Ulf was 5 years old now, he had deep knowledge of hadda tribe and about the part of the cultivation method. He already watched four tournaments and had ideas about how tribesmen cultivate. Those guys were ultimate body cultivators. He found out more about novice and warrior ranks.
When a child would become 6 years old, they would start endless physical training. The main purpose was to make the body as strong as possible. The novice would become a warrior only when he/she could absorb qi from the air forcefully. After observation for several years, Ulf found out that the point in this process was skin. As abnormal as it appears, our skin can absorb oxygen, very little amount of it, but still can. It was known to scientists and common folks on the earth. However for a large e amount of it humans need the lungs. And what about qi? Qi was the same, but the quantity was also small.
As Ulf studied qi in his body through meditation, he knew that this energy goes the same way as oxygen in the body and is much calmer and more usable than qi in the air. However, the discovery of his energy in the body was itself a huge challenge, almost impossible for others here. Ulf did it only after using meditation, control of his breath and some knowledge about anatomy from the modern earth.
The kids in the village after years of training can make their bodies abnormally strong. When the skin and muscles were sturdier, they would get some kind of ability to withstand pressure, which was brought through the sucking up of a huge amount of qi. However, the cultivator also needed strong willpower, because only at the peak warrior rank was it possible to painlessly absorb qi. The tribesmen didn't know that much but had noticed that if they had tough physics and determination to endure the pain they could make any part of the body stronger.
Ulf tried to absorb qi forcefully in his right hand one year ago, to check the progress. He thought that as he experienced various kinds of pain in his past life, there wouldn't be anything special, but Ulf was caught unprepared. The pain was unimaginable even for him. It was like something was eating up every part of his right hand and even reached the bones. Ulf had to gather all his strength to surpass his desire of shouting as loud as he could. Yes, he had paid the price for his arrogance. At that point, he understood why a strong body was needed.
As for his cultivation, Ulf made a big discovery. After meditating and training his mind for several years, he found out that he wasn't only becoming cleverer, but also gaining something else. This thing was helping him to obtain control over the dormant qi in his body. As time went on and this thing was getting stronger, Ulf also acquired better mastery over the more amount of qi in his body.
Ulf was wondering what it could be and called. After some time he had an idea. May it be spiritual energy. In the past life, he didn't believe in the existence of a spirit, but his reincarnation was strong proof that he had been wrong. Most likely, the mind cultivation helped him also to make his unnoticeable spiritual energy stronger and to gain some superpower, which was gaining control over qi. Though till now he didn't know another usage of it, except for controlling qi in his body.
The cultivation of spiritual energy is very hard and slow. Ulf had started meditation when he was a half year old but got the ability to control qi only at two and half years of age. Right now the amount of qi under his control isn't much. That is why it is more fruitful to use qi only in one particular body part.
5 years old Ulf has more freedom and wan't under the strict observation of his mother. Mainly due to the children's early rebellion period here. All of them were energetically very active and the tribe would not hinder them until they would cause some serious mishap. The reason was that the kids must become warriors and hunters and if they don't have strong characters they would only get mistreated by others.
Fighting between the children isn't also rare. There are a few hundred children in the village, so some minor fights among kids aren't weird, rather it's more welcomed. However for Ulf mostly things like that haven't been a problem for some time.
The reason was his sister. Hilda was a big bully among her peers. She loved the fight, especially against ones who were beating up other kids for no rightful reasons. One time, several mothers even complained together to Inga that Hilda had savagely beaten up their kids. Ulf was wondering what his devil sister had done to them to make those mothers come personally.
When Hilda came back home, her mother asked her the reason why had done it. Hilda said that four kids first took her best friend Nora's toy and when the girl didn't start to cry, they began to beat her. When Hilda saw it, she got angry. As she was a bit far, grabbed two stones. Both of them hit two boys' heads and they fainted right away. As for the other two, they had been trashed by Hilda using the stick.
Only then did Ulf understand that his sister was a very dirty fighter if she was agitated. After Inga heard the little girl, she didn't blame Hilda but told her not to use stones again, because kids may get some serious injuries next time. That was why others wouldn't dare to pick a fight with Ulf.
However, when Hilda became 6 years old and started special training in the village, she became busier. So many kids, who had grudges against Hilda, have been trying to take everything over the Ulf. Several times more than 20 kids were chasing him.
Of course, they weren't a problem for Ulf, but he liked to 'play' with them. Ulf was usually running away from them, but not using full speed, enough to let others not fall far behind. when they would get tired and were going to give up, Ulf would stop running, go back and beat every one of them. It was kind of training for him so, wasn't using qi at all. After a few times, some of the kids gave up on their revenge plan. He was also doing it because adults wouldn't pay attention to kids' disputes.
To examine his power and have fewer eyes watching him, Ulf had learnt the whole village like his hand. He has been running around the village all day long. At the same time if there was no one he was using spiritual power to control qi in the different parts of his body to know the effect it had.
When Ulf was on the medication, he wasn't only nourishing his mind, but also spending some time making the other body parts. Usually, Ulf's running speed without qi was equal to a normal trained adult man's speed on the earth. However, using qi could make him almost half faster than the Olympic athletes. It was at least 2 times the boost of original ability. And it was when he was still a child and hadn't started physics training in the village .. an insane fact!!
The power was the same. In the outskirts of Village, Ulf lift stone weighed a hundred kilos, of course by using qi not only in his hands but around his entire body. Ulf had to do it, to handle the huge mass of stone, which was pressing him down. He was excited about his strength and future potential.
Ulf didn't know what kind of rank he was in. He could control qi as well as peak warrior rank hunter, but body strength would be only the best between the beginners of novice rank.
Nevertheless, it wasn't time to be arrogant, as there were many strong ones in the tribe and more dangers outside the wall. Ulf was waiting for when he would turn 6 years old to start physical training and also to show others a part of his uniqueness bit by bit. However, not everything goes according to our plans.