The first thing Kai did after fucking and stealing Nana spiritual root and virginity was to return home.
Kai, who returned to his shabby thatched house, smiled as he looked at the house that seemed like it could collapse at any moment compared to the grand mansion he saw of the lord.
Now that he was becoming a cultivator, he could say goodbye to a house like this.
Goodbye to a house where fleas jump, water leaks, and cold winds come in!
Goodbye to a father who constantly beat me like a punching bag and yelled at me like I'm his bloody servant!
Goodbye to a lethargic mother who was always indifferent to my scumbag father inhumane treatment to me and scold me even when it's not my fault!
My poor little sister… I'll miss her a bit.
She did follow him well. The little one-year-old would smile brightly whenever she saw her brother. The only one he felt a pang of regret for leaving was his sister, Lin Xue.
But still, goodbye!
Before leaving the familiar house, Kai first stole the money his father had hidden and put it in his breast pocket.
He is not at the very money that his older brother had tried to take and got beaten to death for.
Kai secretly peeked; his father placed a plank in a corner of the house's floor, and beneath it was a hole. In that hole, his father hid the money.
It was a flimsy hiding place, but under his father's violence and authority, if no one dared to challenge it, everyone one had to pretend not to see it, so it didn't need to be a very secretive spot.
Without much fear, Kai lifted the plank and took out the money pouch. After all, he wouldn't see them again, so why not use the money for greater need than let it rust here?
Let's see, how much is there?
Jingle..!
Kai couldn't hide his disappointment when he saw his father's money pouch.
There was only one silver coin, and the rest were just copper coins. Even those weren't many, about a handful.
What?
The brother he never saw died over just this amount of money? How pitiful.
With disappointment, Kai stuffed the money pouch into his clothes.
Will this money be enough for travel expenses? I hope I don't have to bribe anyone to enter the sect. There was no mention of that, so it should be fine. Anyway, it's not much.
Ugh!
Since Kai was sitting as he lifted the plank up and took the money pouch hidden under it, he considered trying to cultivate since he had gained the legendary single Spiritual Root.
Should he start with the basic breathing technique for cultivation?
Of course, Kai didn't know what the breathing technique entailed.
He just assumed it was something like meditation, so he sat in a japanese leg folding position, taking deep breaths in and out like those protagonists usually do.
When he first realized this was a xianxia world, it was one of the first things he tried, but naturally, he felt no Qi or anything special at that time.
"Alright, sit in a lotus position."
Kai didn't give up and sat back down in the lotus position, breathing in and out.
Inhale! ...Exhale!
For an ordinary person, feeling Spiritual Qi with such a crude breathing method was impossible.
A passing cultivator would likely laugh at the foolishness.
Proper breathing to draw in Spiritual Qi involves reciting mantras and visualizing to lay the groundwork.
What Kai was doing was more like just taking deep breaths than a basic breathing technique.
But surprisingly, Kai's single Spiritual Root allowed him to feel Spiritual Qi even with this crude method!
If a cultivator saw this, they would be shocked and might even confront Kai, questioning how he could gather Spiritual Qi this way.
Kai managed to do something seemingly impossible without a care.
Inhale!... Exhale!
As he inhaled, he felt the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth circulate into his body, reaching deep into his dantian like the wind.
Without any systematic teaching method or training, Kai had entered the first stage of cultivation, the Qi Condensation stage!
If the cultivation world found out, it would be view-shattering news.
Of course, Kai himself was unaware of his accomplishment. He simply wondered if this was the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, and thought it must be..
However, he also marveled at how dense the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth was, since it was something he couldn't perceive without Spiritual Roots before.
"Now this is a single Spiritual Root…"
The overwhelming Spiritual Qi sensitivity emanating from Kai's body was extraordinary, even to a newbie like him.
Just a blink and it tries to draw Spiritual Qi into the body? The Spiritual Root doesn't rest.
Kai was sure that the books he read mentioned that entering the Qi Condensation stage requires several years of training in a cultivation sect.
Isn't it amazing!
Previously, without a Spiritual Root, he couldn't even sense Spiritual Qi, but now, it's completely different.
It felt like discarding a bicycle with square wheels that couldn't run and boarding a sports car with a powerful V8 turbocharged engine.
It felt like this cultivation thing would progress smoothly.
This was a feeling completely different from the time when he had no Spiritual Root.
This is crazy. Surely not everyone feels this way, right? I have the single Spiritual Root. The xianxia books mention that it's a rare talent that appears once in several hundred years.
Kai's knowledge of this world was entirely from books.
Books don't usually cover the lives of such rural folks, jumping straight into the stories of the cultivators. That was why Kai had a hard time adapting. He believed he would fit right in once he entered the society of cultivators.
Is there anyone who knows the cultivation world better than him? He has surveyed everything through the books alone.
In the grand scheme of things, no one knew better than Kai.
Kai was well-versed in the stages of cultivation, from Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment to Core Formation, and he had a rough understanding of the various secrets and mysteries of the mortal realm.
To Kai, those things were no longer secrets. Of course, if he acted like he knew everything, he might get into a big trouble.
No matter how much time had passed since the novel's setting, whether it was in the past or the future, those secrets would be a great strength for Kai.
The key is how much time has passed since the main character's timeline in the novel. All the information he knew is connected to the main character's timeline.
The main character of this world.
In a xianxia novel, you can't leave out the main character.
His name is Wang Hao.
He may not have any exceptional talent, but he grows steadily in the cultivation world with his unique qualities.
Kai wonder what the main character Wang Hao is doing now?
He hopes he's still a novice like him in this immortality journey.
So he can follow his growth path.
Or it would be better if it's a time before or after his era so he doesn't get involved with him at all.
The main character always seems to bring about bad unfortunate incidents and accidents.
Since Kai's goal was to quickly cultivate and become an immortal, then find a way back to the original world, he wanted to stay away from any kind of incidents and accidents.
He did think surpassing the main character is enough since the protagonist's talent isn't great?
But he remembered his secret, and to say he doesn't even want to think about the injustice he is facing at the moment.
Even someone like Han Nana who is someone with a single Spiritual Root, would probably grow slower compared to the main character.
No matter how hard a person with a single Spiritual Root is, they'll be weaker than the main character, Wang Hao. The spiritual power he possesses… It's beyond terrifying.
It'd probably take a hundred Han Nana to match Wang Hao's growth speed?
Naturally, Kai's thoughts drifted to Han Nana, who broke up with him the moment she found she had single spritual root and she is also the same one who made him angry enough to try out his forbidden abilities on her and stole her damn talent.
But he must say her body was truly impressive. She had curves where there should be, and everything else was just right. Seeing it all without clothes after only glimpsing through them before was even more satisfying.
Kai let out a satisfied hum, as if still feeling the lingering effects of their encounter.
What will happen to Nana?
The cultivator who examined Han Nana's Spiritual Root will return and discover that her single spiritual root has disappeared.
They'll find it very strange. They were sure she had Spiritual Roots, and not just any, but a single Spiritual Root! Yet, that root has vanished.
If they dismiss it as their own mistake, Han Nana will just live as an ordinary girl in this village. The lord's family won't pay any more attention to her.
But the problem arises when the cultivator starts to suspect otherwise.
The cultivator will surely ask Han Nana what happened while they were away.
Would Han Nana not tell the cultivator that she had sex with Kai before her Spiritual Root disappeared? She might not, out of embarrassment, but nine out of ten times, she would.
Then, naturally, the cultivator would suspect Kai.
The mysterious man, Lin Kai, who made her Spiritual Root disappear after having sex just once.
If he remains in the village, the cultivator will immediately realize that he possesses a Spiritual Root. A single Spiritual Root, no less.
Two single Spiritual Roots in one village, when they're a rarity even in centuries?
This is too contrived and sus.
Even in such a remote village, coincidences should have some limit. Besides, the girl who was initially identified to have a Spiritual Root had it vanish without a trace.
Perhaps that cultivator might have realized the truth that a Spiritual Root can be seized by another.
What would happen if it became known that Spiritual Roots could be taken?
The ability of Forbidden Yin-Harvesting Art might be branded as heretical, and he could become a target.
In wuxia and xiaxia stories, those who steal women's Qi through taboo techniques become public enemies. Even in the xianxia world, sex fiends would be considered a villain to be executed on spot or burn at stake in public.
To be dragged to a sect dungeon and experimented on until death or simply killed outright like a fly.
It's not a bug, it's a skill.
It's a real skill. Maybe forbidden and taboo.
As much Kai wanted to argue it out, at the moment he only has one single option run away for now.