Wulin : Martial Heroes

Chapter 02: Qi

Li Xian then saw that almost all of the meat on the large bowl is already eaten.

He chuckles

‘Today meals are very good. The meat is tender and seasoned perfectly. If not for the fact that I am in a forest and living in an ancient world, this would be like one of my outing adventures’

He laughs

This is another one of his method to not go to that dark place again.

Enjoy the little things. He took this advice from a movie called Zombieland. He does modify it a bit.

He then got up from his seat ready to kill some wolves.

‘I hope whoever raising these wolves would not try to find me for killing these wolves’ Li Xin noted that there might be changes in the way this matter would unfold.

After all, when he did the quest of killing the wolf, he was in a sect. he has his sect members. It basically was an outing.

And the year is different.

Now, he is intending to do the same. The wolves might be even weaker than when he fought them in the game. But, this time since the circumstances is different, there is now a variable

Maybe, whoever is behind the rearing of these wolves would attack him.

But Li Xin himself is not that weak. When he came here, he did get some advantage from the system

Li Xin did not quite know whether it is because of the system that he got the advantages or whether it is the advantage of his original body.

He after all did not have the full memory of this body.

He just shakes his head

‘Get your head on the game’ he mutters to himself. When he is anxious or nervous, he began to retreat into his own mind, trying to analyze.

Sometimes, he overanalyzes. A battle is sometimes depending on instinct that is honed in battle. And sometimes, the more you think, the more you were trapped by it.

In other words, sometimes he thinks too much.

He notices that about himself. But he also understands that this kind of thing is life threatening.

‘Fuck it. Even if the variable changes, the wolves would give a lot of skill points that would be enough for me to raise my Power Level’

He thought to himself. He closes the gate of the entrance to his hut and then he jumps into the air, landed on the branch of a tree and then kick the branch

He is jumping from tree to tree freely.

He is using one of his martial art skill, Swift Strides. It is one of his most basic lightness skill.

He seems to be flowing with the wind, and enable s him to jump high into the air. But that is not the only Lightness skill he had

He also had the Striding on Water lightness kill and a few others that he had bought. He found that with a lightness skill that is rank up to the highest level, it helps him a lot when he wanted to evade or run away or even attack

Li Xin realizes that many of his lightness skill names seems to have similarities like the lightness skill in Age of Wushu, a game that he also used to play.

Li Xian is quite proficient with many of his lightness skill. All of his lightness skill is at grandmaster level

That is because he uses it often and unlike any other skills like Martial technique, it is easy to generate points for lightness skill

It did not have restriction like Martial Arts technique.

Every once in a while, the branch he would step on would break but he would not be panicked as he even could kick the air beneath his feet to jump forward.

After around a few minutes he finally arrived near the cave. He landed down from the air to the ground.

When he landed, it was as graceful as a white crane, his white robe billows, his red sash belt waves gently.

Li Xin smiles.

He came during the day, the time where these wolves are not that active. Even though he is confident that did not mean he would just give advantages to his enemies

He looks at the cave and his smile got even wider

‘I guess your ears could pick up my footsteps, huh?’

even if he did not yet enter the cave, he could already sense the wolves in the cave that began to stir because he already breakthrough One with the World state.

One with the World is one of the power level in the system. When he broke through to One with the World, he also unlocked the ability of spiritual perception

Unlocking Spiritual Perception Li Xin could use it to sense dangers and enemies even when he is not looking.

This Spiritual perception range is based on the purity and amount of inner energy that he has.

It might seem that One with the World state is like a supreme state of martial arts but it just means his body possess thirty years of inner energy.

In other words, power level is related to how much inner energy your body could store. If Li Xin is to likened it with video games it is like limit of MP.

Power Level is upgraded by using martial skill points and from what Li Xin knows it has twenty power levels.

Each power level has five ranks that has to be upgraded before going to the next power level

The five ranks are Beginner that requires 1 skill points. Then there is the Apprentice rank that requires 2 skill points.

Then there is Expert, Master and Grandmaster which each increased in increment of one except Grandmaster that requires 10 points

When Li Xin first arrived here and got the system, the first thing he was recommended to buy was an inner energy technique called the Opening of Sea of Energy

It is the basic of basic of (neigong) inner energy cultivation and it is how he broke through the first meridian that is not exactly listed among the Twelve Meridian

It is the Qi Gathering in Sea Energy that enables him focus his mind and Qi and gather Qi in the Dantian.

He opens the acupoint Guanyuan, which is located in the lower abdomen, three cun below the navel and the Qihai, Shenque, Minmen, Danzhong and Yinxiang in one go.

Each opening of acupoint cost him one point. But the moment he opens the Qi gathering in Sea energy he could access Qi

Qi comes from the world. From Heaven and Earth. And it is only those who could access Qi that could embark the world as a martial artist.

At least this is the introduction of Qi in the game he played before he himself was inside the game. Of course, Li Xin himself believe that the game was not really a game.

From the beginning it is a real world. For some reason he was the unlucky chap that got access to it and was transported to this world

Qi is very important in this world, at least it is very important to martial artist

Without being able to access Qi, there is a limit to the power and prowess one-man prowess could achieve.

With Qi, however, one could leap into the air, glides up into the wind, slashes sword strike with sword qi and so much more.

It was at that time, Li Xin understood about the power level.

‘Well, it is not fair saying that I understood the power level’ he thought to himself

It was more like the system imbued that knowledge into his mind

Weak Body and Mind has five levels of power.

The realm of power is Weak Body and Mind. The limit of the Weak Body and Mind is five ranks. Breaking through each rank until the fifth, then he could break through to next realm

When he uses his point to break to beginner level, his body has one year of inner energy.

When one uses inner energy, the inner energy decreases.

The purer the inner energy or denser the inner energy, the lesser inner energy is wasted when using a certain move.

This is why Li Xin likened it to MP.

Because like MP, when one uses magic, the MP point decreases.

And like MP, inner energy could be restored by meditating and gathering Qi again from the world or eating some pills that have beneficial effect for gathering Qi or one that could instantly replenish one Qi.

Each rank that is broken through means one-year worth of inner energy added to your full reserve.

Li Xin also knows some information about this from the system.

From the moment that a person opens his Qi Gathering in Sea Energy as long as one could absorb Qi, even if one did not learn any inner skill, the inner energy would expand year after year.

But, then what is the use of inner skill?

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Author Note

Neigong - Translated literally as internal prowess, neigong is the internal body energy all Wuxia characters seek to cultivate. It is also commonly called neili or neijia. In all Wuxia stories, movies, and television series, characters with strong neigong are capable of incredible feats such as self-healing and the swift mastering of other techniques. Characters cultivating neigong are also typically shown in a seated, motionless position. With the emphasis being on invisible qi manipulation. (Note: Real life neijia Chinese martial arts emphasize connected, smooth actions. The focus is on cultivation of the mind and spirit)