Throughout the capital, strong winds are blowing and causing vast damage to the people. Some stall keepers in the market have their goods and even the entire stall flying up into the sky. Once it gets high enough in the sky, the qi blades that have somehow formed in the sky will tear everything into shred.
The people are running into nearby buildings for shelter, afraid that some of the things blown up into the sky will fall on them or that they will be hit by the debris falling down. One building however, is not affected.
This building is the inn, and there is a window open and a woman looking out of the window.
“The source of this whirlwind is coming from the center of the city?” she looks towards the middle of the city but not at any building as she cannot seem to tell where the eye of the storm is.
“Send word back, say that I will stay in the capital for a while longer” she tells the girl in white next to her.
“Yes elder!” the girl in white replies.
“This person should only be transforming into the realm of Qi flow, if this person is collecting such a vast amount of qi, it would not take him or her more than two years to break into the next realm…” she mutters to herself.
….
Back in the shower, I am amazed at my stats.
(System, are these the stats of a normal Qi flow cultivator?)
[Beep!] [No, you have about double their stats right now.](What?! Double? Does that mean I am invincible in the realm of Qi flow?)
[Beep!] [You are invincible only if you are only comparing the physical prowess of a normal Qi flow cultivator. Host, you must still be careful as there are many strong techniques in this world that will allow cultivators to match the strength of your physical body, and can still defeat you even with the ridiculous amount of qi that you currently have.]…
After cleaning myself up, I realise that the sun has already set and it is night time. I wonder just how long my transformation in to the realm of Qi flow took. Anyway I head downstairs for dinner as I feel hungry.
When I reach the dining hall, my parents and siblings are already having their dinner. It seems like they did not wait for me as they thought that I would take a while to finish cleaning myself up, given how badly I smelled.
As soon as I sat down on seat, my mother started passing me my bowl of rice and she put some of the other side dishes she kept from me, since my brother and sister would have eaten them all.
“How do you feel? You are now in the realm of qi flow” my mother asked.
“I feel stronger. My eyesight is stronger too. Mum, what is the next realm and how do I cultivate now?” I ask.
My father then took over the conversation and say “Shi er, I have discussed this with your mother, your transformation created a huge whirlwind and some people will be looking for you. They would believe that you have huge talent and potential and will want to draw you to their side and use you to achieve their own agendas.” he said in a serious tone.
“You should not cultivate a way a qi flow cultivator does right now but continue pretending as if you had not transformed. Your mother will try to get you a good cultivation technique for the qi flow realm before you return from your riding circuit. Anyway when a cultivator transforms into the realm of qi flow, he will practice a cultivation technique that will allow him to create whirlpools that would constantly absorb qi from the heaven and earth.
“So far, the best cultivation technique that we know of is able to create eight whirlpools. The family’s cultivation technique will only allow you to create five and the majority of the immortal sects will allow you to create 6.” he explains.
He looks towards my mother and continues “your mother’s family has a technique that is able to let you create eight, but she will have to ask her family for approval before she teaches the cultivation technique to you.”
I am already eleven years old but I still do not know anything about my mother origins and her family so I look towards her. “Ma, your family….how come I have never seen them before?” I ask her curiously.
My mother looks down and says “my parents did not want me to get married to your father, so they broke all ties with me…it is a way for them to protect me I guess…”
Ahh…so that is what happened…at least nobody will come and snatch my mother away from me like those irritating novels I read in my last life. Anyway I have decided not to bother my mother since she has already broken all ties with them.
“Mom, there is no need to ask them for the cultivation technique, I will get one myself. I will join the immortal sects the next time they came. One of the immortal sects said that they would accept me the next time they come.”
“Ah! Thats good. You can bring your brother and sister together with you then and join an immortal sect together. It is best if you all join the same sect so you can look after them as well.” my mother starts smiling again.
“Son, remember that the riding circuit will take place next month and you will have to prepare yourself well. You just entered the realm of qi flow so you should train and get used to your new prowess too” my father cuts in and destroys the happy mood single handedly.
….
As I arrive at the governor’s office with my father the next day, uncle Mo Ji comes out to welcome my father but I head to the briefing room alone as Mo Ji has to work with my father and I do need a guide anymore. As I pass by the training area, I make a mental note to myself that I should practice with the training dummies later.
As I enter the briefing room, everyone is already there eating their breakfast. They seem to be eating some stewed pork buns and spring rolls which are commonly sold by the street hawkers. Each bun or spring roll only costs about 20 copper coins which is considered cheap.
The commoners in the empire use common metals as currency when trading. A hundred copper coins is equivalent to a silver ingot, and hundred silver ingots is equivalent to a gold ingot. A hundred gold ingots can be exchanged for a gold bar but gold bars are not used when buying or selling, but instead for families to amass money and 200 gold bars can be exchanged for one spirit stone.
Merchants may also trade using bank notes, which was initially created by large merchant firms. However soon it became confusing as every merchant wanted to use their own firm’s bank notes and the empire stepped in to take over and introduced their own bank notes. There seem to also be a huge case of corruption which caused many people to suffer but when I asked about it, nobody seemed to want to talk about it…
Right before we were about to leave to get lunch, Mo Ji arrived with the four guards that were promised and introduced them.
