Turning into a Butterfly

Ling Family Courtyard, Inside one of the rooms is a man cultivating with beads of sweat on his head. The man's name was Ling Tian, and while he was practicing cultivation, Ling Tian suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he tried to absorb qi, he was surprised that he cannot absorb qi so he checked what is wrong with his dantian and he was shocked with what he saw, a black hole appeared in his dantian trying to absorb qi.

"What the hell is this thing?" he asked himself.

He was the only son of the Family Head of the Ling Clan and while he's parents have expectations of him, he was only an average cultivator because in this world, there are five stages in cultivation: Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul and Immortality[1]. Genius in this world can reach Foundation Establishment in the age of 13, and Ling Tian here only reached Qi Condensation stage 8 in the age of 15, so he was ashamed when he attends clan meetings, so he strives to cultivate and become his clan's best cultivator.

When he saw the black hole absorbing qi, he thought that he could never absorb qi again but after an hour, he suddenly felt qi rushing to his dantian and heat rushed through his body.

"Sh*t!!" he shouted.

He suddenly crossed his legs and he suddenly started cultivating, after going into meditative state he controlled the wave of qi into his whole body and he did that for 10 times which shocked him because the usual qi only needs one cycle to control but this qi needed 10 cycles to completely calm down, after cultivating, he was tired mentally so he slept.

"What time is it?? Ling Tian said while looking out the window, he saw the sun on the sky and was cursed himself:"Sh*t, I'm late for the breakfast." He thought while dressing himself up and ran towards the dining hall. Every day, his grandparents set that unless there's a special circumstance or unless allowed, no one is to miss breakfast with the whole family even if they died, they ordered their son to uphold this so that there will always a bonding time for the family. While running, Ling Tian noticed that he was running faster than his fastest speed and that with a normal pace. "I guess I'll check out the level I reached while cultivating yesterday." Ling Tian thought. A few seconds later, Ling Tian opened the door to the dining hall while saying: "I'm here!! Sorry I'm late" then going to one of the seats beside his father, "What is it this time young man?" Ling Ji said to to his son, "I practice cultivation late and was tired so I almost slept the whole morning" Ling Tian said while embarrassed, "Well if that's true then you don't mind going to the Cultivation Door later, you haven't even gone there yet." His father said amusingly, In the Ling Clan there is one more way in cultivating other than just absorbing Qi naturally, the Cultivation Door lets you put your soul strength and body strength at the same time, the stronger the pressure, the better the results and only the geniuses in the clan can reach the Top one hundred mark and the geniuses of geniuses can reach the Top ten mark.

"Sure, I guess I'll try it later" Ling Tian said to his father, "Why not make it a little more interesting?" Ling Ji said to his son, hearing this made Ling Tian interested, "What do you have in mind?" Ling Tian said with hesitation, "If you reach the Top one thousand I will give you five hundred middle grade stones but if you lose, you will have to do fifty thousand push ups with one finger and if you fall down, you must add one hundred to the count of push ups you will do.

Ling Tian's eyes went round. The five hundred spirit stones were an astronomical number for normal people but for Ling Clan, the five hundred middle grade spirit stones is like a hair from nine oxens. 1 high grade spirit stone is worth one hundred middle grade spirit stones and one middle grade spirit stone is one hundred low grade spirit stones, so five hundred middle grade spirit stones means fifty thousand low grade spirit stones. But what made Ling Tian's eye round was the punishment, which means humiliation for the clan and the family - he knows that his father is doing this so as to give him an excuse to get more cultivation material and see if his so-called "training" really paid off. "It's a bet," Ling Tian said with hesitation because he doesn't know his current cultivation level and wasn't sure if his current cultivation level was higher than yesterday but because of his running speed earlier, he reluctantly agreed. Ling Tian also hesitated because of the number of cultivators in his clan, which adds up to a total of tens of thousands in numbers, and if you add that up to the Cultivation door training ground, it means he has to surpass tens of thousands which is a very astronomical compared to one person but it shows that with greater risks come greater rewards.

After the meal, Ling Tian hurriedly went into his room to observe his current cultivation level. After going into his room, he hurriedly went to meditative state and checked his dantian, and was flabbergasted with what he saw, his dantian, from gray to color blue, meaning he has reached the Foundation Establishment realm. It must be understood that he was just in the Qi Condensation stage eight and now he was in the Foundation Establishment which was three stages away. He passed the Qi condensation stage nine and ten in one fell swoop. He then checked the inside of his dantian and what he saw shocked him even more. It shows that he is now on stage two of the Foundation Establishment. It must also be understood that training from stage one to stage two will take a normal person ten years and a talented person for five years, even the so called "genius" will normally take two to three years but Ling Tian achieved it in one full night. "How did this happen??" Ling Tian said to himself. "As long as the black hole does not do anything to injure me internally, I won't do anything about it." Ling Tian said reassuringly but was hoping that another miracle like this would happen but Ling Tian guessed that it won't be anytime soon so what he got to do is raise his level by himself without any external help and must get techniques better than what he's using now because the techniques he is using is only for Qi Condensation. "I should hurry up and get some techniques from our Ancestral Library". The Ancestral Library is where the techniques of the whole Ling Clan is stored, all of the techniques there are classified from Qi Condensation to Golden Core. The Legendary Nascent Soul Cultivation has not appeared for a millennia and everyone thought that it will never appear again because even a genius may fall at the Nascent Soul Tribulation and die. "Later, I'll show those people who the boss is." Ling Tian said smugly. Although he was the son of the Clan Head, it also received the displeasure of many Clan members because they saw how average the talent of their Young Master is compared to the genius of their clan. Ling Tian was excited that he will be able to get revenge for the insults he got.

Ling Tian then went to the Ancestral Library to get some battle techniques. He asked the guardian of the Library: "Where can I find some techniques for Foundation Establishment?" Ling Tian asked. The guardian was shocked but quickly calm down."Maybe it is for the Clan Head's disciples" the guardian consoled himself because Ling Tian was famous in the clan, the Clan Head's only son but was unable to reach Foundation Establishment in the age of 15 and was stuck in the Qi Condensation stage eight. So there are only two possibilities in Ling Tian asking for techniques in Foundation Establishment Stage. The first one being he reached Foundation Establishment but the gap between the the two is three levels and even a genius can't raise three levels in just a few days. The second reason is that the Clan Head asked Ling Tian to get some techniques for his disciples.