Chapter 6
I returned to my room all beaten and dirty. Ke Qing did not spare me and literally hammered the skill of fighting into me. She showed me every mistake in practice and explained it in words. She did not teach me any special art of fencing. She taught me exactly how to fight and survive. True, I was not able to learn too much in one day, especially the problem is that I do not know how to ignore the pain from the blows I receive, which immediately knocked me off my pace. It would seem that, given how many health problems I had, the pain threshold should also be high, but you gradually get used to constant pain, but a sharp pain from a blow... It is enough to remember what it is like when you accidentally hit your little toe on the nightstand to understand the difference, and even during regular training I was not even close to angry with my wife. In a fit of rage, a person can beat an opponent almost completely ignoring the counterattacks, the consequences of which only reach the aftermath of the adrenaline decline, but it is clear that this is not the case.
Having washed myself and got to bed, on the one hand, I just wanted to go to bed and forget about all the problems until tomorrow, but not only do I not know how much time is left until the canon, but if Ke Qing's words are true, then I need to become stronger now, which means I need to take my balls in a fist and pay attention to the cultivation technique that the system has adjusted for me.
I am probably physically incapable of forgetting about the method of cultivating the dendro element. And I must admit that it is both simple and difficult. The whole point is based on the fact that the user must take control of the elemental energy, in this case Dendro, and directing it in a certain way inside his own body to first achieve the emergence of an elemental core, which in the future will itself generate this energy, and then it will be necessary to gradually strengthen and develop it.
As the owner of the Dendro God's Eye, fortunately, I will have no problems with the initial stage of this technique, but if an ordinary person tried it, he would have serious problems. After all, such a person would rather hurt himself sooner than be able to control the energy that penetrated into the body, if of course he could direct it there at all.
Sitting at the head of the bed, I took my God's Eye in my hands and, closing my eyes, concentrated on the power it gave. A small stream of green energy responded to my call, which seemed to personify life itself, and then, obeying my will, flowed from the God's Eye into my body.
The extraneous energy inside felt a little strange and unnatural, the body seemed to instinctively give signals that it did not belong here, but I ignored everything unnecessary and concentrated on the path along which I directed the energy inside my body. Time after time, I stretched this thin stream along the necessary path, noting on the edge of consciousness that it resembled a pattern of a tree, whose column began from my feet, and the crown occupied the upper part of the body. And only in the center was there a semblance of a spiral, where part of the energy was constantly settling.
The longer this went on, the more I began to lose the sense of time, and before my closed eyes, as if a pattern of my body appeared, along which I was driving the energy, until at one point, the spiral in the center of my body began to actively absorb the incoming energy, not even allowing it to pass along the strengthened path. I was not worried, because I knew that this was a sign of the birth of the core, and continued to direct energy into my body, fascinated by the increasingly flaring green color until an explosion occurred.
I physically felt how my body from my toes to the tips of my hair was flooded with energy, and then it all collapsed into a small ball, in the stomach area.
Opening my eyes, I couldn't help but smile happily, knowing that I had just taken the first step towards standing at the top of this world.
"The creak of an opening door."
"Yun Che, please stop playing with the god's eye in the middle of the night. I can't sleep because of it." Ke Qing's voice, full of displeasure, reached me.
"Sorry, I got a little carried away." I answered awkwardly, while automatically trying to raise my hand to scratch the back of my head, but I couldn't. My whole body was so tired that I couldn't even move.
"Haah, okay, I understand, after all, this is the first day after receiving the god's eye." The girl sighed and added as she was about to leave. "Good night."
"Ke Qing, wait." I called out to the girl.
"What's wrong?" She looked at me.
- Um, this is embarrassing to ask, but could you call one of the servants to help me lie down? I can't seem to move. - I asked, smiling crookedly, realizing that staying asleep in a semi-sitting position was not the best idea considering the injuries I had received during the day.
- Did you manage to waste all your stamina on the eye of God? Well, it doesn't matter, I'll send someone for Bai Zhu in the morning. - the irritated girl shook her head and nevertheless decided to help me herself. It was rather strange to see how she moved my body like a feather with her seemingly gentle hands, but I suppose that's why she is the owner of the eye of God, and quite a strong one at that.
- Thank you. - I thanked her. - And good night.
- Please, and please try not to do that again. - the girl gave her parting words and left the room.
- Haaah, if there was something in my system that showed other people's attitude towards me, I'm sure I would have just lost a couple of points. - I sighed regretfully. What happened almost neutralized the joy of successfully becoming a cultivator.
"Diling" rang in my head, and then a message from the system appeared.
[The host successfully survived a day after becoming a mortal enemy, an influential figure of one of the 7 regions.]
[Reward: Tempering Technique: Apollo Body.]
-…- I stared ahead with a dull expression, trying to comprehend the message shown.
- This is when I managed to offend someone so much that they want to kill me… - I muttered in bewilderment until one extremely important fact popped into my head. - Oh yeah, someone managed to poison me right at the wedding. And how did I displease someone? Or is it a crazy rich fan of Ke Qing? - On the one hand, I can understand the obsession with her, but going to such extremes is no longer normal.
[Do you want to activate the reward? Y/N]
The system reminded me of its existence. And I would like to agree, but remembering the last time, my seemingly overly tired body began to tremble with horror. I really wanted to put it off until better times, but I still decided to at least look at the description before making a decision.
[Tempering Technique: Apollo's Body - a special tempering technique that allows you to quickly restore the body's resources, due to elemental power, and also directs the development of its physical characteristics to achieve the body template of the god of light Apollo.]
- ... As they say, all is fair in love and war. - I muttered. Still, I don't remember Apollo being associated with great physical strength, but more with beauty, but then girls like handsome guys more.
- Okay, as they say, it's better to do so that you don't regret it later. - I grimaced slightly, and then took a slow breath, clenched my teeth and accepted the reward.
A brief flash of unbearable pain, and then my consciousness fell into the saving darkness.