Chapter 9 (1/2)

Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation

Because there was no Sun, people started to lose their sense of time. Even though clocks could show the exact date and time, how could anyone differentiate between daytime and nighttime in the darkness?

Now, every second, and every minute, was nighttime.

Since red-sh.e.l.led insects began to appear, people started to exclusively use the 24-hour clock, and sc.r.a.pped the 12-hour clock.

The entrance door of building No. 8 was destroyed by the Red-sh.e.l.led insect. No one came to repair it.

Gradually, people started to move into building No.8 from other blocks.

At 20:00, while looking through the peephole, Chu Yunsheng noticed that the landing area beside the stairs outside his flat was filled with people looking for shelters. To them this building was the only safe place to stay. Gradually, the landing area began to fill with more and more people.

About 2 hours later, someone knocked on Chu Yunsheng’s door.

Chu Yunsheng did not want to open the door. He could only take care of himself. The life and death battle he fought a few hours ago taught him that, if he wanted to survive in this place where the insects could come out at any time, he needed to hurry up cultivating Yuan Qi.

In just these two days, he understood a few more symbols in the book. He discovered that his Yuan Qi level was at ‘Yuan Tian stage one’. This level was just the beginner’s level. Not only could he not store a large amount of Yuan Qi in his body, but also he was limited to a few talismans and incantations.

He relied on talismans and incantations to save his life. He was not like those who were self-awakened. Those people were extremely talented. Although they were limited to have only one element such as ice, fire, or other elements that were mentioned in the book, they could use their power straight away without any medium as if some kinds of incantations were already sealed inside their bodies.

The ice-punch man was a great example. Just an ordinary punch could unleash ice power. This was something that Chu Yunsheng could not do. He belonged to a cla.s.s which required him to practice by using the original Qi cultivation methods that were mentioned in the book.

According to the book, if he could reach the Yuan Tian stage three then he would not need those mediums anymore. Later on, if he learned the combat skill sets that are mentioned in the book, he would become much more powerful.

But for now, he still needed those talismans to unleash the power.

On the plus side, he was able to experience different types of elements, and with the help of talismans, he would become as powerful as those self-awakened humans.

At the moment, he could barely make some level-two talismans. If he wanted to make level-three talismans, then he had to reach Yuan Tian stage two as soon as possible.

Level-three talismans could be repeatedly used. It was not like low-level talismans that Chu Yunsheng had right now. Every time when the Yuan Qi inside a talisman wasn’t enough, he had to replace the talisman with a new one. According to the book, it was not complicated to reach Yuan Tian stage two from Yuan Tian stage one. All he needed to do was to drain the Yuan Qi inside his body, then restore it, and repeat the whole process for eighty-one times to allow Yuan Qi to go through and strengthen the channels inside his body.

After eighty-one cycles, he would reach Yuan Tian stage two automatically.

But the way he practiced it was too slow. It was like a snail. Apart from eating and sleeping, he used every single second he had to cultivate Yuan Qi, but his Yuan Qi’s concentration still increased very slowly. With this kind of speed, he needed to spend almost eight or nine days to fully restore his Yuan Qi. Not including the time he needed to drain the Yuan Qi inside his body, he would need to spend almost two years in order to get to Yuan Tian stage two.

Two years? If it was in the age of light, of course, he would not mind it at all. But now, it was dangerous everywhere. He almost died when he tried to kill three Red-sh.e.l.led insects, what if he encountered fifty of them, just like what happened a few hours ago? He would not have a chance to escape. In two years, those monsters could kill him so many times. He had to find a better way to practice. Otherwise, even if with the powerful ancient book, he would still be dead soon.

He took out the book, and turned the pages back and forth, trying to learn something. He believed that there was definitely a better way in the book. It was just that he knew too few symbols. That was why he could not find it.