In a vast green forest full of tall ancient trees with the occasional sound of the roars of beasts echoing through the woods, a teenage boy sits on a boulder with the golden rays of the sun beaming onto him. Wearing clothes made of rough cloth, the boy, Riven, sits in contemplation. He was thinking of the past year since he had that dream, he already came to understand that the dream was of actual events that happened, more like memories, "Reincahrt? No, it can't be that Reincahrt, he supposedly died in the transcendent era".
Standing up and looking at the blue sky and the fluffy wisps of clouds floating in the air he sighs, "Even if it isn't that Reincahrt, the memories I somehow acquired are still from a powerful cultivator that surpasses the heaven tier..."
After thinking for a brief moment, Riven sits cross legged on the boulder, and enters a meditative state, after about half an hour he notices a bright spot in his mind, 'Time to enter the rebirth stage'.
Without the slightest hesitation, he charges towards the bright spot as it shoots blinding rays of light throughout his consciousness, massive amounts of information gush into his mind like a raging tsunami. Gasping for breath as a sharp piercing pain flashes through his mind, he looks through all the information from the memories of Reincahrt until he finds, Basic rebirth manual, 'Basic rebirth manual?'.
Studying the Basic rebirth manual, Riven exits his meditative state, and goes into deep contemplation, "In order to enter the first tier of the rebirth stage, I need to guide my blood, spirit, and qi to my dantian, then I have to merge them together in my dantian to create the platform of rebirth.."
The platform of rebirth is the foundation for further levels of cultivation, although the platform only helps with the qi part of cultivation, you also need to increase your body's strength as much as possible in the rebirth stage, because the body is the other half of the foundation. With a stronger body you can hold more qi, with stronger qi you can make your body stronger, but if the increase of qi is too much than your body will explode, therefore you must focus on strengthening your body in the rebirth stage firstly, then secondly your qi, only that way can you guarantee a good foundation.
In the Basic rebirth manual, in order to increase the amount of qi and quality of qi you need to start the Basic rebirth breathing technique. After contemplating for a while longer, Ren started to perform the breathing technique.
Inhale qi into the abdomen, hold, exhale impurities from lungs.
Inhale qi into the abdomen, hold, exhale impurities from lungs.
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After meditating for about four hours Ren exhales a breath of murky air, opening his eyes a flash of light appears briefly before fading, with a satisfied look he looks at the setting sun, "It's about time to head back".
As Ren stands up crackling sounds like popcorn popping comes from his body, "I haven't entered the rebirth stage yet, but my blood and qi is already so vigorous, and after removing so many impurities my flesh and bones are evolving".
As he starts to walk out of the forest Ren's muscles start to squirm as if there are thousands of earthworms crawling beneath his skin, resulting in his muscles visibly swelling; because of the increase of qi and the quality of it, Ren's body was strengthened greatly even though he hasn't reached the rebirth stage, if the increase of qi is too much his body will explode.
Luckily Ren is an intelligent person and knows his limits, otherwise we wouldn't have a main character for this story.
While exiting the forest and admiring the twisting, tall, and ancient trees, Ren with his newly enhanced senses, could hear the roaring of the beasts louder than they where earlier, if the roaring earlier could be compared to one tiger roaring in your face, the roaring now can be compared to ten tigers roaring in your face as they contemplate how to prepare their dinner..
"Ah! I'm going to have to get used to my enhanced senses, I haven't even entered the rebirth stage yet, and I'm already overwhelmed.." .
As Ren was getting used to his enhanced senses he started to run out of the forest, if he was home any later Aunty Leah would flay him alive...
Back in Riven, near the center of town, there are three manors placed side by side on land that cover an area of 200 kilometers, this is the Tie clan. In the center manor where the main family stays, in a heavily guarded room, there are eight elders sitting at a round table as they argue amongst each other.
As the elders argue, a man with a scar on the left side of his face, and emerald green eyes, listens with great interest, this is the patriarch of the Tie clan.
"The Elsiv clan cannot be considered a clan anymore, there are only two people, we can easily wipe them out!"
"The sooner we get rid of them, the better!"
"The sooner we get our hands on the treasure, we can become the strongest clan in Riven!"
"It's a waste for the treasure to be in their hands!"
After a few minutes of arguing, the patriarch, patriarch Tie, slams his hands into the table, and glares at the elders, "Silence! We can't do anything with the d*mn old woman around! She could wipe out the whole town of Riven with just a sneeze! Do you think I haven't tried to take the treasure because I don't want to!? I can't!"
With a sigh patriarch Tie looks at the shaken elders, "If you have a death wish go ahead and try to take the treasure, unless you can distract that d*mn old woman, you'll just end up a cold corpse dropped off at our doorstep".
After he finished speaking patriarch Tie stood to leave as he looked at the pale faced elders who finally stopped arguing, as he turned to leave the room, the elders bowed in his direction before looking at each other and wiping the sweat off their faces.
Looking at patriarch Tie's figure as he leaves the room a dark feeling appeared in their hearts.
"Don't worry about anything elders, that d*amn old woman might just be defeated very soon, so just be patient, I have a plan".