Chapter 186: Life 70, Age 16, Martial Disciple 1
If I wanted my ambitious ideas for this life to come to fruition, I had a lot of work to do. Designing the cultivation technique I had in mind was far beyond anything I had done before, and it would require all the time and effort I could give it.
Still, one of my main reasons for returning to the sect was to spend more time with my friends. I had work to do to achieve my goals, but I couldn’t let that consume me entirely.
So, after talking with the girls for a while, we agreed on a schedule. Once a week, we would all stop whatever we were doing and go out for dinner together. With that plan in place, we separated out to our individual cultivation chambers and got to work.
Returning to the diagrams I had made for my cultivation technique, I carefully scanned them. There were problems with the design, I didn’t doubt that, but I needed to try it out to learn what needed to be fixed.
The technique used twelve acupoints in the upper right arm. To figure out how to make the technique work properly, I needed to experiment with filters and other ideas, and that would take qi that my body didn’t have. So, I cultivated the Writ of True Earth in my upper left arm to advance to Martial Disciple 2.
Then, I tried cultivating my experimental technique in my upper right arm.
The backbone of the technique was the complex qi vortex from the Writ of True Earth.
As for filters, two acupoints only needed basic qi filters, so they weren’t a problem.
Three acupoints used qi-plus-metal-essence filters and three used qi-plus-lightning-essence filters. For these, I had only needed to modify the qi portion of the filter. I was familiar enough with the Writ of True Earth and earth qi filters that this didn’t pose too much of a problem. The final filter designs might not have been optimal, but I was confident they would work.