"Do you want to call and ask?"
Asuka suggested, staring at Cyan's expressionless face and trying to figure out what she was thinking. Unfortunately, nothing could be read from that poker face.
"She might be busy with something. It would disturb her."
The next day, Asuka told Cyan about her desire to practice Ripple Qigong.
"Cyan, are you willing to teach me?"
Asuka looked at Cyan with a nervous heart.
"Okay."
Cyan nodded and agreed to Asuka's request. She told her about Ripple Qigong and that special breathing method.
"Remember the Ripple Breathing Method. After you sense the existence of the ripple, you can formally begin practicing Ripple Qigong."
With the experience of teaching Erni and Nishi, Cyan avoided many detours when teaching Asuka to practice Ripple Qigong. She placed a finger on Asuka's forehead and directly injected the ripple energy from her own body into her, letting her breathe with the Ripple Breathing Method and sense the ripple energy in her blood.
Sweat soaked through the clothes on Asuka's body. She sat cross-legged on the floor, breathing with the Ripple Breathing Method, faint golden lightning wandering across her body.
[Survivor No. 9731 has learned the special passive skill Ripple Qigong.]
Receiving the prompt from the survival brand, Asuka opened her eyes and said in delight, "I succeeded! I learned Ripple Qigong."
"Master Cyan! I succeeded!"
Asuka excitedly hugged Cyan. Her form of address also changed from "Cyan" to "Master Cyan."
"Just call me Cyan. Once you're familiar with the Ripple Breathing Method, you can try changing your own breathing to the Ripple Breathing Method. That is the fastest way to practice Ripple Qigong." To increase persuasiveness, Cyan pointed at herself and said, "Right now I am breathing with the Ripple Qigong breathing method."
"All the time?!"
Asuka looked at Cyan in shock and placed a finger under her nose to feel her breathing.
"Mm."
Cyan nodded. "This is the best method for practicing Ripple Qigong, and also the most effortless method."
As she spoke, Cyan glanced at Nishi, who was sitting to the side, seemingly practicing Ripple Qigong but actually secretly looking this way.
"Is this something a human can actually do?"
Asuka thought of the bizarre breathing method of Ripple Qigong. Just breathing that way for a while had already left her covered in sweat. If she breathed with the Ripple Qigong method for twenty-four hours a day, wouldn't she die of exhaustion?
Something humans cannot do?
Cyan had always believed that if she could do something, there was no reason others could not. Hearing Asuka's words, she only then realized she was not human.
Have I been demanding too much from them?
No. Increasing strength is for the sake of surviving!
As Ripple Qigong is practiced, it can increase Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Spirit—these four attributes—allowing one to strengthen oneself faster. Only in this way can one survive in the Survival Space!
Ripple Qigong was originally researched by humans. There is no reason that what I can do, they cannot.
Thinking of this, Cyan gazed at Asuka seriously and said, "You can do it. I believe you can definitely do it."
"Okay! I'll work hard!"
Facing Cyan's serious eyes and those words full of trust, a fiery fighting spirit rose in Asuka. Even the pitifully small amount of ripple energy in her body began racing through her blood at high speed along with the birth of her fighting spirit.
However, after the ripple energy entered Asuka's body, it was influenced by the power of the Apostles and underwent a subtle change. It could not be seen now. Perhaps only when the ripple energy in her body rose to a certain degree would it become known what kind of collision and mutation had occurred between the ripple energy and the power of the Apostles.
"Master, what are you doing?"
Unabi was holding a bottle of cola with both hands and sipping it through a straw. She walked into this room with the curtains drawn and looked curiously at the people inside. Little Black stood on her shoulder, using spider silk to scoop up a piece of cake and eating until her face was covered in cream.
"Practicing Ripple Qigong."
Cyan glanced at Unabi and Little Black.
"Ripple Qigong?"
Unabi and Little Black looked at Cyan in confusion.
"This is the ripple."
Cyan stretched out her hand. Golden lightning raced across it, radiating dazzling light.
"Ah! This power is…!"
Unabi recognized this power that Cyan had once injected into her body.
Little Black recalled the scene of Cyan swinging her spider silk to block the enemy's attacks.
"Ripple Qigong. Do you two want to learn it?"
Cyan looked at Unabi and Little Black. She thought that since she, a non-human, could learn Ripple Qigong, they should be able to learn it as well.
"Mm!"
Unabi and Little Black hurriedly nodded. They would not refuse such a good thing. After all, one of them had personally experienced the ripple energy, and the other had witnessed the power of the ripple.
Are you trying to found a school?
Seeing Cyan about to teach Unabi and Little Black to learn Ripple Qigong, Asuka complained in her heart, then walked to the side and breathed with the Ripple Breathing Method, trying to turn it into the instinctive breathing of her body while sensing the ripple energy that slowly increased little by little in her blood as she breathed.
"Breathe with the Ripple Breathing Method and sense the existence of the ripple."
Cyan adjusted her own breathing. Golden light like mist seeped from her pores. Ripple energy gathered in both hands and was slowly injected into Unabi and Little Black's bodies.
Unabi and Little Black closed their eyes, breathed with the method Cyan had taught them, sensed the ripple energy Cyan had injected into their bodies, and tried to merge the ripple energy into their own blood and convert it into their own ripple energy.
Time passed second by second. Sweat ran down Cyan's cheeks. The light on her body disappeared, and she withdrew the fingers she had placed on Unabi and Little Black.
[Survivor No. 11766, your pet: Little Black, has learned the special passive skill Ripple Qigong.]
[Survivor No. 11766's pet: Little Black (Black Widow Spider), Loyalty: 100.]
STR: 3 AGI: 6 CON: 5 INT: 6 SPI: 4 PER: 9 CHA: 10
Skills:
[Spider Sense (Passive)]: The Black Widow Spider can sense danger and dodge in advance. PER +3, AGI +2.
[Lethal Poison (Passive)]: The Black Widow Spider injects venom into the enemy through biting. Depending on the amount of venom, it causes effects such as muscle spasms and brain paralysis.
[Web Weaving (Active)]: The Black Widow Spider can weave a web to entangle prey.
[Ripple Qigong (Special Passive) – Skill Level: LV0]
Creates energy in the blood through a special breathing method.
Note: This is a special passive skill and cannot be upgraded with skill points.
Although it was only LV0 Ripple Qigong, Little Black had at least learned Ripple Qigong. As for whether Unabi had learned it, that was unknown.
Because of Unabi's special nature, Cyan could not see her status panel and thus could not know whether she had learned Ripple Qigong. If she could not learn it, there was nothing that could be done. She had injected almost half of her ripple energy into Unabi's body.
She had originally wanted to inject a bit more ripple energy into Little Black's body, but Cyan was worried that her small frame could not withstand it.
"Master~!"
Little Black opened her eyes, leaped up, and produced faint golden lightning on her body. Her speed had increased a great deal compared to before. She landed on Cyan's shoulder, hugged her cheeks with both hands, and rubbed her little face against Cyan's cheek.
Cyan stroked Little Black's little head with a finger and looked at Unabi, who still had her eyes closed. She sensed her breathing method—it was the very steady Ripple Breathing Method.
And most importantly, Unabi had fallen asleep while breathing this way!
Is Unabi a genius at practicing Ripple Qigong?
Cyan looked at Unabi in surprise. She never expected that Unabi would still be breathing with the Ripple Breathing Method even while asleep.
This meant that Unabi could now practice Ripple Qigong twenty-four hours a day. Given some time, her practice progress would surpass Erni and Nishi.
As for Asuka and Little Black, there was no need to even look. The current Unabi was far ahead in practice progress, leaving them far behind.
"Master, what's wrong with Unabi?"
Nishi walked over to Cyan and looked at Unabi sitting motionless on the ground like an old monk in meditation.
"She's asleep. She has reached the state I mentioned of turning her own breathing into the Ripple Breathing Method."
"Nani?!"
Hearing Cyan's words, Asuka, who was working hard at practicing Ripple Qigong, almost shouted out and hurriedly covered her mouth.
"She reached it already? You only just taught her a short while ago…"
Asuka looked at Unabi in disbelief, a trace of fighting spirit appearing in her eyes.
It's one thing for Cyan to reach that level, but Unabi can also reach it. Then I can too!
The unyielding Asuka worked even harder at practicing Ripple Qigong. She refused to believe she could not reach that level.
Unabi slept all the way until the afternoon and was woken by hunger. Otherwise she could have slept even longer.
Two days later, Asuka practiced Ripple Qigong day and night for the sole purpose of reaching the state Cyan had spoken of—turning her own breathing method into the Ripple Qigong breathing method.
Unfortunately, she was unable to change her breathing method. However, the ripple energy in her body had increased a great deal, which could be considered a reward for her efforts.
During these two days, besides watching JOJO Parts 1 and 2, Unabi and Little Black were also familiarizing themselves with modern living items.
Unabi had lived in the real world for a period of time, but her current appearance had changed, so there were more things she needed to become familiar with.
Little Black's body was so small. Letting her know what those things were for was also for the sake of her safety.
"JoJo… a person's abilities are limited. I learned one thing from my short life: the more a person schemes, the more they will fall into situations they never expected… unless they transcend humanity…"
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
"I reject my humanity, JoJo!"
The laptop was playing JOJO Part 1 and had just reached the famous scene of Dio rejecting his humanity.
Cyan lazily lay in Unabi's soft embrace. The skin with its well-proportioned muscles felt firm yet bouncy to the touch. Lying on her was like lying on a soft bed—and a warm soft bed at that.
"Master, this blond bastard is so evil!"
Little Black lay on Cyan's chest. When she saw Dio stab Jonathan with the hidden knife, she angrily patted Cyan's chest with both hands.
Sitting to the side, Nishi looked at the intimate interaction between Unabi, Little Black, and Cyan. She wiped nonexistent sweat from her cheek with a handkerchief.
What is this feeling of being left out?
Whether it's acknowledging a master or first-come-first-served, I was the first one!
Master, you can't play favorites!