Ranks in qi cultivation, Pondering about the future
Mei Lan had tears in her eyes and said, "Today your father must be proud if he was here." She hugged her Lei Tian. Old Man Chi Shan Tang saw this and smiled, 'It was a good decision that clan supported this family, who could have guessed that we will gain a loyal qi master in future, since we will be nurturing him in future, the clan might even offer him to become an internal member and give him the last name.'
"Okay, now I will prepare the altar again and it will be your brother's try next." Then he again started to manipulate the qi but since the objects he placed in the altar only decreased in quantity and not disappeared he didn't need to restock them.
Lei Tian who was watching him moving his hands thought inwardly, 'I can probably guess the reason for the change when I see the result of my clone.' He glanced at his clone and then closed his eyes.
A few minutes later Chi Shan Tong opened his eyes as he finished making the altar ready, he then again invited Mei Lan's son, this time it was Lei Yun, the clone body of Lei Tian.
Lei Yun sat inside the altar in lotus position, Chi Shan Tong manipulated the qi stream and like before pushed it into the body of Lei Yun, and to his surprise the same thing happened as before and Lei Yun's body started sucking the qi. The five coloured qi stream's size started to reduce and was about to be erased when Chi Shan Tong again moved his hand and dispersed the qi stream by himself. He sighed and again looked at this family of three and was genuinely surprised by their luck, a family of servant who was barely meeting to ends gave birth to two twins and both of them are qualified to become qi masters in future, this was also a good news to clan which he needs to report immediately but he didn't rush and looked toward Mei Lan who had an expectant gaze in her eyes.
He said, "Your name was Mei Lan, right? You should thanks to heavens to give you such children, your both children have awakened their aperture and will absorb qi throughout their life and will become qi masters in some years, from today onwards you will not be servants anymore but member of clan, your status in clan is not decided yet but when I will finish the discussion with higher ups I will tell you, until then you can wait here." Saying this he stood up and went inside the room from where his servant was and ordered him, "Treat her with some tea and give the kids something kids like nowadays. I will return in a few hours and don't let anyone inside the hall until I come back, and don't let them go anywhere either."
"I will follow your commands, master." The servant said respectfully while bowing down, he was a middle aged man in his forties.
Chi Yan Tong left the Qi altar hall and went to a higher peak. Inside the Qi altar hall Mei Lan was crying with tears of joy and was hugging her both sons, she was so happy as if she herself became a qi master. Lei Tian who in his mothers arm was thinking, 'This is probably because of the soul energy burst, when a powerful soul burst it releases human qi, which is very useful to qi immortals, in my previous life I used souls of many qi immortals and increased my human qi.'
Mortals cannot see or feel any qi but qi masters can easily do that, the quantity and how precisely they control the qi depends on the power of individual qi masters but there are three types of qi which they can neither see nor can they interact with it. Those are- Heaven qi, Earth qi and Human qi. These qi are the fundamental qi of the world, all other qi originate from these three types of qi. Only qi Immortals can see and interact with them.
'The only other way to artificially awaken the aperture is by pouring in a lot of human qi inside a mortal body, this is also the way that inheritance awakened my aperture in my previous life. But since that immortal already died, he left behind some human qi, otherwise some foolish mortal visits and announced it to the whole world, his inheritance ground will get ruined. So to prevent such a situation he gave human qi and explained to me the details about how the world works and broadened my horizons. But.. Now what should I do about that inheritance? The human qi will be wasted and there was also a complete set of qi stones and also had a huge amount of qi essence stones.'
Qi essence stones was the currency used for transactions between qi masters, a mortal might never see a Qi essence stone in his whole life and can only use metal coins provided by clans. But for Qi masters they were very important, as many Qi essence stones a Qi master has, the more chance he will have to become stronger.
'Also because of these unexpected gains, I have to change my plans, earlier I thought to leave the Chi Yan mountain but now it will be better to stay in this clan for the time being, I can use the clan to get resources and useful qi stones. I will also try to increase my rank before venturing out to avoid risks.'
In this world of qi cultivation, people have divided the journey into parts. There are two very major parts which divide qi immortals and qi masters. And there were total 9 ranks, in which rank 1 to rank 6 are qi masters, they have the power to manipulate qi to a certain extent, their powerlessness can be high but they are mere ants in front of qi immortals which was from rank 7 to rank 9, they can manipulate the qi of heaven and earth into their own path qi to generate explosive power which can shake the world, there's also a legendary rank 10 known as supreme, those people in history who reached this stage were only a handful and had supreme in their title, one of them was Shi Zu, The Eternal Cycle Supreme.
Lei Tian thought about this, 'All the supremes who were born in the past are only relics of the past and placed their inheritance around the world, there's no supreme right now anymore... but in the future...' Lei Tian's face got ugly as he frowned but soon he calmed down his emotion and sat silently beside his mother. The servant served his mother with tea and gave him fruits, Lei Tian liked grapes very much. He sat leisurely, savouring the flavours of grapes."
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Chi Shan Tong was travelling and climbing the mountain, and finally reached the third peak, this was where the direct bloodline members of the clan lived their life and also had the most important places. He entered in the largest pavilion, it was the personal pavilion of clan head and also the main hall of clan where clan head listened to everyone who was qualified to meet him, Chi Shan Tong was naturally one of them since he was an external elder.
He entered the hall. The hall itself was not too fancy but it was grand and old. This hall has been here since the first ancestor of the clan who built the Chi Shan Clan thousands of years ago and till now after so many wars no enemy has reached the main hall to damage it.
Inside the hall were 4 seats, with one at center, relatively larger than others and 2-1 on either side of it. A middle aged man was sitting at the central chair, he had a strong and intimidating aura. He was the Clan head of Chi Shan Clan, Chi Shan Wei. On either side of him were two old men sitting him and one chair was empty, these two also had an incredible aura to them but not as strong as Chi Shan Wei.
One Old man had long white beard and eyebrows, he was Chi Shan Kang and the other Old man was bald, his name was Chi Shan Min. They were both inner elders of Chi Shan clan and were also from the direct bloodline of the clan, they were the decision makers and three pillars of the clan, the other elders including who were not present right at this time.