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Thanks for the support guys, here's an extra chapter as a thanks.
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"Fuck. I spoke too soon!" Kieran immediately went to dip back into his room but was grabbed by his collar and dragged out, forced to face his captor.
Upon turning around and finally taking a good look at his captor, Kieran realized that it was the Outer Disciple Elder Zia, the elder who had initially captured him and taken him into the sect.
Thinking quickly Kieran came up with a plan on the spot.
"Oh! Hey Elder Zia, you're actually perfect! Just the girl I wanted to see." Kieran grinned widely at sect elder Zia and pulled her into his room before shutting the door.
Elder Zia did nothing to stop Kieran and she even gained an excited blush as she moved to Kieran's bed, hurriedly loosening her robes.
"Ehh. Elder, I simply have a question for you about cultivation, I didn't bring you in here for that." Kieran mumbled awkwardly.
"Oh…Cough. Erm...sorry." Elder Zia struggled to maintain eye contact and her face flushed deep crimson in embarrassment and her entire reason for calling out to him seemingly forgotten entirely.
"Well, in that case, what is it that you brought me in here for?" She spoke and hurriedly fixed her robes, sitting up in a proper manner.
"Elder, as you may already know, I've reached the peak of the Qi Accumulation Realm, but I don't know how to break through, and my cultivation technique doesn't say anything about it. Would you please give this junior some guidance?" Kieran spoke excitedly, hoping to gain the knowledge he needed.
Elder Zia pouted before regain her tranquil expression and placing a single delicate finger to her lips.
"Hmm. Well, generally when a disciple wants to advance from the Qi Accumulation Realm to the Foundation Establishment, after they accumulate enough Qi, they'll condense that Qi into their dantian and allow it to run only inside your spiritual veins. A Qi Accumulation Realm disciple will generally have their Qi all over the place. It's in their body, but it hasn't been stored inside the spiritual veins, only, it sits in the muscles, sinew and bones of the disciple. The whole process usually takes days for talented disciples and weeks for trash ones. " She explained.
"I see. I think I want to give it a shot to see if I have it right. Hold on." Kieran sat down in the lotus position and immediately began to focus, feeling for his spiritual energy inside his body briefly before coercing it to the center of his chest where his dantian was supposed to be.
Suddenly, as if a gravitational force appeared in his chest, all of his Qi in his body began moving to his chest at an incredibly fast pace. His muscles started to shrivel up and he started to look like a mummy, before a vortex appeared around him and immediately began sucking the Qi from the surroundings to feed the bottomless pit that was his body.
Elder Zia sat in shock not more than a few feet from Kieran as the phenomenon played out in front of her. Immediately her expression turned grim and she moved outside the room and sat in front of the door without making a sound so as not to disturb Kieran.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Kieran he received a notification from his system.
[Breakthrough detected]
[Breakthrough progress: 4%]
[Error! Not enough Qi present within Host body to perform breakthrough!]
[Pulling Qi from surroundings to facilitate advancement]
[...]
[...]
[...]
[Success!]
[Breakthrough progress: 7%]
[Breakthrough progress: 15%]
[Breakthrough progress: 21%]
The cyclone around Kieran's body got more and more intense as his body resembled a black hole, sucking all the Qi from the air in the entirety of the sect, and then the surrounding mountain range, and then even further from the nearby cities and towns.
Local mortal farmers looked up and witnessed the sky becoming noticeably darker and feeling like they were getting tired before deciding to call it a day.
To say nothing of the farmers, every cultivator in a thousand miles noticed the Qi in the air gathering toward a certain spot.
"Is the Sect Master breaking through?"
"She must be! I heard that she entered secluded cultivation earlier today."
"How strong does that make her now?"
"She was already one of the strongest on the continent, this probably puts her on a level above everyone else!"
"If that's true, then we'll be entering a period much like the sects Golden Days!"
Outside the room where Kieran resided, multiple sect elders showed up at the entrance to see what all of the fuss was about, including the Grand Sect Elder.
"Elder Zia, what is going on here? Is the Sect Master breaking through in there? What is going on?"
Elder Zia smiled awkwardly as she looked at the rest of the gathered crowd.
Grand Elder Anna waved her sleeves and shooed away the other elders who had gathered.
After the elders had left, she looked back to Elder Zia with an expectant raised eyebrow.
"Erm...Our new Prime Disciple... He is breaking through it seems." She said with a weird expression, knowing how unbelievable she sounded.
"Are you serious?" The Grand Elder asked, obviously not believing an ounce of it.
"I'm dead serious Grand Elder, I wouldn't dare to lie to you about something like this." Elder Zia spoke with an aggrieved expression.
Meanwhile, Kieran was blissfully unaware of the disturbance his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment was causing.
[Breakthrough progress: 84%]
[Breakthrough progress: 92%]
[Breakthrough progress: 99%]
BOOM!
Like an explosion going off, everyone in the entire sect, and the surrounding mountain range felt their very cores vibrating as they stood there.
[Congratulations Host!]
[You have successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm]
[You have received a boost in charm!]
[You have received 1x Epic Lottery Spin!]
[You have removed all impurities due to your cultivation technique and attained a Perfect Mortal Body!]
Kieran glanced at his notifications briefly before a loud bang interrupted him immediately.
Looking up, he was surprised to see Grand Elder Anna and Elder Zia standing and staring at him in shock.
"What? I got something on my face?"