Chapter 3: Restoring his Crippled Meridians (2/2)
After flipping through it, Qin Yu laid down the cultivation atlas and sat beside Qin Wu before closing his eyes and starting to circulate his qi.
Qin Wu had Mother Qin support him; his eyes rigidly watched Qin Yu’s movements attentively. His pupils were slightly dilated as the expression on his face slowly became more amazed and incredulous.
When Qin Yu began, his movements weren’t much different from the diagrams. But unconsciously, his movements began to change, becoming more diverse, abstruse and profound.
Mother Qin hadn’t cultivated martial arts before and couldn’t see any difference, however, Qin Wu could. Although he couldn’t cultivate, he had focused on researching the Qin Family’s cultivation manual and could tell from a glance that Qin Yu’s cultivation method was far more abstruse and profound. Even he had no idea what some of the movements were.
When did Qin Yu comprehend another martial cultivation manual? Wasn’t his cultivation method always based on the cultivation manual passed down the Qin family lineage?
After circulating a few rounds of internal energy, Qin Yu slowly lowered his hand. From experience, he allowed the internal energy in his body to surge and felt it flow through his meridians. The internal energy flowed freely and smoothly with no hindrances. Qin Yu couldn’t help but raise his head and release a long whistle.
The whistle not only startled the bewildered mother-father pair standing at the side but also the entire Qin Family. A few experts who were in the middle of cultivating in seclusion raised their heads in succession to stare with shock in the direction of the sound’s source. Alarmed, they asked in their hearts, “Which expert in the Qin Family just broke through, producing such an earth-shattering sound? Could it be that the Great Elder broke through? Only he could release such a big movement when breaking through. But the direction the sound came from was the stray courtyard ah, the Great Elder doesn’t live there. If it’s not the Great Elder then who was it?”
In the Qin Family’s side courtyard, Qin Wu stared at Qin Yu as if he was looking at a monster. His throat was stuck for a long time before he finally spat out a sentence. “Yu’er, you…what are you…?”
Qin Yu’s whistle ended and he returned to reality. He looked at their over-exaggerated facial expressions and immediately realized that while he was engrossed in cultivating, he may have gone a little too far.
“Father, I…” Qin Yu wanted to explain, but before he could speak, a stab of pain suddenly appeared in his sea of consciousness. The sea of consciousness was the weakest part of a man’s body and if it was attacked, the results would be devastating.
The sudden jab of pain left his guard completely down as he released a blood-curdling screech as he clutched his head in agony.
“Ah—!”
Qin Yu screamed and fainted, scaring Mother Qin into crying out in fear.
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When Qin Yu woke up, he wasn’t sure how long he had lost consciousness for. The first thing he saw was the Mother Qin and Father pair sitting by his bedside with eyes filled with incomparable worry. When they saw Qin Yu awaken, their worried faces slowly eased up to show pleasant surprise.
“Yu’er, you’re finally awake. How are you feeling?”
Qin Yu rubbed head, which was still aching before struggling to sit up. He looked at Qin Wu, his voice carrying regret as he said, “Father, I’m sorry. What you asked me, I…”
Qin Wu smiled slightly, patting Qin Yu’s shoulder. His voice was gentle as he said, “Yu’er, it should be Father saying sorry to you. I knew your brain was seriously injured yet I still kept questioning you. Father won’t ask again and you also shouldn’t try to think about the past. Just let nature take its course. If you remember, it would be great and if you can’t, then just forget about it. No matter if you remember or not, we’ll always still be a family.”
Qin Wu still thought that it was his fault for questioning Qin Yu so much about memories about the past, which stimulated the brain too much and caused him to faint.
Mother Qin continued his speech, saying, “Right ah! Yu’er, we’ll always be your family. Even if you can’t recall the past, we are still a family.” Each and every word was filled with the deep and profound emotions between mother and son.
Qin Yu hadn’t thought that the Qin father-mother pair would be so magnanimous, choosing to directly stop questioning him. He felt moved as he released a sigh of relief. In the future, he would no longer need to think of ways to explain and provide an answer.
“Qin Yu, are you there or not? If you are, hurry up and come out!” At this moment, a hoarse voice suddenly yelled from outside the door.
The people inside were startled. Qin Wu got up first, saying, “I’ll go out and take a look” before taking wide strides to the door. “Mother, I’m thirsty,” Qin Yu told Mother Qin who was standing at the side after Qin Wu left.
“Alright, Mother will go and bring you some water. Sit here properly and don’t flail about.” Mother Qin softly replied before also leaving.
After they both left, Qin Yu hastily sat up straight and closed his eyes to enter a meditative state to look inside his sea of consciousness. Inside the sea of consciousness was a milky white space of primordial chaos with a black pearl floating within it.
“Earth Spirit Pearl, so it was actually you that had awakened.” Qin Yu was overjoyed at the unexpected good news.
The Earth Spirit Pearl was something that was linked to him. It was a rare spirit pearl that existed inside his sea of consciousness. He didn’t expect that it would pass through rebirth and awaken within him again. It was truly an unexpected surprise.
1. Ge = elder brother, and is also used to refer to older men in both a casual or respectful setting