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In the courtyard of the Chen Family the children started to work out .
Some runned around , some lifted weights , other meditated or shadow battled .
In the corner Chen Long meditated in order to increase his Qi level with no success .
Meditating in order to absork Qi from the surrounding ? It may sound easy for modern people , however Chen Long experienced the utter truth . Each speck of Qi has to submit under your control before you are able to absorb it , each time you have to battle the small specks for victory and defeteat .
Not only that , if you lose you gain nothing and it drains you from your energy .
It wouldn''t be as bad if one could concentrate on weaker Qi specks however each speck of Qi is on a different power level while looking the same as every other speck !
It may sound useless to try to gather more Qi since he haven''t an inborn martial spirit , however it is still possible to invoke mighty martial arts so it is possible to even beat inborn spirits .
Besides it is possible to "feed" a spirit , though the inborn can do the same . So to prevent the talents from being too lazy most familys force their talents by pressuring them with people who can replace them . Though it won''t happen often there are always cases in which a not inborn family member shows high Qi potential . Thus the family only have to buy or get a strong object/beast and thus a genius may be born .
However Chen Long has nothing of those , none inborn spirit neither Qi talent .
Slowly trying to absorb the surrounding Qi Chen Long breathed in and out .
Ignoring the sudden uproar caused by the arriving inborn talents Chen Long tried to absorb as much Qi as possible , maybe he will one day be able to pick up the technique to choose the weaker Qi specks for himself .
Why is it so important to choose the weaker Qi Specks ? Because every Qi Speck got about the same amount and the amount of each Qi speck would only increase in special places .
Since he meditated in a corner no inborn talent got offended by his "rudeness" and the supervisors are pleased with hard working students , thus the supervisors/teachers always want that nobodys is annoying hard working students even though they have no chance of becoming strong .
However today is a special day , it is the day after Chen Long got his first martial spirit . At first he wanted to brag about it , after all he felt quite happy about fire being his martial spirit .
But as he heard the dialogue of the inborn talent he felt as if he stepped on Poop , how can they reach 4th or even 5th stage of Qi Stage with only being at the same age of him ? Some of the older ones even reached 6th stage .
Sighing he only could refrain from telling them that he got a martial spirit since one couldn''t even fuel his martial spirit with the little amount of Qi he has .
Trying to feel the Qi Specks he picked the next best out , sending his mental power to battle against the Speck .
Like in an arena both of the Fighter , Chen Long and Qi Speck stood in front of each other .
Abruptly Chen Long charged and tried to wrestle his opponent onto the ground , without success : a single move of the Qi Speck redirected his attack into the void . Like a ice cube the speck slipped through the mental grabs of Chen Long .
Depressed Mike could only feel how the Specks floated around .
Mhm ... maybe he can appraise the power levels of the Specks ?
Trying to appraise the Specks he could see a window appearing :
[Qi]
Feeling wronged he turned to another Speck .
[Qi]
Sighing he could only give up . However he felt something unusual , each time he used appraisal on the surrounding specks he couldn''t feel how his Qi got drained , instead it is something else .
Trying to find out what this "fuel" is he used appraisal again , only to feel some power other than Qi .
"Is this mental power ? After all in those wuxia novels there are always two types of energy ." thought Chen Long while trying to control the mental energy which outed to be quit easy .
Playing around with it a while he felt an excited feeling soaring through his body , so useful !
He could look at his own body with it , he could even "look" at his surrounding .
Though the radius he could "watch" with his currently amount didn''t even reached 1mm .
"Let me hope that his mental power thing is something rare and useful . Normally the Mc would get the second type of power while cultivating it with the main power . However since i am pretty bad with Qi i hope that at leas i would have a decent mental power talent ." thought Chen Long while trying to increase his Mental power capacity .
How he can do this ? He spammed Appraisal on everything he could . Though he stopped if he felt that his head started to hurt .
You think that he is pretty much the lazy bum only to discover the mental energy with 8 years ? Well , try to use 10k+ appraisal while you always get an pannel which describes things you see .
It ain''t that easy like in novels where you only have to use appraisal 10+ times till it levels up to godlevel .
Soon months passed , Chen Longs 9. birthday soon passed away withou any great ceremonys .
His Mother cared about his younger silblings , a girl at the age of 5 and a younger brother at the age of 3 .
Even though he has elder silblings the bond between them is quite cold , after all he didn''t even talked to them after it appeared that he has no inborn martial spirit .
Meditating in the corner like alway he spread his mental energy out which already reached 1meter .
He thought over a year how he could increase the input of Qi , after all he couldn''t identify which Qi would obdiently be sucked into his body and which not .Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.
So he tried to use the mental energy to increase his surface with the mental energy , after all if he couldn''t pull them in then why don''t wait till they come to you ?
So he imagined something like a fishing net , thus if he walked around he would collect the specks of Qi immediately .
However he failed , he couldn''t collect much Qi with his "Fishing Net" .
After that failure he tried many experiments on the question : What is Qi ?
He could feel the specks of Qi as solid mass , however he couldn''t touch them .
Thus he tried many things on it , like if it is some kind of small particles floatin the air or if it''s some kind of liquid in condensated form .
Everything failed , it wasn''t until half a year later he found his solution .
After a year Chen Long felt pressure , he didn''t advanced much , still at the peak of the 1th Qi Stage .
The problem is that all of his peers are at least at the 2th Qi stage and if he doesn''t advance soon there may be a chance to be a disgrace for the Chen family .
So he stopped his experiments on Qi completely , he couldn''t even find the use of mental energy except observing his surrounding .
After a few weeks of hard work he finally reached 2th Qi stage , he could feel how his Qi Capacity tripled .
Before reaching the age of 10 Chen Long finally found the solution to his problem , out of boredom he played around with the so called Mental energy , changing it into different forms like a sword , a ball , a staff etc. .
However as he formed a bag he could feel how something got stuck in it as he commanded it around .
Astonished he closed his mental around it to form it into a mental-ball prison .
Collecting the Mental Energy he felt the mass of Qi stored in the so called Prison .
After digisting the Amount of Qi Chen Long gulped , even as a modern person he would always expect that there are no shortcuts .
However he soon felt that it is logical , after all he could reached 3th or even 4th stage if he worked hard and didn''t went for his experiments on Qi . But as soon as he achieved a result , the wasted cultivation time can be replaced in a shorter time frame .
Not only that , if he cultivated with this mental-prison method wouldn''t he become extremely strong after a while ?
It''s just like scientist , they waste their time thinking over something . However once some results can be seen then their work will be easier than before .
Look at Stone words and metal swords , even though both of the are swords metal sword is birthed from people who tried to discover something thus creating a sharper , harder and overall better sword than before .
Feeling excited Chen Long couldn''t but repeat his mental-prison method .
With ease he brough through the 3th Qi stage . Causing his Qi Capacity to increasone 9x the previous stage .
At first he believed that everyone would face this bottleneck sh*t from those light novel he read , however as soon as he cultivated he realized that there exist no bottleneck . The only problem is the fact on how to gather Qi , it may be easy to say : Just collect them !
However doing it is quite hard , they wiggle like slimy fish .
Using something like cultivation Manual ? Well he never heard of anything like that in this world .
But Chen Long didn''t want to be arrogant , after all there may be cultivation manuals out there in the world as well as bottlenecks .
Though the Qi stage , also the first stage is quite simple . Gather the Qi in body and with each Qi Stage your maximum capacity will increase .
Stretching his body he wiped his sweat away , it seems like the breakthroughts don''t remove all of the impurities of his body . Maybe later on or they don''t exist at all .
Nobody cared about him in the past few years , he only trained , ate and slept .
After he got his first martial spirit , the flame , he stopped going out and focussed in his experiments .
"Hey Chen Long , do you wanna go out and play ?" asked another boy seeing that Chen Long finished his training .
"Sure ." replied Chen Long in a friendly voice .
The boy asking him is Chen Zheng , 11 years old at the 4th Qi stage . (Mc is almost 10 years old)
Naturally Chen Zhen only asked Chen Long because he wanted to gather some followers .
Naturally Chen Long couldn''t deny the invitation , or else he would be scorned by his so called parents .
It seemed that Chen Zhen started a little bit late gathering followers since his group only consisted out of 3 members , Chen Long , Chen Zhu a young fatty and his younger sister Chen Mei .
Although Chen Zhu only walked with Chen Zhen because he has a crush on his younger sister .
"Hahah , so where do you want to play today ?" asked Chen Zhen in a happy voice .
Chen Long didn''t replied , while rolling his eyes : it''s always the same are since your father didn''t gave you more money .
"Okay , lets go to the little sea restaurant eating a meal before we play near the sea shore ." said Chen Zhen without even waiting for anyone to reply .
Arriving in front of the sea restaurant Chen Mei smiled a while causing little fatty Chen Zhu to look at her with a happy expression .
Walking in Chen Long yelled : "Usual please ."
Sitting in the table corner Chen Long waited for the dish to arrive .
To say the truth , Chen Zhen fawned upon Chen Long because he is one of the last remaining people to be without a boss .
Thus he invited Chen Long for a while to the sea restaurant wishing to get a good impression on Chen Long before asking him to follow him .
It wasn''t Chen Zhen idear to invite Chen Long to the restaurant , it was the idear of his father since he sighed on the bad abilitys of his son .
However today something different happened . Chen Zhen walked out since somebody called him out .
Ignoring it Chen Long ordered another portion of rice and roasted meat .
After all this sea restaurant owner is one of the Chen familys members , Chen Zhen isn''t even any special kid so why beat him up or do anything bad to him ?
Seeing how the fatty Chen Zhu ate two portions of his Chen Long smiled , dumb but happy .
He envied the fact that people could enjoy the moment without worrying about the future .
As a modern people the future couldn''t be ignored and thus people always thought about the future .
Just as he wanted to order another portion of food the waiter suddenly appeared : "Young Master , the bill already is over 2 silver coins . Can you afford it ?"
With a surprised gaze he looked at the Waiter : "Chen Zhen said he would pay , didn''t he only walked out to talk to somebody ?"
"No , please pay for it ." said the waiter before whispering something to Chen Long .
Frowning Chen Long asked : "Really ?"
Nodding the waiter stretched his hands gesturing he shall pay .
Giving his entire savings Chen Long felt quite bad . He couldn''t even pay everything , however the waiter said he would direct the rest of the cost to the father of Chen Zhen .
Clenching his fists Chen looked at the innocent fatty and the younger sister who looked at him with frightened expression .
Even though both of them are younger than Chen Long , both of them felt the aura of anger in the surrounding of Chen Long .
Chen Long wanted to punch Chen Mei in order to get revenge for this act of paying , after all fighting is not prohibited and even supported . Even between males and females , after all a male shouldn''t take a weak woman as their wife . She should at least be able to control the male a little or the male would do bad things like flirting with other womans or even impregnate them .
However he glared at the fatty for while before walking away .
Even though it seemed to be only payment , however for a member to recruit this move is a lethal one . How should he a poor person get a few silvers ? After all Chen Zhen received ressources from his parents .
After this move Chen Zhen could forget to recruit Chen Long without a proper excuse and payment .
Feeling the anger boiling in his heart he decided that only a fight would help him to recover .
However he controlled the anger before walking back to the Chen mansion while meditating on the training field .
The following week Chen Zhen didn''t appeared to recruit Chen Long , the week after that he didn''t appeared as well .
However he received some news , that one of the elder brothers of Chen Zhen gave him some followers who are at the 6th Qi stage as well as at the 7th Qi Stage .
Laughing inwardly Chen Long judged Chen Zhen as a guy not to be trusted .
Concentranting on his mental-prison ball absorption he soon reached 4th Qi stage without any problems .
Testing his powers by using his martial spirit he summoned a fireball on his palms while judging the energy consumption .
Not bad , he could at least shoot 50 Fire balls .
Living comfortable in his room , training with his mental-ball-Qi-prison and eating the daily meals of the canteen 2 months passed in the blink of an eye .
He reached the peak of 4th Qi stage . Though he experimented a little bit with the mental energy , appearently if he uses more mental energy to appraise a thing then more information would appear .
Using his entire mental energy he tried to find out what his martial spirit is :
[ Low Mortal Flame ]
Following the train of though he deemed the flame to be upgradeable .
Smiling he found the use of appraisal , though he tried something with the AI he owned , nothing special happened . With no choice Chen Long could only use it as a clock .
However he already got a plan on how to use the AI , as a huge library .