Chapter 6: No Talent then Transform!
Old Man saw the excited Lu Feng and laughed, “Look carefully.” Saying this, Old Man spun his right hand, and quickly struck across. Lu Feng couldn’t see anything, and only saw a stone half the size of a human, smashed into bits.
Lu Feng was stunned, whilst the Old Man laughed and said, “Amazing, right?” Lu Feng immediately pulled his sleeve and laughed, “Master, you definitely must teach me this.” Old Man stroked his beard whilst laughing, and said proudly, “My technique, it is called One Force Strike. As far as you’re concerned, if you wish to learn this in a day, that is impossible.”
“You bastard Old Man!” Lu Feng suddenly wished that he could pull out the Old Man’s beard, however, the Old Man laughed again and said, “However, you can carry out this style, its destructive power compared to mine will not be much, but scaring people is definitely possible.”
Lu Feng thought that being able to scare people was not bad, and had no choice but to say, “That’s fine. Quickly teach me.” Old man slightly nodded his head before asking, “Do you know what cultivation is?” Lu Feng didn’t know what it was at all. For the past 6 months, Old Man did not teach him anything, and instead made him carry out errands everyday. Then in the night, he had to sleep on an ice-cold stone bed. The thought of it made him feel bitter, “You never even told me, how would I know.”
The Old Man stroked his beard and smiled. “Good. Then I’ll explain it to you.”
Lu Feng opened his eyes wide to listen. He remembered asking people before in town, except how would the ordinary people know how to cultivate. Even the priests did not know clearly what cultivating was, all they did was preach of the countless years they cultivated as monks.
However, the Old Man before him, whom Lu Feng had spent half a year with, Lu Feng felt that even though the Old Man likes teasing him; he definitely had some ability, especially the strike just now, which attracted him even more, as he looked at Old Man with a well-behaved look.
Old Man at this time, immediately became serious, and said, “To cultivate for immortality, is equivalent to fighting for your life against the heavens. Once you start training, you cannot stop. Are you sure you want to do this?”
Lu Feng forced a smile, “If this was our Earth, there would be many who despite longing to, are unable to cultivate. Going up and down the heavens carefreely.”
The Old Man’s face suddenly had a bewildered expression, “What Earth?” Lu Feng turned around and laughed, “Nothing at all.” The Old Man had no choice but to continue saying, “Listen carefully, going up and down the heavens freely sounds impressive, but how many people do you think can reach this realm?”
Lu Feng curiously asked, “How many people?”
The Old Man solemnly said, “Let’s say ten thousand people practice cultivation, only one person out of all of them will be so powerful. Do you believe that you are this person?” Lu Feng’s complexion suddenly turned sickly and he gently coughed, “Not being invincible under the heavens, having some strength is enough.”
“Good then, seeing that you realised, this is not bad. Many people are far too greedy, after all not everyone’s spiritual roots can reach such a realm.”
Lu Feng had read before in novels about spiritual roots. Having better spiritual roots meant that the person had better talent in cultivating. He asked excitedly, “Master, this spiritual root, how can it be tested? Help me test my spiritual root a bit.”
The Old Man stared at him and said, “I had already tested yours.” Lu Feng puzzled asked, “Already tested? When did that happen?”
“It is the bed you sleep on every night, did you not figure it out?”
Lu Feng depressingly said, “Is it not the ice cold stone bed? What else is there to feel?”
The Old Man didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “ It’s a spiritual root testing device made from spirit stone.Those with inferior Spiritual Roots won’t feel anything special, including you.”
“What was mine?” Lu Feng face had an expectant look. The Old Man burst into laughter, “You don’t have even a single spiritual root.” Lu Feng made a pooh sound, “Old Man, I think there is an error, could it be the thing is broken.”
Seeing that Lu Feng does not believe him then said, “You brat! You just recognised me as you master, and now you have the gall to disrespect me!!” Lu Feng had no choice as he wanted to learn but to say, “Master, Master, is this enough.”
The Old Man then continued, “Not having spiritual roots doesn’t matter, the worst is the people who abandon themselves to despair.” Lu Feng curiously asked, “What? It’s possible to cultivate spiritual qi without a spiritual root?”
“Of course, a lot of people without spiritual roots are cultivating. It’s just that it takes a whole lifetime to make any progress, unless you are from a large family or a influential clan and use some miracle pill. Which forcefully creates a spiritual root.”
Lu Feng’s two eyes brightened, “Then it is possible?”
“Of course, it’s called the Houtian Transformation.”
Lu Feng thought long and hard, then muttered to himself. “If I can manage to take some of the Immortal Fruit from the Realm of the Immortals, wouldn’t that mean I would gain a new power?” Once Lu Feng thought about that, he wished he could hurry and obtain all the Spirit Coins and go to the Immortal’s realm.
The Old Man saw Lu Feng’s dazed expression and said. “Were you even listening to what I was saying?” Lu Feng snapped back into attention and replied,”Yes. Yes I was, Master. Please continue with your speech.”
“En, I’m done telling you about the spiritual roots, so let’s talk about your training. Since you’ve just started training and thinking about cultivating. You need to first accumulate Spirit Qi.
Lu Feng excited, immediately said “I know, I know, it is to accumulate Qi into the body’s dantian. Then with this Qi it can be use for abilities, right?”
The Old Man’s mind was boggled, “When did you learn this?” Lu Feng laughed, “I read from novels.” The Old Man was confused and asked, “Novels? Which master’s secret book?” Lu Feng almost spat while laughing, “Nothing much, it’s just a random person’s writing.”
The Old Man made an “Oh” sound and then continued, “Since you already know about Spirit Qi then I won’t continue on that. All of us have a space where we store Spirit Qi, that is where you want to store it. Inside the common spirit stone there is a relatively large number of Spirit Qi in it which can be absorbed.”
Lu Feng half understood and asked, “How are you supposed to collect it?” The Old Man helplessly said, “Don’t I make you meditate daily?” Lu Feng depressed asked, “You’re talking about sitting cross legged?”
“Of course.”
Lu Feng was confused, “Everyday I meditate for a few hours, for half a day. My buttocks were starting to harden, what the hell, thing that was supposed to happen didn’t.”
“That’s because you don’t have spirit roots, exactly as you said, there was not a single benefit.”
Lu Feng dejectedly said,”Then what should I do about it.” The Old Man took out a small bottle and said, “Here I have a few Yin Spirit Pills, even if you are a useless idiot, you should at least be able to grow a first grade spirit root.”
Lu Feng smiled and excitedly looked at the bottle, “A first grade spirit root, is it very powerful ah.” The Old Man replied, “That is the lowest grade, you lazy brat!” Lu Feng made an “Oh” sound and then laughed, “So it was like this.”
“The spirit root should take a while to grow, you take all ten then see the results.”
Lu Feng quickly went to take it over, opened his mouth and swallowed all the pills. Then he instantly felt a surge of cold enter his body. He murmured to himself “It’s a bit like mint ah.”
“What mint?”
Lu Feng replied. “Nothing, nothing at all.” The Old Man said, “So how is it, does your Dantian feel cold like ice.” After feeling the coldness Lu Feng replied, “Seems like it.” The Old Man grabbed the back of Lu Feng’s hand, then closed his eyes and slowly put it down. “If it like this then…”
Lu Feng, seeing the weird behaviour could not help but ask, “Old Man, did something happen.” The Old Man said, “What a waste to give you ten pills, you only produced a lousy first grade spirit root.” Lu Feng laughingly said, “No worries, at least I have a spirit root, now I can finally accumulate Spirit Qi.”
After saying this, Lu Feng immediately sat down cross legged. Following his everyday routine the Old Man made him do to accumulate qi. Sure enough, it wasn’t the same as before, instantly his internals felt an ice cold qi moving, finally moving towards the Dantian.
The Old Man seeing Lu Feng’s condition sighed and said, “Now you finally have Spirit Qi, you can finally put your Spirit Qi to use, such as this One Palm Strike. I will now transmit to you and you can slowly comprehend it.”
After the Old Man finished saying, the old man chanted something, then Lu Feng’s head felt dizzy. Then Spirit Qi started to gather at the Old man’s hand, then rapidly shot out, Lu Feng then followed accordingly. He saw in front of him the stone although did not shatter completely, it flew away. Lu Feng excitedly jumped up, “I’m so awesome, Old man, have you ever seen such a smart person before, first time already succeeded.”
The Old Man’s expression darkened and said “Even for a beginner, as long as the palm strike fired the Yin Qi, it would be enough for them to move a boulder, unlike you. Your boulder didn’t even budge.”
Lu Feng didn’t believe, “No way, How can Yin qi be that amazing?”
“Yin Qi, although it is just introductory stage, it is still three times as strong as an ordinary person.This One Palm Strike, how can it not move?”
Lu Feng made a wo sound, then he started laughing, “Then no matter, thank you Master. I will return definitely cultivate diligently.” After saying this, Lu Feng intending to leave then the Old Man said, “Come back.”
Lu Feng laughed yet again, “Master, is there anything else.” The Old Man took a pair of straw slippers out and gave it to Lu Feng, “Wear it.” Lu Feng saw the straw slippers and wondered, “What’s so good about these broken straw slippers.”
“Try it on.”
Lu Feng was confused. He inspected the straw slippers and said “These are huge. How do you expect me to wear them.”
“Just wear the damn slippers and stop complaining!” said the Old Man.
Lu Feng could only put them on, miraculously the straw slippers narrowed and fit Lu Feng’s foot perfectly. This startled him, then the Old Man said, “These are Spirit Qi slippers, using the Spirit Qi it allows the wearer to run faster. This was made for hopeless people like you who don’t have any ability.”
Lu Feng was confused. “Are these for self protection?” he asked.
“En. Try it out, infuse your Spirit Qi.”
Lu Feng guided the Spirit Qi from his dantian into the slippers, instantly he felt his feet feel stronger. The Old Man also said, “Try and walk a bit.” Lu Feng started walking, instantly his whole body rapidly started moving faster, then his whole body rammed into a large rock. Except he laughed out, “Walking on water.”
“What do you mean by ‘walking on water’. These are spirit slippers you idiot.”
However, Lu Feng didn’t care. He cheerfully told the Old Man “Thank you Master.”
The Old Man impatiently told Lu Feng “Alright, now do a palm strike while wearing these slippers, and maybe you would be able to protect yourself.” Lu Feng was now very excited, and said “Thank you master very much.”
“However, in the outside world, there are quite a few people that have also trained their Spiritual Qi before. Hence it would be better if they didn’t find out about your magic pair of slippers.” reminded the Old Man.
Lu Feng wasn’t a fool, he knew that good things will definitely make people covet them. That’s why he made an En sound, bid farewell to the Old Man. The Old Man depressed said, “What kind of person is this, take things and just leave like that?”
Lu Feng already walked far away, he then wanted to enter the town. Buy some seeds, and use them to get spirit coins. He needed to make his Spirit Roots stronger, to be better which then allows his Spirit Qi to become better. Even the One Palm Strike would be no problem.”
However, just as Lu Feng entered the town, he was surrounded by guards. In front of him, there was a carriage, blocking his path.
Chapter 6: No Talent then Transform!
Old Man saw the excited Lu Feng and laughed, “Look carefully.” Saying this, Old Man spun his right hand, and quickly struck across. Lu Feng couldn’t see anything, and only saw a stone half the size of a human, smashed into bits.
Lu Feng was stunned, whilst the Old Man laughed and said, “Amazing, right?” Lu Feng immediately pulled his sleeve and laughed, “Master, you definitely must teach me this.” Old Man stroked his beard whilst laughing, and said proudly, “My technique, it is called One Force Strike. As far as you’re concerned, if you wish to learn this in a day, that is impossible.”
“You bastard Old Man!” Lu Feng suddenly wished that he could pull out the Old Man’s beard, however, the Old Man laughed again and said, “However, you can carry out this style, its destructive power compared to mine will not be much, but scaring people is definitely possible.”
Lu Feng thought that being able to scare people was not bad, and had no choice but to say, “That’s fine. Quickly teach me.” Old man slightly nodded his head before asking, “Do you know what cultivation is?” Lu Feng didn’t know what it was at all. For the past 6 months, Old Man did not teach him anything, and instead made him carry out errands everyday. Then in the night, he had to sleep on an ice-cold stone bed. The thought of it made him feel bitter, “You never even told me, how would I know.”
The Old Man stroked his beard and smiled. “Good. Then I’ll explain it to you.”
Lu Feng opened his eyes wide to listen. He remembered asking people before in town, except how would the ordinary people know how to cultivate. Even the priests did not know clearly what cultivating was, all they did was preach of the countless years they cultivated as monks.
However, the Old Man before him, whom Lu Feng had spent half a year with, Lu Feng felt that even though the Old Man likes teasing him; he definitely had some ability, especially the strike just now, which attracted him even more, as he looked at Old Man with a well-behaved look.
Old Man at this time, immediately became serious, and said, “To cultivate for immortality, is equivalent to fighting for your life against the heavens. Once you start training, you cannot stop. Are you sure you want to do this?”
Lu Feng forced a smile, “If this was our Earth, there would be many who despite longing to, are unable to cultivate. Going up and down the heavens carefreely.”
The Old Man’s face suddenly had a bewildered expression, “What Earth?” Lu Feng turned around and laughed, “Nothing at all.” The Old Man had no choice but to continue saying, “Listen carefully, going up and down the heavens freely sounds impressive, but how many people do you think can reach this realm?”
Lu Feng curiously asked, “How many people?”
The Old Man solemnly said, “Let’s say ten thousand people practice cultivation, only one person out of all of them will be so powerful. Do you believe that you are this person?” Lu Feng’s complexion suddenly turned sickly and he gently coughed, “Not being invincible under the heavens, having some strength is enough.”
“Good then, seeing that you realised, this is not bad. Many people are far too greedy, after all not everyone’s spiritual roots can reach such a realm.”
Lu Feng had read before in novels about spiritual roots. Having better spiritual roots meant that the person had better talent in cultivating. He asked excitedly, “Master, this spiritual root, how can it be tested? Help me test my spiritual root a bit.”
The Old Man stared at him and said, “I had already tested yours.” Lu Feng puzzled asked, “Already tested? When did that happen?”
“It is the bed you sleep on every night, did you not figure it out?”
Lu Feng depressingly said, “Is it not the ice cold stone bed? What else is there to feel?”
The Old Man didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “ It’s a spiritual root testing device made from spirit stone.Those with inferior Spiritual Roots won’t feel anything special, including you.”
“What was mine?” Lu Feng face had an expectant look. The Old Man burst into laughter, “You don’t have even a single spiritual root.” Lu Feng made a pooh sound, “Old Man, I think there is an error, could it be the thing is broken.”
Seeing that Lu Feng does not believe him then said, “You brat! You just recognised me as you master, and now you have the gall to disrespect me!!” Lu Feng had no choice as he wanted to learn but to say, “Master, Master, is this enough.”
The Old Man then continued, “Not having spiritual roots doesn’t matter, the worst is the people who abandon themselves to despair.” Lu Feng curiously asked, “What? It’s possible to cultivate spiritual qi without a spiritual root?”
“Of course, a lot of people without spiritual roots are cultivating. It’s just that it takes a whole lifetime to make any progress, unless you are from a large family or a influential clan and use some miracle pill. Which forcefully creates a spiritual root.”
Lu Feng’s two eyes brightened, “Then it is possible?”
“Of course, it’s called the Houtian Transformation.”
Lu Feng thought long and hard, then muttered to himself. “If I can manage to take some of the Immortal Fruit from the Realm of the Immortals, wouldn’t that mean I would gain a new power?” Once Lu Feng thought about that, he wished he could hurry and obtain all the Spirit Coins and go to the Immortal’s realm.
The Old Man saw Lu Feng’s dazed expression and said. “Were you even listening to what I was saying?” Lu Feng snapped back into attention and replied,”Yes. Yes I was, Master. Please continue with your speech.”
“En, I’m done telling you about the spiritual roots, so let’s talk about your training. Since you’ve just started training and thinking about cultivating. You need to first accumulate Spirit Qi.
Lu Feng excited, immediately said “I know, I know, it is to accumulate Qi into the body’s dantian. Then with this Qi it can be use for abilities, right?”
The Old Man’s mind was boggled, “When did you learn this?” Lu Feng laughed, “I read from novels.” The Old Man was confused and asked, “Novels? Which master’s secret book?” Lu Feng almost spat while laughing, “Nothing much, it’s just a random person’s writing.”
The Old Man made an “Oh” sound and then continued, “Since you already know about Spirit Qi then I won’t continue on that. All of us have a space where we store Spirit Qi, that is where you want to store it. Inside the common spirit stone there is a relatively large number of Spirit Qi in it which can be absorbed.”
Lu Feng half understood and asked, “How are you supposed to collect it?” The Old Man helplessly said, “Don’t I make you meditate daily?” Lu Feng depressed asked, “You’re talking about sitting cross legged?”
“Of course.”
Lu Feng was confused, “Everyday I meditate for a few hours, for half a day. My buttocks were starting to harden, what the hell, thing that was supposed to happen didn’t.”
“That’s because you don’t have spirit roots, exactly as you said, there was not a single benefit.”
Lu Feng dejectedly said,”Then what should I do about it.” The Old Man took out a small bottle and said, “Here I have a few Yin Spirit Pills, even if you are a useless idiot, you should at least be able to grow a first grade spirit root.”
Lu Feng smiled and excitedly looked at the bottle, “A first grade spirit root, is it very powerful ah.” The Old Man replied, “That is the lowest grade, you lazy brat!” Lu Feng made an “Oh” sound and then laughed, “So it was like this.”
“The spirit root should take a while to grow, you take all ten then see the results.”
Lu Feng quickly went to take it over, opened his mouth and swallowed all the pills. Then he instantly felt a surge of cold enter his body. He murmured to himself “It’s a bit like mint ah.”
“What mint?”
Lu Feng replied. “Nothing, nothing at all.” The Old Man said, “So how is it, does your Dantian feel cold like ice.” After feeling the coldness Lu Feng replied, “Seems like it.” The Old Man grabbed the back of Lu Feng’s hand, then closed his eyes and slowly put it down. “If it like this then…”
Lu Feng, seeing the weird behaviour could not help but ask, “Old Man, did something happen.” The Old Man said, “What a waste to give you ten pills, you only produced a lousy first grade spirit root.” Lu Feng laughingly said, “No worries, at least I have a spirit root, now I can finally accumulate Spirit Qi.”
After saying this, Lu Feng immediately sat down cross legged. Following his everyday routine the Old Man made him do to accumulate qi. Sure enough, it wasn’t the same as before, instantly his internals felt an ice cold qi moving, finally moving towards the Dantian.
The Old Man seeing Lu Feng’s condition sighed and said, “Now you finally have Spirit Qi, you can finally put your Spirit Qi to use, such as this One Palm Strike. I will now transmit to you and you can slowly comprehend it.”
After the Old Man finished saying, the old man chanted something, then Lu Feng’s head felt dizzy. Then Spirit Qi started to gather at the Old man’s hand, then rapidly shot out, Lu Feng then followed accordingly. He saw in front of him the stone although did not shatter completely, it flew away. Lu Feng excitedly jumped up, “I’m so awesome, Old man, have you ever seen such a smart person before, first time already succeeded.”
The Old Man’s expression darkened and said “Even for a beginner, as long as the palm strike fired the Yin Qi, it would be enough for them to move a boulder, unlike you. Your boulder didn’t even budge.”
Lu Feng didn’t believe, “No way, How can Yin qi be that amazing?”
“Yin Qi, although it is just introductory stage, it is still three times as strong as an ordinary person.This One Palm Strike, how can it not move?”
Lu Feng made a wo sound, then he started laughing, “Then no matter, thank you Master. I will return definitely cultivate diligently.” After saying this, Lu Feng intending to leave then the Old Man said, “Come back.”
Lu Feng laughed yet again, “Master, is there anything else.” The Old Man took a pair of straw slippers out and gave it to Lu Feng, “Wear it.” Lu Feng saw the straw slippers and wondered, “What’s so good about these broken straw slippers.”
“Try it on.”
Lu Feng was confused. He inspected the straw slippers and said “These are huge. How do you expect me to wear them.”
“Just wear the damn slippers and stop complaining!” said the Old Man.
Lu Feng could only put them on, miraculously the straw slippers narrowed and fit Lu Feng’s foot perfectly. This startled him, then the Old Man said, “These are Spirit Qi slippers, using the Spirit Qi it allows the wearer to run faster. This was made for hopeless people like you who don’t have any ability.”
Lu Feng was confused. “Are these for self protection?” he asked.
“En. Try it out, infuse your Spirit Qi.”
Lu Feng guided the Spirit Qi from his dantian into the slippers, instantly he felt his feet feel stronger. The Old Man also said, “Try and walk a bit.” Lu Feng started walking, instantly his whole body rapidly started moving faster, then his whole body rammed into a large rock. Except he laughed out, “Walking on water.”
“What do you mean by ‘walking on water’. These are spirit slippers you idiot.”
However, Lu Feng didn’t care. He cheerfully told the Old Man “Thank you Master.”
The Old Man impatiently told Lu Feng “Alright, now do a palm strike while wearing these slippers, and maybe you would be able to protect yourself.” Lu Feng was now very excited, and said “Thank you master very much.”
“However, in the outside world, there are quite a few people that have also trained their Spiritual Qi before. Hence it would be better if they didn’t find out about your magic pair of slippers.” reminded the Old Man.
Lu Feng wasn’t a fool, he knew that good things will definitely make people covet them. That’s why he made an En sound, bid farewell to the Old Man. The Old Man depressed said, “What kind of person is this, take things and just leave like that?”
Lu Feng already walked far away, he then wanted to enter the town. Buy some seeds, and use them to get spirit coins. He needed to make his Spirit Roots stronger, to be better which then allows his Spirit Qi to become better. Even the One Palm Strike would be no problem.”
However, just as Lu Feng entered the town, he was surrounded by guards. In front of him, there was a carriage, blocking his path.
