Chapter 610 Not What We Want Alex sat in the rattling carriage that slowly moved towards its destination, Silverleaf city.
Pearl was still to the side, making quite the friendship with the little girl named Xue.
He sat cross-legged on his seat, sending all of his focus onto his meridians. They… they were almost twice as wide as what his meridians would normally be.
Considering it was smaller than normal already due to it not properly healing, this was actually quite massive.
"Will it really heal?" Alex asked.
"Yes, yes, you don't have to worry. Everyone had to go through it once in a while to understand the pain of overinflated meridians. Only then do they realize that it's something bad that one shouldn't do" Shen Jing said.
By now, Alex had come to accept the fact that Shen Jing wasn't really a bad guy. The way he had killed the 5 men without Alex feeling a trace of his power… Shen Jing had no need for these petty tricks.
'Unless he likes tricks,' Alex thought but didn't say it out loud.
"It's like a little curious cubs touching Yin-fire for the first time. Once they do, they will know not to do it again," Shen Jing said looking outside the carriage.
"Yin-fire? What's that?" Alex asked. His curiosity was piqued.
"A type of fire," Shen Jing said. "But you don't have to worry about that for now."
Alex wanted to learn more, but he didn't dare ask and simply nodded. "How long do you think it will take me to heal the meridians?" he asked.
"Hmm… hard to say really," Shen Jing said. "Everyone is different. That is especially true for you. Given your body cultivation… I will give about a month of time before they can return to normal."
"Another month?" Alex exclaimed. He had already spent nearly 3 weeks trying to heal it back to normal, and yet, the time increased by another 4 weeks once again.
4 weeks of continuous cultivation.
"It would take a month… if that is what we wanted to do," Shen Jing said.
"Huh?" Alex got confused. "What do you mean by that? Should I not heal my meridians?"
"No," Shen Jing said. "You should keep them as it is."
"I don't understand," Alex said.
Shen Jing suddenly lost his casual stance and leaned forward towards Alex.
"Your Meridians are different from everyone else. When people body-cultivate, most of the time, they only manage to improve 3 things. Skin, muscles, and bones."
"Only rarely do people improve their organs. Improving Meridians? You would be luckier finding a Phoenix that can't regenerate."
"So, you are in a unique position where your Meridians are very strong. Strong enough to handle your recklessness multiple times."
"If you keep up the recklessness, they will certainly be destroyed. However, if you were to do it in a controlled environment. That is, widening your meridian from time to time. Slowly, but surely, they will start healing themselves to that size."
"Then, you will have meridians so widely open that you can pump out a lot of Qi in a very little time. I don't know if that is useful to an Alchemist or not, but to a cultivator, one couldn't ask for something better," Shen Jing said.
Alex's eyes went wide as he understood the implication. If he could do what he did yesterday, and create suns like that without breaking a sweat, he could use stronger attacks that require more wind-up time very easily.
The amount of time it took to pour his Qi into swords, or formations would halve. Creating fire entities would be very quick as well.
There were a lot of benefits and Alex couldn't even think about them yet.
"That sounds amazing," he said. "When do I start?"
"Let's wait until it stops hurting as much. 2 days should be fine. Cultivate until then," Shen Jing said.
Alex nodded and cultivated. Time passed slowly, and Alex cultivated both the Five Yang Divine Path and the Winter Moon technique interchangeably.
Whenever his body started to heat up a bit, he would change to the Yin technique to cool it down. The Yin also felt cool on his meridians and gave a comforting feeling.
During this time, Shen Jing went out twice for a few hours before returning. Who knew where he went during this time.
On the second time, Alex decided to ask.
"Where do you go for hours?" he asked.
"I'm searching for places," he said.
"Places? Are you out here searching for something?" he asked. He thought he was finally seeing why Shen Jing was in this remote corner of the continent at all.
By now, his theory about him being a player had already disappeared. There was no way someone could reach the saint realm and have this much knowledge on cultivation as a player.
"No, I'm not looking for something out here. You can stop trying to guess who I am and what I am doing here. The world is way too vast and you haven't even seen the smallest of them to figure out who I am," Shen Jing said.
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