Chapter 4 (1/2)

Mu Chengxue saw him shaking his head and said in a low voice, “Just give up. Those ancient cultivation methods have already gone with the end of that era.” She thought that Xiao Chen was only looking for those ancient cultivation methods.

Xiao Chen said nothing. Ancient cultivation methods? Wasn’t his Mystic Cyan Cultivation Method the most abstruse ancient cultivation method? But he had tried countless times to cultivate and nothing worked. He could not feel any Spiritual Qi at all.

“Why can you cultivate to Core Forming Realm, while I can’t feel any Spiritual Qi?” He asked the question he wanted to ask the most.

Mu Chengxue was dumbstruck while looking at him. She then said, “I thought you were a man who knows a lot about cultivating. But how can you ask such a simple and even funny question?”

Xiao Chen frowned and said, “Funny? I really don’t know.”

Mu Chengxue shook her head and said nothing.

“Tell me. What exactly is going on? I really don’t know.” Xiao Chen lost his patience.

“All right, give me your hand.”

Xiao Chen pulled up his sleeves and stretched out his hand as she said.

Mu Chengxue placed two fingers together as a slight amount of white radiance glowed on the fingertips. She then pressed two fingertips on his wrist. A moment later, her eyebrows furrowed tighter and tighter. Finally, she said, “You don’t even have a single Spiritual Meridian. How can you feel the Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth?”

“Spiritual Meridian? What is it?” Xiao Chen was confused. When he cultivated in the Mystic Cyan Sect, he had never heard of something called Spiritual Meridian.

Mu Chengxue shook her head and realized he knew nothing. “The Spiritual Meridian is the basics of a Cultivator. One must have at least one Spiritual Meridian to feel the Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth. One who has three Spiritual Meridians enjoys an excellent talent. One who has six are peerless. One who has nine are saints. One can have 12 Spiritual Meridians at most, and nobody completely had 12 Spiritual Meridians in thousands of years.”

After having listened to her for a while, Xiao Chen asked a question he hated to ask. “Do you mean that I can’t cultivate only because I don’t have even a single Spiritual Meridian?”

Mu Chengxue nodded and said, “You can say so.”

Xiao Chen seemed to been struck by a thunderbolt out of the blue. Back then, he had never heard of this Spiritual Meridian, and everybody could cultivate. Even one with the worst talent could cultivate to Qi Refining Realm in eight to ten years, and then work harder to reach Foundation Building Realm. Those with better talent could reach Core Forming Realm or even Nascent Soul Realm. His talent was peerless in that era, but now…

He felt a bit helpless. Was there really a heavenly law that ruled the common people? He shouldn’t have been alive now. Was the god punishing and torturing him now only because he survived that calamity?

He stood on his feet and then staggered out of the cave. He finally got the answer he always wanted to know, but the truth was so cruel.

“You helped me to break through that formation. I can give you a layer of Mystic Skill. Within a month, I’ll make you able to beat any cultivator lower than Foundation Building Realm,” said Mu Chengxue behind him.

“No, thanks…” Xiao Chen said in a weak voice.

Mu Chengxue sighed and then murmured while thinking, “How can he have not a single Spiritual Meridian? Something’s not right! I just feel his… Is he… Hey! Wait! Come back!”

She suddenly raised her head in shock. But Xiao Chen had already vanished without a trace.

Returning to Purple Bine Pavilion where he lived, Xiao Chen punched at a big banyan tree, making the leaves rustling.

“Why!”

He yelled at the sky and then punched at the tree again and again until he smashed the tree bark and left his hands covered with blood.

“Why! Master, where are you?” “Why did you save me? Why did you make me suffer like this? Tell me…”

After waking up from the long sleeping, thousands of years had passed. This was actually the most painful thing to him, yet he had no one to talk to.

“Why did you leave me alone in this world? Why can’t I die even if I wanted to? Master, kill me, please…”