The Card Cultivation System
CCS-20

The second day, Huo Bing trained Xika using her elemental strength.

He assigned Xika to use only one element for a few hours. Then proceed to the next element until all elements. Then Xika had to train his physique by running with the load as far as possible until dinner arrived.

They did not stay in one place, because Huo Bing said that staying in one place for too long would invite danger. It could be that Hei Sha's group is still looking for Xika to arrive at the forest area where they are training.

Xika's days were spent undergoing strenuous training from Huo Bing. But he never complained though. He realized that to be strong needed effort and it was not an easy thing.

The exercises that Xika underwent were always different, only occasionally the same.

Starting from stealing the precious plants of Spirit Beasts, running away from the pursuit of the Spirit Beast group, fighting Spirit Beasts with the same elements, and, until pitting the Spirit Beast and running away from the rampage both parties are consciously lied to.

Huo Bing said as we fight an enemy that has the same element but is stronger than us, we will realize how weak we are.

Occasionally Huo Bing would also fight with Xika. He never directly taught Xika to fight. He taught it through the fight of both of them. For Huo Bing, experience was the best teacher. He said it proudly and pointed to himself as an example.

Sometimes, when there is free time they will play cards.

Huo Bing once tried to play capsah once again with Xika, but he lost heavily and was unable to tell if Xika cheated or not. After that Huo Bing did not want to play capsah anymore, he would definitely play the game again.

Without feeling 3 months had passed since Huo Bing first trained Xika.

Now Xika is much different from her 3 months ago. If now he fights again with Hei Sha, at least he can provide a meaningful resistance, although he can not beat but he can run with his own abilities do not need the help of others.

"Alright Xika. I've been training you for 3 months, in the future your training will be different. At most we will only fight, besides everything will be different. But before continuing the training, I'll unseal your body"

"Seal my body? Whatchu mean? When did you seal my body? Why don't I know?"

"I locked up some of your meridians so you couldn't level up no matter how much qi you absorbed. I sealed it before we started training, when you passed out on the run from the Shaking Card"

"Damn it! It's only fitting that I haven't gone up the level. You didn't tell me before!"

During these 3 months, apart from practicing Xika also absorbed qi. Yet no matter how much qi he absorbed, he could not level up. Though his first dantian had been fully filled even very full until his dantian enlarged several times. Every time that happened, Xika would feel unimaginable pain.

"Hey hey I did it because you've been living without qi. What happens when your body suddenly has a large amount of qi? Your body could explode. Besides, if I told you earlier, would you still be diligent in cultivating?"

"I know how much pain it is when your dantian expands, but I also know how much you want to get stronger. After all, if given a choice, you would choose this, too, wouldn't you?"

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Huo Bing thought for a while then replied,

"Because I forgot. Hehehe......"

"Based on a half-baked bird, his brain is also half-baked"

Huo Bing only laughed hearing Xika's swearing towards him.

"All right! Come here, I'll open the seal. I don't know how strong you should be anyway"

Xika approached then Huo Bing stabbed Xika at some point on her back.

Xika instantly felt a stream of energy flowing in her body.

He immediately went up 6 levels.

Now he was at the 7th level of the Qi Gathering stage.

His first dantian now had a larger size several times than before.

"Hey Huo Bing....."

"Hm?"

"I don't understand about the expanding dantian. Explain it to me."

"Well, I'll explain from the beginning.

The so-called cultivation is absorbing the qi outside and inserting it into our dantian. You should concentrate on feeling the qi around you and then pulling it into your dantian. To do this you need a strong enough concentration. The Qi that is already in our dantian we can spend for various things.

When the qi in your dantian is exhausted your body will absorb the qi by itself, but only until the qi in our body as before will not exceed it. When you're injured your body will also absorb the qi with its sandr, but it will be much faster when you absorb it with concentration. If you want the qi in your body to continue to multiply then you also have to continuously absorb the qi.

Dantian and qi can be likened to glass and water. You have to fill your glass to get to the next level. Once fully filled, the glass will disintegrate and form a new, larger glass using the qi you collected earlier. That process will continue constantly. So people who have a large dantian will get stronger and continue to get stronger.

The Qi of each cultivator had different amounts depending on how big their dantian was. However there are some people who are not satisfied with their own dantian because it is quite small. When likened to how small their dantian is, when they are at the Qi Gathering level 3 but people at the Qi Gathering level 2 have dantian as large as them. So no matter how high their level was, they would be weaker than cultivators who had the same level as them.

Then these people looked for ways to enlarge their dantian. And they found it. The way I've done this to you is just one of the many ways they've found it, but most of them have side effects, only some of it is not and the way I used it on you is one of them.

We liken this way to glass and water again. When the glass is fully filled, the glass will normally shatter and form a new, larger glass. But using this method, you sealed the glass. So the glass will not break and form another glass in other words you will not go up in level.

As long as the glass is sealed, you will still absorb the qi. So the glass remains filled but cannot spill its contents. As a result 3, between the glasses will increase in size, the seal will be destroyed and this method fails, or your glass is destroyed because it can not withstand the pressure. But even if the seal you placed was strong enough, you would have to experience extreme pain to enlarge your dantian, there was also a dantian that was destroyed and become disabled for life. Many fail in this process so prefer a way that does not give pain but has side effects that appear slowly.

When you feel your dantian is big enough then you release the seal. When the seal is removed the glass will instantly shatter and will form a glass whose size must be larger than before."

"What's your reason for doing this to me?"

"First to get your body used to the qi. Your body must get used to small amounts but still, after that your body can withstand the pressure of a larger qi. Second to see your determination. You may have a strong purpose and motivation, but you may not have the determination and give up halfway. Third to enlarge your dantian. Your current dantian is too small, indeed you have a lot of dantian, but when combined only equivalent to 2 average people dantian. That's why I have to enlarge your dantian"

"And what makes you believe my dantian won't break or that I give up in the process?"

"Your waiting has been destroyed before and you can still use it to cultivate. Your dantian is more than enough to withstand that pressure. As for you, I somehow have a premonition that you have an unwavering determination and I want to prove it."

"......"

Xika is confused as to how. Between the pleasure of getting stronger as well as being annoyed that Huo Bing did something without telling him first. Suddenly a question came to his head.

"Huo Bing, before you said that when my first dantian was full then I would be at a new stage and would fill a new dantian. Then how was the dantian before?"

"That's......"

Huo Bing thought for a moment.

"I don't know. My theory might just be left out. After all, there is no one who cultivates with a 'move-over' dantian like you."

"Then what about the person who has two dantians?"

"Ehhh....... I don't know about it either. People who have two dantians are so rare you know? After all most of them chose to cover up the fact that they had two dantians, so there weren't many records regarding that."

"That's it...." Xika was a little disappointed at not finding any clues to cultivate in the future.

After the long explanation earlier, Xika felt a bit lazy for the new practice so she asked Huo Bing to continue his new practice tomorrow only and chose to fight with Huo Bing alone today.