Hidden Quest & Minor Illumination Breathing Technique

Inside a spacious room, there are different types of books scattered around on chair, table, bed even some were on the floor. And there was boy (Shen Xu) whose eyes have become red from reading these books all night. These were the books about Heavenly Star Continent and Sky Bearing Empire, the empire he was currently in, there were more empires in Heavenly Star Continent but there was very less detail about them. Last night he asked his father about empire he was in, so his father showed him these books and told him to read himself. From night till now means untill dawn, he has been reading.

From the books he had found out, The empire he was currently in Sky Bearing Empire one of the empires of Heavenly Star Continent whose capital is Sky Bearing City which was a little far from Mountain Willow Town.

The Sky Bearing Empire was involved in various wars unceasingly for the past few years. Since it was located in the middle of several countries, the country became an ideal target for the opposing countries to set troops to probe them. Furthermore, they were definitely considered a fat piece of meat! Luckily, the Sky Bearing Empire had an unbeatable commander, General Ling Xiao. Moreover, the other countries were reluctant to engage in an all out war to prevent the case where the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Were they to be invaded when they were off invading someone, then it was as good as handing all their hard work over to the others!

As such, though the Sky Bearing Empire faced much shocks, it did not leave any irreparable damage. The citizens believed that so long General Ling was alive, there was no worry about any invasions. Thus, even though the country's situation was a little tense, the people still put on a show of happiness and prosperity.

So Ling family was one of three major familes in Sky Bearing Empire. Other two major families are Yang family and Wang Family. And the most important family the Long Family, ruler of all family in the empire also known as Imperial family. Ling family's power lies in Army support to kingdom because this was the family of Generals as Yang family support kingdom through Politics because the current Prime Minister of the empire was Yang Family head while Wang family was newly risen family in last decade which provides kingdom's major financial supports.

Shen Xu was reading the book while rubbing his eyes, Suddenly a thought came inside his mind which shook his heart. All the sleepiness from his eyes disappeared at that moment.

"Wait a minute!!! "

" Ling Family: Army Commander, Ling Xiao "

" Yang Family: Prime Minister, "

" Long Family: Imperial family, "

" Sky Bearing Empire, "

"Cultivation World, "

" No way!!! "

" It can't be!!!!!!. Have i  reborn in novel 'Legend of Ling Tian'?? "

How much surprised Shen Xu was, that can only be understand by the look of his face. His mouth was open, there was no sleepiness in his eyes and also there was not any sign of tiredness on his face. Suddenly a notification sounded inside his head:

*Ding*

[HIDDEN QUEST: Without help of system, Find out which novel you are in??

STATUS: Completed

Reward: 'Legend of Ling Tian' novel book with complete chapters and 100 System Points.]

*Ding*

[ Novel has been stored inside the inventory.]

" So it was hidden Quest. Rewards are pretty good too...hmm...100 system points and novel book which records the ex-future of this world."

Shen Xu chuckled while muttering to himself, "This is going to be way too much fun. "

He closed all the other books and put them in the place where they were before then he sneaked outside the house for the small Willow Mountain. He was going to practice his first cultivation technique which was a body cultivation technique that can only be practiced with first few sunlights of the morning.

He was not in hurry to read the novel beacuse he still remembered few of the plotlines like Ling Tian was born with Xiantian Qi and he started his cultivation from the womb. Ling Tian was an all rounder type of person, either it is Zither, Calligraphy, Painting, Poetry or cultivation, he was master of them. There was hardly anyone who can compete with him in this world in these except cultivation which also incresed in last few chapters of novel. So first what Shen Xu needed was to increase his Cultivation base.

Soon he was out of the town and in front of the mountain

Mountain Willow Town lay in the shadows of the towering Great Willow Mountains that stretched for tens of miles. Although it was small compared to large group of mountains but still it was big. You would make a living from the mountain if you lived by the mountain. The Great Willow Mountains that stretched for thousands of miles had always been an important source of life for the residents of Mountain Willow Town.

To be honest, Shen Xu thought that the Great Willow Mountains behind Mointain Willow Town was hundreds of times better than any training spot he would find in this empire.

Even though it was time of dawn but still it wasn't time of daybreak there was still Dark outside town so he purchased a torch and mosquito repellent lotion fron shop costing him 15 System Points.

With very little effort, Shen Xu had reached the midpoint of Willow Mountain. Here, there was a huge jutting rock at the edge of the face of the mountain, which was perfect for him to position himself to intercept the first rays of the morning sun. This part of the mountain was not developed as part of the hunting location yet, and was rarely visited by anyone. This will allow Shen Xu to practice the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique undisturbed.

It was still a little time in daybreak so he thought of revising the method of cultivation. He sat down on the rock and started reading one by one lines of the mannual inside his consciousness.

Shen Xu, who had obviously never learnt how to cultivate, was now able to perfectly comprehend the contents of the manual because of the imprinted information inside is consciousness.

"As one of the strongest abilities of Illumination World, intercept a portion of the first rays of the rising sun everyday and absorb it for yourself. Seize the Heaven's luck, comprehend the profoundness of the Sun and the Moon!"

This was a part of the introduction to the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique!

Breathing was an innate ability of every single living creature. Normal people could only breathe in the regular air around them, together with its impurities. However, martial artists were different. They have created numerous extraordinary breathing techniques which allowed them to absorb other forms of energies from the Heavens and Earth, granting them unbelievable abilities!

There were less than 900 characters within the entire Minor Illumination Breathing Technique manual. Even so, the true essence of the technique was perfectly conveyed through them!

How true was the saying that it only takes a single sentence to point out the truth. False understandings, even if expounded over millions of scriptures, would never be able to touch on the essence of the truth.

Not only had Shen Xu received the ancient knowledge of the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique, he had even obtained the accumulated understandings of the predecessors who had trained in this technique throughout countless ages as well as all the various experiences they had attained.

Shen Xu could hardly withstand the urge to start cultivating the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique immediately. But it still wasn't daybreak but still it was dawn so he stated practicing it.

With regards to breathing, the way normal people breathed was simply one breath in, and one breath out. It was purely based on instinct.

However, the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique required one to adopt a different breathing pattern. According to the manual, there are some principles like Opening, Closing, Raising, Dropping, Bending, Extending, Ascending, Descending, Revolving, Retracting and so on which should be applied to the various different breathing patterns. For example, the exercise will start with an Opening inhalation followed by a Closing exhalation followed by a Rising inhalation followed by a Dropping exhalation and so on… Some transitional moves even required the practitioner to suspend their breath.

These breathing patterns were supposed to be done whilst executing some strange movements. This was rather challenging and Shen Xu was left simulating the movements sets repeatedly in his mind. Once he had them firmly memorized and was sure that there was no mistake in them, he began to calm his breath and focused his mind.

Placing both feet together and standing upright, Shen Xu shifted his weight to his right leg and raised his left leg to the side. Slowly putting his left leg down again, he shifted to a wide horse stance. After that, he rotated both arms inwardly. His two palms slanted toward the side with the back of his palms facing each other. Bending his knees slightly, he swiveled both arms outwards and joined them together, clasped before his abdomen.

His entire body relaxed and breathing calm, he raised his neck and straightened his shoulders and back, all while concentrating on his dantian.

Shen Xu struck a few weird movements and almost fell a few times, losing his balance due to the shift in his center of gravity.

He was suddenly wrapping both arms around his chest and suddenly stretching them out to embrace the Earth. His knees would be bent slightly at times and he would thrust out his palms and straighten his knees while rotating and extending both arms upwards, palms toward the Heavens at other times.

When Shen Xu breathed in, his abdomen would sink inward while his chest would rise, causing the air to flow past the dantian and into his lungs. When he exhaled, his chest would sink and his abdomen would rise, causing the air to flow from his lungs and sink into his dantain.

Switching the order of airflow like this resulted in rousing the body's inner Qi and had the effect of massaging the lungs. Holding breath at different points would allow the accumulated energy within the dantian to become denser. Just a different breathing pattern would allow the entire body to become more balanced, and the energy flow to be smoother.

At the same time, all of the muscles on Shen Xu's body started to vibrate and purr like a cat.

This kind of vibration would result in the expulsion of dead cells within the body, invisibly improving the body's constitution as well.

"Hooooooo!"

Shen Xu roughly let out a long breath. Immediately, a sense of fatigue flooded his body.

'I can do it!' Shen Xu clenched his teeth and persevered. Body drenched with perspiration, he started the third movement set.

Stretching the body to resemble an eagle-hunting bow!

First, shift the body's weight onto the right leg. Next, pull the left leg as far apart as possible whilst maintaining the position. At the same time, crisscross both hands before the chest, palms facing upwards. Bend both knees into a horse stance and… release the bow!

After that, return both feet to their original position and shift the center of gravity to the right side again. Raise the left leg and lean it against the right leg. At the same time, with palms facing upward, stretch the right hand toward the upper part, the rightmost section and the lower part of the left leg. After that, bring both palms before the chest.

"Cough, cough!" Shen Xu's breathing abruptly turned disorderly in the middle of the exercise, causing him to break out of his practice immediately.  {SHEN XU -> SHEN TIAN}

'These movements did not seem difficult, but when paired with the unique breathing pattern, it turns out to be really complex!' Shen Tian laid on the ground in an extremely unsightly manner, his forehead soaked with perspiration.

Breathing was an innate ability of every living being. Forcefully changing the regular breathing pattern was not something that could be easily accomplished within a day or two!

Shen Tian was only able to comprehend so much so quickly because he had the memories and the experience of previous practitioners within his mind!

However, it was still impossible to avoid mistakes in some areas. After all, he had never practiced the movements and breathing patterns himself. As he lay there, the sky was beginning to get brighter. That means that the the first rays were about to arrive! Crawling up with some effort, Shen Xu began the exercises again.

As he practiced, he seemed to have entered a state of thoughtless tranquility. All of his efforts were concentrated on the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique.

***

Daybreak! The dawn has arrived!

The sun's rays broke through the clouds in an instant and illuminated the Heavenly world.

Shen Tian, who had sunken into a state of thoughtlessness, turned around to face the rising sun and… inhaled deeply!

As if responding to him, a single wisp of gold-glazed sunray the thickness of a strand of hair flew straight toward Shen Tian!

From afar, a gold-glazed sunray could be seen flying down from the Heavens toward the Shen Tian.

"AH!"

A scorching heat appeared within Shen Tian's body as soon as the sunray entered his body. The heat immediately began spreading rapidly, causing him to scream in pain and surprise.

The sunray, which was only as thick as a strand of hair, quickly dispersed into grain-sized balls of light which sunk into Bei Feng's blood and veins!

"Hua hua!"

A tenth of his blood was immediately vaporized, while the rest suddenly became invigorated and flowed like a flood within his body!

With every powerful contraction of Shen Tian's small heart, his blood, reinvigorated and filled with vitality, was being pumped into every corner of his body, including his four limbs and bones. All the countless cells within his body were rejoicing at this moment, greedily gobbling down the incoming energy as though they had been starved for a long time. After circulating through the body once, the slightly less energized blood returned to the heart where it was pumped forth again. Repeating the motion like this, the Yang essence which had been injected into his blood was finally used up; but only after it had completed nine revolutions!

'What a mystical breathing technique!'

Shen Tian slowly opened his eyes. Heat waves were emanating gently off his body and a thin layer of greyish sweat appeared, sticking to his skin.

After the brief session of absorption, Shen Tian felt extremely comfortable! It was like he had just finished soaking in a sauna. His entire body felt as light as that of a sparrow.

'This time round, I'd only managed to absorb a wisp of energy the thickness of a strand of hair. I can only be considered to have barely started cultivating this technique. It's not even certain how long it'll take for me to reach the Last stage of this technique at this rate,' Shen Tian thought seriously. Although he had large amounts of information and the cultivation experiences of the previous practitioners inside his head, they could only be used as a reference at most! They could not be regarded as his own experience!

And even if he were to comprehend any insights through the experiences of the predecessors, his body would still be unable to adapt to them and execute them perfectly.

'If I can persist for a long period of time, I'm sure I can completely get rid of my internal injuries!'

The Minor Illumination Breathing Technique was truly an extremely difficult art to practice. However, it gave Shen Tian a glimmer of hope! With this hope, even if the movements were to become more complicated and the practice more strenuous, it would still be worth every single ounce of effort! Because strong body will have best defence and defence was the one of the things Ling Tian lacked, he only had cultivated Qi Cultivation Technique, Once his Qi depleatedhe will be like normal person but a body cultivator does not have store Qi to Begin with he only uses Qi's mystical properties to cleansed and refine its body.

This wisp of sun ray, which was only as thick as a strand of hair, had already produced such shocking results. And, apparently, when one reached the Level 5 of the Minor Illumination Breathing Technique, every breath would attract an ocean of sunrays! Just what kind of amazing feats would Shen Tian be capable of after reaching this stage?

Any hints of previous problems had long since been swept clean from his body. Shen Tian was in high spirits, and he felt like could knock out a bull with a single punch! He only felt like but it wasn't true though.

Luckily, Shen Tian still knew his limits. This feeling was merely a false sense of strength derived from absorbing the gold-glazed sunray.

Reigning in his excitement, Shen Tian went down the mountain in a marvelous mood.

The first thing Shen Tian did upon returning to the mansion was to get a thorough bath and wash the sticky muck off of his body and then he goes for breakfast while looking at his status pannel.

[ Status

Name: Shen Tian (Shen Xu)

Age: 5 years (26 mentally)

Cultivation Base: None (Next Stage: Houtian Stage 1)

Battle Power: Mortal

Cultivation Technique: Minor Illumination Breathing Technique(Body) Level1/5(2/28), Bright Jade Power Art (Internal Qi).

Martial Skill: None

Mind State Attend: None

Quest: None

System Points: 585 Points ]