Dao Palace

On the second day upon his rebirth, Qi Meng regained all of his memories from the past. He started his cultivation on the same day until the night and all the way through the next day.

But before everything else, he acted and cried out loud as he can so he can feed from his mother's breast. Otherwise, his parents would think something is going wrong if they see their baby being so quiet all the time.

"Activate!"

He shouted in his thought after having his fill and his parents went to rest.

Shwoooshh.. swoooshh.. swoooshh

10 translucent outlines that looks like a palace flew out from his dantian and hovered above his forehead shining with faint brightness.

A few moments later, he became slack jawed. He was shocked to what he saw. If his parents were to see his facial expression right now, they will surely be mesmerized by the cuteness of this little guy acting like an adult.

"How come there are 10 dao palaces now? I had only nine palaces before and there is no way I could have 10 palaces as a cultivator can only have a maximum of 9 dao palaces." Qi Meng pondered seriously still having his mouth agape in incredulity.

One has to know that when a mortal is being gifted or blessed by the heavens, an outline of a dao palace in translucent color would descend from the sky only visible to cultivators and the gifted mortal himself.

It is like a shell or a container for the mortal to store the gathered heavenly energies during their cultivation. Every break through to the first and successive realms would cause the same scene. However, in contrast to this, Qi Meng already had 10 dao palace outlines even before he could reach the Dao Child realm. it is truly world shocking.

"I thought that by having almost reached the apex, I would be so knowledgeable to know everything. I am still lacking compared to the heavens." Qi Meng sighed in his mind.

"Anyways, let us see how are these 10 palaces gonna work. Maybe it would be entirely different from the existing cultivation system." Heavenly qi/Heavenly energies descended as Qi Meng closed his eyes and concentrated on cultivating. All the qi gathered and seeped in through his pores, then into his meridians all the way through his dantian where the dao palaces are stored.

"Weird, it seems the same. Nothing happens out of the blue." He pondered again and closed his eyes after and then continued.

The night quickly passed and the sun rose again from the East. Qi Meng cultivated all night until dawn and had his sleep as to not cause suspicion from his parents. "Oh dear, how cute is our child. Sleeping soundly unlike other babies. Our Meng'er is surely a good, obedient and kind child." Qi Zi bent down and kissed the baby's forehead with satisfaction. Qi Yu smiled proudly.

Qi Meng continued to cultivate every night until dawn and on the eleventh night, his first dao palace shined and glimmered brightly. It is now visible and white in colour.

Suddenly, the sky above shined dimly in a few seconds and a translucent dao palace descended down to Qi Meng. And just like that, he had already reached the Dao Child realm. An 11 days old baby as a Dao Child, the very first of his kind in the entire river of time.

"What is this? Don't tell me..." Shockingly surprised, Qi Meng looked at the new palace and didn't know what to do. A short moment after, all of his 10 dao palaces flew out from his dantian and then the impossible happened.

"What!..."

Qi Meng shouted in his heart and his eye balls almost popped out from his eye sockets while his jaw dropped like a bouncing ball.

The new dao palace merged with the 10th dao palace and now is having a faint golden brilliance compared to before which was dim.

As a previous Godking, Qi Meng is said to have a firm dao heart and yet he was still alarmed on what he experienced just now.

He pondered for a while and said in his mind, "Well, maybe this is one of the effects of the Samsara."

Qi Meng excitedly kicked his feet to the air and waved his arms and after a while closed his eyes thinking, "I must conceal everything so that no one would notice the abnormalities inside me let alone see my palaces."

He sensed the surroundings to make sure his parents are still asleep and then he waved signs with his hands. After a while, runes started to form and flew straight to his dantian.

"Dao Concealing Secret Art!" He shouted in his heart. This is a secret art he had researched and created when he was at the peak of Godking as one of his preparations for his planned Samsara.

Qi Meng smiled and went to sleep after adjusting his Dao Child foundation.

The next morning, a knock was heard from the outside of the courtyard. Qi Yu went out to check and saw the elders standing there. Puzzled, Qi Yu smiled as he walked and bowed after he opened the courtyard gates saying,

"Good morning elders, thank you for your visit. Come and have a breakfast with us." The elders smiled in response and went inside the courtyard.

While having their breakfast, the elders still haven't said anything yet and Qi Yu was still curious as to why would the elders visit them early in the morning.

After they had eaten, Qi Yu asked respectfully, "May we know the purpose of the elders' visit?"

The elders looked at each other and one of them replied, "Truth be told, we are also not sure. The prime elder told us to visit and have a look at Qi Meng."

"Well, Qi Meng is still asleep and normally wakes up at around ten o'clock to eleven o'clock. This way elders, he is inside our room." The elders nodded and quietly followed. They found the innocent looking baby still asleep and could not see anything special about him upon deeper glance.

They went outside the room and one of them told Qi Yu. "We shall take our leave first and report back to the prime elder. It seems that he is hoping for Qi Meng to have outstanding talents like a genius. But as of this moment there is nothing we really can see."

"Alright elders, as the sect master, I also hope for my child to be extraordinary." Qi Yu smiled as he said. The elders took their leave and Qi Yu walked with them to the gate.

Inside the sect's hall, the elders are sitting having a discussion with the prime elder. The prime elder asked, "Did you find anything strange about Qi Meng?"

One of the elders replied and said "There is nothing strange that we saw prime elder. Is there anything that is happening?"

The prime elder Qi Mu was in deep thought while caressing his beard and said, "Well, last night when I was meditating, I felt that somebody broke through near the sect master's courtyard. But it is clearly not the sect master nor his wife. If not the baby, then who else might it be? Or is it that was I sleepy that my spirit sense just sensed something else?"

One of the elders responded "Maybe it was the latter."

The prime elder looked at him and then sighed. He then dejectedly said, "Maybe it is just me hoping for a miracle to happen in the clan. Too naive though."

He then smiled and told them in an awkward manner, "Alright! Just let it go and patiently wait for Qi Meng to grow up a bit more, maybe a true miracle will really happen." The elders smiled and bowed and then left afterwards.

Qi Meng is already wide awake and is feeding on her mother's breast while deep in thought, "Why did those geezers come? Don't tell me they were able to sense my break through last night? But that was the faintest break through so far ever and would not even catch the slightest attention. Or am I so cute that they wanted to see me?"

Tsup tsup tsup...

Later at night, he continued on his cultivation.