Me? I'm Just an Ordinary Cultivator

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Tian Ye proceeded to completely refine his pores into spiritual pores by having them get used to spiritual qi that's smeared all over on top of his body.

He was woken up again by Zhao Feng who said that it was already morning.

Tian Ye just smiled and continued a life of discipline. 

In the morning, he would go to work, after the work was done, he would give guidance to the three young children for a short while, especially Zhao Feng and Yang Wei.

He specifically reminded them about the 2 seconds interval in each line, because this was a crucial part of the breathing technique.

People like him and Sun He who could analyze manuals properly didn't need a chant for cultivation but Sun He still wanted the knowledge on how he wrote the chants to go along with the breathing technique.

Tian Ye explained to him in depth on how he used words that went in line with hypnotizing the chanter and the breathing method, although the words didn't matter much in terms of breathing, it mattered when it came to planting the idea of how to absorb spiritual qi into the body and refine specific parts of it.

Unlike in usual cultivation novels that Tian Ye had read in the past that already had chants, and the spiritual qi would guide itself, this cultivation world seemed to be more logical where one needed to guide it specifically. 

And the way of cultivation in a meditative state was more difficult because the one thinking was at least half the subconscious self.

The way the cultivation in this world was designed, showed that a cultivator who can't think farther than simple wouldn't be able to get far making him more excited to see what awaits him!

This was his second life! He didn't want to live a cliche reincarnation into a cultivation world but a unique and fun one!

Jade beauties? Although he can be considered to have some level of lust, he wasn't horny like most cliche protagonists. He wanted knowledge about cultivation! Alchemy? Craftsmanship? There were still a lot of unknowns in his current situation. 

Information about pills and artifacts were still nonexistent at this level making him conclude that the sect he was in could be considered lowest of the low in terms of ranking considering that they don't even have chant based cultivation techniques. 

The only thing that helped with cultivation in the current sect was medicinal herbs that were tens and hundreds of years of age that had spiritual qi.

Even if just one who could think properly arose into the position of an elder and was magnanimous enough to contribute to the rise of the sect, the sect would rise by at least 1 level!

However, even if one could think properly, a lot would be too greedy and turn this chant based cultivation technique they've discovered into an heirloom only possibly used by their own descendants.

Tian Ye also made his 3 childhood friends promise that this will not spread outside deliberately on their own because it's too dangerous. He only allowed them to do so when they've made considerable progress in their cultivation just like the level of the elders which were in the higher layers of Qi Refinement Realm, at least the 7th layer.

In the blink of an eye, 1 month passed, and Tian Ye opened his eyes in satisfaction, 'Finally… the mortal pores have been turned into spiritual pores without any signs of even a slightly painful itchiness…'

He also sighed as he continued to think, 'Just the surface took such a long time, what about the spiritual veins that's spread all over the body? It should take a while…'

Without waiting any longer, Tian Ye closed his eyes, and began to refine his mortal veins into spiritual veins.

As he did, the spiritual qi from heaven and earth soon flowed through his spiritual pores into the surface of his mortal veins.

Suddenly, he gritted his teeth in pain! The spiritual qi felt like hot oil splashing on the surface of his body.

He couldn't help but complain in his mind, 'Do setting foundations have to be this painful?! Give me a simple cultivation world!!!!!!'

Although he complained, he held the pain and continued to refine his mortal veins with spiritual qi.

Soon, a panicked voice sounded as his eyes jolted awake, "Tian Ye! Tian Ye! Are you alright?!"

Tian Ye who opened his eyes, disconnected from the meditative state that attracted spiritual qi making him feel the pain he felt subside.

He exhaled a sigh of relief, and said towards Zhao Feng who woke him up, "Have you finished refining your mortal pores?"

Zhao Feng shook his head and answered, "Not yet but the itchy feeling is starting to subside… that aside, what happened to you? It was like you were having a bad dream."

"Bad dream?" Tian Ye laughed helplessly, "Bad dream is an understatement. I've already refined my mortal pores into spiritual pores but the refinement of spiritual veins should take a long time, possibly a year or two. Not only that, it's extremely painful! It's like hot oil is seeping inside your body like a slow torture."

Zhao Feng's face paled, "That painful?"

Tian Ye then laughed out loud, "What? Are you going to give up?"

Zhao Feng's face suddenly changed into an energetic one as he replied, "Give up?! No way! Even if it's extremely painful, I will persist and become a cultivator!"

"Then, you should cultivate well."

"Um!" Zhao Feng nodded and sat back down to his bed to cultivate. Seeing that Tian Ye was fine, he could cultivate at ease now.

Sun He on the other hand had a solemn expression on his face but nodded to Tian Ye who looked his way and started to cultivate.

Tian Ye also started to cultivate as he didn't want to waste time. If he got any older, breaking through would be harder because of the short lifespan of a mortal if they don't proceed to reach a higher realm and extend their lifespan.

Tian Ye continued to live a disciplined lifestyle with his 3 childhood friends who decided to accompany him to cultivate instead of playing outside. 

As they did, 4 years passed in the blink of an eye.

As Tian Ye opened his eyes slowly, one could subtly see the change in his eyes.

It wasn't just his physical body that changed due to its natural growth but also his demeanor due to the tempering of spiritual qi.

"1st Layer Qi Gathering Realm at the age of 9…" Tian Ye was a little emotional at this, the painful cultivation… it was worth it…

He was now a true cultivator!

He stood up slowly from his bed, and inhaled and exhaled calmly with his eyes closed.

Unlike his 5 year old self, his 9 year old self was now at least 1 foot taller than his 5 year old self.

Although his height growth was just average, he was okay with it. He didn't like being overly small or overly tall. 

Being average in height was optimal in his opinion.

He then suddenly opened his eyes as he positioned his body into a fighting stance.

The clenched fist positioned on his waist soon punched out with its full strength.

As he punched out, the hanging air in the room flowed in the opposite direction of Tian Ye's punch without any resistance whatsoever, and with the punch reaching its full length…

Boom!

The sound of a small explosion came from his fist, delivering a blow that was more than 10 times of his original strength!

Even a mortal adult wasn't able to compare to him in strength! This was a cultivator!

Although Tian Ye expected this when he broke through to becoming a cultivator from a mortal, the excitement in his eyes couldn't be hidden. On top of his enhanced physical body with the baptism of breaking through to the 1st layer of Qi Gathering Realm, he felt the spiritual qi flowing throughout his body.

His spiritual veins… roots… dantian… he felt them all!

He also instinctively knew that he could control the spiritual qi in his body so he tried it out. Positioning his fist in front of him, he concentrated the spiritual qi in it.

Soon, the fist was covered in spiritual qi, it looked as if it was burning from blue fire but it didn't feel hot since instead of fire, it was spiritual qi, it just seemed to look like it.

He pulled his fist backwards ready to punch out… but a shocked voice suddenly interrupted him.

"Tian Ye, did you finally break through?" Sun He said in shock seeing Tian Ye's fist was burning with fire.

"Yeah." Hearing his words, Tian Ye answered and also hurriedly dispersed the spiritual qi in his fist as it drained too much spiritual qi. He could feel the spiritual qi in his dantian emptying at an insane pace.

Within the next minute, he would probably run out of spiritual qi.

'Although a 1st layer cultivator was stronger than a mortal, it's still at the level of only a little supernatural…' Tian Ye couldn't help but complain but didn't take it to heart because what was in his heart was to become a higher level cultivator so spiritual qi will become more abundant!

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