To start cultivation you have to grow

After teaching his mother his martial arts moves, and practice with his grandfather the rest of the waves. Li Shaoran found himself tired and sweating after more than an hour of practice.

Lan Suyin seeing this decided that it was enough practice for today and told him "Shaoran is enough for today, plus it's time for your medicinal bath"

Although Li Shaoran wanted to continue practicing, even if he was tired, he knew that he should not disobey his mother. Especially since the medicinal bath is a good thing for him and he didn't want to waste it.

"Okay mommy, let me say goodbye to grandpa before my bath" Li Shaoran said, running towards Li Ying

Li Ying was arguing with his son for divine sense about the border situation with the Asura race as they both looked at the garden pond.

"Son, I am afraid that in the coming years the war against the Asura race will break out again. We have encountered them in a new sector and we have to establish an outpost to control the worlds of that new sector. Many will join this war, those old demons caught without progress will go crazy looking for resources and opportunities" Li Ying said seriously to her son, thinking about the number of people who would die this time and the number of broken families there will be.

"I know father, this time I will have to go to the border looking for a breakthrough, I just don't want to leave Suyin alone with Shaoran. You know how worried Mom is every time you leave home, and you and Mom have already experienced several tragedies together. If I go out on the battlefield this time, I don't want to know how much Suyin will worry while I'm away or what would happen to Shaoran if his father didn't return" Li Xiong said worried about the future, not his already if he died he would already be dead, but she did not want her son to have to go to the hospital to see him seriously injured, as had happened to him so many times before, or worse, to have to see his father's grave when Li Shaoran is just a small child.

Li Ying understanding the state of mind his son was in, having experienced it several times before. He raised his left arm and grabbing his son's shoulder he brought it closer, giving him a light hug, comforting him.

"Don't worry about it, look at me, if we count my life it is possible that I have spent more than three-quarters of it fighting in wars or through various worlds. Also, do you think I don't know what when you were little, while you were saying goodbye to your mother before I went to war, did you hide by spying on us? I still remember your face full of snot, tears, and murmurs of Dad don't go, dad don't go " Li Ying said sadly in his voice, recalling those moments when he didn't know if he would ever see his son and wife again.

Li Xiong upon seeing his father remember that moment and laughing at him for showing his concern, felt slightly embarrassed.

Shut up old man, I was crying with happiness besides I was saying: dad go, dad go. That you are senile. Also, those times were different from now. Before, it was a war between humans to see which model dominated the other in the different domains, the old model, or the modern model. Although it was cruel, since we were all human and not knowing the situation outside our territory due to the various changes abroad, they still held back a bit, not like now with those bloodthirsty dogs we fought against" Li Xiong said thinking of the madmen of the Asura race, clinging to your body before exploding. Trying to take you to death with them.

"Do you think that war was a joke, stupid kid? Those old monsters with hundreds or thousands of years of cultivation were real monsters. With all sorts of strange skills and methods honed after infinite time, you didn't know what you were up against until you were drenched in your own blood. why do you think there are only you, me and Shaoran, that is to say, my branch, of our Li clan? All your uncles and grandparents fell in the war" Li Ying said, comparing the two wars, the one before and the one now.

Those ancient cultivators were fearsome, with hundreds of millions of years of progress, they had all kinds of methods compared to what they had at the time, having less than five hundred years of civilization, with half of them being chaotic years. If it weren't for the many cultivators who saw the stagnation of their own civilization and saw the advantages of the modern era, at this time they would be living in the ancient period, sect and clan society.

When Li Xiong thought of all the memorial tablets and the empty tombs on the ancestral ground, with all the relatives who had died, he knew that he had touched his father's weak point.

"Well, father, this time I'll take it easy, I can't go crazy like before. I will hide and hunt down lone enemy cultivators so I don't risk it. Then I should be able to get back safely "Said Li Xiong, so that his father is not worried about him when he's fighting in the war.

Li Ying thinking about what his son had said, couldn't help but warn him."Well, don't let your father-in-law hear you say that. That old bastard is a war maniac, I remember 200 years ago he was fighting alone in the midst of the enemy army with a saber and his half-dead body bleeding everywhere while laughing. Even those cruel, insidious, ruthless cultivators of the evil way were afraid to meet him on the battlefield. His asura bloodline was not just for show, although who was going to tell me that my son was going to marry his daughter. You must think about how lucky you are that Suyin looks like her mother instead of her father, otherwise, a very dark future would have awaited you, my dear son"

Remembering the first time he saw his wife's family and he met them later, Li Xiong broke out in cold sweat, thanking all immortal kings and immortal emperors that his wife had inherited his mother-in-law's personality rather than his father-in-law's personality.

While they were both talking, they heard Li Shaoran run towards them. Li Xiong looked at his father and they both tacitly decided that they would leave the topic for later. Lightening the sad atmosphere that had formed between them, they turned around, smiling at their little treasure.

Li Shaoran, not knowing what his father and grandfather were talking about. He said while panting.

"Grandpa, I have to go, Mommy says it's time for my medicinal bath. Are you going to be home later?"

Li Ying seeing how tired his grandson was just to say goodbye to him, he sent a stream of spiritual energy into Li Shaoran's body, reducing his fatigue.

"Sorry Shaoran, Grandpa has to go" Said Li Ying, making Li Shaoran saddened by the short time he had been with his grandfather

"Grandpa, why do you have to leave so soon? I don't want you to go yet, look I can still practice martial arts" Li Shaoran said remembering that his grandfather had always told him he wanted him to practice. Trying to make the movements, he suffered a sharp pain in his arms, causing him to give a small groan of pain.

"Shaoran, stop!" Li Xiong scolded him angrily, seeing his son hurting himself.

Seeing his father angry Li Shaoran immediately stopped, scared. Since he hadn't seen his father angry in a long time.

"Shaoran is not for that. Grandpa has his responsibilities and cannot be away for long. Look, next time we meet, I'll give you a gift" Li Ying said with a frown, thinking about the gift he has to bring the next time he sees Li Shaoran.

Hearing what her grandfather had said, Li Shaoran was quite happy with the gift that had been promised, forgetting his sadness at his grandfather's departure. He turned around and headed to where his mother was.

Li Xiong helped his son, sending Lan Suyin a message before grabbing Li Shaoran with his divine sense and sending him into Lan Suyin's arms.

"Mommy, look, I'm flying like Hong Yu, I'm missing red feathers and I'm like him" Li Shaoran laughed, flapping his arms like wings.

Hearing what he had said, the three of them laughed, but the bird named Hong Yu looked down on Li Shaoran before raising his head and proudly displaying his red feathers.

"Shaoran, don't say that, those red feathers are Hong Yu's pride. He went from a variant Windfeather Eagle with a red feather to awakening some of the bloodline of the Azurflame Eagle a descendant of the ancient phoenix. Another day I will tell you about my battle against the five young masters of the Red Pheasant clan to improve the lineage of Hong Yu" Li Ying said to Li Shaoran, eager to see his grandson's admiring face when he tells him how he defeated those 5 red birds. At the same time that he told Hong Yu telepathically not to be bothered by Li Shaoran's words when he was nearly two centuries old.

Grabbing Li Shaoran who was laughing and waving his arms at the flying trip he had received. Lan Suyin shot her husband a worried look, before taking the stinky little man in his arms to the shower.

Inside the house, Li Shaoran came to the bathroom where a shower and a fairly large bathtub filled with green liquid were located, before taking his medicinal bath, he got into the shower to wipe the sweat and dirt off his body while his mother helped him shower.

"Shaoran, like before, you have to get in there whole without any part of your body being out of the bathtub. Don't worry about breathing. Mommy takes care of everything. You just have to concentrate on absorbing all the medicinal liquid" Lan Suyin said, stroking Li Shaoran's head.

"Okay mommy, I'm coming" Li Shaoran nodded before getting completely into the bathtub.

With the whole body submerged in the liquid. Li Shaoran felt as if countless ants were nibbling on his entire body. Making ideas to get out of the bathtub crossed his mind.

When his air was gone and he was about to drown, a surge of spiritual energy reached his body. Removing the need to breathe when the spiritual energy supported him in that aspect.

After about thirty minutes. The bathtub that was once filled with dark green liquid was now filled with a clear liquid as Li Shaoran had absorbed all the nutrients he needed to strengthen his body.

Strengthening it more this time than the previous times, having been tired and with all the cells hungry, managing to absorb more medicinal energy than normal.

"Shaoran, get out of the bathtub, your bath is finished" Lam Suyin said noting that her son was not moving.

Not noticing any response Lan Suyin struck his left hand on his forehead before saying " Oh no, he's fallen asleep in the bathtub again. To all the parents who I ask how their children go through the medicinal bath, they tell me that their children can hardly bear the bath and they have to almost force them not to get out of the bathtub, mine, on the other hand, goes and almost always falls asleep while bathing. If they are all children of parents in the Central Formation Stage, why is mine so different?"

Pulling Li Shaoran out of the bathtub, Lan Suyin shook him a little, waking him up.

"Shaoran, son, how come you fall asleep almost every time you take your medicinal bath?" Lan Suyin said to her son, half complaining and half laughing.

Hearing what his mother said, Li Shaoran thought for a moment before saying. "I don't know mommy, at first my body itches, but after ten minutes I start to feel sleepy and fall asleep"

Not knowing why that was happening to her son, she attributed it to the combination of the Asura bloodline on her part and the beastly nature of his soul on the part of Li Xiong. Making her son quite different from other children. Lan Suyin stopped wondering about that. Leaving her with the conclusion that her son is better than the others, making her quite happy.

"That means my little Shaoran is special. I will ask Zhao Mei how her son is going through the medicinal baths, as strong as he seems if he can match my Shaoran" Lan Suyin said to herself, quite satisfied with her son.

"By the way mommy, when can I start cultivating?" Li Shaoran asked wanting to start the cultivation path as soon as possible.

Son, you can't start cultivating until you're 16 years old at least, since their qi veins or meridians have not grown, they will not bear the pressure of spiritual energy circulating throughout your body and your spiritual root would not be fully developed until that age and would completely crumble when you store the spiritual energy in it" Lan Suyin explained softly pointing to Li Shaoran's navel, where the spiritual root or dantian was located.

"And can't I strengthen the meridians with methods to strengthen the body or use techniques to refine the body?" Li Shaoran asked with hope in his voice.

"You can't, little treasure, your meridians are growing together with your body and stop growing from 16 to 18 years old and to strengthen your body or the meridians you need to circulate spiritual energy through your body, transforming it by means of the symbols that are generated with the method that you use. With all the generations and millions of years that the cultivation world has experienced with True Immortal and higher level cultivators Don't you think that if they could, they would have done it already? According to legend, even the Toutai Immortal King, who was reincarnated many times before completing his reincarnation realm, had to wait until he was 16 to gather qi and 18 to enter the condensation stage of qi"

"Also, don't be in a hurry to cultivate, being a cultivator is something very hard," said his mother.

"Well, mommy, then what can I do to get stronger in all these years I have left before I can cultivate?" Li Shaoran said hesitantly.

"You can strengthen yourself little by little with the meat of dao beasts, taking things to gradually strengthen yourself and practice martial arts like the ones your grandfather taught you, which can improve your body in a smooth way and does not involve anything of circulation of spiritual energy" Lan Suyin replied him, clearly explaining what he can and cannot do, lest he be harmed one day for trying to cultivate prematurely.

"Well, then I can't do anything all those years mommy, they are going to be very boring" Li Shaoran complained, imagining all the years he had left uncultivated.

"You just have to be mom's little treasure. You don't have to grow, that when you grow up you won't let mom pamper you and do things to you" Lan Suyin said while hugging Li Shaoran. Cuddling him and kissing him on the cheek.