Chapter 17: First Cultivation

Facing Facing Cang Luo returned to the main hall of the Technique Pavilion and saw seven or eight outer disciples lining up at the window of that female steward to collect techniques.

Facing Facing Cang Luo looked left and right, finding that the lines at other windows were shorter, with one window having no one in front of it at all.

Strange, why must they queue here?

Facing Facing Cang Luo expressed his confusion, but the moment he saw the lecherous eyes of those disciples, he instantly understood.

"Damn! A bunch of kids who've never seen a woman. I was wondering why they had to queue here; turns out they're staring at her huge breasts."

These fifteen- or sixteen-year-old outer disciples, currently in puberty, how could they withstand such temptation? Their eyes went straight.

After muttering a small complaint, Facing Facing Cang Luo quickly stepped forward to the end of the line and, like them, tilted his head to secretly stare at the female steward with her astonishing upper body.

Whether they heard Facing Facing Cang Luo's earlier mutter or not, upon seeing him also staring at the female steward's huge breasts, they all showed expressions of contempt.

Facing Facing Cang Luo gave them an awkward smile, pretending to queue seriously, yet his peripheral vision never left the female steward's upper body for a single second.

Waiting in line to collect the technique jade tablets...

Whenever a disciple stepped forward to announce the technique he wished to collect, the female steward would retrieve three jade tablets, the same size as the identity jade tablets, from rows of cabinets behind her and hand them to the person.

Facing Facing Cang Luo knew those were the technique jade tablets; the only difference from the identity jade tablets was their color.

The identity jade tablets were emerald green, while the technique jade tablets were grey-green.

After more than ten minutes, it was finally Facing Facing Cang Luo's turn.

Facing Facing Cang Luo calmed his excitement, and just as he was about to speak and announce the technique he wished to collect, he suddenly froze.

Because he discovered that inside the service window, besides the female steward, there was another person.

A young girl familiar to Facing Facing Cang Luo was sitting on a small stool listlessly flipping through the "Diagram of Human Meridians and Acupoints."

Her face showed grievance, her eyes were lifeless, she looked pitiful, and there were two tear tracks on her face.

Facing Facing Cang Luo thought, "This isn't good, why is she in there? Is she the female steward's sister?"

The aggrieved young girl inside the window was no one else but the young girl whom Facing Facing Cang Luo had teased with his 'Soul-Locking Mirror' in the main hall of the Technique Pavilion an hour ago.

The young girl's name was Xiang Xiang Yunjiao, and the female steward was her elder sister, Yun Mei.

After being teased by Facing Facing Cang Luo with a mobile phone, Xiang Xiang Yunjiao had come to her sister's side in a daze, sat on the stool without saying a word, and no matter how Yun Mei asked her, she said nothing.

At this moment, seeing Facing Facing Cang Luo remain silent for so long, the steward Yun Mei impatiently urged, "What technique do you want? Give me your identity jade tablet."

"Uh... Thunder Qi Art, Thunder Rush Palm, Swift Wind Step."

Coming back to his senses, Facing Facing Cang Luo handed over his identity jade tablet with both hands, announcing his chosen techniques while secretly looking at Xiang Xiang Yunjiao.

He guessed in his heart why the other party was so sad; had someone bullied her? Could it be me?

While Facing Facing Cang Luo was puzzled, the steward Yun Mei turned to get the technique jade tablets, not noticing that her sister Xiang Xiang Yunjiao suddenly raised her head upon hearing Facing Facing Cang Luo's voice.

Xiang Xiang Yunjiao stared blankly at Facing Facing Cang Luo, unable to hold back two more streams of extremely aggrieved tears, and began to cry silently.

Facing Facing Cang Luo was instantly stunned; what's going on?

Why did she cry upon seeing me? Is it really my fault? Was she scared by the photos on the phone?

At this moment, Yun Mei threw the three technique jade tablets and the identity jade tablet to Facing Facing Cang Luo, then lowered her head to register the information, still not noticing Xiang Xiang Yunjiao crying on the side.

Facing Facing Cang Luo put away the technique jade tablets while looking at the silently crying Xiang Xiang Yunjiao, not knowing how to explain.

He also looked at the fierce-looking female steward and decided to explain later when there was an opportunity; it was best to leave first.

After Facing Facing Cang Luo left, Yun Mei organized the documents while saying to Xiang Xiang Yunjiao, "Jiao, look at those people just now; their aptitude is mediocre, and they have such lecherous looks. What achievement can such people have?

Especially that one just now named Facing Facing Cang Luo; at twenty-two years old, he is only at Warrior Stage 1, a complete waste. You must never associate with such people.

Hmm? Why are you crying? Tell me, who bullied you?

Is it the person who snatched your 'Diagram of Human Meridians and Acupoints' last time? Sister will definitely help you take revenge!

Sigh, where are you going? Come back..."

Facing Facing Cang Luo, who had quickly fled the Technique Pavilion, easily found Dormitory No. 'Xin 176' with the help of the satellite.

The dormitories where Xuan Tian Gate's outer disciples live can house ten people, managed by one outer steward, including assigning tasks and guiding cultivation.

Facing Facing Cang Luo took out the key and opened the wooden door; the dim room emitted a cloying smell from burned candles.

The room was empty; Facing Facing Cang Luo guessed the other nine people must have gone to cultivate.

Inside the room were ten low wooden beds, five on each side dividing the room in half.

Among them, the bed at the very back on the right side had some miscellaneous items piled on it; that should be his own bed.

Facing Facing Cang Luo gently placed those miscellaneous items on the ground and then did a little cleaning.

While cleaning, he discovered a drawer under the wooden bed, inside which was a set of bedding including quilts and pillows.

After tidying the bed, Facing Facing Cang Luo sat at the head of the bed and took out the three technique jade tablets and four low-grade yuan stones.

Originally there were five, but one was exchanged for the 'Body-Destroying Meiti Shengong'.

Facing Facing Cang Luo held the jade tablet engraved with the Thunder Qi Art in his hand, then controlled his yuan consciousness to rotate the yuan wheel, and simultaneously directed both his yuan consciousness and yuan power to his fingertips to activate the technique jade tablet and read the data.

This was the method for using technique jade tablets seen in the 'Overview of Techniques'.

The instant the yuan consciousness and yuan power touched the technique jade tablet, the tablet flashed with silver light, and the originally grey-green jade tablet instantly turned emerald green.

A few seconds later, Facing Facing Cang Luo felt a stream of energy rush from his fingertips along his yuan consciousness straight to his brain, and then he felt an additional yuan consciousness in his mind that he could not control.

"So this is the technique imprint? Also, the technique jade tablet and the identity jade tablet should be the same thing, right?

The former is grey-green because it stores a little yuan power? The latter is just reusing waste, made into an identity jade tablet?" Facing Facing Cang Luo guessed.

Putting the jade tablet aside, Facing Facing Cang Luo tried to use his yuan consciousness to activate that uncontrollable yuan stone, which was the technique imprint.

The instant the yuan consciousness touched the imprint, the imprint moved on its own, quickly entering the Lower Dantian to reach the yuan power sea, smoothly finding the yuan wheel, and driving the yuan wheel to spin wildly.

Immediately after, the technique imprint began to direct yuan power to dart around inside the body; although the speed was not fast, Facing Facing Cang Luo could not perceive its running trajectory.

"So this is successfully circulating the Thunder Qi Art; this feeling is so comfortable... Hmm? Is this yuan power?"

Facing Facing Cang Luo felt something in the air being absorbed into his body, merging with the yuan power circulating the Thunder Qi Art, and finally being sucked into the Lower Dantian, stored in the yuan power sea, and nourishing the yuan wheel.

"This yuan power could be perceived when I first woke up this morning, but at that time I couldn't absorb it, whereas now I can."

"It seems I can only absorb Yuan power while circulating the mental technique; this must be what cultivation is."

At this moment, Facing Facing Cang Luo recalled the cultivation steps Xuan Qingqing had mentioned.

First is perceiving Yuan power; this was already possible for him when he took the Zhi Yuan Dan and became a Wu Shi at Warrior Stage 1.

Next is absorbing Yuan power; he is doing that now, and must circulate the mental technique to absorb it.

Finally is condensing the Yuan Wheel; Facing Facing Cang Luo guessed that once Yuan power is absorbed to a certain extent, a new Yuan Wheel would automatically condense, he just didn't know how long it would take to absorb enough.

"Hmm, anyway, circulating the Thunder Qi Art for one cycle takes an hour, so I'll check again after an hour."

Saying this, Facing Facing Cang Luo closed his eyes and began to calmly circulate the Thunder Qi Art for cultivation...

Half an hour later, Facing Facing Cang Luo felt the absorption of Yuan power was a bit slow, so on a whim, he took out a low-grade Yuan Stone and held it in his hand.

Then he discovered the speed of absorbing Yuan power had increased significantly, and the quantity of Yuan power absorbed per second had also risen.

As time passed, the milky-white Yuan Stone in his hand began to slowly fade, first turning the same grey-green as the technique jade tablet, and finally becoming the same emerald-green as the identity jade tablet.

Not long after, Facing Facing Cang Luo felt the Yuan Stone in his hand had lost its Yuan power, so he took out another one...

Two hours later, all four milky-white Yuan Stones had turned emerald-green; the Yuan power had been completely absorbed by Facing Facing Cang Luo.

Now, without the Yuan Stones, Facing Facing Cang Luo's speed of absorbing Yuan power dropped rapidly, so he ended his cultivation and opened his eyes.

"This feeling... is absolutely wonderful!"

Facing Facing Cang Luo exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and discovered that all the originally milky-white Yuan Stones had turned emerald-green.

Furthermore, he could not sense a single trace of Yuan power within them, knowing the Yuan power had been absorbed completely.

Facing Facing Cang Luo played with the emerald-green Yuan Stones that no longer held Yuan power, glanced at the identity jade tablet and the technique jade tablet, and placed them side by side to observe.

The same color, the same hard texture; Facing Facing Cang Luo guessed that both the identity jade tablet and the technique jade tablet were made of Yuan Stone.

"Right, I seem to have circulated the Thunder Qi Art for more than two cycles; I wonder what changes have occurred in the Yuan Wheel? Let me check quickly."

Facing Facing Cang Luo excitedly mobilized his Yuan Consciousness to inspect his Lower Dantian internally.

A few seconds later, Facing Facing Cang Luo was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Three lines! There are actually three Yuan Wheels; does that mean I am now at Warrior Stage 3?"

Facing Facing Cang Luo's joy could not settle for a long time; he never expected to advance two cultivation stages in just over two hours, the direct result being that the Yuan power reserves in his Lower Dantian had increased more than tenfold.

However, Facing Facing Cang Luo immediately realized that the reason for such a rapid upgrade must be, as Xuan Qingqing had said, because he was an Earthling.

"Yuan Stones are a good thing; it seems I must find a way to get some more. Also, pills; there should be pills that assist cultivation, right?

Otherwise, relying solely on absorbing Yuan power from nature, I don't know how many years or months it would take to cultivate..."

Having settled the Thunder Qi Art, next Facing Facing Cang Luo activated the technique jade tablet for the Thunder Rush Palm.

Circulating the Thunder Rush Palm, a Yuan Consciousness that had transformed into a technique imprint instantly rushed toward the Lower Dantian, reaching the Yuan Wheel, guiding a stream of Yuan power to depart from the Lower Dantian.

First, it circulated once within the body; this process took at most a fraction of a second.

Next, that stream of Yuan power surged straight into both arms along the meridians, filling the entire arm, particularly the area from the wrist to the palm, which became extremely full.

Facing Facing Cang Luo felt his hands, filled with Yuan power, were brimming with strength; moreover, a faint electric current crackled within his palms.

"Crack!"

Facing Facing Cang Luo struck the four Yuan Stones, as hard as marble, instantly smashing them into powder with a single palm.

So strong!

Looking at the Yuan Stone powder in his hand, Facing Facing Cang Luo was shocked by his own strength.

After the shock came wild joy; after the wild joy, Facing Facing Cang Luo suddenly revealed a ruthless expression.

"If this palm were struck on the head of that young master, it would absolutely make his forehead bloom!"

In this moment, the first person Facing Facing Cang Luo thought of was the enemy who had stolen his ex-girlfriend, and he wanted to use the Thunder Rush Palm on him.

Shaking his head to dispel the stray thoughts, Facing Facing Cang Luo continued to activate the technique jade tablets; the last one was the Gale Step.

After activating the technique jade tablet for the Gale Step, Facing Facing Cang Luo got off the bed and immediately circulated the Gale Step.

Just like the Thunder Rush Palm, a stream of Yuan power was guided by the imprint out of the Lower Dantian, circulated rapidly once within the body, and then surged toward both legs.

After one breath, Facing Facing Cang Luo sensed something slightly strange in his legs, a tingling sensation.

Frightened, he quickly pulled up his pant legs, only to see his limp legs gradually tighten, finally turning into hard, clearly defined muscles, block by block.

Looking at his power-filled legs, Facing Facing Cang Luo felt as light as a swallow and walked like the wind; with a slight leap, he jumped over the one-meter-wide wooden bed.

So, Facing Facing Cang Luo simply treated the ten wooden beds in the room as an 110-meter hurdle race, playing with great delight.

This is the Gale Step; by circulating Yuan power along a specific route, it increases the strength and agility of the legs...

After a few rounds, Facing Facing Cang Luo, having had his fill of fun, severed the connection with the Gale Step imprint.

The moment the Yuan Consciousness was severed, the supply of Yuan power stopped immediately, and the tightened muscles in his legs began to return to their original state.

Rubbing his somewhat numb legs, Facing Facing Cang Luo exclaimed excitedly, "Haha, just two days after transmigrating, I have mastered three techniques, and my cultivation has reached Warrior Stage 3.

Now I am eagerly looking forward to returning to Earth; Eden, the Yunyun Society, and that dog couple...

You, just wait for me!"