Yichen's eyes widened in awe. His master's knowledge of cultivation was far and wide. While everyone was doing the normal cultivation; his master was teaching him to have a strong foundation right from the start.
As he looked at him in awe, his master went on...
"This cultivation method is the secret of our phoenix clan. Because we have yang(fire) attributes in us; we started the qi cultivation right away by absorbing one of the purest fire energy; that is the white heaven fire, thereby, making our body powerful. This white heaven fire is a very pure form of fire and is only found in the beast realm."
He then turned to Yichen and noted animatedly: "Kid, having a strong foundation is very crucial in one's cultivation. If you have a strong foundation you naturally will be able to go to greater heights and your body will be able to bear heavy and more powerful techniques later on. Since the strongest spiritual energy, you have right now is this pure yin energy; isn't it the best to use as your cultivation base?"
He grinned mischievously as he looked at him.
Shooked by his teacher's vast knowledge, Yichen heeded humbly: "Yichen understand what the teacher meant. Yichen will now absorb the yin energy."
He looked so determined when he said it.
"Ha..ha...ha..."
Lord Guotin laughed amusingly at it. It was so easy to convince the young disciple; it appeared that he already trust me much.
He was left contented by it.
Yichen on the side sat in a meditative position and closed his eyes. Lord Guotin used his prowess and directed all the ten sky-tier yellow cactus flowers towards him and made them encircle him.
As Yichen's body relaxed completely, he felt the yin energy that surrounds him.
He focused on it and slowly started to absorb the yin energy from the flowers. The dark black colour and extreme cold yin energy surged towards him at a rapid speed.
He felt an ice coldness as the energy from the yellow cactus flower surged inside him, his body temperature rapidly drop to the lowest point and was trembling terribly. Even the breath from his nose was ice steam. Yichen's body looked lifeless from the outside; Lord Guotin could see the pale white complexion in his face. The kid hadn't refined the energy yet. He looked pale and blue, if that continued then he might be in danger!
"Kid, now refine the qi!"
Lord Guotin instructed sharply.
Hearing his master's voice, Yichen soon focused on refining his qi.
It took several hours to refine the yin qi; making it slowly adapt to his body. The yin energy rejected him at first but slowly started to acknowledge the yin spiritual roots in that tiny body, thereby, making its home gradually.
With it; the newly refined yin qi started to accumulate, adapt and spread itself onto Yichen's entire body. He felt massive good energy spreading thoroughly in his entire body. He even felt light and immune to coldness. If it were someone else, one would have died from the extreme coldness; but Yichen was a different case; the yin qi in him was now one with his body. It was as if they were a part of him.
His complexion soon returned to normal.
Shortly a while later, he opened his eyes.
He promptly stood up and felt a slight change in his body. There was a faint amount of qi that was residing in his body! It felt so surreal. That thing was happening for real! He was not imagining things! It was real!
Happy about it, he immediately scrambled to hug his master.
He held Lord Guotin's small body with his hands and brushed his fluffy body with his face.
"Master! I did it!"
He exclaimed with joy.
The quiet, silent and lifeless Yichen was now filled with liveliness. His face was smiling brightly like a luminous full moon as he endearingly hugged his teacher.
Feeling suffocated by his sudden tight embrace, Lord Guotin pushed him away with his wings: "Kid, I get it. You are excited. But....hold yourself, you are suffocating this master."
He was then struggling to escape from his suffocating grasp.
"Eh?"
Realising the struggle of his master, Yichen immediately released his grip.
Lord Guotin flew out and was left alleviated: "Phew! This feels good. Kid, you nearly choked me."
He teased him in amusement.
Yichen reacted startled; his jade face looked so cute.
Amused by his reaction, Lord Guotin beamed and then evaluated him: "Qi collection realm, level 1."
"Not bad. Not bad. This is already a good start. To directly jump into level 1 with just a faint amount of yin qi energy. This shows the quality of the yin qi energy you absorb to be quite incredible."
He turned to look at young Yichen's keen eyes and expressed concern: "It's already late night and the light might appear anytime soon. Kid, you have done a good job today and tired yourself; take proper rest for now. I bet, tomorrow you will be a bit busy as things would take a tremendous change."
Yichen knew what his master meant by it. Since his father had been cured; a lot could happen tomorrow and was already anticipating it.
Though he was excitedly looking forward to tomorrow, he was also tired from all the things that had happened.
He turned to his master and heeded obediently: "Yichen will obey master's words. Yichen wishes to master a good rest."
Lord Guotin nodded his head and soon flew back to the interspatial pendant.
Yichen too climbed up to his bed and rested.
He fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.
The night went by like that.
Soon, it was slowly shifted by the light.
The sun had risen to its fullness and everyone else in the Lin clan except for Yichen had woken up from their rest.
They were now busy doing their routine work.
Everything was normal till the forest guards immediately rushed towards the clan's hall in distress.
"Report!!"
"Chief! The sky-tier yellow cactus flower from the clan's forest had been all stolen!"
The guard reported alarmingly.
"What??!!"
Lin Zhou stood up from his seat in shock.
"The sky-tier flower has been all stolen?!
How did....how did..this happen?! Tell me all about it!"
He interrogated the guard in outrage.
The guard turned to look his face sideways, he then replied after a while of hesitation: "Chief, the formation was deactivated and the person had robbed all of the sky-tier yellow cactus flower leaving none of it."
"What?!"