3 Liang Tribe. (2/2)

But he knew a few things about this world, while other things he managed to guess thanks to the few memories he had of his past life. One thing he knew was the cultivation system that this world used, as it was rather similar to the one he had in his past life.

Cultivation was based on using the natural energy in the surroundings, the Qi, to open a space in the dantian. After opening this space, a person would use their understanding of the world to engrave runes into this opened space. The more runes one wanted to engrave, the larger they would have to make the space.

The more runes one had, the stronger a person would be and the longer they would live. The number of runes a person had also signified their cultivation level. 1-3 runes meant that the person was at the Mortal Rune realm. 4-6 runes meant that the person was at the Houtian Rune realm, while 7-9 runes meant that the person was at the Xiantian Rune realm.

Before a person engraved a rune, they could only use the surrounding Qi to strengthen their bodies and make physical attacks. But after engraving a rune, a person could use the surrounding Qi to summon forth whatever rune they had engraved. Engraving a stone rune would let a person summon and control stones, a blood rune would let them summon and control blood, while a death rune would let them control dead bodies. Of course, the prerequisite was that they managed to gain an understanding about what they were engraving.

The strongest person in Wildbourne was Liang Zhu, the leader of the Liang tribe. He had two runes that he had engraved using his understanding of stones, so he was someone at the middle stage of the Mortal Rune realm. While the people in the village believed that a person had reached the peak of cultivation when they reached nine runes, Li Yang refused to believe this. There would always be a higher peak. Li Yang refused to believe that the peak cultivation level of this world would be something as weak as nine runes.

Of course, people could also have more than one type of rune. Liang Zhu, for example, had two stone runes as well as one wind rune. But since cultivation only cared for the one rune type that he had the most runes with, so he was still only considered at the middle stage of the Mortal Rune realm.

Having more than one type of runes could make a person stronger, as each rune would allow their strength to increase by a little. But it would take them more work to increase their cultivation level, as they had to divide their attention between understanding several different things.

Li Yang also knew that the village he lived in was placed on a truly massive continent called Cloud's Peak continent. Half of Cloud's Peak continent was covered in a vast wilderness that was simply called the Cloud Wilderness. Wildbourne village was located at the outskirts of this Cloud Wilderness.

Demonic beasts were animals, plants, or even just normal materials like rock, air, water, or metal, that had absorbed enough Qi to start cultivating. Demonic beasts followed a different cultivation path from humans, but they were still called by the same cultivation levels as humans. So Li Yang knew that a Demonic beast that could match Liang Zhou would be called a middle stage Mortal Rune realm Demonic beast.

Li Yang headed towards the village square, hands behind his head as he walked with a leisure gait. Today was the time where they would test the affinity of the young children in the village. Testing their affinity would allow them to know just that, what the children had an affinity for.

It would show if a child had an affinity for understanding things about blood, about wind, about flowers, about water, letting them know exactly what the child should focus its cultivation on. Li Yang did not have too much interest in this ceremony, but he also did not have a reason not to go to it.

What Li Yang was doing now was waiting. He could feel that there was something important in his memories from his past life, something he had to remember no matter what. Once his memories awakened and he managed to remember that important thing, that would be the day he would leave the village.

He was already twelve years old, and could almost be considered an adult. He would soon have to venture into the wilderness to search for a Demonic beast to tame. If he did not regain all his memories before that time, he would not mind heading out into the wilderness and seeing if he could find a suitable Demonic beast.