Chapter 26: Nine Extremity Dao Scripture
It took Zhu Rong a while to calm Old Song down, but in the end, he managed.
He really thought that if he hadn’t done something, the old man might’ve actually attacked him this time, so just to get out of there, he came up with some excuse and left.
’Tch, what a grumpy old man. Why can’t everyone just be like me?’ he thought, shaking his head.
Though, he had to admit, compared to the other disciples, he visited the clinic a little too often.
In fact, in his past life, it had practically become a habit for him to end up there one way or another.
Of course, that situation didn’t last too long since his second year had also been his last at the academy.
That said, he made a few quick movements to check his body.
He also examined the part of his chest he’d ended up damaging while making incisions on the deformed part of his meridians.
Just thinking back to how things had gone gave him the shivers, and he was surprised that he had managed to make it through without any major complications in the end.
He could already tell from the flow of Qi in his body that his situation had improved.
The flow was smooth and continuous, without interruptions, and more importantly,
it was spontaneous.
In his past life, he had to personally force the Qi to circulate every single time if he wanted to cultivate even a little, and that definitely wasn’t normal.
In every living being, there were traces of spiritual energy, whether they were cultivators or not, the energy was there, though in different amounts, and it flowed constantly.
He, too, had some traces of spiritual energy in his body, but because of his deformity, those traces of energy barely ever flowed on their own.
He used to think that, as he grew, the flow had just stopped, which in turn made his body weak and prevented him from developing any natural talent.
It had already been confirmed that many of the natural talents cultivators had, were influenced by several factors during the person’s early years.
That was why so many members of important families started cultivating from a young age, so that once they reached a certain age, their talent would be way above the average.
Of course, talent depended on many other things too, but a problem like his was enough to crush any potential talent before it could even show.
He still didn’t understand how his family had never discovered this issue at birth.
His parents’ status in the family wasn’t low, so they could afford skilled doctors who should’ve been able to detect a problem like this,
yet no one ever noticed, letting his condition worsen until it reached a point of no return.
But he didn’t waste time thinking about what was already the past, and focused on the future,
a future he never thought he’d get to see.
He went straight to the training hall and, under the puzzled gaze of the guy at the counter, booked a room for the rest of the day.
He didn’t have to go to work today anyway, since he’d already arranged to have the day off.
He had already made all the necessary preparations, now the only thing left was to cultivate!
"I’ve been waiting so long to re-cultivate this technique," he muttered to himself, as he recalled every detail of a cultivation technique he’d learned in his past life.
He knew quite a few of them, and among the many, he had already picked out a few that were perfect for him.
He had five centuries of life experience to help him decide the best path, and he’d already thought about which technique would benefit him the most in the long run.
The Nine Extremity Dao Scripture.
This was a cultivation technique he’d started cultivating after reaching the fifth stage of the Mortal Realm, the Nascent Soul Stage.
That stage was the final step in the Mortal Realm, a difficult one for most cultivators to cross, but also the stage that would determine a cultivator’s future.
Everyone who reached this stage had made many preparations for what would come next.
After all, what normal people might consider a high level of cultivation was, to cultivators, just the first step on the real path of cultivation.
They knew that from that point on, things would get much harder, but alongside that difficulty, the rewards would also become much greater.
The average cultivator reached this stage in a little over 50 years, while talented ones did it in less than 30.
People like him, though, could fail to reach the next stage even after a few centuries, and that’s exactly what happened.
It took him almost 100 years just to reach the fifth stage, and from then on, his cultivation path practically came to a halt.
He’d searched for every possible solution, but nothing worked.
He gathered countless cultivation techniques, but none of them helped him.
The Nine Extremity Dao Scripture was one of those, and just like the Infernal Thunder Heart Sutra, he’d found it among the ruins of a past cultivator.
According to what he discovered, this was the cultivation technique of a cultivator said to have crossed the gate to the heavens.
To ordinary people, those who ascended to some higher realm were just legends, but to him, who had lived a long life, they weren’t.
In fact, he had even gotten the chance to witness someone ascending to the heavens, and that person had been cultivating none other than the Nine Extremity Dao Scripture.