Jade General palace,Anhung
Cai Chen, Jade General of White Jade Empire, stood before Xinyang, his son, with a Five-colored Jade in his hand. He slowly brought the jade to Xinyang's forehead in-between the eyebrows.
The Jade General was performing a initiation ritual called Kaibi ritual. Kaibi was performed on the first day of learning, be it martial cultivation, literature, and even physical work.
As the jade needle pricked Xinyang's forehead Cai Chen began to chant Golden Elephant Mantra. After Chen finished chanting it Xinyang recited it back. With this main part of Kaibi ritual completed.
"Xinyang, take this weighted Mace and train with it. In Body Refining Realm training your body to beyond its limits is a must. This realm will decide how high your future will be, How far along the road to understanding the dao you can travel." Cai Chen handed out an Iron mace.
Zhu Yulan, Eldest wife of Cai Chen, presented adorned bronze shield " Xin'er, shield protects. It is important oneself have adequate in order to reach the apex. "
Wei Jing, Second wife of Cai Chen, presented pair of white steel gauntlets "Xin'er, these are white steel gauntlets. Gauntlets can not only protect your hand but also be used to kill others, whether you kill to protect or not."
Liang Jia, Third wife of Cai Chen and Xingyan's mother, presented a book titled 'Introduction to Body Refinement' " Xin'er, however much armament you have it is useless without the knowledge of how to use them. In the same way blindly cultivating is useless–even harmful without the knowledge of proper methods. Always be righteous and follow the proper method and you shall attain what you seek."
First Elder brother, Shiming, presented a Dark Iron spear " This spear is from Eldest sister Yanyan. 'Spear is the king of all weapons. No one can kill a Spearmaster on battlefield.' " Next he took out a red quill " Brother, This quill is made from the feather of fire phoenix. As Great scholars say, A sword can kill a man whilst quill a dynasty."
Little brother, Haoxiang, presented heavy dark-blue silver hammer "Brother, Hardest metals can be flattened by a hammer blow. A sword gains its sharpness under countless hammer blows. No obstacle exists that cannot be destroyed by a hammer."
Little sister, Mei, presented a lasso made from daerbh grass " Bwother, I give you this lope. It can be used to catch quilins, scale mountains and can be used to... used to – tie bad people."
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Xinyang bowed to his elders as he was receiving gifts from them. He smiled lightly as he received gifts from his juniors. Cai Chen cleared his throat
" In two Incense's time sun will rise. This is the perfect time to start your cultivation journey. Come, I'll teach you."
Cai Chen started to teach Body refining exercises to Xinyang. Whilst in Body refinement realm a cultivator should perform Body refining exercises 4 times a day. First one starts at the dawn and concludes before time of the Dragon. The second performed at the midday, time of the Horse. The third one is performed at the time of Rooster, when sun sets. The fourth one is performed at the height of the night, time of Rat.
The reason for these timings is that at the height of the day and night, yang and yin energies are at their highest respectively. Where in the morning yin turns to yang, in the evening yang turns to yin. By training in these 4 times, it nourishes every part of the body and effects of training double for half the effort. Whilst it is possible that High yin and yang environment can to some extent replace high noon and apex night training nevertheless it is best train with traditional methods to attain best results.
Cai family trained in an ancient method of Body refining technique, which was slow but built robust bodies for future cultivation. This ancient method took seven years to for one to fully cultivate to apex of Body refinement realm against other heaven grade techniques only taking five. However this did not mean this technique were any less than them. The biggest advantage of Cai family Body refining technique is that it increased awakening of the special body constitution as much as rarest of the rarest treasure.
After the morning exercises were finished Cai Chen spoke to Xinyang "Remember this, our cultivation technique is special. Each Morning, midday, evening, and midnight exercises have some special exercises that you should only perform at specific time, and also each time has its own unique exercise routine. Do not change any of it, or else you will be writhing in pain for days. I'll teach and supervise you for a month. Then I'll have to return to northern border. "
Xinyang nodded sincerely. He learnt and trained diligently for a month and gained approval from his father to train by himself.