After hours of thinking, the Creature couldn't help but fall into a deep thought of how he should progress with the cultivation and although he felt qi and understood it's properties, the qi that the shadow uses was far more pure and fluid like water while the ones in the air was entirely solid
But the more he thought the more confused he became as he unable to understand the way to progress in the first step of cultivation but as he thought, Blade rushed down the tunnel making the creature divert its attention as it wrote "What is it? Did u guys get attacked again?" But blade shook his head and spoke "The New guy asked me to give you this and said that since you understand his language, this book may help" the creature was shocked from the words as he spoke "But why? I never gave him anything that precious and instead asked questions not to say he got hurt by my men..." But blade spoke "He said that since he started wandering the world, he had realised how cruel the world is he told me stories of how people who called themselves great did the most disgusting things i couldn't even imagine along the way and said that master though a monster is far kinder than all of them as when you captured him you didn't force him to serve you but rather gave him freedom and healed him, he wishes that you use the book he gave to pursue the goal you seek, it contains his years of cultivation knowledge, alchemy recipes and many more things that will assist you in getting stronger"
The Creature understood as he took the old book with flying pages from Blade and dismissed him, The Creature used it's flesh to form a tube and turn the cover and open the first chapter titled "Qi"
[Title: Qi
Introduction: Qi is like water vapour it's everywhere in lakes, in seas or in the ground and is absorbed by everyone in even the smallest action like drinking water, eating food or simply breathing
Body: The qi is everywhere but not everyone with qi is a practitioner, to use the qi it must first be purified to remove impurities and achieve the pure qi if a qi stone is mined and weighs 3 grams, it doesn't mean that it's entirely qi, if the qi stone is broken down into dust and processed in a sect by a master alchemist out of 3 grams only 0.5 grams will be purely crystallized qi while the rest would be impurities, its the same in nature as well so practioners used a manual
There are many manuals some are publicly known, some are sect member limited while many others are taken from ruins
The manuals are divided into 3 tiers Low Level manuals are the manuals which contains the lowest efficiency and are often sold in masses in the markets of the mortal world, Mid tier are manuals with a bit higher efficiency and are sed by small sects and subsidiary families to train their people, High tier manuals are often sect exclusive and cost alot more than medium tiers but they have an extremely high efficiency level in many tests the ratio of efficiency of High level manuals was found to be around 3 times more than Medium levels which is also why people of all around the world wish to join sects, the other reason is the availability of resources, sects have a vast reserve if resources which allows their people to grow faster but they are not free, sect wars and ambushes are not uncommon and thousands of people die each year due to this]
The creature read and understood as it spoke in its consciousness "The outside is this chaotic, i didn't expect that people would actually do things like that" and couldn't help but sigh inwardly as he flipped the page of the book titled "Purification"
[Title: Purification
Introduction: It's the process in the which martials artists purify qi, purification is necessary because not all qi are the same there are yin, yang, corrupted and neutral qi each have their own processes
Body: Here i will explain the various types of qi
Yin qi: Yin means Cold or ice, it's the coldest amongst the four and is capable of freezing everything in its path to extreme low temperatures when unleashed but it's property also is a threat and using it constantly can freeze the user's core slowly and eventually the user will be a ice sculpture and remain frozen as a corpse
Yang Qi: It's the opposite of yin and the hottest, unlike yin it can burn everything in its path with Extremely high temperatures but it took can kill the user by burning them from within
Yin and Yang users are often dao companions as their opposite nature of qi follows the flow of Yin and Yang and keeps their qi in a harmony and prevents them from dying
Neutral Qi: The qi generated by the heaven and earth, as told before it's the safest amongst all other qi types
Corrupted: This is also called the Demonic Qi and is born when cultivators step out of their dao paths and go into the wrong way corrupting their soul and qi with Demonic energy, people with this often lose their sanity and end up becoming a demon bringing forth mass destruction and Chaos across the regions]
The creature read and understood the various types of qi and thought inwardly "these are written in such great details and cover aspects that many people don't even see, i wonder how long this took him to make" as he flipped to the third chapter "basics"
[Title: Basics
Introduction: Here you will understand how to sense qi and start your journey to Cultivation as a whole
Body: To begin with , try to expand your consciousness and your senses even if you don't have senses try to visualise the world around you as a darkness veiled region and the qi as light, if you sensed qi before it should be much easier
Once you sense them try to hold them not with your body but your consciousness, Cultivation is not just about using qi but also your body and mentality if one falls behind you cannot breakthrough in the future, expand your mentality and try to hold the specs with it and drag them into your body
Once they are inside try to extract the qi from within it, the specs are like a ore try to extract the ore without destroying the outside surface you may store more qi to use if you fail in one go, Cultivation shall be done with steady pace and rapid movement may harm you in the long run and limit your Cultivation]
To be Continued -->