When it was finally morning, Ling Chen felt a hand on his shoulder. He stopped crying and turn around to see who it was. it was Feng Jiayi who was standing behind him until now with her tiny hand on his shoulder. She said " B..big brother Chen, please stop crying now. Grandpa Ling wouldn't want you to keep crying like this, he will always be watching over you, you wouldn't make him sad...would you?"
Ling Chen nodded his head when he saw she also had two lines of tear marks on her cheeks. He said " Jiayi, you are right, I won't make him sad anymore. He was always worried because I didn't have any interest in cultivation and learning martial arts and would always be weak because of it, from now on I'm going to give my all to become stronger so that grandpa won't worry about me."
He then put his grandfather's body that he had in his arms, carefully onto the bed and said " grandpa you don't have to worry about me anymore, I'll become strong and live my life happily like you always told me to. Rest in peace Grandpa."
After saying this he clenched his fists, took a deep breath and made up his mind to keep this promise to his grandfather.
" Jiayi...thank you for always supporting me, I'm going to prepare for grandpa's funeral, you should rest up a little." Saying this he went out of the room, his eyes were blank like a dead person, he was on brink of losing his mind but remembered the promise he just made to his grandfather.
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After Ling xiao's funeral, Ling Chen mourned for 3 days and nights without moving. Feng Jiayi also wanted to accompany him but he sent her with her father.
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He took a bath and had a light meal. Then he collected all the money that was available in his home. In total, he only had 5 gold and 3 silver. He sighed ruefully.
" I wonder how much he was worried when he saw our savings dwindle to this."'According to grandpa, in this world, martial might is everything. If you are strong enough you can have everything you want, Be it respect, money, grand palaces, beautiful women, slaves anything you need will be yours.
I think it is about time I acquired a cultivation art but I have to think carefully before deciding what I'm going to be in future. If I remember correctly, grandpa once told me that there are mainly two types of cultivation. The first one is normal cultivation where you cultivate, increase your realm and become stronger....this type of cultivation is comparatively easy, you just have to find a cultivation art and cultivate using the Qi* of heaven and earth. The second type is Steller cultivation. Cultivators who cultivate in steller martial arts are much stronger compared to others.
But it is a little difficult to cultivate in steller martial cultivation because there aren't many cultivation arts and steller cultivators aren't that common because thousands of years ago, for some unknown reason many strong steller cultivators went missing along with their legacies. Some legacies were found but were monopolised by stronger sects.'
' Steller cultivation is the way for me to go because I have only reached the 2nd layer of body tempering realm and have very limited Qi of heaven and earth in my body.'
To cultivate in steller martial cultivation one should not have cultivated in Qi of heaven and earth that is why steller cultivation is different from normal cultivation. Normal cultivation is done using Qi of heaven and earth whereas, in Steller cultivation, steller Qi or Star Qi is used. Star Qi is much more powerful and beneficial to humans compared to Qi of heaven and earth but also is much more difficult to cultivate.
Qi of heaven and earth is easily available in the environment and there are many resources of it, For example, Yuan stones. Yuan stones are found in yuan veins, these veins form when Qi of heaven and earth accumulates for long periods.
Similarly, you can find star stones that contains Star Qi but there are fewer veins because Star Qi is difficult to accumulate in one place without special conditions. Although Star Qi is present everywhere, even in the places where Qi of heaven and earth is thinner or is almost negligible because Star Qi come from stars and celestial bodies like the sun and moon but cultivation is slower using Star Qi due to its pureness of it.
If you want to cultivate Star Qi you have to refine it using your own unique Qi which is difficult compared to refining Qi of heaven and earth, that is why it is difficult to cultivate in steller martial cultivation. every creature of nature has its own unique Qi.
This unique Qi is divided into 10 types of it. These are, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Black, Golden and White, Red being the lowest of quality while white is the highest of quality one can achieve.
This unique Qi is something everyone has had since birth but it isn't fixed and can be levelled up using some special means. The highest quality of your unique Qi is, the easier and faster you can cultivate. One's talent is judged by the quality of your unique Qi, those who have a higher quality of unique Qi than orange, have better chances of breaking through realms and reaching higher realms.
Your 'talent' is judged when you are 14 years of age. Those who can reach the top of the body tempering realm that is, 9th layer, or higher in most cases have better than orange unique Qi and are easily able to enter cultivation sects and have a common population respect them.
So if one wants to cultivate faster and are in hurry to live luxurious life always tend to choose normal cultivation but if you want to be strong then only Steller martial cultivation can fulfil your wish until you didn't reach a specific realm of cultivation where the difference between the normal and stellar martial cultivators starts showing, you may have to get bullied because of your lower realm than other people.
''But I don't have to worry about it as I'm already used to being treated that way" thinking this Ling Chen smirked
"I can't have my priorities set on short term benefits if I want to be strong, so for now I should go to the town market and see if I can buy a Steller martial cultivation art in these 5.03 gold.....fucking hell, after spending these I won't even have enough to eat. " Fuck it, I'll think about it after getting a good cultivation art." After planning this he went out of his home and went straight to the town market. Cloud view town's town market is located in the central square of town which is obviously in the centre of the town. In Central square there is, Residential area of town Lord, Li Chun, Li Chun is the only martial artist to have reached the peak of the houtian realm. Central square also has a cloud view academy for martial artists, where many younglings of town's wealthy people learn martial arts and how to cultivate but it only teaches basic martial arts and basic breathing and meditation techniques and Ling Chen has already learnt t
Ling Chen continued wandering around, looking around if he can get some good cultivation art in 5 gold but even after 2 hours of going through every stall and every shop, he couldn't find any. He sighed ruefully " without sufficient money I can't even buy a basic cultivation art much less stellar martial cultivation art."....Just when he was about to go home he saw an old man in black clothing, he also had some weapons and ancient-looking scrolls and was signalling him to go there, his hair was white and his face has wrinkles and a sword scar on his face that went from his left eye to his right jaw. He was a terrifying-looking old man, seeing his face Ling Chen shivered but after gulping down he went to him asked politely"Old man, do you need anything?"The old man smiled but his smile was like the opening of a demon's mouth. The old man said"Don't be an afraid young lad. I just look bad, I won't do anything to you."Ling Che
The old man was confused for a moment before he angrily snapped " you bastard!! Do I look like I would have interest in doing something your 'weird' to someone of your age much less you are male...." He then said in a low tone " if you were a mature sexy woman I might be interested." "You pervert" Ling Chen cursed. ' this old man.....thank goodness, I'm not a girl or he might have thought of something weird.' " Cough...Cough!!" The old man coughed for the sake of not making the situation too awkward and said " it's okay.....I will give you my steller cultivation art and in return when the time comes you have to help me with something." Ling Chen nodded but then curiously asked " old man, if I'm not wrong, you're a very strong expert yourself and I don't know if I would be able to, even be as strong as you are now. How would I be of any help to you." The old man smiled " you don't have to worry about that. The art I'm gonna give to is one of best
"PRIMORDIAL STAR GOD'S STELLER ART "this was one of the earliest invented steller cultivation and martial art. It is said that Star God was a pioneer of steller cultivation. When he achieved a terrifying power level where he couldn't find a single opponent capable of challenging him, he ascended to the heavens. Now his cultivation art was with him he might be able to reach the peak of martial arts with it. Thinking this he got excited and wanted to start cultivating right away but first, he had to destroy his previous cultivation. 'I guess it's time to start anew.' he took a deep breath and started destroying and expelling his accumulated Yuan Qi. Destroying one's cultivation isn't easy as it sounds but fortunately, that mysterious old man left the technique of doing it without any risks, but during this period, he will have to endure a lot of pain. Fortunately, he was still in the lower layers of the body tempering realm if he were above the body tempe
Ling Chen rested until dusk. he was feeling better but could feel that due to excessive loss of blood his vitality was somewhat damaged. he thought of using the Vitality grass but without cultivation, he won't be able to refine it completely and its effectiveness would be greatly reduced.Ling Chen took his 5.03 gold and went to buy body tempering pills. these pills help body tempering realm martial artists to accumulate and refine Qi at a faster speed. if one cultivator cultivates using these pills and another doesn't, in case their talent is similar, the former will cultivate almost at double speed compared to the latter.He again went to the Newmoon trading firm and asked " shopkeeper, what is the price of a Body tempering pill? "" 20 silver per pill," he replied.' It's quite expensive but I got no choice but to buy them if I want to cultivate faster' Ling Chen thought. " shopkeeper give me 20 pills."Taking pills and storing them in his
Ling Chen quickly found the tigertoothed boar, it was resting in a cave. " I should lure it out of the cave or I won't be able to utilize my speed in that cave."Ling Chen picked up a small rock and threw it toward the boar's head.'BANG '"Roar "With a bang, it hit on boar's head. It roared angrily and came out of the cave. three Ling Chen standing there he grew even angrier. Previously Ling Chen stole the 'treasure' it was guarding and it had to clash with that troublesome firefox.With a roar, it charged toward Ling Chen and swiped its claw at his head.Ling Chen was quick in reacting, he ducked down to dodge the claw strike, then he struck at the boar's one hind leg with a kick. Boar stumbled and lost his balance, ling then went behind its back and threw consecutive punches on the back of its head.Boom! Boom! Boom!Every punch was like a hammer striking iron. with every punch, the boar woul
''It seems this cultivation technique is quite miraculous, it allowed me to cultivate with the speed on par with the yuan cultivation. If this is the case I won't have to worry that my cultivation speed will be slow and most importantly my cultivation speed will be almost double of other steller cultivators who has the same grade of unique Qi."Ling chen could now fight with most of the mid-grade wild beasts with ease. Most importantly after eating wild beast's meat for a month his body was no longer weak looking, although he didn't gain any muscles but now he looked like a healthy young man. His complexion got even more bright.''This month of training was quite fruitful. Not only did my physic improve but also my cultivation fully stablised at 5th layer body tempering and I feel like I can easily deal with any 6th layer body tempering realm martial artist.""Inhale"He took a deep breath to calm his growing excitement." It is time to go back hom
The young lady looked at him without any reaction but her gaze flickered for a moment. The old man didn't outright kill him, instead, he released his aura and spoke in a cold and imperious tone while pointing with his finger at the corpses" Give me a reason that I shouldn't kill you just like these trash." Ling Chen felt his heart shuddering. But he tried to remain calm and without showing any hint of intimidation, He brought his fists together and spoke respectfully " Venerable old man, I am not an accomplice of this trash. I was just going home but saw them surrounding you guys so I came to see what was happening. I wasn't stalking you or anything like that." The old man squinted his eyes seeing that ling Chen showed no signs of intimidation and could speak without nervousness and remain calm under the influence of his aura with only his 5th layer body tempering realm cultivation. The old man was about to speak when an indifferent voice sounde