Chapter 46: What The Hell Is Qi?
Han Xuhan’s heart bled as he handed 100 spirit stones in total to the archive pavilion’s treasurer and came out with two scrolls in his hands. With that purchase, almost the entirety of his savings was emptied in one go.
"I’m going to be a cultivator now, a real cultivator, a future celestial! How can I let a meager 100 spirit stones make me feel the pinch..."
Muttering lines like these were how he consoled himself as he clutched both scrolls and hurried toward his hut in the Salted Fish Mountain Peak.
His first priority now was to cultivate a Mystic Art and reach the first layer. As for milestones like reaching the first layer of Physique Transformation Realm through the martial path, or purchasing a cultivation guide on Monasticism, he was too broke to pursue those.
Inside his hut, Han Xuhan sat on his small bed, feeling that this moment was perhaps the most important turning point of his life. He would turn into a cultivator from today forth; what a glorious fate! He had fantasized so much about this in his previous life!
"I’ll have to try the Skeleton Monarch Technique first, to summon the skeletons. So what’s the first step...Ah, there it is. Draw in unrefined qi into your meridians to channel them in the way shown in the diagram below...huh?
How do I do that?
In fact, what the hell is this unrefined qi? And where are my meridians?
"I know that every cultivation novel has something like this as a source of all abilities. But is the manner of using this supposed to be common knowledge?"