Both Li Shen and Li Shu appeared inside a room and looking around, Li Shen realize it was his own in the East Wing.
“Shen’er, stay here and rest for now.”
“Huh? But after what I did I wanted to offer an apology to those I've hurt. I’m guessing they’re in an uproar even now.”
Li Shu placed his hand on Li Shen’s shoulder and said.
“You can do that tomorrow on your birthday.”
“But-”
“Shen’er, rember, a prince need not worry about making others wait for them. For now, just rest, and I’ll co back for you tomorrow.”
Li Shen nodded and with that Li Shu teleported away.
A long sigh left Li Shen’s mouth before he placed Little Snow on the bed and left for the bathroom.
With a loud splash, Li Shen entered the oval wooden bath full of water causing so to spill out.
“It’s so surreal that so much happened in such a short ti.”
A window was in front of Li Shen and he rested his head against the bath edge while he absentmindedly stared at the slightly orange sky as the sun sets.
He was lost in thought as he mumbled.
“Seven Great Ancestral Clans, Primordial Era, leaving the planet for so inheritance. What a family to be reincarnated in. I suppose I’ll spend so ti on it in the future."
"But I’m more surprised about how much I changed during this ti...”
The water in the bath was disturbed as Li Shen lifted his hand and placed it against his bare chest.
With his eyes closed, he felt his heartbeat.
There he also sensed a dark fla inside his chest, perhaps a result of the Cardinal Sin Manipulation Soul Art fusing with his Seven Sins Plum Blossom.
He opened his eyes after a mont and the dark flas appeared in his eyes, while his Seven Sins Plum Blossom with the fla ring around it appeared on his forehead.
“...And the powers I gained.”
Li Shen then looked around the bathroom but he saw that nothing was different than before, the world still look the sa.
A thoughtful look ca over his face before he lifted his palm. Imdiately, a miniature dark fla appeared on top of it before it wilted away leaving a small plum blossom there.
“What's this supposed to be?”
Li Shen squinted his eyes and examined this small plum blossom. It was pitch black and he could feel the seven cardinal sins emanating from it.
He wanted to take the ti to figure out the changes in his body and the powers he gained, but the way this was going he couldn’t make heads or tails of either the forr or the latter.
Frowning, Li Shen shook his hand making the plum blossom dissipate. After which he grasp at the void while his Qi Sea in his dantian and Sea of Consciousness started to rotate in sync.
A suction force then ca from his palm and Ti Qi particles were drawn from the void. They entered his hand in streams and using the cultivation thod he had created, Li Shen circulated the Ti Qi through a specific path in his ridians before it reached his dantian.
His Qi Sea absorbed it before Li Shen paused its rotation.
“My cultivation is faster and smoother than before. As expected from having a hundred ridians opened. I feel like I don't even need to sit still like common cultivation practices. I could move while cultivating, though it would be a bit slower than normal.”
Li Shen thought for a mont with a hand under his chin. Soon, his eyes brighten and he said loudly.
“I’ll call this Constant Qi Circulation!”
“Establishing a connection with the Qi between heaven and earth and my dantian so I have a constant flow of energy. Cultivating any type of Qi Cultivation thod ultimately boils down to inhaling Qi, circulating and absorbing the purer form of that Qi breath before exhaling the remaining impure Qi.”
“I could create a constant motion between these steps passively. And although I might not be able to cultivate towards a breakthrough with this thod alone, there were so many hours during the day I could spend cooped up in seclusion cultivating. With this, I can cut down on that ti. The best thing about this as well, is that my Qi Sea would be directly connected to heaven and earth making it impossible to detect the Ti Qi I’m absorbing.”
“But I’ll have to use my Qi Sea projection since my original Qi Sea in my dantian won’t work.”
With that, Li Shen smiled but he couldn’t contain his excitent and ended up bursting into arrogant laughter.
“Am I not a genius or what?! Constant Qi Circulation, I wonder why anyone had never co up with this concept, it’s so obvious!”
Li Shen was excited at this breakthrough of knowledge, he wanted to imdiately establish a connection between his Qi Sea projection and the Ti Qi between heaven and earth, but he couldn’t help but feel sothing wasn’t right.
“This concept, maybe I have heard of it before. It seems familiar sohow.”
This weird feeling made Li Shen frown and he tried hard to rember if this was sothing already invented in this era.
After a short mont, the water in the bath splashed around as Li Shen got up and yelled.
“That’s it! That’s where I got this concept from!!”
After yelling Li Shen clenched his fist in front of him.
“Those dreams my past reincarnation had was of different worlds. For so reason only after I had that dream while I was sealed in the plum blossom did I rember that back then I had those nightly dreams of growing up in different worlds. Are those perhaps past reincarnation? Was this not the first but one of many?”
“Shit, I was so preoccupied with everything else I didn’t question these strange mories.”
With a serious expression on his face, Li Shen said.
“My Constant Qi Circulation is similar to sothing I saw in one of my dreams. They cultivated a different form of energy called mana. And a high-level manipulation of it was them having it constantly circulating in their bodies. I had unknowing copied that concept and applied it with Qi instead.”
Li Shen’s face turned ugly.
“So I didn’t actually invent this concept, I only... copied it?”
“Ugh, God dammit!”
Li Shen let out one of many curses that drifted into Little Snow’s ears.
Raising her head from the bed, she tilted her head to the side while looking in the direction of the bathroom.
Li Shen grabbed a towel from a nearby rack and decided to get out.
His peaceful bath had been ruined by this bitter revelation.
Of course, he was fascinated by the mories he had unlocked from his past life, but they were still blurry. He also specifically rembered always being killed when he was very young, around the age of fourteen.
So this made his knowledge about those different worlds limited. Well, that was even if his theory about them being mories of past reincarnations was real.
He wasn’t sure.
He wished Avarice was here ss he could talk about it with him.
A sad feeling washed over Li Shen as he thought about Avarice.
"Haah! He said to live this life for and him, not regret his passing."
Li Shen smacked his cheeks as he paused at the door.
"However, about those mories..."
Li Shen frowned
He found it creepy, that each dream he had ended with him dying at the age of fourteen, or just before he could reach that age.
“Was that a coincidence, or was that a sign of sothing ominous?”
“I could have died today, so maybe I unknowingly dodged a predestined assignation. A result of Heaven's Blessings? Hm, but I also lived past fourteen in my past life.”
"Then again, if that demoness hadn't interfered, I would have been in my village when it was destroyed so..."
Li Shen shivered.
He was starting to scare himself the more he thought about it, so decided not to think about those coincidences. Yes, that's right, coincidences.
Li Shen had worn pants and a one-piece robe that was untied, about to head for his bed but paused
Looking down at his clothes, he saw that they were shorter and tighter than he rembered.
“Have I grown a bit?”
After moving his arms and twisting his waist, he ca to the conclusion he had indeed grown a bit.
"I'm a growing boy after all."
Li Shen chuckled as he moved towards his bed and lay down flat on his back.
Little Snow got up and cuddle against his side. As a habit, Li Shen traced his index finger across the long scar on her back, which was usually hidden by her snow-white fur.
As the moon fully ca out, Li Shen closed his eyes and began creating the connection between his Qi Sea projection and the Ti Qi between heaven and earth.
Minutes passed quickly and not before long hours went by, with so progress showing after.
As the Qi Sea projection in his Sea of Consciousness slowly rotated with the plum blossom projection in the middle, Ti Qi particles could be seen appearing before being sucked inside of it.
That Ti Qi would then circulate through his ridians getting its purer form extracted before entering his Qi Sea in his dantian. The impure Qi would be expelled from his nose and mouth as he exhaled.
A harmonized process had been created after hours of trying.
Seeing that the concept worked, reaffird that the places he saw in his mories might be real.
However, going from theory to practical application was never easy. Forming a complex system in his body like this was only possible with his Qi Sea projection acting as the bridge between the Ti Qi in the outside world and the Qi Sea in his dantian, otherwise, it would have been impossible for Li Shen to do it.
That also ant this thod of passive cultivation could only be done by him. That was another fact that made his cultivation, and him as a person, unique in this era, or any era for that matter.
Becoming a unique cultivator was what Li Shen wanted, and he was slowly becoming that, albeit he still had a long way to go.
His Heavenly Law comprehension was still in the initial stages, him having only reached a basic level of comprehension of the six natural elents. After comprehending them, Li Shen had planned on moving on to a complex Law, the Law of Ti.
That was why he chose to cultivate Ti Qi. Sowhere along the way, he was going to fuse the Qi Cultivation System with his Heavenly Law comprehension.
He wasn’t exactly sure which realm of Qi Cultivation where this was possible, but since it was derived from Heavenly Law comprehension and was even a round about why of cultivating it, Li Shen figured combining them must be possible.
In realms like the Nascent Soul Realm, one no longer just manipulates Spiritual Qi but the laws they contained and between heaven and earth.
Perhaps he could start from there by trying to sh his Heavenly Law comprehension and Qi Law Comprehension in that realm.
However, there was a problem with Li Shen’s plan. His Heavenly Law Comprehension would have to keep up with his Qi Cultivation and vice versa.
If one falls behind the other, Li Shen would be forced to stop one so the other behind could catch up.
This was just one of the challenges though and they were many more nuances he had to think about further.
As for his Soul Cultivation, the more he traversed both his Qi Cultivation System and his Heavenly Physique, his soul would inevitably get stronger making his Soul Attacks even more terrifying.
His Fleshly Body was in a similar situation, he doesn’t have to actively cultivate a Fleshly body technique to make it stronger. He was going to but after having the Chaos Qi reconstruct his body, he chose not to.
He didn’t know what type of Fleshly Body cultivation thod would be suitable for him to cultivate when he himself didn’t know his physique fully.
And there were his current Daoist Magic spells and Soul Arts.
He had already established which persona could use which.
Let’s say in an unlikely scenario an assassin suddenly burst down his room door.
Li Shen as the second prince who couldn’t cultivate would use his well-known Supre grade soul to dish out Soul Attacks using Soul Arts as well as a terrifying physical prowess.
Similar, if he were to sneak out now to hunt down so evildoers, his Faceless Hero persona would be a long-range attacker with a mysterious and powerful Daoist Magic that could conjure endless Sword and Blade Elental Qi.
He’ll similarly have a stronger fleshly body as well.
Li Shen didn’t know if it was safe to use his Ti Qi while he was the Faceless Hero.
It was still rare that out of all the types of Qi soone could use Ti Qi. And that person was in the Sea Expansion Realm cultivator no less. That type of talent would definitely draw more than a few pairs of curious eyeballs.
But he couldn’t just refuse to use it in fear of that outco, what would be the point of cultivating it then if he didn’t use it!
Having it as a trump card his Faceless Hero persona could use seed like the ideal situation.
With that, Li Shen finish organizing the distribution of his powers.
It was a hassle having to do it, but if he didn’t, his mind would be all over the place and he would eventually co to make mistakes. He would be no different from his previous temperantal self then.
“Oh wait, I almost forgot about that power.”
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