Rapidnovel Chapter 22: Preparation for the Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation
Chapter 22: Preparation for the Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation
Chapter 22: Preparation for the Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation
A brush was dipped in black in ink, just the tip before it was pulled out. Allowing the brush excess ink to drip off, the hand moved the brush onto the parchment and continued to leave it's trace on it.
When the painting was completed the words "Reversed Soaring Dragon" could be seen written in white. It was a black and white painting, however where it should be black it was white and where it should white it was black.
Rather than black ink on white parchment it looked like white ink on black parchment. It gave off an incredible feeling of harmony yet disharmony as well, like the laws of the world had been reversed.
Tianyi nodded with a smile as he finished the painting.
Since that day when Tianyi heard his junior sister play the guqin, it suddenly occurred to him that he didn't have a hobby and aside from cultivating he did nothing else! If this continued any longer, Tianyi might even consider himself a cultivation freak!
And so Tianyi chose painting and calligraphy. As for why he didn't choose anything else? He hated physical exercise the most back when he was on Earth and two there was no such thing as electronics in the Huang Realm, so he decided to pick up a hobby that he hadn't done in a long time.
Painting
While he chose painting, he decided to add calligraphy. How elegant he was!
Tianyi left the painting on the table to dry as he left his study room. It had already been a few months since Jiang Daoyi became his junior sister and many things changed while many things stayed the same.
Currently she was already in the third stage of the Qi Gathering realm and made friends with many of the elders on Jade Peak who were interested in music and would often visit one another to play music together.
Xi Ri had also adjusted to life in the Buzhou Immortal Sect, he was no longer suppressed or bullied after the incident with Chun Dan. Xi Ri was actually rather popular with the other outer sect disciples, becoming something of an unspoken leader.
He had also broken through to the next stage of his cultivation, cementing his status even more. With his potential Tianyi concluded that Xi Ri needed less than five years to become an inner sect disciple with the resources currently available to him.
Within Tianyi's dantian his Spiritual Crucible had already fully formed and any moment he could start forming his Spiritual Core. But the most crucial component wasn't ready yet, and so Tianyi could only wait until the final component was ready.
For this Core Formation heavenly Tribulation, Tianyi, or rather Mengfei amassed many materials for Tianyi, even using an immortal level resource.
"Hmmm, I should see how junior sister is doing." Tianyi said to himself as he once again made his way to Daoyi's estate.
When he arrived he saw an unexpected guest.
"In the Qi Gathering realm one must absorb the spiritual qi from the air and open the twelve meridians and so there are twelve stages in the Qi Gathering realm. As spiritual qi is most easily absorbed when we breathe in the air, the first meridian we open is the Major Yin Lung Meridian, which is located in the lung. Following that we open the Minor Yin Heart Meridian which is located in the heart. As for how dangerous it is, junior sister has already experienced it and broken through so there is no need for me to explain."
It was Xia Yushan, surprisingly. He was standing in the courtyard with Jiang Daoyi in front of him and listening to him speak on how to cultivate in the Qi Gathering realm.
"Junior sister Daoyi is already at the fourth stage so your next step is to accumulate qi to open up the Major Yang Small Intestine Meridian. The best time to open the meridian is between 1 to 3 pm."
"Senior brother has especially come to give junior sister pointers?" Tianyi asked as he walked up.
Xia Yushan wasn't surprised by Tianyi's appearance as he had long sensed him, Daoyi however was surprised. "Hello, senior brother." Her smile, although slight, was especially sunny.
"Junior sister." Tianyi greeted, before looking back at Xia Yushan.
Xia Yushan could only sigh. He also had his body cleansed with herbs and elixirs but he didn't detect anything inside except the vague locations. Sure enough a tiger father, or rather a tiger mother wouldn't beget a dog son. "Right, junior brother you said it took you only around a year to reach the twelfth stage, why did it take you a year? With junior brother's talent you shouldn't have taken another four years to reach the Foundation Establishment realm."
Tianyi sighed. "Don't mention it. Those four years were the hardest in my life." Tianyi clasped his hands behind his back and sighed like a middle aged man. "It took me four years to open all Eight Extraordinary Meridians. And that was with my mother's help, the location of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians are truly esoteric and hard to decipher."
"Junior brother you said you opened all the Eight Extraordinary Meridians?" Xia Yushan cried out in shock.
"Eight Extraordinary Meridians?" Daoyi asked in confusion. "Senior brother what are the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, I thought there were only twelve meridians?"
Xia Yushan looked at Daoyi and calmed himself before revealing his trademark smile. "In truth the Qi Gathering realm doesn't have twelve meridians but twenty. Opening these extra eight meridians is even harder than entering the Foundation Establishment realm."
"Really?" Daoyi said in surprise.
"I too tried to open all eight, but I only opened three." Xia Yushan said. "If I delayed it any longer, not only would I not be able to open them all, but I might even harm my future prospects. The Eight Extraordinary Meridians are extra reservoirs for qi and they can each be considered a mini dantian. You know what this means?"
Xia Yushan didn't wait for Daoyi to reply and instead continued to speak. "This meant that those with all twenty meridians have an innate advantage over all other cultivators of the same level, they are able to store and create more qi depending on the manual they cultivate. Furthermore it is said that opening all Eight Extraordinary Meridians allows one to perceive the Dao easier."
For the rest of the time, Xia Yushan seemed a bit lost in his own thoughts. But it was still enough to give pointers for Daoyi to cultivate. When he left he even gave Tianyi a deeper look before sighing.
"Junior sister Daoyi have you considered what you want to do on your immortal path?" Tianyi asked.
"What I want to do?" Daoyi repeated.
Tianyi nodded. "The sect says that one cultivates in order to ascend to immortality, but then what? What do you do when you attain immortality?"
Daoyi stopped to think about it for a moment. "What about you senior brother?"
"Me?" Tianyi chuckled. "I wanted to live forever, I originally cultivated because I don't want to die."
"But senior brother is so young, do you really need to think about death right now?" Daoyi asked.
"Hmmmm, well maybe because I've always been self sufficient since young I think more like an adult. In fact other than my childlike appearance, I consider myself an adult, you know?"
"Umm. Right now I'm satisfied but in order to keep this current lifestyle of mine I have to keep cultivating in order to become stronger so that I can keep this lifestyle. As for what I would do after I become an immortal...I want to roam the world, try out all the delicacies, collect paintings of the sceneries I visited. Naturally I want to learn all sorts of music and even play for a large group of people so that they can appreciate music too."
Daoyi stopped for a moment before speaking again.
"There is also a place I want to search for, I don't know where it is only that after I gain strength can I search for it."
Tianyi stayed silent. He too had a place he wanted to search for once he became strong enough.
When Tianyi returned to his estate he found his mother waiting for him in his study room. "Mother!"
"Yi'er, Elder Jin has completed the Yin Dragon Pearl Elixir," Mengfei said as she held out a jade bottle with a stopper on it. Even with the stopper, Tianyi could feel his blood calling out to it, his martial body that was created using the Dragon Emperor Fist craved what was inside the bottle.
"Yi'er are you sure you want to cultivate the Sole Yin, Nine Trigram Yang Core Revolution Formation? It is only something I deduced and the method has not been tested or proven yet. Cultivating it is a huge risk."
"I want to, with it I can rise and match the other supreme geniuses. With it, my immortal path has an even higher chance of success." Tianyi's eyes were full of expectation, his black eyes were shining like it was full of stars.