3 Cultivation

6 years passed in an instant, the baby Ren tian became a child, he was taller than the average kid and didn't seem to be blamished by any dirt, he had a handsome face with long black hair falling down his shoulders and so he could be easily mistaken for a girl, if there was a thing that you couldn't take away your eyes from, it would be the cuild eyes, it didn't seem like the eyes of a child at all, the way they shined and the calmness expresses through was really strange.

Ren Tian was at this time in his room looking through a window with a frow in his eyebrows from contemplation.

"the sun's rays are so beautiful, how amazing would be if we could sail in these rays and how would we see the world?"

the young child was really lost in his thoughts when the sound of a door opening woke him up, it was his mother su feixue together with hers two maids, Ren tian turned his head and greeted them.

"hello tian'er, it is your sixth birthday and is a extremely special occasion for you as a heir of our Ren clan, as you know our Ren clan rose in power as a merchant clan and in this world that don't account to much if you don't have the strength to protect your riches, so it was after much work and money that we get some red ranked foundation techniques to give us a easier time comprehending principles as to use immortal energy." spoke madam su very slowly so that her son could understand clearly.

the young child was giving all his attention in hearing everything carefully as he knew that the core of the clan was allowed to start cultivating at six years of age and that was the only way to the top

"Cultivation means to learn how the world works and use the knowledge to improve all of your actions, to cultivate you need to seach yourself and the world outside and try to reach for the dao with your heart, even the comon people try to reach for the Dao everyday, they live by working and try to improve their abilities to obtain weath and respect. The difference betwen them and us cultivators is the produnfity of the insights and the techniques to apply your insights into the reforging of your body, to accomplish in the Dao means that you are a genius and transforming this knowledge in power makes you a opponent that no one wants to mess with."

"there are two ways of cultivating, one is with the body and the other one is with the dantian, and with both you must comprehend the world to be able to reconstruct your body and dantian following the principles that you understood, but the body cultivation is more difficult as you will also need to perceive a spark of inspiration within your body every time you try to break through." after some time speaking common knowledge it was the time for the woman give the techniques to the boy.

"little sumer, little winter, both of you can go now." the two maides went out of the room. They were beaultifull girls in their teen and were responsables to take care of Ren tian, the third young master of the Ren clan, they were traded by poor villagers that weren't sure they could feed them or keep them safe of monsters.

madam su shaked her hand and ten books appeared in her hand out of nowhere.

"here there are five qi refining techniques and five body refining techniques, my son, you may find more difficulties with the qi refining because your aptitude is a little lacking, because of that you should also pick one body refining, you shall face some difficulties in interacting with the immortal energy in the air, but don't worry too much ass our clan has resources enough for it to not affect you, so you should focus in choosing the technique and put in some effort in understanding the principles behind it."

the young ren tian went ahead and picked the 10 books. he wanted to pick the qi refining one first as both of his parents cultivated only the qi refining method.

the five techniques were [thousand wind slashes], [sword of the setting sun], [ seven peaks saber], [star metal spear] and [green wood whip].

ren tian went to read the introduction of each and that was about perceiving one of the five elements and the ways of weapons.

"mom, i wanna learn the same qi refining art that father chose when he was at my age, so i will pick [sword of the setting sun]."

"i was already expecting you to choose that art as it is the one with the most destructive power as it unites the sword and the fire element. I will speak with your father about it so he can spend some time each day to teach you" spoke madam su.

This time ren tian went to read the body refining ones, [bone breaking muscle tearing art], [vulcan punishment], [yin death body], [revitalizing bath] and [spaceless body]. The boy had a scare from just reading the introductions.

[bone breaking muscle tearing art] and [revitalizing bath] were about having your body practically destroyed by doing some crazy exercices like punching bowls full of iron powder or wood from a tree with a age surpassing a hundred years, and both of them needed expensive materials to cure any possible sequels, mainly the bath that required a red grade elixir, but it gave you more chances in comprehending a wood related principle and finding the spark of inspiration.

Among the other three there was [vulcan punishment] that was about exercising near a volcano, experiencing the heat and nearing the mouth of the volcano to temper the body and try to comprehending some fire related principle while looking for the spark of inspiration.

For practicing the [yin death body] was necessary some Yin filled location like a mash or a graveyard, you would perceive the some Yin related principle, It was relatively easier to cultivate it in the begginings stages if compared with the others tecniques, but it was prone to causing trobles related to soul contamination by the cold yin qi of Death, It was said there was True nature Yin qi at the southern region of the broken moon empire where the wheater is forever cold and everything in sight is pure white. It was there that the Fozen Faries Palace was located, it was a top power in the all empire and was famous for being composed only by women.

The [spaceless body] was different from the others, it was just about comprehending the space around you and using it to temper the body, It didn't give you any clear method of sensing space, as there wasn't any known location where space was distorced in this region and even if there was, no sane person would want to experience it as most often than not it was the last thing somene would expience. The first part of the book was merely telling to meditate and try to focus on the space around you, the second part was the star of the show and was about the body's reconstruction method, it talked about using space to displace the cells, to broke the bones, to compress the muscles and many other crazy ideas.

The young Ren Tian looked at his mom and said.

"Mom, I want train this [spaceless body]"

"I advertise against it son, even if it seem less aggressive method, it gives you less of a effect in helping you understand a principle, it gives you no help at all" the woman had a worried look on her face right now because that technique should not be among the techniques she would show to her son today.

That was not a complete technique as it didn't have a method to increase your chances at sensing a principle and even then it was graded higher than a red technique or at least that was a consensus among the elders, that tecnique was passed everywhere and there where legends that the it was created by the Great sage, Heaven's equal, but there wans't any information about anyone sucessifully cultivating it.

When she went to pick the techniques for her son and who would have thought that that funny elder would give it too, paying no attention to details and just throwing stuff that fit the bill.

Ren tian looked at the book in his hands ass some hint of resolution began forming between his brows.

"I really decided mom, I will meditate and make sure to sense space, we are surrounded by it all the time, that shouldn't be that difficult."

"Ok son, if you really want to start with this technique you can but If it doesn't give a result after three months you should give up" madam su wasn't going to prevent her son from picking [spaceless body] because some setbacks are needed for a child. Sometimes it was better to let the child learn by themselfs as to appreciate the teachings of others.

She knew some popular knowledge that said "the more you try to prevent your child from crying, the more the child will cry". It was a saying about how super protective parents don't prepare the child for adult life.