Cultivation

The days went on and today Tianlong was 5 years old. The times changed pretty fast and Tianlong felt like his body is finally ready to start cultivating. However the only obstacle is how is he going to do it without people thinking that he's some kind off monster. Even the other kids only start training when they are 10, so a 5 years old kid training in martial arts would be as out of place as a black guy in Sweden (I really hope you get the reference XD). Even though his body looks like that of an 8years old he's just not there yet.

After pondering for a bit, he found the solution.

'My father is the strongest person in the village and he drops by at the school sometimes to give some lessons to the kids training there, so if I get him to train me it wouldn't as weird and nobody will even know because I'll be doing it home… I'm a genius'.

But he turned out to be dumb.

Convincing his father that he was ready to start training in martial arts proved to be super hard, so he had to work around the obstacle since he couldn't clear it.

"Father, just give me a chance and I'll prove to you that I am ready to start training".

Xiao Hulong seemed to be in a tough situation, he was happy that his son was enthusiastic about cultivation and training; however his fatherly instincts just couldn't bring him to make his go through harsh training.

'Children have to eventually leave the nest, however it is not time for him yet'

"I'll give you one week and at the end of the week I want to see you 100 consecutive pushups non-stop, if you can achieve that then I'll train you as you want"

Hulong thought that that would be challenging enough for our 5 years old Tianlong. However what he didn't expect was the sudden answer from his son.

"Make it 3 days" said Tianlong excitedly.

"Arrogant now aren't we?"

"There is a difference between confidence and arrogance father, you should know better"

Hulong was flabbergasted with the answer.

"Well then, we'll have it your way tough guy, show me your confidence" Hulong said while he started walking away.

However after some time it hit him: 'where did he learn that from, the cheeky bastard just made me look stupid'.

Back at the house Tianlong started training immediately. He had a clear plan on how to achieve his goal.

'Even though my body is a bit bigger than that of a 5 years old, it's still that of a kid who which makes it super weak. Thank god they made us study biology in school at least I have some understanding of how the body works.'

Gaining strength happens through the development of the muscles. Basically, you train and by doing so you tear down some muscle fibers and then you should rest properly so that those muscles fibers can regrow properly, double kin quantity and higher in quality.

However what Tianlongs plan was simply to inject pure energy that he refines straight into the muscles which will enhance the natural healing factor of the body by leaps and bound. The energy could also provide all the protein and supplements the muscles needed.

And that's exactly what he did for three days straight. Wake up at the have a hearty breakfast and start training until it was time for lunch, have lunch, start training again until dinner, have dinner, and then go straight to sleep, wake up the day the day after and repeat.

In the fourth day Hulong came expecting a tired and sleepy Tianlong who wouldn't even be able to do 20 pushups straight.

However what he didn't expect was how the kid who stood in front of him looked super energetic. He thought the kid was just playing around and he wasn't training at all.

"Remove your shirt, I want to see how much has your muscles developed" Hulong said sarcastically.

"As you wish you wish boss".

Tianlong did so and removed his shirt.

'Ahh…here it is the shock of the century'

"Umm, father can you please close your mouth, flies have been going crazy lately".

However not a single word had reached Hulongs ears. He was simply flabbergasted at how well toned his son's upper body has become, every muscles was popping out like its saying 'look at me I'm here'.

'A kid's body shouldn't look like that, what the hell happened. His body was not like that 3 days ago'.

And then the realization hit him.

'MY SON IS BLESSED BY THE HEAVENS!!!'

He finally got his bearings back when he saw his son silently laughing at him.

"*cough, cough*… ehm, so let's get started with the pushups"

"Sir yes sir" Tianlong said as he went down and took the position.

"Okay, I'll count for you" Hulong said in an expecting tone.

Tianlong started.

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…"

*After a while*

"96, 97, 98, 99, and 100, good job" Hulong said happily, however Tianlong didn't stop and kept going.

Hulong saw how his son was behaving so he decided to just go with it and keep counting.

*After more time*

"297, 298, 299, 300…"

Tianlong finally tired and he stopped. He moved his head upwards to look at his father only to see Hulong eyeing him with a perplexed look.

There was an awkward silence there for a while.

But the Tianlong finally talked in a really tired voice "did I pass the test?"

Hulong kept looking at him and didn't say anything. After a bit, he turned around and started walking away, and while doing so he said "training starts in 2 days now go get some rest".

And that's how Tianlong got his first tutor.

*after 2 days*

Tianlong and Hulong could be seen in a sitting positing, one against the other, while Hulong was explaining how the technique he was qoing to teach him today works.

"Everybody needs a technique to open up their dantians and to start absorbing energy, and that's what I have for you today so listen carefully. First you'll have to start feeling the Qi energy around you, if you successfully do that next thing you'll have to do is to start drawing that energy towards your skin and in your body next you guide that energy slowly to your 12 dantians and start unlocking them one by one, after they are all unlocked it should be easier to absorb Qi afterwards straight to your dantians, nut that's not all, after doing that you should purify that Qi in your diantians, after it gets purified you integrate the purified Qi with your blood and start circulating it in your whole body with every circulation the Purified Qi removes all imperfections from your body and dumps them out while strengthening and improving your constitution and making you stronger, the lighter you feel that the circulation is getting it means that you are near a breakthrough, however with every breakthrough the energy circulation gets harder and harder. Understood?"

"Loud and clear"

"Then go ahead and start, I'll supervise you however I'll only help you if it seems like you're in trouble".

"Okay"

Tianlong skipped through all the sensing stuff and went straight to absorption and purification.

Let's just say that Hulong doesn't have control over his gaping mouth anymore.

Tianlong controlled the purified energy and started circulation it in his body, he kept doing and doing it and at last a sound was heard from his body it was like a small explosion. He broke through to the first stage of Qi gathering realm. A weird greyish substance started to appear on his skin. But he wasn't done yet…

*Boom* -2nd stage-*Boom* -3rd stage-*Boom* -4th stage-*Boom* -5th stage-

And there he stopped, for now that is, he didn't want to drive his father to craziness.

Now, Tianlong looked like a stone statue with all the imperfections that got out of his body.

He opened his eyes and said "okay father I'm done with this session I'll need to get a bit used to this feeling and my new powers is that okay?"

Tianlong whose mouth was still open could only say "yes, yes…" while his mind was still struggling to process what just happened and his mind was only screaming one thing

'MY SON IS A GENIUS BLESSED BY THE HEAVENS'

Tianlong stood up and started running straight to the river where he would a nice and refreshing swim to get all the mud like substances off of his body.

And that's how Tianlongs first cultivation session went.