BXBX NOVEL Chapter 82: Awakening
Xiao Lan had attained great divine realms, but she had still started from the bottom once. After all, no matter the place, a Cultivator had to start from the bottom and rise through the realms. Granted that mortal realms could be attained very easily in the Divine Realm, one still has to go through them.
That's why Xiao Lan already had experience in awakening as a Cultivator. It was actually very simple but time consuming for the people with less talent.
The awakening was a simple process. All she had to do was attain the First Rank of Body Strengthening Realm, which was also basically the Realm on which everyone started their journey.
The Five Cultivation Realms were further classified into Ranks and every Realm had Nine Ranks in them. The Major Realms could also classified into Stages which involved each Stage having three Ranks.
For Example, the First to Third Ranks of the Body Strengthening Realm would be said to be the Stages of the Body Strengthening Realm, with the Fourth to Sixth ranks as the Mid-Stages of the Body Strengthening Realm. Likewise, the Seventh to Ninth Rank were Late-Stages of the Body Strengthening Realm.
This classification was done because of the difference between each Rank and Stage. While ranks didn't have that much of a difference while advancing, attaining a new Stage gave the cultivators newfound powers. The difference in each Stage was huge and a Mid-Stage could easily defeat someone of Early-stage.
There was also the so called peak of every Realm. It was also the Ninth Rank of a realm and one only attains peak of a realm when they were very close to ascending to next Realm. It basically meant that the person was invincible in their Realm.
Every Cultivation Realm had different criteria to be met before one could attain that Realm. Like to ascend to the Core Formation Realm, one had to condense their Qi in their Dantian to make a Core. Once the Core is formed, they attain the First-Rank or Early Stage of the Core Formation Realm.
To attain the Body Strengthening Realm, one had to sense the Qi present in the atmosphere and make it swirl around them. After that, they would have to absorb the Qi and settle it in their body.
The person then would circulate the Qi in various parts of their body, making them stronger. Body Strengthening Realm was for the making of a strong vessel that could sustain the might of Qi.
Once a person had managed to make the Qi successfully settle in their body, after circulation, they would attain the First-Rank of Body Strengthening Realm.
That's what Xiao Lan was doing. Because of her latent talent and past experience, she could skip a lot of steps and directly intake the atmospheric Qi.
After calming her body and mind, Xiao Lan took a deep breath as boundless mist gathered above the lake and covered everything. Because of that, Xiao Lan was shrouded in a dense mist of Qi which she was slowly taking in her body and circulating in her body.
While feeling the presence of Qi inside her, Xiao Lan smiled and thanked Shen Yu once again in her heart. Things wouldn't have been this easy if she was Awakening outside of the Divine Harem Sect for many reasons.
Although she was talented, there were other factors that also affected the awakening process, like the place she was awakening.
Awakening required a huge quantity of Qi, and it wasn't easy to get it easily, especially in a place like the Qing Empire, where the density of Qi was very low. The quality and Quantity of Qi heavily affected the foundation one had and that's why it was very important to awaken in a Qi rich place.
And Xiao Lan was basically sitting in a place overflowing with Qi and even the quality of Qi was of top grade. There couldn't have been a better place than this to awaken, not even in the Divine Realms, and that's why she was grateful.
But that wasn't it. Qi was very peaceful in nature but if someone tried to use it, it gets violent. It was a universal fact as the Qi belonged to Heaven and and Earth, and taking the Qi basically meant that they were taking things of Heavens. That's why the Cultivation was also called going against heaven.
Because of all this, one had to tame the violent Qi before absorbing it in and then control it until they make it theirs. Only when the Qi had become a part of their body could they relax.
That was also one of the problems while awakening, as the person would have to struggle against the violent Qi and tame it before taking it in.
Xiao Lan didn't have that problem, as the Qi in the Divine Harem Sect was tamed already and even seemed happy to be used by her. She knew about this even before because Ying Yue had told her.
Having a smile on her face, Xiao Lan sucked in the mist greedily as a small vortex formed around her, sucking the surroundings Qi Mist but even with that, the mist was dense as ever.
Feeling that it was enough for the starting, Xiao Lan stopped the absorption of Qi. Then, she took a few moments as she felt the Qi Mist roaming inside her body like an excited child. It explored all the parts, making them even stronger.
She nodded and then went through the Cultivation Manual Li Xue had given her which she would use as her foundation. It was a domineering Cultivation Manual which used the Ancestral Phoenix Flames she had in her soul as base.
She sucked a cold breath as she remembered its name.
'Primordial Nine-Coloured Phoenix Flames'