Chapter 13 - Class-A

Luan filled his dantian with Qi in the attempt to increase his realm. The colourless Qi was swirling outside his body as he took deep breaths. He absorbed the Qi from outside and he felt as if he was about to break the wall that surrounded his path forward. He absorbed the last amount of Qi that was needed to breakthrough the 3rd minor realm.

Crack!

He felt as if his limit had just been broken, a faint yellow light released from him into the surrounding and his dantian became empty. He could feel his surrounding more clearly and think a little faster than before. His vision also increased by leaps and bounds.

"I'm finally in the Qi gathering 3rd realm"

When a person breaks through a realm, every bit of their Qi in the body is used to do that and as a result the next realm starts with the person having to fill their dantian again. Its like a car and a wall. When the car hits the wall and shatters it, the car loses it's velocity and the driver has to accelerate to move forward to the next road.

Here, the driver is luan and the car is the Qi while the wall is the stage of breakthrough.

"Amazing. Im only in the initial completion stage of this technique but still it's working so well." He appreciated the technique that he had learned after coming to this world.

Every technique has a completion stage. Initial, Minor, Half, Late and peak. The abilities of a technique can be used as the completion is increased. One just has to use the technique enough and understand it to reach the next completion.

The breathing technique of the forgotten sect was an amazing technique, as using it allowed luan to quickly absorb the surrounding Qi much faster than the default gathering speed. He also taught this technique to Kai and Angela. Of course, he wouldn't teach this to any other person except them, he wasn't that stupid.

People start cultivating at the young age of 2 or 3. It take them years to build a solid foundation and reach Qi gathering realm with most of the techniques. But luan and Angela had been cultivating for merely 3 months and they were already at this level.

Dhum! Dhum! Dhum! Dhum!

"Huh? What is that sound"

A loud noise of drums woke Angela from her meditation. Luan also heard it in the isolated world.

"What's going on?" He came in the real world and asked.

"Don't know"

They looked outside the window to find a few people waking all the disciples up using drums. They realized it was time for the classes to start.

Luan wore purple robes the sect gave him and under it he wore black outfit with blue belt. Angela also wore the same robe made for female.

"It kind of fits us pretty well.

They went outside and found out everyone was just waking up as well. They decided to go to the large building they were allocated before.

Yesterday, luan decided to learn every element the sect has to offer. Which were Lightning, Fire, Water, Earth and Wind. The sect doesn't teach elements and the disciple has to learn it on their own with the books. This was better for luan as it will save alot of his time.

"Building 1-B Should be here." It wasn't too far away from where they lived.

He went inside the building and into the room named "Class-A". There were only a few people in the class and they were roaming around getting to know everyone. Luan and Angela sat at the back and waited for the teacher. Everyone of them reached Qi gathering 2, and looked quite strong but nobody could pose a threat to them as luan was already in the 3rd and Angela broke through the 2nd minor realm too.

After a few minutes a woman came in the class. She had blonde long hair and brown skin. Her hair covering her left eye and dark spots had appeared below her other eye.

"So class...Ah, I'm your teacher from now on. My name is Isla" She spoke with tiredness on her eyes. It looked like she could definitely sleep for a month if she had time.

"I will teach you the ways to get into meridian opening realm."

The class looked at her for a few seconds before a person said.

" Te...Teacher are you alright?" He said with worry.

The teacher looked at him and said with a tired smile.

"No"

The class became quiet. She sighed and looked at the class, "So everyone of you here will learn a few spells to advance faster. We will get to know each other as the time goes by."

She said that and began writing something on the board with the chock.

"So, Cultivation. Why is it so important to cultivate?" She asked the class.

A 15 year old girl raised her hand.

"It's so we can reign supreme and became higher beings."

"Hmm, I see"

"Would somebody else like to answer?"

Another student raised his hand.

"For Longevity?"

"I see"

She looked around and when nobody else raised their hands, she decided to speak.

"Everyone cultivate for different reasons. Some want to become higher life forms, some want to live long while others might just do it because of the pressure from their family."

"This is very important to know why you want to cultivate as it will help determine the heights you reach. A demon is strong because they fight for themselves.They have intelligence to make rational decisions. While a monster/beast is weak because it fights mindlessly."

The class heard her closely for the rest of the time. The purpose of this cultivation class was to enlighten the students in the path of cultivation.

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Dhum! Dhun! Dhum! Dhum!

After 5 hours, the class was over. The class started at 7 in the morning and it was now afternoon.

"Ah, the class is over but just wait a few minutes." The teacher said as she touched her bracelet on the left hand and exactly 15 books came out of it.

"Everyone take these cultivation books, and you can gather Qi faster and more efficiently."

She passed the book to the students.

"1st tier Qi gathering technique" Luan murmured.

"Teacher what does the 1st tier mean in this?" A disciple asked.

"Every technique has a 'grade' also know as 'tier' by many people. The higher the tier of the technique, the better it is." She continued, "The lowest grade is 1st and the highest is 5th."

"Normal disciples will get tier 1 techniques. And as your rank in the sect will increase, you can get access to tier 2 and 3 techniques too."

The disciples were a little happy about this. Who wouldn't like a technique for free? But luan had a question he wanted to ask.

"What if we are already practicing a technique and don't wanna switch?" He asked.

"You can do that if the technique you're practicing is better than 1st tier. It's not mandatory to use a technique from the sect. Many nobles do that." The teacher answered.

"Oh, by the way, take some missions from the mission board after learning the technique to get some experience in a fight.

After that, the class was over luan and Angela started going towards the mission center. It was just the starting of afternoon and they had half of the day on them. When they came outside they saw some more disciples being released. They did not take optional classes as well.

Luan and Angela decided to visit the mission board the teacher talked about. He wanted to know how strong he had gotten when he reached the new minor realm.

They reached a board that had the names, location and picture of beasts on papers. Additionally, there was also the cultivation base of the beasts written on them.

"Centaurs, tigers, gnomes, goblins... "

Luan took 2 papers off them. One for himself and one for Angela. He took out the ones with tiger and centaur. Centaurs is a creature with the upper body of a human and lower body of a horse.

The tiger was in the Qi gathering 3 and the centaur was in the 2nd and both were not too far away from each other.

They took the papers and teared them apart indicating they have take the mission. They started going down the mountain where the beasts were. Luan had the agility of 310 so he could run 310 km per hour constantly. As Angela was in the middle stages of 2nd minor realm, she could go 256 km per hour.

"Angela go complete this centaur mission"

"What about you?" She asked innocently.

"I'm completing the tiger mission."

Angela wasn't ready to part ways with luan even for a while. She could get into some kind of trouble if luan is not present. This was exactly what luan wanted to change. He wanted her to become independent, slowly but surely. After some time of convincing, she agreed while hesitating alot. They parted ways soon after.

...

After running for about 30 minutes, he found the tiger.

He was roaming around in the forest and was at the peak of Qi gathering 3rd realm.

"Haha, this guy is stronger than the beast I've faught before." Luan said as a grin creeped on his face.

"This will be fun"