphere structure space seems to have undergone a huge change too. For one, it's no longer the dark green energy sphere anymore but now a light green.
At the center of this energy sphere is a dodecahedron-shaped mystical and awe-inspiring crystal. A glowing, light green translucent crystal, with flecks of light swirling within it like stars in the night sky. The surface of the crystal could be faceted with runes and symbols. The light within the crystal flickers and pulses with life, emitting a soft deep hum resonating tone. If one takes a closer look at this crystal, a very tiny spiderweb-like cord almost invisible to the eye could be seen connecting to the purple bubble orb, and I could feel the aura and energy of a rank three nascent realm cultivator coming from it.
I shifted my focus from the crystal, which I can't get a read or knowledge of what it is at the moment, to that of the purple bubble orb and got knowledge flooding my head. "Hmm, so that is it," I think as I saw I got rank three nascent realm eternal qi in this orb. How? I don't know, but from the information I got, it was initially a rank three elementary realm eternal qi, which had stayed still after I upgraded from rank three elementary eternal qi to rank three nascent realm eternal qi.
Since I haven't gotten the complete hang of this or fully grasp my martial spirit, I left it alone for now. There are still a million things I need to explore within this martial spirit. Letting that be for now, I ran a few more tests with my martial spirit and the three martial skills. After a few test runs, I found out I can copy and hold three skills along the cultivation techniques. Anything more than that, my head would seem like it wants to split open.
The pain and pressure it left, both on my body and soul, is just too overbearing. Well, it's still good anyway. I saved up blood charge, lightning dash, and lightning strikes. I left lightning rain for a quick change-up since I can quickly swap any of the three for a new one at will, as long as I can touch it.
Dusting myself off after all the resting was done, I walked up to the others, preparing now to enter the beast territory. I didn't have time to cultivate again after all the testing. I also learned how to restrain my aura. Except if you are of higher cultivation than me, you can't tell my level once I restrain my cultivation to an elementary level.
The energy sphere structure changes color to dark green, but the crystal remains light green with no change done on it. Also, the sphere energy level drops to that of an elementary level.
When Andrew saw me walking over, he beamed a respectful smile at me. This time, it wasn't just because of my family background anymore but my own feats. Reaching rank three nascent realm at such a young age isn't an easy feat. He, who's way older than me, is stuck in the elementary realm all this while. No wonder they say those big families are all monsters, their offspring always have good cultivation talent.
The others didn't know why he had such a change after spending one night together, and I can't help but hope they aren't thinking nonsense in their heads because those weird looks I'm getting from them as they interchange glances between me and Andrew already start hinting the things going on in their minds.
Andrew took the lead with me at the rear as we marched into the beast territory prepared to do battle with it, since beasts' constitution allows them to rival cultivators in the same realm and could even be considered quite stronger than them.
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