Beyond The Immortal

Ch.3 - Starting Cultivation

In a forest filled with dense trees, in a place quite deep in the forest, a young man who looked to be 15 years old, lay weakly with a body full of wounds and clothes soaked in blood.

The young man slowly opened his eyes.

“I.. agkh!” The young man wanted to move but stopped because he felt pain all over his body.

“What.. happened..? Did I fail?” The young man looked around then carefully looked at his body condition. “This.. seems like I.. succeeded, right? I am so Immortal Ye Yuan successfully reincarnated?”

Yes, that young man was Ye Yuan who had successfully reincarnated.

“But..” Ye Yuan frowned, thinking of some strange things. “Ah well, I’ll think about it later, it’s better now..”

Ye Yuan slowly got up, taking a cross-legged sitting position.

Ye Yuan controlled his breathing for a moment, then let out a long breath, reaching the limit of the breath he could exhale, then he breathed in slowly, very slowly and simultaneously took in natural energy through his breath, flowing the energy throughout his body.

Ye Yuan could feel all the wounds on his body warming up, the pain starting to subside. After a few minutes, Ye Yuan’s breathing still hadn’t stopped.

He reached the limit after 5 minutes, and at that moment the bleeding in his body stopped, the pain also disappeared, although it was not yet said to be cured.

“I seem to be a little unlucky, getting a fragile, untrained, weak body and not even having a good cultivation.” Ye Yuan sighed. “But this is strange, how did I reincarnate into someone else’s body? Shouldn’t I be born as a baby?”

The reincarnation rule that Ye Yuan knew was that a person would return to being a baby, but he would resurrect in someone else's body.

“Maybe because I didn’t reincarnate naturally, I created my own reincarnation path so the result was a bit strange. Well, even though I didn’t become a baby, at least I have complete memories from my previous life.”

Reincarnated people should not remember their past lives. Although there are certain situations that sometimes trigger past memories.

“But more importantly than that!” Ye Yuan clenched his fists, tears streaming down his face. “My body has finally broken free from that cultivation technique, and now no one can stop me from having relationships with women!”

Ye Yuan recalled his past suffering of being a virgin his entire life. What a miserable fate, when so many goddesses would willingly give their bodies and souls for him.

Ye Yuan wiped away his tears, his expression firm, filled with determination.

“This time, I won’t end up being a guard for life!” Ye Yuan remembered the 5 women who had previously pursued him, making Ye Yuan smile modestly.

“Little Sister Yunji, Hong Yingli, Tingyun, Xiao Zhiyi, Zhao Ling’er, wait for me, I will return to the immortal realm and marry the five of you! Don’t worry, I will not disappoint you in this life!”

Ye Yuan was determined to meet those five women in the immortal realms. He had no idea that the five of them were also reincarnating.

“But since I resurrected in someone else’s body, what is my true identity? And why did I end up in the forest covered in wounds?” Ye Yuan closed his eyes, trying to search through the memories of the previous owner.

“Ahaha, I didn’t expect something like this to happen to me, how unlucky.” Ye Yuan opened his eyes after getting the answer to his question.

Ye Yuan was an orphan who worked at the Chu Family residence as a horse caretaker.

Ye Yuan's life was very difficult, he only slept in a horse stable with straw as a base, he was not given any wages at all, he was only given food, and even then it was only leftovers.

It wouldn't be wrong to say Ye Yuan was a slave.

Even so, Ye Yuan never thought of quitting his job there. Because if he quit, he would have to become a beggar who might not be able to eat once a week.

Working in the Chu Family was much better than being a beggar, at least he could eat once a day, sleep in a shady place even though it was in a horse stable with a straw floor, but he had a blanket to protect him from the cold of the night.

One night, Ye Yuan woke up because he needed to pee. At that time, he heard a strange sound from somewhere. When he checked, he witnessed one of the Chu Family Patriarch's concubines having an affair with the Chu Family army chief.

Ye Yuan who was caught at that time, ended up being beaten. Because he was afraid that their affair would be found out, Ye Yuan was slandered for raping the concubine and ended up getting a heavy punishment.

He was beaten and then thrown into this forest.

“Well, people like them always exist.” Ye Yuan smiled bitterly.

“Alright, stop thinking about the past, I should treat my body first.” Ye Yuan sat cross-legged, concentrated then began to absorb the natural energy.

Ye Yuan did not absorb the energy into his Dantian to be processed into Qi energy, but instead made the energy enter the wound.

'The energy absorption is so slow because I have no cultivation at all, but since I only have minor external injuries, it won't be difficult to heal.'

Ye Yuan did not use the energy breathing method like before, because that method would cause the energy to not flow optimally into the wound even though the energy absorption was faster.

After 1 hour, Ye Yuan opened his eyes with a big smile. He stood up and jumped up and down, doing some punching and kicking movements.

“My body has fully recovered, although it is still weak and thin.” Ye Yuan looked at his thin arm.

“I should start cultivating, at least I have to break through to the early stage of Qi Foundation.” Ye Yuan sat down cross-legged again.

According to his memory, cultivation was divided into several levels.

- Qi Foundation

- Core Formation

- Silver Core

- Gold Core

- Nascent Soul

Each is divided into 3 stages, from beginning, middle, end.

“The names of the cultivation levels in this world are quite different from those in the immortal realm. Well, since this is just a mortal realm with so many of them, it is natural that each mortal world has different names for the levels.”

Ye Yuan began to absorb natural energy, he used the energy breathing method, breathing to absorb the surrounding energy.

2 hours passed and Ye Yuan finally broke through to the early-stage Qi Foundation level.

This was just a very weak basic cultivation, everyone could reach the early stage Qi foundation easily with just a little effort, that was why Ye Yuan could easily achieve it with his weak body.

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*A little explanation.

Above Nascent Soul there are still further improvements.

- Qi Foundation

- Core Formation

- Silver Core

- Gold Core

- Nascent soul

- Martial King

- Martial Emperor

- Holy Emperor

- Nirvana

This is the mortal world level, the immortal realm level will be explained later.

For weapon levels, pills and others, there are 9 levels from 1 to 9. Keep it short so it's easy to remember and not complicated.