Chapter 43 (2/2)

This time, the process went extremely smoothly, after his initial experience of drawing Qi and simulating his first Seed of Mystical Qi.

Ding Hao successfully triggered a new Seed of Mystical Qi in his central dantian in less than two hours, with the help and guidance from the male and female voices in his head.

This new Seed of Mystical Qi gave off an orangey-yellow glow, which was different from that of the Seed from his abdominal dantian. The seed from the abdominal dantian gave off a clear crystalline glow, somewhat like jade. The new seed danced and flickered, like a small fireball, as if it would start burning at any instant.

Ding Hao’s ultra-fast cultivation led to much admiration from both male and female voices inside his head.

“This is…” said Ding Hao, extremely surprised.

“Haha, this is the Qi of Heat, the type of Qi that is most suitable in this world for saber techniques. What you have to do is to channel it to build your Ren Meridian, the first of the six minor meridians!” said the male voice with a hearty laugh.

“Right, there are 18 critical points in the Ren Meridian. After you’ve condensed the first of them known as the ‘middle level’, you’ll achieve the level of ‘one-apertured Martial Disciple’ of the six minor meridians. That was the same stage as the 12 major meridians of your abdominal dantian. In that way, both systems will complement each other. Then, you can break through your obstacles and advance to be a two-apertured Martial Disciple.” The female voice advised gently.

Ding Hao nodded and realized what both of them meant.

That being said, naturally, he could not use Qi related to sword craft like the ‘Taixuan Sword-seeking Scripture’ to strengthen his six minor meridians; he had to use Qi from a saber technique. Otherwise, it would contradict his Qi of Heat. The question now was, where could he find a manual to a Human Level saber technique like the Taixuan Sword-seeking Scripture?

This was a huge problem for him.

Just as he was deep in thought, something seemed to cross his mind all of a sudden.

He got down from his bed and found a small, sky blue booklet from the rucksack on his table.

It was the tattered ‘One Saber to Begin Your Journey’ manual, the very one he had spent a huge sum of money to buy at the black market from the back mountain slum district; during that time, his emotions had got the better of him and he bought it as a result. It was a primary saber technique Qi manual, but unfortunately, his copy was incomplete.

Ding Hao browsed through the manual carefully and was somewhat disappointed to notice that about one-quarter of it was missing. Even though it was not a lot, still, he could not haphazardly begin to practice the technique in this manner.

“Eh, let me see. This is interesting; this manual seems to be a little familiar to me,” said the female voice in his head.

She allowed Ding Hao to read the ‘One Saber to Begin Your Journey’ manual once in detail and immediately began muttering to herself afterward; then, she was now deep in thought.

“It seems like the crazy woman has noticed something. Let’s wait,” said the male voice, seemingly having noticed something as well.

Ding Hao nodded.

That being said, when it was daybreak of the next day, the female voice seemed to have not gathered her thoughts and still remained silent.

“Forget it, let’s not bother about her for the time being. Even though the crazy woman’s usually not reliable, she does have some achievements and knowledge in saber skills. When she really manages to come out with something, who knows, maybe she can complete the manual,” the male voice said cheerfully to Ding Hao at dawn, “Kid, you should nurture the two Qi seeds in your central and lower dantians first, so you can secure your current abilities.”

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