Faint, five coloured qi starts accumulating inside Cloud's meridian. He continue for a little bit more.
After confirming that he is successful, he stop gathering qi and slowly exhale while opening his eyes.
Cloud smiles after opening his eyes. He already confirmed that he can start Qi Gathering using the manual.
Now, all he need to do is to diligently cultivate.
The significance of having a cultivation manual is massive. This means that the path of cultivation is already open before him.
With the manual, he can cultivate to Qi Gathering Realm and even beyond.
That's why he is so happy after confirming that the art is working properly.
Cloud then look outside the window while thinking. Outside, the sky is already dark.
That means, it has been a few hours since he start gathering qi. It was only afternoon when they left the hall after choosing manuals.
Now, the sky has already completely dark.
Thinking about the qi he gathered, a thought comes to his mind. It has been so long but I only managed to gather an insignificant amount of qi.
Cloud then calculates and think that at the current rate, he would need a very long time to breakthrough to the Qi Gathering Realm.
It would definitely take him more than a year.
No wonder when he chose the manual there is a warning sign beside it.
The sign said, 'This cultivation art is extremely slow. New disciples should avoid it because it would definitely need a lot more than a year to use it to breakthrough to Qi Gathering Realm.'
Because of that warning sign, none of the new disciples dare to choose the art.
Most of them chose an Earth Grade manual while some others chose Common Grade.
Cloud is the only one who dares to choose it. It's because he has some Qi Gathering Pills and he has already considered the risk.
But the Qi Gathering Pill does play a very big factor here.
According to Xiao Han's explanation, gathering qi with the support of the pill and without it, makes a big difference.
Using the pill, you can gather qi 10 times up to 100 times faster. This is especially effective for people like Cloud who doesn't have any Spiritual Root.
People who have Spiritual Roots already gathering qi from the surroundings passively.
When they take the pill, the effect would be amplified.
But there are only a limited amount of qi from the surrounding area. So the amount that can be gathered are also limited.
This is not a problem for Cloud. His body doesn't gather qi passively so he would attract more qi from the surrounding area when he took the pill.
He could gather almost as much as someone with spiritual roots when they took a pill.
So using the Qi Gathering Pills, he could cultivate way faster compared to the other disciples who doesn't use the pills.
After thinking for a moment, Cloud decides to continue cultivating through the night.
He took one pill, wait for a moment, then begin.
This time when he concentrate to sense the qi, everything is different.
It took him faster to sense it because the qi are gathering around him.
He quickly start using his art to absorb it into his body.
Cloud clearly felt the difference. Before, it was like you need to look for food, then you can eat it after you find it.
Now, the food is already around at all time. All you need to do is keep eating as much as you want.
Cloud keep cultivating throughout the whole night. He only stop when he feels the effect of the pill is gone.
Cloud open his eyes and exhale slowly. It is already bright outside when he opened his eyes.
When he look outside through the window, he found that it is already around noon.
He decides to go outside to stretch and wash.
After washing and enjoying the clean air outside, Cloud go back into the building to eat.
The new deciples are provided food everyday. They are not luxurious and only enough to prevent them from hunger.
It is not enough to satisfied them. But that's fine for them, for the time being. Everyone is focusing on breaking through to Qi Gathering Realm at the moment anyway.
Not having to think about food is already good enough.
At around this time, nobody beside Cloud is at the building. Cloud think that they are probably at the hall where Xiao Han explain his understanding of Qi Gathering Realm.
Yesterday he said that he would do that for the next three days.
Cloud doesn't go anymore because he has already understood most of it from yesterday's explanation.
The others only go because they don't want to miss anything. They have to cultivate slowly unlike Cloud who has Qi Gathering Pills after all.