lecture

After a few minutes, mu xin face started to get red, so he tried to pull back, but the person who held him didn't let go at all.

"Um sister hua? Can you please let me go?"

"Why? Are you embarrassed? Your red face is cute~"

Mu xin already red face got even redder, he struggled but shu hua had no intention to letting him go.

"It's alright, no need to be ashamed like that, rather than that, I have something to ask you, what will you do now?" She sat down on the tree root as she say that while still having mu xin in her embrace.

"Keep my self safe and stay alive"

"That's not what I mean silly, what do you want to do in the future, or what is your dream?"

(My dream?) Mu xin is speechless with that question, after all, since he was a kid, he never had a right to decide his future.

(What I want to do? I'm in another world, so I can do what I want right, but what?) Mu xin felt like the previous path of his life that always filled with dark mist not allowed him to see what in front suddenly cleared up with bright light made him can't decide which direction he should walk to.

As he keeps pondering while being hugged and have the back of his head gently being stroke by shu hua, shu hua suddenly said something "you don't have to think so hard, you can just find it out slowly from now on".

Mu xin is relaxed after he heard what shu hua just said (right, i have all the time i need now i can take it slowly, but there's something that piqued my interest) " Um sister hua, may I ask you something?"

"Hmm what is it?"

"Sister hua, you said something about cultivation, what is that?"

"Oh little xin don't know cultivation? Should sister explain in then?"

"If it's alright"

"Of course it's alright, you see in this world exist an energy called spiritual qi, and cultivation is people absorbing this energy into their dantian to increase their strength, lifespan, and some ability a normal mortal doesn't have, this people called cultivator"

(Cultivator.... So, this was a cultivation world?)

"But you need spiritual root you were born within your dantian to cultivate, and otherwise you can't cultivate at all, while everyone has dantian not everyone born with spiritual root so not all people can become cultivator because spiritual root is the one absorbing spiritual qi into one dantian"

(So can I cultivate? I hope I have it, spiritual root)

"So sister hua, how can someone tell whenever someone has a spiritual root or not?"

"Little xin want to become a cultivator? That's not a bad purpose, but are you certain? The world of cultivator is cruel, killing, and death happening every day, it can be because of jealousy, greed, hatred or simply annoyed, cultivators mostly obey the law of jungle, so it's dangerous"

(Even more reason i have to cultivate right? I require strength if I want to survive)

"I'm sure sister hua I wish to cultivate and become a cultivator, can I? Do I have spiritual root?"

"If little xin is sure then sister won't stop you, and little xin does have spiritual root so little xin can start anytime" Shu hua still gently stroke mu xin head all this time.

(I have it?! Great! But i can start cultivating immediately? I don't need cultivation technique like in those novels I read before? I just asked sister hua).

"Then sister hua, can you please teach me how?"

"Before that, eat this first, it helps you cultivate more easily" As she said that, a branch of the tree extended out toward them with a fruit on it.

"Sister hua, what does it do?"

"Eat it, and you will know"

Mu xin looked at the fruit while pondering (well if she really has bad intention she doesn't need to use such a trick on me since she can just use force, and she won't be hugging me like this to) make up his mind mu xin took the fruit and bite it.

Immediately after he swallowed it, he can feel something is flowing from his stomach around his body and gathering on his head, he felt his mind is refresh like he just woke up from a great and fulfilling sleep, he comes to his sense after being absorbed in that wonderful feeling, he noticed his sight seems better than before, everything looks more colorful than usual, and he can somewhat tell that something is flowing in the air, he can't see it, but he can somewhat feel it.

(The hell???) "Sister hua, this is"

"Surprise? Hehe this is mind ascension fruit, basically it will improve one mind if eaten, so how it feels when your mind is improved?"

"It was amazing, but sister hua is it alright for me to eat it? Isn't it precious?" (Anything that has such an effect definitely precious, why she is so nice to me?).

"It's alright I grow a lot of it over time and no one eats it anyway, and eating that fruit before starting cultivation will make your path much easier, now I teach you how to cultivate"

Mu xin perk up to listen carefully, he doesn't want to miss such knowledge.

"The first step to cultivating is sense the spiritual qi in the air, only when you can feel it you can interact with it, the next one is to inhale the spiritual qi as much as possible into your stomach to instigate the spiritual root in you're dantian to start absorbing spiritual qi you inhale, this step depends on your spiritual root compatibility with spiritual qi, the higher the compatibility is the faster you're spiritual root to absorb spiritual qi, as long you manage to absorb some spiritual qi you will reach the starting point of all cultivators which is known as body refining realm, after you eat that fruit you can tell something is in the air, but you can't see it right little xin?" Now mu xin realizes he already skipped the first step, but there's still much more to realize in the future.