"Now why don't you try it, people usually sit down cross leg while trying, but the point is just to make your spiritual root start absorbing spiritual qi by breath in spiritual qi into one stomach, so you can be in any position as long it's comfortable, and you can focus while doing so".
Mu xin immediately tried to cultivate since he truly interested how it's like (well since she says any comfortable position I just stay like this, I won't deny it's comfortable), he closed his eyes and relaxed his body completely, he put his attention on spiritual qi in the air, trying to sense it as clear as possible and breath in.
It was not easy at first, it was like attempting to breathe in a substance in the air, but after a few tries he could tell he managed to breathe in some of it but the spiritual qi immediately dispersed indicating he fails, but he keeps trying since shu hua did say it depends on one spiritual root compatibility.
For the next 30 minute, he keeps trying, but he fails overtime, after a few more try he's starting to exhausted as if he is just running for hour straight and hungry, which is odd since he just eats the spiritual apple one hour ago which was supposed to allow him not eating for more than ten hours.
"Take a break little xin, don't force yourself like that, here you should eat" As she said that, she grab one spiritual fruit which mu xin drop on the floor and give it to him, mu xin straighten himself out of her embrace, this time shu hua let him go allowing him to sit beside her, where mu xin immediately eat the fruit given by shu hua.
After he eats, mu xin couldn't help to look at shu hua, he braces himself to ask the question of which been bugging him the whole time "sister hua, why are you so nice to me?".
"Is it odd to help someone?"
"But you gain nothing from helping me"
"So little xin is mature in mind huh, hehe well to be honest i want little xin to help with something"
"Me? Helping sister hua? I don't think I can help with anything" (What could i help her with in the first place?).
"You see little xin, i'm just a tree I can't move anywhere, I've been bored all this time, while I can use my spirit to leave, it can't go far I can only leave few miles outside the mountain, sometime I can see people from a distance which make me curious about human city, little xin is still young, so it's better for you to grow up in human city right, that's mean little xin want to leave this forest and go to city for safety's sake, and I would like to tag along" Her face is brightened up while she explains.
"But sister hua i" "I know what you think about little xin, it's not like you have to bring my entire body, just a part of it, so it can be a medium for my spirit is good enough, so will you help me little xin".
"If I can help, then I want to"
"Thank you little xin, seems like we will be together for a long time hehe" Shu hua grabbed him again for another hug which made mu xin face red but for another reason (together? If she follows me, then yeah we be together, not good my interactions with women before can be counted with one hand now it made me oddly conscious of it, while I don't think I'm an alpha male but I don't think I'm beta too, I should quickly get used to this).
"Um sister xin I'm ready to try cultivating again"
"Go ahead" She said so as she strokes mu xin head.
Two hour pass by, mu xin is still trying to instigate his spiritual root to start absorbing spiritual qi, he keeps trying until he suddenly he felt a trace of spiritual qi he inhales move toward his dantian which after that tiny electricity appear in that part but disappear immediately, next he starts to feel a pulsating feeling from his dantian, he keeps inhaling more spiritual qi and more of it being absorbed into his dantian which made the pulse got even stronger, he instinctively knew that his spiritual root already awaken and can absorb spiritual qi now, he opens his eye looking at the woman who still hugging him and open his mouth but "congrats little xin, now you're a first stage of body refining realm cultivator, it's your first step as cultivator" She said so as she let mu xin go and pat his head "how do you feel now that you've become a cultivator?".
"My body feels lighter and i feel stronger somehow, this is amazing" (I've always imagined how it's like to cultivated, but the real one is even more wondrous than any imagination).
"It's great right, but you just become a cultivator so you're body is not used to have spiritual qi, let's stop here today and let you're body get used to it first, with that said come here and sleep little xin" After she said that few branches of the tree come down, and a bed made of leaf is appeared just like that, mu xin still has to admit that although the feeling of getting stronger is wonderful he also feels a bit odd since he can feel there's something else in his body which not there before so he obediently moves to the bed of leaf and lay down, shu hua sit next to him and say "good night little xin" It didn't take long for mu xin to enter the dream world.
As shu hua watch mu xin fall asleep, she mutter by herself "what a peculiar child, to manage absorb spiritual qi after only few hours, such high affinity, i wonder what your background is" After she said so, she lay down beside mu xin and stroke his head a few time "with you little xin i can finally leave this cave and look at outside world" Her face show clear excitement like that of little girl, she closed her eyes and feel asleep with expectation for tomorrow.