Basics of Cultivation

'Here there should be every information I need to know'

He was in the clan's library. It contained around five thousand books.

'It's going to be painfully slow...ahhh'

Raden took a book called 'The Basics of Cultivation'

<<Peak Mortal Grade Book>>

'Oh well, it was to be expected, I couldn't hope that this little clan had heaven-defying books.'

He started reading: "The path of cultivation is vast and boundless and we, with this book, will introduce to the most threaded path: Qi Cultivation. You start off by tempering the body so as to make it possible to support Qi. Then there is Qi Circulation where you open up your Qi Pathways, continuing with Qi Gathering where you fill those passages with Qi and ending with Qi Manifestation where you can transform Qi in other energies: fire, ice..."

'W-wait this is the system of my book! Could that be...' Raden smiled 'Well...since I didn't finish it I don't even know how does my cultivation world works...b-but this is still progress!'

'Could this world be a fruit of my imagination?'

"What the hell are you doing? B-basics of cultivation? S-seriously? Weren't you an old sage? Aren't you even trying acting anymore?"

"Yes I'm still a great sage...that's because the Qi Path could have changed in all those years." He said curtly.

'It's good that he stopped screaming my head was hurting...Huh well if I understand properly (since this is my world) me and Jin Liang are bond by the pearl' 'Yeah...'

I took it from my pockets.

<<Pearl of the Heavenly King>>

<<Trascendent Artifact>>

Suddenly Raden heard a sound.

<<New mission: Pass the viscount trial>>

<<Rewards: Random Sky Grade Book, System Upgrade>>

'Well...the system is actually a beautiful excuse to do something, than if he continues giving me specific orders...well I do not have to be proactive: I'm too lazy to find mid-term objectives'

Raden smiled: "Hey Jin Liang, perhaps do you know a good cultivation art?"

"Oh sure that ancient scroll there contains an extremely powerful art"

"Thanks"

'Since I'm the main hero I should have a pretty good plot armor, shouldn't I?'

It was in a corner of the room inside a chest with other scrolls

'Temper the Body, Devour the Qi'

<<Incomplete Peak Sky Grade Book>>

Raden gave a quick look at others books and discovered that they were mostly mortal grade, so this high-grade book was surprising.

That book actually contained only instructions to cultivate the body for one realm.

He started cultivating it.

A wave of pain assaulted him: he felt his skin burning, his muscles ripping and his bones trembling.

"Ahhhh! Well...this was to be expected" Raden said, quivering

'But this should still help me'

"Do you like that? Isn't it painful? Ahahahah!" Said Jin Liang. "I remember trying to cultivate it when I was 10 it was so painful that my father had to forcefully interrupt my cultivation session! Ahahaha! How do you feel, DEMON?"

Raden gritted his teeth. 'Well, fortunately, I have my OP technique that'll work with souls not connected to a body...AHAHAHAH! How convenient for the author! Yes...when I started world-building I wanted to make the life for the MC easier... Anyway it swaps the user's and the target's bodies for a minute'

"FORCEFUL TRANSMIGRATION!" Raden screamed.

'I-it worked! Phiuuu'

"W-wait w-what?" Jin Liang screamed, horrified.

"Ahahaha! This is your lesson so you'll learn to never try harming me again!"

Jin Liang gritted his teeth but didn't emit any sound.

'Wow, such a strong will...'

"FORCEFUL TRANSMIGRATION!"

He had to cultivate it for full ten minutes before stopping, but he never voiced out his pain.

'Ahhhh...Such a strong will indeed'

Not only Jin Liang but Raden too felt exhausted. He felt drained in his spirit.

<<Temper the Body, Devour the Qi has levelled up!>>

'What a great man he is, doing me all those favours...'

He grinned, but then dizzyness took him over.

And so he fell exhausted on the ground.

...

...

Two hours later Raden waked up.

He was greeted with deep exhaustion.

'Soul...I must have overexerted my soul...'

He inspected himself and, other than the dirty clothes, he found a change in his body.

Raden could feel that "his" body went through a deep change after cultivating 'Temper the Body, Devour the Qi'.

'Probably this art alters the body to make it more suited to Qi cultivation...Wait, wouldn't that mean that my talent...?'

He smiled.

"Hey, Jin Liang."

"Hmm?"

"Thank you for helping me refining my body."

"YOU!!" He shouted angrily. He has always been defeated by the man in his body.

"Hey, can I ask you a question?"

Raden didn't wait for him to respond.

"Why do you think that you're still alive?"

"T-That's because...because you can't kill me!"

"Yeah...I can take control of your body but not kill you...sure."

"Egh...That's because-" He said, hesitant. He knew that what he said was stupid.

"Why don't we make a pact? I'll help you grow stronger and I'll give you a new body and in change, you'll give me information about this world and this body:"

Minutes passed as Jin Liang pondered.

"Ok!" He said decisively

"Eheh, I saw that you liked that girl...what was her name?"

"Coff, Coff. Xue Liang."

'How the hell can you cough in a soul form?' "Yeah, do you like her?"

"I...I do" He said, embarrassed.

"Ahah! Why not letting you show your prowess to her in the tournament?"

"Yes!"

"Good! Now study this art!"

He started writing down the 'Soul Arts' on a piece of paper he found in the library.

'So that I won't have to fight...'