After Hong Zhou left the library, it was getting darker as the sun was quickly settling, and the bustling winds became colder as If it was about to rain.
Hong Zhou arrived at his cave abode and opened the door. Seeing the disciple sleeping, he entered inside and sat down in a lotus position, and then, he was immediately lost in thought.
It had been a long day, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't surprised. I had spent an entire day in another world.
Though I transmigrated into a sick frail body, my old body was not any better. I not only had cancer but was also afflicted with many other diseases, it's as if the world itself was denying my existence as a human being. Losing my parents at birth wasn't enough; I had to lose my loving grandmother too.
A person never truly understands the value of a gift until it is completely out of their grasp. Only then do they learn to appreciate what they had—whether it be a healthy body, loving parents, a partner, or something as fundamental as the gift of life. They should cherish it while they still can.
Fortunately, I reincarnated into another version of myself. Although I don't remember everything about who he was, I found that nature was on my side.
As hours passed in this world, I not only learned its language, culture, and habits, but I also got my introduction to the cultivation world—a world that is ruthless to the weak and fearful to the strong.
While I recall only a few details about the real Hong Zhou of this world, I remember that I have a family here, unlike in my previous life where I had nobody to turn to.
What would have happened if I hadn't performed that ritual? Would I have possessed this body, or would I have just visited heaven afterwards am grateful to the bookkeeper for handing me the "Sage of Astral Archives".
Regarding the
One. If a person is within one meter of me or if I made contact with someone or something within that radius, a book will be created detailing their past and present. This book outlines their flaws, history, and potential ways to correct their weaknesses. It also allows me to read their minds and actions.
Two. I discovered that I could read a book with a thousand chapters in seconds and understand all of it, regardless of the language. This means the "Astral Archives" enables me to comprehend many languages and the things around me without difficulty. It also generates solutions for the flaws in the books I have read, ensuring that I would never practice a martial art or cultivate it incorrectly.
The ritual of the "Astral Archives" proclaimed that I would gain infinite knowledge for three hours. Although I don't have infinite knowledge, I have acquired some powers of the "Astral Archives". Will these powers disappear tomorrow, or will they remain with me for eternity?
While I still have this power, let's try what I learnt from the library and put it into practice
The first step to cultivation is called bone tempering realm, which has nine levels in total. To break through this realm you have to use the true qi of the world to cleanse your bone's, profound blood, and the soul.
"It's almost impossible to break through the bone tempering stage without an elixir".
Hong Zhou smiles and closes his eyes
"But I'm different, I don't need things like elixir because the poison in my body is the strongest elixir I can get".
The reason people need elixirs to break through is simply because no ordinary human can feel true qi momentarily by themselves unless they take elixirs like a thousand year ginseng.
Another way to break through this realm is to have a person push their true qi into your spirit's root until you can feel it and control it.
" Few hours ago I looked into my poison through an astral archive, and the only way to solve it is by unlocking the 361 mortal acupuncture and reversing the flow of my blood, thus removing the poison and allowing me to feel the energy".
"This will be an extremely painful process, that's what was written in the Astral archive".
Hope this goes well.
Hong Zhou thought.
He started pinpointing his mortal acupuncture starting from the head, to his lower feet while sitting in a lotus position.
"Argh" Hong Zhou screamed
His disciple Yang Sen woke up from the scream and saw his master sitting in a lotus position, blood dripping out from his master's mouth, eyes and nose
"Master…..Are you okay?", Yang Sen asked worried.
"I'm fine! it's night go back to sleep". Hong Zhou exclaimed
Yang Sen was forced to believe his master was okay and went back to sleep, though he didn't sleep immediately he watched his master untill he got tired and fell asleep.
On the other hand Hong Zhou felt true pain, what he felt when he performed the ritual in his former world was pale in comparison to what he was feeling now.
It was as if he was being pierced with thousands of swords at the same time.
"This is nothing", Hong Zhou exclaimed " I do not fear death I have died once, I have lost everything and meaning to my purpose once, people wouldn't understand the glory of having feets to walk, neither will the understand the benefits of family because they have it all, I didn't have it but I wanted it".
" Like I have always said, today I may sit on a wheelchair but tomorrow I will walk on mountains and deny the fate I was born,
It was a quote Hong Zhou stole and told himself to make himself feel better"
In pain Hong Zhou chilled " I guess I'm not in a wheelchair anymore".
The waste products from his body, including unwanted fats, poison and dead cells were slowly coming out from his body in the form of black blood, his veins were twisted and his spirits felt broken. Suddenly he could feel a strange energy around him.
"I have successfully opened 361 acupuncture, but it's this true qi, it's everywhere".
Hong Zhou felt that his spirit roots spinning and forming a datian - the energy swirl from within his abdomen causing some changes, the energy swirl from the bones to the heart to the blood marrow to cells after sometime he felt a sense of familiarity with true qi as if he was always born with it.
Minutes later he broke through the first level of bone tempering but it didn't stop there, because he opened his bone blood acupuncture.
He broke through again from the first level to the second
level….third...fifth…..ninth.
This was the true limit of the bone tempering realm or so he thought. He broke through again from the ninth level
"Is ninth level not the end of bone tempering, why did I break through again to the tenth level, I can feel am stronger and faster, I could even hear sound from 100 li away from my cave abode".
Just as he thought this was the end, the yellowish true qi formed within him, his strength soard to the roof of his cave abode.
He broke through again….. to the eleventh realm .... Thirteen and finally fifteen he finally felt his limits to the bone tempering realm. He couldn't understand the phenomenal that just took place.
"What happened", he asked himself as he realized that he's the first in the human civilization to break through 15 realm's of bone tempering.
He closed his eyes and searched for information from his Astral Archive as to why he broke through 15 realm's of bone tempering instead of 9 or less. Since this was his first time he had ever cultivated in his life.
The astral archive presented a book titled "First Layer of cultivation"
The cultivator must unlock all 361 mortal acupuncture before he starts cultivation, in this way, their true qi will swing through the blood vessels, bones, and other parts of the body >
"So, this is the right way to cultivate bone tempering, somebody must have spread false information to make sure that other people don't catch up to them in the future." He mumbles to himself and is lost in thought again.
"Ah, I don't know if I can get another book for the Foundation Establishment realm". Suddenly, a book swarmed in ethereal golden true
qi
appeared before him.
Titled "Foundation Establishment Realm."
"Jackpot, I really hit the jackpot.