In a flash, four months had gone by. Though it was four months, roughly over a month had gone by in the real world. During that period, Yang Xia underwent several teartments sessions in order to fix her meridians and arteries. However, the issue concerning her soul was left unsolved, neither her or Little Feng could decipher the meaning nor events following up to it. And as such, the matter was left untouched until further notice.
Yang Xia sat in a meditative state. The final treatment session for her blocked meridians and arteries had just finished some time ago. Though she was supposed to rest, Yang Xia couldn't help but feel restless and impatient and had begun to cultivate as soon as she could. Little Feng sat with her, worried about his master's rash decision.
At that moment when Yang Xia had began to cultivate, the air around her felt unfamiliar and new. As such, she assumed that whatever it was she felt, was what was called spiritual energy. In a way she couldn't help but become somewhat fascinated. Everything in this world was new and exciting to her. It was far different to her old world, yet also so nostalgic in a way she couldn't describe.
Within those spiritual energies, she noticed that they were of different colours. But since she had no knowledge of their significance, Yang Xia chose to ask questions after her cultivation had finished yet also to not disturb her own concentration.
The spiritual energy around her began to soak into her body. Concentrating on the new orbs of energy entering her body, Yang Xia carefully guided them throughout the different parts of her body so it was all evenly distributed. And once it was all done, a light began to emit from the core of Yang Xia's body which eventually enveloped her entire frame, emitting a glowing aura around her.
It was a faint yet still noticeable yellow and the glow stayed that colour for a minute before rapidly changing into a brilliant, vivid red. It no longer changed colour afterwards, yet after a while, the aura around her slowly died down until it was no more.
The sudden change in her body made Yang Xia shot open her eyes and sweat profusely, it was a weird sensation and she felt confused for a second before her mind adjusted to what happened. Little Feng stumbled to his feet, quickly going to his master's side for support.
"Master!! Are you alright?? Should I get you something to cool down with??"
The red head panicked, his small body bouncing around Yang Xia, only making her head ache more than it already was. Little Feng had watched the whole ordeal through and through. Worry and excitement flooded his system and had trouble which one to express first. He decided that his first priority was to make sure that his master was alright.
Yang Xia declined his offer and forced herself to calm down, which she eventually did. Whilst she regained her composure, Little Feng decided to bring her a cup of cold herbal tea nonetheless, despite her refusal. Feeling Tranquil, she noticed a few changes in herself.
'My body and soul seem to have gotten stronger and more resilient than before...how interesting!' Yang Xia smirked to herself, happy about the new improvements. Her body was less weak then before, which made her satisfied temporarily yet it still wasn't enough for her. She took a light sip of the tea the small boy had gotten her, drowning in her thoughts and inner turmoil.
Seeing that Yang Xia was doing alright, Little Feng lost all worry and only grew excited.
"Master! Master! Congratulations on your breakthroughs! You have successfully become a high stage master!"
He proceeded to cheer and celebrate for his master. On the other hand, Yang Xia was even more so confused. Being born a trash, the people in her residence never bothered to teach her about cultivation, seeing it as a waste of time and efforts. The only thing she knew was how to direct the spiritual energy into and through her body.
Although this was based more on human instinct rather than knowledge. Almost all living souls in any realm were born with the instinct to cultivate, the method of cultivating was rooted in the minds of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. Even if that individual was brainless, its body would still react. That was what made them so unique compared to other species.
Yang Xia furrowed her brows, still not catching on to his endless praise. Eyeing him to shut up, she asked,
"Hey, can you explain the basics of cultivation?"
Little Feng snapped out of his hyper state at the request and realised something. His master was never taught the fundamental aspects of this world! He was shocked and surprised but happily agreed nonetheless.
"This world is full of spiritual energy which is found everywhere in the atmosphere. These energy are key and vital to one's cultivation! Every spiritual energy is grouped into different attributes, and depending on what colour you see, that is your body's core attribute. Those who can cultivate usually only see one colour, however, few who are prodigies are able to see more than one, although it depends on the person how many."
"Oh I see...What types of attributes are there then?"
Yang Xia asked, curious.
"There are three main attributes anyone can have. Fire, water and earth. However there are also sub attributes and legendary attributes which are more rare and harder to be born with. Those in the sub category include, ice, wind, metal and wood. Those in Legendary are lighting, light and dark."
Yang Xia nodded in understanding, gesturing for him to continue. Little Feng nodded.
"In the world of cultivators, there are 7 spiritual rankings one can obtain. Each having two stages, low stage and high stage. The ranking go in order, apprentice, master, grandmaster, heavenly sage, profound realm, holy deity saint, divine god. The divine God rank is the only rank which does not have a low or high stage, instead it only has a supreme stage. In history so far, there has only been three divine god rank cultivators. You can only imagine how difficult it is to obtain such level of power..."
Yang Xia narrowed her eyes, pondering at his words.
"Those three divine god ranks...where are they now? "
Little Feng sighed and furrowed his small brows.
"From what I knew back then, those three have been missing for centuries. Many have said they have died or entered the realm of the divine...however, nobody can be too certain on their whereabouts since nobody have seen what they looked like in the first place."
She hummed, seemingly unsure of something, but pushed the unsettling feeling aside to let Little Feng continue talking.
"These rankings correspond to their respective colours. Yellow, red, green, teal, blue, purple and white. Master, this is everything there is to know on the basics of cultivating!"
"I understand now. Thanks, Little Feng. But...why did I become a high stage master instead of an apprentice? I just recently began to cultivate."
"Oh! This is simply because your body had been obsorbing the spiritual energy! But since you could not use them for cultivation, your body simply stored away the energy. Thus collecting up for years until finally being used today! Adding onto the fact that the spiritual energy here is more dense, so twice the amount than the outside world!!"
Yang Xia thought his reason was understandable, thus not saying anything else. 'But...that kinda feels like a cheat in itself' she sweat dropped to that thought. Little Feng grinned sheepishly, before slowly narrowing his eyes to the ground in thought.
"Master, there's something that I wanted to ask you!"
"Go on"
"What colour did you see when you were cultivating?"
She thought for a minute, trying to recall what she saw before remembering,
"Oh yeah, I was going to ask about it as well but I saw some red, yellow, black and white. Why? Does it have some kind of meaning?"
"huh?"
Little Feng almost spit blood. He was alarmed! And shocked! And speechless? Yes, Absolutely speechless indeed. He could only stare at her with the whites draining from his eyes.
The continuous staring made Yang Xia uncomfortable, especially since the little boy had not spoken a single word since she had responded, thus she avoided his gaze with her own troubled expression.
Little Feng snapped out of his daze and immediately swallowed the upcoming blood.
"M-M-Master!!! Are you sure? Fire?? Lightning?? Dark?? And light?? All three from the legendary branch?? And one fron the main branch??"
Little Feng was full of emotions. He had heard of people who had obtained two or three attributes, however those attributes where either from main or sub. None had appeared in the past century who had possesed more than one legendary attribute nor four attributes at that!! Yet here was a young girl, who accomplished the unthinkable! This was literally going against the heavens!! No!! This was beyond the grap of the heavens!!
Little Feng began to cry, it was all simply too much for him to comprehend. Now it was Yang Xia's turn to be shocked. She had no idea why he was crying. She felt awkward and stiffly sat there, unknowing what to do to comfort the small child. 'Sh*t why are YOU the one crying, I'm just as confused and uncomfortable too you know!!'
"Master! It's possible to attain one attribute from outside the main branch, but the rate of someone obtaining it is low. Especially one from the legendary branch. Master, are you even human? Master, were you blessed by Buddha himself?? Master, are you friends with Buddha???"
'Ah.... So basically I'm a walking, talking cheat. Ah...' Yang Xia sighed internally.
The more and more he talked, the more absurd his theories were. Yang Xia realised the reality of her words and creased her brows once more. However, Little Feng had began to become more ambitious with his words, which started to irritate the female.
She grabbed the little boy from the back of his clothes and lifted him up to her eyesight. She narrowed her slender eyes at him and gave a deathly glare, which ultimately shook the boy back into reality. Feeling a chill up his spine, Little Feng shivered and instantly shrunk into a ball under Yang Xia's grasp.