Li decided to stop cultivating in his house. He chose a small meadow outside of town, there was almost no one there. It was the perfect spot for someone trying to hide a secret.
The best part was that there was a divot in the center, hiding Li from onlookers. The cherry on top though, was he felt a deeper connection to the Earth when firmly rooted to it, increasing his cultivation speed by 2%
This may not seem like a lot but it would help significantly in the long-run.
"Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out." Li kept repeating these lines in his head as they helped him focus.
It had been 2 months since he first entered the Spirit Pool Manifestation realm and his progress seemed pitiful compared to his previous 2 cultivation feats.
He had only gone up 1 sub-level, but that was because the previous two realms where mere preliminary realms and Spirit Pool Manifestation was the first real mortal realm.
Since in an average cultivation world the age when a child becomes a man is 13, naturally that is when they begin cultivating
As before then they are considered unready and not mature enough to dedicate years of their life to sitting down and connecting with Mother Gaia.
Li had this dedication though, thus he was already at the first mortal realm of cultivation before the age of 11.
If this world had advanced in the ways of cultivation they would have considered this feat to be incredulous.
Li had already taken 2 weeks off school, so he decided to head back, and learn as much as he can before taking more time off of school.
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"Mr Li Liang, where have you been for the past 2 weeks." Mrs Barkley yelled at Li for seemingly no reason.
"Mrs Barkley weren't you informed of my absence, and why I was gone for so long?" Li replied in a bewildered manner.
"No I wasn't, so you have detention!" Mrs Barkley screamed at Li.
Li wanted to protest but decided against it, lest he gets in more trouble and more detention. "Sigh, Okay then Mrs Barkley, I will attend detention." Li said dejectedly.
After Class...
"Detention, Detention, where the hell is detention." Li thought to himself unhappily. Detention was in classroom E3, and eventually Li found it.
"Welcome to detention, State your name and I'll search it in the database." The teacher watching over detention said in a tired tone.
"My name is Li Liang and I'm in class 3A" Our protagonist said in an almost emotionless tone, as he was bored.
"Hmmmm, yep I see you here in the database, you have 15 detentions" The teacher said in a nearly surprised tone. He had never seen a kid with this many detentions before.
"What! Why do I have 15 detentions. This makes no sense!" Li protested in an angry tone, why does he have to serve 15 detentions, he didn't even do anything.
His parents should have called the school so the teacher must of had some sort of sick vendetta against him.
Li was nearly certain at this point, he was close to leaving this school. This would greatly hurt their reputation if he did actually leave in the long run.
Because he would become the most widely known around the world and him leaving the school due to an unsightly incident would leave them shunned in the future.
The school didn't know any of this though. So if Li ended up leaving they would be none the wiser.
Li has already made up his mind, he would finish his elementary education then move to another school, as this school wasn't exactly known for their amazing curriculum and there were plenty of other better alternatives.
When Li returned back to reality he had already sat down in silence. That's when someone else entered the room.
It was an Asian girl donned in martial art esque Gi. She also rocked blonde hair and a beautiful face "How was I supposed to know I'm not allowed to wear a Gi to school."
The Asian child tried to justify wearing a Gi, but the teacher didn't care. After rolling her eyes she sat next to Li. "Ooh, who do we have here?" The child said.
"The name is Li. Li Liang" He stated in an uninterested tone. He wasn't affected by things like looks.
"Cool my name is Eu Meh" She stated confidently.
"Good for you, I'm going to keep staring at the table now."
5 minutes pass.
"So do you do body building, or what." Eu Meh asked curiously as she saw his robust figure. Even though he is a little young to be body building it isn't completely impossible.
"I practice Martial Arts." Li replied unwillingly to beseech any further details. Telling any random person of cultivation would make you seem mentally unstable.
"Really!" Seeing that she and this mysterious but beautiful person had something in common she seemed overly elated.
"Yeah authentic Martial Arts" Li replied because he had no idea what authentic martial arts looked like, and assumed it was the path to immortality as that made the most sense.
"Really what belt are you." She replied excitedly.
"I'm sorry, what do you mean by belt" He thought he had given himself up. He panicked.
"You know, the indicator to what level of martial art you have accomplished." The girl replied informingly
It was then that Li had a thought. Why doesn't Cultivation have that sort of thing. Like an indicator to tell others what level you were.
Since he just kind of guessed he said "Yellow belt?" With a calm façade, and thinking that must be a high order level.
"Oh so you aren't that good at martial arts then. Personally I'm a purple belt." The girl said snarkily.
Li thought to himself "Who the hell isn't good at martial arts! I'm infinitely better than you in every aspect." But that's where it hit him. He didn't have any martial techniques.
That's what set him apart from the others in the Martial Arts community. What use is super strength if you don't know how to use it.
This is when he had a genius idea.
"Can I come over to your place to learn Martial Arts then?"