Cultivation is not the only way.

A baby lay on a small bed, it looked like it was around 6 months old and was found guilty it to be a boy. The boy, who's name is Lin Qin, was slowly opening his eyes only to see a small room with barely any furniture, even the bed he lay on did not have much stuffing, and made his body ache. When Lin Qin completely opened his eyes he felt a heavy pain in his forehead and suddenly his mind went blank.

Inside his mind he saw first a dark empty void and after millions of bright lights. As he went through this seen he was strongly convulsing and his body was oozing out blood out of every pore, but the blood was not fresh like from a wound but dark and filled with impurities. The world where this boy was born was based on qi and martial arts, where the strongest took all. And the state he was in was called cleansing the first step before starting to practice martial arts. In reality this step was one of the hardest, a martial artist would need huge amounts of money to buy pills and many other herbs to help them cleanse their body. There is a legend that long ago one of the great emperors who founded the empire, where the boy was born, had achieved a body which did not have a single impurity, thus he obtained the 'body of sages'. This allowed him to never be stuck at bottlenecks in his cultivation.

While the blood was oozing out of Lin Qin a woman dressed in an old blue dress came in, she was Lin Qin's mother, she looked rather young and beautiful. As she saw her son in such a state she quickly ran up to him to help him as much as she could, she thought he had been severely ill if he was bleeding like this. She hurriedly checked his body for any wounds, to her surprise she didn't find any. And then she understood what was happening and was completely shocked, a 6 month old baby was going through the body cleansing stage, a normal practitioner would have been able to do this only at 15-16 years old. She hurriedly took Lin Qin to a small basin of water in the kitchen and started to wash him. This families home was one of those small and shabby looking, a place where some would not want a to stay, it certainly wasn't as good as it hose in the center of the city, those houses were for families of nobles, they were made from precious woods and stones.

Lin Qin's father was from a branch family of one of the noble families, even thought he was like this he still got the worst treatment, in addition he worked in a mine, where the main family would get all their jewels for looks and cultivation.