What Is This?

The next day Long Xue woke up curled up in a ball under a tree. He slowly opened his eyes but for some reason the world seemed much more colorful than yesterday, there also seemed to be something in the air that he could sense. It was spiritual qi, even in the average 90 years of a mortals life they may never be able to sense it. That's because the more you experience in life and the more traumatic and the younger you experience it the easier it becomes to sense, the reason he couldn't sense it after he watched his parents get killed I'm cold blood in front of him is because his brain instinctively suppressed that trauma and it only came out after killing the bear and seeing its cubs. "Why does everything look different today?" Long Xue mutterd curiously "Wait, why do those words make sense now?" The words he was talking about was of course the Qi Condensation Manual that was given to him by Han Li.

"Use the spiritual qi of the world to strengthen the body and soul. To do that is simple in theory but hard in practice, sit in the lotus position and the spiritual qi of the world well slowly be drawn into your meridians then go to your dantain." Long Xue read out loud to himself, of course the lotus position he spoke about isn't exactly the lotus position that mortals do but a more complicated process. For some reason Long Xue couldn't help but try it out again going by the diagram that he could see along with the words, but one thing that Long Xue didn't notice is that he doesn't even know how to read! The reason he could read the words is because the Qi Condensation Manual was imprinted onto his souls.

Long Xue felt something enter his body, and knew that itnwas spiritual qi! The spirit qi slowly went through his meridians and to his dantain that was located by his abdomen, it was a slow process but he could feel it. He sat there for three hours slowly absorbing spiritual qi before he felt his stomach growl and went to look for something to eat. After looking around for a while he couldn't find any fruit to eat so he went to look for a lake to see if he could find any fish. It took him two hours to find one, this one wasn't as clear as the one yesterday but he could still see some trout swimming around, so as he did yesterday he went sword fishing. He was better at it this time, as it only took him 1o minutes to catch one. And once again he did the same thing as yesterday and found a dry tree to get some bark and sticks to make a fire. When he got back to the lake there was something eating his fish! It was and old wolf that had got kicked out of its pack, wolf's and plenty of other pack animals will kick the old, heavily wounded and sick out of the pack for a better chance that the rest of them don't go hungry, it may be cruel but that's how the world works. Seeing the old wolf Long Xue froze and wanted to run, unfortunately for him it turned around when it heard his footsteps, the old wolf tossed the small trout that Long Xue had caught and punced at him. Long Xue knew that he couldn't run now, so he put his sword in front of him and the starving wolf, when the wolf was a meter away from Long Xue, Long Xue charged back at the old wolf. The wolf didn't care as he just kept changing at him, the quickly got next to each other, Long Xue jabbed his sword towards the old wolf's throat while the wolf went to pounce at him, but that was his fatal mistake, Long Xue's sword pierced his neck but at the same time the wolf clawed a chunk of Long Xue's flesh off.

Long Xue rolled on the ground holding his right shoulder with his left hand with tears streaming down his face from the pain, he was like that for ten minutes before he looked south and wondered "Should I go back to the villages?" But Long Xue quickly through that thought away and went to get up, but he couldn't, the pain on his shoulder didn't allow him to. Long Xue looked at his sword that was stuck in the wolf's throat and used his left arm to slowly drag himself towards it ignoring the pain that came from his shoulder the best he could. It took him four minutes to crawl not even a meter of space to the wolf's corpse, when he got there he tried to use the wolf's corps to help himself get up off the ground, he kept ignoring the pain the best he could but despite that it took him ten minutes get back up. When he got back up he went to the wolf's throat and pulled his sword out of it, but while pulling it out he fell, but luckily for Long Xue he still had the sword in his left hand and used that to pick himself up off the ground.

When he got back up he saw the things he was going to use for a fire scattered around the ground, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to pick them up in his condition. Long Xue went through his head to see if his parents had taught him anything that could be used in this situation, he thought of something but it wasn't very useful because his dad told him "If you ever become a hunter one day and get lost and don't have any food certain fish can be eaten raw. Of course even though it can be eaten raw doesn't mean that you should do it, you could get sick after all." But despite that Long Xue went to the half eaten fish and decided that he would get a new one. He went back to the lake and started looking for any passing fish, he quickly stabbed his sword down but he lost his balance because he was only using one arm instead of two like he usually would and fell in. Luckily the part of the lake he was at was shallow, still with his right arm in its terrible condition it took him a few minutes to get fully up out of the water and back to shore. Unluckily for Long Xue is that he scared off all the nearby fish, he waited for ten minutes but not a single one came back. He then turned around to look at the wolf's corpse and the material for the fire scattered nearby it and sighed. He went to the wolf's corpse and slashed his sword into its tigh cutting off a chunk of hairy meat. He than went to pick up the bark and sticks and spent around thirty minutes making a tent shape so the air could flow and let it catch fire. Sometime later he also found a stone he could use to light the fire, he swiftly stabbed his sword into the ground and took the stone out of his pocket, this time it almost took him a full hour to light the fire. He too his sword out of the ground and walked back to the wolf and stabbed his sword into the piece of meat he had cut off before hand, although it still had fur on it Long Xue couldn't care for that now, because it was already past seven in the evening and he hadn't eaten all day.