God Of Immortals

Chapter 10: Heart Of A Cultivator [VI]

"But today, I will teach you the serenity of the soul. Although, your soul is in limbo, you are still connected to it by few threads. I want you to realize that although our universe appears to be expanding, we are still connected to it. This connection has great effect on why we are who we are. Serenading your soul will put it in a state of peace where it can become enlightened. But the first step is for your soul to realise that it's in limbo, then to gradually bring it out of it. That's the reason for all these training we are giving you."

Zhang Wang Jing stopped and watched the reactions of her grandson who was standing as if he was in a delicate dream. She gave a gentle shake of her head before smiling. She knew the feeling too well. She was in a similar situation too when she was a kid.

"Ju Feng, I will teach you the Serene-World technique. It's simple, but very effective. This technique is different from the Timeless-Soul technique. Unlike the Timeless-Soul used for cultivation, this one is used for the mystical arts. The elements. Our ancestors have all used it to good results. Now, let me show you how it work."

Zhang Wang Jing showed the technique to her grandson who quickly sat down and started practicing it. Zhang Wang Jing continued to watch him practice while memories crept up in her mind. He was just like his mother, physically strong and mentally powerful. Zhang Wang Jing's thoughts, again, went to her daughter. A demigod at the threshold of the Jindan stage. Once her daughter formed her golden core, she would become a true Asura. What a day it would be.

She was joyfully beaming with teary eyes in this recall. How could she not be happy? From hopelessness to a future filled with great potentials. It was definitely a source of happiness. A grandmother! And her grandson was growing really fast and strong too. Surely, this must be the heavens. Or, how could she explain all these?

Heavens did favour us.

Lost in thoughts, it was already evening before she realized time had swiftly passed by. Although Ju Feng was still practicing, she decided it was time to leave. More days ahead to practice.

Leaving the area, they arrived at the cave to see Zhang Li Qiang returning from the farm with jars of fresh milk to celebrate the beginning of Ju Feng's long journey to immortality. His mother had already made a special food for them. Roasted yellow-green deer and a large bowl of millet, coated in the honey of the cloud-honey-gourd bee. Those went along with the goat milk in its variants, and they ate to their satisfaction. It was truly a good day, for one of their own had started his immortal cultivation. It would be hard and dangerous, but surely a thing for celebration.

And after the meal, they all raised the drink to Jufeng's future. As his mother was finishing with the tidying up, Ju Feng silently went to her.

"Ma, don't forget about me."

"How can I forget about you my son. I planned on calling you the moment I finish here."

Looking at her son's face, she patted him on his shoulder and smiled.

"Alright, follow me."

They went inside the cultivation chamber and sat in lotus positions, facing each other. Zhang Xiu Ying took out a lower grade bottled elixir, and gave it to her son.

"Take a little drink out of it. As this is your first time, It will help sooth your chi meridians and blood veins."

After taking back the bottle from her son, Zhang Xiu Ying continued.

"Cultivation is the way for a soul to reach eternity, without any form of natural death. The path for your soul to be free of reincarnation. As you already know, immortality is the reason why we all practice cultivation, and I can assure you that cultivation is a true way.

For generations, our family has been keeping the Skyfire manuscript safely secured. It has techniques for cultivation method, martial and mystical arts. The one for cultivation is the Timeless-Soul technique. Although it's practice comes with extreme pain, it has great benefit for us. You need to experience it for you to understand."

Zhang Xiu Ying observed her son and her heart was filled with compassionate affection. The difficulty ahead for her son, who was just starting cultivation, would be in the extremity. If the words of the oracle were to be believed regarding that. For her, it had been a different story. She had been fortunate to inherit the Asuran bloodline on her path of cultivation as a demigod. So, for her son who wasn't as fortunate, she would definitely do everything to make it easier for him.

"Before we start, I want you to remember that, martial arts, mystical arts and immortal cultivation are three parts of a true one. Cultivators use their Chi essence from cultivation to perform their mystical arts. And in turn, they use mystical arts to provide the power of elementals for their martial arts.

Mystical arts deal with the life-force by bringing out the elemental energies hidden in it. Hence, a true cultivator will know all the three aspects. I know you'll get there, so let's start. Since you are already familiar with the foetal-breathing method in the womb, you will start with sensing the Chi energy in your body."

Zhang Xiu Ying looked at her anxious son, and started talking in a quieter and slower tone.

"Close your eyes. Now, start breathing the way I showed you before. Slowly."

Ju Feng shut his eyes and started using the foetal-breathing method of the Timeless-Soul technique. Like all embryos, he had been using the foetal-breathing method when he was still in the womb. It was a soothing continuation which was much appreciated by him.

"As you continue to breathe, you will feel an uplifting sensation in your body, like energy from a medicinal pill. Let me know when you feel it."

Several hours later.

"Now that you can sense a fraction of the Chi in your body, just let the traces of the energy flow in your body."

***

Ju Feng continued to train hard at a steady pace for the following three years.

Physically, he was growing stronger by the day. In martial arts, he had already reached the Yinying level of the silver eagle which was a level above the beginner stage. He had finished learning the basics and was almost done with the stances. In the mystical arts, he discovered that he had traces of element energy but couldn't determine them yet. And in immortal cultivation, he was at the early stage of Juchi, the gathering of Chi. The stage after the sensing of Chi.

Despite the extreme agonizing pain, the Timeless-Soul technique was slowly, but gradually, enlarging his dantian and meridians as the tiny fragments of blue crystalline he was consuming kept on supplying his dantian with Chi energy.