Basics

Long Yong quickly returned to his house in order to explore the True Mystic cultivation technique.

He entered his house and without greeting the two maids he went into his room and closed the door.

He opened the manual and started reading, he was fascinated by the description of the breathing patters described. As a mortal he can only absorb spiritual energy through special breathing techniques, that is why every cultivation technique in it's beginning stages will have a breathing technique.

Long Yong didn't mind the other parts as they were for later, he now has to concentrate on mastering the breathing technique first.

After memorizing the breathing patterns he directly went to the meditation chamber to try.

As he sealed the Meditation chamber he sat down in the lotus position described in the manual, now it was time for the important parts, the first was the breathing technique and the other was expanding and contracting the chest and the abdominal area.

Long Yong sat down for an hour before he managed to synchronize the breathing technique with his body's movements, just as he succeeded he felt some warmth enter through his nose travelling down but it looked like it was blocked before leaving his body when he exhaled.

Long Yong was surprised, he was pretty sure that warmth was spiritual energy, so he didn't get discouraged and continued to try, he didn't always manage to synchronize his breathing with his body movement but he got better and felt that the Spiritual energy is going down a bit more each try.

Long Yong was quite confused why the spiritual energy won't just go to his dantian, but he was quite tired to try anymore and tomorrow was the class on basic cultivation so he may get his answers there.

Even though he was just sitting in his place breathing and moving his chest and abdominal area he sweaty and quite tired, so he got a bath and ate a meal before turning in for the night.

Long Yong got up in the morning for his exercise routine and got his bath before leaving towards the lesson hall, there were two hours scheduled for the basics of cultivation.

He went to the hall and entered a large room that reminded Long Yong of his past life when he attended lessons in university .

There were some people already there, some seats on the front were already taken, as Long Yong didn't want to bring attention to himself he sat in the third row, still pretty close to the front.

As the minutes passed more people entered and filled the lecture hall, then a middle aged man entered and everyone shut their mouths.

"Hello everyone, i'm Dai Fan an inner elder, today i'm going to teach you about the basics of cultivation." the now named Dai fan said as he looked at the attendees.

"Cultivation is a practice that helps us shed our mortality and increase our lifespan, it is also a practice that grant us supernatural powers where we can call the wind and thunder or curse someone from far away."

"The practice of cultivation starts with Qi condensation, it is a stage where the body is made more suiting to cultivate."

"The Qi condensation stage has 12 levels each three levels focus on different things, well besides obviously gathering spiritual energy."

"To start cultivation you'll have to practice breathing techniques, these techniques will allow you to breath in spiritual energy, but this is not enough to reach the first level of Qi condensation, as a mortal your meridians are blocked so the spiritual energy has no way of reaching your dantian."

Long Yong was shocked, and realized that this is why he hasn't reached the first level.

"But don't worry, as you continue your breathing techniques, you'll clear your first meridian and reach the first level of Qi condensation"

"The first three levels of Qi condensation focus on cleansing the body and opening up the meridians. I would recommend that you cleanse your body well to have a smoother path."

This stuck to Long Yong as he read novel where people get stuck at a "Bottleneck" unable to advance further.

'I will have to cleanse my body to the limits and make my spiritual energy purer and denser, as i'm no protagonist i will definitely be stuck if i'm not careful and won't have the luck to find supreme herbs'

At that moment Long Yong decided that he will do his best to reach the extremes of his stages and won't breakthrough until his cultivation is extremely stable even if it cost him time.

'I don't care if i lag behind others, if i'm able to follow this path to the limits i might even be able to upgrade my talent. As for those protagonists who's cultivation goes at light speed, I know i can't match them, cultivator have a long life and i will take my time breaking through.'

The elder continued, "The fourth to the sixth stages are where you strengthen your body and widen the meridians, followed by the seventh to the ninth level where you refine and increase your dantian's capacity"

"After the ninth level your spiritual energy will be a vital part of you and will be able to penetrate deep inside so the tenth to the twelfth levels are where your spiritual energy manages to reach your soul and strengthens it granting you a Divine sense."

Long Yong was very attentive and was taking notes in his small notebook that he usually uses for studying Alchemy. The elder went on explaining the intricacies of these levels before the lesson ended.

Long Yong returned room and entered his meditation room, he already knew that on top of his training yesterday he will need around another three days as it was the average for mystic grade talents.

And this was only thanks to the thick spiritual energy in the sect, if he was outside it will take him around a month.

With this in mind it was time to go back to the grind, eternity and power are at his fingertips it was only up to him to grasp them.