The Card Cultivation System
CCS-128S

Absorbing the qi around you and putting it into your body then passing it on to others is much easier said than done. Even Xika did not succeed. As he tried to absorb the qi into his body, his mind split and made the qi he was flowing at Shu Mang stop.

Fortunately, it only stopped for a split second. He directly flowed the qi back to Shu Mang. After he stabilized, he did not try. He thought about it again. Why did he fail? Why can't his mind be divided? Why was it that when he tried to absorb qi, he stopped flowing qi at Shu Mang?

Before that, he could share his thoughts. It's not easy, but it's not that hard. He mastered it gradually. From starting to feel the surroundings, to talk casually. What's the difference this time? Xika tried to find the answers to all those questions carefully.

Lang Jin watched Xika in silence. The boy tried once and failed. After that, he did not try again. He thought about why he failed. That's an act worth admiring. And to be honest, Lang Jin had already admired Xika.

As Xika said before, the body structure of humans and wolves is quite different. The flow of qi and the pattern will be much different. That was the main reason why it was difficult to share qi with other races. But Xika seemed to have no significant difficulties. He failed a few times, of course. But after that he learned quickly. Then when switching from her who was a wolf towards Shu Mang who was a human, Xika did not fail at all.

Indeed, he did not expect Xika to fail. But at least there will be obstacles or something. Who would have thought that Xika would be able to do so so normally without any difficulty? To be honest, there was an easier way for Xika to still give her qi to Shu Mang without having to absorb the qi.

By taking pills. Who did not know Heiliao was a genius alchemist? Even other races knew of his genius in pill-making. And it was certain that Heiliao equipped Xika with various pills. He was sure that one of them had a useful pill to recover qi. But he didn't tell Xika. He was curious about the limits of Xika's abilities.

He had already felt it when fighting Xika. And instead of being fulfilled, he was even more curious. And here he is now, watching the boy and waiting for him to show his limits. But it looks like his curiosity will still not be fulfilled in the near future.

After thinking for quite a while, Xika finally found the answer. Or at least he has a guess. The reason - which he had guessed - why he had failed earlier was because of the qi flow pattern. He recalled when he flowed his qi on Lang Jin, then compared it to Shu Mang. At first he did not understand.

Their qi flow patterns were different. Totally different. But of the many complexities that exist in each pattern, he found one equation. Although the qi forms were flowing with strange shapes, in the end they all formed a pattern. Same with Lang Jin. They only form one pattern in their body.

So Xika guessed that the reason she failed earlier was because she was trying to form two patterns in her body. One to drain the qi to Shu Mang, and another to absorb the qi. It didn't seem like many humans could form two qi flow patterns in his body. Or maybe nothing at all, he doesn't know.

But that doesn't make him desperate. He is even excited. He felt challenged to do things that no one else could. Well, even though he did it. Mastering the five elements before reaching the Qi Forming stage is an achievement that will make everyone recognize that he is the highest genius. But he didn't think about it.

He focused on making two streams of qi in his body. He tried for thirty minutes and was unsuccessful. Forming two patterns in his body turned out to be more difficult than he thought. Then a voice sounded in his head.

"Oi, handicapped boy. What are you doing?"

"Huo Bing? What have you been doing all this time? Why are you showing up now?"

"Sleep of course. What's again? Oh, and once in a while I fly around these mountains."

"Fly off? So have you surrounded this mountain range and learned every bit of its intricacies?"

"Well, not really. I didn't make it around these mountains. This place is so much bigger than I thought."

"What's? Then why did you say you went around these mountains?"

"I. You're doing something pretty complicated it looks?"

"Yes. I tried to divide my qi on Shu Mang while absorbing the qi around."

And Xika starts to tell how he failed while trying to do both simultaneously, then the questions that popped into his head, and the answers are still uncertain. Huo Bing simply nodded.

"It seems your theory is correct. Flow pattern.........Yeah, you're right. Not wrong anymore. So now you're trying to form two flow patterns in your body?"

"Fright."

"And you intend to do so at the risk of the young man dying if you fail?"

"Yes. And that's why I have to succeed."

After that Huo Bing did not bother Xika anymore. The boy seemed to have started to concentrate again. Huo Bing repeated Xika's theory in his head. I don't know why he felt he had to do that. Then a technique came into his head.

The Ultimate Deck Method.

He again checked his memory regarding that one cultivation method. It took a while, but he finally found it. It examines every part of that method, every word written, every line drawn up, and every image that exists.

Then Huo Bing formed his body and exited Xika's dantian. His appearance was somewhat surprising to Lang Jin, but neither Lang Jin nor Huo Bing said anything. Lang Jin only silently watched what Huo Bing was doing, while the bird itself was engrossed in drawing on the ground to ascertain the guesses that flashed across his head.

When finished, he again noticed the patterns of constituent elements that he had drawn. The bird nodded. Each of the pattern constituent elements that he has drawn look familiar. He had seen such an arrangement, too, but not in nature. He thought hard to remember where he had seen him, but he did not succeed.

Then he noticed Xika. His forehead was no longer wrinkled and his face looked relaxed. It seemed like the boy had already managed to form two patterns in his body. Huo Bing smiled knowing that. And he suddenly remembered where he had seen the arrangement.

"yes too! Why can I forget it?"

He re-entered Xika's body quickly to make Xika slightly jerked, but did not bother him too much. The bird re-explores Xika's body. Especially Xika's dantian-dantian, aside from her four largest main dantian. And at that instant Huo Bing was shocked.

He was so happy that he wanted to tell Xika right then and there, but Xika was still in a state of focus. So he waited for her to finish. He re-explores Xika's body to kill time. Luckily, ten minutes later Shu Mang finished absorbing all the medicinal properties. Which means Xika is also done.

Shu Mang opened his eyes and noticed what was different about his body. He looked at his stomach. The place let out a falling purple liquid and made the ground dry instantly. The liquid dripped for a while before finally stopping. The poison is starting to come out.

If this process continues, then it does not take long for him to recover completely. And it's all because of Xika. Then he wanted to thank the boy. If it wasn't for the boy dividing his qi, then he would have run out of qi and had no idea what was happening.

But before Shu Mang could thank him, Huo Bing appeared and called Xika as if there was something urgent to say. And that is the truth.

"Xika! Xica! Getup! The boy's stopped, why aren't you? Quickly awake! There's something important I need to show you!"

Finally Xika opened her eyes at Huo Bing's insistence. He did not immediately open his eyes as he was still observing the qi flow pattern he had managed to form. Previously, he had not had time to compare the two, so he wanted to do it now. But Huo Bing's call made him forced to delay it.

"Yes, yeah. I'm up. What was? You're so noisy."

"Quick! Hurry along! Look at this pattern I drew. Comehere! Hurry along!" said Huo Bing impatiently wanting to inform him of his new discovery.

Xika followed Huo Bing's gaze and found four element symbols with strange patterns next to each element. Before he could ask, Huo Bing had already returned to talk.

"Well, now remember these patterns well. Or if you're in trouble, you can remember one first. The rest will follow."

Xika stared at the strange pattern that was beside the water element. He memorized the pattern in half a minute.

"It has. Now what?"

Huo Bing did not reply. He went into Xika's dantian and spoke in Xika's head.

"Seek your dantian. The four largest dantian, the third from the left. Watch it well."

Xika followed Huo Bing's words. The bird spoke again.

"Have you? Now look at your other dantian. Which was scattered near the third dantian from the left. Watch the pattern."

Xika checked the location of her other dantian using her qinya. At first he did not understand what Huo Bing was talking about. Then he checked the location of his dantian a few more times and found what Huo Bing meant. The location of his little dantian closest to the third dantian, was exactly the same as the strange pattern Huo Bing had drawn next to the water symbol. Exact same.

Xika opened her eyes and found the two-colored bird staring at her. The two were silent for a while making Lang Jin and Shu Mang who were paying attention so confused. Then Huo Bing again asked Xika to memorize a strange pattern in another symbol.

This time he chose the wind symbol. Huo Bing asked him to pay attention to the first dantian of his four largest dantians with the left to right arrangement. And the small dantian that was located near the first dantian formed the exact same pattern again with that strange pattern. He noticed it once more because he wasn't sure, but the results were still the same.

And immediately a conjecture appeared in Xika's head. The same conjecture that was in Huo Bing's head earlier. Xika shook her head in disbelief while looking at Huo Bing.

"No....no.......this is impossible............why is the pattern you drew the same as..........?"

Huo Bing did not reply. He just gave a mysterious smile. A smile that showed that he knew something that Xika did not know.

"Wait on! Other patterns......it is impossible.............. right?"

"Check it out yourself" Huo Bing said still with a smile on his face.

And Xika again did the same thing as before. He noticed the strange pattern of the two remaining elements, and compared it to the other two large dantians. The result.................................the exact same.