Into Wild

"Ha?! Brat? The fuck do you think you're looking at?! Huh?!!?"

Zhao Jun smirked as he heard the roar and promptly flashed a middle finger towards the hooligan. The face of the man became extremely enraged.

"Fuck! Brats these days really have no manners!!!"

The hooligan rushed towards Zhao Jun, swinging his fist in his direction. However, Zhao Jun smoothly slid down to the left, dodging the fist. He then grabbed the circular cover of a nearby dustbin and, with a smirk, commented, "Thank you for the clothes, uncle!"

The face of the drunk hooligan widened, and the next second, the metal cover was smashed right over his face, knocking him unconscious.

"Dumbass trash..."

Zhao Jun scoffed as he placed the cover back in the dustbin. After a bit of struggling due to his small body, Zhao Jun finally procured an oversized hoodie and t-shirt for himself and left the place. As he emerged from the gap between two buildings into the bustling streets, his gaze fell upon people walking by, with cars and buildings everywhere.

"The Qi does exist in this world, but people here are pursuing both Qi and technology, huh? It's rather convenient because of their low limits in this world over cultivation. My age here seems to be 11, a bit late, but I can cover up the losses in a few years."

Zhao Jun blinked a few times and examined his body. His arms were so thin that one could use him as a laboratory example to explain the skeletons and veins of the human body.

'Let's gain a bit of cultivation first. I have inherited bits of memories from this body, so thankfully, I don't need to make a fool of myself jumping at people like monkeys...'

Zhao Jun nodded with a smile, quietly covered his head with a hoodie, and left the place. After about three hours, Zhao Jun was seen coming out of a local bus in a forest region full of hills.

"You sure you want to leave from here? It's a wild region, and I heard there are even demonic beasts living in this place."

The bus driver questioned Zhao Jun with a worried look. Zhao Jun nodded with a bright smile and replied, "Don't worry, uncle! I have done it many times! My house is just a few meters away! Please take care of your way!"

Reluctant but understanding, the driver left the place, knowing that it wasn't uncommon for children in the local region to travel by themselves in the current era of modern cultivators.

As the bus left, the smile on Zhao Jun's face returned to a calm look as he released a deep sigh and took out a dagger from his pocket.

"Demonic Beasts, huh? They are the reason I'm here..."

As Zhao Jun said that, he immediately jumped into the wild and forest region. After a few minutes, he finally found a quiet tree and sat down.

'Time to start it all over again!'

'Stellar Alignment Path!'

Zhao Jun grinned, and suddenly, seven spots along his spine started to glow like stars of different colors: red, orange, yellow, green, sky blue, deep blue, and finally violet at the absolute top of his head.

All these seven stars connected in one straight line, and as the moments went on, the light coming from them grew brighter. Zhao Jun's body was fully covered by various colorful traces of light, getting absorbed back into his body without failure.

Two black and white serpent-shaped auras slowly rose from the ground beneath and started to revolve around Zhao Jun in circles. As the serpents went higher, their scales became more detailed, and by the time they reached the head, they had developed fur-like structures around their necks and backs. Finally, after a few dozen minutes, as the serpents touched the purple star above Zhao Jun's head, they transformed into black and white dragons and roared towards the heavens, audible throughout a radius of several miles. A breakthrough pillar suddenly rose from Zhao Jun, towering straight towards the sky.

[Congratulations on breaking through to Stage 1 Qi Condensation Realm!]

As the notification rang, the grin on Zhao Jun's face brightened, and at the same time, his rough black hairs started to shine with a mysterious dark glow, and his physical condition also improved immensely.

'Kundalini has finally been awakened, huh... Then next! It's time to swallow it all!'

Zhao Jun thought that, immediately, all the Qi around the region started getting sucked right inside Zhao Jun as he collected all of that energy around his dantian at the center of his stomach.

The suction force Zhao Jun displayed at that moment was nothing short of absurd, easily more than dozens of times compared to some ordinary cultivator of the same stage.

'Now that's the specialty of my cultivation technique called 'Stellar Alignment Path.' It awakens seven Great Kundalini Stars unique to my soul.'

After awakening them, my Absorption, Comprehension, Resilience, Perseverance, Sensitivity, Adaptability, and Spiritual Connection—all these abilities that make cultivators different from mortals—get amplified by more than hundreds of times. However, at the same time, the Stellar Alignment Path Technique requires far more energy to break through, hence it's a bit of a limiter for me..."

Zhao Jun smiled, and in just a few hours, another breakthrough pillar suddenly rose from him, and a notification rang again.

[Congratulations on breaking through to Stage 2 Qi Condensation Realm!]

The progress continued all day until Zhao Jun finally reached Stage 7 of the Qi Condensation Realm. As he opened his eyes again, his deep blue pupils seemed to radiate with sage's wisdom and ruler's authority.

*Grooowwwlll~*

"Ah shit, here goes all the flow."

Zhao Jun cursed and stood up from his place, rubbing his stomach as he removed the jacket. His pupils started to glow in dim light as he scanned throughout the wild region, commenting,

"Well, I guess we found the food too..."

As Zhao Jun said that, he immediately flashed like lightning. In a moment, he was seen right in front of a meter-long green serpent with a wooden branch in his hand. He smashed its head, crushing it completely in one go.

[You have killed Tier 1 Demonic Beast!]

[Gained 1 System Point!]

"Silence this notification function."

[Understood]

"Anyways, by this world's logic, it's a Tier 1 Monster, the weakest one but well..."

Zhao Jun slowly took out a white crystal from the head of the serpent, and as he observed it, a nod of satisfaction flashed over his face.

"Guess the resources in the wild aren't bad..."

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