23 THE sUPER EXCLUSIVEs MASO-LING CLUB (2/2)
Xu Ling however was different. For some reason, such restrictions did not apply to him, to the point spending a few years in a dark room in order to increase his strength would hardly be any challenge. Meditating was as natural as breathing, even the legendary state of Enlightenment would only require a few breaths for him to enter it! A few breaths! Even the strongest Supreme stage Heavenly Beasts would rarely experience an enlightenment in dozens of years... Xu Ling, on the other hand, only had to close his eyes for a short while, and the mystical state would be achieved just like that! The only people who managed to even approach Xu Ling and manage to spend months peering into the world's laws and forcefully digging out its secrets, one would be able to count them on one hand!
Goldy, of course, had not been a part of this group. Being able to devour and absorb other people's strength had made the Heavenly Devouring Dragon Blindlightextremely lazy with his own cultivation, to the point he would spend the time other spent cultivating in a state of deep slumber. Even then, he had managed to grow into a being that even other Primordial Beasts would oftentimes respectfully call 'Dragon King' as a form of respect towards his might.
Xiao Lan, on the other hand, was recorded achieving the state of enlightenment after three hours of nonstop meditation... at his best.
Indeed: even the genius that would one day beat Xu Ling's record as the fastest to have stepped into the Immortal Realm would normally need to spend a good quarter of a day meditating being able to finally enter enlightenment.
As Xiao Wu was not only Xiao Lan's blood-related descendant, but she also had the same Triple Qi Xiao Lan had, Cheng Hao had been looking forward to seeing as to whether he would find in the little girl a new companion in his beloved meditating sessions... and whether she would be able to surpass her ancestor!
'Do you think you might get addicted to this feeling? Can I count on you for some company in my meditations?', was basically what the youth was asking the emerald-eyed girl.
And to that question, surprisingly enough Xiao Wu, had nodded, ”Yes! It was such a weird feeling at first and it was also quite straining... but after having the process ingrained into my mind, that slight burden was lifted, to the point it almost felt as if I had fallen asleep and was dreaming!”
Cheng Hao's eyes glinted and he spoke solemnly, ”Little Wu… I proudly welcome you to the Maso-Ling club!”
”The what?” The girl furrowed her brows: Maso-Ling Club? What was that?
Holding his laughter in, Cheng Hao shook his head, ”Ahem, it's nothing. Anyways, now that we are actually cultivators and are capable to actually begin cultivating, I will now proceed to teach you two more things!” The golden-eyed youth raised his right hand, his index pointing upwards as he spoke, ”The first is how to bring your martial way and use it in battle! Of course, we can't simply have it gather dust in your Pseudo-Core, can we?”
”As for the second,” Cheng Hao's mouth formed a crescent moon and his eyes glinted as he spoke the next words with much gusto, ”I believe it's now time for you to finally be handed down the first part of the Three Little(Xiao) Qi Scripture: the Ascending Black Dragon's Four Deifications!”
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Cookie's Note: don't worry about remembering those last few complicated terms. They're either getting tossed like crazy in the next few chapters or completely disregarded and ruthlessly put aside for a while.
In short, those you DO need to know right now will be repeatedly shoved into your heads (Mindfuck?) in the next few chapters.
As for those you WON'T be needing as of now (Sorry Four Deifications, you sound cool as heck, but you'll have to wait...) it will be the same, just in a while rather than starting straight out.
After all, no matter how I would love to, there's only so much info dump one can put in a single chapter (and unfortunately, that caps at only 100%).
PS: the space for the author notes is way too small! *Cries*